nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: His sons include Umanosuke (the vice-chief of government office of harnesses and horses on the Imperial ranch) Sukeshige OGAWA, who might be the same person as Umanosuke Mitsuuji OGAWA, as well as Yoshiuji OGAWA and Senkitsu TACHIBANAYA.
Japanese: 子に右馬允、小川祐滋（右馬允、光氏と同一人物か?）、小川良氏、千橘らがいる。
English: The Ogawa clan, said to be a branch of the Omi-Genji (a branch of the Minamotor clan descended from the Uda-Genji, and subsequently adopted into the Seiwa-Genji), was a local clan in Omi Province, serving as vassals to the Rokkaku clan in Minami Omi Province, and were the original lords of Sawayama-jo Castle.
Japanese: 小川氏は近江源氏の一派とみられる近江の土豪であり、南近江国の六角氏家臣、佐和山城主の出自である。
English: When the Rokkaku clan fell into decline toward the end of the Sengoku period, the Ogawa clan became vassals of the Azai clan, but seem to have lost their status as the lord of the castle.
Japanese: 六角氏の衰退した戦国後期には浅井氏の家臣となっていたが、このとき同城主の地位は喪失していた模様である。
English: In the Eiroku era, Suketada and his family fought against Nobunaga ODA, however, they were defeated by Nobunaga, after which they became direct retainers of Nobunaga.
Japanese: 祐忠は永禄期に一族と共に織田信長の軍と戦い敗れて降伏し、旗本となって以降、歴史に登場する。
English: Nobunaga ODA appointed Suketada to the position of Tosa no kami, and also appointed his son as Umanosuke.
Japanese: 土佐守の官位は織田信長から与えられたもので、同時に息子も右馬允に任じられている。
English: At the time of the Rebellion at Honnoji, Suketada fell under the umbtrlla of Mitsuhide AKECHI, who had taken control of Omi region, and even went fight in the battle in the Yamazaki region, but was defeated.
Japanese: 本能寺の変が起こると近江を制圧した明智光秀の傘下に入り山崎へも出陣したが、敗北。
English: After Katsuie SHIBATA gained Kita Omi region as a result of the Kiyosu Conference, Suketada entered Katsuie's service and worked as the chief retainer for Katsutoyo SHIBATA, who was Katsuie's adopted son.
Japanese: 清洲会議で北近江が柴田勝家の領土となって後はその傘下となり勝家の養子柴田勝豊の家老として仕える。
English: Suketada was appointed as the lord of Imabari, Iyo Province, with a fiefdom of 70,000 koku and lived in Kokufu-jo Castle.
Japanese: 慶長3年（1598年）伊予国今治7万石を与えられ、国府城を居城とした。
English: In 1600, at the onset of the Battle of Sekigahara, at first, he fought on the side of the western provinces, and subsequently switched sides, fighting on the side of the eastern provinces along with Hideaki KOBAYAKAWA.
Japanese: 1600年の関ヶ原の戦いでは当初、西軍に与していたが小早川秀秋の寝返りに呼応して東軍に寝返った。
English: It is said that this change of fate was due to his poor administration over his domain, the close relationship between his first son, Sukeshige OGAWA, and Mitsunari ISHIDA, and his switching sides repeatedly.
Japanese: 改易の理由には領内悪政、嫡男とされる小川祐滋が石田三成と入魂であったまた度重なる内応の経歴を快く思われず、などというものも伝わる。
English: His son, Sukeshige (or Senkitsu), went to Kyoto and became a Yorozu-ya (a money changer).
Japanese: 祐忠の子祐滋（別の子で千橘とする説もある）は改易後、京に出て萬屋の屋号を用い両替商となった。
English: As he succeeded to become a great merchant, he was in charge of encampment during Kanbun era.
Japanese: 祐滋は成功を収め、寛文年間以降は陣屋を預けられるほどの豪商となっている。
English: His great-grandson, Toshihiro, became falconer, and two generations later, his grandson, Shosen OGAWA, fonded the Koishikawa Hospital, which is well known through its frequent depiction in historical dramas.
Japanese: また別系と思われる曾孫俊広が鷹匠として出仕、その二代後には時代劇などで知られる小石川養生所の開祖小川笙船を輩出している。
English: Many members of the Ogawa family went into the field of medicine, and one of Suketada's descendants became a famous doctor in Fujisawa-shuku (inn town).
Japanese: 小川家には医術の道に進む者が多く、藤沢宿でも別家が医師となり郷土史に名を残している。
English: It is said that Suketada was offered a substantially higher amount of compensation in the Tensho era. (Seeing as he was a well known master of the tea ceremony during the reign of Hideyoshi, and licensed to teach the tea ceremony while Nobunaga was in power, it is highly possible that he was made an offer of promotion to feudal lord.)
Japanese: 祐忠は天正年間には大幅な加増が内定していたともいう（祐忠は秀吉年間茶人として高名であり、信長時代に茶会免許を受けていた＝大名昇進が決定していた可能性は極めて高い）。
English: It is unknown that which feudal domain he supposed to have received; however, considering his career that he used to be a lord of Sawayama-jo Castle while he served for the Rokkaku clan, Nobunaga might have planned to consolidate power by appointing Suketada as the lord of Sawayama-jo Castle.
Japanese: どこに領地を賜る予定だったのかは分かっていないが、小川氏が六角氏の家臣時代佐和山城主であった経歴を考慮すると、信長には祐忠を同城主へ入れてこの要地を固める心算があったのではないだろうか。
English: Nobunaga removed Kazumasa ISONO, who belonged to the Azai clan, as lord of Sawayama-jo Castle, and made Nobusumi TSUDA the adopted son of Kazumasa ISONO, it is believed that Nobunaga wanted to keep this area under the control of his most trusted vassals.
Japanese: 浅井氏の佐和山城主であった磯野員昌が信長に追放されており、さらにその員昌には津田信澄が養子に入っていることから、信長は信頼の置ける直系の部下にこの地を任せようとしていたと見られる。
English: Suketada would have been the best candidate to become lord of the Sawayama-jo Castle, as he had no close ties to the Azai clan, and had previously served as the lord of this castle. (It should be noted that Nobunaga selected suitable persons taking into consideration their territorial affiliations.)
Japanese: 浅井の息のかかり方が浅くなおかつ佐和山を領していた過去を持つ小川氏の当主であり、実力にも申し分ない祐忠が同城主へ復帰させられる理由は十分にある（信長の人材登用には地縁の要素を熟慮した人選がなされていることは注目すべきである）。
English: Doyo SASAKI (also known as Doyo KYOGOKU) was a warlord between the end of Kamakura period and the period of the Northern and Southern Courts.
Japanese: 佐々木道誉（ささきどうよ）／京極道誉（きょうごくどうよ）は、鎌倉時代末期から南北朝時代(日本)の武将。
English: He usually went by the name Sadohankan nyudo SASAKI or Doyo SASAKI.
Japanese: 一般的に「佐々木佐渡判官入道（佐々木判官）」や「佐々木道誉」の名で知られる。
English: Born into the family of Sasaki-Kyogoku, which served as land stewards in Omi Province, he was in the service of the regent, Takatoki HOJO, as Oaitomoshu.
Japanese: 近江国の地頭である佐々木氏京極氏に生まれ、執権北条高時に御相供衆として仕える。
English: Though he was a follower of Takauji ASHIKAGA, who had raised an army against the Kamakura bakufu under Emperor Godaigo's command, due to the fact that the political order Emperor Godaigo had attempted to create through the Kenmu Restoration did not garner the support of the samurai class, Takauji and Doyo had distanced themselves from him, and Doyo subsequently served Takauji, who founded the Muromachi bakufu, holding joint positions as an administrative official and as constable over six provinces.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇の綸旨を受け鎌倉幕府を倒すべく兵を挙げた足利尊氏に従い、武士の支持を得られなかった後醍醐天皇の建武の新政から尊氏と共に離れ、尊氏の開いた室町幕府において政所や六ヶ国の守護を兼ねた。
English: Doyo was portrayed in the "Taiheiki" (A Chronicles of Medieval Japan) as a person who had been involved in intrigues, was disrespectful of power and status, and carried himself with a swagger.
Japanese: 『太平記』には、謀を廻らし権威を嘲笑し粋に振舞う、道誉の逸話を多く記している。
English: He was born into the family of Sasaki-Kyogoku clan which served as land stewards in Omi Province, in 1296, and he took over as head of the family after Munetsuna SASAKI, who was his maternal grandfather, in 1304.
Japanese: 永仁4年(1296年)、近江国の地頭である佐々木氏京極氏に生まれ、1304年に外祖父である佐々木宗綱の後を継いで家督を継承する。
English: He was said to have stayed in Kyoto to perform his roll as Kebiishi, and to have been in attendance at the visits of Emperor Godaigo.
Japanese: 検非違使の役目を務めて京都に滞在していたと考えられており、後醍醐天皇の行幸に随行している。
English: Serving for Takatoki HOJO as Oaitomoshu (御相供衆) in Kamakura bakufu, he also became a Buddhist priest, assuming the name Doyo, at the same time that Takatoki took the tonsure.
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府では北条高時に御相供衆として使え、高時が出家した際には供に出家して道誉と号した。
English: In 1331, at the onset of the Genko War, which Emperor Godaigo had instigated by raising an army against the shogunate, removing himself from the capital (Kyoto) and setting up a base on Kasagi-yama Mountain, Doyo joined the shogunate army to put down the rebellion, and had been mainly in charge of implementing measures after the war in Kyoto had finished.
Japanese: 1331年に後醍醐天皇が討幕運動を起こし、京都を脱出して笠置山(京都府)に拠った元弘の乱では幕府が編成した鎮圧軍に従軍し、主に京都において事後処理を担当している。
English: Captured Emperor Godaigo was forced to renounce his claim to power, and was exiled to Okino-shima Island, with Renshi ANO and Tadaaki CHIGUSA in attendance, and Doyo guarding them on the journey.
Japanese: 捕らえられた後醍醐天皇は廃され、供奉する阿野廉子、千種忠顕らが隠岐島へ配流された際には道中警護などを務める。
English: Even Emperor Godaigo had been exiled, Masashige KUSUNOKI, who lived in Kawachi Province, continued to fight against the bakufu.
Japanese: 後醍醐配流後も河内国の楠木正成らは反幕府活動を続けて幕府軍と戦った。
English: It is said that Doyo made a secret pact with Takauji to defeat the Hojo clan in Kamakura, and to cooperate thereafter.
Japanese: 一方で、道誉は鎌倉の北条氏討伐を決意した尊氏と密約して連携行動を取ったともされる。
English: Though there is no evidence that Doyo took part in the military operation, he did block Nakatoki HOJO's retreat at Bamba, Omi Province on May 9, 1333, thereby preventing his escape to Kanto, and forced Nakatoki to commit suicide at Renge-ji Temple along with 432 of his retainers.
Japanese: 軍事的行動に参加した形跡は無いが、1333年5月9日、近江国番場で東国へ退却中の北条仲時の軍勢を阻み、蓮華寺で一族432人と共に自刃させた。
English: At that time, he captured Emperor Kogon and Emperor Hanazono, and took possession of the three sacred treasures (the Imperial regalia).
Japanese: その際光厳天皇や花園天皇を捕らえ、天皇から三種の神器を接収している。
English: After Takauji ASHIKAGA and Yoshisada NITTA, who lived in Kozuke Province, fought well and defeated Kamakura bakufu, the Kenmu Restoration was started by Emperor Godaigo, and Doyo was appointed as a judge of the Zasshoketsudansho (a type of civil court).
Japanese: 足利尊氏、上野国の新田義貞らの活躍で鎌倉幕府は滅亡し、入京した後醍醐天皇により建武の新政が開始されると、雑訴決断所の奉行人となる。
English: As Takauji didn't join the new government, many members of the samurai class didn't support the new administration, and revolted against the restoration in various places.
Japanese: 尊氏が政権に参加せず、武士層の支持を集められなかった新政に対しては各地で反乱が起こった。
English: In 1335, Takatoki's son, Tokiyuki HOJO, rose in revolt in the Nakasendai Rebellion in Shinano Province, then attacked and occupied Kamakura, which had been under the protection of Takauji's brother, Tadayoshi ASHIKAGA; therefore, Doyo followed Takauji, and joined his army to defeat Tokiyuki's force.
Japanese: 1335年には、信濃において高時の遺児である北条時行らを擁立した中先代の乱が起こり、尊氏の弟の足利直義が守る鎌倉を攻めて占領した時行勢の討伐に向かう尊氏に道誉も従軍している。
English: After vanquishing Tokiyuki's force and recapturing Kamakura, Takauji distributed rewards independently, and Doyo received Kazusa Province and Sagami Province as feudal domains.
Japanese: 時行勢を駆逐して鎌倉を奪還した尊氏は独自に恩賞の分配を行うなどの行動をはじめ、道誉も上総国や相模国の領地を与えられている。
English: Though Emperor Godaigo requested that Takauji travel to Kyoto, Takauji was unable to make the trip due to conflagrations with Yoshisada NITTA and the like, as a result of which the emperor ordered Yoshisada to kill Takauji and Tadayoshi; though Takauji was hesitant to put an end to the Kenmu Restoration and install a government by the samurai class, Doyo actively encouraged him to do so.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇は鎌倉の尊氏に対して上洛を求めるが新田義貞との対立などもありこれに従わず、遂には義貞に尊氏・直義に対する追討を命じた綸旨が発せられるが、建武政権に対して武家政権を樹立する事を躊躇する尊氏に道誉は積極的な反旗を勧めていたともされる。
English: Takauji defeated the Nitta army in fighting at battles in Hakone, Takeshita, and the like, and entered Kyoto; however, he was defeated in Kyoto by Akiie KITABATAKE, who had come down from Oshu Province, and then escaped to Kyushu via Hyogo, temporarily.
Japanese: 尊氏は箱根・竹下の戦いなどで新田軍を破り京都へ入るが、奥州から下った北畠顕家らに敗れた足利勢は一時的に兵庫から九州へ逃れた。
English: After regrouping, the Ashikaga troops advanced toward the northeast again, defeating the Nitta and Kusunoki armies in the Battle of Minatogawa, and entering Kyoto.
Japanese: 九州から再び東上した足利勢は湊川の戦いで新田・楠木軍を撃破して京都へ入った。
English: Setting up the Northern Court, Emperor Komyo ascended the throne, and had Takauji establish a samurai government (the Ashikaga shogunate, also referred to as the Muromachi bakufu), while Emperor Godaigo escaped to Yoshino and set up the Southern Court.
Japanese: 光明天皇が即位して北朝を成立させ武家政権（足利幕府、室町幕府）を樹立し、後醍醐らは吉野へ逃れて南朝を成立させる。
English: Doyo served as the Shugo (constable) of six provinces, including Omi, Hida, Izumo, Wakasa, Kazusa and Settsu.
Japanese: 道誉は近江・飛騨国・出雲国・若狭国・上総国・摂津国の守護を歴任した。
English: He built a castle in the precincts of the Shoraku-ji Temple (now the town of Kora, in Shiga Prefecture) in 1337, and used it as his base until he died.
Japanese: 1337年、勝楽寺（現滋賀県甲良町）に城を築き、以降没するまで本拠地とした。
English: As he and his son Hidetsuna had burnt down the Imperial residence of Shirakawamyoho-in monzeki, Cloistered Imperial Prince Ryosho in 1340, the followers of his sect had vociferously called for their punishment by the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 1340年には子の秀綱とともに白川妙法院門跡亮性法親王の御所を焼き討ちし、山門宗徒が処罰を求めて強訴した。
English: Imperial Court also agreed with the sanmon shuto, and ordered the Ashikaga bakufu to banish Doyo to Dewa Province, and Hidetsuna to Mutsu Province.
Japanese: すると朝廷内部でもこれに同情して幕府に対して道誉を出羽国に、秀綱を陸奥国に配流するように命じた。
English: However, even Tadayoshi ASHIKAGA, who had frequently been critical of Doyo, came to his defense, rejecting the Imperial order; as a result, Doyo and Hidetsuna were banished to Kazusa Province, but soon returned to the shogunate.
Japanese: ところが、幕府では道誉の普段の行状に批判的であった足利直義でさえも道誉を弁護して朝廷の命令を拒否、結果的に道誉父子は上総国に配流となるが、その後幕政に復帰している。
English: In the Ashikaga shogunate, Doyo worked as court official, a member of the council of state, and as a chancellor who conducted negotiations with nobles (i.e., members of collateral houses of the Imperial Court).
Japanese: 幕府においては道誉は引付頭人、評定衆や政所執事などの役職を務め、公家との交渉などを行っている。
English: He also took part in the fighting against the Southern Court in the battle of Shijonawate in 1348, and the like.
Japanese: また、1348年(正平(日本)3年/貞和4年)の四條畷の戦いなど南朝との戦いにも従軍している。
English: The Ashikaga shogunate was split into two competing factions, one led by the Shogun Takauji and his steward Moronao KO, and the other by Takauji's brother Tadayoshi; the relationship between the two factions gradually worsened, eventually escalating into an internal feud known as the Kano Incident in the Kano period, in 1350.
Japanese: 足利幕府の政務は将軍尊氏と足利家執事の高師直、将軍弟の直義の二頭体制で行われていたが、両者の関係の悪化により1350年からの観応年間には観応の擾乱と呼ばれる内部抗争に発展する。
English: Though Doyo belonged to Takauji side, he had advocated Takauji's making peace with the Southern Court, and having Emperor Gomurakami issue an Imperial order directing that Tadayoshi, who was on the Southern Court side had defeated Takauji, be killed should he rise against Takauji.
Japanese: 道誉は将軍尊氏側に属したが、南朝に属し尊氏を撃破した直義派が台頭すると、尊氏に南朝と和睦して後村上天皇から直義追討の綸旨を受けるよう進言する。
English: When the Retired Emperor of the Northern Court was deprived of the Shohei no itto by the Southern Court, Doyo supported the Emperor Gokogon, reestablishing the Northern Court and strengthening the power of shogunate.
Japanese: 正平一統は北朝上皇が南朝に奪われて破綻すると後光厳天皇を擁立しての北朝再建、将軍権力の強化に尽力する。
English: After Takauji died in 1358, Doyo served as steward of the Administrative Board of the Muromachi government for the 2nd shogun Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA, who was Takauji's son, and mediated a settlement between Shugo daimyo (Japanese territorial lord as provincial constable).
Japanese: 1358年に尊氏が死去し、子の2代将軍足利義詮時代の室町政権においては政所執事などを務め、幕府内における守護大名の抗争を調停した。
English: Meanwhile, he took an active role in bringing about the downfall of Kiyouji HOSOKAWA, who was a chief of the bakufu's Administrative Office (later Kanrei, shogunal deputy), Takatsune SHIBA, and the Yoshimasa SHIBA family.
Japanese: 一方で幕府執事（のちの管領職）の細川清氏や斯波高経、斯波義将親子の失脚には積極的に関与する。
English: Doyo also opened up a line of communications with the Southern Court and conducted negotiations, and when the Governor-general of Kamakurafu, Motouji ASHIKAGA, who had been installed by the shogunate to control Kanto area, died in 1367, Doyo went to Kamakura to assume the post.
Japanese: また、南朝とのパイプを持ち交渉も行い、1367年に幕府が関東統治のために鎌倉に設置した鎌倉公方の足利基氏が死去すると、鎌倉へ赴いて事後処理を務める。
English: Burial sites for him are found in the Kyogoku clan's family temple, Tokugen-in Temple, located in Kiyotaki, Maibara City, Shiga Prefecture, and in the Shoraku-ji Temple in the town of Kora, Shiga Prefecture.
Japanese: 墓所は京極氏の菩提寺である滋賀県米原市清滝の徳源院、滋賀県甲良町の勝楽寺。
English: There are several episodes about Doyo in "Taiheiki," for example, in which Doyo is portrayed as being critical of the base overcoming the exhalted; however, there are also episodes recorded that portray his sense of grandeur, such as that in which Doyo is seen to decorate his mansion with flowers, preparing to throw a party instead of burning it down when the ousted Kiyouji HOSOKAWA along with Masanori KUSUNOKI and others from the Southern Court occupied Kyoto.
Japanese: 古典『太平記』においては下克上的風潮には批判的であるが、失脚した細川清氏が南朝の楠木正儀らと京都を占拠した際には、自邸に火をかけずに立花を飾り、宴の支度をさせた事が記されている。
English: In another episode, he ignored an invitation to a flower viewing party from Takatsune SHIBA, who had opposed Doyo within the bakufu, holding a bigger party in the Oharano district of Kyoto (present day Nishikyo Ward, Kyoto City).
Japanese: また幕府内で対立していた斯波高経の花見の誘いを無視し、大原野（京都市西京区）で大宴会を催した事など道誉の華美な行動が記されている。
English: He was also fond of cultural activities such as waka and renga (linked poem), flower arrangement, tea ceremony and traditional incense-smelling ceremony, was a patron of Omi Sarugaku (a precursor to Noh), and was also himself regarded as being a highly educated and cultured person, owing to activities such as his engaging in negotiations on behalf of the bakufu with the court nobles in relation to political affairs.
Japanese: また和歌、連歌などの文芸や華道、茶道、香道、さらに近江猿楽の保護者となるなど文化的活動を好み、幕政においても公家との交渉を務めていることなどから文化的素養を持った人物であると考えられている。
English: Many of his renga poems are included in the Tsukubashu (Tsukuba Collection), which was compiled by the renga poet Kyusai and the Kanpaku (chief advisor to the Emperor) Yoshimoto NIJO.
Japanese: 連歌師の救済(連歌師)、関白の二条良基が撰した『莵玖波集』には数多くの作品が入集している。
English: A portrait of Doyo in priestly garb, which was painted by his third son Takahide KYOGOKU, was found in the Shoraku-ji Temple in Kora, Shiga Prefecture, and is currently held at the Kyoto National Museum.
Japanese: 三男の京極高秀が描かせたといわれる法体の肖像画が滋賀県甲良町の勝楽寺にあり、現在は京都国立博物館に保管されている。
English: FUJIWARA no Tadamichi (February 19, 1097 - March 20, 1164) served as regent, chief advisor to the Emperor, and Grand Minister in the later part of the Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原忠通（ふじわらのただみち、承徳元年1月29日(旧暦)（1097年3月15日）-長寛2年2月19日(旧暦)（1164年3月13日））は、平安時代後期の摂政・関白・太政大臣。
English: His sons were Kakuchu Motozane KONOE (his mother Nobuko was a daughter of MINAMOTO no Kunizane, who had served as a Gon Chunagon), MATSUDONO no Motofusa (his mother Toshiko was a daughter of MINAMOTO no Kunizane), Kanezane KUJO (his mother Kaga was a daughter of FUJIWARA no Nakamitsu, who had served as a Taiko taigo miya taishin), FUJIWARA no Kanefusa (who was to become a Grand Minister, and whose mother was same as Kanezane's, Shinen, and Jien (their mother was also the same as Kanezane's).
Japanese: 覚忠・近衛基実（母は権中納言源国信女信子）・松殿基房（母は源国信女俊子）・九条兼実（母は太皇太后宮大進藤原仲光女加賀）・藤原兼房(太政大臣)（母は兼実に同じ）・信円・慈円（母は兼実に同じ）らの父。
English: His daughters were Emperor Sutoku's wife Chugu Seiko (Kokamonin, her mother was Tadamichi's legal wife FUJIWARA no Muneko), Emperor Nijo's wife Chugu FUJIWARA no Ikushi (her mother, Toshiko, was a daughter of MINAMOTO no Akitoshi, who had served as Ueno no kami, and she may have been adopted), and his adopted daughter Emperor Konoe's wife Chugu Teishi (Kujoin, the daughter of the brother, Grand Minister FUJIWARA no Koremichi, of his legal wife, Muneko).
Japanese: 娘に崇徳天皇の中宮聖子（皇嘉門院、母は正室藤原宗子）・二条天皇の中宮藤原育子（母は上野守源顕俊女俊子、養女ともいわれる）、養女に近衛天皇の中宮呈子（九条院、北政所宗子の兄太政大臣藤原伊通の娘）がいる。
English: In 1121, he became a head of the Fujiwara clan and was appointed to the post of Kanpaku (chief advisor to the emperor), serving Emperor Toba in place of his father, Tadazane.
Japanese: 1121年、父忠実に代わって藤原氏の藤氏長者となり、鳥羽天皇の関白に就任。
English: He served as Sesho (regent) and Kanpaku under three more emperors: Emperor Sutoku, Emperor Konoe, and Emperor Goshirakawa.
Japanese: その後も崇徳天皇・近衛天皇・後白河天皇の3代に渡って摂政・関白を務めることとなった。
English: It is said that his father, Tadazane, loved his younger son Yorinaga so much that he pressured Tadamichi to cede the positions of Sesho and Kanpaku to Yorinaga.
Japanese: 一般には父忠実が弟の藤原頼長を寵愛する余り、摂政・関白の座を弟に譲るように圧力をかけられたように言われているが、
English: In fact, as Tadamichi had not been blessed with an heir for many, he adopted Yorinaga, who was 23 years younger than him, in 1125.
Japanese: 実際には長い間家を継ぐべき男子に恵まれず、1125年に23歳年下の頼長を一度は養子に迎えている。
English: However, when he had passed the age of 40 years he his wives gave birth to sons, whereupon he renounced the adoption of Yorinaga so as to pass the posts along to his real sons.
Japanese: だが、40歳を過ぎてから次々と男子に恵まれるようになった忠通が実子に家を譲るために頼長との縁組を破棄したのである。
English: On New Years of 1150, Yorinaga sent his adopted daughter, FUJIWARA no Tashi, to the inner palace as bride-to-be, three months after which Tadamichi also sent his adopted daughter, FUJIWARA no Teishi, to the inner palace.
Japanese: 1150年正月に頼長が養女藤原多子を入内させ、皇后に冊立させたのに対し、忠通もその三ヵ月後にやはり養女藤原呈子を入内させて、中宮に冊立させた。
English: Tadamichi's machinations on the inner palace were the last straw for Tadazane and Yorinaga, and that same year Tadazane severed his relationship with Tadamichi, forcing him to cede the title of Ujinochoja (head of the Fujiwara clan) to Yorinaga; however, Tadamichi countered by interfering in Tashi's relationship with the emperor, and when Emperor Goshirakawa ascended the throne in 1155, Tadamichi was reinstated to his former posts.
Japanese: この呈子立后にとうとう忠実・頼長は業を煮やし、忠通は同年父から義絶されて弟頼長に氏長者職を譲らされるが、多子と天皇の接触を妨害する事などで対抗し、1155年の後白河天皇の即位により復権。
English: After the Hogen Disturbance, Tadamichi regained the title as head of Fujiwara clan; however, because the former head, Yorinaga, had been disgraced and was now dead, the Fujiwara clan was stripped of its autonomous status, and the appointment was made by senji (Imperial letter).
Japanese: 乱後、藤氏長者の地位は回復されたが、その際に前の藤氏長者である頼長が罪人でかつ死亡していることを理由として、宣旨によって任命が行われ、藤原氏による自律性を否認された。
English: In addition, the official residences that were in the possession of Tadazane and Yorinaga, including those for the regent and advisors, as well as their privately owned residences were to be forfeited; however, as Tadamichi had imposed upon Tadazane to cede possession of the official and private residences to him, Tadamichi was at length able to avert their confiscation.
Japanese: 更に忠実・頼長が所有していた摂関家伝来の荘園及び個人の荘園が全て没官領として剥奪されることになったが、忠通が忠実に摂関家伝来のものと忠実個人の荘園を自分に譲与するように迫り、漸く忠通の所領として認められて没収を回避された。
English: In 1158, Tadamichi ceded the post of Kanpaku to his son Motozane KONOE, then became a Buddhist priest, assuming the name Enkan, in 1162.
Japanese: 1158年、関白職を嫡男の近衛基実に譲った後、1162年に出家して円観と号した。
English: When Tadamichi had become head of the Fujiwara clan, the situation was somewhat adverse in that the Sekkan seiji (regency politics) had lost its viability, he was in conflict with his father and brother, and he did not produce a son to be his heir until much later.
Japanese: 忠通が藤氏長者となった時は既に摂関政治は形骸化し、さらに父や弟との対立を抱え、男子を設けるのも遅い方であったが、
English: However, he was able to survive under these circumstances by crafting alliances with Cloistered Emperor Toba and the Taira clan, with whom had originally been foes, and lived through the Hogen Disturbance and the Heiji Revolt, when FUJIWARA no Shinzei had exercised the real power.
Japanese: そのような悪い状況の中でも本来対抗勢力である鳥羽法皇や平氏等院政勢力と巧みに結びつき、保元の乱に続く、平治の乱でも実質的な権力者藤原信西とは対称的に生き延び、
English: Until the end of the Edo bakufu and the beginning of the Meiji period, Tadamichi's direct descendants, in principle, had a monopoly on the posts of kanpaku (chief advisors to the emperor) and sessho (regent).
Japanese: 彼の直系子孫のみが摂家として原則的に明治時代開幕まで摂政・関白職を独占する事となった。
English: As I row out into the wide open sea, the foaming crests of far off waves appear as one with the clouds shining in the sky.' (Hosshoji no nyudo, the former Kampaku Grand Minister)
Japanese: 「わたの原こぎいでてみれば久方の雲いにまがふ沖つ白波」（法性寺入道前関白太政大臣）
English: This school is noted for its vivacious style, combining bold, round and powerful strokes.
Japanese: 肉太で、丸味と力強さを兼ね備えた生々したものであるという定評がある。
English: When FUJIWARA no Motohira was building a large temple at Motsu-ji Temple, he asked Tadamichi for a sample of his calligraphy to frame and hang at Kondo Enryaku-ji Temple (which later burned down).
Japanese: 藤原基衡が毛越寺に伽藍を建立した際、金堂円隆寺（のちに兵火で焼失）に掲げる額の揮毫を忠通に依頼した。
English: Motohira made the request for the calligraphy through the Ninna-ji Temple, as he was concerned that people like him, from the Oshu-Fujiwara clan, would be taken for crude frontiersmen by people in Kyoto, and that Tadamichi might not be inclined to grant his request.
Japanese: しかし、奥州藤原氏は京都からすれば俘囚の係累であり、身分を明かして依頼しても応じられるはずがないため、実際の依頼は仁和寺を通して行われた。