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English: He was romantically involved with Kenreimonin-ukyo-no-daibu, who was an outstanding poet and in the service of his aunt, TAIRA no Tokuko.
Japanese: 叔母である平徳子に仕える優れた歌人の建礼門院右京大夫と恋仲であった。
English: The Denkanoriai Incident, in which Sukemori was involved at the age of 13 (or perhaps 10), occurred when the Taira clan was at the peak of its influence, and is described as representing the beginning of the Taira clan's misdeeds in "The Tale of the Heike."
Japanese: 平氏一門の全盛期に、当時13歳（もしくは10歳）の資盛が関わった殿下乗合事件は、『平家物語』に「これこそ、平家の悪行のはじまり」として描かれている。
English: On August 23, 1170, he was involved in a scuffle with a retainer of the regent, MATSUDONO Motofusa, because he failed to dismount his horse and pay his respects to the regent, when their paths crossed on the road, the regent traveling in a carriage, upon which, being insulted by the confrontation, fled and returned to the capital.
Japanese: 嘉応2年（1170年）7月3日、摂政・松殿基房の車と行き違った時に下馬の礼をとらなかったため、基房の家来と乱闘騒ぎを起こして資盛は恥辱を受けて逃げ帰った。
English: When his father, TAIRA no Shigemori, heard of the event, he proceeded to execute a thorough retaliation on Motofusa, and this is what is referred to as the Denkanoriai Incident.
Japanese: これを知った父・平重盛が基房に対して徹底的な報復を行っている（殿下乗合事件。
English: The account recorded in "The Tale of the Heike" depicts TAIRA no Kiyomori, his grandfather, as the individual responsible to the retaliation; however, this is considered to be historically inaccurate, and to have been adopted to the thematic scheme in "The Tale of the Heike", according to which Kiyomori is portrayed as a black sheep, whereas Shigemori is portrayed as an upstanding member of the Taira clan.
Japanese: なお平家物語においては報復を行ったのは祖父の平清盛となっているが、これは清盛を悪役、重盛を平氏一門の良識派として描写する『平家物語』の演出の都合上の創作と言われている）。
English: In "Gyokuyo", the diary of Kanezane KUJO, Sukemori is described as being the individual who was to succeed to the position of head of the family, and from the fact that he had already surpassed TAIRA no Koremori, who is thought to have been his older brother by a different mother, in official rank before December of the same year, it is considered that he was treated as Shigemori's heir from the beginning.
Japanese: この時の九条兼実の日記『玉葉』には資盛を「嫡男」と記されており、また同年12月以前においては異母兄であるとされている平維盛よりも官位で上回っていた事から当初は重盛の嫡男として扱われていたと見られている。
English: When Prince Mochihito rose in arms in June 1180, Sukemori went off to war with a troop including his uncle, TAIRA no Tomonori, TAIRA no Shigehira, Koremori, his older brother, and they engaged in battle with MINAMOTO no Yorifusa at Byodoin Temple, where they destroyed the enemy forces.
Japanese: 治承4年（1180年）年5月の以仁王の挙兵に際して、叔父の平知盛、平重衡、兄の維盛らと出陣し、源頼政と平等院で戦いこれを滅ぼした。
English: In July 1183, the Taira clan was defeated by MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka, and were forced to leave the capital.
Japanese: 寿永2年（1183年）7月、平氏は源義仲に敗れ都落ちを余儀なくされる。
English: According to the "Gukansho" (Jottings of a Fool), Sukemori asked the Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa, with whom he was in favor, to allow him to stay in the capital, but was refused.
Japanese: 『愚管抄』によれば、このときに資盛は寵愛されていた後白河法皇に都に残る許しを求めて拒絶されている。
English: In the episode entitled, 'Dazaifu ochi' in "The Tale of the Heike," Sukemori had gone to attempt to try to win over Koreyoshi OGATA, who had been a retainer of Shigemori's in Bungo Province, and was turned away; however, in the entry for April 8, 1184 in the "Gyokuyo," Sukemori and TAIRA no Sadayoshi are said to have been detained by residents of Bungo Province.
Japanese: 『平家物語』の「太宰府落」で資盛は元重盛の家人であった豊後国の緒方惟義の説得工作に向かって追い返されているが、『玉葉』の寿永3年2月19日条に資盛と平貞能が豊後国の住人によって拘束された風聞が記されている。
English: In Febrary 1184, the Taira clan temporarily regained their strength, and advanced on Fukuhara-kyo (the capital built by TAIRA no Kiyomori) in Settsu Province.
Japanese: 寿永3年（1184年）正月、一時勢力を回復した平氏は摂津国・福原京まで進出。
English: At the end of February, the troops of MINAMOTO no Noriyori, a local governor under MINAMOTO no Yoritomo who had destroyed Yoshinaka, and MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune were dispatched to pursue and subjugate the Taira clan.
Japanese: 正月末に義仲を滅ぼした源頼朝の代官源範頼・源義経の軍勢が平氏追討に向かう。
English: Sukemori encamped on Mount Mikusa, Harima Province, along with his brothers TAIRA no Arimori, TAIRA no Moromori and TAIRA no Tadafusa; however, they were ambushed by MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, whereupon they fled to Yashima, Sanuki Province (Battle of Mikusayama).
Japanese: 資盛は弟の平有盛、平師盛、平忠房と播磨国三草山に陣を置くが源義経の奇襲を受け、讃岐国・屋島へ敗走した（三草山の戦い）。
English: Immediately after that, on March 27, the Taira clan lost numerous family members, suffering a defeat at the Battle of Ichinotani from which the clan would not recover.
Japanese: その直後の2月7日、一ノ谷の戦いで平氏は一門の多くを失う致命的な大敗を喫する。
English: In April of the same year, Sukemori's older brother, Koremori, who had left the battlefront around the time of the Battle of Ichinotani, drowned himself off the coast of Nachi.
Japanese: 同年3月、一ノ谷の合戦前後に戦線を離脱した兄の維盛が那智の沖で入水自殺する。
English: His younger brother, TAIRA no Kiyotsune, had already drowned himself in Bungo Province, and Moromori had been killed in battle at Ichinotani at the age of 14.
Japanese: すでに弟の平清経が豊後国で入水自殺しており、一ノ谷では14歳の師盛が討ち死にしている。
English: When Sukemori received a letter of comfort from Kenreimonin-ukyo-no-daibu, who had heard of the drownings of Kiyotsune and Koremori, he sent a reply, 'I know that my life may come to an end at any moment, thus I'm trying not to let things weight too heavily on my mind.'
Japanese: 清経と維盛の入水を知った建礼門院右京大夫から慰める手紙を受け取った資盛は、「今はただ自分の命も今日明日の事なので、ものを思う事をやめようという心境です」と返事を送った。
English: As for the death of his brothers, he composed a waka that reads, 'In this world, being alive does not mean to be living, even more so, to have met with such bitter experience is to know despair.'
Japanese: 兄弟の死については「あるほどが　あるにもあらぬ　うちになほ　かく憂きことを　見るぞかなしき」（生きていることが生きていることにもならない、この世のうちにあって、その上こんなつらい目にあうのは悲しいことです）と詠んでいる。
English: On May 2, 1185, the Taira clan was defeated at the Battle of Dannoura and fell into ruin.
Japanese: 元暦2年（1185年）3月24日、平氏は壇ノ浦の戦いで敗れ、滅亡に至った。
English: While the Taira clan was in flight westward, many of Sukemori's brothers withdrew from the train along the way; however, as one of the members of the family who continued onward to the final destination, Sukemori along with his only remaining younger brother, Arimori, and his cousin, TAIRA no Yukimori, committed suicide by throwing themselves into the rapids of Dannoura.
Japanese: 平氏西走の道中、兄弟が次々と脱落していった中で最後まで一門として踏みとどまった資盛は、一人残った弟の有盛と従弟の平行盛とともに壇ノ浦の急流に身を投じて自害した。
English: A compilation of her works "The Collected Poems of Kenreimonin-ukyo-no-daibu" (Kenreimonin-ukyo-no-daibu-no-shu), contains many waka poems that were exchanged between her and Sukemori.
Japanese: 彼女の作品『建礼門院右京大夫集』には彼女と資盛が交わした歌が多く残されている。
English: On Kikai Island in the Amami Islands, a legend is told recounting that Sukemori, being defeated in battle, sought refuge on the island.
Japanese: 奄美諸島の喜界島には資盛がこの島まで落ち延びたという伝説が残っている。
English: Just before the Taira clan's banishment from the capital, Sukemori met Kenreimonin-ukyo-no-daibu in secret, and left her with the following words, which seem to represent his habitual form of expression at that time.
Japanese: 平氏一門の都落ち直前、密かに建礼門院右京大夫と会っていた資盛は、日頃からの口癖として彼女に以下のような事を言い残している。
English: 'In the sort of world it has become, it would not be a mistake to imagine that one's life is but a fleeting moment.
Japanese: 「こういう世の中になったからには、自分の身が儚くなるであろう事は間違いないだろう。
English: Even if you were to think nothing of my death, as we shared a long-lasting close relationship, I want you to take pity on me, and pray for the repose of my soul in the afterlife.
Japanese: たとえ何とも思わなくても、あなたと親しくなって長いつきあいだから、その情けで、後世を弔ってほしい。
English: If perchance, I should remain in this world for some time to come, I have decided resolutely not to think of myself as the same self I used to be.
Japanese: もし、命が今しばらくあったとしても、今はいっさい昔の身とは思わないと心に堅く決めている。
English: The reason being that whether it be out of self pity, the sorrow of parting, or concern for the wellbeing of someone dear, once I allow myself to indulge such sentimental reminiscence, there will be no end to it.
Japanese: そのわけは、それが不憫であるとか、名残が惜しい、あの人の事が気がかりなどと考え始めたら、思うだけでもきりがないであろうから。
English: As I have become uncertain of the strength of my heart, I've resolved not to dwell on the things of the past, and not to send letters to your door of tidings from whatever port I may find myself at; I beseech you not to think of my lack of correspondence as neglect or a lack of regard.
Japanese: 心弱さもどのようであるかと我ながら自信がないから、今後は何事も思い捨てて、どこの海にあってもあなたのところへ手紙を出したりするまいと決心しているので、おろそかに思って便りもしないとは思わないで下さい。
English: Although I'd resolved to consider myself dead to the world from this point, I dread the moments when I allow myself to think of what might have been, and am on the verge of slipping into those feelings from the past.'
Japanese: 万事、もう今から死んだと同じの身になったと心を決めたはずなのに、やはりともすれば以前の気持ちになってしまいそうなのが、とても口惜しい。」
English: Harunaga ONO was a vassal of the Toyotomi clan from the Azuchi-Momoyama period through to the early part of the Edo period.
Japanese: 大野治長（おおのはるなが）は、安土桃山時代から江戸時代前期にかけての豊臣氏の家臣。
English: As a child of Okurakyo-no-tsubone, who had served as wet-nurse to Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI's concubine Yodo-dono (Lady Yodo), he served as Umamawarishu (bodyguard) with a stipend of 3,000 koku given from Hideyoshi.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉の側室・淀殿の乳母である大蔵卿局の子に当たる関係から、秀吉に約3000石の馬廻衆として取り立てられた。
English: However, in 1599 following questioning by Ieyasu, he was banished to Shimotsuke Province (Tochigi Prefecture), under suspicion of being a ringleader of a failed plot to assassinate Ieyasu that had been hatched by servants of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Masanobu HONDA.
Japanese: しかし慶長4年（1599年）、徳川家康と本多正信の主従が策した家康暗殺疑惑事件の首謀者の一人として家康にその罪を問われ、下野国（栃木県）に流罪とされてしまう。
English: However, in the following year, 1600, he joined forces with the Eastern army at the Battle of Sekigahara and distinguished himself in battle, thereby earning a pardon for his crime from Ieyasu.
Japanese: だが翌慶長5年（1600年）、関ヶ原の戦いでは東軍に参戦し武功を上げ、家康から罪を許された。
English: Following the battle, under orders from Ieyasu he bore a note from Ieyasu to the Toyotomi clan, in which Ieyasu declared, 'I bear no animosity towards the Toyotomi clan' after which he remained in Osaka and did not return to Edo.
Japanese: 戦後、家康の命で「豊臣氏への敵意なし」という家康の書簡をもって豊臣家への使者を務めた後、江戸に戻らずそのまま大坂に残った。
English: In 1614, upon the banishment of Toyotomi's chief elder retainer Katsumoto KATAGIRI, ONO came to be in a position to lead the Toyotomi family.
Japanese: 慶長19年（1614年）、豊臣氏の家老であった片桐且元が追放されると、豊臣家を主導する立場となる。
English: Afterwards, the pro-war faction within the Toyotomi family gained ascendancy and enlisted the services of ronin (samurai who were not in the service of a daimyo, etc.) from various parts of the country to take part in the Siege of Osaka winter campaign however; Harunaga passively sued for peace, earning him the animosity of Nobushige SANADA's pro-war faction.
Japanese: その後豊臣家内部では主戦派が主流となり、各地から浪人を召抱えて大坂冬の陣に至るが、治長は消極的和平を主張し、真田信繁など主戦派と反目する。
English: In 1615 during the summer campaign of the Siege of Osaka, Harunaga sent Princess Sen (who was a daughter of Hidetada TOKUGAWA, the Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") as well as the legal wife of Hideyori) as a messenger for ONO, to plead for clemency for Hideyori and his mother, on the condition that he commit ritual suicide ('seppuku', suicide by disembowelment), but subsequently he and Hideyori committed suicide in a mountain hamlet in the vicinity of Osaka-jo Castle.
Japanese: 慶長20年（1615年）、大坂の役大坂夏の陣では征夷大将軍徳川秀忠の娘で秀頼の正室であった千姫を使者とし、己の切腹を条件に秀頼母子の助命を願うが、秀頼とともに大坂城の山里曲輪で自害した。
English: Records show that rumors abounded throughout the Edo period regarding Harunaga having an adulterous affair with Yodo-dono, and some accounts maintain that Hideyori was not a biological child of Hideyoshi, but of Harunaga and Yodo-dono.
Japanese: 江戸時代を通じて、治長は淀殿と密通していたと噂されていた記録が残り、秀頼は秀吉の実子ではなく治長と淀殿の子であるとする説があった。
English: As described above, because he was a foster brother to Yodo-dono, it is likely that their relationship was extremely close; however, with the decline of the fortune of the Toyotomi family and the accompanying 'futility of ruin,' it can also be thought that the rumors of the sin of adultery were created with a view to casting him as an evil person (from a Confucian sense of resignation).
Japanese: 前述の通り、淀殿の乳兄弟に当たるために両者の仲が極めて親密であったことと、豊臣家を滅ぼした「亡国の徒」として、彼を（儒教の観念から）悪人たらしめる為に姦通という罪をでっち上げるという意味合いから噂されたものと考えられる。
English: Kintomo ANEGAKOJI (as known as ANEKOJI: January 19, 1840 - July 5, 1863) was a court noble during the late Edo Period.
Japanese: 姉小路公知（あねがこうじきんとも、天保10年12月5日(旧暦)（1839年1月22日）-文久3年5月20日(旧暦)（1863年7月5日））は、江戸時代末期の公家。
English: He was the leader of Eishin hachiju-hachi kyo (the eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court) who opposed the Emperor's authorization to the agreement (The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan) concluded in 1858.
Japanese: 安政5年（1858年）に幕府とアメリカの間で調印された条約勅許（日米修好通商条約）に反対した廷臣八十八卿の指導者。
English: In October 1862, he became Ukon no Gon no Shosho (Provincial Minor Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), and as a vice commander to promote Joi (expulsion of the foreigners), he headed toward Edo with commander Sanetomi SANJO, and carried out inspections of the Edo bay area with Kaishu KATSU and others.
Japanese: 文久2年（1862年）10月、右近衛権少将となり、幕府への攘夷督促の副使として、正使三条実美とともに江戸に向かい、勝海舟と共に江戸湾岸の視察などを行う。
English: Later, he became Kokuji Sanyo (national affaires council), and he spearheaded the Joi ha (group of expulsion of the foreigners) with Sanjo, but in 1863, he was attacked by an assassin at Sarugatsuji outside the Sakuhei-mon Gate in Kyoto on the way home from a Court Council late at night, and died at home at the age of 27.
Japanese: のちに国事参与となり、三条とともに攘夷派の先鋒となったが、文久3年（1863年）に深夜朝議からの帰途、京都朔平門外の猿ヶ辻で刺客に襲われ自宅で死去、享年27。
English: The author of Kintomo's assassination was suspected to be Shinbei TANAKA of Satsuma Domain, one of the Bakumatsu Shidai Hitokiri (Four famous assassins of the end of the Edo period), from the material evidence such as the sword left at the scene, and Tanaka was arrested, however, the truth remained unrevealed because he committed suicide during the interrogation.
Japanese: 公知の暗殺犯は現場に残されていた刀などの物証から幕末四大人斬りの一人、薩摩藩の田中新兵衛と目され田中が捕らえられたが、取り調べ中に田中が自殺したため、真相は不明。
English: The reason of his assassination is supposed that Kintomo, who had been an advocate of expelling the foreigners (Joi ha), was persuaded by Katsu and inclined to the idea of opening the country to the world, but the truth still remains to be seen.
Japanese: 暗殺された理由としては、攘夷派であった公知が勝に説得されて開国に傾いたからともいわれているが、真相は今もって謎とされている。
English: ONO no Michikaze (also known as ONO no Tofu) (June 894 – February 9, 967) is one of the foremost calligraphy artists from the Heian period, and is numbered among the 'sanseki' (The Three Famous Calligraphers of Japan).
Japanese: 小野道風（おののみちかぜ/おののとうふう、寛平6年（894年）-康保3年12月27日(旧暦)（967年2月9日）)は、平安時代の代表的な書道家で、「三蹟」（三跡）の一人に数えられる。
English: He was a descendant of ONO no Imoko's, who had been famous for having been a delegate during the Prince Shotoku Era on one of the official Japanese diplomatic missions to China during the Sui dynasty, and was born in what is present day Kasugai City, in Aichi Prefecture.
Japanese: 聖徳太子の時代に遣隋使を務めたことで有名な小野妹子の子孫であり、現在の愛知県春日井市出身。
English: Although the actual reading of his given name is 'Michikaze,' the honorific reading 'Tofu' is often applied.
Japanese: 名前の読みは「みちかぜ」だが、「とうふう」と有職読みすることが多い。
English: From the early part of the Heian period into the 10th century, ONO was active as a calligrapher; he is credited with having cast aside the practice of using the Chinese style of calligraphy, which had been the convention up to then, and laying the foundation for the development of a Japanese school of calligraphy.
Japanese: 平安時代前期、10世紀に活動した能書家であり、それまでの中国的な書風から脱皮して和様書道の基礎を築いた人物と評されている。
English: Later, Michikaze, along with FUJIWARA no Sukemasa (also known as FUJIWARA no Sari) and FUJIWARA no Yukinari (also known as FUJIWARA no KOZAI) came to be called the 'sanseki' (The Three Famous Calligraphers of Japan).
Japanese: 後に、藤原佐理（ふじわらのすけまさ、「ふじわらのさり」とも）と藤原行成（ふじわらのゆきなり、「ふじわらのこうぜい」とも）と合わせ、「三蹟」と称されている。
English: Michikaze was attached to the Ministry of Central Affairs, carrying out the duties of shonaiki (chronicler), in which he produced calligraphy for folding screens used by the Imperial Court, and also reproduced clean copies of official documents.
Japanese: 道風は中務省に属する少内記という役職にあり、宮中で用いる屏風に文字を書いたり、公文書の清書をしたりするのがその職務であった。
English: As a calligrapher, Michikaze was held in high esteem in his day, and at a time the Imperial Court and nobility made much ado about the 'rebirth of Gishi O' (also known as WANG Xizhi, a celebrated Chinese calligrapher).
Japanese: 書家としての道風の名声は生存当時から高く、当時の宮廷や貴族の間では「王羲之（中国の著名な書家）の再生」ともてはやされた。
English: In the illustrated folio versions of the "Tale of Genji," the comments were rendered in characters drawn by Michikaze, leading people to say that his calligraphy 'imparts a modern effect that was both beautiful and dazzling to behold.'
Japanese: 『源氏物語』の「絵合」の巻では、道風の書を評して「今風で美しく目にまばゆく見える」（意訳）と言っている。
English: Such glowing evaluations were heaped upon him after his death, with some people worshipping of him as a deity of calligraphy.
Japanese: 没後、その評価はますます高まり、書道の神として祀られるに至っている。
English: Michikaze's grandfather was ONO no Takamura, a celebrated scholar of Chinese classics and a poet of the early Heian period.
Japanese: なお、道風の祖父に平安時代初期の漢学者・歌人として著名な小野篁（おののたかむら）がいる。
English: There was a time when Michikaze was nurturing a sense of self-loathing regarding his ability, becoming profoundly troubled to the point of considering giving up calligraphy, when, having set out for a stroll one rainy day he noticed a frog trying to jump onto a willow tree only to slide off, and after watching it try time and time again.
Japanese: 道風は、自分の才能のなさに自己嫌悪に陥り、書道をやめようかと真剣に悩んでいる程のスランプに陥っていた時のこと、ある雨の日散歩に出かけていて、柳に蛙が飛びつこうと、何度も挑戦している様を見た。
English: Just when he was immersed in his thought, a strong gust of wind happened to blow, causing the willow tree to sway in the wind, and the frog gracefully lept onto the willow tree.
Japanese: このように、バカにしていた時、偶然にも強い風が吹き発心し、柳がしなり、見事に飛び移れた。
English: Seeing this, Michikaze thought to himself, "It is I who am the fool. I happened to associate the frog struggling with all its might with my own circumstances, but I hadn't been making as much of an effort as the frog had," and this revelation is said to have spurred him on to work his fingers to the bone.
Japanese: これを見た道風は「バカは自分である。蛙は一生懸命努力をして偶然を自分のものとしたのに、自分はそれほどの努力をしていない」と目が覚めるような思いをして、血を滲むほどの努力をするきっかけになったという。
English: In truth however, it is uncertain whether or not this anecdote is based in historical fact; it had spread in the mid part of the Edo period in Joruri (a narration accompanying the Japanese traditional puppet play) called "Ono Tofu's Green Willow and Ink Stone," which was first staged in 1754.
Japanese: ただし、この逸話は史実かどうか不明で、広まったのは江戸時代中期の浄瑠璃『小野道風青柳硯（おののどうふうあおやぎすずり）』（初演1754年（宝暦4年））からと見られる。
English: (This anecdote was included in a series of essays by Baien MIURA entitled "Baien-sosho" (Baien Volumes) which had been written slightly before that, in 1750, but was not published until 1855.)
Japanese: （その少し前、1750年（寛延3年）に三浦梅園が随筆『梅園叢書』に書いているが、刊行されたのは1855年（嘉永7年）。）
English: The anectdote was subsequently included in pre-WWII government approved textbooks, and became known widely.
Japanese: その後、第二次世界大戦以前の日本の国定教科書にもこの逸話が載せられ、多くの人に広まった。
English: The anecdote was adopted as the theme of many paintings, and served as the material upon which the Hanafuda was based.
Japanese: この逸話は多くの絵画の題材とされ、花札の絵柄もこの逸話を題材としている。
English: Emperor Daigo deeply admired his calligraphy, commissioning Michikaze to draw the calligraphy for the name-plate of Daigo-ji Temple, and also to pen several scrolls on various aspects of the art of calligraphy.
Japanese: 醍醐天皇は深くその書を愛好され、醍醐寺の榜や行草法帖各一巻を書かせた。
English: Chishodaishi shigo chokusho (designated as a National Treasure): An imperial rescript of the posthumous conferring of a title onto the priest Enchin, preserved at the Tokyo National Museum.
Japanese: 智証大師諡号勅書（ちしょうだいししごうちょくしょ）-（国宝）東京国立博物館蔵
English: In 891, Enchin, then the fifth head priest of Enryaku-ji Temple, passed away with the rank of "Shozozu Hogenwajo"; after 36 years later, in 927, an imperial rescript was issued in his honour, bestowing upon him the rank of "Hoindaiwajo," and the posthumous Buddhist name of Chisho Daishi; this imperial rescript was written by the hand of Michikaze.
Japanese: 寛平3年（891年）、少僧都法眼和尚位で寂した延暦寺第5世座主円珍が、36年後の延長5年（927）、法印大和尚位を賜り、智証大師と諡されたときの勅書である。
English: The text, which was selected by FUJIWARA no Hirofumi, Chief Judge of the Ministry of Ceremony, was written by Michikaze when he was 34 years old, and is written in indigo on mourning paper in a semi cursive style, in a broad yet flowing script.
Japanese: 文は式部大輔藤原博文の撰、道風34歳の書で、藍の檀紙に行草を交えて太い弾力性のある文字である。
English: Dodai is 'rough drafts,' meaning rough drafts of Chinese poems for use on screens within the Imperial Palace.
Japanese: 土代とは「下書き」の意で、内裏に飾る屏風に揮毫する漢詩の下書きである。
English: In December 928, Michikaze was commissioned by imperial order to make drafts for the Imperial Court, preparing calligraphy drafts of poems written by OE no Asatsuna; eight "risshi" style Chinese poems and three "zekku" style poems.
Japanese: 延長6年（928年）11月、道風が勅命を奉じて宮中の屏風に書いたときの下書きで、大江朝綱が作った律詩八首と絶句三首が書かれている。
English: Although the works are unsigned, as a postscript, in the latter part of the Heian period, FUJIWARA no Sadanobu, who had long worked as an appraiser of calligraphical works (and was a noted calligrapher in his own right), authenticated the calligraphy as being penned by Michikaze at the age of 35, giving credence to the works' authenticity.
Japanese: 署名はないがその奥書きに、平安時代末期の能書家で鑑識に長じていた藤原定信が、道風35歳の書であることを考証しているので、真蹟として確実である。
English: In a number of places there are notes made in minute handwriting, which relate to lettering styles and the like, and indicate that there were multiple revisions.
Japanese: 処々に細字を傍書しているのは、その字体を工夫して様々に改めたことを示している。
English: The Hakushimonju (an anthology of poems by Hakkyoi (also known as BAI Juyi), a famous Chinese poet) caught the interest of Michikaze, who then penned a Kansubon that began with the first words from the poem 'Strange flowers in Nankan, Gyokusen,' giving the scroll its name.
Japanese: 白氏文集の詩を道風が興に乗じて書いた巻子本で、巻首が「玉泉南澗花奇怪」の句で始まるのでこの名がある。
English: Together with 'Sunshoanshikishi' (written by KI no Tsurayuki) and 'Masushikishi' (written by FUJIWARA no Kozei), 'Tsugishikishi' is considered to be one of the three best kana script writings of ancient times.
Japanese: 寸松庵色紙（紀貫之筆）、升色紙（藤原行成筆）とともに三色紙といわれ、仮名古筆中でも最高のものといわれる。
English: The name Tsugishikishi is derived from the fact that two sheets of paper were fixed together, and a poem would be written in a free-form style thereupon.
Japanese: 色紙型の料紙二葉を継ぎ合わせたものに、古歌一首を散らし書きしたのでこの名がある。
English: This poem is written on fragmentary pieces of Deccho-bon (a type of a book) with Torinoko paper (stout, smooth Japanese paper) that has been dyed a color such as purple, indigo, red ochre, or green and bound together with white paper.
Japanese: 紫、藍、赭（赤色）、緑などに染めた鳥の子紙に、白もまじえた粘葉本の断簡（だんかん、切れ切れになった文書）である。
English: MINAMOTO no Toru (822 – September 25, 895) was the 12th son of Emperor Saga.
Japanese: 源融（みなもと・の・とおる、弘仁13年（822年）-寛平7年8月25日(旧暦)（895年9月21日））は、嵯峨天皇の12男。
English: There is a theory that the handsome Hikaru Genji, the leading character in "Tale of Genji" by Shikibu MURASAKI, was actually modeled on MINAMOTO no Toru.
Japanese: 紫式部『源氏物語』の主人公で美男子の光源氏の実在モデルとする説がある。
English: It is said that he created a garden modeled on a view of Shiogama City in Mutsu Province during the building of Kawaranoin Temple (present-day Shoseien gardens) and, was the inspiration for "Toru," a traditional Japanese Noh play written by Zeami.
Japanese: 陸奥国塩竈市の風景を模して作庭した河原院（現在の渉成園）を造営したといい、世阿弥作の能『融』の元となった。
English: It has been said that to replenish the salt cellar at the Rokujo-Kawaranoin Estate, salt water was drawn and carted from north the Sea of Namba (Osaka Bay) at present day Amagasaki City.
Japanese: 六条河原院の塩釜を模すための塩は、難波の海（大阪湾）の北（現在の尼崎市）の汐を汲んで運ばれたと伝えられる。
English: The story about where MINAMOTO no Toru drew salt water has been handed down, and the deity enshrined at Kotoura-jinja Shrine in Amagasaki is MINAMOTO no Toru.
Japanese: そのため、源融が汐を汲んだ故地としての伝承がのこされており、尼崎の琴浦神社の祭神は源融である。