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English: Masakado surrounded the local government of Shimotsuke Province, but opened one section of the siege line, purposely letting Yoshikane flee, after which he negotiated with the kokuga, making them consent to his legitimacy before returning to his home province.
Japanese: 将門は下野国国府を包囲するが、一部の包囲を解いてあえて良兼を逃亡させ、その後国衙と交渉して自らの正当性を認めさせて帰国した。
English: In the same year, based on a complaint submitted by MINAMOTO no Mamoru, Masakado and TAIRA no Maki received a summons from the Imperial Court, and Masakado went to Heian-kyo (Kyoto), where he was interrogated at the Kebiishicho (Office of Police and Judicial Chief), but he was pardoned of all crimes because of an amnesty granted on May 24, 937, at the occassion of Emperor Suzaku's genpuku (celebrate one's coming of age).
Japanese: 同年、源護によって出された告状によって朝廷から将門と平真樹に対する召喚命令が出て、将門らは平安京に赴いて検非違使庁で訊問を受けるが、承平7年（937年）4月7日の朱雀天皇元服の大赦によって全ての罪を赦される。
English: Even after returning to his home province Masakado continued to be confronted by Yoshikane and the majority of the clan, and on September 18, Yoshikane attacked Masakado's Ikuha no mimaya, holding up portraits of Masakado's father, Yoshimasa, and other ancestors, such as Takamochi-o.
Japanese: 帰国後も、将門は良兼を初め一族の大半と対立し、8月6日には良兼は将門の父良将や高望王など父祖の肖像を掲げて将門の常羽御厩を攻めた。
English: Masakado was defeated in this battle and fled, and Yoshikane returned with Masakado's wife and children (Yoshikane's daughter and grandchildren).
Japanese: この戦いで将門は敗走、良兼は将門の妻子（良兼の娘と孫とされる）を連れ帰る。
English: However, with the help of younger brothers (expressed as 'talking to the brothers' in "Masakado Ki," and therefore it is assumed to be TAIRA no Kinmasa and TAIRA no Kintsura) they fled again on October 21 and returned to Masakado.
Japanese: だが弟たち（『将門記』には「舎弟と語らいて」とあり平公雅や平公連とされている）の手助けで9月10日に再び出奔し将門の元に戻ってしまった。
English: Masakado, having been rejuvinated by the return of his wife and children, took the action of proclaiming his legitimacy to the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 妻子が戻ったことに力を得た将門は朝廷に対して自らの正当性を訴えるという行動に出る。
English: This kanpu has conventionally been interpreted as having been issued to have TAIRA no Yoshikane, TAIRA no Sadamori and MIMAMOTO no Mamoru subjugate Masakado; however, because inconsistencies arose between the facts preceding and following the event, another theory, holding that Yoshikane and others had angered the Imperial Court when Yoshikane and Sadamori attacked Ikuha no mimaya, which officially belong to Meryo (the section taking care of imperial horses), and that Masakado had received the kanpu as an order to subdue them, has become prominent.
Japanese: 従来、この官符は平良兼、平貞盛、源護らに対して出された将門追討の官符であると解釈されてきたが、前後の事実関係とのつながりとの食い違いが生じることから、これを公的には馬寮に属する常羽御厩を良兼・貞盛らが攻撃してしまったことによって良兼らが朝廷の怒りを買い、彼らへの追討の官符を将門が受けたと解釈する説が有力となっている。
English: In any case, siezing this as an opportunity, Masakado drove Yoshikane's troops to Mt. Tsukuba-san; within 3 years Yoshikane died of illness, and Masakado's prowess came to be known throughout the Kanto region.
Japanese: いずれにしてもこれを機に将門は良兼らの兵を筑波山に駆逐し、それから3年の間に良兼は病死し、将門の威勢と名声は関東一円に鳴り響いた。
English: In February 939, the newly appointed governor of Musashi province, Okiyo-o (genealogy unknown), and MINAMOTO no Tsunemoto (first of the Seiwa Genji) who held the rank of suke, came into conflict with MUSASHI no Takeshiba, who held the rank of gunji (local magistrate), in Adachi-gun County.
Japanese: 天慶2年（939年）2月、武蔵国へ新たに赴任した国司、興世王（出自不明）と介源経基（清和源氏の祖）が、足立郡の郡司武蔵武芝との紛争に陥った。
English: Masakado brought Okiyo-o and MUSASHI no Takeshiba together for a meeting so as to mediate a settlement between the two sides; however, Takeshiba's army surrounded Tsunemoto's camp (full account unknown), and Tsunemoto, surprised, fled to Kyoto.
Japanese: 将門が両者の調停仲介に乗り出し、興世王と武蔵武芝を会見させて和解させたが、武芝の兵がにわかに経基の陣営を包囲（経緯は不明）し、驚いた経基は京へ逃げ出してしまう。
English: Masakado's master, the Daijodaijin (Grand minister of state), FUJIWARA no Tadahira, decided to investigate the truth of the matter, and to that end, issued a migyosho (a document for informing people of the decision of Third Rank or upper people) and sent an emissary to the eastern provinces.
Japanese: 将門の主人の太政大臣藤原忠平が事の実否を調べることにし、御教書を下して使者を東国へ送った。
English: Surprised, Masakado accepted the official document, and submitted his own documents, dated May 28, as proof that for the local governments of the five provinces of Hitachi, Shimosa, Shimotsuke, Musashi and Kozuke "the suspicion of rebellion is completely groundless".
Japanese: 驚いた将門は上書を認め、同年5月2日付けで、常陸・下総・下野・武蔵・上野5カ国の国府の「謀反は事実無根」との証明書をそえて送った。
English: Because of this, the Imperial Court cleared Masakado of all suspicions, and Tsunemoto, in turn, was punished for the crime of false accusation.
Japanese: これにより朝廷は将門への疑いを解き、逆に経基は誣告の罪で罰せられた。
English: Having become aware of Masakado's high repute in the Kanto region, the Imperial Court was debating enlisting his services by bestowing on him a court rank and official position in the government.
Japanese: 将門の関東での声望を知り、朝廷は将門を叙位任官して役立たせようと議している。
English: During this period, the fighting between Masakado and his adversaries was viewed as merely private warfare (personal skirmishes among the gozoku [regional ruling families]) and it is thought that the Imperial Court did not see them as rebellious acts against the country.
Japanese: この時期には将門と敵対者の戦いはあくまでも私戦（豪族間の個人的ないざこざ）とみなされ、国家に対する反乱であるという認識は朝廷側にはなかったと考えられている。
English: At this time, Okiyo-o, who had become Musashi Gon no kami (a provisional governor of Musashi Province), was not on good terms with KUDARA no Sadatsura, Musashi no kuni-no kami, who had just been appointed as a zuryo; this led Okiyo-o to abandon his assigned region and seek refuge with Masakado.
Japanese: この頃、武蔵権守となった興世王は新たに受領として赴任してきた武蔵国守百済貞連と不和になり、興世王は任地を離れて将門を頼るようになる。
English: In addition, when FUJIWARA no Haruaki of Hitachi Province sought protection upon the issuance of a warrant for his arrest for being delinquent on tax payments to the Imperial Court, Masakado hid Haruaki and refused the request from the local government of Hitachi to hand him over.
Japanese: また、朝廷への租税を滞納していたことにより追捕令が出ていた常陸国の藤原玄明が庇護を求めると将門は玄明を匿い常陸国府からの引渡し要求を拒否した。
English: Then, on January 8, 940, Masakado assembled his army, advanced to the Hitachi Fuchu (in Ishioka City) and demanded the rescission of the arrest order.
Japanese: そのうえ天慶2年11月21日（939年）、軍兵を集めて常陸府中（石岡市）へ赴き追捕撤回を求める。
English: Because the local government of Hitachi refused his demand and declared war, Masakado had no choice but to fight, and even though Masakado was leading a force of only slighhtly more than 1,000 men, he quickly defeated the local government's army of 3,000 men, and the Hitachi no suke, FUJIWARA no Korechika, was forced to surrender.
Japanese: 常陸国府はこれを拒否するとともに宣戦布告をしたため、将門はやむなく戦うこととなり、将門は手勢1000人余ながらも国府軍3000人をたちまち打ち破り、常陸介藤原維幾はあっけなく降伏。
English: This incident, in the final analysis, though unintended as such, amounted to an act of rebellion against the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 結局この事件によって、不本意ながらも朝廷に対して反旗を翻すかたちになってしまう。
English: Masakado received the following advice from Okiyo-o, who had become his vassal: "Upon assessing the overall situation, it became clear that we could be accused harshly of subjugating even one local government by the Imperial court, so, we might as well defeat Bando, and wait to see what they do first."
Japanese: 将門は側近となっていた興世王の「案内ヲ検スルニ、一國ヲ討テリト雖モ公ノ責メ輕カラジ。同ジク坂東ヲ虜掠シテ、暫ク氣色ヲ聞カム。」との進言を受けた。
English: On January 27 of the same year, he occupied the local government of Shimonotsuke Province, and then he captured the governor of Kozuke province, FUJIWARA no Hisanori (because this province was a shinno ninkoku [provinces whose gubernatorial posts were reserved as sinecures for imperial princes], the suke had the highest authority), and in exchange for sparing his life, Masakado took possession of the inju and exiled him; on February 4, he toppled the provincial office of Kozuke, which had lost its commander, thereby capturing the entirety of the Kanto region, enthroned himself as Shinno (the New Emperor), and, performing a Jimoku assignment ceremony himself, established the seicho (government office) in Iwai City (Bando City of Ibaraki Prefecture).
Japanese: 同年12月11日(旧暦)に下野国国府を占領し、続いて迎撃に出兵した上野国国司藤原尚範（同国は親王任国のため、介が最高責任者。藤原純友の叔父）を捕らえて助命する代わりに印綬を接収して国外に放逐、12月19日(旧暦)には指揮官を失った上野国府を落とし、関東一円を手中に収めて「新皇」を名乗り天皇に即位、独自に除目を行い岩井市（茨城県坂東市）に政庁を置いた。
English: When he was about to assume for himself the title of Shinno (New Emperor), he was advised agasinst doing so by his younger brother, TAIRA no Masahira, and his page, IWA no Kazutsune, however, he ignored their advice.
Japanese: また、この新皇僭称に際して舎弟平将平、小姓伊和員経らに諫言されるも聞き入れなかった。
English: He set up his official residence as Shinno in Teinami, Shimosa Province (an alternative version holds that it was in Ishii, Sashima-gun county), fashioning Bunahashi after Yamazaki in Kyoto, and Tsu in Oi, Soma-gun county after Otsu, appointing Monbunhyakkan officials such as Sayu-daijin, Nagon, Sangi, and commissioned the creation of a Naiin (inner seal) and Gein (outer seal); it is said that he tried to establish a capital of a new nation in Bando modeled after the imperial capital in Kyoto.
Japanese: 皇居を下総国の亭南（猿島郡石井という説がある）と定め、檥橋を京の山崎、相馬郡の大井の津を大津になぞらえて、左右大臣・納言・参議など文武百官を任命し、内印・外印を鋳造し、坂東に京に模した国家を樹立しようとしたされている。
English: The news of Masakado's insurrection reached Kyoto almost immediately, and at the same time there was another report of a rebellion by FUJIWARA no Sumitomo in the western provinces, leaving the Imperial Court aghast.
Japanese: 将門謀反の報はただちに京にもたらされ、また同時期に西国で藤原純友の乱の報告もあり、朝廷は驚愕する。
English: Temples and shrines were immediately ordered to pray for the quelling of the rebellions, and on February 24 of the following year (940), MINAMOTO no Tsunemoto was given the court rank of Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) in recognition of the fact that his previous secret report became true; on March 5, a punitive force headed by Sangi FUJIWARA no Tadafumi as Seito taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the eastern barbarians") set out from Kyoto to the eastern provinces.
Japanese: 直ちに諸社諸寺に調伏の祈祷が命じられ、翌天慶3年（940年）1月9日には源経基が以前の密告が現実になったことが賞されて従五位下に叙され、1月19日には参議藤原忠文が征東大将軍に任じられ、討伐軍が出立した。
English: In Kanto, during mid-January of the same year, Masakado led an army of 5,000 men and advanced to Hitachi province, in search of the whereabouts of TAIRA no Sadamori and Korechika's son, FUJIWARA no Tamenori.
Japanese: 同年1月中旬、関東では、将門が兵5000を率いて常陸国へ出陣して、平貞盛と維幾の子藤原為憲の行方を捜索している。
English: This string of actions taken by Masakado is described as frivolous in the "Masakado Ki," which states, "Thus, the New Emperor demonstrated that he was not a man of the world, but more like a big fish in a small pond," and in fact, considering the fate Masakado was later to meet, it can be said that the fact that he spent an undue amount of time and military power searching for Sadamori at a critical juncture when he should have been solidifying his own base, proved a fatal error.
Japanese: 『将門記』では「然ルニ新皇ハ、井ノ底ノ浅キ励ミヲ案ジテ、堺ノ外ノ広キ謀ヲ存ゼズ。」と、この将門の一連の行動を”浅はか”であると評しており、事実その足場を固めねばならない大事な時期に貞盛らの捜索のために無駄に時間と兵力を使ったことは、後々の運命を見ると致命的となったと言える。
English: He soon received a report that Sadamori was uniting his power with Oryoshi of Shimonotsuke Province, FUJIWARA no Hidesato, and that they were gathering an army of 4,000 men.
Japanese: 間もなく、貞盛が下野国押領使の藤原秀郷と力をあわせて兵4000を集めているとの報告が入る。
English: Masakado had let most of his men, whom had been drafted from various provinces, return to their home provinces; therefore, he had only a small force of fewer than 1,000 men on hand.
Japanese: 将門は諸国から召集していた軍兵のほとんどを帰国させていたこともあり手許には1000人足らずしか残っていなかった。
English: Thinking that the passage of time would put him at a disadvantage, he mobilized his troops on March 17; the commanders TAJI no Tsuneakira and SAKANOUE no Katsutaka, under Masakado's Vice Shogun FUJIWARA no Harumochi, launched an attack on Sadamori and Hidesato's army as soon as they found them, without first reporting to Masakado, but Harumochi's army was defeated.
Japanese: 時を移しては不利になると考えて2月1日出陣、将門の副将藤原玄茂の武将多治経明と坂上遂高らは貞盛・秀郷軍を発見すると将門に報告もせずに攻撃を開始、しかし玄茂軍は敗退してしまう。
English: Sadamori and Hidesato's army gave chase and engaged Masakado's army in Kawaguchi, Shimosa Province; Masakado himself was at the battlefront and fought bravely, causing Sadamori and Hidesato to waver, but the numerically superior Imperial forces gained the advantage over Masakado's army with the passage of time, and Masakado was eventually forced to retreat.
Japanese: 貞盛・秀郷軍はこれを追撃し下総国川口にて将門軍と合戦になり将門自ら陣頭に立って奮戦し貞盛・秀郷らもたじろぐが、時が経つにつれ数に勝る官軍に将門軍は押され、ついには退却を余儀なくされた。
English: Masakado went into hiding in Hiroe, Sashima-gun County, in an attempt to lure the enemy into his home territory, where he could hope to rout them, making use of the advantageous lay of the land.
Japanese: 将門は、地の利のある本拠地に敵を誘い込み起死回生の大勝負をしかけるため、幸嶋郡の広江に隠れる。
English: However, Sadamori and Hidesato were not lured into Masakado's trap, and instead, they proclaimed their victory in the previous battle to the people, enabling them to further augment their ranks, including the addition of FUJIWARA no Tamenori; on February 13, they embarked on a campaign to carry out a "scorched earth policy" aiming to attack and burn down Masakado's home base in Ishii.
Japanese: しかし貞盛・秀郷らはこの策には乗らず、勝ち戦の勢いを民衆に呼びかけ更に兵を集め、藤原為憲も加わり、2月13日将門の本拠石井に攻め寄せ焼き払う「焦土作戦」に出た。
English: Though this would result in the people losing their homes and ending up in the streets, it is said that they were more incensed at Masakodo's "incompetent government" than the prospect of being burned out of house and home by the marauding army, and had already distanced themselves from Masakado.
Japanese: これによって民衆は住処を失い路頭に迷うが、追討軍による焼き討ちを恨むよりも、将門の「悪政」を嘆いたといい、既に民心は将門から離れていた。
English: Still wearing his armor, Masakado continued to evade Sadamori, wandering about from place to place, and though he tried to assemble an army for a counterattack, due to the unfavorable circumstances, he was unable to gather as many men as he'd anticipated, so he led a mere 400 men to his camp in Kitayama, Sashima-gun County, and waited for reinforcements from his allies.
Japanese: 当の将門は身に甲冑をつけたまま貞盛らの探索をかわしながら諸処を転々とし、反撃に向けて兵を召集するが形勢が悪くて思うように集まらないために攻撃に転ずることもままならず、僅か手勢400を率いて幸嶋郡の北山に陣をしいて味方の援軍を待つ。
English: However, his whereabouts became known to the enemy before reinforcements arrived, and he went into his final battle with leading an army vastly outnumbered by the enemy army.
Japanese: しかし、味方の来援よりも先にその所在が敵の知ることとなり寡兵のまま最後の決戦の時を迎えることとなった。
English: A wind swept down from the notrh, giving Masakado an advantageous windward position, which he made good use of in attacking the allied army with arrows.
Japanese: 北風が吹き荒れ、将門軍は風を負って矢戦を優位に展開し、連合軍を攻め立てた。
English: The troops at the center of Sadamori's battle formation laid an ambush for Masakado, but they were discovered and routed, Sadamori, Hidesato and Tamenori's armies were obliterated, and 2900 of their troops fled, with only slightly more than 300 elite troops left standing.
Japanese: 貞盛方の中陣が奇襲をかけるも撃退され、貞盛・秀郷・為憲の軍は撃破され軍兵2900人が逃げ出し、わずかに精鋭300余を残すこととなってしまう。
English: However, while the triumphant Masakado was returning to his camp, the direction of the wind abruptly reversed to the south, and the remaining allied forces, now having the windward advantage, regrouped and took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
Japanese: しかし勝ち誇った将門が自陣に引き返す途中、急に風向きが変わり南風になると、風を負って勢いを得た連合軍はここぞとばかりに反撃に転じた。
English: Astride his horse, Masakado fought valiantly on the battlefront, but his fleet footed horse, which had been galloping like the wind, began to tire and lost its pace, leaving Masakado at a loss for a means to drive forward with his heroic battle, and he died in battle when a loosed arrow struck him on the forehead.
Japanese: 将門は自ら馬を駆って陣頭に立ち奮戦するが、風のように駿足を飛ばしていた馬の歩みが乱れ、将門も武勇の手だてを失い、いずくからか飛んできた矢が将門の額に命中し、あえなく討死した。
English: The placing of Masakado's decapitated head on public display is the oldest confirmed example of the practice in history.
Japanese: 晒し首が歴史上で確認される最も古い確実な例が、この将門の晒し首である。
English: The rebelions by Masakado (TAIRA no Masakado's War), and FUJIWARA no Sumitomo, which occurred at about the same time around the Seto Inland Sea, are together referred to as, "Johei and Tengyo War (Rebellion of Johei-Tengyo)."
Japanese: この将門の乱は、ほぼ同時期に瀬戸内海で藤原純友が起こした乱と共に、「承平天慶の乱」と呼ばれる。
English: Because of the efforts he made to stand up for the downtrodden and social outcasts, and his heroic, tragic death in battle, he has long been the subject of anecdotes and legends among people throughout the Kanto area.
Japanese: 関東一円では、武芸に優れているばかりでなく、世に受け入れられない者の代弁に努めたという将門は、その壮絶で悲劇的な死とも相まって、長い間、逸話や伝説として人々に語り継がれている。
English: This can be considered to be due to the fact that Masakado has come to be viewed as a man who stood up for the people of the eastern provinces, who had continually been forced to bear a heavy load.
Japanese: これは、将門が、重い負担を強いられ続けられた東国の人々の代弁者として捕らえられた為だと考えられる。
English: During the middle ages, there are frequent reports of the occurrence of extraordinary or supernatural phenomena was around Masakado-zuka (the burial mound of TAIRA no Masakado); in order to quiet the fears of the people of that time, who feared that such phenomena were due to the wrath of Masakado's spirit, the yugyo-so monk, Shinkyo of Jishu enshrined Masakado as a god, and in 1309 he was recognized as a god at Kanda Myojin.
Japanese: 中世、将門塚（平将門を葬った墳墓）の周辺で天変地異が頻繁に起こることがあり、これを将門の祟りと恐れた当時の民衆を静めるため、時宗の遊行僧・真教によって神と祀られ、延慶(日本)2年（1309年）には神田明神に合祀されることとなった。
English: Sengoku Period warlords, such as Dokan OTA and Ujitsuna HOJO, prayed to that diety for good fortune on the battlefield at Kanda Myojin; furthermore, at the occasion of the Battle of Sekigahara, the victory of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA was prayed there.
Japanese: 神田明神は戦国時代の太田道灌・北条氏綱等の武将が武運祈願のため崇敬するところとなり、さらに関ヶ原の戦いの際には徳川家康戦勝祈祷を行った。
English: Therefore, during the Edo Period, the Kanda Myojin Shrine, where TAIRA no Masakado was enshrined, was revered as the Edo Sochinju (the center place to pray for local gods) by the Shogunate.
Japanese: このようなことから、江戸時代には幕府により、平将門を祭る神田明神は江戸総鎮守として重視された。
English: In addition, the Dainagon (Major Counselor), Mitsuhiro KARASUMA, visited Edo as Imperial envoy during the era of Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, the third Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Edo Shogunate, to hear of Masakado's achievements from the Shogunate, upon which he cleared Masakado tarnished reputation as an enemy of the Imperial Court, reporting the Emperor in proclaiming, "Masakado is not an enemy of the Imperial Court" during the era of Iemitsu.
Japanese: また、将門の朝敵としての汚名は江戸幕府三代征夷大将軍徳川家光の時代に、勅使として江戸に下向した大納言烏丸光広が幕府より将門の事績について聞かされ、「将門は朝敵に非ず」との奏上により、除かれている。
English: It is said that Kanda Myojin Shrine was relocated by the Shogunate to the current location of kimon (the northeastern [unlucky] direction, person or thing to be avoided) at Edo-jo Castle.
Japanese: なお、神田明神は幕府によって江戸城の鬼門にあたる現在地に遷座されたと言われる。
English: The act of emplacing the shrine dedicated to Masakado, who had rebelled against the Imperial court, at the Kimon of the Shogun's residential castle, is said to have been a demonstration of the resolve of the Tokugawa clan not to have the Imperial Court interfere in the affairs of the Shogunate government.
Japanese: これは、徳川氏が朝廷に反逆した将門を将軍居城の鬼門に据えることにより、幕政に朝廷を関与させない決意の現われだという。
English: The name "Kanda" of Kanda Myojin, according to one theory, is said to be derived from the word for body, "karada," representing the torso of Masakado after he was decapitated; the name of the area where the burial mound of Masakado's torso is located in Bando City is "Kadoyama" (the first two characters are written with the same two characters as Kanda).
Japanese: 神田明神の「かんだ」は、首を斬られて殺された将門の胴体、つまり「からだ」が変化したものという説もあるし、坂東市内の胴塚周辺の地名は「神田山（かどやま）」である。
English: After the Meiji Restoration, Masakado's antagonization of the Imperial Court and his status were raised as problematic; as a result, he came to be treated as a rebel.
Japanese: 明治維新後は、将門は朝廷に戈を向けた朝敵であることが再び問題視され、逆賊として扱われた。
English: In 1874, by order of Kyobusho (Ministry of Religion), his remains were removed from the Kanda Myojin Shrine and transferred to Masakado-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: そして明治7年（1874年）には、教部省の指示により神田明神の祭神から外され、将門神社に遷座されてしまう。
English: After the World War II, he was often treated as a hero who bravely confronted the tyrannical government of the Imperial Court, and opened up a new era by enthroning himself as a New Emperor, in a manner similar as Aterui of Northern Tohoku.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦終結後は、朝廷の横暴な支配に敢然と立ち向かい、新皇に即位して新たな時代を切り開いた英雄として扱われることが多くなった（北東北のアテルイも同様）。
English: Therefore, the manner in which Masakado has been viewed has changed greatly: enemy of the Imperial Court in ancient times; venerated figure during the middle ages; gyakuzoku rebel during the Meiji Period; and hero after the World War II.
Japanese: このように将門の評価は、古代の朝敵から、中世の崇敬対象へ、さらに明治時代の逆賊視、ついで戦後の英雄化と激しく揺れ動いた。
English: Haruki MURAKAMI (local historian, and former high school teacher, not the famous fiction writer by the same name), has conducted research into the legends about Masakado, and has proposed the following schema for categorizing the legends.
Japanese: 将門伝説の研究者である村上春樹(研究者)(元高校教諭の郷土史家、同名の小説家とは別人)は将門伝説を以下のように分類している。
English: Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple in Narita City, Chiba Prefecture, is a temple which, according to legend, was built over a place where a prayer ritual to vitalize the anti-Masakado forces was conducted by Buddhist Priest Kancho Sojo, who took the sea route (land route took too long) to go down to the Kanto area on a secret order from Emperor Suzaku, who feared the disorder in the eastern provinces.
Japanese: 千葉県成田市の成田山新勝寺は、東国の混乱をおそれた朱雀天皇の密勅により海路（陸路は日数を要す）下向した寛朝僧正が、対将門勢の士気を鼓舞するために祈祷を行ったとされる場所に、言い伝えによって建てられた寺院である。
English: For this reason, the descendants of Masakado and his retainers still do not visit Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple to this day, even after the passage of 1,080 years.
Japanese: このため、将門とその家来の子孫は、1080年以上たった今でも成田山新勝寺へは参詣しないという。
English: There is also still a tendency among a portion of the long time residents of Masakado, Sakura City, which appears in His Upbringing, and also in one part of Bando City, where Seicho was located, to view visiting the temple unfavorably.
Japanese: また、生い立ちにもある佐倉市将門に古くから住む人々も、参詣しない家が多く残り、かつて政庁が置かれた坂東市の一部にも参拝を良しとしない風潮が残るとされる。
English: Many of ujiko (shrine parishioners) of the Tsukudo-jinja Shrine and Kanda-jinja Shrine (Kanda Myojin) do not visit the temple because legend says that those who visit the Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple cannot receive the protection of TAIRA no Masakado no miko, who is an Ubusunagami (guardian deity of one's birthplace).
Japanese: 築土神社や神田神社（神田明神）の氏子も、成田山新勝寺へ詣でると、産土神である平将門命の加護を受けることができなくなるとの言い伝えにより、参詣しない者が多い。
English: Cast members of the Taiga drama (NHK Historical Drama) series "Wind, Clouds and the Rainbow" also declined to take part in the bean-scattering ceremony (setsubun), which celebrates the coming of spring, at Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 大河ドラマ「風と雲と虹と」の出演者も、成田山新勝寺の節分豆まきへの参加辞退をした。
English: At "Historic Place Kanda-jingu Shrine" in Shinkamanza-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City (Nishi-no-toin Higashi-iru, Shijo-dori), there is a small shrine that appears dwarfed among the numerous residential homes.
Japanese: 「史蹟神田神宮」京都市下京区新釜座町（四条通西洞院東入ル）には、民家に埋もれる様にして小さな祠がある。
English: The plaque at the site that testifies to its authenticity and recounts the history states that, "This is where TAIRA no Masakado's head was put on public display during the period of Tengyo."
Japanese: 「天慶年間平将門ノ首ヲ晒（さら）シタ所也（なり）」と由緒書きにはある。
English: According to the legend, Masakado's decapitated head was put on public display at Shichijogawara in Kyoto, but it looked as if his eyes were wide open and he was grinding his teeth even after many months.
Japanese: 言い伝えでは討ち取られた首は京都の七条河原にさらされたが、何ヶ月たっても眼を見開き、歯ぎしりしているかのようだったといわれている。
English: It is said that the Kajin (a waka poet) Sakon FUJIROKU saw Masakado's head and recited a waka poem, at which time it is said that Masakado's head laughed, the earth suddenly began to shake, there was thunder and lightening, and the head said "I need to get back my body and go into battle! Where is my body!"
Japanese: ある時、歌人の藤六左近がそれを見て和歌を詠むと、将門の首が笑い、突然地面が轟き、稲妻が鳴り始め、首が「躯（からだ）つけて一戦（いく）させん。俺の胴はどこだ」と言った。
English: Then, one night the head emitted a white light and flew due east in search of its body; therefore, the head burial mound is not found in Kyoto.
Japanese: そして、ある夜、首が胴体を求めて白光を放って東の方へ飛んでいったと言い伝えられ、頸塚は京都にはない。
English: An accident occurs whenever there is a plan to transfer the burial mound, and it is greatly feared even to this day.
Japanese: この首塚には移転などの企画があると事故が起こるとされ、現在でも畏怖の念を集めている。