nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: After that, he engaged in Shugendo school (Japanese ascetic and shamanistic practice in mountainous sites) in the Yamato Katsuragi Mountain (Kongo-san Mountain of the Kongo mountainous district) and continued ascetic practices in the mountains of Kumano and Mt. Omine, and was inspired with Zao Gongen (the principal image of the Kimpusen Zaodo, and the highest worship object of the Shugendo) that allowed him to establish the base of Shugendo.
Japanese: その後、大和葛城山（金剛山(金剛山地)）で修験道を行い、熊野や大峰山（大峯）の山々で修行を重ね、金峯山（吉野）で蔵王権現を感得し、修験道の基礎を築いた。
English: He was known as a holy man having excellent jujutsu skills who claimed the need of harmonious relationship between Shinto and Buddhist deities; there is a legend that he cured FUJIWARA no Kamatari's leg disease when he was in his twenties.
Japanese: 二十代の頃、藤原鎌足の病気を治癒したという伝説があるなど、呪術に優れ、神仏調和を唱えた。
English: He was suspected of planning a rebellion in 699, and was deported to the Izu-oshima Island, however, he returned to Chihara-mura in 701 after he was cleared of the suspicion.
Japanese: 699年に謀反の疑いをかけられ、伊豆大島へ流刑となり、701年に疑いが晴れて茅原に帰る。
English: It is said that he died at Tenjogadake Mountain in Mino City in July 20, 701, at the age of 68.
Japanese: 701年6月7日(旧暦)に68歳で箕面市の天井ヶ岳にて入寂したと言われる。
English: When a mountain religion became popular in the Heian period, he came to be called 'EN no Gyoja.'
Japanese: 後の平安時代に山岳信仰の隆盛と共に、「役行者」と呼ばれるようになった。
English: Most sacred grounds for Shugendo such as the Tenkawa-jinja Shrine and Ominesan Ryusen-ji Temple are associated with EN no Gyoja, such as having him as the originator or as the place he engaged in the ascetic practices.
Japanese: 天河神社や大峯山龍泉寺など殆どの修験道の霊場は、役行者を開祖としていたり、修行の地としていたりするなど、必ずと言っていいほど、結び付けられている。
English: Imperial Prince Shogoinnomiya Einin announced Emperor Kokaku that it was the 1100th anniversary of the death of EN no Gyoja in 1799.
Japanese: 寛政11年(1799年)には、聖護院宮盈仁親王が光格天皇へ役行者御遠忌（没後）1100年を迎えることを上表した。
English: On January 25 of that year, Emperor Kokaku sent Karasumaru Dainagon (chief councilor of state) to Shogo-in Temple as an Imperial envoy to bestow the shigo (posthumous title) of Jinben-daibosatsu.
Japanese: 同年、正月25日に光格天皇は、烏丸大納言を勅使として聖護院に遣わして神変大菩薩（じんべんだいぼさつ）の諡号を贈った。
English: As part of the religious belief of EN no Gyoja, there are 36 temples designated as EN no Gyoja Reiseki Fudasho (sacred places where is said to remain the spiritual mark of EN no Gyoja, and pilgrims offer or receive their pilgrimage card.) in some prefectures such as Osaka, Nara, Shiga, Kyoto, Wakayama, and Mie.
Japanese: 役行者信仰の一つとして、役行者ゆかりの大阪府・奈良県・滋賀県・京都府・和歌山県・三重県に所在する36寺社を巡礼する役行者霊蹟札所がある。
English: Sometimes, 'Jinben-daibosatsu' is used as an honorific title of EN no Gyoja or as the name of the statue and Hono nobori (Japanese banners in dedication to god) saying 'Namu Jinben-daibosatsu' are seen at shrines and temples.
Japanese: また、神変大菩薩は役行者の尊称として使われ、寺院に祀られている役行者の像の名称として使われていたり、南無神変大菩薩と記した奉納のぼりなどが見られることがある。
English: Sometimes fuda (plates) with the pictures of EN no Gyoja are distributed at the temples of the Shgendo lineage; EN no Gyoja drawn in these fuda are old, sitting on a stone-like socle (used as the base for a Buddhist statue), with his second thighs exposed and zukin (hood) on his head, wearing geta (clog) with single support, a makimono (scroll) in his right hand and Shakujo in his left hand together with the pictures of Zenki (Oni demon in front) and Goki (Oni demon in back).
Japanese: 修験道系の寺院で役行者の姿（肖像）を描いた御札を頒布していることがあるが、その姿は老人で、岩座に座り、脛（すね）を露出させて、頭に頭巾を被り、一本歯の高下駄を履いて、右手に巻物、左手に錫杖（しゃくじょう）を持ち、前鬼・後鬼と一緒に描かれている。
English: As the tool he is holding in the pictures are mikkyo hogu (the Buddhist instruments of esoteric Buddhism), the images differ from temple to temple.
Japanese: 手に持つ道具が密教法具であることもあり、頒布している寺院により差異がある。
English: One day, he thought about building a stone bridge between Mt. Katsuragi and Kongo-san Mountain and tried to accomplish this by recruiting gods of various districts.
Japanese: ある時、葛城山と金剛山の間に石橋を架けようと思い立ち、諸国の神々を動員してこれを実現しようとした。
English: However, the god Hitokoto nushi was so ashamed of exposing his ugly figure that he only worked during the night.
Japanese: しかし、葛城山にいる神一言主は、自らの醜悪な姿を気にして夜間しか働かなかった。
English: As this was hard to endure for Hitokoto nushi, he slandered EN no Gyoja by informing that EN no Gyoja was planning a rebellion against the Emperor and he was captured after having his mother taken in hostage and sent to the Izu-oshima Island.
Japanese: すると、それに耐えかねた一言主は、天皇に役行者が謀叛を企んでいると讒訴したため、役行者は彼の母親を人質にした朝廷によって捕縛され、伊豆大島へと流刑になった。
English: It is also said that EN no Gyoja walked every night on the sea from the Izu-oshima Island where he was deported and climbed the Mt. Fuji.
Japanese: また、役行者は、流刑先の伊豆大島から、毎晩海上を歩いて富士山へと登っていったとも言われている。
English: Also, there is an anecdote that one day when Dosho was giving a lecture of Hokke-kyo Sutra to five hundred tigers in Silla on the way to China from Japan for study, EN no Gyoja was in the crowd and asked him questions.
Japanese: また、ある時、日本から中国へ留学した道昭が、行く途中の新羅の山中で五百の虎を相手に法華経の講義を行っていると、聴衆の中に役行者がいて、道昭に質問したと言う。
English: Choei TAKANO (June 12, 1804 - December 3, 1850) was a doctor and Dutch scholar who lived during the late Edo Period.
Japanese: 高野長英（たかのちょうえい、文化(元号)元年5月5日(旧暦)（1804年6月12日）-嘉永3年10月30日(旧暦)（1850年12月3日））は、江戸時代後期の医者・蘭学者である。
English: Choei criticized the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by the TOKUGAWA family) for enforcing the Order for the Repelling of Foreign Ships and argued for opening Japan to the world, but he died in the bakufu's repression without seeing the opening of the country to the world.
Japanese: 江戸幕府の異国船打払令を批判し開国を説くが、弾圧を受け、それを見ることなく亡くなった。
English: After the opening of Japan to the world, however, Choei was conferred a court rank for the achievements in July 4, 1898.
Japanese: しかし、開国が実現した後（1898年（明治31年）7月4日）、その功績により位階を追贈された。
English: As his foster father, Gensai, studied Western medicine under Genpaku SUGITA in Edo and had a lot of Western books at home, Choei had strongly become interested in studying since he was young.
Japanese: 養父玄斎は江戸で杉田玄白に蘭法医術を学んだことから家には蘭書が多く、長英も幼いころから新しい学問に強い関心を持つようになった。
English: Recognizing his talent, Choshuku allowed him to call himself Choei by giving him his name 'Cho.'
Japanese: この江戸生活で吉田長淑に才能を認められ、師の長の文字を貰い受けて「長英」を名乗った。
English: Later, Choei moved to Nagasaki for learning medical science and Western studies at the Narutakijuku founded by Philipp Franz von Siebold, where he was appointed as a school manager for his outstanding academic ability.
Japanese: その後長崎に留学してフィリップ・フランツ・フォン・シーボルトの鳴滝塾で医学・蘭学を学び、その抜きん出た学力から塾頭となっている。
English: In 1828, when the Siebold Incident occurred, some of his disciples such as Keisaku NINOMIYA and Ryosai Ko were arrested and faced harsh investigation, but Choei managed to elude the arrest cleverly.
Japanese: 文政11年（1828年）、シーボルト事件が起き、二宮敬作や高良斎など主だった弟子も捕らえられて厳しい詮議を受けたが、長英はこのとき巧みに逃れている。
English: According to one heresy, Choei became a pupil of Tanso HIROSE of Hita, Bungo Province (present-day, Hita City, Oita Prefecture) before long.
Japanese: まもなく豊後国日田（現在の大分県日田市）の広瀬淡窓に弟子入りしたという（異説もある）。
English: Following the death of his foster father, Gensai, the Takano family repeatedly asked him to return home, but he decided not to return after some hesitation.
Japanese: この間、義父玄斎が亡くなっており、長英は故郷から盛んに帰郷を求められるが、逡巡したもののついに拒絶。
English: After a short while, Choei got acquainted with Kazan WATANABE, a senior vassal of the Tahara Domain of Mikawa Province and was employed as a Dutch scholar at the domain for his brilliant talent, where he translated Western studies literature with Sanei KOSEKI and Shunzan SUZUKI.
Japanese: まもなく三河国田原藩重役渡辺崋山と知り合い、その能力を買われて田原藩のお雇い蘭学者として小関三英や鈴木春山とともに蘭学書の翻訳に当たった。
English: In 1832, Choei joined Shoshi-kai, which was founded as an academic circle addressing the Tempo Famine by Shosuke ENDO, a Confucianism teacher of the Kishu Domain, and played a central role in it along with Kazan.
Japanese: 天保3年（1832年）、紀州藩儒官遠藤勝助らによって天保の大飢饉の対策会として作られた学問サークルである尚歯会に入り、崋山らとともに中心的役割を担った。
English: The following episode demonstrates Choei's excellent language ability.
Japanese: 長英の優秀な語学力を示す有名なエピソードとして、次のようなものがある。
English: The pupils of Narutakijuku held a banquet, in which they would be fined if they spoke other languages than Dutch.
Japanese: 鳴滝塾出身者の宴会で、オランダ語以外の言葉を使うと罰金をとるという決まりが設けられた。
English: While most of the participants, who, drunk, spoke Japanese carelessly, were fined, only Choei kept talking in Dutch.
Japanese: 多くの者は酒が入るうちついつい日本語をしゃべって罰金を取られていたが、長英のみオランダ語を使い続けていた。
English: When Genboku ITO, a fellow pupil, pushed him down a flight of stairs out of jealousy for his talent, he screamed in Dutch, 'GEVAARLIKI!' (Watch out!).
Japanese: それを妬んだ仲間の伊東玄朴が、長英を階段から突き落とし長英は「GEVAARLIKI!」（オランダ語で「危ない！」）と叫んだ。
English: Because Choei tended to be swellheaded for his brilliance, he was not popular with his peers, but they recognized him as the best Dutch scholar at that time.
Japanese: 長英自身才能を鼻にかけて増長する傾向があり、仲間内の評判も悪かったが、当時最高の実力の蘭学者として周囲は認めざるを得なかった。
English: In 1837, the Morrison Incident occurred when an American merchant ship named Morrison was driven away from a Japanese coast by cannon fire in accordance with the Order for the Repelling of Foreign Ships.
Japanese: 天保8年（1837年）、異国船打払令に基づいてアメリカ合衆国船籍の商船モリソン号が打ち払われるモリソン号事件が起きた。
English: Choei criticized the bakufu with Kazan for its repelling of the ship Morrison by saying, 'Such a stupidity. Stop it.'
Japanese: この際長英は「無茶なことだ、やめておけ」と述べており、崋山らとともに幕府の対応を批判している。
English: Choei summarized his opinions on the incident in "Bojutsu Yume Monogatari" (literally, a fantasy in the Bojutsu year), which was read internally (however, against his expectations, this book became well-known among many scholars).
Japanese: 長英はそうした意見をまとめた『戊戌夢物語』を著し、内輪で回覧に供した（ただし、長英の想像を超えてこの本は多くの学者の間で出回っている）。
English: Choei was arrested for criticizing the bakufu and imprisoned in Denmacho after having been sentenced to life in prison.
Japanese: 長英も幕政批判のかどで捕らえられ、永牢の判決が下って伝馬町牢屋敷に収監。
English: Other prisoners respected him as 'ronanushi' (head of prisoners) for these acts and his boss person character.
Japanese: これらの行動と親分肌の気性から牢名主として祭り上げられるようになった。
English: On June 30, 1844, Choei escaped from prison when a fire broke out at the prison.
Japanese: 弘化元年（1844年）6月30日(旧暦)、牢屋敷の火災に乗じて脱獄。
English: According to a widely-accepted theory, Choei coaxed a prison worker named Eizo who belonged to hinin (one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system, often ex-convicts or vagrants) into setting fire to the place.
Japanese: この火災は、長英が牢で働いていた非人栄蔵をそそのかして放火させたとの説が有力である。
English: Although his escape routes were not exactly known, Choei changed his face with chemicals to live as a fugitive (because Choei's descriptions were circulated in Edo).
Japanese: その後の経路は詳しくは不明ながらも（江戸では人相書きが出回っていたためと言われている）薬品で顔を変えて逃亡生活を送った。
English: He later entered Edo, where he was given shelter by Shunzan SUZUKI and spent time translating military science books, but Shunzan died suddenly.
Japanese: そして一時江戸に入り、鈴木春山に匿われて兵学書の翻訳を行うも春山が急死。
English: And then, Choei, taken under the wing of Munenari DATE, the lord of the Uwajima Domain of Iyo Province, with the help of Keisaku NINOMIYA, one of Narutakijuku peers, was engaged in the translation of Western studies literature including strategy books as well as in the westernization of the domain's military equipment under Munenari.
Japanese: その後、鳴滝塾時代の同門・二宮敬作の案内で伊予国宇和島藩主伊達宗城に庇護され、宗城の下で兵法書など蘭学書の翻訳や、宇和島藩の兵備の洋式化に従事した。
English: The Hisayoshi gun battery (Hisayoshi, Ainan Town) built by Choei during this period is reputed to be the crystallization of the best technology of that time.
Japanese: このとき彼が築いた久良砲台（愛南町久良）は当時としては最高の技術を結集したものとされる。
English: However, he returned to Edo after a while and started to work as a town doctor under the false name of Sanpaku SAWA.
Japanese: しかし、この生活も長く続かず、しばらくして江戸に戻り、沢三伯の偽名を使って町医者を開業した。
English: He was highly likely to be recognized because he, as a doctor, would have more chances to see people face to face.
Japanese: 医者になれば人と対面する機会が多くなるため、その中の誰かに見破られる事も十分に考えられた。
English: On October 30, 1850, the town magistrate's office raided his hiding place in Aoyamahyakunin-cho (present-day, Aoyama, Tokyo [Minato Ward, Tokyo]) and captured him.
Japanese: 嘉永3年（1850年）10月30日、江戸の青山百人町（現在の東京・青山(東京都港区)）に潜伏していたところを町奉行所に踏み込まれて捕縛された。
English: Badly beaten by officers with jutte (short one hook truncheon), he was half dead when bound with a rope.
Japanese: 何人もの捕方に十手で殴打され、縄をかけられたときは既に半死半生だった。
English: The authorities therefore killed Choei while transporting him in a palanquin (from the memorandum written by one of the officers who captured Choei. However, according to the report submitted to the magistrate's office, Choei killed himself by stabbing him in the throat after some fights).
Japanese: そこで、やむを得ず駕籠で護送する最中に絶命（現場にいたある捕手役人の覚書。奉行所に提出された報告書では、奮戦した後、喉を突いて自害したとある）。
English: Some people also say that Choei met Kaishu KATSU or was given shelter by him in Edo.
Japanese: 江戸において勝海舟と会談した、或いは勝に匿ってもらっていたという話も伝えられている。
English: His important writings include "Bojutsu Yume Monogatari" which criticized the bakufu for repelling the ship Morrison in accordance with the Order for the Repelling of Foreign Ships.
Japanese: 主著に1837年のモリソン号事件の際の幕府の異国船打払令を批判した『戊戌夢物語』など。
English: In Mizusawa City, Iwate Prefecture (present-day, Oshu City), Choei was honored as one of three heroes (Choei TAKANO, Makoto SAITO and Shinpei GOTO).
Japanese: 岩手県水沢市（現・奥州市）では、長英は三偉人（高野長英、斎藤実、後藤新平）の一人として扱われていた。
English: In addition, many elementary schools feature Choei in the integrated learning period to hand down his life and achievements to younger generations.
Japanese: また、小学校ではよく総合的な学習の時間で取り上げられ、その生涯、功績を学んでいる。
English: In 2004, Mizusawa City celebrated the 200th anniversary of Choei's birth and various events were held.
Japanese: また、平成16年（2004年）には高野長英の生誕200年ということで、水沢では色々なイベントが行われた。
English: Ujichika IMAGAWA was a warlord, Shugo Daimyo (Provincial Daimyo), and Sengoku Daimyo (Daimyo in Sengoku period) in the Sengoku period.
Japanese: 今川氏親（いまがわうじちか）は戦国時代の武将・守護大名・戦国大名である。
English: He was the Imagawa clan, a branch family of the Kira clan which was a cadet family of the Ashikaga clan whose ancestor was MINAMOTO no Yoshikuni, a son of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie who was Chinju-fu Shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North) and the head of the Kawachi-Genji clan (Minamoto clan), a branch family of the Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: 家系は清和源氏の一家系　河内源氏の棟梁　鎮守府将軍源義家の子　源義国を祖とする足利氏の一門　吉良氏の庶家　今川氏。
English: His father Yoshitada, Shugo of Suruga Province, is believed to have married his mother, Kitagawa-dono, when he joined forces with the Eastern Army in Kyoto during the Onin War.
Japanese: 父の駿河国守護義忠が応仁の乱で東軍に味方して上洛していたときに、母の北川殿と結婚したと思われる。
English: She was considered a concubine when Shinkuro ISE was thought to have been a mere masterless samurai, but recent studies have almost confirmed that he was from the Ise clan, a distinguished family who was the head of the Muromachi shogunate's Administrative Board, and thus she has come to be considered a lawful wife.
Japanese: 伊勢新九郎が素浪人と考えられていた頃は側室とされていたが、近年の研究で室町幕府政所執事の名門伊勢氏の一族であることがほぼ明らかになっており、北川殿は正室だったと考えられてる。
English: Ujichika was born the son of Kitagawa-dono in 1473 (1471 according to another theory).
Japanese: 文明5年（1473年）（文明3年（1471年）とも）に北川殿の子として生まれた。
English: Ujichika's life was greatly influenced by the fact that Kitagawa-dono's younger brother (older brother according to another theory) would later become Soun HOJO.
Japanese: 北川殿の弟（兄とも）が後の北条早雲であったことが、氏親の生涯に大きな影響を与えた。
English: Since Tatsuo-maru was very young then, vassals from the Miura clan and Asahina clan supported relative Norimitsu OSHIKA (cousin of Yoshitada) as successor, and this led to a succession dispute involving several battles between the Tatsuo-maru faction and the Norimitsu faction.
Japanese: 龍王丸はまだ幼少だったため、家臣の三浦氏、朝比奈氏らが一族の小鹿範満（義忠の従兄弟）を擁立してお家騒動が起こり、龍王丸派と範満派が分かれて数度の合戦に及ぶ事態になる。
English: Masanori UESUGI, who was the head of Horikoshi Kubo (also called Horigoe Kubo, shogunal deputy based in Horigoe, Izu Province) and Dokan OTA, the chief retainer of the Ogigayatsu-Uesugi clan, intervened in the succession dispute by leading forces into Suruga Province.
Japanese: 堀越公方執事の上杉政憲と扇谷上杉家家宰の太田道灌が兵を率いて駿河国へ進駐して家督争いに介入。
English: His uncle Shinkuro ISE arbitrated the dispute and they agreed that Norimitsu would act as guardian to Tatsuo-maru and head the family on his behalf.
Japanese: これを叔父の伊勢新九郎が仲裁に入り、範満が龍王丸の後見人として家督を代行することで決着した。
English: When Shinkuro ISE was thought to have been a mere masterless samurai, his actions were conveyed as the first step in a mastermind plan to succeed as the future Soun HOJO, but recent studies have almost confirmed that he was Moritoki ISE, a member of the distinguished Ise clan and a retainer of the Muromachi shogunate, and that he had in fact gone to Suruga Province to arbitrate the Imagawa family dispute in accordance with the wishes of the Muromachi shogunate.
Japanese: 伊勢新九郎が素浪人と考えられていた頃は、抜群の知略による後の北条早雲の出世の第一歩のように語られていたが、近年の研究で名門伊勢氏の一族の幕臣伊勢盛時であることがほぼ明らかになっており、これは室町幕府の意向を受けて伊勢盛時が駿河国へ下向して今川家の内紛を調停したようだ。
English: Norimitsu, who held the family headship on behalf of Tatsuo-maru, moved into the Imagawa residence, and Tatsuo-maru stayed with his mother, Kitagawa-dono, in Kogawa-jo Castle (in Suruga Province, now Yaizu City), which was the residence of Kogawa no Hoei Choja (Millionaire Hoei of Kogawa, Masanobu HASEGAWA).
Japanese: 家督を代行した範満が今川館に入り、龍王丸は母北川殿と小川の法永長者（長谷川政宣）の屋敷である小川城(駿河国)（焼津市）に身を寄せた。
English: In 1479, at the request of Moritoki ISE, the shogunate handed a confidential letter directly to Moritoki, granted permission for Tatsuo-maru's succession to the family headship, in the name of the former Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: 文明11年（1479年）伊勢盛時は幕府に申請して前征夷大将軍足利義政の名による龍王丸の家督継承の内書を得ている。
English: However, rather than returning the family headship to Tatsuo-maru, Norimitsu suppressed him with the intention of seizing the headship, even after Tatsuo-maru had passed the age of 15 and become an adult.
Japanese: だが、龍王丸が15歳を過ぎて成人しても範満は家督を返そうとはせず、家督奪取の動きを見せて龍王丸を圧迫した。
English: In 1487, Kitagawa-dono and Tatsuo-maru asked Shinkuro Moritoki ISE, who was then serving Shogun Yoshihisa ASHIKAGA in Kyoto, for help.
Japanese: 文明19年（1487年）北川殿と龍王丸は京都で将軍足利義尚に仕えていた伊勢新九郎盛時に助けを求めた。
English: In November of the same year, Moritoki organized an army based at Ishiwaki-jo Castle (in Yaizu City), attacking the Suruga residence and killing Norimitsu.
Japanese: 同年11月、盛時は石脇城（焼津市）を拠点に兵を集めて駿河館を襲撃して範満を殺した。
English: Prior to this, in October of the same year, Tatsuo-maru became the first daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) to use a stamp seal to issue a document (though this did not last and he later used the normal written seal).
Japanese: これより前、同年10月に龍王丸は大名で初めての印判状の文書を発給している（定着はせず、後に通常の花押を用いるようになっている）。
English: An internal conflict occurred in Horikoshi Kubo, and Moritoki ISE (hereinafter referred to as Soun), on the order of Shogun Yoshizumi ASHIKAGA, destroyed Chachamaru ASHIKAGA and conquered Izu Province in 1493.
Japanese: 堀越公方に内紛が起き、明応2年（1493年）将軍足利義澄の命により、伊勢盛時（以後、早雲とする）は足利茶々丸を討伐して、伊豆国を手中にした。
English: From then onwards, Ujichika and Soun cooperated closely with each other to expand their territories.
Japanese: 以後、氏親と早雲は密接な協力関係を持って支配領域の拡大を行うことになる。
English: The position of shugo of Suruga's neighboring province, Totomi, which had originally been handed down in the Imagawa family, was later taken over by the Shiba clan.
Japanese: 駿河国の隣国遠江国は元は今川家が守護職を継承していたが、後に斯波氏に守護職を奪われていた。
English: The Imagawa family wanted desperately to regain Totomi Province and Ujichika's father, Yoshitada, died there in battle.
Japanese: 遠江国奪還は今川家の悲願となり父義忠は遠江国での戦いで命を失っている。
English: It was, however, Soun who led an army into Totomi Province from around 1494, gaining control of up to the midsection of the province.
Japanese: 遠江国への侵攻の兵を率いたのは早雲で、明応3年（1494年）頃から始まり、遠江国中部まで勢力下に収めた。
English: Although Ujichika had not yet become shugo of Totomi Province, he carried out his own independent land surveys, undermining the Shiba clan's authority as shugo.
Japanese: この時には氏親は未だに遠江守護ではなかったものの、独自の立場で検地を行って守護斯波氏による支配体制を否認した。
English: This is said to have essentially signified a break away by the Imagawa family from the control of the Muromachi shogunate and a change in their position from Shugo Daimyo (Provincial Daimyo) to Sengoku Daimyo (Daimyo in Sengoku period).
Japanese: これによって今川家は事実上室町幕府からの統制を離れて守護大名から戦国大名の段階へ移ったと言われている。
English: Ujichika also carried out land surveys in his home of Suruga Province and promoted an integrated administration of his territory.
Japanese: また、氏親は駿河本国内においても検地を実施して、領国の一円支配を推し進めた。
English: Soun advanced his army further, attacking the Matsudaira clan at Iwatsu-jo Castle in Mikawa Province during the Bunki era (1501 - 1504) and sending an army to Tsuru County in Kai Province where they fought against the Oyamada clan, feudal lord of Gunnai, and the Takeda clan who was shugo there.
Japanese: 早雲は更に兵を進めて文亀年間（1501年-1504年）には三河国岩津城の松平氏を攻めているほか、甲斐国都留郡にも出兵して郡内領主小山田氏や守護武田氏と戦っている。
English: Meanwhile, Ujichika supported Soun's advance to the Kanto region, intervening in the Chokyo Rebellion and siding with the Ogigayatsu-Uesugi clan in battle against the Yamanouchi-Uesugi family.
Japanese: 一方、氏親は早雲の関東進出にも協力して長享の乱に介入、扇谷上杉氏に味方して山内上杉家と戦った。
English: In 1504, he fought in the battle of Tachikawanohara in Musashi Province together with Soun, and defeated Shogunal Deputy for Kanto Region, Akisada UESUGI.
Japanese: 永正元年（1504年）の武蔵国立河原の戦いに早雲とともに出陣して関東管領上杉顕定を破っている。
English: Around 1505, Nobutane NAKAMIKADO's daughter (the future Jukei-ni) became his lawful wife.
Japanese: 永正2年（1505年）頃に中御門宣胤の娘（後の寿桂尼）を正室に迎える。
English: From 1506 to 1508, the Imagawa army, led by Soun, invaded Mikawa Province again and fought against Nagachika MATSUDAIRA.
Japanese: 永正3年-5年（1506年-1508年）には再び早雲率いる今川軍が三河国へ侵攻して、松平長親と戦った。
English: After 1509, Soun no longer worked as military commander of the Imagawa family.
Japanese: 永正6年（1509年）以降は早雲の今川家の武将として活動がなくなる。
English: Soun had apparently become independent of the Imagawa family and, from this time onwards, he shifted his advance to the Kanto region into full swing.
Japanese: この頃に早雲は政治的に今川家から独立したようで、以後は関東進出を本格化させる。
English: In 1508, the shogunate granted Ujichika's request, officially appointing him shugo of Totomi Province, and thereby giving him a legitimate reason to rule the province.
Japanese: 永正5年（1508年）、氏親は幕府に願い正式に遠江守護に任じられ、遠江国支配の大義名分を得た。
English: In 1511, when Owari Province Shugo, Yoshitatsu SHIBA, attacked Osakabe-jo Castle, owned by the Imagawa family (in Hamamatsu City), Ujichiki mobilized his army and fought off the attack.
Japanese: 永正8年（1511年）に尾張国守護斯波義達が今川方の刑部城（浜松市）を攻め、氏親が出陣してこれを退けた。
English: In 1516, Sadatsuna OKOCHI of Hikuma-jo Castle (Hamamatsu City) betrayed the Imagawa family, and Yoshitatsu SHIBA joined him.
Japanese: 永正13年（1516年）に引馬城（浜松市）の大河内貞綱が今川家に背き、斯波義達も加わる。
English: Sadatsuna OKOCHI was killed in this battle, and Yoshitatsu SHIBA, who surrendered by entering into the priesthood, was sent back to Owari Province.
Japanese: 大河内貞綱は討ち死にし、斯波義達は出家して降伏し、尾張国へ送り返された。
English: Meanwhile, in 1515, he joined forces with Nobusato Oi, local lord of Nishigori in Kai Province, in battle against Shugo Nobutora TAKEDA, temporarily occupying Katsuyama-jo Castle (in Kai Province) located along Nakamichi Okan Road in 1515.
Japanese: また、永正12年（1515年）には、甲斐西郡の国人領主である大井信達に味方して守護武田信虎と争い、中道往還沿いの勝山城(甲斐国)を一時占拠している。
English: In 1517, Ujichika concluded a peace agreement with Nobutora and withdrew his army, while Nobusato OI surrendered to Nobutora.
Japanese: 永正14年（1517年）氏親は信虎と和議を結び撤兵し、大井信達は信虎に降伏した。
English: Confrontation with the Takeda clan continued after that, and Ujichika often invaded Kai Province until an alliance between Suruga Province and Kai Province was concluded in his later years.
Japanese: その後も、氏親後期に甲駿同盟が成立するまでたびたび甲斐国への侵攻を行い、武田氏との対立が続いた。
English: His marriage to Jukei-ni, the daughter of a court noble, is said to have strengthened his connection with Kyoto and led to Kyoto's culture being adopted in Sunpu (the capital of Suruga Province).
Japanese: 公家の娘の寿桂尼との結婚によって京とのつながりが強まり、京の文化を駿府に取り入れたとされる。
English: In April 1526, two months before his death, he established the "Imagawa Kana Mokuroku" (Imagawa House Laws), typical provincial laws that warlords enforced in their territories in the Sengoku period.
Japanese: 死の2ヶ月前の大永6年（1526年）4月に戦国時代の代表的な分国法『今川仮名目録』を制定している。