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English: However, the Asakura clan's indecisive strategy failed to eliminate Nobunaga, and after they lost the greatest opportunity due to the death by disease of Shingen TAKEDA, who had launched the Westing Operation against Nobunaga, the resistance forces, including the Azai clan, were exposed to the Oda army's large-scale counterattack.
Japanese: だが、朝倉氏の煮え切らない戦略姿勢が信長の息の根を止めなかったために、西上作戦を発動させた武田信玄の病没で最大の好機を逸してしまうと、浅井氏などの反攻勢力は織田軍の大反攻に晒される。
English: In 1573, Yoshiaki ASHIKAGA, one of the sworn allies forming the coalition against Nobunaga, was banished, and then, in the Siege of Odani-jo Castle, Hisamasa and his son Nagamasa were besieged their headquarters, the Odani-jo Castle by the Oda army.
Japanese: 信長包囲網の盟主・足利義昭が放逐されて元亀4年が天正に改められた1573年、小谷城の戦いで織田軍に居城・小谷城を攻囲された久政と長政父子。
English: Although the Asakura clan, on which the Azai clan was relying as the last resort, once sent auxiliary forces to the Odani-jo Castle, pulled them back to its home base, Echizen Province, due to its own strategic reasons.
Japanese: 最も頼みとしていた朝倉氏は、小谷城への来援に現れるも自軍の事情で越前本国へ退却してしまう。
English: On the way of the withdrawal, the Asakura's auxiliary forces were heavily chased by the Oda's army, and the Oda army finally invaded into the Asakura's territory in Echizen Province, and destroyed the Asakura clan (the Battle of Ichijodani Castle).
Japanese: その退却中に織田軍の猛追を受けた上に、越前の本領まで攻め込まれて滅亡した（一乗谷城の戦い）。
English: Completely left unsupported, the father and son of the Azai clan killed themselves, and the Azai clan died out.
Japanese: 完全に孤軍となった浅井氏の父子は自害して果て、浅井氏は滅亡したのである。
English: The lineage of Akimasa TAYA (the surname was changed later to Miyoshi) and the lineage of Shinbachiro AZAI of the Owari-Azai clan survived as hatamoto of Edo bakufu (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu, which is a form of Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun in the Edo period).
Japanese: 田屋明政の系統（三好へ改称）、尾張浅井氏の浅井新八郎の系統などは、江戸幕府旗本として続いた。
English: (Ko [written as 江 or 督], later she was called Eyo, Hidetada TOKUGAWA's Midaidokoro [shogun or minister's wife], mother of Iemitsu TOKUGAWA and Tofukumon-in)
Japanese: （江もしくは督、のち江与。徳川秀忠御台所、徳川家光母及び東福門院母）
English: For the retainers of the Azai clan, as well as the hereditary vassals of the Azai clan such as the Tanabe, the Hota (保多), the Yano and the Endo, there were who once in the same position as the Asai clan as retainers of the Kyogoku clan, such as the Kaizu (海津), the Koyama, the Mitamura, the Yagi, the Fuse, the Imai, the Isono and the Atsuji.
Japanese: 浅井氏の家臣団は元々浅井氏の家臣であった譜代系である田辺・保多・矢野・遠藤らのほかに、かつて京極氏家臣団の頃に同格であった海津・小山・三田村・八木・布施・今井・磯野・阿閉などの名前が挙げられる。
English: During the Sukemasa's reign at least, the political situation was influenced by the Kokujin (local samurais) union-tinged regime; the controlling system of the Azai clan was gradually strengthened along with the generations.
Japanese: 少なくとも亮政の頃には国人層による連合制的な面が強く、代を経るごとに支配体制が強化している。
English: According to the fact that after the Tenmon era, the clan assigned Kazumasa ISONO to Sawayama-jo Castle, which was originally the home castle of the Ogawa clan, and after Naikuranosuke DODO (the castle lord at that time) died in battle, instead of his home base Isonoyama-jo Castle, and the Atsuji clan to the Yamamotoyama-jo Castle, which was the headquarters of the Asami clan, it can be thought that the Azai clan was planning a kind of 'rotating stationary system of branch castles.'
Japanese: 磯野員昌を磯野氏本拠の磯野山城ではなく、元は小川氏の居城で百々内蔵助戦死後の佐和山城に置き、浅見氏の居城であった山本山城に阿閉氏を配した天文年間以降には支城在番制に近いものを構想していた様子も伺える。
English: However, the ruling situation was not quite centralized, and during the Nagamasa's reign, many of the retainers among the ex-hereditary vassals of the Kyogoku clan seceded from the Azai clan, when the battle against Nobunaga ODA prolonged.
Japanese: だが集権的とは言いがたく、長政の代に織田信長との戦いが長期化すると元京極氏家臣団の中からは浅井氏を離反するものが多く現れた。
English: According to Tadachika KUWADA, during the Eiroku era, there were 73 branch castles in the Azai's territory.
Japanese: なお、桑田忠親は永禄年間の浅井領支城数は73ほど検出されているとしている。
English: It is said that his father Tsunemoto was one of the Sukemasa's senior vassals, and as he died in the Battle of Minoura as a scapegoat for Sukemasa, Sukemasa, with his gratitude, gave his son Tsunechika an important position.
Japanese: 父経元は亮政の重臣であったが亮政の身代わりとして箕浦合戦で戦死し、それに感謝した亮政は経親を重用したと伝わる。
English: Tsunechika's younger sister (according to another theory, his cousin) became the wife of Hisamasa (Ono-dono), and Nagamasa was born.
Japanese: 経親の妹（従妹と言う説も）は久政の妻（小野殿）となり長政を出産している。
English: In Shimizudani, where Odani-jo Castle was located, there is a site of the residence of the Ogino clan called Tosa Yashiki (residence) (named after his official post).
Japanese: 小谷城の清水谷にも土佐屋敷（官命にちなむ）と言う名で大野木氏の邸宅跡が残る。
English: The Mitamura clan had been one of the konpon hikan (primal vassals) of the Kyogoku clan, but the clan was split into two when the Azai clan extended its influence.
Japanese: 三田村氏は京極氏の根本被官であったが、浅井氏の勢力拡大の際に二つに割れた。
English: Sadayori MITAMURA of the Mitamura clan, supported the Azai side, sometimes counted as a member of the Azai family, since he married Sukemasa's daughter.
Japanese: 浅井側についた三田村氏の三田村定頼が亮政の娘と結婚しているため、親族衆に数える向きもある。
English: According to the fact that Kunisada's four children died fighting against the Oda army, when Odani-jo Castle was defeated, he was probably about the same age as Hisamasa.
Japanese: 国定の4人の子が小谷落城の際に織田軍と交戦・戦死しているので、年齢的には久政に近いのであろう。
English: According to a theory, he served as a mediator for the marriage of Nagamasa and Nobunaga ODA's younger sister, however, it is not certain.
Japanese: 長政と織田信長妹の縁組の仲介役を務めたという説もあるがはっきりしない。
English: As the Asami clan that fought against the Azai clan during the Sukemasa's reign also used the title of Tsushima no kami (Governor of Tsushima Province), they could be father and son.
Japanese: 亮政の代に浅井氏と交戦した浅見氏も対馬守を名乗っているため、或いは親子か。
English: It is probable that he was from the same family as Yasuaki WAKISAKA and his son Yasuharu WAKISAKA, whose birthplaces are close to him, however, their relation is not clear.
Japanese: 出身地が近い脇坂安明・脇坂安治親子と同族であろうが、関係ははっきりしない。
English: Asakura clan was a local ruling family whose home base was Echizen Province, and the clan later ascended to be a sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku Period).
Japanese: 朝倉氏（あさくらし）は、越前国を拠点とした豪族で、後に発展して戦国大名となる。
English: At first, the clan served the Shiba clan, Shugo (military governor) of Echizen Province, as its Shugodai (provisional governor), but later the Asakura clan itself came to be appointed to Shugo.
Japanese: 越前国守護である斯波氏の守護代を務めたが、のちに朝倉氏自体が守護に任命されるようになった。
English: Its origin was Asakura, Yabu County, Tajima Province (Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture), and at first the clan used the name of Kusakabe clan as its sei (authentic surname).
Japanese: 出自は但馬国養父郡朝倉（兵庫県養父市）であり、はじめは日下部氏（くさかべ）を姓とした。
English: According to an epic "Esshu gunki" (an epic of the Asakura clan in Echizen Province), the clan was the Emperor Kaika's descendent, while "Asakura Shimatsuki" (History of the Asakura family) states that, the clan was the Emperor Kotoku's descendent.
Japanese: 『越州軍記』によると開化天皇、『朝倉始末記』によると孝徳天皇の後裔とされている。
English: During the Muromachi period, Toshikage ASAKURA (Eirin Takakage) came to oppose his lord Yoshitoshi SHIBA with Tsuneharu KAI, and in the Onin War, which broke out from the internal squabble of the Ashikaga Shogun family over the family reign, he switched from the West army lead by Mochitoyo YAMANA (Sozen) to the East army lead by Katsumoto HOSOKAWA, and he expelled the Kai clan from Echizen Province.
Japanese: 室町時代には朝倉敏景（英林孝景）が守護代甲斐常治とともに主である斯波義敏と対立し、足利将軍家の家督争いなどから発展した応仁の乱では山名持豊(宗全)率いる西軍から細川勝元率いる東軍に属し、越前から甲斐氏を追う。
English: The former lord of the province, Yoshitoshi SHIBA brought to the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) an objection about the Asakura clan's effective control over Echizen Province, in order to recover the post of Shugo (military governor) of Echizen Province.
Japanese: 旧主の斯波義敏が越前守護職を回復せんと、朝倉氏の越前実効支配について幕府に異議を申し立てる。
English: Takakage, therefore, forced the Kuratani clan to adopt the son of Shugo Yoshiyasu SHIBA and made the adopted son proclaim himself Yoshitoshi ASHIKAGA, and then, to oppose the Shiba clan, which was the Shugo of Echizen Province, Takakage backed up Yoshitoshi as 'the nominal provincial lord of Echizen Province,' overcoming resistance from the bakufu.
Japanese: すると、かつての守護斯波義廉の子を鞍谷氏の養子として足利義俊と名乗らせた上で、幕府の反対を押し切ってこの義俊を”名目上越前国主”として擁立し越前守護の斯波氏に対抗した。
English: (The Kuratani clan's ancestor was Tsugutoshi ASHIKAGA, who was the son of Yoshitsugu ASHIKAGA and younger brother of Yoshimochi ASHIKAGA, and it was highly respected and called Kuratani gosho [Kuratani Palace], as a branch family of the Muromachi Shogunate family in Echizen Province.)
Japanese: （鞍谷氏は、足利義持の弟、足利義嗣の子・足利嗣俊を祖とする。室町将軍家の越前における分家、鞍谷御所と呼ばれて尊崇を集めていた。）
English: Later, as the Asakura clan itself was appointed to Echizen shugo (military governor of Echizen Province), the Kuratani kubo Ashikaga clan became a guest commander of the Asakura clan, and the Asakura clan became the daimyo (territorial lord) of the province in name and in reality.
Japanese: のちに朝倉氏自体が越前守護に任じられることとなったため、鞍谷公方足利氏は朝倉氏の客将と化し、朝倉氏が名実ともに同国の大名となった。
English: During the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), the clan not only established the dominance in Echizen Province, but also extended its territory over the neighboring provinces, Wakasa and Omi, but the confrontation with Nobunaga ODA of Owari Province led the clan to fall in 1573.
Japanese: 戦国時代には越前支配のみならず、隣国若狭国、近江国にも進攻し、領土を広げたが、尾張国の織田信長と対立し、1573年、滅ぼされた。
English: The Mizoe clan, which is also considered as a branch family split earlier from the Asakura family, served Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI as umamawari (a horse guard), and later recovered its former territory of a 10,000-koku crop yield.
Japanese: 早期に分家した一族と考えられている溝江氏が、豊臣秀吉に馬廻として仕え、のち1万石で旧領復帰。
English: The Asakura clan, that was supposed to be the line of Tokikage ASAKURA and was once the Odawara-Hojo clan's vassal, survived as a feudal retainer of the Mito Domain.
Japanese: 水戸藩には、朝倉時景系と伝わる小田原北条氏家臣の朝倉氏が藩士として存続した。
English: Masamoto ASAKURA, who was the second son of Erin Takakage (Toshikage ASAKURA) and grandson of Hidekage ASAKURA, served the Gohojo clan, Hidetsugu TOYOTOMI, and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in a consecutive manner, and Motomasa's son Masaaki ASAKURA served Hidetada TOKUGAWA as hatamoto (a direct retainer of the bakufu) with a stipend of 500 koku crop yield.
Japanese: 英林孝景の次男・朝倉秀景の孫・朝倉政元は、後北条氏、豊臣秀次、徳川家康と仕え、政元の子・朝倉政明は徳川秀忠に仕え、500石の旗本として存続した。
English: There was an Asakura clan (Nobumasa ASAKURA line) that continued as this; a vassal of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, then Karo (the chief retainer) to Dainagon (major councilor) of Tadanaga TOKUGAWA of Suruga Province, then a vassal of the Furukawa-Doi clan.
Japanese: 徳川家康家臣→駿河大納言徳川忠長付家老→古河土井氏家臣と続いた朝倉氏（朝倉宣正系）がいる。
English: The head of this clan was said to be the nephew of Kageakira ASAKURA, but there are many unclear points about his father's life and so on, and the connection with the Echizen-Asakura clan can not be confirmed (His father could have been a retainer of the Hojo clan, or a member of a certain family line of the Asakura clan of Ise Province or the Asakura clan of Totomi Province.)
Japanese: 朝倉景鏡の甥とされるが、父親の動向等に不明な点が多く、越前朝倉氏との関連は確定ではない（北条家臣、もしくは伊勢、遠江の朝倉氏等の系統か？）。
English: There was a legend of Aiomaru ASAKURA, in which he is said to have escaped safely to Echigo Province after the fall of the Echizen-Asakura clan, and there were also legends related to the clan's descendents in Dewa Province, and so on, however the authenticity of any of these legends is not confirmed.
Japanese: 越前朝倉氏滅亡後、越後国に朝倉愛王丸が落ち延びたという伝承が、また、出羽国などにも子孫伝承が残るが、真偽は不明。
English: In various places along the Sea of Japan coast, the legend which the Asakura clan connected to the Ikko sect as 'legend of the descendent from the Asakura clan' is widespread in different patterns.
Japanese: 日本海側各所に一向宗と結びついた「朝倉末裔伝説」がパターン流布している。