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Why did various samurai in the Sengoku and Edo periods change their name later in life? Such as Shinmen Takezo becoming Miyamoto Musashi, and Matsudaira Motoyasu becoming Tokugawa Ieyasu? Was their a tradition for this?

by /u/whisperHailHydra in /r/AskHistorians

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