Family

According to records, Kimura, then named , was born on 19 April 1897 in the fishing village of Kamiukawa, in the Kyoto Prefecture of the Empire of Japan, as the fifth of eight children to farmers Morizo Miyake (1858-1935) and Fusa Miyake (1867-1931); Kinjiro had two elder sisters (born 1 November 1887 and 11 December 1889 respectively) and two elder brothers (born 21 March 1892 and 20 February 1895 respectively),