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English: While in August, 1585, Hideyoshi was appointed as Kanpaku (Chief Adviser to the Emperor), and in October, 1586, he was granted Toyotomi cognomen, Toshiie was appointed as Uchujo (Middle Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), and on February 25, 1590, Toshiie was appointed as Sangi (Councilor) (the genealogical table of the Maeda family).
Japanese: 同年7月に秀吉が関白に任官、9月には豊臣姓を賜ると利家は、右中将、18年1月21日参議に任じられる（前田家譜）。
English: Then, he became a negotiator to persuade Nobunao NANBU, Masamune DATE and others in the Tohoku region to submit to the Toyotomi family.
Japanese: その後は東北地方の南部信直や伊達政宗などに対して豊臣家への服従をもとめる交渉役となる。
English: In the Siege of Odawara to suppress the Go-Hojo ('Go' means 'Late') clan (in 1590), Toshiie invaded Kozuke Province as a Commander in Chief of the north provinces forces with Kagekatsu UESUGI and Masayuki SANADA, and captured Kozuke Matsuida-jo Castle which was the northernmost key position for the Hojo clan, and then defeated the other castles one after another as well.
Japanese: （1590年）の後北条氏制圧のための小田原の役では北国勢の総指揮として上杉景勝、真田昌幸と共に上野に入り、北条氏の北端要所の上野松井田城を攻略、他の諸城も次々と攻略した。
English: At that time, Masamune DATE of Mutsu Province had already come to Odawara and surrendered, and there is a record that it was Toshiie and others who interrogated him (Date chika kiroku [historical record of the Sendai clan]).
Japanese: 陸奥の伊達政宗もこの時すでに小田原に出向いて降参していたが、彼に対する尋問は利家たちが行ったという（伊達治家記録）。
English: Considering that Toshiie once urged Masamune to come to the capital (Kyoto), and that he served as a soja (person in charge of informing a shogun or daimyo of the name of visitors to the residence before the meeting) to Hideyoshi, Toshiie seemed to be in charge of diplomacy with the date clan (the documents of the Date family).
Japanese: 先に上洛を促していることといい、秀吉への奏者を務めていることといい、利家は伊達氏との外交についても担当していた様子である（伊達家文書）。
English: Although Hideyoshi himself left the front for home in September, Toshiie and others remained there and made every effort to suppress the Ou region.
Japanese: 秀吉自身は8月に帰陣の途についたが、利家らは残って奥羽の鎮圧に努めた。
English: Hideyoshi, after unifying the whole Japan, started Kara-iri (entry to China) or Korai gojin (attack on Goryeo), that is, the Bunroku-Keicho War.
Japanese: 国内を統一した後の秀吉は唐入り、あるいは高麗御陣すなわち文禄・慶長の役を始める。
English: In September, 1591, Hideyoshi issued an order for the dispatch of troops to Korea, and the construction of Nagoya-jo Castle was started.
Japanese: 天正19年（1591年）、8月、秀吉より朝鮮出兵の命が出され、名護屋城の築城が始められた。
English: On April 27 of the next year, 1592 (the first year of the Bunroku era), Toshiie left Kyo (Kyoto, as of now) for Nagoya before the other warloards (Tokitsune-kyo ki [The Diary of Lord Tokitsune]).
Japanese: 翌文禄元年（1592年）、3月16日に利家は諸将に先んじて京を出陣、名護屋に向かった（言経卿記）。
English: At first, Hideyoshi had an intention to cross the sea in person, but Toshiie and Ieyasu persuaded him that it should be a mistake, and made him change his mind.
Japanese: 初め秀吉は自ら渡海する意思を持っていたが、利家は家康と共にその非なるを説き、思い止まらせた。
English: It was on November 4 that he left Osaka for Nagoya again after his mother's funeral ceremony (Tamonin Nikki [The Diary compiled from 1478 to 1618 by Eishun and other Buddhist priests at Tamon-in Temple]).
Japanese: 葬儀を終えて、再び名護屋へ向け大坂を発ったのが10月1日（多聞院日記）。
English: He was away from Nagoya for about three months, in which period Ieyasu and Toshiie took command of the warlords and administered the government affairs in place of Hideyoshi.
Japanese: 約三ヶ月間名護屋を留守にしていたが、その問、秀吉に代わって諸将を指揮し、政務を行っていたのは、家康と利家であった。
English: In February, 1593, as Toshiie received the order to cross the sea, he prepared for it and decided even the battle array, but because the movement toward conciliation with Ming soon began to be promoted, he did not have to cross the sea after all.
Japanese: 慶長2年（1593年）1月、渡海の命を受けて準備し、陣立てまで定まったが、間もなく明との講和の動きが進み、結局は渡海に及ばなかった。
English: On June 14, when the envoys dispatched from Ming arrived at Nagoya, the residences of Ieyasu and Toshiie were used for their lodgings.
Japanese: 5月15日、明使が名護屋に着くと、家康、利家の邸宅がその宿舎とされた。
English: A child who was born in this period to Toshiie and Chiyo no kata (Lady Chiyo), a waiting woman of Matsu, was Saruchiyo, later Kaga hanshu (the Lord of the Kaga domain) Toshitsune MAEDA.
Japanese: このときにまつの侍女である千代の方との間に生まれた子供が猿千代、のちの加賀藩主前田利常である。
English: In 1598 or so, not only Hideyoshi but also Toshiie began to show the decline of health.
Japanese: 慶長3年（1598年）の頃になると秀吉と共に利家も健康の衰えを見せ始めるようになる。
English: After Toshiie had the honor of attending the cherry blossom viewing party held in Sanbo-in of Daigo-ji Temple with his wife Matsu on April 20, he transferred the reigns of the family to his legitimate child Toshinaga and retired on the next month May 25, and he left for Kusatsu for toji (hot spring cure).
Japanese: 3月15日に醍醐寺三宝院での花見に妻のまつと陪席すると、翌月の4月20日に嫡子利長に家督を譲り隠居、湯治のため草津に赴いた。
English: At this time, he was given a retirement stipend of 15,000 koku in Ishikawa and Kahoku Counties of Kaga Province, Himi County of Ecchu Province, and Kashima County of Noto Province (the genealogy of the Lord of the Kaga domain).
Japanese: この時、隠居料として加賀石川・河北郡、越中氷見郡、能登鹿島郡にて1万5千石を与えられている（加賀藩歴譜）。
English: However, Toshiie was not allowed to retire virtually, and after returning from Kusatsu, he was ordered to be a member of Gotairo by Hideyoshi who established the system of Gotairo (Five Elders) and Gobugyo (Five Major Magistrates).
Japanese: しかし、実質的には隠居は許されず、草津より戻った利家は、五大老・五奉行の制度を定めた秀吉より五大老の一人に命じられる。
English: And on September 18, Hideyoshi died after imploring for the future of his legitimate child Hideyori TOYOTOMI over and over to Toshiie and others.
Japanese: そして8月18日、秀吉は、利家らに嫡子である豊臣秀頼の将来を繰り返し頼み没する。
English: On January 27 of the next year, 1599 (the New Year's Day of the fourth year of the Keicho era by the old lunar calendar), the territorial lords came to Fushimi, and gave the new year's greetings to their new master Hideyori.
Japanese: 翌慶長4年元旦（1599年）諸大名は伏見に出頭し、新主秀頼に年賀の礼を行った。
English: And on February 5, to observe Hideyoshi's will, Ieyasu entered Fushimi-jo Castle, and Toshiie entered Osaka-jo Castle following Hideyori.
Japanese: そして10日、秀吉の遺言通り、家康が伏見城に、利家が秀頼に扈従し大坂城に入る。
English: But soon Ieyasu violated the laws enacted by late Hideyoshi, and made his way through the marriage policy with Masamune DATE, Iemasa HACHISUKA and Masanori FUKUSHIMA without permission.
Japanese: しかし、間もなく家康は亡き秀吉の法度を破り、伊達政宗、蜂須賀家政、福島正則と無断で婚姻政策を進めた。
English: Toshiie opposed this, so that a disturbance arose in which the territorial lords gathered together in both Ieyasu's residence and Toshiie's residence.
Japanese: 利家はこれに反発し、諸大名が家康・利家の両屋敷に集結する騒ぎとなった。
English: Toshiie was supported by three members of Gotairo, Kagekatsu UESUGI, Terumoto MORI and Hideie UKITA, one member of Gobugyo, Mitsunari ISHIDA, and some of the military government group who were later to take sides with Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, Tadaoki HOSOKAWA, Yoshinaga ASANO, Kiyomasa KATO and Yoshiaki KATO, but they reached a reconciliation on February 26, so nine men who were four members of Gotairo including Toshiie and five members of Gobugyo exchanged the written oaths with Ieyasu.
Japanese: 利家には、上杉景勝・毛利輝元・宇喜多秀家の三大老や五奉行の一人石田三成、また後に関ヶ原の戦いで家康方につく事となる武断派の細川忠興・浅野幸長・加藤清正・加藤嘉明らが味方したが、2月2日に和解が成って、利家を含む四大老、五奉行の九人と家康とが誓紙を交換。
English: In addition to that, Toshiie visited Ieyasu's residence, and Ieyasu also realized that it was disadvantageous to conflict with Toshiie, so that they compromised with each other on condition that Ieyasu would evacuate to Mukaijima.
Japanese: さらに利家が家康のもとを訪問、家康も利家と対立することは不利と悟り家康が向島へ退去すること等で和解した。
English: Immediately after that, because Toshiie's condition got worse, Ieyasu visited Toshiie's residence to ask about his health.
Japanese: この直後、利家の病状が悪化し、家康が病気見舞いのため利家邸を訪問した。
English: There remains an episode that Toshiie had a naked sword hidden under his futon (a set of Japanese mattresses and quilts) when Ieyasu came to see him.
Japanese: この時利家は抜き身の太刀を布団の下に忍ばせていたというエピソードが残っている。
English: At first Toshinaga carried out the build-up of the castle, etc. from the standpoint of entering to war, but the conquest was withdrawn on condition that her mother Hoshunin would be the hostage.
Japanese: 利長は最初交戦する立場で城を増強したりなどしていたが、母の芳春院が人質になることを条件に撤回された。
English: Judging from the fact that the Uesugi family rebelled Ieyasu and lost about 900,000 koku later, it can be said that the Maeda family had foresight.
Japanese: 後に上杉家が家康に反抗し、約90万石を失ったことをみれば前田家は先見の明があったと言える。
English: But the death of Toshiie who had so much popularity and war bargaining that he could be the only person to match evenly Ieyasu was one of the causes that determined the fall of the Toyotomi clan.
Japanese: しかし家康と唯一互角に渡り合える程の人望と武略を持っていた利家の死去は、豊臣氏滅亡が決定的となる一因ともなった。
English: It is said that Toshiie was fond of the tendency of kabukimono, and that when he was young, he was in a showy style by wearing the kimono for women, the kimono made with fur of animals, and so on, and he always carried an extraordinarily long spear with him.
Japanese: 利家はカブキ者の風潮を好み、若年の頃は女物の着物や動物の毛をあしらった着物などの派手な格好をして、常に途方もない長さの槍を携えていたという。
English: Toshiie in his youth was known to be rude and what is more, to be quite fond of fighting, and it is said that when he went by on the streets, someone yelled out, "Here comes Matazaemon's spear!"
Japanese: 若い時の利家は粗暴、かつかなりの喧嘩好きで知られ、往来では利家が通ると「又左衛門の槍が来たぞ」との声が上がったという。
English: Besides, he told to his own pages in the last years, "It would be best for young men to have something of kabukimono" (Mitsuboki) (Night Stories of Lord Toshiie).
Japanese: また晩年には自身の小姓衆に「若いうちは傾いてるくらいが調度よいものだ」とも語っている（三壺記）（利家公御夜話）。
English: It is recorded in the documents of the Kaga domain "Ashoko On-yobanashi" that Toshiie who was known to be slender and handsome was Nobunaga's favorite and played a role of his homosexual partner when Toshiie was his page.
Japanese: 細身の美貌で知られた利家は、小姓時代に信長から寵愛を受け、衆道の相手も務めていた事が加賀藩の資料『亜相公御夜話』に記されている。
English: Although there is an opinion that Naritoshi (Ranmaru) MORI and Hidemasa HORI who were famous as Nobunaga's page as well as Toshiie played a role of his homosexual partner, there is almost no material that recorded whether the homosexual relationship existed or not actually, so it is considered that the episode about the crane soup written in this "Ashoko On-yobanashi" is very unusual.
Japanese: 同じく信長の小姓として有名な森成利（蘭丸）や堀秀政にも衆道を務めていたとの説が存在するものの、実際に衆道の有無を記した資料は殆ど存在しないため、この『亜相公御夜話』に記された鶴の汁のエピソードはとても珍しいものとされている。
English: Talking about his looks, in the days when the average height of men was about 157 cm, he had an incomparably blessed body build which was proud to be 182 cm tall (Toshiie's height is estimated to be 182 cm based on his remained kimono), and his face was also handsome as mentioned above, so that he is said to have been a very nice-looking busho.
Japanese: 容姿については、男性の平均身長が157cm程度の時代に6尺（約182cm）を誇る類稀なる恵まれた体格の持ち主で(遺された利家の着物から推定6尺とされている)、前の項で記されたように顔も端整であった事から非常に見栄えのいい武将であったと言われている。
English: Because Toshiie carried the long and showy-made spear with a shaft being 6.3 m with him, and he was a military man who had made great achievements by a spear point in a lot of battles since his uijin (first battle), he was praised by another name Yari no Mataza.
Japanese: 利家は三間半柄(約6m30cm)の長く派手な造りの槍を持ち歩き、初陣以降、緒戦で槍先による功を挙げた武辺者であったため、槍の又左の異名で称えられた。
English: Toshiie was very large with the height of 180 cm as stated above, and the skill at brandishing his spear with that body build was guaranteed to be first-class.
Japanese: 上述の通り利家の身長は180cmの大柄であり、その体格を持って振るわれる槍の腕前はたしかなものだった。
English: In the Battle of Kayatsu which he took part in for his first battle as a page who had not yet his coming of age celebrated at that time, he carried the above-mentioned spear with a shaft being 6.3 m which he himself lacquered vermilion so that it would stand out in the battlefield, and he made an achievement of gaining a severed head with his spear.
Japanese: 当時まだ元服前の小姓として初陣した萱津の戦いでは、合戦の際に目立つ様、自ら朱色に塗った上記の三間半柄の槍を持って首級ひとつを挙げる功を立てた。
English: And in the Battle of Inou which Toshiie took part in immediately after he had his coming of age celebrated, because he was shot under the right eye with an arrow, the men on his side urged him to withdraw, but after he said, "I have not gained even one severed head," he dashed into the enemy forces with the arrow stuck into his face, and made a great achievement of killing the very man who shot him with a bow.
Japanese: また元服直後に参戦した稲生の戦いでは、合戦中に右目の下に矢を受け、味方が引く事を促すも、「まだ一つも首級を挙げてない」と顔に矢が刺さったまま敵陣に飛び込み、弓を射た本人を討ち取る功を立てた。
English: Nobunaga was much pleased at this, and an anecdote has been left that by saying, "Inuchiyo is still a young punk like this, but he made such a great achievement," he encouraged the men on his side during the battle.
Japanese: これに信長が大いに喜び、「犬千代はまだかような小倅ながらもこのような功を立てたぞ」と、合戦中に味方を鼓舞したとの逸話が残る。
English: Also in the Battle of Ukino after that, he made an achievement with his spear point, it is said that he was given another name Yari no Mataza in this battle.
Japanese: その後の浮野の戦いでも槍先による功を挙げ、この戦いの際に槍の又左の異名がついたとも言われる。
English: It is recorded in Shinchoko-ki that Toshiie who had run away because of Kogai-giri (Japanese hairpin murder), when he took part in the Battle of Okehazama without Nobunaga's permission in order to get a chance to return to the Oda family, gained one severed head in the morning battle and two in the final battle, and when he then took part in the Battle of Moribe, made a great achievement of killing a stouthearted samurai who had another name "Kubitori Adachi".
Japanese: 笄斬りで出奔した利家が織田家復帰を賭けて信長に無断で参戦した桶狭間の戦いでも朝の合戦で首級一つ、本戦でも首級二つを挙げ、またその後の森部の戦いでは「頸取り足立」なる異名を持つ豪の者を討ち取る功を立てた、と信長公記に記されている。
English: In the attack on Asai at the Ane-gawa River, he did a very good job such as killing a samurai named Sukeshichiro ASAI and others, so he was praised by Nobunaga saying, "Toshiie's spear is as matchless as ever."
Japanese: 姉川の浅井攻めでは浅井助七郎なる者を討ち取るなどの活躍をみせ信長から「今にはじまらず比類なき槍」と賞賛された。
English: And in the attack on Osaka Hongan-ji Temple, while the troops on his side retreated on the Kasugai-zutsumi Bank, he stayed by himself and defeated the enemy to let his men retreat safely, so he has been praised as "the incomparable spear in Japan" or "the spear on the bank".
Japanese: 大坂本願寺攻めでは、春日井堤を退却する味方の中でひとり踏みとどまって敵を倒し、無事味方を退却させた事から「日本無双の槍」「堤の上の槍」と称えられている。
English: There is an opinion that he was a Christian daimyo, and it is also said that he was christened (with a Christian name Augustin) (A Buddhist image normally withheld from public view of Hongyo-ji Temple).
Japanese: キリシタン大名という説があり、洗礼（名：オーギュスチン）を受けたとも言われている（本行寺秘仏）。
English: Although Toshiie was excellent in bravery, in the Battle of Nagashino while he was chasing the withdrawing Takeda army, he got seriously injured by being cut deeply in the right leg by an enemy named Saemon YUGE, and was about to be nearly killed, just when he was saved by his vassal Nagayori MURAI and he had an experience of having a narrow escape from death
Japanese: 武勇に優れた利家であったが、長篠の合戦では撤退する武田軍を追撃している際に、弓削左衛門なる者に右足を深く切り込まれる重傷を負い、危うく命を獲られそうになった所を家臣の村井長頼に助けられ一命を得た事がある。
English: In the year before the Battle of Okehazama, Juami, who was Nobunaga's favorite chabozu (tea-server) and was said to always show various arrogant attitudes toward the busho under Nobunaga, stole the kogai (Japanese hairpin which is said to haven been a present to Toshiie from his wife) on the sword which Toshiie was carrying, and made Toshiie very furious.
Japanese: 桶狭間の戦いの前年、普段から信長配下の武将に対して横柄な態度が多かったという信長お気に入りの茶坊主の拾阿弥が、利家佩刀の笄（妻のまつからもらったものともいわれる）を盗み、利家を激怒させた。
English: Toshiie would not concede by insisting that he punish Juami, but Nobunaga's mediation made the situation calm down for a while and it did not lead to a serious problem.
Japanese: 利家は拾阿弥を成敗すると言って聞かなかったが、信長の取り成しで一時はこれが収まり大事には至らなかった。
English: But because Juami repeated persistent insults toward Toshiie even after that, Toshiie cut Juami to death in the presence of Nobunaga without his permission, and he ran away from the Oda family.
Japanese: しかし、その後も拾阿弥は利家に対し度重なる侮辱を繰り返したため、利家は許可なしに信長の面前で拾阿弥を斬殺し、織田家を出奔する。
English: Hideyoshi who was one of Toshiie's colleagues in the period of the Oda government and his master in the period of the TOYOTOMI government lived in the house next to his in their Kiyosu days and in the house opposite his in their Azuchi days.
Japanese: 織田政権時代は同輩、豊臣政権時代では主となる秀吉とは、清洲時代に隣同士、安土時代に向かい同士の住居であった。
English: Perhaps because of that, both the husbands and wives were so friendly from the time Hideyoshi was an ashigaru (common foot soldier), that in 1574 Toshiie and his wife handed over their fourth daughter Gohime to Hideyoshi and his wife who had had no children yet.
Japanese: その事もあってか、秀吉が足軽時代から夫婦共に親しく、天正二年（1574年）には子供のなかった秀吉夫婦に四女の豪姫を授ける程の関係であった。
English: It is said that after Toshiie was hostile toward Hideyoshi in the Battle of Shizugatake, and also after he yielded under Hideyoshi as a vassal, they kept secretly the personal friendship such as cauterizing moxa each other.
Japanese: 秀吉と敵対関係になった賤ヶ岳以降、家臣として秀吉に下った後も二人で灸をすえ合うなど友人関係を内密で続けたという。
English: However, the name of the Toyotomi family is not written in Toshiie's will, but only the name of the Oda family and his faithfulness to the Oda family are written in it.
Japanese: 但し、利家の遺言状に豊臣家の名は無く、織田家の名前と織田家に対する忠義のみを記しているだけである。
English: This fact will lead us to the possibility that Toshiie himself might not have recognized Hideyoshi as his master, or rather, considering Hideyoshi's behaviors in his later years as well, Toshiie might have disliked him.
Japanese: この事から利家自身は秀吉を主とは認めておらず、むしろ秀吉の後年の所業と合わさって鑑みると嫌っていた可能性もある。
English: As to the guardian of Hideyori, it can be said that it was because Hideyori was a descendant of the Oda family that Toshiie undertook it, and his faithfulness seemed to be directed at the Oda family, if anything.
Japanese: 秀頼の後見に関しても彼が織田家の血をひく者であったからこそ受けたと言え、その忠誠心はむしろ織田家に向いていたようである。
English: (It should be noted that the third shogun of the Tokugawa family was also a descendant of the Oda family. Therefore, it could be said that Hideyoshi's will was fulfilled, in a sense.)
Japanese: （ちなみに、徳川家三代目将軍も織田家の血をひいているので、ある意味遺言は果たしたとも言える。）
English: When as the result of the violation of the laws by Ieyasu, a disturbance arose in which the territorial lords gathered together in both Ieyasu's residence and Toshiie's residence, nine men who were four members of Gotairo including Toshiie and five members of Gobugyo exchanged the written oaths with Ieyasu, and the compromise for the time being was realized.
Japanese: 家康の法度破りで諸大名が家康・利家両邸に集まる騒ぎとなった際、利家を含む四大老・五奉行の九人と家康とが誓紙を交換し、一応の和解となった。
English: Although Ieyasu admitted his own mistake, he showed an aggressive attitude, and strictly speaking, Ieyasu who violated the laws ought to have come to Osaka-jo Castle to greet Hideyori and Toshiie, but he kept on refusing to do so obstinately.
Japanese: だが家康は自身の非を認めながらも強気な態度を示し、本来法度を破った家康側から大坂城の秀頼・利家の下に挨拶に来るべきであったが、それを頑なに拒み続けた。
English: As the result of the mediation by Tadaoki HOSOKAWA, Yoshinaga ASANO, and others who wanted to avoid the conflict between both parties, it was decided that Toshiie visit Ieyasu.
Japanese: 両者の衝突を回避しようとする細川忠興、浅野幸長らの取り成しにより、利家から家康のもとを訪問する事となった。
English: At this time, Toshiie left for Fushimi-jo Castle after he told his son Toshinaga as follows.
Japanese: この時、利家は息子の利長に下記のように言って伏見城に向かった（利家公御夜話）。
English: "Although Hideyoshi was asking us to look after Hideyori until just before his death, Ieyasu has already begun to do as he pleases."
Japanese: 「秀吉は死ぬ間際まで秀頼様を頼むと言っていたのに、家康はもう勝手なことをしている。」
English: While he was called Yari no Mataza and won a name for himself, he had another side that he was calculating and knew how to succeed in the world.
Japanese: 槍の又左とよばれ勇名を馳せる一方、計算高く世渡り上手な一面もあった。
English: For example, an anecdote in the Battle of Shizugatake tells that although he betrayed Katsuie SHIBATA, he gave a warm reception to escaping Katsuie to weaken the impression of betrayal, or another remaining story tells that while Toshiie supported the Toyotomi family as the guardian of Hideyori, when he was about to die, he asked Ieyasu who came to see him in a sick bed to take care of his son Toshinaga.
Japanese: 賤ヶ岳の戦いの際、柴田勝家を裏切りながら落ちてきた勝家を厚遇し、裏切ったという印象を薄めたり、秀頼の後見人として豊臣家を支えつつも、死の間際、利家の病床を見舞いに来た家康に息子の利長の事を頼んだとの話しが残ったりもしている。
English: (With regard to the story of visiting the sick Toshiie, on the contrary, there remains an episode that Toshiie had a naked sword hidden under his futon, or it is said that the above-mentioned story was the secondary historical material which was composed to submit to the bakufu [Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun] in the Edo period, and that it was the description so created that the Maeda family, a great tozama [outsider] daimyo, flattered the Tokugawa family. For that reason, it is unknown whether it was true or false.)
Japanese: （だがこの見舞いの件に関しては一方で、利家が布団の下に抜き身の刀を忍ばせていたというエピソードが残っていたり、上記の話が江戸時代に幕府に提出するために作られた二次史料で、外様の大大名であった前田家が徳川家に媚びるため創作された記述とも言われ真偽は不明である。）
English: It is said that when the rumor went around that a ghost appeared in the tenshukaku (keep or tower) of Sakamoto-jo Castle night after night, Toshiie applied for the test of courage personally, and after spending all night there, he came back from the tenshukaku as if nothing had happened, so he was praised for his courageousness by Hideyoshi.
Japanese: 坂本城の天守閣に夜な夜な幽霊が出るという噂が立ったとき、自ら肝試しを志願して一晩過ごし、何事も無かったように天守閣から戻ってきた為、秀吉から豪胆ぶりを讃えられたと言われている。
English: Toshiie protected Ukon TAKAYAMA who lost the Akashi domain (Takatsuki-jo Castle) of Harima Province by the Ban of Christianity enacted by Hideyoshi, and thought highly of Ukon who had abundant knowledge about the methods of castle construction and the science, so Toshiie offered him a residence and the roku (stipend) of 30,000 koku.
Japanese: 利家は秀吉の禁教令により、播磨国の明石領(高槻城)を失ったキリシタン大名の高山右近を庇護し、築城術や科学の知識豊かな右近を高く評価し、屋敷や3万石の禄を与えたりなどをしている。
English: As it is clear from the fact that after the attack on the Hojo domain and the Bunroku-Keicho War, his legitimate child Toshinaga ordered Ukon to improve Kanazawa-jo Castle, he appointed Ukon to a responsible post as the brains, and he continued to be on friendly terms with Ukon.
Japanese: 北条攻め、文禄・慶長の役の後には嫡子利長が金沢城の整備などを命じるなど、彼をブレーンとして重用し、親しい関係が続いた。
English: Later in life, he also gained learning such as Chinese classic books, and practiced cultural activities such as Sado (tea ceremony) and Noh (traditional masked dance-drama) actively, too.
Japanese: 後年には漢籍などの学問も学び、茶道、能などの文化的活動も積極的に行った。
English: He learned Sado from SEN no Rikyu and Uraku ODA, and his chaire (tea container) was a masterpiece called "Fuji Nasu" (eggplant-shaped tea caddy) which he got from Hideyoshi and which was one of the great three "nasu" tea caddies.
Japanese: 茶道は千利休、織田有楽に学び、茶入は秀吉から譲られた名品で天下三茄子の一つに数えられる「富士茄子」であった。
English: Toshiie liked Noh especially in these, and he was so enthusiastic over Noh that he practiced Noh once in three days as a pastime or social method.
Japanese: 利家はこの中でも特に能を好み、気晴らしや社交術として三日に一度は稽古をする程の熱の入れようであったという。
English: As Toshiie carried out all the settlement of the Maeda family in person, his favorite soroban (abacus) has been handed down as a treasure of the Maeda family (a soroban had just been introduced to Japan at that time, so it was uncommon enough to be able to use it.)
Japanese: 前田家の決済はすべて利家自身で行ったため、愛用の算盤が前田家家宝として残っている（算盤は当時に日本に伝わったばかりであり、それを使えるというだけで稀有な事であった）。
English: Toshiie realized how important money was personally while he led a ronin life for two years as the result of the kogai-giri, and later in life he always said, "If you have money, neither the others nor the public criticisms are terrible, but if you have become poor, the world turns out to be terrible."
Japanese: 利家は笄斬りによる二年間の浪人生活で金の大切さを身をもって知り、後年には「金があれば他人も世の聞こえも恐ろしくはないが、貧窮すると世間は恐ろしいものだ」とつねづね口にしていた。
English: There remains even an anecdote that when he was just about to die, he came to life for a second to settle all the bills so as not to cause a trouble about the succession of property, and then he died.
Japanese: 死ぬ間際に一瞬息を吹き返し、遺産相続で騒動が起こらないようにすべての勘定を決済してから死んだという逸話も残っている。
English: Thanks to Toshiie's nature like this, the financial affairs of the Maeda family were able to keep a healthy state.
Japanese: 利家のこのような性格から前田家の財政は健全であり続けることができた。
English: While Toshiie had been sometimes bantered by Hoshunin about his "stinginess," he lent money to a lot of daimyo who had troubles in supporting retainers after the fall of the Hojo family, and there is a fact that in his will he ordered Toshinaga, "Don't urge anyone to repay the debt, and if anyone says he can't repay the debt, cancel it."
Japanese: 時には芳春院（まつ）に「吝嗇」と揶揄された事もある利家ではあるが、北条家滅亡後に家来を養えず困っている多くの大名に金を貸しており、遺言においては「こちらから借金の催促はしてやるな、返せない奴の借金はなかった事にしてやれ」と利長に命じている事実が存在する。