nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: However, in his study on the diaries left by nobles and The Tale of Genji, Masakazu SHIKATA found that Noritaka's father, FUJIWARA no Masanori, who was Dazai no shoni (junior assistant governor of Dazaifu, local government office in Kyushu region) under FUJIWARA no Takaie, was mentioned as a resident of Higo Province, and on this finding, Shikata presented a theory that the family was settled in the vicinity of Kikuchi around 1070, during the generations of Masanori and Noritaka, and since then, this is considered as a theory with high credibility.
Japanese: が、志方正和は公家が残した日記や源氏物語を研究した結果、藤原隆家の下で大宰少弐であった則隆の父藤原政則が、肥後国住人と記述されていることから、政則と則隆の代1070年ころ菊池周辺に土着したとする説を発表、この説が現在まで有力とされている。
English: All the families belonging to the local ruling class in Japan in the Insei period (the period of the government by a retired emperor) tried to extend their influence as warriors of the retired emperors, receiving the protection from those powerful figures in the center by donating them their estates.
Japanese: 院政時代全国の在地支配層は、こぞって中央の有力者に荘園を寄進してその庇護を受け、院の武者として勢力を拡大しようとした。
English: It can be assumed that the Kikuchi clan was not an exception based on the record in which the fourth head, Tsunemune KIKKUCHI, and the fifth head, Tsunenao KIKUCHI, were registered as the warriors of the Retired Emperor Toba.
Japanese: 4代菊池経宗・5代菊池経直が鳥羽院武者と記録されていることからも、菊池氏がその例に漏れなかったことが推定される。
English: By that time, it was known that some members of the Kikuchi family began to call themselves by the local land names, and the family gradually established its position and extended its influence as a local potential in Higo Province.
Japanese: このころまでに菊池氏一族の中に在地名を名乗る者が現れ、菊池氏一族が肥後国の在地勢力として定着拡散して行ったことが判る。
English: After the rise of the Taira family, TAIRA no Kiyomori, who was enthusiastic about the trade between Japan and the Sung Dynasty in China took the post of the Governor of Higo Province, thus the Taira family's controlling over Higo Province was strengthened.
Japanese: 平家台頭後は日宋貿易に熱心だった平清盛が肥後守に就任するなど、平家による肥後国統制が強化される。
English: The Kikuchi clan became a retainer of the Taira family, however, when MINAMOTO no Yoritomo raised an army, the following sixth head, Takanao KIKUCHI opened up the Yowa War against the Taira family.
Japanese: 菊池氏は平家の家人と化したが、源頼朝が兵を挙げると翌6代菊池隆直は養和の乱を起こして平家に反抗した。
English: The following year, Takanao surrendered the army of TAIRA no Sadayoshi which was for searching and killing him, and he took part in the Genpei War as a retainer of the Taira family, but during the Battle of Dannoura, he changed sides to the Seiwa Genji of the Minamoto clan and became its gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo Periods).
Japanese: 隆直は翌年平貞能追討軍に降伏し、以後、平家の家人として源平合戦に従軍したものの、壇ノ浦の戦いにおよんで源氏清和源氏方に寝返り御家人に名を連ねた。
English: His inconstancy between the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan caused Yoritomo's distrust, and he was granted a reward far less than those of the Shoni clan, the Otomo clan and the Shimazu clan, which were appointed Shugo (provincial governors), and on the contrary, Takanao came to be checked by the gokenin from Kanto provinces, who were placed around his home base.
Japanese: 源平の間を揺れ動いたことで頼朝の疑念を招き、隆直への恩賞は守護に任じられた少弐氏や大友氏・島津氏に遠く及ばず、逆に多くの関東系御家人を本拠地周囲に配置され、その牽制を受けた。
English: The eighth head, Takayoshi KIKUCHI was reduced his territory by Yoshitoki HOJO, since he supported the Retired Emperor Gotoba side in the Jokyu War.
Japanese: 8代菊池隆能は承久の乱において後鳥羽上皇方に組したため、北条義時によって所領を減じられた。
English: The 10th head, Takefusa KIKUCHI was called from the Kamakura bakufu to be Hakata to participate in Bunei War and Koan War, and fought against the army of Yuan leading the whole family and defeated the enemy.
Japanese: 10代菊池武房は文永の役・弘安の役に際して、鎌倉幕府から博多に召集され、一族郎党を率いて元(王朝)軍と戦闘を交え敵を討ち取った。
English: The Kikuchi clan, who was originally keeping a certain distance between the powers of Minamoto clan and the Taira clan, showing its spirit as a leading local potentials, however, as the Kamakura bakufu's decline became visible, the clan strengthened the relation with the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 菊池氏は、伝統的に源平勢力と一定の距離を保ち在地勢力の勇としての意地を見せてきたが、鎌倉幕府に衰えが見られるようになると朝廷とのつながりを深めた。
English: The 12th head, Taketoki KIKUCHI responded to the rinji (Imperial command) of the Emperor Godaigo, he attacked Chinzei tandai (office of the military governor of Kyushu) of Hidetoki HOJO in Hakata, with Korenori ASO, Sadatsune SHONI and Sadamune Otomo, but he was betrayed by Sadatsune and Sadamune, and died in battle within the premise of Chinzei tandai after fighting bravely.
Japanese: 12代菊池武時は後醍醐天皇の綸旨に応じ、阿蘇惟直・少弐貞経・大友貞宗をさそって鎮西探題北条英時を博多に襲ったが、貞経・貞宗の裏切りによって善戦空しく鎮西探題館内で戦死した。
English: Taketoki's will was succeeded by his legitimate son, the 13th head Takeshige KIKUCHI, and Takeshige was appointed to Shugo of Higo Province due to Masashige KUSUNOKI's recommendation, after the Kenmu Restoration was established.
Japanese: 武時の意志は嫡男13代菊池武重に引き継がれ、建武の新政成立後、楠正成の推薦もあって肥後国守護に任じられた。
English: As Taketoki's distinguished service was highly appreciated, his illegitimate sons such as Takeshige KIKUCHI, Takezumi KIKUCHI and Taketoshi KIKUCHI were also awarded with certain positions.
Japanese: 武時の武功は高く評価され、その庶子菊池武茂・菊池武澄・菊池武敏等も叙任を受けた。
English: When Takauji ASHIKAGA stepped aside from the Kenmu Restoration and turned against the government, Takeshige, who closely served the Emperor Godaigo, fought numerous battles all over Japan.
Japanese: 足利尊氏が建武の新政から離脱し反旗を翻すと、武重は後醍醐天皇の近くに仕え日本各地を転戦した。
English: When Takeshige was fitting in Kanto region, Takeshige's younger brother, Taketoshi KIKUCHIT attacked Sadatsune SHONI at Dazaifu (local government office in Kyushu region) and killed him, while Sadatsune's son, Yorinao SHONI, was in present Shimonoseki City to meet Takauji, who fled from Kyoto and sought refuge in Kyushu.
Japanese: 武重が関東で戦っているころ、京都を追われた尊氏が九州に逃れ少弐貞経の子の少弐頼尚が尊氏を下関市に迎えに出た隙に、武重の弟菊池武敏は大宰府の貞経を攻めて滅ぼした。
English: The encouraged Taketoshi, fought against the Ashikaga side, in the Battle of Tatarahama with Korenori ASO, Tanemichi AKIZUKI, Takehisa HASUIKE, Ieyoshi HOSHINO and others, but lost the fight and withdrew to Kikuchi.
Japanese: 勢いづいた武敏は阿蘇惟直・秋月種道・蒲池武久・星野家能等を誘って多々良浜の戦いで足利方と戦ったが敗北し、菊池に逃げ帰った。
English: When Takauji invaded Kyoto with his troops, Taketoshi again raised an army against the Ashikaga side, and Takeshige who had escaped from Kyoto, returned back to the clan's home base and fought against Yoriuji ISSHIKI and Yorinao SHONI of the Ashikaga side.
Japanese: 尊氏が京都に攻め上ると、武敏は再度蜂起して足利方に反抗し、京都を脱出していた武重は帰国して弟武敏とともに足利方の一色頼氏・少弐頼尚を攻めた。
English: After the deaths of Takeshige and his brother Taketoshi, the Kikuchi clan's influence was stagnated, however, at the same time, the Imperial Prince Kanenaga, the son of the Emperor Godaigo who established the Southern Court (Japan) in Yoshino and moved there, came down to Kyushu as Seisei shogun (literally, "great general who subdues the western barbarians").
Japanese: 武重・武敏兄弟の死後、菊池氏勢力は沈滞の時期を迎えたが、吉野に南朝(日本)を建て移り住んだ後醍醐天皇の皇子懐良親王が、征西将軍として九州に下向した。
English: The Imperial Prince Kanenaga, who stopped over in Iyo Province on his way, landed on Satsumataniyama accompanied by Sadayasu UTSUNOMIYA, arrived at Udo of Higo Province from the sea and he was welcomed by the 15th head, Takemitsu KIKUCHI.
Japanese: 途中伊予国に滞在した懐良親王は、宇都宮貞泰を連れて薩摩谷山に上陸、海路肥後国宇土において15代菊池武光に迎えられた。
English: The Imperial Prince Kanenaga entered Waifu-jo Castle (Kikuchi-jo Castle) via Korenori ASO's home base, Mifune.
Japanese: 懐良親王は阿蘇惟澄の本拠地御船を経由して隈府城(菊池城)に入城した。
English: Around that time, the confrontation between Takauji and his younger brother, Naoyoshi ASHIKAGA was intensified, and as Naoyoshi's adopted son, Tadafuyu ASHIKAGA came down to Kyushu, the Kyushu was divided into three powers.
Japanese: このころ中央では尊氏と弟足利直義の間に対立が深まり、直義の養子足利直冬が九州に下向してきたため、九州は三勢力に分断された。
English: There was a three-way deadlock for a while, but Tadafuyu left Kyushu due to Naoyoshi's falling, the Imperial Prince Kanenaga, who extended his influence, conquered Dazaifu with the support of the members of the Kikuchi clan, such as Takemitsu, Takemasa (the 16th head) and Takezumi.
Japanese: 暫く三竦みの状態が続いたが、直義の失脚により直冬が九州を去ると、勢力を伸ばした懐良親王は武光・16代菊池武政菊池武澄等の働きによって大宰府を攻略した。
English: Afterward, Seiseifu fortress was placed in Dazaifu and functioned as a public institution for a while, but Ryoshun IMAGAWA defeated Takemitsu and gripped the control over Kyushu.
Japanese: 以後、大宰府に征西府が置かれ九州における公的機関の様を呈していたが、今川了俊が武光を破って九州を平定した。
English: The 17th head, Taketomo KIKUCHI, secured his position as Shugo of Higo Province, and reconciled with Ryoshun, with Koremasa ASO, and thereafter the warring state came to be stabilized.
Japanese: 17代菊池武朝は肥後国守護の地位を確保して阿蘇惟政とともに了俊と和睦し、それ以降天下の形勢は静謐に向かった。
English: From around the time of the 19th head, Mochitomo KIKUCHI, the clan began to have conflicts with in the Kikuchi clan about its family estate, and Tamemitsu UDO, the younger brother of the 20th head, Tamekuni KIKUCHI and the adoptive son of the Udo clan, raised an army against the 21st head, Shigetomo KIKUCHI, who was his own nephew, and although he was once lost, after Shigetomo's death he again rose in revolt.
Japanese: 19代菊池持朝のころから菊池氏一族の間で家督をめぐる争いが持ち上がるようになっていたが、20代菊池為邦の弟で宇土氏の養子になっていた宇土為光が、甥である21代菊池重朝に対して挙兵、敗れたものの重朝没後再度挙兵した。
English: The 22nd head, Yoshiyuki KIKUCHI, who fled from Tamemitsu, escaped to Shimabara via Tamana, seeking refuge with the Arima clan, and in cooperation with Shigemine JO (城重岑) and Yukiharu KUMABE and others, he made Tanemitsu to kill himself.
Japanese: 為光に追われた22代菊池能運は有馬氏頼って玉名を経由して島原に逃れ、翌城重岑・隈部運治等と呼応して為光を自刃させた。
English: Although Yoshiyuki won the battle, he died of wounds at the age of only 23, and after that, the family head of the Kikuchi clan came to be taken over by the heirs produced from branch families, and finally the Kikuchi clan was snatched its family estate by the Aso clan and the Otomo clan, and the the Kikuchi clan was died out.
Japanese: 能運は戦いに勝利したものの、戦傷がもとでわずか23歳で死亡し、以後菊池氏の家督は庶流から排出されるようになり、菊池氏家督は阿蘇氏や大友氏に横取りされ、こうして菊池氏は滅亡した。
English: it is said that after Yoshiyuki's death, Kyushu underwent an agitated period of gekokujo (the revolt of vassals against their lords), then entered the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) (Japan), and the posthumous territories of the Kikuchi clan was divisively owned by the so called 'three chief retainers of Kikuchi,' the Akaboshi clan, the Jo clan, the Kumabe clan, etc.
Japanese: 能運の死後肥後国では下克上が進み戦国時代(日本)に突入したとされるが、菊池氏の遺領は菊池三家老と言われた赤星氏・城氏・隈部氏等が領するところとなった。
English: In the Period of the Northern and Southern Courts, in which the Kyoto Court (Northern Court [Japan]) and Yoshino Court (Southern Court) both stood, the Emperor Godaigo, who set up the Southern Court in the middle of Mt. Yoshino, not only ordered Yoshisada NITTA to dispatch the Imperial Prince Kanenaga and the Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi to Hokuriku region and appointed the Imperial Prince Korenaga Seisei shogun to dispatch him to Kyushu region, but also dispatched other imperial princes of his own to various places such as the Imperial Prince Muneyoshi to the eastern Japan, and the Imperial Prince Norinaga to Mutsu Province, in order to oppose the Northern Court.
Japanese: 吉野の山中にて南朝を開き、京都朝廷(北朝(日本))と吉野朝廷（南朝）が並立する南北朝時代に後醍醐天皇は、尊良親王や恒良親王らを新田義貞に命じて北陸へ向かわせたほか、懐良親王を征西将軍に任じて九州へ、宗良親王を東国へ、義良親王を陸奥国へと、各地に自分の皇子を送って北朝方に対抗させようとした。
English: In addition to the imperial princes above mentioned, the Emperor Godaigo had many imperial princes, and as many of the members of the Kikuchi clan were also registered as the pepole involved in the Kenmu Restoration, it is assumed that they spread themselves all over the country by accompanying those imperial princes.
Japanese: この他にも後醍醐天皇には皇子が大勢おり、建武の新政に関った人々の中に菊池一族も名前を連ねている事から皇子に伴って全国各地に散らばったとされる。
English: The Tono Kikuchi clan is said to have been one of these cases, and the clan landed in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture by sea and reached Tono, Iwate Prefecture, and the origin remained with its family crest.
Japanese: 遠野菊池氏もその一族で、海路より青森県八戸に上陸し岩手県遠野に辿り着いたとされ、家紋にいわれが残っている。
English: Usually the Kikuchi clan uses 'Maruni Narabi Takanoha' (in-line falcon's plumes inside a circle) or 'Maruni Chigai Takanoha' (crossing falcon's plumes inside a circle), but the family crest of the Tono Kikuchi clan is added the 'Hamon' (ripple) which refers to that the clan came from the sea, to the usual family crest, and shows as 'Maruni Narabi Takanohani Hamon' (in-line falcon's plumes with ripple inside a circle).
Japanese: 菊池氏は「丸に並び鷹の羽」もしくは「丸に違い鷹の羽」を用いることが多く、遠野菊池氏は通常の家紋に海路から入ったことを表す波紋が加えられ「丸に並び鷹の羽に波紋」で表す方が多いようだ。
English: Tono City, Iwate Prefecture, which the family name of Kikuchi makes up the 20 % of its population, concluded the friendship city declaration with Kikuchi City on August 1.
Japanese: 人口の二割を菊池姓で占めている岩手県遠野市は8月1日菊池市と友好都市宣言を結んだ。
English: Not only in Tono City but also all over the Iwate Prefecture, many people use the family name 'Kikuchi' written as 菊池 or 菊地, and according to an oral tradition that in addition to the Tono Kikuchi clan, there was a family that came from Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, northing upward along the Kitakami-gawa River.
Japanese: この他にも岩手県では菊池姓、菊地姓を名乗る人が多く、遠野菊池氏の他にも宮城県石巻市から北上川を北上してきた一族がいたなどの言い伝えが残る。
English: After the the Kikuchi clan perished, the Mera clan, a local ruling family in Higo Province, proclaimed that the Mera clan was a descendant of Shigetsugu KIKUCHI, Yoshiyuki KIKUCHI's son, and was appointed to be a member of Kotaiyoriai (a alternate member of yoriai [the top decision making organ], a family status of samurai warriors in the Edo period) in the Edo period, and in the Meiji period, was allowed to use the family name 'Kikuchi,' was conferred the baronage.
Japanese: 菊池氏滅亡後、肥後国豪族米良氏が菊池能運の子菊池重次の末裔を名乗り江戸時代に交代寄合に列せられ、明治時代になって菊池姓への復帰を許され男爵になっている。
English: Another branch line family is the Saigo clan, and it is said that Saigo no tsubone, the biological mother of Hidetada TOKUGAWA, Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians"), Yorihaha SAIGO, the chief retainer of the Aizu Domain and Takamori SAIGO, lower ranked feudal retainer of the Satsuma Domain, were from the Kikuchi family.
Japanese: 他に庶流として西郷氏があり、征夷大将軍徳川秀忠生母の西郷局、会津藩家老西郷頼母、薩摩藩下級藩士西郷隆盛は菊池氏の出とされる。
English: In addition the family name 'Kikuchi' written as 菊池 can be also found in present Nishimera-son, Koyu-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kitasengi-cho and Minamisengi-cho, Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Hokkaido, and Tokyo Metropolis.
Japanese: そのほか宮崎県児湯郡西米良村、群馬県伊勢崎市北千木町、南千木町、茨城県、北海道、東京都などににも菊池姓が見られる。
English: The Kira clan is one of the most prestigious samurai families in Japan; listed below are this family's three notable lines of descent.
Japanese: 吉良氏（きら）は日本における武士の名家の一つであり、代表的なものに下の三つの流れがある。
English: The illegitimate eldest son of Yoshiuji ASHIKAGA (the third family head of the Ashikaga clan), Osauji KIRA, and his younger brother Yoshitsugu KIRA established the Kira clan.
Japanese: 足利義氏(足利家3代目当主)の庶子長男　吉良長氏及びその弟　吉良義継より出る。
English: The family of older brother, Osauji, became "The Mikawa-Kira clan," then the family of younger brother, Yoshitsugu, established "The Oshu-Kira clan."
Japanese: 兄　長氏の家系は『三河吉良氏』となり、弟　義継の家系を『奥州吉良氏』という。
English: The Kira clan was considered as the most distinguished noble family among the Ashikaga clan, and the Kira clan held the family status as Renshi (noble sibling) with the Imagawa family, a branch of the Kira family.
Japanese: 吉良氏は足利一門において名門中の名門とされ、分家の今川家とともに足利将軍家の連枝としての家格を有した。
English: The status was even said as, "if the Imperial Palace (Ashikaga family to inherit the shogunate) dies out, the Kira inherits the succession to the family headship, and the Imagawa inherits the formality when Kira dies out."
Japanese: その格式は「御所（足利将軍家）が絶えれば吉良が継ぎ、吉良が絶えれば今川が継ぐ」とまで言われた。
English: This means that the Kira and the Imaga clans were allowed to succeed the family estate of the head family of Ashikaga, if the lineage of the Ashikaga Shogunate family died out.
Japanese: 足利将軍家の血脈が絶えた際には足利宗家の家督を継承することが許されていた。
English: It originated from around the13th century, the first son of Yoshiuji ASHIKAGA (the third family head of the Ashikaga family), Osauji established his home base in Kiranosho, Aomi County, Mikawa Province (present Nishio City and Hazu County, Aichi Prefecture), then commenced calling himself, 'Kira.'
Japanese: 13世紀の頃、足利義氏(足利家3代目当主)の長男・長氏が三河国碧海郡吉良荘（現・愛知県西尾市・幡豆郡）を本拠としたのを契機に、「吉良」を名乗りとしたことに始まる。
English: In those days, Kiranosho reached out to the east and the west of the Furuyahagi-gawa River, so it was divided into two as the west and the east, and called, 'Tojo' (The castle exists in Shiroyama, Madarame, Kira-cho, Hazu County) and 'Saijo' (The castle presently exists in Nishio City).
Japanese: 当時の吉良荘は古矢作川の東西にも広がっていたため、川の東西をそれぞれ「東条」（城は現幡豆郡吉良町大字駮馬〈まだらめ〉字城山）・「西条」（城は現西尾市）と区分して呼んでいた。
English: Osauji based himself in Saijo, and for a while after that, his family line was called the Saijokira clan.
Japanese: 長氏が拠ったのは、この西条の方であり、以降しばらくこの系統は西条吉良氏と呼ばれる。
English: Additionally, the origin of the word of kira as Kiranosho of Mikawa Province, is said to be derived from the word 'kirara' (in yamato-kotoba [words of Japanese origi]) which is mica, since the clan had a mica mine within its shoen from long time ago.
Japanese: なお、この三河国吉良荘の吉良の語源は、荘園内に雲母（大和言葉で「きらら」）の鉱山を古くから有したためにつけられたものと言われている。
English: After the Jokyu War, the Ashikaga clan received much of the shoryo (territory) within Mikawa Province, but Osauji of the Kira clan was the position to be entrusted as the supreme commander and the supervisor among them.
Japanese: 承久の乱以降、足利氏は三河国内に多くの所領を得たが、長氏の吉良氏はその中でも総指揮・監督権を委ねられる立場にある。
English: Based upon this background in posterity, both families, the Shibukawa clan and the Ishibashi clan were called 'goikke' (head and branch family of Ashikaga), and received exceptional treatment.
Japanese: 後代、渋川氏・石橋氏の両家とともに「御一家」と称されて別格の扱いを受けた。
English: Establishing the hierarchy as "if the Imperial Palace dies out, the Kira inherits the succession to the family headship, and the Imagawa inherits when Kira dies out" among the people, is due to this background.
Japanese: 「御所が絶えれば吉良が継ぎ、吉良が絶えれば今川が継ぐ」という序列観が人々の間に定着したのも、こうした背景があってのことであった。
English: However, the possibility remained low for the Kira clan to be a successor of the head family of the Ashikaga clan, since there were many bekke (branch family) families in the Ashikaga Shogun family; the Kamakura kubo (Governor-general of the Kanto region), the Kogakubo (descendants of one of the Ashikaga families that held the office of the Kanto district administrator), and the Horigoe Kubo.
Japanese: しかし実際には、足利将軍家には鎌倉公方、古河公方、堀越公方などの別家が多くあり、吉良氏が足利本家を継げる可能性は低かった。
English: Mituuji, a child of Osauji, took the side of Yasumori ADACHI during the Shimotsuki Sodo (a political change to the Kamakura Bakufu), subsequently Mituuji was subdued and killed by the order of the Hojo clan
Japanese: 長氏の子満氏は霜月騒動で安達泰盛に与し、北条氏による討伐を受けて戦死。
English: In 1333, Sadayoshi, child of Mitsuuji strongly proposed Takauji ASHIKAGA, who was sojourning in Mikawa Province on the way the Kyoto, on the mission destroying the power of the Emperor Godaigo's side, 'be the side of the Emperor, and stand up for defeating the Kamakura bakufu.'
Japanese: その子貞義は元弘3年（1333年）、後醍醐天皇方の勢力討滅の命を帯びて上洛途上の足利尊氏が三河国に逗留した際、貞義は「天皇について鎌倉幕府打倒のために立ち上がるべきである」と強硬に進言。
English: This became the final cause, and Takauji decided to attack Rokuhara Tandai (an administrative and judicial agency in Rokuhara, Kyoto), which was the beginning of the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) collapsing drama.
Japanese: これが最終的な引き鉄となって高氏は六波羅探題攻撃に踏み切り、鎌倉幕府崩壊劇の嚆矢となった。
English: Mitsuyoshi moved from place to place to fight with Mitusada who was his legitimate son, they also obeyed the Southern Court (Japan) for a while, then finally surrendered to the Muromachi bakufu.
Japanese: 嫡男満貞とともに各地を転戦、一時的に南朝(日本)にも帰順した後、最終的に室町幕府に降る。
English: However, besides the Kira clan remained in Kyoto and served as a trusted vassal of the shogun family, the clan did not inherit the shugoshiki (post of provincial constable) in Mikawa Province, or Musashi Province, their substantial power was limited to that of a small feudal lord.
Japanese: しかし、吉良氏自体は京都にあって将軍家の近臣として仕える他は三河や武蔵にあって守護職を世襲することもなく実質的には小領主としての勢力しか持たなかった。
English: While Mitsuyoshi and Mitsusada, father and son, were away from the home ground in Kiranosho in Mikawa Province, an incident happened; Takayoshi who was the fourth son of Mitsuyoshi embezzled the Tojo of Kiranosho, then became independent as the Tojokira clan.
Japanese: 満義・満貞父子が本拠地の吉良荘を留守にしている間に、満義の四男尊義が吉良荘の東条を押領し、東条吉良氏として自立するという事件が起きる。
English: After this incident, the Takayoshi's family line of the Tojokira clan and the Saijokira clan, which had limited power over the Saijo, persisted on the legitimacy of their respective clans, the conflict continued for over a century staged upon Mikawa Province between the descendents of the two.
Japanese: 以降尊義の東条吉良氏と、西条に勢力を限定された満貞の西条吉良氏とは、互いに正統性を主張しあって譲らず、両者の子孫が約一世紀に渡って三河一国を舞台に抗争を繰り広げた。
English: During the Onin war, both families participated in the battle; Yoshisada of the Saijo family belonged to the East squad, and Yoshifuji of Tojo the family belonged to the West squad.
Japanese: 応仁の乱においては西条家の義貞が東軍、東条家の義藤が西軍にそれぞれ属して戦っている。
English: (Furthermore, this is not the same definitions divided as the establishment of the Kira Clan; 1. the Kira clan of Osauji lineage referred to themselves as the Saijokira clan; 2. the Kira clan of Yoshitsugu lineage referred to themselves as the Tojokira clan.
Japanese: （なお、吉良氏発祥当時に区分された定義（2.の義継流吉良氏が東条吉良氏、1.の長氏流吉良氏が西条吉良氏を称した点）とは、別物。
English: As well as its dull influence, the Mikawa-Kira clan could not settle the internal dispute between the Saijokira clan and the Tojokira clan.
Japanese: 三河吉良氏は勢力の振るわない上に、西条吉良氏と東条吉良氏に分裂した内部抗争を収束させなかった。
English: Reaching this far, the Saijokira and the Tojokira of both families finally realized the foolishness of their internal tribal rivalry, made Mochihiro of the Tojokira clan to adopt Yoshiyasu of the Saijokira clan as heir to establish peace, then ended the longtime rivalry.
Japanese: この期に及んでようやく同族抗争の愚を悟った東条・西条両家は、東条吉良の持広が西条吉良の吉良義安を養嗣子にするという形で和議を成立させ、長年の抗争に終止符を打った。
English: Because of its opposition to the Imagawa clan, Yoshiyasu supported the Oda clan in Owari Province who was also resisting the Imagawa clan, then started to maintain the defense system.
Japanese: 義安は今川氏への対抗上、同じく今川氏と抗争中にあった尾張国の織田氏に加担し、防衛体制を整えていく。
English: However, it was not enough to recover the family fortunes which was decayed by the longtime rivalries, and was subsequently defeated by the fierce attack of Yoshimoto IMAGAWA in 1549.
Japanese: しかし、長年の抗争で衰退させた家運の回復までには至らず、天文18年（1549年）に今川義元の猛攻に敗退。
English: The Kira clan afterward, Yoshiaki, who was Yoshiyasu's biological younger brother from the Saijo Kira clan was pushed in as the successor by the Imagawa clan, then allowed to continue the family name.
Japanese: その後の吉良氏は、後継に西条から義安の実弟義昭が今川氏によって捩じ込まれ、家名存続を許された。
English: In other words, this did not mean the Kira clan as an independent feudal lord, but the Kira clan was forced to obey Yoshimoto IMAGAWA.
Japanese: すなわち独立領主としての吉良氏ではなく、今川義元への隷属を強いられた訳である。
English: However, the Imagawa clan's power gradually declined after Yoshimoto was killed at the Battle of Okehazama.
Japanese: ところが、桶狭間の合戦で義元が討ち取られた後は、今川氏も徐々に衰退してしまう。
English: After that, when the Mikawa Ikko Ikki (an uprising of Ikko sect followers in Mikawa Province) broke out, the Kira clan took part in the uprising riot, and again fought against Ieyasu.
Japanese: その後、三河一向一揆が勃発すると一向一揆方に加担して、再び家康と戦った。
English: However, the rioting side was defeated by Ieyasu, and the Kira clan's fortune declined at an accelerated pace.
Japanese: しかし、一揆方は家康に敗れ、吉良氏の家運衰退に拍車がかかることになった。
English: Although its fortunes was dull and struggled financially, the Kira clan still had a high pride as the most noted family in the Ashikaga clan.
Japanese: これほど家運も振るわず困窮していながら、足利一門における名族中の名族たる誇りだけは強かった。
English: With a mediation of Nobunaga ODA, the Kira clan managed to reach making an alliance with the Shiba clan, Shugo(provincial constables) of Owari Province, and its branch family, the Ishibashi clan.
Japanese: 織田信長の周旋により、尾張守護の斯波氏及びその一門　石橋氏と同盟を結ぶまでに漕ぎ着けた。
English: A child of Yoshiyasu, Yoshisada, was promoted by the Tokugawa clan, due to that his mother was the younger sister of Kiyoyasu MATSUDAIRA.
Japanese: 義安の子義定が松平清康の妹を母としていた関係で徳川氏に取り立てられた。
English: In the generation of Yoshishada's child Yoshimitsu, received the master of "ko-ke" (shogunate official in charge of advising kyo-o-yaku in taking care of envoys) status provided with 3,000 koku in former Kiranosho.
Japanese: その子義弥の代に至り旧吉良荘内で3000石を領して、高家筆頭の家格を付与された。