nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: It was decided that, as Hakushaku (伯爵 commonly translated as count), Daijinke (families having generated ministers) from kuge, Toshoke (families of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks) which had assumed Dainagon (Major Counselor) many times, Tokugawa gosankyo (three privileged branches of the Tokugawa family, ranked next to Tokugawa gosanke) from buke, and the Daimyo families (feudal lord families) from buke, which had been paid the rice stipend of more than 50,000 goku (9019.5 cubic meters), were eligible.
Japanese: 公家からは大臣家、大納言の宣任の例が多い堂上家、武家からは徳川御三卿と現米5万石以上の大名家が伯爵相当とされた。
English: Among buke, the So family, the lord family of the Tsushima Domain was ranked as Hakushaku because the family had been in charge of diplomacy with Joseon Dynasty (Korea); the Matsuura family, the lord family of the Hirado Domain was also ranked as Hakushaku for the additional amount of rice crops of its branch families, which should not have been included originally.
Japanese: また、武家のうち対馬藩主宗家は李氏朝鮮外交の担当者であることが考慮され、平戸藩主松浦氏は本来は算入されない分家の所領も計算に入れた上で伯爵とされた。
English: It is considered that this measure was taken because the wife of Tadayasu NAKAYAMA, a maternal relative of Emperor Meiji, came from the Matsuura family.
Japanese: これは中山忠能夫人が松浦家の出身であり、明治天皇の外戚に当たることが考慮されたと見られている。
English: As 'persons who made distinguished contributions to the nation,' Hirobumi ITO, Kiyotaka KURODA, Kaoru INOUE, Tsugumichi SAIGO, Aritomo YAMAGATA, and Iwao OYAMA, all of whom contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration, were ranked as hakushaku.
Japanese: また「国家に勲功ある者」として、伊藤博文・黒田清隆・井上馨・西郷従道・山県有朋・大山巌等といった維新の元勲達が伯爵に叙された。
English: It was decided that, as Shishaku (子爵 commonly translated as viscount), Toshoke from kuge not meeting the criterion for Hakushaku and lord families from buke before the Meiji Restoration were eligible.
Japanese: 公家からは伯爵の要件を満たさない堂上家、武家からは維新前に諸侯であった家が子爵相当とされた。
English: When head families were ranked as a higher grade, Shishaku was conferred on their branched families as an exception.
Japanese: 分家した家で本家が高い爵位を持っている場合には特例として子爵をあたえられた。
English: Among kazoku, there were only three branch families, which were conferred Shishaku as the exception, including the Hidemaro KONOE family (a branch family of the Koshaku (公爵) Konoe family), the Takesada TOKUGAWA family (called "the Matsudo-Tokugawa family," a branch family of the Koshaku (侯爵) Mito-Tokugawa family), and the Yoshitami MATSUDAIRA family (a branch family of the Koshaku (侯爵) Fukui-Matsudaira family.
Japanese: 子爵を与えられた分家華族としては、近衛秀麿家（公爵近衛家の分家）、徳川武定家（侯爵水戸徳川家の分家（松戸徳川家））、松平慶民（侯爵福井松平家の分家）の3家。
English: In addition, as "persons who made distinguished contributions to the nation," the families of persons who contributed to the nation before or/and after the Meiji Restoration were ranked as Shishaku.
Japanese: また「国家に勲功ある者」として、明治維新前後に活躍した者の家が子爵に叙せられた。
English: It was decided that, as Danshaku (男爵 commonly translated as baron), the families which had been raised to kazoku after the Meiji Restoration, including Tsukegaroke (families had served as special chief retainer) and Nara kazoku, were eligible.
Japanese: 明治維新後に華族とされた家（附家老家、奈良華族等）が男爵相当とされた。
English: The Ochikoji family and the Mibu family were conferred Danshaku because they had the highest family status among Jigeke (families of non-noble retainers who were not allowed into the Emperor's living quarters in the imperial palace) and had been treated equally to Toshoke.
Japanese: 地下家でもっとも家格が高い押小路家・壬生家の2家は堂上家に準じて男爵を与えられた。
English: In addition, as 'persons who made distinguished contributions to the nation,' the families of persons who contributed to the nation before or/and after the Meiji Restoration were ranked as Danshaku.
Japanese: また「国家に勲功ある者」として、明治維新前後に活躍した者の家が男爵に叙せられた。
English: However, as for buke, family statuses were not considered except for the Tokugawa family, and only the amount of rice stipend they had been paid was counted as the criterion.
Japanese: しかしながら、武家に関しては徳川家以外は家格が考慮されず、石高のみが選定基準となった。
English: Because these rules were not made public, various speculations were circulated and some people became to have frustration with joshaku.
Japanese: また、この内規は公表されなかったために様々な憶測を産み、叙爵に不満を持つ者も現れた。
English: After this, the number of kazoku continued increasing due to joshaku for people who made contributions to the nation and for people who descended from the class of the Imperial family to the class of the subjects.
Japanese: また、この後も勲功による授爵、皇族の臣籍降下によって華族は増加した。
English: And all "Shushin kazoku" (one-generation kazoku) and all people who were newly given the kazoku status were raised to "Eisei kazoku" ("Eidai kazoku" or permanent kazoku who could keep the kazoku status for generations), at the result, all the families holding the kazoku status were Eisei kazoku.
Japanese: また、終身華族はすべて永世華族に列せられ、終身華族が新たに生まれることも無かったために全ての華族は永世華族となった。
English: Yoshio SAKAMAKI who assumed joshaku section manager at Sochitsuryo (Imperial Household Affairs Division) put together the privileges of the kazoku class as follows:
Japanese: 宗秩寮爵位課長を務めた酒巻芳男は華族の特権を次のようにまとめている。
English: In 1886, Hereditary Property Law for Kazoku was established for protecting kazoku's property from being seized by a third party, and consequently, it obliged kazoku to "set" their hereditary property.
Japanese: 1886年に華族は第3者からの財産差し押さえなどから逃れることが出来る華族世襲財産法が制定されたことにより、世襲財産を設定する義務が生まれた。
English: By "setting the hereditary property," kazoku could have the protection to maintain the family status, and no third party was allowed to mortgage or pledge it.
Japanese: 世襲財産は華族家継続のための財産保全をうける資金であり、第三者が抵当権や質権を主張することは出来なかった。
English: However, kazoku themselves were also not allowed to invest the hereditary property which they had set, so they became to protest about it as well as their creditors.
Japanese: しかし同時に世襲財産は華族の意志で運用することも出来ず、また債権者からの抗議もあっった。
English: Therefore, in 1915, it became possible to cancel the setting of the hereditary property at the owner's discretion.
Japanese: そのため、大正5年(1915年)に当主の意志で世襲財産の解除が行えるようになった。
English: And some kazoku from Toshoke (high court nobles) having trouble with financial bases were given financial helps from the national treasury by the Decree for the Trust for Protecting the former Tosho kazoku.
Japanese: また、財産基盤が貧弱であった堂上貴族は旧堂上華族保護資金令により、国庫からの援助を受けた。
English: Furthermore, Nara kazoku (originated from priests) and Shinkan kazoku (originated from Shinto priests) having much more trouble with financial bases were given financial helps as well (called "Danshaku kazoku Keijutsu-kin," literally, "money for saving Baron Kazoku").
Japanese: また、さらに財産の少ない奈良華族や神官華族には男爵華族恵恤金が交付された。
English: Even in the academic carrier sphere, children in the kazoku class could enter Gakushuin School without examination, and it was guaranteed that they could advance up to Gakushuin High School (in the former educational system).
Japanese: 学歴面でも、華族の子弟は学習院に無試験で入学でき、学習院高等科(旧制)までの進学が保証されていた。
English: Furthermore, in 1911 or before, a student who graduated Gakushuin High School could enter any Imperial University without examination, if there was a vacancy available in the university.
Japanese: また1922年（大正11年）以前は、帝国大学に欠員があれば学習院高等科を卒業した生徒は無試験で入学できた。
English: Therefore, kazoku could easily take a degree from Imperial University, if they were not choosy about specific universities or specific departments.
Japanese: そのため、学校・学部さえ問わなければ、華族は帝大卒の学歴を容易に手に入れることができた。
English: According to the Constitution of the Empire of Japan established in 1889, each kazoku class member was obliged to become a member of Kizokuin.
Japanese: 1889年の大日本帝国憲法により、華族は貴族院(日本)となる義務を負った。
English: The 30-year old or older persons with Koshaku (公爵) or Koshaku (侯爵) became permanent members of Kizokuin, persons with Hakushaku, Shishaku or Danshaku elected as seven-year-term members from among the members; they were regarded as "loyal hedge guarding the Imperial family."
Japanese: 30歳以上の公侯爵議員は終身、伯子男爵議員は互選で任期7年と定められ、「皇室の藩屏」としての役割を果たすものとされた。
English: According to the Decree for Kizokuin, it was also decided that a plan to change treatments of kazoku had to be approved by Kizokuin.
Japanese: また貴族院令に基づき、華族の待遇変更は貴族院を通過させねばならないこととなった。
English: Some members of Kizokuin formed factions through gathering at workshop or other meetings within Kizokuin, and such faction exerted powerful influence on the politics.
Japanese: 議員の一部は貴族院内で研究会などの会派を作り、政治上にも大きな影響を与えた。
English: According to the former Imperial House Act and the Decree for the marriage of Imperial family, the persons entitled for marrying a member of the Imperial family were limited to members of the Imperial family or kazoku.
Japanese: 同年定められた旧皇室典範と皇族通婚令により、皇族との結婚資格を有する者は皇族または華族の出である者に限定された。
English: Kazoku were permitted to enter the Imperial Court, and if they obtained permission, they could even visit Kashikodokoro, one of the Three Shrines in the Imperial Court.
Japanese: また宮中への出入りも許可されており、届け出をすれば宮中三殿のひとつ賢所に参拝することも出来た。
English: Many of the chamberlains in the Imperial Court were from kazoku, and kazoku also played many roles in events in the Imperial Court, including the ceremony of Utakai Hajime (the Imperial poet-reading party in the New Year).
Japanese: 侍従も華族出身者が多く、歌会始などの皇室の行事では華族が役割の多くを担った。
English: It was also specified that, when kazoku who related to the Imperial family died, the Imperial family and some kazoku should went into mourning; kazoku were regarded as the people who had been keeping strong bonds with the Imperial family.
Japanese: また、皇族と親族である華族が死亡した際は服喪することも定められており、華族は皇室の最も近い存在として扱われた。
English: In the kazoku class, a peerage was provided only for the male who became the head of a family, and no peerage was conferred on the female, even when she became the head of a family.
Japanese: 華族のうち爵位を有するのは家督を有する男子であり、女子が家督を継いだ場合は叙爵されなかった。
English: However, she was given the kazoku class status, and when a male became the family head, he could recover the former peerage of the family.
Japanese: しかしながら、華族としては認められ、後に家督を継ぐ男子を立てた場合に襲爵が許された。
English: However, since the amendment of Kazoku Law of 1907 forbid female to become a family head, all kazoku families had to have male family heads.
Japanese: しかし女戸主は明治40年の華族令改正で廃止され、男当主の存在が必須となった。
English: When kazoku were separated from the family register by some occasion such as a marriage to a commoner, they were treated as a commoner since then.
Japanese: たとえ華族の家庭に生まれても平民との婚姻等により分籍した者は、平民の扱いを受けた。
English: Illegitimate children of a family head belonging to the kazoku class became kazoku as well, however, mistresses could not become kazoku even if her son became the family head.
Japanese: また、当主の庶子も華族となったが、妾はたとえ当主の母親であっても華族とはならなかった。
English: However, they had to adopt from within the sixth degree of kinship of paternity line and the adopted children also had to have the kazoku statuses.
Japanese: しかしながら、男系6親等以内が原則であり、華族の身分を持つことが条件とされていた。
English: Kazoku were supervised by Minister of the Imperial Household Agency and Sochitsuryo (the Department of Imperial Affairs) of the Imperial Household Agency, and expected to maintain dignity and grace as "loyal hedge guarding the Imperial family."
Japanese: 華族は宮内大臣と宮内省宗秩寮の監督下に置かれ、皇室の藩屏としての品位を保持することが求められた。
English: It was specified that the children in the kazoku class should be educated properly, and when a scandal was found, the whole family was punished by the Imperial Household Agency.
Japanese: 華族子弟には相応の教育を受けさせることが定められ、また一族の私生活に不祥事が有れば宮内省から処分を受けた。
English: When the kazoku system was established, some persons opposed the existence of such a system saying that the system was contrary to the concept of "One emperor and all of the other people are commoners" and that kazoku were useless people eating without doing anything.
Japanese: 華族制度は成立当初、一君万民の概念に背き、天皇と臣民の間を隔てる存在であり、華族は無為徒食の徒であるとして華族制度の存在に反対するものもいた。
English: Mokurai SHIMAJI and Azusa ONO, a secretary of Genro-in (the law-making organization in Japan in the early Meiji period) set out arguments for the opposition, strongly debating on the Asano Shinbun (Asano Newspaper).
Japanese: 島地黙雷や小野梓元老員書記官が反対の論陣を張り、朝野新聞紙上で激しい論戦が繰り広げられた。
English: In 1880, Asano Shinbun published an editorial titled "The kazoku class should be abolished."
Japanese: 朝野新聞は明治13年(1880年)に「華族廃すべし」と題した論説を掲載している。
English: However, with Jiyu Minken Undo (movement for liberty and people's rights) gaining its momentum, he changed his position to obtain support of kazoku class members.
Japanese: しかしながら、自由民権運動の勢力拡大にともない、華族と妥協するため主張を変更している。
English: Taisuke ITAGAKI had the opinion that the kazoku system was against the concept of "equality of all people," and refused two times the offer of conferring the peerage of Hakusahaku in 1887.
Japanese: また板垣退助も華族制度は四民平等に反するという主張を持っており、明治20年(1887年)に伯爵に叙された際も2度にわたって辞退した。
English: Since being unable to renegade the emperor's will, he finally accepted the offer of the peerage, however, at the same time, he submitted a paper opposing the kazoku system.
Japanese: しかし天皇の意志に背くことは出来ずに爵位を受けたが、この時には華族制度を疑問視する意見書を提出している。
English: Furthermore, in 1907, he distributed a paper to urge the prohibition against the succession of the kazoku status to all kazoku, at a result, a considerable debate aouse between him and Takeki TANI.
Japanese: また、明治40年(1907年)には全華族に対して華族の世襲を禁止するという意見書を配り、谷干城と激しい論争になった。
English: Although kazoku had been expected to keep being the loyal hedge guarding the Imperial family, in fact, Nara kazoku and those originated in kuge of the middle grade or the lower grade suffered poverty since their original financial bases were very poor.
Japanese: 皇室の藩屏として期待された華族であったが、奈良華族や中下級公家などの経済基盤が貧弱であった華族は生活に困窮した。
English: The government took measures many times to rescue the finances of kazoku, however, some kazoku even gave up retaining the kazoku statuses.
Japanese: 政府は何度も華族財政を救済する施策をとったが、華族の身分を返上する家も現れた。
English: On the other hand, Shoko kazoku (lord kazoku) originated in dominant lords in the Edo period were still wealthy, and they had good connections with their former retainers, which were helpful in securing their property.
Japanese: 一方大大名の子孫である諸侯華族は裕福であり、旧家臣との人脈も財産を守る上で役立った。
English: However, after the end of Meiji period, some of even Shoko kazoku sold their family treasures for the financial deterioration.
Japanese: しかし明治末期以降は伝来の家宝が売却されることも多くなり、諸侯華族の財政も悪化しつつあった。
English: In addition, Jugo Bank, called the bank for kazoku, collapsed on April 21, 1927, and many kazoku lost their financial assets.
Japanese: また、華族の銀行と呼ばれた十五銀行が1927年（昭和2）4月21日に破綻した際には多くの華族が財産を失った。
English: In those days, Kazoku were some kind of object of people's attention like today's celebrity, and gravure pictures of girls and wives of kazoku often made the pages of magazines such as 'Fujo Gaho' (the Women Pictorial).
Japanese: また、華族は現在の芸能人的な扱いもされており、「婦女画報」等の雑誌には華族子女・夫人のグラビア写真が掲載されることもよくあった。
English: Kazoku's private lives also attracted people's interest, and many scandals including the one by Byakuren YANAGIHARA and the one by Iwao OYAMA and Sutematsu YAMAKAWA were written in newspapers and magazines.
Japanese: 一方で華族の私生活も一般の興味の対象となり、柳原白蓮や大山巌の山川捨松逸話など、多くの華族スキャンダルが新聞や雑誌を賑わせた。
English: In the Showa era, increasingly, there were some kazoku who were interested in reforming the social system and engaged in political activities.
Japanese: 昭和に入ると、華族の中にも社会改造に興味を持ち、活溌な政治活動を行う華族も増加した。
English: These kazoku were called "Kakusin kazoku," and they formed an influential group inthe politics of the early Showa era.
Japanese: この華族達は革新華族と呼ばれ、昭和前期の政界における一潮流となった。
English: On May 3, 1947, the kazoku system was abolished with the enforcement of the Constitution of Japan which stipulated the prohibition of aristocracy systems (Item 2, Article 14) and equality under the law (Item 1, Article 14).
Japanese: 1947年5月3日、貴族制度の禁止（憲法14条2項）と法の下の平等（憲法14条1項）を定めた日本国憲法の施行とともに廃止された。
English: At the initial draft stage, it had been stipulated that the then kazoku could retain the peerages only while they were alive, however, the House of Representatives decided the principle of the immediate abolition (called "Ashida amendment").
Japanese: 当初の草案の段階では、現存する華族一代の間はその栄爵を認めるという形であったが、衆議院で即時廃止の方針が決まった（芦田修正）。
English: The House of Peers deliberated on the drafts of the Constitution of Japan as well, and as for the kazoku system, they approved the original plan which the House of Representatives had already approved and did not make any modifications to it.
Japanese: 憲法は貴族院でも審議されたが、華族制度については衆議院で可決された原案通りに通過している。
English: According to Yuji OTABE, there were totally 1011kazoku class families while the system existed.
Japanese: なお、小田部雄次の推計によると、創設から廃止までの間に存在した華族の総数は1011家である。
English: The clan was a family of kokujin (local samurai) in Omi Province (Shiga Prefecture) and a Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period), which held influence over Kita Omi (Northern Omi Province).
Japanese: 近江国（滋賀県）の国人、近江国北部を中心に勢力を持った戦国大名である。
English: There is a theory that the Azai clan was a local ruling family and a descendent of a family, whose origin was gunji (a district manager) or in a similar social class in Omi Province, although the clan proclaimed that its honsei (original name) was of the Fujiwara clan.
Japanese: 本姓は藤原氏を称するが、近江の在地豪族、郡司クラスの末裔とする説がある。
English: In a military epic 'Kohokuki,' its name appears as one of the 12 clans of konpon hikan (primal vassals), in which such clans as the Imai, the Kawake, the Akao, the Anyoji and the Mitamura were also included.
Japanese: 「江北記」には根本被官として今井、河毛、赤尾、安養寺、三田村氏ら12氏のうちの一つとして列記されている。
English: Some of the family lineages moved to Owari Province, and served the Oda clan or theTokugawa clan (There are contradictory or different theories.)
Japanese: 尾張国に移り住み、織田氏・徳川氏に仕えた系統もある（異説・諸説あり）。
English: Although the name '浅井' often pronounced as 'Asai' in dramas and others, it should be read 'Azai' as mentioned above, and even in Shiga Prefecture today, it is read 'Azai.'
Japanese: ドラマなどで「浅井」が「あさい」と読まれることも多いが、上記の通り「あざい」が正しく、現在の滋賀県でも「あざい」と読む。
English: However, there are different theories, including Keiichi MIYAJIMA, the author of "Azai Sandaiki" (story about the three generation of the Azai family) (enlisted below as a reference), argues as follows:
Japanese: ただし異論もあり、『浅井氏三代』（下記参考文献）を著述した宮島敬一は
English: In "Setsuyoshu" (one of Japanese-language dictionaries and notation of characters), Ekirinbon edition (edition compiled by Ekirin), the clan's surname is read as 'Azai,' however, this reading is similarly applied to that of the Asakura clan as 'Azakura.'
Japanese: 「あざい」と読んでいる易林本『節用集』では朝倉氏も「あざくら」と読んでいる
English: Etymologically it is reasonable to understand that the surname 'Asai' of the Omi-Asai (and not Omi-Azai) clan was a result of the phonetic change of the name of 'Asahi-go' village.
Japanese: 近江浅井氏の「あさい」の語源は朝日（あさひ）郷の転化によるものとするのが自然
English: In the generation of Sukemasa AZAI, the Kyogoku family's government system came to be practically managed by kokujin-shu (a group of local samurais) lead by the Asami clan, an influential local ruling family, throughing the Kyogoku clan's family troubles, who was a shugo daimyo (Japanese provincial military governor which came to acquire an authority as a Japanese feudal lord) ruling over the three counties of the northern territory of Omi Province.
Japanese: 浅井亮政のとき、近江の北3郡を統べる守護大名であった京極氏の御家騒動を経て、北近江では、有力豪族の浅見氏を盟主とした国人衆をによる京極家の家政体制が布かれた。
English: According to a common theory, in due course, the Azai clan expelled the Asami clan, who was aiming at enhancing its autocratic rule, and instead, the Azai clan grew gradually and became a Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period), by making the Kyogoku clan as its puppet and handling the influential vassals of the Kyogoku family.
Japanese: やがて、専制を強めた浅見氏を追放し、京極氏を傀儡化させ、京極家の有力家臣をも従えて戦国大名へと成長していったとするのが通説である。
English: Afterwards, Sukemasa opposed Sadayori ROKKAKU in Minami Omi (Southern Omi Province due to the attempt to expand his influence, and he was once backfooted by Sadayori's offensive.
Japanese: その後、亮政は勢力拡大を図って南近江の六角定頼と対立するも、一時、定頼の攻勢に押されてしまったことがある。
English: Therefore, Sukemasa built an alliance with the Asakura clan in Echizen Province, and he fought back against Sadayori's offensive with the support from the Asakura clan, and gradually enhanced his dominance over the Kita Omi, the northern territory of Omi Province.
Japanese: このため亮政は、越前国の朝倉氏と同盟を結び、その支援のもとに定頼の攻勢を押し返して北近江の支配力を高めていくのである。
English: However, during the generation of Hisamasa AZAI, who succeeded the family rein after Sukemasa's death, the clan suffered frequent invasions of those neighboring daimyo, including the Kyogoku clan, Rokkaku clan and the Saito clan.
Japanese: しかし亮政の死後、後継の浅井久政の代になると周辺大名の京極氏や六角氏、斎藤氏に度々侵攻を受ける。
English: In the course of time, the threat from the east had disappeared due to the fall of the Saito clan, however, it was difficult to block the Rokkaku clan's northing.
Japanese: やがて、斎藤氏の没落によって東からの脅威は取り払われたが、六角氏の北進を阻むのは困難であった。
English: Especially, while the Azai clan received fierce attacks from Sadayori's son, Yoshikata ROKKAKU, Hisamasa's first legitimate son, Nagamasa AZAI, was not only forced to take the daughter of a Rokkaku's vassal to wife, but he, whose name was Shinkuro, was also obliged to change his nanori (the name one refers to himself as when reaching adulthood, in his case, 'Nagamasa') to 'Katamasa'; the Azai clan was gradually cast down to a position of the Rokkaku clan's retainer.
Japanese: 特に定頼の子・六角義賢からは大攻勢をかけられる一方で、六角家臣の娘を久政の嫡男・浅井長政に娶らされただけでなく、新九郎の名乗りも「賢政」にさせられるなど、徐々に六角氏に臣従化されていく。
English: Such a week-kneed diplomacy of Hisamasa fermented dissatisfaction among his retainers.
Japanese: このような久政の弱腰な外交姿勢に家臣たちの間に不満が募っていくのだった。
English: In 1560, after sending his wife of the forced marriage back to her family, Shinkuro challenged the decisive battle against the Rokkaku clan, leading his hard-line retainers, and won an overwhelming victory over Yoshikata in the Battle at Norada.
Japanese: 永禄3年（1560年）、嫁を強制送還した新九郎が強硬派家臣を率いて六角氏との決戦に臨んだ野良田の戦いでは、義賢に大勝。
English: When the Azai clan achieved the independence from the Rokkaku clan, the Azai's retainers forced Hisamasa to be retired, and Nagamasa came to succeed the rein of the family.
Japanese: 浅井氏を六角氏から独立させると、久政は家臣たちから強制的に隠居させられ、家督は長政が継承することとなったのである。
English: However, Hisamasa was not completely out of the political matters, and still had a certain influence even after his retirement.
Japanese: しかし、久政の政治的発言力が完全に失われたわけではなく、隠居後でもなお発言力はあった。
English: Nagamasa concluded an alliance with Nobunaga ODA, who was gaining his force by gripping the control over Mino Province at that time, and married Oichi no kata, Nobunaga's younger sister, to ensure the peace and security of the Azai clan.
Japanese: その長政は美濃国を支配して勢いに乗る織田信長と同盟を結び、信長の妹・お市の方を妻として迎えて、浅井氏の安泰を図った。
English: It was an effective alliance as a strategy against the Rokkaku clan, however, in 1570 when Nobunaga advanced his troops to Echizen Province to conquer Yoshikage ASAKURA, Nagamasa worried over coping with it.
Japanese: 六角氏との対抗戦略としては効果的な同盟であったが、元亀元年（1570年）に、信長が朝倉義景を攻めるべく越前国に侵攻すると、その対応に苦慮する。
English: Because, the Azai clan was tightly keeping the alliance with the Asakura clan as well as building the alliance with the Oda clan, thus the opinion within the family was split over the decision which side to support.
Japanese: 織田氏との同盟関係を構築しながらも以前からの朝倉氏との同盟も堅持していたため、どちらの支援に加わるかで家論が割れたのである。
English: His father, Hisamasa, and his retainers insisted that 'the family should not cut off the Asakura clan which had been a great benefactor to the family,' urging Nagamasa to annul the alliance with Nobunaga and help the Asakura clan.
Japanese: 父の久政や家臣たちが「大恩ある朝倉を見捨てるべからず」と主張し、信長との同盟を破棄して朝倉氏を助けるように迫った。
English: Nagamasa, who was totally undecided between the two sides, finally broke the alliance with Nobunaga, and his troops attacked the Oda army from behind (Battle of Kanegasaki).
Japanese: 長政は迷いに迷ったが、結果的には信長との同盟を破棄し、織田軍に背後から襲いかかっている（金ヶ崎の戦い）。
English: This attack brought the end of the alliance between Nagamasa and Nobunaga, and after that, these two great rivals started to intensify the confrontation between them.
Japanese: これにより長政と信長の同盟関係は終束し、以後の両雄は対立を深めることとなる。
English: However, in the Battle of Anegawa which broke out the same year (1570), Nagamasa failed to make full use of his home-court advantage and could not predominate the battle.
Japanese: しかし、同年に勃発した姉川の戦いでは地の利を活かせず、優勢で終えられなかった。
English: Later, not only the Asakura clan, but also the other feudal lords who were suppressed by Nobunaga until then, such as the Miyoshi clan in Settsu Province and the Rokkaku clan, once Nagamasa's sworn enemy, strengthened confrontational postures against Nobunaga, then the conflict against the Oda clan went back and forth.
Japanese: その後、朝倉氏の他に摂津国の三好氏や、かつての仇敵・六角氏など信長に圧迫されていた勢力も対抗姿勢を強めたため、織田氏との抗争は一進一退。