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English: In 1570, he surrendered to Nobunaga ODA with the head of the family, Tadaie, and he received assurance that he could retain the three districts in his territories.
Japanese: 1570年、本家の忠家とともに織田信長に降り、3郡の所領安堵を受けている。
English: However, when the Yamana clan attacked Hikami-gun, he defeated them and occupied Konosumiyama Castle and Takeda Castle, which were the base castles for the Yamana clan.
Japanese: しかし、1571年に山名氏が氷上郡を攻撃すると、これを打ち破り、逆に山名氏本城の此隅山城・竹田城を占拠する。
English: Tanba subsequently suffered an onslaight from Nobunaga ODA, who had secured control of Kinai (area near Kyoto) centered on Kyoto, however, the Akai clan including Naomasa continued to resist in tandem with the Hatano clan, and, succeeded in repulsing Oda's army, which was led by Mitsuhide AKECHI, several times.
Japanese: これ以降、丹波は京都を中心に畿内の支配を固めた織田信長の侵攻にさらされるが、直正ら赤井一族は波多野氏と結束して頑強に抵抗し、明智光秀率いる織田軍を何度か撃退することに成功する。
English: When Naomasa battled against Mitsuhide AKECHI, he managed to surround Mitsuhide's army, and it is said that Mitsuhide gave up all hope to live.
Japanese: 明智光秀と戦ったとき、直正は、光秀軍を取り囲み、光秀は「もはやこれまで」と覚悟を決めるほどだったという。
English: Naoyoshi's uncle, Yukiie AKAI took over supreme command, but the Akai family lost morale due to Naomasa's death; this aided in the suppression of Tanba by the Oda clan.
Japanese: 叔父の赤井幸家が総指揮をするが、彼の死により赤井一族は求心力を失い、織田氏による丹波平定を早めることになった。
English: Immediately before his death, he was impressed by the behavior of Yasuharu WAKISAKA, who visited him alone to urge his surrender, and he also presented a scabbard of a spear made with hide of Mustelidae (martens) to Yasuharu.
Japanese: 死の直前、単独で勧降に訪れた脇坂安治の態度に感心し、イタチ科（テン）の皮で作った槍の鞘を彼に贈った。
English: Yasuharu brought it back to his home, and its is said that the marten's hide has since become the family treasure of the Wakisaka family; however, the veracity of this claim is unclear.
Japanese: 安治はこれを持ち帰り、以後「貂の皮」は脇坂家の家宝となったという説があるが、真偽は不明である。
English: In October 1577, Mitsuhide built Kameyama Castle and secured a strong foothold in Tanba.
Japanese: 1577年10月に光秀は亀山城_(丹波国)を築城し丹波における拠点を固める。
English: Since the suppression of the Gozoku in the Kameoka basin appears to have concluded in 1578, in November Mitsuhide overthrew the 'Blue ogre' Ecchu no kami (Governor of Ecchu Province) Norinari MOMI, who defended the entrance to Taki-gun.
Japanese: 1578年中に亀岡盆地の豪族の平定がなったようで11月には多紀郡の入り口を固める「青鬼」籾井越中守教業を滅ぼす。
English: In July the Yuto clan in Kitakuwada-gun surrendered, in August the Hatano clan in Taki-gun surrendered along with the Shiomi clan in Amata-gun and the Akai clan in Hikami-gun surrendered in September.
Japanese: 7月に北桑田郡の有都氏を、8月に多気郡の波多野氏、同じく8月に天田郡の塩見氏、9月に氷上郡赤井氏が降伏した。
English: Yukiie AKAI, Naomasa's younger brother, married the granddaughter of Motonori ADACHI as his second wife in Miyata, Tanba Province and had a son, Hisamoto ADACHI, then Akai died in 1606 at the age of 70.
Japanese: 直正の弟の赤井幸家のその後だが丹波国宮田で足立基則の孫娘を継室とし、この足立久基を儲けて、慶長11年に70歳で没する。
English: After his father's death, Hisamoto relied on Tokinao AKAI, his father's younger brother and a Hatamoto (direct retainer of the shogun) with 1,500 koku, and Hisamoto was brought up in Inukai-mura, Uchi-gun, Yamato Province.
Japanese: 久基は父の死後、父の弟で1500石の旗本の赤井時直を頼り、大和国宇智郡犬飼村で養育された。
English: Norinari MOMI (1527 - 1576) was a busho (Japanese military commander) in the Sengoku period (period of warring states) in Tanba Province.
Japanese: 籾井教業（もみいのりなり、大永7年（1527年）-天正4年（1576年））は、戦国時代(日本)の丹波国の武将。
English: He excelled at the martial arts as much as Naomasa AKAI (called the 'Red ogre of Tanba') and it has been said that he was called the 'Blue orge,' but his existence is uncertain.
Japanese: 「丹波の赤鬼」こと赤井直正と並んで武勇に優れたため、「青鬼」と呼ばれたというが、実在には疑問もある。
English: They resided in Momi Castle (located in the present-day Sasayama City area), which was located in a key spot near the Sasayama basin along the Sanin-do Road, a road which ran from Kyoto through Tanba to the Sanin region in ancient and medieval times.
Japanese: 居城の籾井城（現在の篠山市域）は古代・中世に京都から丹波を経て山陰地方に向かう山陰道が篠山盆地に差し掛かる箇所にあたる要衝であった。
English: Norinari had marital relationships with the Hatano clan in Yagami Castle (within Sasayama City) which controlled the center of the Sasayama basin, and worked for Yoshiaki ASHIKAGA as the Hatamoto (direct retainer of the shogun) busho (warlord).
Japanese: 教業は篠山盆地の中心を抑える八上城（篠山市域）の波多野氏と姻戚関係にあり、その旗下の武将としてともに足利義昭に仕えた。
English: After Nobunaga ODA ousted Yoshiaki, he began to subdue several busho (warlords) in Tanba who opposed him, and instructed Mitsuhide AKECHI to govern Tanba in 1575.
Japanese: 1575年、義昭を追放して自身に反抗する丹波の諸将の討伐に取り掛かった織田信長は、明智光秀に命じて丹波の経略に取り掛からせた。
English: Momi Castle, serving as a gateway to Tanba, was heavily attacked by Akechi's forces, and collapsed in autumn of the following year, resulting in the downfall of the Momi clan.
Japanese: 丹波への入り口にあたる籾井城は明智勢の猛攻を受け、翌年秋に陥落、籾井氏は没落した。
English: Conventional knowledge holds, however, that the last castellan of Momi Castle was Norinari MOMI, and he was a courageous warrior called the Blue ogre.
Japanese: これに対し、一般に流布したところによると、最後の籾井城主は籾井教業といい、青鬼と呼ばれた勇猛な武将であった。
English: It is believed that he died in war, because Momi Castle was destroyed by an attack from Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI rather than Mitsuhide AKECHI.
Japanese: そして彼は、明智光秀ではなく豊臣秀吉によって籾井城を攻撃されて、落城、戦死したという。
English: However, this story is based on the "Momi-ke nikki" (Diary of Momi Family), as well as other sources etc. that may have been personally written by the descendents of former retainers of the Hatano clan and the Momi clan who survived as civilians through the Edo era, and may not be considered as historically accurate.
Japanese: この話は江戸時代に民間で生き延びた波多野氏、籾井氏の旧臣の子孫が書き残したという『籾井家日記』などの野史によるもので、すべてを史実と受けとることは難しいとされている。
English: Harumoto HOSOKAWA was both a busho (Japanese military commander) and a daimyo (Japanese feudal lord), who lived from the late Muromachi era through to the Sengoku period (period of warring states).
Japanese: 細川晴元（ほそかわはるもと）は室町時代末期から戦国時代(日本)にかけての戦国武将・戦国大名。
English: He had Kinyori SANJO's eldest daughter as his legal wife, thereby becoming the brother-in-law of Shingen TAKEDA and Kennyo HONGANJI.
Japanese: 正室は三条公頼の長女であり、その縁から武田信玄・本願寺顕如の義兄に当たる人物でもある。
English: 'Harumoto' was received the characters in his name after the 12th Shogun, Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA, however, since he and Yoshiharu were at first hostile to each other, he identified himself as 'Rokuro HOSOKAWA' for a long time.
Japanese: 「晴元」という名は12代将軍足利義晴の一字を貰いうけたものであるが、当初は義晴と敵対関係であったため、「細川六郎」という通称を長く用いていた。
English: Upon the death of Sumimoto in Awa Province in 1520, he took over the family estate at the age of seven.
Japanese: 永正17年（1520年）、澄元が阿波国で死去したため、晴元は7歳で家督を継承した。
English: He joined forces with Motonaga MIYOSHI to attack Takakuni HOSOKAWA in 1526, then, in 1527, he and Yoshitsune ASHIKAGA made Sakai, Izumi Province their base and appointed Yoshitsuna as Shogun (Sakai kubo) after Takakuni escaped to Omi with the 12th Shogun, Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: 大永6年（1526年）、三好元長らと共に挙兵して細川高国を攻め、大永7年（1527年）に高国が第12代将軍・足利義晴らとともに近江へ落ち延びると、晴元は足利義維と共に和泉国堺を本拠とし、義維を将軍と成した（堺公方）。
English: He directed Motonaga MIYOSHI to arrange for Takakuni to commit suicide at Kotoku-ji Temple (Amagasaki City) in Settsu Province in 1531 (the Battle of Daimotsu-kuzure).
Japanese: 享禄4年（1531年）三好元長に命じて高国を摂津国の広徳寺(尼崎市)で自害させた（大物崩れ）。
English: But, soon he conflicted with Motonaga and killed him in Sakai in 1532 by inciting the Ikko-Ikki Riots in cooperation with Sho'nyo HONGANJI and Nagamasa KIZAWA.
Japanese: しかしやがて元長と対立し、天文(元号)元年（1532年）に晴元は本願寺証如や木沢長政らと手を結び、一向一揆を扇動して元長を堺で殺害した。
English: Following the murder of Motonaga, his worsening relations with Yoshitsuna ASHIKAGA led to Yoshitsuna's ouster, and he reconciled with the Shogun, Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: さらに足利義維とも不和になったために追放し、将軍・足利義晴と和睦した。
English: Later, Ikko-shu conflicted with Sakai kubo leading to attacks, Harumoto received the cooperation of an opposing religious sect, the Hokke sect, to provoke the Hokke-Ikki Riots, and also attacked Yamashina Hongan-ji Temple allied with the Rokkaku clan in Omi in the territory where the Ikko sect was most active.
Japanese: その後、一向宗は堺公方を襲撃するなど対立し、対立宗派の法華宗と協力して法華一揆を誘発させ、領内で一向宗の活動が活発であった近江の六角氏とも協力して山科本願寺を攻めた。
English: In 1536, he killed all the believers of the Hokke sect, which was growing in influence in Kyoto allied with the Rokkaku clan of Enryaku-ji Temple on Mt. Hiei (Tenmon-Hokke Rebellion).
Japanese: 天文5年（1536年）には京都で勢力を伸ばした法華衆に対し、比叡山延暦寺・六角氏と連合して壊滅させた（天文法華の乱）。
English: In 1543, Takakuni HOSOKAWA's adopted son Ujitsuna HOSOKAWA raised up in arms to defeat Harumoto.
Japanese: 天文12年（1543年）、細川高国の養子・細川氏綱が晴元打倒を掲げて挙兵した。
English: At the same time, Shogun Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA passed the shogunate position on to his natural son Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA in 1546 to support Ujitsuna and oppose Harumoto.
Japanese: 将軍・足利義晴も天文15年（1546年）、将軍職を実子の足利義輝に譲った上で氏綱を支持し、晴元と敵対する。
English: Meanwhile, Motonaga's progeny Nagayoshi MIYOSHI, who was taking over the family estate as the head of the Miyoshi family, requested Harumoto to kill his kin Masanaga MIYOSHI in 1548, however, this request was rejected by Harumoto and Nagayoshi switched to the Ujitsuna side in 1549.
Japanese: しかし天文17年（1548年）、元長の嫡男で三好宗家の家督を相続していた三好長慶が、晴元に一族の三好政長の討伐を要請し、これを拒否されたため、天文18年（1549年）に氏綱側に寝返った。
English: Consequently, Harumoto lost the war (the Battle of Eguchi) in battle with Nagayoshi in Settsu-Eguchi.
Japanese: このため、晴元は摂津江口において長慶らと戦って敗北する（江口の戦い）。
English: Harumoto lost many followers, including Masanaga MIYOSHI and Naganao TAKABATAKE, in this war, so he escaped to Omi together with Shogun Yoshiteru and Yoshiharu, resulting in the demise of the Hosokawa government.
Japanese: この戦いで三好政長・高畠長直ら多くの配下を失った晴元は、将軍・義輝や義晴と共に近江へ逃れ、こうして細川政権は終焉した。
English: Subsequently, under Shogun Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA, Harumoto continued fighting with Nagayoshi MIYOSHI with the support of Harumoto remnants including Motonari KOZAI and Masakatsu MIYOSHI and the anti-Miyoshi forces in the Kinai (countries near Kyoto) including Yoshikata ROKKAKU and Takamasa HATAKEYAMA, however, he suffered a series of defeats, and reconciled with Nagayoshi in 1561 through the intervention of Yoshikata.
Japanese: その後、晴元は将軍・足利義輝を擁し、香西元成や三好政勝などの晴元党の残党や六角義賢や畠山高政など畿内の反三好勢力の支持を受け三好長慶と争うが、敗北し続け、永禄4年（1561年）に義賢の仲介を受けて長慶と和睦する。
English: Yoshioki, who had been determined to be a successor by his father when he was still young, was promoted to the rank of Jushii (Junior Fourth Rank) in Chikuzen Province in 1560, also appointed as Otomoshu and Shobanshu and permitted by the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) of the 13th shogun Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA to use the character '義' from his name, '足利義輝' and identified himself as '義長' (Yoshinaga).
Japanese: 早くから父に世子として指名され、永禄3年（1560年）には従四位筑前国に叙位・任官され、室町幕府第13代将軍・足利義輝から「義」の字を賜って義長と名乗り、御供衆・相伴衆に任じられる。
English: He was both wise and adept at the martial arts, much like his father, and his competence was known far and wide while he was still young, allied with Hidehisa MATSUNAGA he fought back Yoshikata ROKKAKU, who invaded Kyoto, also he won a great victory in the Battle of Imoriyama Castle in 1562 against Takamasa HATAKEYAMA's troops, which were reknowned for their braveness and valor.
Japanese: 父に劣らず智勇に秀で、六角義賢が京都に侵攻して来た時も松永久秀と協力してこれを撃退し、永禄5年（1562年）には河内国飯盛山城の戦いで勇猛で鳴る畠山高政の軍勢に大勝するなど、若い頃からその有能さを天下に示していた。
English: He was also a highly educated person who enjoyed prestige from the Shogun Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA and Kuge (nobles).
Japanese: また、義興は豊かな教養人でもあり、将軍・足利義輝や公家たちからの信望も厚かった。
English: In August 1563, he died suddenly in his residence, Akutagawa-yama Castle.
Japanese: しかし永禄6年（1563年）8月、突如として居城芥川山城において急死した。
English: It is strongly suspected that he may have been poisoned by Hidehisa MATSUNAGA, who was attempting to take over the lord, but this issue remains unresolved.
Japanese: これには主家征服を目論む松永久秀の毒殺説の疑いが強いが、真偽は定かではない。
English: His father, Nagayoshi, suffered from mental and physical disorders due to the death of Yoshioki, and he died of disease in the following year as if he was following his son.
Japanese: また、父の長慶は義興の死で心身に異常をきたし、翌年に後を追うように病没している。
English: His family came from a line of the Miyoshi clan, a branch family of the Ogasawara clan which was of the school of Kai-Genji as a collateral line of Kawachi-Genji from Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: 家系は清和源氏の一家系・河内源氏の傍系・甲斐源氏・小笠原氏の庶家である三好氏。
English: He was born in the area currently named Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture on March 20, 1522 as the son of Motonaga MIYOSHI.
Japanese: 大永2年（1523年）2月13日、三好元長の嫡男として現在の徳島県三好市で生まれる。
English: His father, Motonaga, wielded power in Awa Province and Yamashiro Province as an influential main retainer under Harumoto HOSOKAWA, however, Harumoto feared Motonaga's growing power and killed him in 1532 with the help of Ikko sect.
Japanese: 父・元長は細川晴元配下の有力な重臣で、阿波国や山城国に勢力を誇っていたが、天文(元号)元年（1532年）に元長の勢力を恐れた晴元は一向宗の力を借りて、元長を殺害してしまった。
English: At that time, Nagayoshi was pardoned as a result of his young age and an intervention by Nagamasa KIZAWA serving Kawachi no kuni Shugodai, he followed Harumoto HOSOKAWA.
Japanese: このとき長慶は、河内国守護代であった木沢長政の仲介や、幼少であるという理由から許されて、細川晴元に従うことになる。
English: From his discontent with not being able to inherit his father's territories, he travelled to Kyoto in 1539 with 2,500 soldiers and was successful in obtaining it by force.
Japanese: 天文8年（1539年）には父の遺領を受けられなかったことに不満を持って、2,500の兵を率いて上洛し、力によってそれを手に入れることに成功した。
English: At that time, the current Shogun Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA left for Omi Province in fear of Nagayoshi, and Harumoto even asked Sadayori ROKKAKU to intervene in his reconciliation with Nagayoshi.
Japanese: このとき、時の将軍・足利義晴は長慶を恐れて近江国に逃走し、晴元は六角定頼に長慶との和睦を仲介してもらうほどであったという。
English: Later, Nagayoshi diligently worked for the Hosokawa clan as their main retainer; after he defeated such enemies as the forces of Nagamasa KIZAWA and Naganori YUSA one after another, he finally rose to the most powerful main retainer position in the Hosokawa clan, who was actually Tenkabito (person becoming the ruler of the country), after the Onin no ran (Rebellion of Onin).
Japanese: その後、長慶は細川氏の重臣として忠実に働き、木沢長政や遊佐長教らの敵勢力を次々と打ち破っていき、応仁の乱収束後に事実上の天下人であった細川氏の最有力重臣にまでのし上がった。
English: In 1548, he defected to the side of Ujitsuna HOSOKAWA, who opposed Harumoto HOSOKAWA, and ousted Harumoto and shogun Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA to Omi Province in 1549, then he subdued Masanaga MIYOSHI, who was a rival but also from the same clan (the Battle of Eguchi).
Japanese: そして、天文17年（1548年）、細川晴元と敵対していた細川氏綱側に寝返って、翌天文18年（1549年）に晴元と将軍・足利義輝を近江国に追放し、同族ながら敵対していた三好政長を討った（江口の戦い）。
English: Nagayoshi's government had the Kinai under his control by maintaining a puppet shogun and wielding the real power as a power-broker rather than overthrowing the bakufu.
Japanese: 長慶の政権は、幕府を滅ぼすのではなく、将軍を傀儡としてその影として実権を掌握し、畿内を支配した。
English: Generally, his government is not deemed to be a fully national and long-term government like the Tokuso HOJO family in the Kamakura era, and he should be considered only as a daimyo (Japanese territorial lord) in the Sengoku period.
Japanese: 普通、鎌倉時代の北条得宗家のような全国区の長期に渡る政権とは見なされないため戦国大名として扱う。
English: In February 1552, he reconciled with Harumoto and Yoshiteru, who were his rivals, through the mediation of the Rokkaku clan and along advantageous conditions (Nagayoshi became a bakufu's Shobanshu and Harumoto retired upon transfer of the family estate to Ujitsuna).
Japanese: 天文21年（1552年）1月、六角氏の仲介で敵対していた晴元・義輝らと有利な条件（長慶は幕府相判衆となり、晴元は氏綱に家督を譲って隠居）で和睦した。
English: However, conflict broke out again between him and the both of them in 1553; however, he reconciled with Yoshiteru, used the opportunity to defeat the Ashikaga and Hosokawa armies in the Battle of Kyoto-Ryozen in 1558, and seized the real power to govern the bakufu as its leader.
Japanese: ところが天文22年（1553年）から再び両者と争い、永禄元年（1558年）に京都霊山の戦いで足利・細川軍を破ったことを機会に義輝と和睦し、自らは幕府の主導者として、幕政の実権を掌握したのである。
English: Paradoxically, however, this simply means that the Miyoshi family would have been under the restraint of the bakufu's power; they returned the ruling power in Yamashiro Province to the Shogun family and to Saikyojo, which had been issued under the name of Yoshinaga on behalf of the bakufu and was discontinued in the same year, it became clear that the Miyoshi family suffered a political setback by losing the guise of the central government.
Japanese: ただし、逆説的にはこれは三好家が幕府権力の掣肘に伏する事に他ならず、山城一国の統治権を将軍家に返還するに留まらず、幕府に替わって発行していた長慶名の裁許状もこの年を境に途絶え、中央政権たる体裁を失うという政治的な敗北は明らかであった。
English: He subsequently held control of the economic power in Sakai City, entrusting his armies with his competent younger brothers to fight wars in Kawachi Province, Yamato Province and Tanba Province one after another; though he built a large administration, this resulted only in his only influence stopping at the local level.
Japanese: これ以降は堺市の経済力を握り、有能な弟たちに軍を預けて、河内国や大和国、丹波国に転戦して、畿内に一大政権を築き上げたと言ってもそれは幕府隷下の地方権力に留まる結果を齎したのである。
English: Furthermore, Miyoshi's government was mostly supported by Nagayoshi's personal competence and capabilities.
Japanese: しかも三好政権は、長慶個人の能力によって支えられているところが大きかった。
English: As a result of the deaths of his clan people, Kazumasa SOGO in 1561, Yoshitaka MIYOSHI in 1562 and Yoshitaka MIYOSHI in 1563, Nagayoshi began to suffer physical and mental illnesses and his powers of influence weakened significantly.
Japanese: 永禄4年（1561年）の十河一存、永禄5年（1562年）の三好義賢、永禄6年（1563年）の三好義興という相次ぐ一族の死により、長慶が心身に異常を来してからは勢力は大きく衰えた。
English: Just after he killed his younger brother Fuyuyasu ATAGI because of slanders from Hisahide MATSUNAGA in 1564, he died on August 20 in a house near Kawachi Imoriyama Castle due to extended illness, passed at a time when it seemed as if he was following his brother (There are opinions that it was an assassination, rather than a death from illness. Hisahide MATSUNAGA and three other people from the Miyoshi family are suspected; however, this theory is believed to be a myth created by writers in later years).
Japanese: 永禄7年（1564年）5月、松永久秀の讒言を受けて弟・安宅冬康を誅殺した直後、元々前年から病がちだったため、自身も後を追うように7月4日に河内飯盛山城下の屋敷において病死した（病死ではなく謀殺説もあり、犯人は松永久秀や三好三人衆の中の誰かではないかと推測し、俗説もしくは後世の作家の創作だとも考えられている）。
English: Since his son Yoshioki died young a year earlier, Yoshitsugu MIYOSHI, son of his younger brother, Kazumasa SOGO, was adopted to take over (it is also believed that the shock from the killing of Fuyuyasu compelled him to assign his family estate to Yoshitsugu and retire in July).
Japanese: 嫡男の義興が前年に早世したため、弟の十河一存の息子である三好義継が養子として後を継いだ（一説に冬康を討ったショックから、6月に家督を義継に譲って隠居したともされる）。
English: Like Nobunaga ODA, Nagayoshi was a well-educated person that focused on the economic power of Sakai City and often held the renga-kai (a gathering of linked verse) to pay particular attention to the relationship with the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 長慶は織田信長と同じく堺市の経済力に目をつけたり、朝廷との関係を重んじてたびたび連歌会を開くなど、豊かな教養人でもあった。
English: However, we sense a difference between Nobunaga and Nagayoshi because Nagayoshi wielded the real power through his informal role as a power-broker, rather than choosing to overthrow the bakufu to obtain the highest position.
Japanese: しかし、信長と違って幕府を滅ぼして上に立つのではなく、その影となって実権を掌握するということに、長慶の信長との違いを感じることができる。
English: To mourn his father Motonaga MIYOSHI, in 1557, Nagayoshi constructed Nanshu-ji Temple on Mt. Ryuko under the auspices of Rinzai sect Daitoku-ji school, for which Daitoku-ji ninetieth Dairin Soto who Nagayoshi had respected was determined as kaisan (a founder of temple as the first chief priest).
Japanese: 長慶は父・三好元長の菩提を弔うため、弘治(日本)3年（1557年）、臨済宗大徳寺派の寺院、龍興山南宗寺を長慶の尊敬する大徳寺90世大林宗套を開山として創建した。
English: Since the temple was a place for the Chajin (master of the tea ceremony), where Joo TAKENO and SEN no Rikyu received their training, and Soho TAKUAN was serving as chief priest, this significantly contributed to the development of the Machishu-bunka (bourgeois culture) in Sakai.
Japanese: 茶人の武野紹鴎、千利休が修行し、沢庵宗彭が住職を務めたこともあり、堺の町衆文化の発展に寄与した寺院である。
English: Nagayoshi was deeply devoted to Soto DAIRIN; he frequently said 'I am not afraid of large armies of a million soldiers, but there is nothing as frightening as a reprimand from Soto DAIRIN,' and it is believed that he always dismounted from his horse to walk around Nanshu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 長慶は常に「百万の大軍は怖くないが、大林宗套の一喝ほど恐ろしいものはない」と常々語っていたほどに大林宗套に深く帰依しており、南宗寺の廻りは必ず下馬して歩いたといわれている。
English: His name is often read as 'Chokei,' but the correct reading is thought to be 'Nagayoshi.'
Japanese: 名は慣習的に「ちょうけい」と読まれることが多いが、正しくは「ながよし」と思われる。
English: His name is often read in the 'on' reading style as well as Haruaki ABE (ABE no Seimei in the 'on' reading), Norisuke AKAMATSU (Sokuyu AKAMATSU in the 'on' reading) and Takayoshi KIDO (Koin KIDO in the 'on' reading).
Japanese: 「安倍晴明」（あべのせいめい←はるあき）、「赤松則祐」（あかまつそくゆう←のりすけ）、「木戸孝允」（きどこういん←たかよし）、などと同様に慣習的に音読されることが多い人物である。
English: Although the assassination of Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA was planned by Hisahide MATSUNAGA before his death, he continued resisting the plan to the end.
Japanese: 長慶存命中から、松永久秀らによって足利義輝暗殺は計画されていたが、長慶はその計画に最後まで反対したという。
English: He was a distinguished person in culture, and he often invited highly-educated people in the Kinai to Uta-kai (poem competitions) and Cha-kai (tea parties) to further his ties with them.
Japanese: 歌会や茶会をたびたび行なって畿内の文化人と親密になるなど、文化人としても優れていた。
English: In order to govern the Kokujin as a whole, he directed each of his competent brothers to manage the respective countries, and in his prime, was a daimyo (Japanese territorial lord) in the Sengoku period who even brought nine countries situated from Yamashiro through Iyo under his control.
Japanese: 優秀な弟たちにそれぞれの分国を支配させることで国人をまとめ上げ、最盛期には山城から伊予まで9カ国を支配下に置く戦国大名であった。
English: Though he was a great commander, excelling at both the paths of military arts and literary arts, some would overstress his educated character; he refuted these characterizations in a distinguished Waka poem, 'A man who ridicules someone as a Renga poet is not as brave as taking a bow and arrows.'
Japanese: 文武の名将ではあるが、教養人の面のみを論う人もいたが本人は、「歌連歌ぬるきものぞと言うものの梓弓矢も取りたるもなし」と見事な和歌で反論している。
English: Nagayasu MIYOSHI was a busho (Japanese military commander) in the Sengoku period (period of warring states) (his dates of birth and death are unknown, although he was believed to have died in 1573).
Japanese: 三好長逸（みよしながやす、？－天正元年（1573年？））は戦国時代(日本)の武将。
English: He was believed to be from the Miyoshi family and a grandson of Yukinaga MIYOSHI as well as a son of Nagamitsu MIYOSHI (Nagamitsu AKUTAGAWA).
Japanese: 三好一族の一人で、三好之長の孫で、三好長光（芥川長光）の子にあたるという。
English: His date of birth is unknown, but Yukinaga, who was believed to be his grandfather, and Nagamitsu, who was believed to his father, were killed in war in 1520, so his date of birth would have been earlier than the date of his father's death if he was Nagamitsu's son.
Japanese: 生年は不明だが、永正12年（1520年）、祖父とされる之長と父とされる長光が戦死しており、長光の子だとすれば出生はそれ以前ということになる。
English: Nagayasu attacked Harima Province and subdued Harumichi HATANO in Tanba Province (Nagayasu lost the war and Nagayori MATSUNAGA took his place), and also contributed to the expansion of Nagahoshi's sphere of influence.
Japanese: 播磨国攻めや、丹波国の波多野晴通討伐（これは敗北し、松永長頼に代わった）など長慶の勢力拡大に貢献した。
English: Around 1558, Nagayasu, who was most relied upon by Nagayoshi in the Miyoshi clan, was appointed as the castellan of Ioka Castle in Yamashiro Province to govern the southern half of Yamashiro Province.
Japanese: 長逸は三好一族の中でも、長慶に最も信頼されて、1558年頃までには山城国の飯岡城主を任ぜられ、山城国南半分の統治を任されている。
English: He was included in the Domei-shu (family of Miyoshi) and promoted to the rank of Jushii (Senior Fourth Rank) sooner than Yoshitaka MIYOSHI and Hidehisa MATSUNAGA, so it is understood that he assumed a very important role in the Miyoshi family.
Japanese: また、同名衆にも列せられ、三好義賢や松永久秀よりも先に従四位に叙せられるなど、非常に三好家の中で重要な地位を占めていたことが伺える。
English: After Nagayoshi died, he supported the young head of the family, Yoshitsugu MIYOSHI allied with other Miyoshi sanninshu and Hisahide MATSUNAGA, and ultimately assassinated Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA in 1565 (the Eiroku no Hen) (Conspiracy of Eiroku).
Japanese: 長慶の死後は幼少の当主・三好義継を他の三人衆や松永久秀らと共に補佐し、永禄8年（1565年）にはついに足利義輝を暗殺した（永禄の変）。
English: However, his relations with Yoshitsugu MIYOSHI and Hisahide MATSUNAGA gradually worsened as a result of the leadership struggles in the Miyoshi family, and they went to war in 1566.
Japanese: しかし、三好家中における主導権争いから三好義継や松永久秀とは次第に対立を深め、永禄9年（1566年）に入ると両者は交戦状態に突入した。
English: During the battle, Todai-ji Temple, which was occupied by the Miyoshi sanninshu's army for use as an outpost, was attacked by Matsunaga's soldiers and burnt down in 1567.
Japanese: この過程で永禄10年（1567年）、三人衆の軍勢が陣取った奈良東大寺を松永軍が攻撃、焼亡する事件が起きている。
English: Ten days later, Nagayasu's son, Hisasuke was killed in Fugendani, Yamashiro Province by Matsunaga's troops.
Japanese: また、その十日後には長逸の嫡男久助が山城国普賢谷で松永方の軍勢に討ち取られた。