nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Moroe, who had already began serving as Giseikan (Legislature) (Kugyo) in the position of Sangi (councilor) in 731, ascended to Dainagon (major councilor) in 737, and Udaijin (Minister of the Right) in 738, and in 743 he finally reached Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) and dedicated himself to national politics as the head of Daijokan (Grand Council of State) during the eras of the Emperor Shomu and the Emperor Koken.
Japanese: 諸兄は既に天平3年から参議に就いて議政官（公卿）を勤めていたが、天平9年には大納言へのぼると、翌10年には右大臣へ、同15年には左大臣へ昇進し、聖武天皇・孝謙天皇両天皇の治世期に太政官首班として政治に当たった。
English: On March 2, 750, he was granted the sei (authentic surname) Ason, and after that he had presented himself as 'TACHIBANA no Ason.'
Japanese: 天平勝宝2年（750年）正月16日には朝臣の姓を賜り、これ以降、諸兄は橘朝臣と称した。
English: After Moroe died on New Year's Day of the ninth year of Tenpyo-shoho era (757), his son TACHIBANA no Naramaro lost in the power struggle between him and FUJIWARA no Nakamaro, and died in prison in July 757 on the suspicion of conspiring a rebellion (Revolt of TACHIBANA no Naramaro).
Japanese: 諸兄が天平勝宝9歳正月に薨去すると、その子橘奈良麻呂は、藤原仲麻呂との政権争いに敗れ、同年7月に謀叛の疑いをかけられ獄死した（橘奈良麻呂の乱）。
English: After that, the name of the Tachibana clan was not enlisted as Giseikan (Kugyo) for a while, but when Naramaro's granddaughter, TACHIBANA no Kachiko (the Empress Danrin) was ascended to the Empress of the Emperor Saga, the situation changed drastically.
Japanese: その後、しばらく橘氏が議政官（公卿）に名を連ねることはなかったが、奈良麻呂孫の橘嘉智子（檀林皇后）が嵯峨天皇皇后となると、状況は一変した。
English: Until that time, the Fujiwara clan was the only clan among the Imperial retainers and clans that had produced those empresses, and therefore, the fact that an empress was born from the Tachibana clan elevated the position of the Tachibana clan in the aristocratic society.
Japanese: 当時、皇后を輩出した臣下氏族は藤原氏のみであり、橘氏からの立后は貴族社会における橘氏の地位を上昇させた。
English: In 822, when TACHIBANA no Tsunenushi (Naramaro's grandson) was appointed Kugyo out of the Tachibana clan for the first time in 70 years, and subsequently, an imperial prince born was from Kachiko ascended to the Imperial throne as the Emperor Ninmyo, Kachiko's older brother, TACHIBANA no Ujikimi achieved a remarkable promotion as her maternal relative, and in 844, he ascended through the ranks to become Udaijin (Minister of the Right).
Japanese: 弘仁13年（822年）に橘常主（奈良麻呂孫）が約70年ぶりの橘氏公卿となり、さらに嘉智子出生の皇子が仁明天皇として即位すると、嘉智子の兄橘氏公が外戚として目覚ましい昇進をとげ、承和(日本)11年（844年）には右大臣に至った。
English: On the other hand, TACHIBANA no Hayanari (Naramaro's grandson) of a Tachibana clan's branch line was cast aside after the Jowa Incident, but during the period in which Kachiko maintained her position, the Tachibana clan widely extended its influence as a whole.
Japanese: 一方で、橘氏傍系の橘逸勢（奈良麻呂孫）が承和の変により排斥される事件も発生したが、嘉智子が健在の時期に橘氏は総じて勢力を大きく伸長している。
English: Daigaku-besso (academic facility for nobles) Gakkanin, an institute in charge of educating the children of the Tachibana clan, was established by Kachiko.
Japanese: 橘氏の子弟教育を行う大学別曹学館院は、嘉智子により設立されたものである。
English: During the mid-9th century to the latter 10th century, the number of the Tachibana clan members who took the post of Kugyo reached 7: TACHIBANA no Minetsugu (1st son of Ujikimi), TACHIBANA no Hiromi (5th generation grandson of Naramaro), TACHIBANA no Sumikiyo (great-grandson of Tsunenushi), TACHIBANA no Yoshitane (grandson of Tsuneyoshi), TACHIBANA no Kimiyori (6th son of Hiromi), TACHIBANA no Yoshifuru (grandson of Hiromi), TACHIBANA no Tsunehira (grandson of Yoshitane).
Japanese: 9世紀半ば-10世紀後半の時期の橘氏公卿は、橘峰継（氏公長男）、橘広相（奈良麻呂5代の孫）、橘澄清（常主曾孫）、橘良殖（常主孫）、橘公頼（広相6男）、橘好古（広相孫）、橘恒平（良殖孫）ら7名にのぼった。
English: Most of them did not reached more than Sangi (councilor) or Chunagon (Middle Councilor of State), but Yoshifuru ascended to Dainagon (Major Councilor of State).
Japanese: その多くは参議または中納言どまりであったが、好古は大納言まで昇進した。
English: However, the Tachibana clan ended their post of Kugyo as Tsunehira the last, died on the third day after taking the post of Sangi in 983.
Japanese: 永観元年（983年）に参議在任3日で没した恒平を最後として橘氏公卿は絶えた。
English: After that, the Tachibana clan was degraded to be a middle-lower aristocracy belonging to the social class equivalent to that of Zuryo (the head of the provincial governors), and some of the families of the clan began to be settled in rural provinces.
Japanese: 以降、橘氏は受領クラスの中下流貴族となり、中には地方に土着する者も現れた。
English: For example, it is said that a descendent of Sangi TACHIBANA no Kimiyori, who went down to Kyushu as Dazaifu to suppress FUJIWARA no Sumitomo, remained in Chikugo as a local samurai, and proclaimed himself the Chikugo Tachibana clan.
Japanese: 例えば藤原純友の鎮圧のために太宰府として九州へ下向した参議橘公頼の子孫は、そのまま筑後に土着して武士となり、筑後橘氏を称したとされている。
English: In the middle, the descendents of TACHIBANA no Noritaka, who was Yoshifuru's grandson, succeeded as the legitimate line of the clan, and in the Middle Ages, the Susuki family, which was the only Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of Court nobles occupying relatively high ranks) from this lineage and succeeded uji no choja (the head of the clan) of the Tachibana clan for generations, was produced.
Japanese: 中央では好古の孫にあたる橘則隆の子孫が嫡流として続き、中世にはこの系統から橘氏唯一の堂上家で、代々橘氏長者となった薄家を輩出した。
English: However, the Susuki family also died out in the latter 16th century with the death of Moromitsu SUSUKI (Yukitsugu) who was Tokitsugu YAMASHINA's son and the Susuki family's adoptive son.
Japanese: しかし、薄家も山科言継の子で薄家に養子入りした薄諸光（以継）の死により16世紀後半に断絶した。
English: Afterwards, in the Edo period, several families, such as the Aoyama family (Shisho [official worker at the Ministry of Central Affaires]) and the Fukai family (Sanja [an assistant to the minor councilor]) working as Geki (Secretary of the Grand Council of State), the Wada family (bensaburai (弁侍))working as Benkan (Controller of the Oversight Department, division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices), used the sei (authentic surname) 'Tachibana,' and among them, the Fukai family is said to have been the direct line of the Susuki family (the family's ancestor, Sadamoto, was said to be Yukitsugu's son).
Japanese: その後、江戸時代に地下家として、外記の青山家（中務省史生）・深井家（賛者）、弁官の和田家（弁侍）などが橘姓を称し、中でも深井家は薄家の直系（祖の定基を以継の子とする）とされている。
English: It is also said that Sanyo RAI, a scholar in the latter Edo period, was the descendent of a branch family of the Susuki family.
Japanese: また、江戸時代後期の学者である頼山陽は薄家の庶家の末裔といわれている。
English: The Saionji clan in Iyo Province, was a samurai family that dominated the whole area of Uwa County (present vicinity of Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture) of the southwestern part of Iyo Province, from the Muromachi period to the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) (Japan).
Japanese: 伊予の西園寺氏は、室町時代から戦国時代(日本)にかけて伊予国南西部の宇和郡一帯（愛媛県西予市周辺）に勢力を持った武家である。
English: The Uwajima region became the territory of the Saionji family as almost an usurpation when Kintsune SAIONJI was in the family reign in the mid Kamakura period, and claimed as its shoen (manor in medieval Japan).
Japanese: 宇和地方は鎌倉時代中期の西園寺公経のときに西園寺家によってほとんど横領に近い形で所領とされ、自己の荘園とした。
English: Amid the agitated situation from the fall of the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) to the separation of the Northern and Southern Courts and the chaos caused by the discontinuance of the Saionji family, Kimiyoshi SAIONJI, of a branch family of the Saionji family entered Uwa Country, and put the local clans under his control then began to rule over the territory.
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府滅亡から南北朝分立に至る動乱と西園寺本家断絶の混乱の中で、西園寺家庶家の西園寺公良が宇和郡に入り、在地の土豪を支配下に組み入れて領国支配を開始する。
English: However, in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), the family suffered consecutive invasions by the Kono clan of the eastern Iyo Province, the Tosa-Ichijo clan of Tosa Province, the Otomo clan of Bungo Province in Kyushu, and the family's influence gradually declined.
Japanese: 戦国時代に入ると、伊予東部の河野氏や、土佐国の土佐一条氏、九州豊後国の大友氏の侵攻に遭って次第に衰退していった。
English: In 1584, the then family head, Kinhiro SAIONJI surrendered to the Chosokabe clan, after suffering from Motochika CHOSOKABE's invasion.
Japanese: 天正12年（1584年）、長宗我部元親の侵攻に遭って当主西園寺公広は長宗我部氏に降る。
English: In 1585, when the Chosokabe clan lost three provinces except for its home base in Tosa Province owing to Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI's invasion of Shikoku, the Saionji clan surrendered to Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, however, Hideyoshi appointed Katsutaka TODA as the new territory lord of Uwa Country.
Japanese: そして天正13年（1585年）、長宗我部氏が豊臣秀吉の四国侵攻に遭って本国土佐国を除く3国を没収されると今度は豊臣秀吉に降伏することになるが、宇和には新領主として戸田勝隆に封じられてしまう。
English: In 1587, Kinhiro was killed by Katsutaka TODA and the Iyo-Saionji clan was perished.
Japanese: 天正15年（1587年）に公広が戸田勝隆に殺害されるに及んで伊予西園寺氏は滅亡した。
English: In a military epic "Seiryoki" (volume seven 'Shinmin Kangetu shu' is said to be the oldest agricultural treatises in Japan) which is said to have been written by a retainer of the Iyo Saionji clan, Kiyoyoshi DOI, there is a description on the clan, however, it is said that the description lacks the credibility.
Japanese: ちなみに伊予西園寺氏に仕えていた土居清良が書いたとされる軍記物『清良記』（巻七「親民鑑月集」は日本最古の農書とされている）には同氏に関する記述があるが、信憑性には乏しいと言われている。
English: Even today, in a part of Hizuchi-cho, Yawatahama City, situated next to Iyo City, there are households that are supposed to be the descendents of the Saionji clan.
Japanese: 現在も西予市の隣、八幡浜市日土町の一部地域に西園寺氏一族の末裔と見られる家々がある。
English: Although the connection with the Suzuki clan who was once a samurai family, is not clear, since there are diversified theories on it, this seishi (hereditary family name) is thought to be of the Shinto priest and its origin derived from the rice ear used at the rituals.
Japanese: かつての武家である鈴木氏との関係は諸説あって定まらないが、祭礼の際に祭られる稲穂に由来した神官の姓氏と考えられる。
English: Many families with their family name Suzuki has 'Hozumi' as the clan's original surname, and it is deeply connected with the belief in Kumano Sanzan (three major shrines in Kumano, Kumano-Hongu-Taisha Shrine, Kunamo-Hayatama-Taisha Shrine, and Kumano-Nachi-Taisha Shrine).
Japanese: 鈴木を名字とする家の多くは穂積氏を本姓としており、熊野三山信仰と関係が深い。
English: The members of the Suzuki clan extended all over Japan as Shinto priests, through the kanjin (solicitation campaigns) of Kumano-jinja Shrine, and using the maritime traffic on the Pacific Ocean side with Kumano as its base,
Japanese: 鈴木氏は熊野神社の勧進や熊野を基地とする太平洋側の海上交通に乗って全国的に神官として分散した。
English: It is also said that, in addition to the descendents of the families whose honsei (original name) was Hozumi, there were many samurai families which were given the family name 'Suzuki' for their devoted religious practices among those families who were allowed to have myoji (family name) at that time such as the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan, and in this way, the myoji (family name) of Suzuki quickly extended in the eastern Japan and other regions of Japan.
Japanese: また穂積姓の子孫ではなくても当時苗字を持つことを許されていた武家、源氏や平氏などの中で、信仰心の深い武家には神姓である鈴木姓を与えてきた故、鈴木の名字は瞬く間に東日本を中心に全国に広まったとされる。
English: Thus, almost of all the Suzuki families are considered to be the descendents of the families, which were using the Shinto-related honsei (original name) of Hozumi or of the samurai families, including those of the Minamoto clan or the Taira clan.
Japanese: そのため鈴木姓のほとんどが、神姓穂積姓または源姓・平姓を含む武家の子孫と考えられる。
English: The Suzuki clan in Fujishiro, Kii Province (present Kainan City, Wakayama Prefecture) was the family of Shinto priests at Oji-sha Shrine (present Fujishiro-jinja Shrine) during the generations, since the family moved within the same Kii Province from Kumano to Fujishiro around 12th century.
Japanese: 紀伊国藤白（現在の和歌山県海南市）の鈴木氏は、12世紀頃に熊野から同じ紀伊国内の藤白に移り住んで以来、王子社（現在の藤白神社）の神官を代々務めた家である。
English: It is said that, these families discussed later including the Suzuki clan of Saigashu (a Buddhist sect, Ikko groups) as well as the Suzuki clan of Mikawa Province, were regarded as the head lines among the families of Suzuki clans of with the honsei (original name) of the Hozumi scattered all over Japan, and they were the branches of the Suzuki clan in Fujishiro.
Japanese: 全国に散らばる穂積姓鈴木氏中でも本家筋とみなされている家で、後述する雑賀衆の鈴木氏も三河国の鈴木氏もいずれも藤白の鈴木氏の分家とされている。
English: At the end of the Heian period, Shigeie SUZUKI and his brother Shigekiyo KAMEI, who were from the Fujishiro Suzuki clan and served MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune as roto (a retainer), died in a battle in Koromogawa, Mutsu Province (Iwate Prefecture), protecting their master, Yoshitsune.
Japanese: 平安時代の末に藤白鈴木氏から出た鈴木重家・亀井重清の兄弟は、源義経に郎党として仕え、陸奥国衣川(岩手県)で主君を守って戦死した。
English: Therefore, there is a theory presuming that the reasons why the Fujishiro Suzuki clan was deemed as the head line of the Suzuki families of all over Japan and why the family name 'Suzuki' had extended in eastern Japan at an explosive pace, is because of a booming popularity of Yoshitsune, generated in Japanese medieval society.
Japanese: このため、藤白鈴木氏が全国の鈴木氏の本家筋と見られたのも東日本で鈴木姓が爆発的に広がったのも、中世日本社会で広く見られた義経人気にあやかったものとみる向きもある。
English: There is a tradition that Shigeie SUZUKI's son was the ancestor of the Doi clan of Iyo Province, and according to it, Kiyoyoshi DOI, the author of "Seiryoki" (The Record of Kiyoyoshi DOI) was a descendent of the Fujishiro Suzuki clan.
Japanese: 鈴木重家の子が伊予国土居氏の祖となったという伝承があり、この説によると『清良記』の著者の土居清良は藤白鈴木氏の末裔ということになる。
English: The 122nd head of the Fujishiro Suzuki clan died suddenly from illness in 1942, and the clan was extinguished since he had no heir,
Japanese: 藤白鈴木氏は、1942年に第122代の当主が病気で急死し、子がいなかったため断絶した。
English: The Suzuki clan of Saigashu (a Buddhist sect, Ikko groups) was a local clan, which had its home base situated around the area of Hirai (present Hirai, Wakayama City) of Jikkago, Kii Province (present northwest part of Wakayama City, the north shore around the river mouth of Kino-kawa River) during the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States).
Japanese: 雑賀衆の鈴木氏は、戦国時代(日本)に紀伊国十ヶ郷（現在の和歌山市西北部、紀の川河口付近北岸）の平井（和歌山市平井）あたりを本拠地としていた土豪。
English: The Suzuki clan was one of the powerful family lines of Saigashu, formed centering the Saiga-so estate (present periphery of the urban area of Wakayama City) by the local clans of the shoen (manor in medieval Japan) in the vicinity of, and it was in the position of the leader of the Jikkago area.
Japanese: 鈴木氏は紀ノ川対岸の雑賀荘（現在の和歌山市街周辺）を中心に周辺の荘園の土豪たちが結集してつくっていた雑賀衆の有力な家系のひとつで、十ヶ郷の指導者的な立場にあった。
English: In the documents of the Edo period, a person called Shigeoki SUZUKI (or simply 'Shigeoki') frequently appears as the lord of Saiga-jo Castle with a stipend of several tens of thousands koku of crop yield, however, the Jikkago, where the Suzuki clan was actually settled, was on the opposite shore of the Saiga-so estate, and these descriptions lack the credibility.
Japanese: 江戸時代の記録から、鈴木重意（重意）という人物が雑賀城主として数万石を領していたという話がよく取り沙汰されるが、実際に鈴木氏が居住していた十ヶ郷は雑賀城のある雑賀荘からみて川の対岸であり、信ずるに足りない。
English: The Suzuki clan of Saigato came to be mentioned frequently in history as from the mid-16th century, when Magoichi SUZUKI, commonly known as 'Magoichi SAIGA' took an active role.
Japanese: 雑賀党の鈴木氏が本格的に歴史にあらわれるのは「雑賀孫市」の通称で知られる鈴木孫一が活躍した16世紀の中頃以降である。
English: Same as the other local clans of Saigashu, the clan adopted guns in its fighting tactics shortly after the arrival of guns to Japan, and by the mid-16th century the clan seems to have been active as a certain sized mercenary force equipped with guns.
Japanese: 雑賀衆のほかの土豪たちと同様、鉄砲伝来から間もない早い時期に鉄砲を使った戦術を取り入れ、16世紀の半ばには鉄砲で武装したある程度の規模の傭兵的集団として活動していたようである。
English: In 1570, when Nobunaga ODA opened hostilities against Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple and the Ishiyama War broke out, the Suzuki-to (group of Suzuki clan) lead by Magoichi SUZUKI, with the other groups of Saigashu, entering the Hongan-ji Temple as answering the request of Kennyo, the head of Hongan-ji Temple, fought against the Oda army.
Japanese: 1570年に織田信長が大阪の石山本願寺と開戦して石山戦争が起こると、鈴木孫一の率いる鈴木党は、他の雑賀衆の集団とともに本願寺の門主顕如の求めに応じて本願寺に入り、織田軍と戦った。
English: Magoichi SUZUKI was one of the most powerful leaders in the Saigashu that barricaded themselves inside of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple, and as Magoichi himself was a follower of Hongan-ji Temple, he was extremely trusted by Hongan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 鈴木孫一は石山本願寺に篭った雑賀衆の中でも最有力の頭目のひとりで、孫一自身も本願寺の門徒でもあったので本願寺にきわめて信頼された。
English: However, in 1577 when the group's home base, Saiga was invaded by the Oda army, the Suzuki clan's estate, which was on the north shore of Kino-kawa River, became the first target to be attacked and occupied, and the Saiga forces were also on the backfoot at the fight on the south shore of Kino-kawa River, the Suzuki clan, along with the other influentials, surrendered to the Oda clan, pledging its submission.
Japanese: しかし、1577年に本拠地の雑賀が織田軍の侵攻を受けると、紀ノ川北岸にあった鈴木氏の所領は真っ先に攻撃を受けて占領され、紀ノ川南岸での戦いも劣勢であったために鈴木氏は他の有力者たちとともに織田氏への服属を誓って降伏した。
English: In 1580, when Kennyo finally gave up the resistance and left Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple then moved to Saginomori in Saiga, the Suzuki clan followed Kennyo and submitted to the Oda clan.
Japanese: 1580年、顕如が最終的に抗戦を断念し、石山本願寺を退去して雑賀の鷺森に移ると鈴木氏もこれに従い、織田氏に服属する。
English: Then, within Saigato, a confrontation arose between the group that insisted the submission to the Oda clan, instead of supporting Hongan-ji Temple which had lost its influence, and the anti-Oda group who was opposed to it, then Magoichi SUZUKI killed the head of the Tsuchihashi clan in 1582, the Suzuki clan gripped the leadership of Saigashu.
Japanese: これ以降、力を失った本願寺に代わって織田氏に服属しようとする鈴木氏と、それに反対する反織田派との間で争いが起こり、鈴木孫一は1582年に土橋氏の当主を殺害、雑賀衆の主導権を握った。
English: However, in the same year (1582) Nobunaga was killed in the Honnoji Incident, and Magoichi, who lost his backing, fled from Saiga, seeking refuge with Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
Japanese: しかし、同年に本能寺の変が起って信長が死んだため、後ろ盾を失った孫一は雑賀を逃亡し、豊臣秀吉を頼る。
English: Including Magoichi, several names capped by the surname 'Suzuki,' are found as heads of the artillery of the Toyotomi clan which served in the series of battles in which Hideyoshi took place, from the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute to the Bunroku-Keicho War.
Japanese: 小牧・長久手の戦いから文禄・慶長の役にいたる秀吉の一連の戦役に参加した豊臣氏の鉄砲頭の中に、孫一を含め数人の鈴木姓の名が見える。
English: After Magoichi's name disappeared from history, Shigetomo SUZUKI, who is said to have been either Magoichi's brother or son and served as a head of the artillery for the Toyotomi family as well, began to show active performance.
Japanese: 孫一が歴史から名を消した後、豊臣家の鉄砲頭として孫一の兄弟とも子ともいわれる鈴木重朝の活躍が見られるようになる。
English: Shigetomo took part in the side of Mitsunari ISHIDA in the battle to capture Fushimi-jo Castle, which was a preliminary skirmish of the Battle of Sekigahara, and he achieved a merit of defeating the castle commander, Mototada TORII.
Japanese: 重朝は1600年に関ヶ原の戦いの前哨戦である伏見城の攻略戦に石田三成方として参戦し、城将の鳥居元忠を討ち取る戦功をあげた。
English: However, as the West squad lost in the Battle of Sekigahara, he was deprived of his territory and became a masterless samurai, and he was employed by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in 1606, then served the Tokugawa clan.
Japanese: しかし、関ヶ原で西軍が敗れたために所領を没収されて浪人し、1606年になって徳川家康に召抱えられて徳川氏に仕える。
English: Later, Shigetomo was assigned to serve Ieyasu's youngest son, Yorifusa TOKUGAWA and transferred to Mito Domain, and in the generation of his son, Shigetsugu, the family adopted the son of its lord Yorifusa, as the heir, then named him 'Yoshishige,' and the Suzuki family continued as a chief retainer of the Mito Domain.
Japanese: 重朝はのちに家康の末子徳川頼房に附属されて水戸藩に移り、子の重次のとき後継ぎとして主君頼房の子を養子に迎えて重義と名乗らせ、鈴木家は水戸藩の重臣として続いた。
English: Afterwards, the Suzuki family of Mito Domain changed its myoji (family name) to Saiga, and it is said that the successive heads of the family adopted 'Magoichi' as their common names.
Japanese: のちに水戸藩鈴木家は名字を雑賀と改め、代々の当主は孫市を通称としたという。
English: The family ancestor, Shigeyoshi SUZUKI was a relative of Shigeie SUZUKI, and it is said that he was settled in Yanami, Mikawa Province (Yanami-cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture) during the Kamakura period or the Period of Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 家祖鈴木重善は鈴木重家の親族で鎌倉時代から南北朝時代(日本)の頃に三河国矢並（愛知県豊田市矢並町）に土着したと伝えられる。
English: During the Muromachi period, the clan emerged as a powerful kokujin (local samurai) in the northwestern Mikawa, by extending its influence over Kamo Country (Mikawa Province) with its home base in Yanami, then in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) (Japan), the clan was divided into several branch families such as the Terabe (Terabe-cho, Toyota City), the Sachinomi (Kokai-cho, Toyota City), the Asuke (Asuke-cho, Toyota City) and the Norisada (Oaza Norisada, Asuke-cho, Toyoda City).
Japanese: 室町時代に矢並を本拠として加茂郡(三河国)一帯に勢力を広げて三河西北部における有力国人として台頭し、戦国時代(日本)には、寺部（豊田市寺部町）、酒呑（豊田市幸海町）、足助（豊田市足助町）、則定（豊田市足助町大字則定）などの諸家に分かれていた。
English: These branch families of the Suzuki clan, maintained their semi-independent powers as repeating their stances, obedience or disobedience, surrounded by the potentials such as the Imagawa clan, the Matsudaira clan and the Oda clan.
Japanese: これら鈴木氏の諸家は、今川氏、松平氏、織田氏などの周辺勢力に囲まれて離反帰服を繰り返しながら半独立の勢力を保ちつづけた。
English: In 1558, when the Suzuki clan in Terabe turned against the Imagawa clan, Motoyasu MATSUDAIRA (later Ieyasu TOKUGAWA), who was subordinated to the Imagawa clan, went out as his first battle to attack Terabe.
Japanese: 1558年には寺部の鈴木氏が今川氏から離反したため、今川氏に服属する松平元康（のちの徳川家康）が初陣として寺部を攻めている。
English: After the Battle of Okehazama that broke out in 1560, the Suzuki clan still served the Imagawa clan, but in 1564, the Asuke-jo Castle of Asuke Suzuki clan was attacked by Ieyasu, who gained independence from the Imagawa clan, then subordinated, and the Terabe Suzuki clan was attacked by Nobumori SAKUMA, the military commander of the Oda clan in 1566, and destroyed.
Japanese: 1560年の桶狭間の戦いのあとも各々の鈴木氏は今川氏に服していたが、足助鈴木氏は1564年に今川氏から自立した家康により足助城を攻められて服属し、寺部鈴木氏は1566年に織田氏の部将佐久間信盛に攻められて滅ぼされた。
English: The Sachinomi Suzuki clan and others continued following the Tokugawa clan, and in the Edo period, they became hatamoto (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu).
Japanese: 酒呑鈴木氏などの諸家はその後も徳川氏に従い、江戸時代に至って江戸幕府の旗本となる。
English: Zen monk Shosan SUZUKI, who was a famous author of Kana Zoshi (story book written in kana) in the early Edo period, and his brother Daikan (local governor) Shigenari SUZUKI, who made a great contribution to the reconstruction of Amakusa after the Shimabara War, were from the Norisada Suzuki clan, and both of them served as hatamoto (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu [Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun]).
Japanese: 仮名草子作者としても有名な江戸初期の禅僧鈴木正三と、島原の乱後の天草の復興に大きな功績を残した代官鈴木重成の兄弟はいずれも旗本で、則定鈴木氏の出身である。
English: The Ando (安東) clan was a samurai family, which ruled extensively from Tsugaru region of Mutsu Province, situated in the northernmost region on the Japan Sea side of Honshu to the Akita Country of Dewa Province, during the medieval Japan.
Japanese: 安東氏（あんどうし）は、日本の中世に本州日本海側最北端の陸奥国津軽地方から出羽国秋田郡の一帯を支配した武家。
English: In the Kamakura period, the clan took the position of Ezo kanrei (the Shogun aide of the northern part areas of Japan in the Kamakura period) as Miuchibito (private vassals of the Tokuso [the patrimonial head of the main branch of the Hojo clan]), and in the Muromachi period, it seems to have been incorporated into Kyoto fuchishu, and later it became a Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period).
Japanese: 鎌倉時代には御内人として蝦夷管領となり、室町時代には京都扶持衆に組み入れられたと推定され、後に戦国大名となった。
English: In recent times, it proclaimed itself the 'Akita clan' and survived as a daimyo, and after the Meiji Restoration it was given the title of viscount.
Japanese: 近世以降は秋田氏を名乗り大名として存続し、明治維新後は子爵となった。
English: Concerning the writing of its name 'Ando,' in those historical records generally state as, the clan used the denomination of '安藤 (Ando) clan' during the Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts when the clan was settled in Tsugaru region, while it was settled in Akita region in the mid-Muromachi period and after, its denomination came to be written '安東 (Ando) clan,' and therefore, the individual surnames of the clan until mid-15th century will be written as '安藤 (ANDO)' and after that it will be written as '安東 (ANDO),' and for the sake of simplicity, the clans name will be consistently written as the 'Ando' clan.
Japanese: なお、アンドウの表記について諸史料では主として鎌倉時代から南北朝時代(日本)にかけての津軽時代には「安藤氏」、室町時代中期以降の秋田時代には「安東氏」とされている例が多いことから、個人名表記は概ね15世紀半ばまでを「安藤」、以降を「安東」とするが、本稿では便宜上、氏族名は「安東」で統一する。
English: It was a local ruling family, which handed down the genealogy in which Takaakimaru, the second son of Sadato ABE, was figured as its ancestor, and dominated Tsugaru region and an extensive surroundings from the westward of Akita Country of Dewa Province to the eastward of Shimokita Peninsula.
Japanese: 安倍貞任第2子の高星丸を始祖とする系譜を伝え、津軽地方を中心に西は出羽国秋田郡から東は下北半島までを領した豪族である。