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English: Genji encourages lady Akashi to come up to the capital, but she is concerned about her social standing.
Japanese: 源氏は明石の御方の上洛をうながすが、身分を思う彼女はなかなか肯んじえない。
English: Priest Akashi also persuades her to go up to the capital, and at last she secretly moves to the second residence of Genji located near the Katsura-gawa River (The Yodo-gawa River system), where Genji welcomes her and meets his own daughter.
Japanese: 入道の薦めによりやっと桂川(淀川水系)あたりの別邸に忍んで上京した彼女を源氏は喜び迎え、姫君とも親子の対面をする。
English: When Lady Murasaki hears about her from Genji, she feels jealous of lady Akashi because she doesn't have a child, but she is pleased to know the Genji's plan to adopt the baby girl for her in the future.
Japanese: 源氏に事情を聞いた紫の上はみずからに子のないことに引きくらべ嫉妬を覚えるが、ゆくゆく姫君を紫の上の養女としようという源氏の言葉に喜ぶ。
English: As lady Akashi's daughter is taken in by Genji, Lady Akashi experiences a sad separation from her daughter at the second house in Oi.
Japanese: 明石の姫君が源氏のもとへ引きとられ、大堰の別邸では親子の悲しい別れが繰りひろげられる。
English: On the other hand, Emperor Reizei accidentally finds out that his real father is Genji and tries to have his father succeed to the throne, but Genji admonishes him for it, keeping the secret.
Japanese: 一方で冷泉帝はふとしたことからみずからの出生の秘密を知ってしまい、実の父である源氏を皇位につけようとするが、源氏はこれを諌め、秘密を守りつづける。
English: Genji's cousin Asagao, about whom he had felt deeply once, resigns.
Japanese: かつて源氏が深い想いを寄せていた従姉妹である朝顔(源氏物語)が退下した。
English: Because Asagao is well known for her beauty and attractiveness, lady Murasaki can't help feeling uneasy, while Asagao keeps turning down Genji's marriage proposals.
Japanese: 世人の噂が高いために、紫の上は不安の色を隠せなかったが、朝顔は源氏の求婚を拒み通した。
English: Genji tells lady Murasaki about the women he had relations with, and on that night he has a dream in which Fujitsubo appears, blaming him over her sin being revealed.
Japanese: 源氏は紫の上に女君たちのことを語ったが、その夜夢に藤壺が現れ、罪が知れたと言って源氏を恨んだ。
English: For various reasons, Genji makes his son study at the Academy, but Yugiri is ashamed of this because it is not what the children of distinguished families do.
Japanese: 源氏は思うところあって、彼を大学寮に学ばせるが、貴顕の子弟として夕霧はこれを恥じる。
English: Yugiri has a girl friend from his childhood called Kumoi no Kari, a daughter of the former To no Chujo (the Palace Minister), but her father becomes Genji's political enemy and forces the two of them apart, which makes Yugiri even more depressed.
Japanese: 幼馴染で恋仲の雲居雁はかつての頭中将（内大臣）の娘であるが、彼女との仲も今や源氏の政敵となった内大臣によって塞えられ、夕霧は鬱々とする。
English: The residence is separated into four wings each of which is named after four seasons: in the spring wing, there lives lady Murasaki, the summer wing, Hanachirusato and other women, the autumn wing is for the Ise Consort's short leaves from service (because of this she is called Akikonomu, which literally means preferring autumn), and in the winter wing, lady Akashi.
Japanese: 院は四季の町に分けられており、春に紫の上、夏に花散里そのほかの人びと、秋は斎宮女御の宿下りの町（このために秋好中宮と呼ばれる）、冬に明石の御方が住いする。
English: Yugao and Tamakazura, a daughter of To no Chujo comes to be taken in by Genji and live in the Rokujo estate through an act of fate.
Japanese: 夕顔(源氏物語)と頭中将の子玉鬘(源氏物語)は、運命のめぐりあわせによって源氏に引きとられ六条院に住まうことになる。
English: Hikaru Genji, Hotaru Hyobukyo no Miya (Genji's younger brother), and Kashiwagi (Genji's older brother by a different mother) propose to her, but the most inelegant man Higekuro (The Commander of the Right) forces her to get married with him in the end.
Japanese: 彼女は光源氏、蛍兵部卿宮（源氏の弟）、柏木(源氏物語)（異母兄にあたる）などから求婚されるが、結局はもっとも無粋な髭黒大将が強引に彼女と結婚してしまう。
English: The ten quires of Tamakazura consist of short chapters which deal with the story around her, beginning with Hatsune (The First Warbler) and ending with Miyuki (The Imperial Process), in which a year in the Rokujo estate is elegantly depicted, focusing on elegance rather than the plot itself.
Japanese: 玉鬘十帖は彼女をめぐる物語を中心に、「初音」より「行幸」に六条院の一年を優雅な筆致で描く短い帖によって構成されており、話の運びよりも風情が主体となっている。
English: The wet nurse wants Tamakazura's father to meet her, so they pay a visit to the Hatsuse shrine where they meet Ukon, who was a former court lady of Yugao and serves Genji now, and Genji comes to adopt Tamakazura.
Japanese: 一目父に逢わせたいと乳母とともに初瀬に参籠した折、たまたまかつての夕顔の女房で今は源氏に仕える右近とめぐり逢い、彼女は源氏に養女として引きとられる。
English: In March, when Empress Akikonomu takes a short leave, the people in the Rokujo estate enjoy boating, and after that various events are held.
Japanese: 三月、秋好中宮の宿下りにあわせて六条院では船遊びが行われ、その後もさまざまな行事がつづく。
English: Being depressed, Tamakazura doesn't enjoy herself at all, but Genji amuses himself by making fun of the young courtiers who love her.
Japanese: 玉鬘は鬱々として楽しまないが、源氏は彼女に好意を持つ公達をからかって楽しむ。
English: When his younger brother Hyobukyo no Miya visits her, Genji lets fireflies out inside of the bamboo blind, showing her beauty to him.
Japanese: 弟兵部卿宮が来訪すると、源氏は御簾のなかに蛍を放って、玉鬘の美貌を彼に見せるのであった。
English: Around the time when the early summer rain keeps falling, illustrated stories become popular at the Rokujo estate, so Genji and Tamakazura debate about their tales.
Japanese: 六条院では五月雨のつれづれに絵物語がはやり、源氏と玉鬘が物語論を交わす。
English: One summer day, Genji invites Yugiri and other young courtiers and ridicules the bad taste and inelegance of Omi no Kimi, a daughter newly discovered by the Palace Minister, and after that he visits Tamakazura's place where pinks (tokonatsu) are blooming in riotous profusion.
Japanese: 夏のある日、源氏は夕霧(源氏物語)や若公達を招き、内大臣が最近引取った娘近江の君の悪趣味、無風流を揶揄し、その後撫子（常夏）の咲乱れる御殿に玉鬘を訪ねるのだった。
English: One early autumn night, Genji teaches Tamakazura how to play koto (Japanese traditional zither), and lies down beside her, making a fire in an iron basket in the garden.
Japanese: 秋のはじめのある夜、源氏は玉鬘に琴を教え、庭に篝火を焚かせて添臥しする。
English: On the next morning after nowaki (typhoon), Yugiri visits Genji's wife and mistresses at the Rokujo estate where he sees lady Murasaki by chance and becomes attracted to her.
Japanese: 野分（台風）の翌朝、夕霧は源氏の妻妾を見舞いに六条院にゆき、偶然紫の上を見て心を引かれる。
English: In the winter when the Emperor makes a royal visit to Oharano, Tamakazura catches a glimpse of Emperor Reizei, who sets his heart on her, and she has tender feelings for him too.
Japanese: 冬、大原野の行幸があり玉鬘に執心する冷泉帝を垣間見て彼女もにくからず思う。
English: Genji confesses the truth to To no Chujo, and they makes plans for her initiation ceremony of tying the ceremonial apron for her bridal entry into court.
Japanese: 源氏は頭中将に真相を打明け、入内にむけてまずは玉鬘の裳着（古代女性の成年式）を行うことを二人は話しあう。
English: In autumn, Palace Minister's mother Omiya passes away, and her grandchildren Yugiri and Tamakazura go into mourning.
Japanese: 秋、内大臣の母大宮(源氏物語)が物故し、孫にあたる夕霧、玉鬘らは服喪する。
English: As Tamakazura's bridal entry into court becomes more of a real possibility, suitors feels uneasy, especially Yugiri who confesses his love for Tamakazura, putting a spray of thoroughwort flower into a bamboo blind.
Japanese: 玉鬘入内の噂がたかくなるにつれ求婚者たちの思いは乱れ、ことに夕霧は藤袴一枝を御簾に差入れて彼女に意中をあかす。
English: At the end of autumn, Higekuro, who has loved Tamakazura for a long time, forces her to have a relationship with him with the help of a court lady.
Japanese: 秋の末、かねてより思いをかけていた鬚黒大将が女房の手引きにより玉鬘と強引に関係を持つ。
English: Higekuro, who is deeply in love with Tamakazura, pays no attention to his wife and children, so his father-in-law Shikibukyo no Miya (the Highness of Ceremonial) gets angry and decides to take care of his daughter and grandchildren himself.
Japanese: 玉鬘に夢中の鬚黒はもとの北の方や彼女との子供たちをまったく顧みず、怒った舅式部卿宮は娘と孫を引取ることにする。
English: The princess feels sorrow for being separated from her father, so she composes a poem and puts it into a crack in a pillar.
Japanese: 姫君は父との別れを悲しんで歌を詠み、真木の柱の割目にさしはさむのであった。
English: Various families are asked to blend fine incense as a part of the preparations, so one spring day when plum blossoms come out, a 'blending incense' competition is held.
Japanese: その一環として名香の調合がひろく諸家に呼びかけられ、梅の咲く春のある日薫物合が行われるのだった。
English: To no Chujo approves Yugiri's marriage to Kumoi no Kari, and young lady Akashi enters the Imperial court to marry the Crown Prince (a son of Emperor Suzaku).
Japanese: 夕霧(源氏物語)と雲居雁の結婚を頭中将が許し、明石の姫君は東宮（朱雀帝の子）に入内する。
English: Moreover, Emperor Reizei knows that Genji's fortieth birthday will come next year, and issues an order to grant him a rank equivalent to Retired Emperor.
Japanese: さらに冷泉帝は翌年が源氏四十の賀であることを知って、彼を准太上天皇に進める旨を勅する。
English: When he was a boy, a Goryeo physiognomist prophesied that he would become neither Emperor nor subject, which comes true.
Japanese: 少年の日、高麗の人相見が彼に告げた「その身は帝王にあらず、臣下にあらず」という予言はみごとに的中する。
English: Meanwhile, Emperor Suzaku is to retire into priesthood, but he is worried about his youngest daughter Onna San no Miya, and so asks Genji to marry her.
Japanese: 一方で朱雀帝は出家に際して末娘女三宮の行末を案じ、これを源氏に嫁がしめる。
English: Lady Murasaki is deeply concerned with this, and while Genji himself can't feel affection for the third princess because she is a mere child, he also can't turn down his older brother and the Emperor's offer.
Japanese: 紫の上の憂慮はひとかたならず、源氏自身もほんの少女にすぎない彼女に対して愛情を感じられないが、兄帝の願いを無下には断れない。
English: The following spring, young lady Akashi bears the Crown Prince a child, increasing Genji's influence, while Kashiwagi (a son of To no Chujo) catches a glimpse of Onna San no Miya when kemari (Japanese ancient Imperial court game like kick-ball) is played, and falls in love with her secretly.
Japanese: さらに翌年の春には明石の姫君が東宮の子を出産し、源氏の権勢はいよいよ高まりつつあるが、その陰で、六条院の蹴鞠の催しに女三の宮を垣間見た柏木(源氏物語)（頭中将の子）は彼女への密かな思慕をつのらせるのであった。
English: (Wakana was divided into two volumes for posterity, but it was originally one volume.)
Japanese: （なお「若菜」を上下に分けるのは後代の帖立てで、本来は一巻とされる。）
English: However, Kashiwagi gets ill because of Genji's indirect admonition, and falls into a critical condition.
Japanese: 一方で源氏の遠まわしな諷諌に、柏木は恐怖のあまり病を発し、そのまま重態に陥る。
English: Early in the new year, Onna San no Miya gives birth to a baby boy (Kaoru), while Kashiwagi, who was in a critical condition, passes away.
Japanese: 年明けて女三の宮は男の子（薫）を生み、柏木は病篤くして間も亡くなる。
English: However, Kashiwagi has asked Yugiri, his best fiend, to look after his family after he dies, and while Yugiri visits Kashiwagi's wife Ni no Miya (the Second Princess, Ochiba no Miya), he comes to be attracted to her.
Japanese: 一方で柏木に後事を託された親友の夕霧(源氏物語)は、残された柏木の妻女二宮（落葉の宮）を見舞ううちに彼女に引かれるようになってゆく。
English: Ochiba no Miya's mother sends Yugiri a yokobue (a flute) treasured by the late Kashiwagi in reward for his support of her daughter Ochiba no Miya, but that night Kashiwagi appears in Yugiri's dream, saying that it was a different person (suggesting Kaoru) to whom he wanted to send the yokobue.
Japanese: 落葉の宮の後見をする夕霧はその礼として宮の母から柏木遺愛の横笛を贈られるが、その夜、夢に柏木があらわれて、自分が笛を贈りたいのは別人である（薫を示唆）と言う。
English: Yugiri consults with Genji about this, but Genji avoids telling him what to do.
Japanese: 夕霧は源氏にこのことを相談するが、源氏は言を左右にしてはっきりと答えない。
English: At night, Empress Akikonomu confesses to Genji that she wants to become a priestess to console the spirit of her mother Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, whose spirit is still in agony even after death, while Genji persuades her not to do so.
Japanese: その夜、秋好中宮が死霊となって苦しむ母六条御息所の慰霊のため出家したいと源氏にうちあけるが、源氏はこれを諌める。
English: In autumn, Yugiri, who can't help hiding his love for Ochiba no Miya any more, confesses his feeling to her, but she doesn't accept him.
Japanese: 秋、想いをおさえきれない夕霧は人目を忍んで落葉の宮に意中を明かすが、彼女はこれを受入れない。
English: However, there is a rumor about these two people, and Ochiba no Miya's mother is so worried about this she sucumbs to illness and passes away.
Japanese: しかし世上両人の噂は高く、落葉の宮の母御息所はこれを苦にして病死してしまう。
English: Ochiba no Miya grows increasingly weary of Yugiri, but he forces her to have a relationship with him.
Japanese: 落葉の宮はいっそう夕霧を厭うが、夕霧は強引に彼女との契りを結び、妻とする。
English: Kumoi no Kari is so jealous that she goes back to her father the resigned Grand Minister's home, and won't listen to Yugiri's excuses.
Japanese: 雲居雁は嫉妬のあまり父致仕太政大臣のもとへ帰って、夕霧の弁明をも聞きつけない。
English: After lady Murasaki has fallen seriously ill in the chapter of Wakana, she often asks Genji to let her become a priestess, but he won't approve it, so all she can do is to pray for her happiness in the next world by performing a Buddhist service.
Japanese: 「若菜」の大病ののち紫の上の健康は優れず、たびたび出家を願うが、光源氏はこれを許さず、紫の上はせめて仏事によって後世を願う。
English: Besides, in the chapter of Yadorigi (The Ivy), the author wrote that several years after Genji had become a priest, he lived in seclusion at Saga (Kyoto City) and passed away.
Japanese: なお「宿木」に出家後数年、嵯峨(京都市)に隠棲して崩御したことが記されている。
English: Empress Akashi's son San no Miya is particularly well known for his amorousness, and popular with people along with Kaoru.
Japanese: ことに明石中宮腹の三宮は色好みで名高く、薫と並んで世にもてはやされている。
English: He is called 'Kaoru' because he gives off natural sweet scent from his body, while Nioumiya suffuses his clothes with the fragrance of fine incense which will be called 'Niou Miya.'
Japanese: 天然の薫香が身から発するために「薫」、それに対抗して名香を常に焚きしめているために「匂宮」と二人は呼ばれる。
English: A marriage between Niou Miya and Naka no Kimi, a granddaughter of resigned Grand Minister (To no Chujo), is being arranged, but he is attracted to both lady Makibashira and a daughter of Hotaru Hyobukyo no Miya, and takes no notice of Naka no Kimi.
Japanese: 致仕太政大臣（頭中将）の孫娘中の君と匂宮との結婚が画策されるが、真木柱の姫君と蛍兵部卿宮の娘に心引かれる匂宮は相手にしない。
English: Oigimi, one of the two daughters of Tamakazura, gets married with Emperor Reizei, while Naka no Kimi, the other daughter, is to enter into service at the Imperial court.
Japanese: 玉鬘の二人の娘は、大君が冷泉院に嫁し、中の君が宮中に出仕することになる。
English: Yugiri is loved by this family and has a close relationship with them.
Japanese: 夕霧(源氏物語)はこの一家と親しく、彼女たちから好感を持たれている。
English: This is a love story among the three sisters Uji Hachi no Miya (Oigimi, Naka no Kimi, Ukifune), Kaoru, an illegitimate child between Kashiwagi and Onna San no Miya, and Niou Miya, Hikaru Genji's grandchild.
Japanese: 柏木(源氏物語)と女三宮の不義の子薫と、光源氏の孫匂宮が、宇治八の宮の三姉妹（大君、中君、浮舟）をめぐって織りなす恋物語である。
English: These chapters are dominated by a strong influence of Buddhism and sense of uncertainty, and the character of Kaoru is irresolute and can't take the initiative in love, which makes a strong contrast with his rival Niou Miya and Genji in the first and second section.
Japanese: つよい仏教色、無常感が作品の主調をなし、優柔不断で恋に対して決定的な強引さを持たない薫の人物造形がライバル匂宮や第一部第二部の源氏と対比されている。
English: Genji's younger brother Hachi no Miya lives in seclusion with his two daughters at Uji, spending his days in Buddhist training.
Japanese: 源氏の弟八の宮は二人の娘とともに宇治に隠棲し、仏道三昧の生活を送る。
English: Kaoru, being burdened by the secrets concerning his birth, regards Hachi no Miya's way of living as ideal, and often visits his residence, coming to feel deeply attracted to Oigimi, his eldest daughter.
Japanese: みずからの出生に悩む薫は八の宮の生きかたを理想としてしばしば邸を訪れるうちに、ふとしたことから長女大君に深く心を引かれるようになる。
English: Returning to the capital, Kaoru tells Niou Miya what is going on in Uji, and Niou Miya also gets interested in his story.
Japanese: 都に戻って薫が宇治の有様を語ると、匂宮もこれに興味をそそられるのであった。
English: Kaoru tries to arrange a marriage between Naka no Kimi and Niou Miya, while he himself confesses his love for Oigimi, but is refused.
Japanese: 薫は中の君と匂宮を結婚させんことをはかり、自らはを大君に想いを告げるが彼女の返答はつれない。
English: Kaoru tells his love for Oigimi again in vain, while Oigimi hopes that Naka no Kimi and Kaoru will get married.
Japanese: 薫はふたたび大君に語らうが想いはとげられず、むしろ大君は中の君と薫の結婚を望む。
English: At the end of autumn, Oigimi leaves Naka no Kimi and Kaoru alone in a bedroom, but Kaoru won't touch her.
Japanese: 秋のおわり、大君がはかって中の君と薫をひとつ閨にとりのこすが、薫は彼女に手をふれようとしない。
English: According to plan, he arranges a marriage between Niou Miya and Naka no Kimi, but Niou Miya doesn't often visit his wife, and a bitter Oigimi falls sick in bed, soon passing away in Kaoru's arms.
Japanese: 最初の計画どおり、彼は匂宮と中の君を結婚させるが、匂宮の訪れはとだえがちで、これを恨んだ大君は病気に臥し、やがて薫の腕のなかで死。
English: Although Kaoru serves her as a guardian, he ends up being distrusted by Niou Miya.
Japanese: 薫は後見として彼女のために尽くすが、それがかえって匂宮に疑われる始末であった。
English: Niou Miya gets married to Roku no Kimi (Yugiri's sixth daughter), and Naka no Kimi, who is pregnant, cannot help feeling anxious about the future.
Japanese: 匂宮と六の君（夕霧(源氏物語)の娘）が結婚し、懐妊中の中の君は行末を不安に思う。
English: While Kaoru consoles Naka no Kimi, he comes to feel affection toward her, which makes her confused, but after she safely gives birth to a baby boy, her position becomes more stable.
Japanese: それを慰めるうちに彼女に恋情を抱きはじめた薫に中の君は当惑するが、無事男子を出産して安定した地位を得る。
English: However when he visits the Hase-dera Temple, he catches a glimpse of Ukifune, Oigimi's half younger sister by different mother, and is moved by her.
Japanese: しかし長谷寺の折に、故大君生写しの異母妹浮舟を垣間見て、心を動かされるのだった。
English: Because of her mother's second marriage, Ukifune has been brought up as a stepdaughter of the country Governor, and many men want to marry her because of her father's property.
Japanese: 浮舟は母の再婚により田舎受領の継娘として育てられ、父親の財力のために求婚者は多い。
English: However, her mother hopes to make her marry a noble man, leaving her with Naka no Kimi.
Japanese: しかし母親は高貴の男性との婚姻を望んで、彼女を中の君のもとに預ける。
English: The mother wants to arrange a marriage between Kaoru and her daughter, but one night Niou Miya forces her into a relationship with him, so she takes in Ukifune hastily, consulting with Kaoru later and having her move to Uji.
Japanese: 母の意中は薫にあったが、ある夜、匂宮が強引に契りを結ぼうとしたためにあわてて浮舟を引取り、後に薫と相談して宇治に移す。
English: Niou Miya, who still cannot give up his attachment to Ukifune, discovers her residence through a letter from Naka no Kimi, and visits Uji pretending that Kaoru had an affair with Ukifune forcibly.
Japanese: 浮舟への執心やまぬ匂宮は、中の君への手紙から彼女の居所を察し、薫のさまを装って宇治に赴き、強引に浮舟との関係を結んでしまう。
English: Before long Ukifune also comes to love Miya, while Kaoru, who knows nothing about them, begins preparations for having her move to Kyo, so Niou Miya enters into a rivalry with him, planning to take her to his residence.
Japanese: やがて浮舟も宮を憎からず思うようになるが、何も知らない薫は彼女を京にうつそうとして準備を始め、匂宮もこれに対抗してみずからのもとに彼女を連れ去る計画を立てる。
English: As a consequence, Kaoru, who knows about the relationship between Niou Miya and Ukifune, is sent a poem that blames her, and she agonizes over these two men.
Japanese: その結果匂宮のことは薫の知るところとなり、裏切りを詰る歌を贈られた浮舟は二人の男のあいだで懊悩する。
English: Ukifune is lost, and remaining court ladies sense that she must have drowned herself, so they hold a funeral to hide the truth, lamenting over her death.
Japanese: 浮舟が行方不明になり、後に残された女房たちは自殺入水を計ったと悟って嘆き悲しみながらも、真相を隠すために急遽葬儀を行う。
English: When summer comes, Kaoru feels affection toward Onna Ichi no Miya, an older sister of his wife.
Japanese: 夏になって、薫は新たに妻の姉女一宮に心引かれるものを感じるのであった。
English: Before long she recovers and, without revealing her name, tells the sozu that she would like to become a priestess.
Japanese: やがて健康が回復した彼女は、みずからの名をあかさないまま、入道の志を僧都に告げ出家。
English: Because young lady Akashi's priest for incantation tells her about Ukifune, Kaoru also comes to know about her.
Japanese: やがて、明石の姫君の加持僧である僧都が浮舟のことを彼女に語ったため、このことが薫の知るところとなる。
English: Kaoru goes to Yokawa and asks sozu to meet Ukifune to no avail, so he hands Ukifune's younger brother Kogimi a letter asking her to return to the secular life.
Japanese: 薫は横川に赴き、浮舟に対面を求めるが僧都に断られ、浮舟の弟小君に還俗を求める手紙を託す。
English: However Ukifune refuses everything and thinks about nothing but Buddhist training, and doesn't even reply to him.
Japanese: しかし浮舟は一切を拒んで仏道に専心することのみを思い、返事すらもない。
English: The Foundation for the Reizei family's Shigure-tei library was founded by the descendants of FUJIWARA no Teika; it was created both to store and protect the cultural treasures, including old manuscripts, architectural items, and reports of annual events that had been passed down in the Reizei family, which was well known as a poetic family, and for the purpose of instructing succeeding generations in the Reizei school of kokin denju, or interpretation of the poetry in the Kokinshu.
Japanese: 財団法人冷泉家時雨亭文庫（れいぜいけしぐれていぶんこ）は、藤原定家の子孫であり、歌道の家として知られる冷泉家（上冷泉家）に伝わる古写本、建築、年中行事などの文化遺産を保存し、冷泉流古今伝授を継承することを目的として設立された。
English: The Mikohidari family, descended from FUJIWARA no Michinaga's sixth son FUJIWARA no Nagaie, enjoyed the social status of being known as a family skilled at waka poetry ever since the days of FUJIWARA no Toshinari and Teika, who were compilers of imperial waka anthologies.
Japanese: 藤原道長の6男である藤原長家を祖とする御子左家（みこひだりけ）は、勅撰和歌集の撰者であった藤原俊成・定家以来、和歌の家としての格式をもっていた。
English: After the death of Teika's son FUJIWARA no Tameie, the Mikohidari family's lineage split into three branches: the Nijo family (a separate lineage from the Nijo family famous for being one of the Go-Sekke, the five families that produced regents) and their ancestor Tameuji, Tameie's eldest son and heir, the Kyogoku family, which was descended from Tameie's second son Tamenori, and the Reizei family, descended from Tameie's third son Tamesuke.
Japanese: 藤原定家の子である藤原為家の死後、御子左家の家系は為家の嫡男為氏を祖とする二条家（五摂家の1つである二条家とは別系）、次男為教を祖とする京極家、三男為相を祖とする冷泉家の3家に分かれた。
English: Of the three, both the Nijo and Kyogoku family lines ended during the medieval period, leaving the Reizei family the sole descendants of Toshinari and Teika's bloodline.
Japanese: このうち二条家と京極家は中世に断絶し、俊成・定家の血統を伝えるのは冷泉家のみとなった。
English: Tamesuke, founder of the Reizei family, was a child born to his father Tameie and Abutsuni, the wife he took in his later years.
Japanese: 冷泉家の初代である為相は、父為家とその後妻の阿仏尼との間に生まれた子である。
English: And it was Tamesuke, Tameie's youngest son, not his eldest son and heir Tameuji, that Tameie had inherit his territories and ancestral waka anthologies.
Japanese: 為家は、長男為氏に与えるはずであった所領や伝来の歌書などを末子・為相に相続させている。
English: It is said that this was because Tameie was concerned about the future his son, conceived when Tameie was in his sixties, would have, but in any case the Nijo and Reizei families entered into a long-running dispute concerning dominion over his territories and ownership of the Izayoi Nikki (Diary of the Night of the Sixteenth).
Japanese: これは、為家が自分が60歳代になってからの子であった為相の行く末を案じたためであると言われているが、所領十六夜日記の所有権に関しては、冷泉家と二条家の間で長らく争論があった。
English: The estate of the Kami branch of the Reizei family is in the north section of the Kyoto Imperial Garden on the south side of Imadegawa-dori, and is currently surrounded on three sides--east, north, and west--by the campus of Doshisha University.
Japanese: 上冷泉家の屋敷は京都御苑の北、今出川通に南面し、東・北・西の三方は同志社大学の敷地に囲まれている。
English: This section of the city was the area under Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI's city planning project in which nobles' mansions would be concentrated, but today, the Reizei residence is the only one remaining.
Japanese: この一帯は、豊臣秀吉の都市計画により公家屋敷が集中していた地域であったが、現存するのは冷泉家住宅のみである。
English: As for the Kami branch of the Reizei family, it is known that they erected their own mansion at this site in 1606.
Japanese: 上冷泉家は慶長11年（1606年）にはこの地に屋敷を構えていたことが知られる。
English: The Reizei family residence (an Important Cultural Property) that survives today was rebuilt in1790, two years after being destroyed by the Great Tenmei Fire of Kyoto (which occurred in 1788).
Japanese: 天明8年（1788年）の京都の大火による焼失後、寛政2年（1790年）に再建されたのが、現存する冷泉家住宅（重要文化財）である。
English: Moreover, the storehouse, or 'obunko' (library), filled with the many old manuscripts that the family continued to pass down, is thought to have avoided the Great Tenmei Fire.
Japanese: なお、古写本を多く伝えてきた土蔵「御文庫（おぶんこ）」は、天明の火災を免れたものと思われる。
English: More recently, in 1917, as a consequence of the construction project to widen the Imadegawa-dori (street), the buildings were dragged (in other words, moved as is, without disassembling them) some distance away, and although the size of the Reizei plot of land was reduced, the positioning of the various buildings were kept largely in their old configuration.
Japanese: 近代に入って1917年には今出川通の拡幅工事に伴い曳家（ひきや、建物を解体せずに平行移動させること）が行われ、敷地も縮小したが、各建物の配置などは旧状をよくとどめているという。
English: The existence of such a wide variety of old documents and manuscripts preserved in the obunko (library) of the Kami branch of the Reizei family was known to a handful of researchers over the years, but the library remained private for a long time, so in general, the extent of their collection was not widely known until 1980.
Japanese: 上冷泉家の「御文庫」に保存されてきた古文書・古写本類は、一部研究者にはその存在が知られていたが、長らく非公開とされ、一般にその存在が知られるようになったのは1980年からである。
English: It was starting in the same year that the Heian Museum of Ancient History (today called the Museum of Kyoto) began putting in order and cataloging the collection of books belonging to the Reizei family, and little by little it became obvious just how extensive the collection was.
Japanese: 同年より平安博物館（現京都文化博物館）によって冷泉家所蔵本の整理・目録作成が始められ、徐々にその全体像が明らかにされてきた。
English: Books in the Reizei family library include writings in Toshinari's and Teika's own hands, and even Teika's own personal diary, the "Meigetsuki" (Chronicle of the Clear Moon), making the library a treasure trove of important documents in the study of Japanese literature and medieval Japanese history.
Japanese: 冷泉家所蔵本は、俊成・定家の自筆本や、定家の自筆日記『明月記』をはじめ、日本文学や日本中世史の研究上、貴重な資料の宝庫である。