SEE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO SEPARATE OUR BOIS gYOoN!!!!! ヽ(`Д´)ノ (╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸
Edit: i found this comment while browsing through my past comments and as someone who now literally bases my entire self around simping for gyoon, i would like to humbly apologize and spread the word that Gyoon-sama is god
Damn,
I really wanted Tanjirou to meet his ancestor..(〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
no, upper moon 1 (kokushibo/michikatsu tsugikuni) had kids while he was stilla human and is directly blood related to the mist pillar (muichirou tokito) while the brother of upper moon 1 (yoriichi tsugikuni) met and became friends with tanjirou's ancestor (sumiyoshi) who was just a coal salesman like tanjirou at the beginning of the story. The brother must have never had any kids and decided to pass down his earrings and techniques to the kamado family because he trusted sumiyoshi.
actually, re-reading chap. 99, sumiyoshi explicitly states yoriichi has no kids, while you can see sumiyoshi has both a wife and a newborn child. and sumiyoshi asks yoriichi to tell him his story. yoriichi doesn't at that moment, but he must have later came back to do so because the kamado family has passed down both the earrings and techniques for generations all the way down to tanjirou.
so really, you could almost say it was all because sumiyoshi planted the idea into yoriichi's head that they were the chosen successors of the breath of the sun, because he seems to not really view himself as special or worthy and doesn't seem to think having a particular successor is important either, which must have been why he didn't have any children of his own. in both chap. 99 and chap. 175 yoriichi states that they as wielders of the first breath aren't special, and that people who seek the same thing will always "find their way to the same place" as both their successors and people who will even surpass the first breath wielders. he uses the same wording both times, so i think its important to the story, but i'm not exactly sure what the "same place" means other than the demon slayer corps?
p.s. sorry this was so long!
Oh thank the Lords, it thought it was over for good ╥﹏╥