However, according to a Ueshima family record (written copy of the document from the end of the Edo Period) that was found in 1962 in the possession of an old family in Ueno City, Mie (today Iga City), stated that Kannami was the third son of Gensei UESHIMA of the Iga Hattori clan, and his mother was Masashige KUSUNOKI's sister.
ところが、1962年（昭和37年）、三重県上野市（現・伊賀市）の旧家から発見された上嶋家文書（江戸時代末期の写本）によると、伊賀、服部氏族の上嶋元成の三男が猿楽（能）者の観阿弥で、その母は楠木正成の姉妹であるという。