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English: After the Ansei Great Earthquake, in the tenth month in the old calendar of 1855, Kashima-jingu Shrine's paper charm with a picture of the gigantic catfish became very popular, spreading the spirit rock to the people in Edo.
Japanese: 1855年旧暦10月の安政大地震後、鹿島神宮の鯰絵を使ったお札が流行し、江戸市民の間で要石が知られるようになった。
English: Some said that the earthquake occurred because Takemikazuchi no kami went to Izumo Province to attend the annual meeting of the deities held in the tenth (Kanna) month.
Japanese: 地震が起こったのは武甕槌大神が神無月（10月）で出雲国へ出かけたからだという説も現れた。
English: Kashima-jinja Shrine (in Kami-machi) in Kami-machi, Miyagi Prefecture has also a spirit rock which was modelled after the one in Kashima-jingu Shrine according to the local fudoki (topographical records).
Japanese: 宮城県加美町の鹿島神社(加美町)にも要石があり、風土記によれば鹿島神宮のものを模したものだという。
English: Although this Kashima-jinja Shrine enshrines the same deity as Kashima-jingu Shrine, unlike in many other 'Kashima-jinja Shrines' however, the deity was transferred not from Kashima-jingu Shrine but from Shiogama-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: この鹿島神社は鹿島神宮と祭神は同じだが、他の多くの「鹿島神社」と違い、鹿島神宮ではなく塩竈神社からの勧請である。
English: The word "kaname-ishi" may be used as a metaphor for something one cannot or should not move.
Japanese: 要石は、動かせないもの、動かしてはならないものの比喩に使われることがある。
English: However, the word, "keystone" which is used as a metaphor for something important or indispensable is sometimes translated as "kaname-ishi."
Japanese: ただし、重要なもの、欠けてはならないものの比喩に使われるキーストーン(keystone)が要石と訳されることがある。
English: The Dairy of Nakatsukasa no Naishi is a work of courtly literature in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 中務内侍日記（なかつかさのないしにっき）は、鎌倉時代の宮廷文学作品。
English: It was written in kana (the Japanese syllabary) by FUJIWARA no Keishi, known as Nakatsuka no Naishi who served Emperor Fushimi.
Japanese: 著者は伏見院中務内侍こと藤原経子で、仮名(文字)文による日記である。
English: It describes her recollections about her courtly life over a period of 13 years, beginning with 1280 when the emperor was still crown prince and ending in 1292 when she retired due to her severe illness.
Japanese: 1280年（弘安3）伏見天皇の東宮時代から、1292年（正応5）に自らの病が重くなったことで里下がりするまでの13年に渡る宮廷生活の思い出を記したもの。
English: Volume 1 includes her recollections from 1280 to 1286 during which Emperor Fushimi was still crown prince and Volume 2 recounts how she served the emperor.
Japanese: 上巻は弘安3年から9年までの伏見天皇東宮時代、下巻は天皇時代の奉仕の思いでを記している。
English: The Diary of Nakatsukasa no Naishi was quoted in Gunsho Ruiju (diaries compiled by subject-matter) as detailed sources on courtly customs and traditions, and was copied by scholars of Japanese literature.
Japanese: 有職故実の詳しい資料としても群書類従に記載され、国文学者により書写された。
English: Its title derives from the fact that Kanetsune lived in his villa, in Uji City, called 'Okanoya-dono.'
Japanese: 宇治市にあった別業「岡屋殿（おかのやどの）」に居住していたことに由来する。
English: The manuscripts of the diary which originally covered the period between 1222 and 1251 have been almost completely dispersed, now reduced to a small portion of the original text.
Japanese: 散逸が激しく、貞応元年（1222年）から建長3年（1251年）のうち、一部分が残るのみである。
English: The remaining portion written by Kanetsune himself is only the section on spring 1249, which is housed in the Yomei Bunko Library.
Japanese: 特に自筆本は陽明文庫所蔵の建長元年（1249年）春の部分のみである。
English: The section on winter 1232 has been assumed to refer to the abdication of Emperor Gohorikawa.
Japanese: 貞永元年（1232年）冬の部分は後堀河天皇の譲位について書かれていることで知られている。
English: Enkei Ryokyo Sochinjo (The Petition by Two Nobles of the Enkei Era) records Tameyo NIJO's petition against the nomination of Tamekane KYOGOKU, in 1311, as the selector of an imperial anthology of waka poems, Tamekane's subsequent petition against the Tamayo's appeal, and this latter's further rebuttal against the former.
Japanese: 延慶両卿訴陳状（えんけいりょうきょうそちんじょう）は、延慶(日本)4年（1311年）、勅撰和歌集の選者として京極為兼が擬せられると、二条為世がこれに反対して訴陳し、すると為兼はこれに反発し、為世がこれにさらに駁したものである。
English: Tameyo claimed that being a legitimate heir of the Nijo style of waka poetry, he had inherited the books of poetics handed down from father to son in the family and studied the authentic tradition with his father and grandfather to embody it.
Japanese: 為世は、自分は二条流の嫡流で代々の歌書を相伝し、父祖に親しく学び正系を伝える。
English: He pointed out that there was no precedent in which an illegitimate child, which Tamekane was, had been appointed as the selector of an imperial anthology.
Japanese: しかし、為兼は庶流であってそうではなく、庶子で選者になった先例は無い。
English: Tameyo reported to the emperor his second rebuttals against Tamekane, whose excerpts were prepared by an official.
Japanese: 為兼の訴状に対してさらにかさねて為世から反駁上奏された訴状を役人が抄出した。
English: "Kokon Hyakumonogatari Hyoban" (A Critique of Hundred Tales Old and New) is a collection of kaidan (ghost) tales written and edited by Genrin YAMAOKA who was a litterateur in the early Edo period.
Japanese: 『古今百物語評判』（ここんひゃくものがたりひょうばん）は、江戸時代前期の文人・山岡元隣による怪談本。
English: Although it is entitled "Kokon Hyakumonogatari Hyoban," it may be simply called "Hyakumonogatari Hyoban."
Japanese: 題簽は『古今百物語評判』だが、単に『百物語評判』（ひゃくものがたりひょうばん）とも呼ばれる。
English: After Genrin's death, Motoyoshi YAMAOKA, his son, sorted out and supplemented his posthumous writings.
Japanese: 元隣の没後、彼の遺稿をもとにし、息子の山岡元恕による整理・補筆を経た。
English: "Kokon Hyakumonogatari Hyoban" is presumably based on the gatherings held by Genrin in his house in Rokujo-dori Street, Kyoto for the telling of hundred ghost stories.
Japanese: 元隣が京都六条通の自宅で開催した百物語怪談会をもとにした書とされる。
English: While there are many collections of ghost stories whose titles include the phrase, 'Hyakumonogatari' such as "Shokoku Hyakumonogatari" (Hundred Tales from Various Provinces), the present text largely differs in form from the others.
Japanese: 「百物語」を題名に用いた怪談集はほかにも、『諸国百物語』など多数存在するが、本書はそれらとは形式が大きく異なっている。
English: In the present work, however, Genrin versed in Buddhism and Confucianism takes up the subject of each tale to explicate (critique) its specter or supernatural phenomenon on the basis of the day's rational thoughts such as the Yin-Yang Wu-Hsing Doctrine, quoting Chinese and Japanese proverbs.
Japanese: しかし本書では仏教や儒教にも通じた元隣が、百物語のひとつひとつの話題をとりあげ、その妖怪・怪異現象を、陰陽五行思想をはじめとする当時の合理的な思惟に基き、和漢の故事を引用しつつ解説（評判）する。
English: In the chapter on 'various opinions about the ogre' for instance, he explains that every object consists of Yin and Yang, and the act of Yang results in a god whereas the act of Ying results in an ogre.
Japanese: たとえば「鬼といふに様々の説ある事」では鬼について、すべての物体は陰陽の2つから成り立ち、陽のなす仕業を神、陰のなす仕業を鬼と解説している。
English: He also describes how the participants of a gathering for kaidan tales told a story one after another.
Japanese: 怪談会に出席している一座の者たちが順々に怪談を語っていく怪談会の様子まで描写している。
English: He characteristically describes his commentary in the form of participants' questions about it and his responses to them.
Japanese: 元隣の解説についても、出席者からの元隣への質疑、それに対する元隣の応答という形式で記述されていることも特徴的である。
English: Although quite a few of his explications have been pointed out as strange or even far-fetched, his work was long used as a theoretical framework for kaidan tales.
Japanese: 元隣の解説の中には珍説、あるいは怪説とも指摘されている解説も少なくないが、刊行以降から長い間にわたって、怪談の理論的根拠として流通していた。
English: Sekiei TORIYAMA, a famous painter of specters in the Edo period, used Genrin's work for his own "Gazu Hyakki Yako" (Pictures of the Nocturnal Stroll of Demons) to depict 'Specter Akaneburi' which he took from Genrin's 'Akaneburi no koto' as well as 'Monster Tsurubebi' based on 'Tsurube-oroshi in Nishinooka.'
Japanese: 江戸期の妖怪画として知られる鳥山石燕の『画図百鬼夜行』にも本書の「垢ねぶりの事」が「垢嘗」、「西の岡の釣瓶おろし」が「釣瓶火」として採用されいる。
English: In the Edo period Mimitsu flourished as the port where wood brought from the inland along Mimi-kawa River was reloaded.
Japanese: 江戸時代には、内陸から耳川で運ばれた木材などの積換え港として栄えた。
English: Under the town and village system it became Mimitsu Village and Mimitsu-cho after 1889, but it was integrated into Hyuga City in 1955.
Japanese: 町村制下では美々津村、1889年からは美々津町が置かれたが、1955年日向市に市町村合併された。
English: Although the emperor was planning to leave the port on the day at noon, seeing the wind shift, he decided to depart earlier in the morning, so he went to each house, saying, 'Okiyo, Okiyo' (Get up! Get up!).
Japanese: 神武天皇はこの日の昼に出航の予定だったが、風向きが変わったため早朝に繰り上げ、「起きよ、起きよ」と家々を起こして回った。
English: The emperor had no time in repairing a loose end of his kimono, so he had it stitched standing up.
Japanese: 時間がなかったので着物のほつれに気づいても直す暇がなく、立ったまま縫わせた。
English: The inhabitants hurriedly prepared red-bean and rice cakes instead of rice cakes which they wanted to make for the emperor who was to depart at noon.
Japanese: 住人たちは出航に合わせて餅を作る予定をしていたが、急遽、小豆と餅米を一緒について渡した。
English: The shrine's name, 'Tateiwa,' derives from this legend and the shrine enshrines the emperor and Sumiyoshi Sanjin (three deities of Sumiyoshi), guardians of sailors.
Japanese: 社名の「立磐」もこれに由来し、神武天皇と航海神の住吉三神を祭神とする。
English: In 1940 a ship called 'Okiyomaru' was built by the Navy Association of Japan, Dainippon Kaiyo Shonendan (National Association of Naval Youth) and Osaka Mainichi Shinbun as a part of the commemoration of the 2600th anniversary of Japan.
Japanese: 1940年、紀元2600年記念行事の一環として、日本海軍協会、大日本海洋少年団、大阪毎日新聞社の主催で、おきよ丸が建造された。
English: She followed the course of the eastern expedition by Emperor Jinmu, sailing from Mimitsu to Nakanoshima, Osaka City (Osaka Prefecture) to offer a sacred shield to Kashihara-jingu Shrine.
Japanese: 神武東征の航跡をたどり、美々津から大阪市中之島(大阪府)まで航海し橿原神宮に神楯を奉献した。
English: In 1942 a stone monument for commemorating the birthplace of the Imperial Navy of Japan and a monument in the shape of a stockless anchor were built.
Japanese: 続き1942年、「大日本帝国海軍発祥之地」石碑と両爪錨の像が立てられた。
English: Although it was partly damaged by the Allied Forces (World War II) during the occupation period, it has been restored.
Japanese: 連合国軍占領下の日本に碑文が一部連合国(第二次世界大戦)により破壊されたが、現在は修復されている。
English: Nanboku TSURUYA IV (1755 - December 22, 1829) was a Kabuki playwright during the latter half of the Edo period.
Japanese: 四代目鶴屋南北（よだいめつるやなんぼく、宝暦5年（1755年）-文政12年11月27日(旧暦)（1829年12月22日））は、江戸時代後期に活躍した歌舞伎狂言の作者。
English: There were five persons succeeded to the professional name Nanboku TSURUYA, but when it is simply referred to as Nanboku TSURUYA or Nanboku, it usually indicates Nanboku TSURUYA IV.
Japanese: 鶴屋南北を襲名した者は5名を数えるが、単に鶴屋南北または南北というと、通常はこの四代目ことをさす。
English: As Nanboku TSURUYA IV was distinguished in the achievements among the five Nanboku TSURUYA, he is particularly called DaiNanboku, meaning the Big Nanboku.
Japanese: また5代の南北のなかでもその業績が突出しているため、この四代目のことを特に大南北（だいなんぼく）ともいう。
English: He operated a dyer's shop with his father Isaburo EBIYA, but he loved plays so much that he intended to be a playwright; at last, he became a disciple of Jisuke SAKURADA, and later practiced under Sansho KANAI, Gohei NAMIKI, Jusuke NAKAMURA, and Kinpachi MASUYAMA.
Japanese: 父の海老屋伊三郎とともに紺屋を生業としていたが、生来の芝居好きのため狂言作者を志して安永5年(1777)初代桜田治助の門に入り、のち金井三笑、並木五瓶、中村重助、増山金八らに師事する。
English: During a period of obscurity as long as 30 years, he at first took the name Hyozo SAKURADA, then Hyozo SAWA, and Hyozo KATSU.
Japanese: 下積み時代が30年近くと長く、初め櫻田兵藏（さくらだひょうぞう）と名乗り、ついで澤兵藏（さわひょうぞう）、勝俵藏（かつひょうぞう）と名を改める。
English: In February 1803, he became the head of resident playwrights for the first time at the age of 49, and wrote "Yoni Hibike Sakura" for Hikosaburo BANDO III.
Japanese: 享和3年閏一月(1803年2月)、49歳のときになってはじめて立作者となり、坂東彦三郎(3代目)のために『世響音羽桜』を書く。
English: In June 1804, "Tenjiku Tokubei Kokubanashi" (modeled after an adventurer Tenjiku Tokubei) that he wrote specifically for Matsusuke ONOE I at the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo made a great hit, and in the New Year of the next year, "Shitenno Momiji no Edoguma" made a hit at the Kawarazaki-za theater, which proved that he was a playwright who will lead the next generation both nominally and virtually.
Japanese: 翌享和4年七月(1804年6月)には江戸河原崎座で尾上松助(初代)のために書き下ろした『天竺徳兵衛韓噺』（天竺徳兵衛）が大当たりとなり、翌年正月には河原崎座で『四天王楓江戸粧』を成功させて、名実共に次世代の狂言作者であることを証明した。
English: In July 1808, he completed a ghost story by "Iroeiri Otogizoshi" at the Ichimura-za theater.
Japanese: 文化五年閏六月(1808年7月)には市村座『彩入御伽草』で怪談物の狂言を完成。
English: Although 'Nanboku TSURUYA' was the professional name of Kabuki actor, a playwright Hyozo KATSU succeeded to the name because he married Okichi, a daughter of Nanboku TSURUYA III.
Japanese: 作家の勝俵藏が歌舞伎役者の名跡である「鶴屋南北」を襲名したのは、妻・お吉が歌舞伎役者の三代目鶴屋南北の娘だったから。
English: At the age of 26, a quarter of a century before the succession to the name, he married Okichi, and in the next year, the eldest son Hyozo KATSU II to be Nanboku TSURUYA V was born.
Japanese: 襲名の四半世紀も前、26歳のときに結婚した恋女房で、翌年には後に二代目勝俵藏→五代目鶴屋南北となる長男が生まれている。
English: With a great originality, he established a form of ghost stories with Matsusuke ONOE I, and dramatic elements of Kabuki play with Danjuro ICHIKAWA VII, Kikugoro ONOE III, Hanshiro IWAI V, and Koshiro MATSUMOTO VII.
Japanese: 独創性に富み、尾上松助(初代)とともに怪談を、市川團十郎(7代目)・尾上菊五郎(3代目)・岩井半四郎(5代目)、松本幸四郎(7代目)らとともに歌舞伎歌舞伎狂言の演劇的要素をそれぞれ確立した。
English: For the ghost stories, he pioneered expressions in Kabuki by affiliating with a carpenter of stage sets Kanbei HASEGAWA XI in creating ingenious stage settings.
Japanese: 怪談物では大道具の十一代目長谷川勘兵衛と提携して巧妙な舞台装置を創造し、歌舞伎の表現を開拓した。
English: He was good at expressing the background of the play by sticking to his fantastic idea and realism, which features the development of his plot by mixing quite different worlds such as: having a wedding ceremony at the scene of a crime ("Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan"); making a courtesan visit a row house ("Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma"); making the court noble become professional homosexual from hardship of life ("Shitenno Momiji no Edoguma"); and making a princess become a prostitute ("Sakurahime Azumabunsho").
Japanese: 奇想天外な着想とリアリズムに徹した背景描写を得意とし、殺人現場で婚礼を行ったり（『東海道四谷怪談』）、花魁が長屋に来たり（『浮世柄比翼稲妻』）、公家が生活苦のため陰間になったり（『四天王楓江戸粧』）、姫君が辻君になったりする（『櫻姬東文章』）など、全く異なる世界をないまぜにする展開が特徴的。
English: With a touch of black humor added to decadence and weirdness, his style clearly reflected the fully-matured merchant class culture during the Kasei era.
Japanese: 頽廃と奇怪の中に毒のある笑いを加味したその作風は、化政時代の爛熟した町人文化を色濃く反映している。
English: "Yotsuya Kaidan" "Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan""Kamikakete Sango Taisetu" "Ehon Gappouga Tsuji" "Haji Momiji Ase no Kaomise" "Tenjiku Tokubei Kokubanashi" "Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri"
Japanese: 『四谷怪談『東海道四谷怪談』』『盟三五大切』『絵本合法衢』『慙紅葉汗顔見勢（はじもみじあせのかおみせ）』『天竺徳兵衛韓噺（てんじくとくべえいこくばなし）』『於染久松色讀販（
English: In fact, he wrote play scripts full of mistakes such as "Sono hatake watase" for "Sono hata watase", "Madu, kyo wa korekiri" for "Mazu, kyo wa korekiri", and the like.
Japanese: 実際台本を書くときにも誤字が多く「その旗渡せ」を「その畑渡せ」に、「まず今日は是きり」を「待づ今日は是きり」と間違えたりした。
English: He was such a short-tempered person that when he was working on his next script, but nagged by his wife who was saying they had no money to buy rice, and forced to go out with a mosquito net to pawn it for rice, his neighbor asked him looking at his stern face 'What's the matter?'--He answered with still stern face 'I'm going to do killing.', jargon for pawning, to astonish the neighbor.
Japanese: 癇癖の強い性格で、執筆中に女房から米を買う金がないと再三言われやむなく蚊帳を質に入れようと出かけたが、気難しい顔をしていたので近所の人に「どうした」と聞かれ「はい、殺しに行きます（質に入れるの隠語）」と答えて相手を驚かせている。
English: Although the head of resident playwrights generally entrusts his assistants to write a script, he wrote the plot and the words for a new play and took notes about the details of the play by himself even after he became the head, which helped his assistants very much.
Japanese: 立作者となっても、新作の筋やせりふを自分で書き（本来は助手の作者にまかせる）、細かなメモを作ったので、助手は大いに助かった。
English: As his plays were featured by using a coffin, his contemporary wrote 'a play with a coffin might probably be a play written by Nanboku' (Ippo NISHIZAWA "Denkisaksho".)
Japanese: 作品によく棺桶が登場するのが特色で、同時代の人から「棺を持ちいたる狂言を見れば作者は南北なり」（西沢一鳳『伝奇作書』）と書かれるほどだった。
English: For the first performance of the work that made him well known "Tenjiku Tokubei Kokubanashi", he discussed with the troupe members to spread a rumor across Edo that the actors use Christian magic in their quick-change.
Japanese: 出世作『天竺徳兵衛韓噺』初演時には、座の者たちと相談して「早替りはキリシタンの妖術」という噂を江戸に広めさせている。
English: It made such a fuss that the Edo magistrate's office launched investigation, but they were not blamed and instead, officers admired the play.
Japanese: 江戸町奉行所が取り調べに乗り出すというひと騒動になったが、結局おとがめなしで、奉行所の役人から称賛まで受ける始末。
English: He made a booklet for distributing the mourners at his funeral with a title "Shidenokadomatu Gomanzai", which was a humors 'work' full of satire on himself.
Japanese: 生前に自らの葬儀で参会者に配布するための冊子を書き、これに『寂光門松後万歳』という外題までつけたが、自身を風刺化した笑い溢れた「作品」だった。
English: The Tenson-zoku (Tenson tribe) is a generic term for ancient powers that established the Yamato Dynasty, which appears in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) and the Nihonshoki (The Chronicles of Japan) and which is told in Japanese mythology.
Japanese: 天孫族（てんそんぞく）とは、記紀に登場し日本神話に語り継がれるヤマト王権をつくったとする古代勢力の総称。
English: Vanquishing the ruling families across western Japan they established the Yamato dynasty (Wakoku) which was ruled by the Great King of Yamato (emperor).
Japanese: 西日本各地の豪族を従え大王(ヤマト王権)（天皇）を中心とするヤマト王権（倭国）を樹立した。
English: The dynasty expanded its power to Chubu and Kanto regions and developed into Japan as we know it today.
Japanese: 中部・関東地方まで勢力を拡大させ、のちの日本へと発展していったとしている。
English: Betsuri is comprised of two volumes: the first collection entitled 'Umi no Koe' and the second collection entitled 'Hitori Utaeru' collectively consisting of 1004 poems including some new works.
Japanese: 第1歌集「海の声」、第2歌集「独り歌へる」に新作を加えた1004首で、上下巻に分かれる。
English: There were many lyric poems singing the praise of joys and sorrows of youth in Betsuri that made Bokusui a prominent naturalistic poet who ultimately came to acquire a status in the circle of poets.
Japanese: 青春の哀歓を謳歌した抒情歌が多く、自然主義の歌人として牧水の名を広め、ついには歌壇的地位を獲得するまでに至った。
English: Self-help is a handbook written by Samuel Smiles which was published in 1859.
Japanese: 自助論(selfhelp)は、1859年発行のサミュエル・スマイルズ著の指南書である。
English: Translated by Masanao NAKAMURA who was then an exchange student sent by the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), Self-help was released under the title of Saigoku Risshihen in 1871 in Japan.
Japanese: 当時幕府の留学生だった中村正直が自助論を翻訳、『西国立志篇』として1871年に日本で発売された。
English: When school system was issued in 1872, Saigoku Risshihen started to be used as a textbook.
Japanese: 1872年に学制が公布されると、『西国立志篇』は教科書として使用されるようになった。
English: In 1883, since the Ministry of Education established the approval system for textbooks, Saigoku Risshihen became discontinued as a textbook.
Japanese: そして1883年に文部省が教科書を許可制にしたため、『西国立志篇』は教科書として使用できなくなった。
English: The second phase, April 1896 (April 1896 issue) to November 1926 (December 1926 issue)
Japanese: 第2次1896年4月（明治29年4月号）-1926年11月（昭和2年12月号）
English: Shinshosetsu, with the first phase and second phase being published from January 1889 to June 1890 and from July 1896 to November 1926, respectively, was a literary journal that used to exist in Japan.
Japanese: 『新小説』（しんしょうせつ、第1次1889年1月-1890年6月/第2次1896年7月-1926年11月）は、かつて存在した日本の文芸雑誌である。
English: In January 1927, Shinshosetsu was renamed to Kuroshio and three issues were published until March of that year.
Japanese: 1927年（昭和2年）1月から、『黒潮』（くろしお）と改題し、同年3月まで3号のみ発行した。
English: In January 1889, a literary circle comprised of 14 members including Nansui SUDO, Shiken MORITA, Koson AEBA, Ningetsu ISHIBASHI, Gakkai YODA and Bimyo YAMADA compiled and published Shinshosetsu.
Japanese: 1889年（明治22年）1月、須藤南翠、森田思軒、饗庭篁村、石橋忍月、依田学海、山田美妙らからなる14名の文学同好会が編集し、発行した。
English: In June 1890, the year following, after a year and half since Shinshosetsu began, the first phase of its publication ended.
Japanese: 翌年1890年（明治23年）6月、1年半で第1次『新小説』の刊行は終了する。
English: Six years after the cessation of publication of the first phase, in April 1896, Shinshosetsu was republished under the editorship of Rohan KODA.
Japanese: 1896年（明治29年）4月、第1次の終了の6年後に、幸田露伴の編集で再び創刊した。
English: In January 1927, Shinshosetsu was renamed to Kuroshio (with the English title being the Japanese Current) but that magazine ceased publication after the third issue in March of that year.
Japanese: 1927年（昭和2年）1月、『黒潮』（英副題TheJapancurrent）と改題したが、同誌は同年3月の第3号で終了した。
English: Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI (TOYOTOMI no Hideyoshi)/Hideyoshi HASHIBA was a warrior and a warlord lived in the Age of Civil Wars (late Muromachi Period) through Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
Japanese: 豐臣秀吉（とよとみのひでよし/とよとみひでよし）/羽柴秀吉（はしばひでよし）は、戦国時代(日本)（室町時代後期）から安土桃山時代にかけての武将・戦国大名。
English: He was born as a farmer's son in Nakamura Village of Aichi county in Owari Province (Aichi Prefecture), served Nobunaga ODA and distinguished himself gradually.
Japanese: 尾張国愛知郡(愛知県)中村の百姓として生まれ、織田信長に仕え、次第に頭角を表す。
English: After Nobunaga was killed by Mitsuhide AKECHI at the incident of Honno-ji Temple, Hideyoshi went back to Kyoto to manage other warriors' activities, and defeated Mitsuhide at the battle of Yamazaki, which resulted him in becoming Nobunaga's successor.
Japanese: 信長が本能寺の変で明智光秀に討たれると、本能寺の変本能寺の変後の諸将の動向により京都へと戻り、山崎の戦いで光秀を破り、信長の後継の地位を得る。
English: He introduced such policies as 'Taiko Kenchi' (nationwide location survey) and 'Katanagari' (sword hunt), and died in the middle of 'Bunroku Keicho no eki' (two Japanese invasions of Korea), asking Council of Five Elders to guard his heir, Hideyori.
Japanese: 太閤検地や刀狩などの政策を採るが、文禄・慶長の役の最中に、嗣子の秀頼を徳川家康ら五大老に託して没した。
English: His witty episodes were left such as 'Sunomata Castle', 'Kanegasaki no nokikuchi', 'Mizuzeme (siege by water) against Takamatsu Castle' and 'Ichiyajo (a castle built in one night) of Mt. Ishigaki' and he was regarded as the most successful person in the Sengoku Period.
Japanese: 墨俣城、金ヶ崎の退き口、高松城の水攻め、石垣山一夜城など機知に富んだ逸話が伝わり、百姓から天下人へと至った生涯は「戦国一の出世頭」と評される。
English: 188
Japanese: はじめ木下藤吉郎（きのしたとうきちろう）と名乗り一部の『太閤記』などには、松下加兵衛が烏帽子親となって元服させ、最初は故郷の名を取って中村藤吉郎と名乗り、後に木下に改姓した、とするものもある。
English: In addition, he is said to have taken his surname (means beneath a tree) because he was standing under a tree when he met Kahei or Nobunaga for the first time, but it is lacking credibility and is not considered to be true.
Japanese: なお、加兵衛もしくは信長と最初に会った時に「木の下」に立っていたのでこれを名字とした、とする俗説は極めて信憑性が薄く、事実ではないと考えられている。
English: He served Yukitsuna MATSUSHITA (Kahei MATSUSHITA), who was a feudatory of IIO clan which served IMAGAWA clan and was a lord of Zudaji Castle, a branch of Hikuma Castle which is located in Zudajiso of Nagakami county in Totomi province (present Zudaji-cho, Minami-ku Ward, Hamamatsu city).
Japanese: 今川氏の直臣飯尾氏の配下で、遠江国長上郡頭陀寺荘（現在の浜松市南区(浜松市)頭陀寺町）にあった引馬城支城の頭陀寺城主・松下之綱（松下加兵衛）に仕えた。
English: A lot of biographies such as 'Taikoki' describe that Kahei gave money to Tokichiro and sent him off because Kahei felt sorry for him who had been envied and insulted by colleagues.
Japanese: 『太閤記』などでは、朋輩に妬まれて虐めを受ける藤吉郎を不憫に思った加兵衛が金を与えて送り出した、とされているものが多い。
English: Some say that Tokichiro embezzled the money for an errand then escaped, but it is not certain.
Japanese: 藤吉郎が使いの金を盗んで出奔したとする俗説もあるが、いずれにせよ真偽は不明である。
English: Later, Yukitsuna served Ieyasu TOKUGAWA after IMAGAWA clan had declined, but Hideyoshi rewarded him with 1,600 koku salary in Tanba and Kawachi provinces in 1583, then added 16,000 koku and Totomi-Kuno Castle near Zudaji Castle in 1590.
Japanese: その後の之綱は、今川氏の凋落の後は徳川家康に仕えるも、天正11年（1583年）に秀吉より丹波国と河内国内に1600石を与えられ、天正18年（1590年）には1万6000石と頭陀寺城に近い遠江久野城を与えられている。
English: Hideyoshi served Nobunaga as a lowly servant from around 1554 by an advice of Ikomakitsuno, Nobunaga's wife.
Japanese: 織田信長の正室生駒吉乃の口添えで、天文23年（1554年）ころから信長に小者として仕える。
English: There are several famous episodes in his sandal-bearer period, such as, he had voluntarily taken the position of the construction director of Kiyosu Castle, or food procurement director, and achieved great success with all of them; but these episodes have no historical evidences and seem to be just a legend.
Japanese: 清洲城の普請奉行、台所奉行などを率先して引き受けて大きな成果をあげた草履取りのエピソードは有名だが、この辺りは史実の裏づけがあるわけではなく、俗説・伝説の域を出ない。
English: By these achievements he made a success to gain Nobunaga's favor and distinguished himself among ODA followers.
Japanese: そうして信長の歓心を買うことに成功し、次第に織田家中で頭角をあらわしていった。
English: Around this time it is said that he was nicknamed 'monkey' or 'bald mouse' by Nobunaga from his appearance (see the subject of appearance).
Japanese: この頃、その風貌によって信長から「サル」「禿げネズミ」と呼ばれていたらしい（注：容姿の項目を参照）。
English: In 1561 he married with Kodai-in, who was an adopted daughter of Nagakatsu ASANO (Yasuko TABATA 'Kitanomandokoro One,' Minerva Shobo, 2007, ISBN 978-4623049547.p11).
Japanese: 永禄4年（1561年）田端泰子『北政所おね』（ミネルヴァ書房、2007年、ISBN978-4623049547）p.11、浅野長勝の養女高台院と結婚する。