nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: I would appreciate it if you could make arrangements to report that I sent the troops to Mogami to take action and everyone got exhausted before Ieyasu moved from Kyoto.
Japanese: 最上へ人衆遣、又動、其外ニ人悉草臥申候へ共、内府様無御下向以前、何とそ仕度候
English: One: (八月廿八日相馬ヨリ手切可仕由必定ニ付而), preparation for troops by Naoe and arrival in Fukushima, presented verbally.
Japanese: 一　八月廿八日相馬ヨリ手切可仕由必定ニ付而、直江人數催、フク嶋江参候事　口上
English: One: Request of the fief of 2,000-kan (a unit for the fields, which was determined on the basis of the yields and did not depend on the areas) in stead of proposal of 1,000-kan which was made to you, (右之儀共調候ハゝ), presented verbally.
Japanese: 一　貴老江千貫之知行可進候、乍去右之儀共調候ハゝ、如御望二千貫之所可進候事、口上　條條、
English: On October 24, 1600, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA praised Masamune for his distinguished service for the battle at Fukushima Omote.
Japanese: 慶長5年10月24日、徳川家康は政宗に対して、この福島表における戦功を賞した。
English: In addition, Ieyasu told a plan to conquer Kagekatsu UESUGI the next spring in the letters dated October 15 and 24.
Japanese: また10月15日の書状と24日の書状の中で、翌春上杉景勝を征伐する方針を伝えた。
English: When I humbly accompanied to make proposals politely, he said that he would conquer Kagekatsu early next spring and therefore it is necessary for you to make good sense without a hasty action.
Japanese: 猶以従我等式、懇可申入之旨候、来春者早速、景勝成敗可被申付候、其中御行無聊爾之様、御分別御尤之由候。
English: Soon after the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu had a plan to conquer the Uesugi family by force with Masamune DATE early in 1601.
Japanese: 関ヶ原直後、家康は伊達政宗とともに翌慶長6年早々に上杉家を武力征伐する予定でいた。
English: In response to the letter from Ieyasu which arrived in November, 1600, Masamune ordered 'a survey on a number of warriors including vassals in military service' on February 17, 1601 to secretly prepare for the battle, but the conquest of Uesugi was canceled as a result because the Uesugi family called for the surrender through Masanobu HONDA and Hideyasu YUKI.
Japanese: 政宗は、慶長5年11月に届いた家康からの書状を請け、慶長6年2月17日に「家臣等軍役ノ人数改メ」を命じて内々に出陣の準備をしていたが、上杉家が本多正信や結城秀康等を通じて降伏を願い出たため、結果的に上杉征伐は中止された。
English: Between these times, any major military clash did not occurred between the Date family and the Uesugi family, but a skirmish and tension still continued around the border.
Japanese: この間、伊達家と上杉家は大規模な軍事衝突こそ起こらなかったものの、国境付近での小競り合いと緊張関係は依然続いた。
English: On March 20, 1601, Masamune who saw the situation of the Uesugi family informed in the letter to Masakage DATE that the Uesugi family leaning toward making peace with Ieyasu, was only prepared to hold the castle, but not in a situation to send the troops to Sendo-guchi Gate since he lost the will to fight.
Japanese: 慶長6年3月20日、上杉家の様子を探っていた政宗は伊達政景宛への書状で、家康との講和に傾いた上杉家が戦意を失い、籠城の用意のみで仙道口へ兵を出す状況にはない旨を知らせた。
English: (会津ノ唱モ能々承候), he just prepared for holding the castle and did not seem to send the troops to Sendo-guchi.
Japanese: （「会津ノ唱モ能々承候、籠城之用意迄ニ而、中々仙道口ナトヘ人衆可被出武體無之由申候。
English: If Kagekatsu sends the troops, there is no problem because we can prepare for it within the day.')
Japanese: 縦景勝被打出候共、サヨウノ時者、又當手ノ備、日之内ニモ其構可仕候條、不苦候」）。
English: On May 8, Masamune informed Ieyasu in Fushimi that Yoshimune ISHIKAWA invaded Itaya, Nagai no sho (manor in Nagai District), Okitama District and set fire to everywhere.
Japanese: 5月8日、政宗は、景勝領の置賜郡長井荘板屋へ侵入した石川義宗が、悉く焼打を行ったことを伏見の家康に注進した。
English: Kagekatsu was deprived of the Aizu domain and his territory was diminished to Okitama District (Nagai District), Date District and Shinobu District yielding 300,000-koku (a unit of volume of rice).
Japanese: 会津領は没収され、置賜郡（長井郡）と伊達郡、信夫郡の30万石に減封された。
English: On the other hand, Masamune was not granted his wish for regaining the ancestral estate due to his involvement in agitating Tadachika WAGA to launch Nanbu Riot, and ended up in increase of only 20,000-koku yielded in Katta District which he occupied by himself as rewards of the battle.
Japanese: 一方、政宗は和賀忠親の南部一揆への煽動関与の件により、念願だった先祖伝来の地の奪還は叶わず、戦後の論功行賞でも自力で占領した刈田郡2万石のみの加増に終わった。
English: The Matsukawa River ran through the southern foot of Mt. Shinobu at the time of the battle and now runs through the northern foot.
Japanese: 合戦の当時の松川は信夫山南麓を流れていたが、現在は北麓を流れている。
English: It is said that the Matsukawa River ran through around the location of the small river now called the Haraigawa River (Fukushima Prefecture) in those days.
Japanese: 当時の松川の跡は現在は祓川(福島県)と呼ばれる小さな川の辺りが水路だったと言われている。
English: Around the Kuronuma-jinja Shrine in Mt.Shinobu where Masamune set up the headquarters, the Shinobu-yama Park was built and has become a cherry blossom viewing spot now.
Japanese: また、政宗が陣を敷いた信夫山の黒沼神社のあたりは現在は信夫山公園として整備され、花見の名所となっている。
English: The Yanagawa-jo Castle was abolished in the Edo period and was later used for jinya (regional government office) of the Yamagawa Domain.
Japanese: 梁川城は江戸時代になって廃城となり、その後梁川藩の陣屋として使われた。
English: After the Meiji Restoration, it was used as a school property, and is now used for Yamagawa elementary school, Yamagawa kindergarten, Yamagawa junior high school and Yamagawa senior high school.
Japanese: 明治維新後は学校敷地として使われ、現在、城跡は梁川小学校、梁川幼稚園、梁川中学校、梁川高等学校として使用されている。
English: A medieval garden was restored in a corner of Yanagawa elementary school and the ruin of the Yanagawa-jo Castle was designated as a historic site by the prefecture.
Japanese: 梁川小学校校庭の片隅に中世庭園も復元され、梁川城跡は県指定史跡となっている。
English: The castle was famous as the residential castle for the successive Date clan since the time from the Kamakura period to the Muromachi period, and the present structural remnants are what has been rebuilt to reinforce the defense against the Date clan in the era of Gamou clan or Uesugi clan after the Masamune DATE was transferred to other domain.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代から室町時代の伊達氏歴代の居城として有名であるが、現在の遺構はむしろ伊達政宗移封後の、蒲生氏時代または上杉氏時代に、対伊達氏政策で防備を強化して改築されたものであると考えられている。
English: Across the Abukumagawa River 1.5 km north from the Yanagawa city center (Yanagawa-jo castle town) through National Route 349, Oyama, the Oeda-jo Castle where the Date army lined up to face Abukuma-jo Castle can been seen on the left.
Japanese: 梁川中心市街（梁川城下）から国道349号線を1.5kmほど北上して阿武隈川を越えると、左手に、当時、梁川城に対峙して伊達軍が布陣したという小山…大枝城跡がある。
English: The Yanagawa-jo Castle was a hirayamajiro (castle built on a hill or low mountain surrounded by a plain), and therefore the Yanagawa-jo Castle and the Oeda-jo Castle can see each other across the Abukumagawa River.
Japanese: 梁川城も小高い平山城であり、梁川城と大枝城からは、阿武隈川を挟んで相互に相手方がよく見える。
English: The base of Mt. Atsukashi in Kunimi was designated as a national historical site because it is where Oshu Fujiwara clan was conquered by MINAMOTO no Yoritomo bur the fact that Masamune DATE set up the headquarters there for invading Fukushima has not been well-known.
Japanese: 伊達軍が布陣した国見の厚樫山（あつかしやま）の山麓も国指定史跡に指定されているが、源頼朝の奥州藤原氏征伐の史跡としてであり、伊達政宗の福島侵攻の本陣が置かれたことはそれほど知られていない。
English: On the top of Mt. Atsukashi, there is an observation deck, which offers panoramic views of the Fukushima Basin, especially Yanagawa and Hobara areas as the name of Kunimi (look over the country) suggests.
Japanese: 厚樫山の山頂には、現在展望台があり、国見という地名のとおり、福島盆地…特に伊達郡の梁川、保原方面を一望することができる。
English: The "Kioizaka Incident" (Kioizaka no Hen: May 14, 1878) was the incident when Genkun (oligarch with merits) of Meiji, Toshimichi OKUBO, was assassinated by six shizoku (family or person with samurai ancestors) on the Kiyomizu-zaka Slope at Kioi-cho, Tokyo.
Japanese: 紀尾井坂の変（きおいざかのへん、1878年（明治11年）5月14日）は、明治の元勲・大久保利通が東京の紀尾井町清水坂で士族6名によって暗殺された事件。
English: The group of assassins consisted of 6 sizoku: 5 from Ishikawa Prefecture, Ichiro SHIMADA, Tsurahide CHO, Otogiku SUGIMOTO, Koichi WAKITA, and Bunichi SUGIMURA; and 1from Shimane Prefecture, Toshiatsu ASAI (Wakita quit the shizoku and became a commoner prior to leaving for Tokyo due to fear of punishment to his family for his conduct).
Japanese: 暗殺犯は石川県士族島田一郎・長連豪・杉本乙菊・脇田巧一・杉村文一および島根県士族の浅井寿篤の6名から成る（脇田は上京にあたり罪が家に及ぶのを恐れて士族を辞めて平民になっている）。
English: Thus, inflamed with anger by Takamori SAIGO's resignation due to the Meiji roku-nen no Seihen (the coup of 1873), Shimada actively engaged in the affairs of state afterwards.
Japanese: そのため、明治六年政変で西郷隆盛が下野したことに憤激して以後、国事に奔走することになる。
English: Those named in the petitions such as the one against the rumor to suspend the Taiwan conquest and the other criticizing the treatment of Saga War are as follows: Hiromasa SUGIMURA, Shimada, and Yoshinao KUGA, who drafted a zankanjo (a written vindication of an assassin's deed).
Japanese: 台湾征討中止の噂に対する反対の建白書や佐賀の乱の処理を批判する建白書には杉村（寛）・島田・後に斬奸状を起草する陸義猶が名を連ねている。
English: However, as these petitions did not have the desired effect, Shimada and others went down to the path to use of force.
Japanese: しかし、これらの建白書は期待した効果を生まず、島田らは実力行使路線を採ることになる。
English: In June of 1874, Cho entered Kagoshima with Hiromasa SUGIMURA and Kuga; and they intended on carrying out their mission, to receive the opinion on the Taiwan conquest from Saigo and Toshiaki KIRINO.
Japanese: 長は明治7年6月に、台湾征討について西郷、桐野利秋の見解を聞きに杉村（寛）、陸と鹿児島入りしている。
English: Cho returned to his prefecture in October of 1876, and in the same month, revolts by families or persons with samurai ancestors such as the Shinpuren no ran (Shinpuren Rebellion), the Akizuki-no-ran War (turmoil of Akizuki), and the Hagi-no-ran War (turmoil of dissatisfied warriors at Hagi) occurred one after another.
Japanese: 長が帰県した10月には神風連の乱、秋月の乱、萩の乱と士族反乱が相次いでいる。
English: Moreover, for the next year, 1877, Shimada and Cho cooperated, becoming busily engaged in plans to raise an army during the Seinan War.
Japanese: さらに翌10年の西南戦争では、島田と長が協力して挙兵計画に奔走した。
English: However, in April, they got an information that the government army entered into Kumamoto-jo Castle, while they struggled to persuade their surrounding people.
Japanese: しかし、周囲の説得に苦慮している間に、4月に政府軍が熊本城に入城したとの情報を得た。
English: Five people went to Tokyo; Wakita in October; Cho in November; Sugimura in December; and Shimada and Sugimoto in April of the next year.
Japanese: 脇田は10月、長は11月、杉村は12月、島田、杉本は翌年4月に上京している。
English: Asai was the only shizoku among the Shimada circle who came from Shimane Prefecture, participating in the Seinan War as a soldier in the government army, making a triumphant return to Tokyo in August 1877.
Japanese: 唯一の島根県人である浅井は西南戦争に政府軍として参加し、明治10年8月に東京に凱旋していた。
English: Their assassination plot has already reached the Daikeishi (top of the police department) Toshiyoshi KAWAJI, who was the head of the police organization in those days via several roots.
Japanese: 彼らの暗殺計画は複数のルートを経て、当時の警察組織のトップである大警視、川路利良の耳にも入っていた。
English: The zankanjo carried by Shimada and others when they assassinated Okubo was drafted by Kuga according to Shimada's request at the end of April.
Japanese: 島田らが大久保暗殺時に持参していた斬奸状は4月下旬に島田から依頼されて陸が起草したものである。
English: After talking about two hours, Okubo described his 30 year plan when Yamayoshi was about to leave.
Japanese: 話は2時間近くに及び、山吉が辞去しようとしたときに大久保は三十年計画について述べている。
English: In this plan, Okubo divided the 30 years from 1868 to 1898 into the three terms of 10 year intervals: the first 10 years as the establishment period, making efforts in militaristic affairs such as the Boshin Civil War and Shizoku no hanran (revolt by family or person with samurai ancestors); the next 10 years as the period to organize domestic affairs, encourage domestic production, and create new industries; and the last 10 years as the period of building up and maintaining this process by his successors; and he said he hoped to contribute his effort in the second term.
Japanese: これは明治元年から30年までを10年毎に3期に分け、最初の10年を創業の時期として戊辰戦争や士族反乱などの兵事に明け暮れる時期、次の10年を内治整理、殖産興業の時期、最後の10年を後継者による守成の時期として、自らは第二期に力を注ぎたいと抱負を述べるものであった
English: Around 8:30 a.m., six assassins attacked the carriage that Okubo was riding in; this took place at the Kyomizu-zaka Slope of Kioi-cho in Tokyo.
Japanese: 午前8時30分頃、東京の紀尾井町清水坂（紀尾井坂）において、暗殺犯6名が大久保の乗る馬車を襲撃。
English: Okubo shouted to Shimada and the other assassins, 'Rude fellows!' but he was killed by their swords (died at the age of 49 by the traditional Japanese system, actually 47).
Japanese: 大久保は島田らに「無礼者!」と一喝を与えたが、斬殺された（享年49〈数え年〉、満47歳没）。
English: According to "The attendance at a funeral: The conferral of the posthumous rank, the Udaijin (minister of the right), Shonii (Senior Second Court Rank), Toshimichi OKUBO: the summary and Kan (乾)," Okubo received sixteen wounds to his body.
Japanese: 『贈右大臣正二位大久保利通葬送略記・乾』によると大久保は全身に16箇所の傷を受けていた。
English: Hisoka MAEJIMA, who came straight right after the incident and saw Okubo's corpse, expressed it 'the flesh was scattered and the bones were smashed. Additionally, the skull was cracked, so I could see the brain still shaking.'
Japanese: 事件直後に駆けつけて遺体を見た前島密は、「肉飛び骨砕け、又頭蓋裂けて脳の猶微動するを見る」と表現している。
English: Shimada and others abandoned their swords, and on the same day, they surrendered themselves to the police, handing over their zankanjo which included the five crimes of Okubo and those of other important governmental persons.
Japanese: 島田らは刀を捨てて、同日、大久保の罪五事と、他の政府要人の罪を挙げた斬奸状を手に自首した。
English: For Okubo's funeral ceremony, about 1,200 people attended the his residence, and the expense of the funeral was about 4,500 yen.
Japanese: 大久保の葬儀は大久保邸に会する者1,200名近く、費用は4,500円余りという。
English: The police arrested 30 people including Kuga who drafted the zankanjo, those who send the zankanjo to each newspaper companies by Shimada's request (though it was not published.
Japanese: 斬奸状を起草した陸や、島田に頼まれ斬奸状を各新聞社に投稿した者（しかし各紙に黙殺されて掲載されなかった。
English: Asano Shinbun' [Asano Newspaper] published its outline, but police ordered its suspension on the same day), and those from Ishikawa prefectures who cheered the incident and sent letters to their home.
Japanese: 「朝野新聞」は要旨を短く紹介したが即日発行停止を命じられた）、さらに事件を聞いて喝采を叫んだ手紙を国許に送っただけの石川県人など30名が逮捕された。
English: The temporally court existed inside the Daishin-in as a matter of form, however, it was actually an administrative court established by the approval of Daijokan (the Great Council of State) and decide a case based on the authority delegated from the Daijokan to the Ministry of Justice
Japanese: 臨時裁判所は形式上は大審院の中に存在するが、実際は、太政官の決裁により開設し、太政官から司法省に委任された権限に基づいて判決を下す事実上の行政裁判所であった。
English: Judge Yofumi TAMANO and other officers assigned by the Shihokyo (Predecessor of the Minister of Justice) wrote a decision draft and asked for the Ministry of Justice's opinions on July 5 in the same year, then the Ministry of Justice submitted a document to ask an opinion and direction to the Daijokan on July 17.
Japanese: 司法卿によって任命された玉乃世履判事らは同年7月5日に判決案を作成し司法省に伺いを立て、司法省では、これを受けて7月17日に太政官に伺書を提出した。
English: The Daijokan made the decision on July 25, sentenced the 6 assassins on July 27, and they all were executed by decapitation.
Japanese: 太政官は7月25日に決裁し、7月27日に6名は判決を言い渡され、即日、斬罪となった。
English: In May 1888, 'The Memorial Monument for Sir Okubo, Udaijin (Minister of the Right), Posthumously Conferred' was build by Sutezo NISHIMURA, Yukiyasu KANAI, and Shigeru NARAHARA.
Japanese: 1888年（明治21年）5月、西村捨三・金井之恭・奈良原繁らによって「贈右大臣大久保公哀悼碑」が建てられた。
English: After this incident, the Meiji government ordered that imperial guards would escort and guard governmental high officials when the high officials were on the move ("Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" by Isabella BIRD).
Japanese: この事件を機に、政府高官の移動の際は、数人の近衛兵らによる護衛が付くようになった（イザベラ・バード『日本旅行記』より）。
English: In the zankanjo, Shimada criticized Okubo for mishandling the public's fund for his personal financial gain, however, Okubo was actually an incorruptible politician regarding money and left 8,000 yen debt behind.
Japanese: 斬奸状には大久保が公金を私財の肥やしにしているとの指摘があったが、実際には金銭に対して潔白な政治家で、死後は8,000円もの借金が残ったという。
English: However, from the consideration for the bereaved family of Okubo who was one of the three contributors of Meiji Restoration, the government discussed and decided to support them with the total amount 16,000 yen raised by retrieving 8,000 yen donated by Okubo to Kagoshima prefectural office while he was alive as an educational fund and another 8,000 yen from donations.
Japanese: しかし、このまま維新の三傑である大久保の遺族が路頭に迷うのは忍びないという配慮から、政府は協議の上、大久保が生前に鹿児島県庁に学校費として寄付した8,000円を回収し、さらに8,000円の募金を集めて、この1万6,000円で遺族を養うことにした。
English: Many well-known people wrote about this incident in their journals as shocking news; such as "The journal of Kanzo UCHIMURA" by Kanzo UCHIMURA.
Japanese: 内村鑑三の記した『内村鑑三日記』など、著名人の日記にも、この事件の衝撃が語られている。
English: When Goro SHIBA, a military man from Aizu and then a young boy heard of Okubo's unnatural death, he combined it with that of Takamori SAIGO and wrote, 'I am absolutely pleased that the two great men ended their lives in unnatural death, which was a natural consequence.'
Japanese: 会津出身の軍人である柴五郎は、当時は少年であったが、大久保の非業の死を聞いて、西郷隆盛の非業の死とあわせて「両雄非業の最期を遂げたるを当然の帰結でなりと断じて喜べり」と書いている。
English: Because of that, people in his home town valued Okubo with a cold attitude and they had never permit a place for Okubo's ashes in a tomb at Kagoshima since very recent years.
Japanese: そのことで、地元からは冷たく評価され、近年まで地元への納骨を避けられていた。
English: Furthermore, there was the rumor that Okubo ran around with crying like a child when he was chased by assassins.
Japanese: また、暗殺者に追われた大久保は子供のように泣き叫んで逃げ回ったという噂が立った。
English: Okubo is said to have carried around a bag which contained the letters from late Saigo even without telling his family, and the two letters were in his pocket when he was assassinated.
Japanese: 大久保は家族にも秘密で、生前の西郷から送られた手紙を入れた袋を持ち歩き、暗殺された時にも西郷からの手紙を2通懐に入れていたとされる。
English: Additionally, after the incident, Iwao OYAMA seemed to possess those bloody letters ("Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper" dated on May 27, 1878).
Japanese: なお、事件後は大山巌が血染めになったそれを所持したとされている（『東京日日新聞』明治11年5月27日付）。
English: Later, Okubo's bereaved family dedicated the carriage in which he was riding at the moment of disastrous incident to the Goryu Sonryu-in Temple for the repose of his soul, and it still exists.
Japanese: 大久保が遭難時に乗っていた馬車は、後に供養のため遺族が岡山県倉敷市の五流尊瀧院に奉納し、現存している。
English: "Urakami yoban kuzure," which means the fourth suppression campaign against crypto-Christians in Urakami area, refers to a large-scale crackdown on Christians which took place in Nagasaki Prefecture from the end of Edo period to the early Meiji period.
Japanese: 浦上四番崩れ（うらかみよばんくずれ）は、長崎県で江戸時代末期から明治時代初期にかけて起きた大規模なキリスト教信徒への弾圧事件のことであり、浦上地区で起こった隠れキリシタンへの四度目の弾圧という意味である。
English: In 1867, many people of Urakami village who had kept their faith as crypto-Christians expressed their Christianity and captured and tortured by order of the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 1867年（慶応3年）、隠れキリシタンとして信仰を守り続け、キリスト教信仰を表明した浦上村の村民たちが江戸幕府の指令により、大量に捕縛されて拷問を受けた。
English: The Meiji Government followed the Edo bakufu's policy to ban Christianity and banished the villagers, which provoked strong criticism from foreign countries.
Japanese: 江戸幕府のキリスト教禁止政策をひきついだ明治政府の手によって村民たちは流罪とされたが、このことは諸外国の激しい非難を受けた。
English: After the Iwakura Mission, sent to Europe and America, were surprised to find that crackdown on Christians was impeding the revision of a treaty and sent a telegram to Japan, the policy to ban Christianity was abolished in 1873 and Christianity was officially approved in Japan for the first time in 259 years since 1614.
Japanese: 欧米へ赴いた岩倉使節団一行がキリシタン弾圧が条約改正の障害となっていることに驚き、本国に打電したことから、1873年（明治6年）にキリシタン禁制は廃止され、1614年以来259年ぶりに日本でキリスト教信仰が公認されることになった。
English: By the way, "Urakami ichiban kuzure" is interrogations of Christians starting in 1790, "Urakami niban kuzure" is an incident in 1839 where Christians were betrayed and captured, and "Urakami sanban kuzure" is an incident in 1856 where leading worshipers were betrayed, captured, and tortured.
Japanese: ちなみに、「浦上一番崩れ」は1790年（寛政2年）から起こった信徒の取調べ事件、「浦上二番崩れ」は1839年（天保10年）にキリシタンの存在が密告され、捕縛された事件、「浦上三番崩れ」は1856年（安政3年）に密告によって信徒の主だったものたちが捕らえられ、拷問を受けた事件のことである。
English: Prior to these incidents, the mid-Edo period saw 'Amakusa kuzure,' 'Omura kuzure,' and other incidents in which Christians were found and executed around the country.
Japanese: これより前にも「天草崩れ」「大村崩れ」など、江戸時代中期には各地でキリシタンが発見され、処刑される事件が起こっている。
English: Under the national policy of banning Christianity, the Edo bakufu tried to capture Christian missionaries and believers across the country without fail, force them to convert to Buddhism, and execute those who refused to change their faith.
Japanese: 江戸幕府はキリスト教禁止を国策とし、全国でキリスト教宣教師・信徒を徹底的に捕縛、仏教へ強制改宗させ、改宗しないものは処刑する政策をとった。
English: With the Ban on Christianity imposed, many Christians living in Nagasaki which had established ties to the Catholic Church had to keep their religious faith behind closed doors as crypto-Christians to transmit it to the next generation.
Japanese: もともと長崎はカトリック教会とゆかりがあり、信徒たちが多く暮らしていたが、禁教令をうけた信徒たちは隠れキリシタンとしてひそかに信仰を守り、次代へ受け継いでいくことになった。
English: The crypto-Christians in Nagasaki had transmitted a prophecy of Bastien, a preacher who was captured and martyred by the bakufu in the early Tokugawa period.
Japanese: そんな長崎の隠れキリシタンたちの間には、徳川時代の初期に幕府に捕らえられて殉教したバスチャンなる伝道士の予言が伝えられていた。
English: The prophecy said 'a padre (priest) will come from Rome again after seven generations of hardship.'
Japanese: それは「七代耐え忍べば、再びローマからパードレ（司祭）がやってくる」というものであった。
English: In 1864, in accordance with the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, Oura Catholic Church (Oura tenshudo) was built for French residents in the Minamiyamate foreign settlement in Nagasaki.
Japanese: 1864年（元治元年）、日仏修好通商条約に基づき、居留するフランス人のため長崎の南山手居留地内にカトリック教会の大浦天主堂が建てられた。
English: Father Bernard PETITJEAN, the dean from La Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris, privately believed there could well be followers in hiding.
Japanese: 主任司祭であったパリ外国宣教会のベルナール・プティジャン神父は信徒が隠れているのではないかという密かな期待を抱いていた。
English: Among them was then 52-year-old Yuri (later using Sugimoto as the surname), or Isabelina in the baptismal name, who came close and whispered in Father Petitjean's ear, 'we believe in the same religion as you' (we are Christians).
Japanese: その中の一人イザベリナと呼ばれたゆり（後に杉本姓）という当時52歳の女性がプティジャン神父に近づき、「ワレラノムネアナタノムネトオナジ」（私たちはキリスト教を信じています）とささやいた。
English: They told they had observed 'kanashimisetsu' (the Lent) based on the orally transmitted ordo, which surprised the priest once again.
Japanese: 神父は彼らが口伝で伝えた典礼暦を元に「カナシミセツ」（四旬節）を守っていることを聞いて再び驚いた。
English: Thereafter, leaders of Christians living in Sotome, Goto, Amakusa and Imamura in Chikugo as well as Urakami came to the priest one after another, asking for teachings.
Japanese: 以後、浦上のみならず、外海、五島、天草、筑後今村などに住む信徒たちの指導者が続々と神父の元を訪れて指導を願った。
English: Two years later in 1867, however, Christians of Urakami village refused the Buddhist funeral, thereby bringing them to light.
Japanese: しかし、二年後の1867年、浦上村の信徒たちが仏式の葬儀を拒否したことで信徒の存在が明るみに出た。
English: Summoned to appear before the magistrate on behalf of the Christians, Senemon TAKAGI and others expressed their Christianity, which embarrassed the Nagasaki magistrate even more and he allowed their tentative return to the village.
Japanese: 信徒代表として奉行所に呼び出された高木仙右衛門らははっきりとキリスト教信仰を表明したが、逆に戸惑った長崎奉行はいったん彼らを村に返した。
English: Then, in response to the report from the Nagasaki magistrate, the bakufu ordered spies to investigate the Christian group of Urakami.
Japanese: その後、長崎奉行の報告を受けた幕府は密偵に命じて浦上の信徒組織を調査した。
English: At midnight on July 14, 1867, bakuri (shogunate officials) first conducted a raid on a secret church, and captured Senemon TAKAGI and 67 other Christians all at once.
Japanese: 1867年7月14日（慶応3年6月13日）の深夜、秘密の教会堂を幕吏が急襲したのを皮切りに、高木仙右衛門ら信徒ら68人が一斉に捕縛された。
English: As soon as knowing of this affair on the following day, Prussian, Portuguese and American ministers and French consul protested against the Nagasaki magistrate, saying his behavior was inhuman.
Japanese: 翌日、事件を聞いたプロシア公使とフランス領事、さらにポルトガル公使、アメリカ公使も長崎奉行に対し、人道に外れる行いであると即座に抗議を行った。
English: A French minister, Léon ROCHES, lodged an official protest and met with Shogun Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA to discuss the affair in Osaka-jo Castle on August 24.
Japanese: 8月24日には正式な抗議を申し入れたフランス公使レオン・ロッシュと将軍徳川慶喜が大阪城で面会し、事件についての話し合いが行われた。
English: After the collapse of the Edo bakufu, Nobuyoshi SAWA who had served as sanyo (a councilor) was appointed to double as the Governor of the Nagasaki Court on March 7, 1868, and came to Nagasaki together with a newly assigned officer in charge of foreign affairs, Kaoru INOUE.
Japanese: 江戸幕府が瓦解すると、1868年3月7日（慶応4年2月14日）、参与であった沢宣嘉が長崎裁判所総督兼任を命じられ、外国事務係となった井上馨と共に長崎に着任した。
English: After 'Gobo no Keiji' (five edict boards) was issued on April 7, 1868 with Article three stipulating once again the ban on Christianity, Sawa and Inoue summoned the Christians of Urakami in question and urged them to change their faith, but ended up finding that they would never obey.
Japanese: 慶応4年3月15日に示された「五榜の掲示」の第三条で再びキリスト教の禁止が確認されると、沢と井上は問題となっていた浦上の信徒たちを呼び出して説得したが、彼らには改宗の意思がないことがわかった。