nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: On November 9, 1195, six years after the Battle of Oshu, the widow of Hidehira (a daughter of FUJIWARA no Motonari) was confirmed as alive by Kiyoshige KASAI and others who were dispatched to Hiraizumi to repair the temples, and then an order to protect her was issued by Yoritomo who felt pity for her.
Japanese: 建久6年（1195年）9月29日、奥州合戦から6年後、平泉の寺塔修理に派遣された葛西清重らによって秀衡後家（藤原基成の娘）の生存が確認され、憐れんだ頼朝から庇護するように命が出されている。
English: He is said to have kept a cool head and iron nerves and has frequently been described as a great and wise lord in historical novels and so on.
Japanese: 冷静沈着にして豪胆な人物であったといい、歴史小説などでも英邁な君主として描かれることが多い。
English: He gained enormous economic strength by the production of gold dust, trade with China and so on and established a realm of peace and prosperity in the northern land as in construction of Muryokoin Temple which exceeded Uji Byodoin Temple in Kyoto in scale.
Japanese: 砂金の産出や中国との貿易等により莫大な経済力を蓄え、京都の宇治平等院を凌ぐ規模の無量光院跡を建立するなど、北方の地に王道楽土を現出させている。
English: Hiraizumi in Oshu is said to have possibly been the model of the country of gold referred to by Marco Polo in his book, Il milione (The Million).
Japanese: マルコ・ポーロが東方見聞録に記した黄金の国は奥州平泉がモデルではないかとも言われている。
English: In the field of diplomatic relationships, he kept a friendly relationship with the Taira clan based on its huge economic power and on the other hand he harbored MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, an Onzoshi (son of a distinguished family) of the Minamoto clan.
Japanese: 外交に関しては、巨大な経済力をバックに平氏と友好的な関係を維持しながらも源氏の御曹司である源義経を匿った。
English: When Yoshitsune became estranged from Yoritomo and looked to Hidehira for help, he accepted Yoshitsune restraining the Kamakura Government.
Japanese: 義経が頼朝と不和となり秀衡を頼るとこれを受け入れ鎌倉政権への抑えとしている。
English: Furthermore, his father-in-law, FUJIWARA no Motonariwas a former In no Kinshin (the retired Emperor's courtier), therefore, many of his close relatives were close advisers for the Emperor Goshirakawa.
Japanese: また、舅である藤原基成はもと院近臣で、近親者に多数後白河天皇の側近がいた。
English: Although the Oshu Fujiwara clan was overthrown only two years after the death of Hidehira, the splendor of the culture which blossomed in Oshu has been passed on to the present day.
Japanese: 彼の死後わずか2年で奥州藤原氏は滅びるが、奥州に花開いた文化は現代にもその輝きを伝えている。
English: The body of Hidehira, as a mummy, is even now located in Hiraizumi-cho, where it is kept in a gold coffin in the Shumidan (platforms for images of divinities) of the Konjikido of Chuson-ji Temple.
Japanese: 秀衡の遺骸はミイラとなって現在も平泉町にあり、中尊寺金色堂須弥壇の金棺内に納められている。
English: In the academic investigation of the corpses in March 1950 ("Chuson-ji Temple and the four generations of the Fujiwara family" compiled by The Asahi Shimbun Company and published on August 30, 1950, Interim report), the northwest Shumidan (on the right facing the hall) of the Konjikido was investigated as Motohira's and the southwest Shumidan (on the left facing the hall) as Hidehira's.
Japanese: 昭和25年3月の遺体学術調査（『中尊寺と藤原四代』朝日新聞社編、昭和25年8月30日刊行、中間報告）では、金色堂の西北（堂に向かって右）が基衡壇、西南（堂に向かって左）が秀衡壇として調査が行われた。
English: However, according to the final report made after that, it became clear that Motohira' and Hidehira's had been reversed, therefore, the northwest Shumidan on the right facing the hall is regarded as Hidehira's.
Japanese: しかし、その後の最終報告によると基衡と秀衡の遺体が逆である事が判明し、現在は向かって右の西北が秀衡壇とされている。
English: According to "The Final report on the academic investigation of the corpses in Chuson-ji Temple," published by Chuson-ji Temple in July 1994, Hidehira's blood type was A and his height was 167 cm, the tallest of the three generations.
Japanese: 平成6年7月に中尊寺により上梓された『中尊寺御遺体学術調査　最終報告』によると、秀衡は血液型A型、身長は三代中もっとも高く167cm。
English: He had slight bone atrophy on his right upper and lower limbs and paralysis on his right side, which may indicates that he suddenly died of celebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction.
Japanese: 右側上下肢に軽度の骨萎縮が見られ、右半身不随あり、脳溢血、脳栓塞などで急死したとみられる。
English: Kuniyoshi UTAGAWA (January 1, 1798 - April 14, 1861) was an Ukiyo-e artist who lived during the end of the Edo Period.
Japanese: 歌川国芳（うたがわくによし、1798年1月1日（寛政9年11月15日(旧暦)）-1861年4月14日（文久元年3月5日(旧暦)〉）は、江戸時代末期の浮世絵。
English: However, unlike popular contemporaries among Ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai KATSUSHIKA and Hiroshige UTAGAWA, Kuniyoshi was not well known or highly appreciated in Japan.
Japanese: しかし国芳は、同時代に活動した葛飾北斎や歌川広重らの人気絵師に比べ、日本における知名度や評価は必ずしも高いとは言えなかった。
English: It was not until late 20th century that he started to be featured and re-evaluated as 'a unique painter in the Bakumatsu period (end of the Edo Period, last days of the Tokugawa shogunate)'.
Japanese: 「幕末の奇想の絵師」として注目され、再評価されるようになるのは20世紀後半になってからである。
English: In 2008, 368 printing woodblocks of the UTAGAWA school including Kuniyoshi's were found in the storehouse of a farmer in Toyama Prefecture, and the National Museum of Japanese History which bought these woodblocks exhibited them to the public in 2009.
Japanese: 2008年、富山県の農家の蔵から国芳を中心とした歌川派の版木が368枚発見され、購入した国立歴史民俗博物館により2009年に公開された。
English: This prompted the analysis of the creation process of Kuniyoshi's works and restoration of the colors which were faded away from Kuniyoshi's original Ukiyo-e prints.
Japanese: これにより、国芳作品の創作過程の解明および浮世絵本来の色の復元が始まっている。
English: The discovery of the printing woodblocks was featured on the TV programs under the title, 'hi-vision special: Maboroshi no Iro Yomigaeru Ukiyo-e (Reviving colors, Restoration of Ukiyo-e)' broadcast on April 12, 2009, and another TV program titled 'wonder x wonder Ukiyo-e Yomigaeru Maboroshi no Iro (Restoring faded colors)' on May 16, the same year.
Japanese: この版木については同年4月12日放送のBShi「ハイビジョン特集幻の色よみがえる浮世絵」、5月16日放送のNHK総合「ワンダー×ワンダー浮世絵よみがえる幻の色」で取り上げられた。
English: Kuniyoshi was born in 1797 as a son of the owner of a somemono shop (a silk dyer) in Nihonbashi, Edo (Chuo Ward, Tokyo).
Japanese: 国芳は、1797年（寛政9年）、江戸日本橋(東京都中央区)に染物屋の息子として生まれた。
English: Both Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige UTAGAWA, who has enjoyed an international reputation for his landscape woodblock prints, were born in the same year and were active as painters during the same period.
Japanese: 風景版画で国際的に有名な歌川広重とは同年の生まれであり、同時代に活動した。
English: In 1811, Kuniyoshi became a disciple of Toyokuni UTAGAWA (1769 - 1825) at the age of 15.
Japanese: 1811年（文化8年）、15歳で初代歌川豊国（1769年-1825年）に入門。
English: Toyokuni was a star painter who swept the Ukiyo-e art world with his gorgeous Ukiyo-e prints of Kabuki actors, and his disciples included Kunisada UTAGAWA (1786 - 1864).
Japanese: 豊国は華麗な役者絵で一世を風靡した花形絵師であり、弟子に歌川国貞（1786年-1864年）がいる。
English: Kuniyoshi started releasing his works around 1814, a few years after he became a pupil of Toyokuni.
Japanese: 国芳は入門の数年後、1814年（文化11年）頃から作品発表を開始している。
English: One of his Musha-e (Ukiyo-e prints of warriors) series, "Suikoden" (The Water Margin), was released around 1827 after his master Toyokuni died, and the work was well received among people.
Japanese: 師・豊国没後の1827年（文政10年）頃に発表した『水滸伝』のシリーズが評判となる。
English: Kuniyoshi had many disciples, including Yoshitoshi TSUKIOKA who was called 'The last Ukiyo-e painter', and Kyosai KAWANABE, a unique painter who was active from the end of Edo Period through to the early Meiji Period.
Japanese: 国芳には多くの門弟がおり、｢最後の浮世絵師｣と呼ばれた月岡芳年や、幕末から明治前期に活躍した異色の画家・河鍋暁斎も国芳に弟子入りしたことがあった。
English: Kuniyoshi died at the age of 65 (the age counted based on the traditional Japanese system) in 1861, just before the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 国芳は明治維新を目前にした1861年（文久元年）、数え年65歳で没している。
English: His works cover various genres from prints of Kabuki actors (Yakusha-e), warriors (Musha-e), beautiful women (Bijin-ga) and landscapes (Fukei-ga), to caricature and erotic arts (Shun-ga), but especially, his skills are most reflected on three dynamic large-sized pieces which depict histories, legends and stories through powerful subjects, such as massive whales, skeletons and monsters.
Japanese: 作品は役者絵、武者絵、美人画、名所絵（風景画）から戯画、春画までさまざまなジャンルにわたっているが、中でも歴史・伝説・物語などに題材を採り、大判3枚つづりの大画面に巨大なクジラや骸骨、化け物などが跳梁するダイナミックな作品に本領を発揮している。
English: Also known as an incomparable cat lover, Kuniyoshi kept several cats all the time, and it is even said that he painted with his cats in his arm and there are a plenty of his works in which cats are personified.
Japanese: また、無類の猫好きとしても知られ、常に数匹の猫を飼い、懐に猫を抱いて作画していたと伝えられるほどで、猫を擬人化した作品も多い。
English: Not only cats but also many other animals around him such as raccoons, sparrows and octopuses were also personified to satirize the world or to depict the everyday life of ordinary people in Edo (Tokyo).
Japanese: 猫に限らず、狸・雀・蛸などの身近な動物を擬人化して世相を風刺したり、動物に託して江戸の庶民の生活を描写した作品も多い。
English: These works show one of the origins of the increasingly popular Manga (cartoons) and Gekiga (graphic novels) in modern Japan.
Japanese: これらからは現代日本にてますます盛んな漫画・劇画の源流の一つを見る事ができよう。
English: Types of pictures that Kuniyoshi were good at include 'Yose-e' (literally, an assembled picture) and 'Jigazo' (a self-portrait) and they contain lots of his playful spirits; one of his self-portraits shows that he is drawing himself but his face is unidentifiable because an animal or a human is cutting across in front of him.
Japanese: 「寄せ絵」や、自宅で絵を描く自身の顔の前を、絵の中の動物や人物が横切り、自身の顔を隠している｢自画像｣のような遊び心のある作品も国芳の得意としたものである。
English: After the Tenpo Reforms (1841 -) which prevented people from enjoying luxury items, Bakufu (Japanese feudal government) banned a stand-alone full color Nishiki-e (colored woodblock print) featuring Kabuki actors or Yujo (prostitute).
Japanese: 華美をいましめる天保の改革（1841年-）以後、幕府の禁令によって役者や遊女の1枚刷り錦絵は出版できなくなってしまう。
English: However, amid such difficulties, Kuniyoshi kept his spirits high and exerted his own Edokko nature (a typical personality of someone living in the Edo area) to overcome challenges facing him.
Japanese: しかし、国芳は、そんななかでも、いやそんななかであるからこそ持ち前の江戸っ子気質を大いに発揮している。
English: He used various methods to slip through the ban to release portraits of Kabuki actors; for example, one of his Ukiyo-e portrays a fish with the face of a Kabuki actor.
Japanese: 魚の顔を役者の似顔にするなど、さまざまな便法で禁令を潜り抜け、絵師は役者の似顔を世に送り出し続けた。
English: Kuniyoshi also built a good relationship with various cultural figures, including Zeshin SHIBATA (a maki-e painter [Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder] and a traditional painter) and Kazan WATANABE (the chief retainer of the TAHARA clan, a scholar and a painter), and his paintings show that he acquired new knowledge from them and used it in his own way.
Japanese: 国芳はまた、柴田是真（蒔絵、画家）、渡辺崋山（田原藩家老、学者、画家）ら当時の文化人とも交流があり、画風にも当時の新知識を彼なりに研究・吸収した跡が見られる。
English: It is said that the massive skeleton drawn in "Soma no Furudairi " (for details, refer to the following 'Kuniyoshi Gallery' section), represents the knowledge he acquired through books on western anatomy.
Japanese: 『相馬の古内裏』という作品に登場する巨大な骸骨（「国芳画廊」の項を参照）は西洋の解剖学の書物を研究した成果だと言われている。
English: Also, perspective which Kuniyoshi learned from Western painting is used in his another piece, "Chushingura Juichi-danme Youchi no Zu"; although he used perspective immaturely in this work, he succeeded in giving a depth and a sense of tension to the piece.
Japanese: また、『忠臣蔵十一段目夜討之図』は未熟ながらも西洋画の遠近法さまざまな図法（遠近法の一種）を学んだ跡が見え、画面に奥行きと緊張感を与えている。
English: Picture-1 "Soma no Furudairi ": OYA no Taro Mitsukuni fighting against the specter, Soma no Furudairi, which is maneuvered by Princess Takiyasha-hime.
Japanese: 画像-1：『相馬の古内裏』　滝夜刃（滝夜叉）姫の操る妖怪がしゃどくろ相馬の古内裏と戦う大宅太郎光圀。
English: Picture-2 "Uji-gawa River no Tatakai no Zu" (The battle of vanguard at Uji-gawa River): Kagesue KAJIWARA is drawn on the left and Takatsuna SASAKI in the center.
Japanese: 画像-2：『宇治川の戦い之図』　先陣を競う梶原景季（左）と佐々木高綱（中央）。
English: Picture-4 "Oyama Sekison Ryoben no Taki": people paying a visit to the fall of Oyama Sekison (Sekison daigongen [Great Avatar]. Current Oyama Afuri-jinja Shrine).
Japanese: 画像-4：『大山石尊良辧瀧之図』　大山石尊（石尊大権現、現・大山阿夫利神社）の滝に参拝する人々。
English: Picture-5 "Ushiwaka-maru Sojobo Zuibujutsu Oboe no Zu": Sojobo of Mt. Kurama, a Dai-Tengu (a long-nosed great goblin) (in the center), teaching MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune (Ushiwaka-maru, on the right) martial arts at Mt. Kurama.
Japanese: 画像-5：『牛若丸僧正坊隋武術覚図』　鞍馬山にて大天狗の鞍馬山僧正坊（中央）から武術の手解きを受ける源義経（牛若丸。右上）。
English: Picture-6 "Yoshitsune Ichidai-Ki Gojo no Hashi no Zu": a fight between Ushiwaka-maru and Musashibo Benkei on the Gojo-ohashi Bridge.
Japanese: 画像-6：『義経一代記五条ノ橋之図』　牛若丸と武蔵坊弁慶、五条大橋の闘い。
English: Picture-10 "Sonomama Jiguchi Miyaukaikou Gojusan-biki" (Cats suggested as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido): a picture on which the names of inn towns from 'Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi' are transformed into cats' behavior.
Japanese: 画像-10：『其のまま地口猫飼好五十三疋』（そのまま-じぐち・みやうかいこう-ごじうさんびき）　東海道五十三次の宿場町名を地口で猫の仕草として描いたもの。
English: In this play-on-word picture, Nihonbashi Bridge (chuo Ward, Tokyo) is changed into 'Nihon bushi' (two dried bonitos), Oiso-juku into 'Omoi zo' (it's too heavy), Mistuke-juku into 'Netsuki' (to fall asleep), Goyu-shuku into 'Koi' (romance), Kuwana-juku into 'Kuwanu' (not to eat), Ishiyakushi-juku into 'Ichatsuki' (to flirt), Tsuchiyama-juku into 'Buchi Jama' (very bothersome), Kusatsu-juku into 'Kotatsu' (table with heater) and a squeak of a mouse Gyau is changed into Kyo (Kyoto).
Japanese: 江戸の日本橋(東京都中央区)日本橋（橋梁）は「二本ぶし（2本の鰹節）」、大磯宿は「（獲物が）重いぞ」、見附宿は「寝つき」、御油宿は「恋」、桑名宿は「食わぬ」、石薬師宿は「いちゃつき」、土山宿は「ぶち邪魔」、草津宿は「炬燵」、そして、捕まった鼠の悲鳴「ぎやう」を京に掛けて締めとしている。
English: Picture-13 "Mikake ha Kowai ga Tonda Ii Hito Da": Many people are assembled to create one good person.
Japanese: 画像-13：『みかけハこハゐが　とんだいゝ人だ』　「大ぜいの人が　よつて　たかつて　とふと　いゝ人をこしらへた　とかく人のことハ　人にしてもらハねバ　いゝ人にはならぬ（大勢の人が寄ってたかって、とうとう、いい人をこしらえた。
English: Picture-14 "Koetsu Yusho no Den HONJO Echizen no Kami Shigenaga": Musha-e which draws Shigenaga HONJO, a senior vassal of Kenshin UESUGI.
Japanese: 画像-14：『甲越勇将伝本庄越前守繁長』　上杉謙信の重臣・本庄繁長を描いた武者絵。
English: Picture-17 'HORIBEYAHE Kanamaru' from "Seichu Gishi Shozo": Yahe HORIBE, one of 47 samurais of Ako.
Japanese: 画像-17：『誠忠義士肖像』より「堀部矢兵衛金丸」　赤穂四十七士の一人、堀部矢兵衛。
English: Picture-20 "Hito katamatte Hito ni Naru" '人おほき人の中にも人ぞなき 人になれ人 人になせ人 (人多き人の中にも人ぞ無き 人に成れ人 人に為せ人)'
Japanese: 画像-20：『人かたまつて人になる』　「人おほき人の中にも人ぞなき　人になれ人　人になせ人　（人多き人の中にも人ぞ無き　人に成れ人　人に為せ人）」
English: Ryojun MATSUMOTO (July 13, 1832 – March 12, 1907) was a Shogun's retainer during the late Edo period, and a government official during the Meiji period.
Japanese: 松本良順（まつもとりょうじゅん、1832年7月13日（天保3年6月16日(旧暦)）-1907年（明治40年）3月12日）は、江戸時代後期の幕臣、明治期の官僚。
English: Matsumoto was born in Edo Azabu (Minato Ward, Tokyo) on July 13, 1832.
Japanese: 天保3年（1832年）6月16日、江戸麻布（東京都港区(東京都)）に生まれる。
English: On July 8, 1857, he was ordered to study at Nagasaki Training Center, and headed for Nagasaki Prefecture.
Japanese: 安政4年（1857年）閏5月18日、長崎伝習之御用を命じられ、長崎（長崎県）に赴く。
English: He learned Western studies, such as medical science by Dutch army surgeon, Johannes Pompe van Meerdervoort.
Japanese: オランダ軍医のヨハネス・ポンペ・ファン・メーデルフォールトに医学等の蘭学を学ぶ。
English: On October 1, 1862, he became an in-house doctor on duty for Edo shogunate and also an assistant director of the Medical Institute.
Japanese: 文久2年（1862年）閏8月8日、奥詰医師となり、医学所頭取助を兼ねる。
English: On February 3, 1864, he became okuishi (in-house doctor for Edo shogunate) and became the director of the Medical Institute.
Japanese: 文久3年（1863年）12月26日、奥医師に進み、医学所頭取となる。
English: He associated with Isami KONDO, who was the leader of Shinsengumi (an Edo shogunate police force) which worked for the maintenance of the public order in Kyoto under the Aizu Domain, and he also provided medical care for its members.
Japanese: 会津藩の下に京都の治安維持の為に活動していた新選組の局長である近藤勇とも親交があり、隊士の診療も行う。
English: During the Boshin War, he became an army surgeon of the Ou (Mutsu Province and Dewa Province) allied troops and was imprisoned for a while after the war, but he was discharged and became a surgeon general with encouragement from Aritomo YAMAGATA and so on.
Japanese: 戊辰戦争では奥羽列藩同盟軍の軍医となり、戦後一時投獄されるが赦免され、山縣有朋などの薦めで軍医総監となる。
English: In Yudanaka onsen (hot spring) in Nagano Prefecture, he showed how to bath in onsen, and he praised Yudanaka onsen as a hot spring for longevity.
Japanese: 長野県湯田中温泉において、温泉入浴法を示し、湯田中温泉を長寿の湯と褒め称えた。
English: Kyoden SANTO (September 13, 1761 - October 27, 1816) was a painter and a Gesaku (light literature) writer who lived during the Edo Period.
Japanese: 山東京伝（さんとうきょうでん、宝暦11年8月15日(旧暦)（1761年9月13日）-文化(元号)13年9月7日(旧暦)（1816年10月27日）は江戸時代の絵師、戯作者。
English: Kyoden studied under an Ukiyo-e artist, Shigetora KITAO, and debuted as an illustration painter for Kibyoshi (the illustrated book of popular tales with yellow covers in the late Edo period) under the name of Masanobu KITAO.
Japanese: 浮世絵師・北尾重寅に学び、草双紙（黄表紙）の挿絵画家、北尾政寅としてデビュー。
English: Kyoden received a punishment of 50 days of a tegusari for his Sharebon and Kibyoshi published in 1791 during the crackdown on printing matters in the Kansei Reforms.
Japanese: 1791年（寛政3年）に出した京伝の洒落本と黄表紙が寛政の改革の出版取締りにより摘発され、手鎖50日の刑を受けた。
English: It is said that traditional Gesaku writers were not given enough manuscript fees as Gesaku was regarded as a side work, but Kyoden SANTO became the first Gesaku writer to receive a decent amount of manuscript fees in those years.
Japanese: 従来の戯作者はほとんどが余技で書いており原稿料もほとんどなかったが、原稿料が支払われるようになったのは山東京伝に対してが最初であるともいう。
English: Korenori KAMEI (1557-February 27, 1612) was a Japanese busho (military commander).
Japanese: 亀井茲矩（かめいこれのり、1557年（弘治(日本)3年）-1612年2月27日（慶長17年1月26日(旧暦)））は、日本の武将。
English: It is said that his hiding place was in Kyoto, and it is assumed that he met Yukimori (Shikanosuke) YAMANAKA and Katsuhisa AMAGO, who were remnants of the Amago clan in those days (around 1568).
Japanese: 潜伏先は京都であったらしく、尼子氏の残党である山中幸盛（鹿介）と尼子勝久とに出会ったのもこの頃（永禄11年（1568年）頃）と推察される。
English: Considering his age, it is likely that he officially started to join actual fighting when he seceded from the Yamana clan in around October, 1573 (when he was 17).
Japanese: 年齢を考えると、天正元年（1573年）9月頃に山名家と離反するあたりから、本格的に実戦に参加し始めたものと思われる（このとき17歳）。
English: Although the exact year is unclear, he took the family name of Kamei after he married a daughter of Yukimori (her mother was a daughter of Hidetsuna KAMEI, the head of the chief retainers of the Amago clan) since he had a close relationship with Yukimori.
Japanese: 年代は定かではないが、幸盛との緊密な関係から、幸盛の娘（生母は尼子氏家老職筆頭・亀井秀綱の娘）を娶り、亀井姓を名乗るようになった。
English: He had to fight against the strong Mori forces with outnumbered troops for the campaign for the restoration of the Amago clan, which was carried out when Korenori KAMEI was a boy, and he merely made temporary achievements.
Japanese: 亀井茲矩の少年期に展開された尼子再興運動は、常に強大な毛利軍と寡兵で戦わねばならず、一時的な成果しかあげられなかった。
English: However, Nobunaga ODA, an emerging force, gained power, and he was aiming at Chubu region, which changed the state of affairs drastically.
Japanese: しかし新興勢力である織田信長が台頭、中部地方を伺う情勢となり、事態は一変する。
English: From a viewpoint of the Oda side, the remnants of the Amago clan, which were associated with Chugoku region, were valuable.
Japanese: 織田方から見ても、中国地方にゆかりのある尼子残党は利用価値があった。
English: The remnants of the Amago clan were affiliated with the Oda side (especially Hideyoshi), and moved around to fight in Harima Province, but in 1578, Katsuhisa AMAGO and Yukimori YAMANAKA became isolated at Kozuki-jo Castle.
Japanese: 尼子残党は織田方（特に秀吉）の傘下に入り、播磨国を転戦するも、天正6年（1578年）に尼子勝久や山中幸盛らが上月城で孤立してしまう。
English: After that, he belonged to the army of Hideyoshi HASHIBA, pursuing the capture of Chugoku region, and in 1581, he distinguished himself in battle for the capture of Tottori-jo Castle that Tsuneie KIKKAWA defended, which made him appointed as the lord of Shikano-jo Castle in Inaba Province with 13,500 koku (crop yield).
Japanese: その後は中国攻略を進める羽柴秀吉の軍に属し、天正9年（1581年）には吉川経家が守る鳥取城攻略で戦功を挙げたため、因幡国鹿野城主に任命され、1万3500石を領した。
English: Considering that he was responsible as the lord of the castle in the front at the young age of only 24, Hideyoshi must have placed reasonable confidence in him.
Japanese: 僅か24歳の若年で前線の城主を任されている事からして、秀吉は相応の信頼を寄せていたものと考えられる。
English: He remained in Shikano-jo Castle as a rear guard during Chugoku Ogaeshi (Retaliation in Chugoku) in order to warn and watch the Mori clan.
Japanese: また、中国大返しの際には後詰めとして鹿野城に残留し、毛利氏への牽制・監視役を果たした。
English: After the Honnoji Incident, he became Hideyoshi's vassal, and showed his administrative ability on management of silver mine, reclamation and establishment of canals, under the reign of (Hideyoshi) Toyotomi.
Japanese: 本能寺の変後、秀吉の家臣となり、豊臣政権下において銀山経営、干拓、用水路開設などの行政面における手腕を発揮した。
English: After Hideyoshi died, he approached Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, and he fought in the vanguard, taking sides with the Eastern army at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.
Japanese: 秀吉死後は徳川家康に接近し、慶長5年（1600年）の関ケ原の戦いでは東軍に与して最前衛で戦っている。
English: Although he attacked Tottori-jo Castle after the Battle of Sekigahara, it was a strong fortress with which Hideyoshi had struggled, and it was hard to fall, and he finally made the castle fall by having Masahiro SAIMURA, the lord of Takeda-jo Castle in Tajima Province of the Western army, switch sides, and setting fire to the castle town.
Japanese: 関ヶ原後には鳥取城を攻撃するが、秀吉も苦戦した堅城であった為なかなか陥落せず、西軍の但馬国竹田城主・斎村政広を寝返らせて、更に城下の焼き討ちによってようやく落城させた。
English: It is said that, in order to avoid his responsibility, Korenori claimed that Masahiro SAIMURA was the mastermind of the fire attack.
Japanese: 責任を回避すべく、茲矩は斎村政広が焼き討ちの首謀者と申し出たとされる。
English: Under the Tokugawa government, he showed his administrative ability on agricultural development, silver mine development and establishment of canals.
Japanese: 徳川政権下においては農業開発、銀山開発、用水路開設などの行政面に手腕を振るった。
English: On the other hand, he was also a businessman with a global perspective, having trade with Siam (present Kingdom of Thailand), with Shuinjo (a shogunal license for foreign trade) of the Edo Shogunate.
Japanese: その一方で、江戸幕府の朱印状を得てシャム（現在のタイ王国）と交易を行なうなど、世界に視野を広げた実業家でもあった。
English: It is thought that he was excellent in administration and able to broaden his trade perspective to the world because he was active in Kinki region, an advanced area, when he was in exile, and the fact that his masters were Nobunaga and Hideyoshi had an influence.
Japanese: 彼が行政面に優れ、交易の視野を世界にまで広げることができたのは、流浪時代に先進地帯である近畿圏で活動していたことや、主君が信長・秀吉であった影響が大きかったものと思われる。
English: Although he remained the local lord of a small domain at the mercy of times, it is likely that he was full of political skills and actual-fight experiences.
Japanese: 時代に翻弄され小藩の領主に止まったが、政治手腕・実戦経験ともに充実した人物と言えよう。
English: The Kamei family's territory was later added up to 43,000 koku in Tsuwano in Iwami Province in the generation of his heir Masanori.
Japanese: 亀井家はその後、嫡子政矩の代に石見国津和野4万3000石に加増転封されている。
English: Korenori was interested in India rather than China, which was displayed in the fact that he named Shikano Rajagrha.'
Japanese: 「茲矩には中国趣味よりもインド趣味があり、鹿野を王舎城と名つけたこともその表れだった。」
English: And he thought that this fostered the scholarly ethos in Tsuwano Domain, which Ogai MORI and Amane NISHI were from.
Japanese: そしてそれが森鴎外や西周(啓蒙家)などを生んだ津和野藩の学問的気風を培ったのではないか、としている。
English: Influenced by such an interest in the East Asia, on the next day of June seventh (old calendar), 1582, when Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI went back to Himeji-jo Castle on the occasion of Chugoku Ogaeshi, responding to the Honnoji Incident, Korenori KAMEI answered 'I would like to receive Ryukyu Province,' to Hideyoshi when asked which province he wanted as a reward instead of the half of Izumo Province, which had been promised to Korenori but became no longer available because of the pacification with the Mori clan.
Japanese: 亀井茲矩はこうした東アジアへの関心に影響されてか、1582年に豊臣秀吉が本能寺の変に対応して中国大返しによって姫路城に戻った6月7日の翌日、毛利と講和したため茲矩に約束していた出雲半国を与えられなくなった代わりに恩賞となる別国の希望を聞いたところ「琉球国を賜りたい」と答えた。
English: However, Korenori lost a ship, which this fan was on, by the attack of Yi Sun-sin in the first year of Japanese invasions of Korea.
Japanese: しかし茲矩は朝鮮出兵初年にこの扇を搭載した船を李舜臣の攻撃で奪われてしまった。
English: Ryukyu no kami was a unique government post name not mentioned in the code, and Korenori asked Hideyoshi to allow him to conquer Ryukyu, which was once approved.
Japanese: 琉球守は律令にないユニークな官職名であり、茲矩も琉球征伐を秀吉に申し出て一度は許可されている。
English: However, since the Toyotomi government's policy on Ryukyu had a control system via the Shimazu clan, Korenori's government post name became Musashi no kami (Governor of Musashi Province) in the period from the Battle of Kyushu to the Siege of Odawara, due to interference by the Shimazu family having their interests.
Japanese: しかし豊臣政権として琉球政策は島津氏を取次とする支配体系となったため、権益を有する島津家からの妨害もあって茲矩の官職名は九州の役の頃から小田原の役の頃にかけて武蔵守となっている。
English: Later, he had a name of Taishu no kami, but this referred to Taizhou in the present Zhejiang Province in China.
Japanese: その後、台州守の号を称したがこれは現在の中国浙江省の台州のことである。
English: However, he identified himself as Musashi no kami again after the capture of Ming broke down at the Bunroku-Keicho War.
Japanese: ただし、文禄慶長の役で明国攻略が挫折した以降、再び武蔵守を名乗っている。