nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: At the end of Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, Tsuneyuki NAKAMIKADO worked hard for affairs of state, and served successively as gitei, the chief of accountancy, and the rusu chokan.
Japanese: 幕末、明治維新期の中御門経之は、国事に奔走し、議定、会計事務総督、留守長官などを歴任した。
English: The family were awarded an earldom on July 7, 1884, and then awarded the title of marquess on January 17, 1888.
Japanese: 明治17年7月7日伯爵の位を賜り、更に明治21年1月17日侯爵に陞爵した。
English: When Tsuneaki, the son of Tsuneyuki, had no heir, and Machiko, a woman, inherited the Nakamikado family name, the title of marquess was returned; but the family adopted Tsuneyasu from a branch family and were able to recover their status.
Japanese: 経之の子、経明には嗣子が無く、萬千子（まちこ）が中御門家を相続、婦人が戸主となったため、侯爵位を返上したが、分家から経恭（つねやす）を養子に迎えて、改めて旧に復した。
English: Tsunetada NAKAMIKADO, the son of Tametsune YOSHIDA who was the younger brother of Tsunetoshi, also identified himself as the 'Nakamikado' family.
Japanese: また、経俊の弟である吉田為経の子・中御門経任も「中御門」の家名を名乗っている。
English: While Tsunetada who was a confidant of the Emperor Gosaga was alive, the family was more prosperous than the Tsunetsugu lineage of his cousin, but he also had a number of political opponents, and this led to the family being discontinued around the beginning of the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 後嵯峨天皇の腹心であった経任在世中は、従兄弟である経継系よりも羽振りが良かったものの政敵も多く南北朝時代_(日本)初期頃に断絶している。
English: Tsunatsune HASHIMOTO who served as the army surgeon general was made a baron on October 31, 1895 in recognition of his acts of valor.
Japanese: 陸軍軍医総監などを務めた橋本綱常が、勲功により、明治28年10月31年男爵に叙せられる。
English: Sanetoshi variously identified himself as Reizei, Hashimoto and Irie, the family only settling on the name Hashimoto in the generation Sanezumi HASHIMOTO, Sanetoshi's grandson.
Japanese: 実俊は冷泉・橋本・入江などを称していたが、孫の橋本実澄の代から橋本の家名が定まった。
English: The father-son succession continued until Kinkuni HASHIMOTO, the sixth generation, who did not produce an heir, at which point Kinnatsu HASHIMOTO (1454-1538) was adopted from the Shimizudani family of the same Saionji clan.
Japanese: 6代目の橋本公国まで父子相続が続いたが、公国に跡継ぎがなく、同じ西園寺家一門の清水谷家から橋本公夏（1454年－1538年）が養子に入った。
English: Kinnatsu became a monk in Harima Province and was succeeded by his adopted grandson Sanekatsu HASHIMOTO, but Sanekatsu died a violent death in 1588 and the family line was terminated.
Japanese: 公夏は播磨国で出家し、彼の後は孫で養子の橋本実勝が継いだが、天正16年（1588年）横死して家系は中絶。
English: Thereafter, Sanemura HASHIMOTO (a great-grandson of Kinnatsu) restarted the family at the beginning of Edo period by becoming the adopted son of Sanekatsu.
Japanese: その後、江戸時代初期に一族の橋本実村（公夏の曾孫）が実勝の養子の形式で家を継いだ。
English: Sanehisa HASHIMOTO in the late Edo period served as Giso (a position respsonsible for conveying what the congress decides to the emperor), and also worked as a Goyogakari at the time of rebuilding of Kyoto imperial-palace in the Ansei period.
Japanese: 江戸時代後期の橋本実久は議奏を務め、安政の内裏造営のときも御用掛を務めた。
English: Kangyoin (Tsuneko, Kangyoin), the younger sister of Saneakira, worked as a maid of honor to the Emperor Ninko, and gave birth to Imperial Princess Chikako KAZUNOMIYA who was married to Iemochi TOKUGAWA, the fourteenth Shogun.
Japanese: 実麗の妹、観行院（つねこ、観行院）は、仁孝天皇に典侍として仕え、14代将軍徳川家茂に降嫁した和宮親子内親王の生母となった。
English: Saneaya HASHIMOTO served as a member of the House of Lords, the Counselor of the Internal Ministry, and the Vice-Minister of the Education Ministry.
Japanese: 橋本実斐（さねあや）は、貴族院議員、内務省参与官、文部省政務次官を歴任した。
English: Takafusa SHIJO, the son of Takasue, was promoted to Junior Chief of the Councilor of State, shonii (Senior Second Rank), at the beginning of the Kamakura period, and established the family status of Kugyo (which means "court nobility").
Japanese: 隆季の子四条隆房は鎌倉時代初頭に正二位、権大納言にまで至り、公卿家としての家格を確立した。
English: In the period of the Northern and Southern Courts, the family produced Takasue SHIJO, who was active as a courtier of the Southern Court.
Japanese: 南北朝時代_(日本)には南朝_(日本)の廷臣として活躍した四条隆資が出ている。
English: From the end of Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, Takauta SHIJO was actively involved in affairs of state as a court noble belonging to the group which revered the Emperor and desired the expulsion of foreigners/overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate; he suffered in incident of the shichikyo-ochi (defeated seven nobles) with Sanetomi SANJO, but after the Meiji Restoration he was rehabilitated, joining the army and reaching the rank of lieutenant general.
Japanese: 幕末、明治維新期の四条隆謌（たかうた）は、尊皇攘夷、倒幕派の公卿として国事に奔走し、三条実美らとともに七卿落ちの憂き目にもあったが、明治維新後、復権し陸軍に入り陸軍中将にまで累進した。
English: Takanori SHIJO, the son of Takachika, died in 1977, but the direct Shijo line is still good health, as shown in a recent Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) documentary featuring the family.
Japanese: 隆愛の子、四条隆徳（たかのり）は昭和52年（1977年）に死去、現在も直系は健在で日本放送協会でも特番が放送されていた。
English: It is rare for a direct line of the Fujiwara clan to be maintained to the present day, and the family attends a formal banquet held the day before the Emperor's birthday every year.
Japanese: 藤原氏一族で直系が健在なのは珍しく、毎年天皇誕生日前日の晩餐会に出席している。
English: Currently, the son and the heir of the direct line is Takakazu SHIJO, the 42nd generation of the family, born in 1977.
Japanese: 現在、直系長男は第42代四條隆和(たかかず)昭和52年、1977年　生まれ。
English: The name Ano originated with Zenjo ANO, the son of MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo and the older half-brother (with the same mother) of MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, when he adopted the name Ano from Ano-sho, Sunto County in Suruga Province, where he was based.
Japanese: 阿野という名字は、元々源義朝の子で、源義経の同母兄である阿野全成が駿河国駿東郡阿野荘を根拠とし、その地名を取って阿野と号したものが始まりとされる。
English: The Ano family in the court nobility, on the other hand, originated with Kosa ANO, the son of FUJIWARA no Narichika, who was adopted by Sanekuni SHIGENOI.
Japanese: 一方、公家の阿野家は、藤原成親の子で滋野井実国の養子阿野公佐を祖として創設された。
English: The name derived from the fact that Kosa inherited a part of Ano-sho from the above-mentioned Zenjo ANO, who was his father in law.
Japanese: 公佐がその岳父である前述の阿野全成から阿野荘の一部を相続したことに由来する。
English: Yasuko (her name is also pronounced Kadoko) ANO, the daughter of Kinkado ANO in the Kamakura period, was favored by the Emperor Godaigo, gave birth to a son who would become the Emperor Gomurakami, and was awarded the rank of jusangu, an honorary rank for those close to Emperor, Empress Dowager, and Empress, conferred on both men and women.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の阿野公廉の娘阿野廉子は、後醍醐天皇の寵姫で、後村上天皇の生母となり、准三宮。
English: Most of the family took the Southern Court side in the period of the Northern and Southern Courts, but this in fact helped the family avoid to being broken up or weakened, which enabled it to remain part of the nobility on its return to Kyoto after the unification of the Northern and Southern Courts.
Japanese: 南北朝時代_(日本)には一族のほとんどが南朝_(日本)方に付くが、それが却って一族の分裂・弱体化を回避する事になり、南北朝合一後に京都に復帰した後も公家社会に留まる事を可能にしたという。
English: The Yamamoto family (which held the status of Urin, and the title of viscount after the Restoration), the Kitaoji family (which held a the title of baron), and the Tamamatsu family (which also held the title of baron) were the branches of the family.
Japanese: 分家に山本家（羽林家・維新後子爵）、北大路家（男爵）、玉松家（男爵）がある。
English: After the fall of the Hojo clan, Shigenao DAIDOJI, the second son of Masashige DAIDOJI who worked as the top at Kawagoe-jo Castle and governed 180 thousand koku crop yields, served the Maeda clan of Kaga Province and then began to serve Tadayoshi MATSUDAIRA with two thousand Goku crop yields.
Japanese: 川越城将を勤め18万石を治めた大道寺政繁の次男大道寺重直が、北条氏滅亡後に加賀国前田氏を経て松平忠吉に2000石で仕えたのに始まる。
English: When Shigenao served Tadayoshi, he lived in the castle in Kiyosu, and in the vicinity of the site of his residence is still called Aza Daidoji, Kiyosu-machi, Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture.
Japanese: 忠吉時代の居城は清須にあり重直の屋敷跡周辺は今も清須市清洲町字大道寺という。
English: After Tadayoshi's death, although Owari was given to Ieyasu's ninth son Yoshinao TOKUGAWA, Shigenao continuously served Yoshinao.
Japanese: 忠吉死後、尾張は家康九男徳川義直に与えられたが、重直は引き続き義直に仕える。
English: Shinke refers to families which were not daimyo (Japanese territorial lord) or former court nobles but were allowed to join the nobility as a reward for their contribution at the Meiji Restoration (families of the so-called genkun) or for services to the nation thereafter.
Japanese: 旧大名・旧公家を除いた家々の事であり、特に明治維新で活躍した元勲の家とその後の国家への功労によって華族に加えられた家を指す。
English: Shinke refers to families established after the Bunroku and Keicho periods (i.e. a period roughly corresponding to the Edo period).
Japanese: 文禄・慶長年間以後に成立した家々（ほぼ江戸時代のそれと重なる）を指す。
English: Among 137 Dojo families, 68 of them are Shinke (though whether Hirohata family and the Daigo family mentioned below are Shinke or not is still controversial).
Japanese: 137家あるとされる堂上家の中で68家（ただし、後述の広幡家・醍醐家を新家に含めるかどうかについては議論の余地がある）が新家に相当する。
English: Most of the Shinke families were established within 100 years of the end of the Toyotomi government, a period roughly corresponding to the 17th century.
Japanese: 新家のほとんどが豊臣政権末期からの100年間、ほぼ後に17世紀と呼ばれる時期に設立されている。
English: Although the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) controlled the Imperial Court, which had been weakened in the domestic wars, by means of the Kinchu narabini kuge shohatto, a set of regulations that applied to the emperor and the Kyoto nobles, a weak Imperial Court was not in the interests of the bakufu because it was the Imperial court which appointed the seii taishogun (great general who subdues the barbarians).
Japanese: 江戸幕府は戦国時代_(日本)の戦乱で衰退した朝廷に対しては、禁中並公家諸法度などで統制する一方、朝廷自体の衰亡は征夷大将軍があくまでも朝廷に任命されている以上、望ましい状況ではなかった。
English: To control the Imperial Court, the bakufu created a system which allowed a series of regents and advisers to dominate the Imperial court, but there was a risk that this would produce 'anti-bakufu sentiment' among the court nobles who were excluded from the system.
Japanese: また、朝廷統制の必要上、朝廷権力を摂関家に独占させるような体制作りをしたために、そこから排除された公家達から「反幕府感情」が生み出される危惧もあった。
English: In this context, the bakufu granted hereditary stipends not just to the heirs but to other sons of the nobility (who would otherwise have become priests to reduce the burden on their families) and permitted these other sons to establish new families, thereby placating the nobility while at the same time avoiding a decline in the number of court nobles and retaining the minimum number of people required for the operation of the Imperial Court.
Japanese: そこで本来ならば口減らしのために出家させるのが通例だった公家の嫡男以外の男子に家禄を授けて新しい家を興させ、こうした公家の不満をそらす一方で公家の減少を防いで朝廷運用に必要な最低限の人員を確保しようとする意図があった。
English: Most of the Shinke families had the status of Urin or Meike (type of court nobility) and Han-ke (type of court nobility), but, despite their promotion to the nobility, did not generally become councilors.
Japanese: 新家のほとんどが羽林家・名家(公家)・半家(公家)に属しており、公卿に昇進しても非参議に終わるケースが殆どであった。
English: However, there were two families whose status was manifestly different from the other Shinke families, these being the Hirohata family (Ogimachi-Genji (Minamoto clan)) which was a part of the Hachijomiya family that had lost its membership of the Imperial family and the Daigo family (a branch family of the Ichijo family of regents): these families had the status of seiga just below the rank of regent and included members who advanced as far as sadaijin (minister of the left).
Japanese: ただし、八条宮家から臣籍降下した広幡家（正親町源氏）と一条家（摂関家）から分家した醍醐家は、摂関家に次ぐ清華家に加えられて後には左大臣にまで昇進した者もおり、他の新家との待遇の差は歴然としていた。
English: Hence, it is sometimes questioned whether these two families can be grouped with the other shinke families.
Japanese: このため、この両家を新家として一括りにしてもいいのかについては疑問視する説もある。
English: At the other end of the scale, the families of jigenin (a lower rank in the nobility) who newly attained the rank of official were also called Shinke.
Japanese: 一方、地下人の場合も新たに官位を授けられた者やその家のことを新家と呼んだ。
English: Generally, with more frequent comings and goings than the Dojo, it seems that it was often ex-doctors from the Tenyakuryo (the Bureau of Medicine where medical expertise and special skills were required) who joined jige families as Shinke.
Japanese: 一般に実務官僚たる地下は堂上よりも出入りが頻繁で、特に医療に関する専門知識や特殊技能が求められた典薬寮では、在野の医師が新たに官位を与えられて新家として地下家になる例が他の官職より多かったようである。
English: The Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu is one of the lineages of court nobility of FUJIWARA no Takafuji-ryu of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan.
Japanese: 勧修寺流（かじゅうじりゅう、かんじゅじりゅう）は藤原北家藤原高藤流の公家の一流である。
English: Today, the characters of the family name are generally read, in the same way as those of the temple by the same name, as 'Kajuji,' but the hiragana (today read as 'kuwanshiyushi') occasionally found in medieval books suggests that they were also read as 'Kanjuji.'
Japanese: 「勧修寺」の寺名とともに、今日では「かじゅうじ」と読むのが一般的だが、中世日本の書籍等では「くわんしゆし」との平仮名表記も散見され、「かんじゅじ」とも読まれていたことがうかがわれる。
English: The Kajuji family exists as part of the Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu, but following the lineage of the eldest son leads to the Yoshida family which later became the Kanroji family.
Japanese: なお、勧修寺流の中に勧修寺家も存在するが、嫡流とされている家は吉田家→甘露寺家の流れである。
English: The name comes from the Kajuji Temple built by Sadakata in Yamashina Ward.
Japanese: 定方が山科区に勧修寺を建立したことから、この一門の名前となったためである。
English: In the Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu, the following families were Dojo families: the Kanroji family (previously the Yoshida family), the Seikanji family, the Madenokoji family, and the Nakanomikado family (separate from the Nakanomikado family of Urin status), the Kajuji family, the Bojo family, the Honami family, the Hamuro family, the Ikejiri family, the Umegakoji family, the Okazaki family, the Shibayama family, and the Tsutsumi family.
Japanese: 勧修寺流には堂上家として、甘露寺家（旧名吉田家）・清閑寺家・万里小路家・中御門家（なかのみかど。羽林家の中御門家とは別家）・勧修寺家・坊城家・穂波家・葉室家・池尻家・梅小路家・岡崎家・芝山家・堤家などの各家がある。羽林家の中御門家とは別家）・勧修寺家・坊城家・穂波家・葉室家・池尻家・梅小路家・岡崎家・芝山家・堤家などの各家がある。
English: The Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu set Kaju-ji Temple in Yamashina as the spiritual base of family unity, and tended to be more morally serious than the other lineages: a number of families in the lineage were responsible for supervising the practical work of the Imperial Court, and the lineage was well-known for producing Benkan (Oversight department officials) and the Sekkanke keishi (officials in a section handling the domestic affairs of regents and advisers).
Japanese: 勧修寺流は、山科の勧修寺を一門の結束の精神的な拠所とし、傾向としては他の流派よりも比較的堅く、また家職として朝廷の実務を担当する家が多く、弁官や摂関家家司を多く輩出していることで知られる。
English: As they were required to leave detailed diaries which recorded historical precedents for future reference, the Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu were called "the family of diaries," and a number of diaries by the heads of the various families are still in existence today.
Japanese: 後世の実務の参考となるよう、先例を書き留めておく必要があることから、詳細な日記を残すことも求められ、勧修寺流は「日記の家」と称されるようになり、各家当主による日記も豊富に残されている。
English: However, the Kanroji and the Kajuji/Kanjuji would not split until the time of FUJIWARA no Suketsune, 9 generations later (a son of Tamesuke also established the Uesugi family).
Japanese: が、甘露寺系と勧修寺系が分かれるのはさらに9代後の藤原資経の時である（為輔の子からは上杉家も出ている）。
English: FUJIWARA no Tamefusa, a great-great-grandson of Tamesuke, became a personal attendant of the Emperor Shirakawa and a keishi of FUJIWARA no Morozane and FUJIWARA no Moromichi, who were both kanpaku (post held by a person who governs in the Emperor's stead), and is said to have instigated the restoration of the Kajuji/Kanjuji ryu.
Japanese: 為輔の玄孫・藤原為房は白河天皇の院近臣、関白藤原師実・藤原師通の家司となり、勧修寺流中興の祖とされる。
English: Tsunefusa had a close connection with MINAMOTO no Yoritomo, and he became the first Kanto-moshitsugi (an institution in the court in Kyoto whose function was to communicate and negotiate with the Bakufu) and worked to maintain the relationship between the Imperial Court and the Kamakura bakufu.
Japanese: 経房は源頼朝と関係が密接であり初代関東申次となって朝廷と鎌倉幕府の関係調整にあたった。
English: The family split into the Kanroji lineage of Tametsune YOSHIDA, who was the son of Suketsune and the grandson of Tsunefusa, the Kajuji/Kanjuji lineage of Tsunetoshi YOSHIDA, and the Madenokoji lineage of Sukemichi MADENOKOJI (moreover, the Nakamikado family was established by Tsunetsugu NAKAMIKADO, who was the son of Tsunetoshi, and the Kajuji family by Tsuneaki KAJUJI, who was a great-grandson of the same).
Japanese: 経房の孫にあたる資経の子・吉田為経が甘露寺系、同じく吉田経俊が勧修寺系、同じく万里小路資通が万里小路系として分かれる（さらに経俊の子中御門経継からは中御門家が、曾孫の勧修寺経顕からは勧修寺家が出る）。
English: Residents of Kyoto for many generations, the family has performed mainly in the Kansai area, but in recent years, they have enjoyed an increasing amount of exposure in the media and expanded their sphere of activities across the country.
Japanese: 代々京都に居住し、関西を中心に活動してきたが、近年はメディアへの露出も増え、またその活動範囲も全国に拡大している。
English: Although the Shigeyama family had worked as Kyogen performers in Kyoto since the early years of the Edo period, they only succeeded in firmly establishing themselves as a famous Okura-ryu school Kyogen family after Masatora, the 9th Sengoro SHIGEYAMA (the 1st Sensaku, born in 1810 and died in 1886), began performing in the late Edo period.
Japanese: 茂山家は江戸時代以来京都で狂言師として活動してきた家であったが、大蔵流の名門としての地位が確固たるものになったのは、江戸後期に9世茂山千五郎正虎（初世千作。1810年生～1886年没）が登場して以降である。
English: Masatora was the son of a draper in Kyoto and was called Chuzaburo SASAKI at first, but he was adopted by the 8th Kyuzo Hidemasa SHIGEYAMA and then called himself Sengo Masatora.
Japanese: 正虎は京都の呉服商の息子で当初は佐々木忠三郎といったが、8世茂山久蔵英政の養子となり千吾正虎と名乗った。
English: When Kichigoro OGAWA, a personal retainer and Kyogen performer of the Hikone clan, suddenly fell ill during his performance of "Makuramonogurui" (a Kyogen love story between an old man and a young girl) at a Noh ceremony held in Hikone Castle in 1830, Sengo (20 years old at that time) managed to perform as a substitute for Kichigoro, by which Sengo gained favor with Naosuke II, the lord of the Hikome clan and was taken into his service on the spot.
Japanese: 天保元年（1830年）に彦根城で能会が開かれた折に、彦根藩のお抱え狂言師であった小川吉五郎が「枕物狂」を上演中に急病で倒れ、その後を千吾（当時20歳）が見事に代演してみせたので、藩主の井伊直弼に気に入られ、その場で召し抱えられた。
English: On that occasion, there was a story that Sengo changed his name to Sengoro because Naosuke misheard Sengo as Sengoro, but this was a story that was created later.
Japanese: その際直弼が「千吾」を「千五郎」と聞き誤るということがあり、それをきっかけに千五郎に改名したという話があるが、これは後世創作された話である。
English: Naosuke was a well-known Noh lover and he reproduced "Tanuki no Harazutsumi" (a Kyogen story about a hunter and a raccoon dog, commonly called "Hikone tanuki") that had been lost at that time, also wrote "Onigayado" (a Kyogen story of a drunk and his lover) and got Masatora to perform it.
Japanese: 直弼は能楽好きで知られ、当時失伝していた「狸腹鼓」を復曲（俗称「彦根狸」）したり「鬼ヶ宿」を自作したりしては正虎に演じさせていた。
English: That is why these two numbers are treated as especially important ones for the Shigeyama family today.
Japanese: 現在この両曲が、茂山家にとって特別に大事な曲として扱われているのはそのためである。
English: Masatora had three sons, but the two older sons died early and the third son, Ichizo (born in 1864 and died in 1950) was a prodigal son.
Japanese: 正虎には3人の子がいたが、上の2人は早世し、三男の市蔵（1864年生～1950年没）は放蕩息子であった。
English: When Masatora died in 1886, Ichizo repented for his profligate life and decided to take on his father's mantle and learned the trade under Masatora's apprentices and succeeded as the 10th "Sengoro" (Masashige, later the 2nd Sensaku).
Japanese: 正虎が明治19年（1886年）に死ぬと、市蔵は悔い改めて父の衣鉢を継ぐことを決意し、正虎の門弟たちに芸を習い、翌々年に10世千五郎（正重。後に2世千作）を襲名した。
English: Masashige tried to perform spectator-friendly and easy to understand Kyogen and readily joined shows even if they were small and willingly performed Kyogen for a low performance fee.
Japanese: 正重は親しみやすい狂言を目指し、どのような小さな集会にでも気軽に馳せ参じて低料金で狂言を演じた。
English: "Otofu-shugi" (the tofu principle: like tofu, which is loved by everybody and used in both high class food and home cuisine, the Shigeyama people willingly performed their Kyogen anywhere they were asked to) was established as the Sengoro SHIGEYAMA family precept in Masashige's generation.
Japanese: 茂山千五郎家の家訓として知られる「お豆腐主義」は正重の代に確立したものである。
English: Masashige was also keen on preserving folk performing arts in Kyoto that had been declining along with the progress of civilization and enlightenment and he took care of children who joined and rode the Naginata (long-handled sword) float in Gion Festival and served as chairperson of the preservation committee of Mibu Kyogen (pantomime performed in Mibu-dera Temple).
Japanese: また、正重は文明開化とともに衰微する一方であった京都の民間芸能の保存にも熱心で、祇園祭の長刀鉾の稚児の世話役や壬生狂言の維持会長などを勤めた。
English: Masashige had no biological children and his adopted son, Masakazu, became the 11th Sengoro (later the 3rd Sensaku, born in 1896 and died in 1986), succeeding to his father's name.
Japanese: 正重は実子がおらず、養子の真一（まさかず）が11世千五郎（後に3世千作。1896年生～1986年没）を襲名した。
English: Though Masakazu was small in stature, he had a well-projected voice and was very good at performing "Tarokajamono" (story of a servant) and "Zatomono" (story of a blind man).
Japanese: 真一は小柄ではあったが声がよく通り、太郎冠者物や座頭物を得意とした。
English: He was fond of writing and spend 35 years writing down all the existing numbers (182 performances) and other extra numbers of the Sengoro family as scripts.
Japanese: 筆まめな人物で、千五郎家の現行曲（182番）と番外曲を35年かけて台本として書きとめた。
English: The Sengoro family had scripts of Torahiro-bon (scripts written by Torahiro) that was gifted from the head family of the Kyogen school during Masatora's apprenticeship in Edo (present Tokyo), however, the times had changed and there were considerable differences in detail between these scripts and those of the Sengoro family, so it was required to newly rewrite the original scripts for the Sengoro family.
Japanese: 千五郎家には正虎が江戸での修行時代に家元より拝領した虎寛本系の台本があるにはあったが、既に時代も変わり、実際の千五郎家の狂言とは細部においてかなり違いが生じていたので、千五郎家の証本を新たに作り直す必要があったのである。
English: In his late years, Masakazu was highly acclaimed as a Kyogen performer and he was designated a living national treasure in 1976, the second time in the Okura-ryu school.
Japanese: 1976年には大蔵流としては二人目の人間国宝に認定されるなど、晩年は狂言師としても高く評価された。
English: Though no boy had been born into the Sengoro family for a long time since Masashige, Masakazu was blessed with children and his two sons, Sensaku SHIGEYAMA (the 4th) (Shime, the 12th Sengoro, the 4th Sensaku, born in 1919) and Sennojo SHIGEYAMA (the 2nd Sennojo, born in 1923), carried on the art of the Sengoro family.
Japanese: 千五郎家では正重以来長らく男子が生まれなかったが、真一は子供に恵まれ、茂山千作_(4世)（しめ。12世千五郎、4世千作。1919年生）と茂山千之丞（2世千之丞。1923年生）の兄弟が千五郎家の芸を受け継いだ。
English: They broke an old custom and performed in a new type of drama, Shingeki, directed by Tetsuji TAKECHI, or Kabuki and positively interacted with other arts, for which they were once urged to leave the Noh Association.
Japanese: 二人はそれまでの慣例を破って武智鉄二の演出した新劇や歌舞伎に出演するなど、積極的に他芸と交わっていったため、能楽協会から退会勧告を受けたこともあった。
English: Shime became popular by performing boundlessly cheerful and enjoyable Kyogen using his natural attractiveness and he was also designated as a living national treasure (the third time in the Okura-ryu school) same as his father in 1989.
Japanese: 七五三は天性の愛敬さを生かして底抜けに明るく楽しい狂言を演じて人気を博し、1989年に父と同じ人間国宝（大蔵流では三人目）に認定された。
English: Though he is the oldest among actively working Kyogen performers, he still continues his energetic activities.
Japanese: 狂言師としては現役最年長であるにもかかわらず、今なお精力的に活動している。
English: Sennojo, in contrast to his elder brother, is a versatile theorist and is remarkable in many fields such as creating new Kyogen, reproducing old Kyogen, or directing operas and musicals, but in recent years, he has matured and mellowed as a Kyogen performer.
Japanese: 千之丞は兄と対照的に多才な理論家で、狂言の新作や復曲をしたりオペラやミュージカルの演出を手がけたりと、多方面での活動が目立つが、近年は狂言師としても円熟味を増している。
English: Their children and grandchildren are also very active and Masayoshi (the 13th Sengoro), Shingo (the 2nd Shime), and Senzaburo, sons of Shime, Akira, son of Sennojo, Masakuni and Shigeru, sons of Masayoshi, Motohiko and Ippei, sons of Shingo, and Doji, son of Akira are all supporting the Sengoro family as Kyogen performers.
Japanese: 彼らの子、孫の世代も活躍しており、七五三の子の正義（13世千五郎）・眞吾（2世七五三）・千三郎や千之丞の子のあきら、正義の子の正邦・茂、眞吾の子の宗彦（もとひこ）・逸平、あきらの子の童司がそれぞれ狂言師となって千五郎家を支えている。
English: The Sengoro family has been known for their long tradition of taking good care of their apprentices and many of them have become professional Kyogen performers.
Japanese: また、千五郎家は代々弟子の面倒見がよいことで知られており、その中にはプロの狂言師となった者も多い。
English: Other Kyogen performers who belong to the Noh Association now are Masao KIMURA (follower of the 3rd Sensaku), Senkichi SASAKI (also follower of the 3rd Sensaku), Masami AMITANI (follower of the 4th Sensaku), Kaoru MATSUMOTO (also follower of the 4th Sensaku), and Yasushi MARUISHI (follower of the 2nd Sennojo).
Japanese: 現在能楽協会に属する狂言師としては、木村正雄（3世千作門下）・佐々木千吉（同）・網谷正美（4世千作門下）・松本薫（同）・丸石やすし（2世千之丞門下）らがいる。
English: The family was established by Suketada KADENOKOJI, the second son of Mitsuhiro KARASUMARU, in 1644.
Japanese: 1644年（正保元年）烏丸光広の次男勘解由小路資忠によって創立された。