nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: It is said that Sadatsuna presented the Seigan-ji Temple a big nationally-rare iron sotoba (a tall, narrow tablet set up behind a grave for the repose of the dead) (possessed by the Segan-ji Temple in Utsunomiya City and designated as national important cultural property) to commemorate the 13th anniversary of his mother's death.
Japanese: 貞綱は亡母の13回忌に全国的にも珍しい巨大清巌寺鉄塔婆を奉納した（宇都宮市清巌寺蔵：国の重要文化財）と言われている。
English: In the late Kamakura period, when commanders including Masashige KUSUNOKI raised his army in Kawachi Province, the ninth family head, Kintsuna UTSUNOMIYA joined the bakufu forces to subdue Masashige, but after the fall of the bakufu, he worked for Zasso-Ketsudansho (agency of Kenmu government to file lawsuits) when the Kenmu Restoration (the new government) led by Emperor Godaigo started.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代後期に河内国で楠木正成らが挙兵すると、第9代宇都宮公綱は討伐軍に参加するが、幕府滅亡後に後醍醐天皇の建武の新政がはじまると雑訴決断所を務める。
English: Even after Takauji ASHIKAGA seceded from the new government in Kamakura, Kintsuna worked for the Southern Court, but his son, the 10th family head Ujitsuna UTSUNOMIYA was affiliated with the Ashikaga clan.
Japanese: 足利尊氏が鎌倉で新政から離反した後も公綱は南朝方として動いたが、子の10代宇都宮氏綱は足利氏に属した。
English: In the Kanno Disturbance developed from the internal conflict of the Ashikaga family, Ujitsuna on the Takauji side rendered distinguished military service.
Japanese: 足利家の内紛から発展した観応の擾乱では尊氏方に就いた氏綱が武功を上げた。
English: On Takauji's wish, he served as Shugoshoku (Provincial Constable) of Shimotsuke Province, Kazusa Province and Echigo Province and built a solid dominant position in the Northern Kanto region.
Japanese: 尊氏の意向で下野国・上野国・越後国守護職を務め、北関東での支配的地位を磐石なものとした。
English: After Takauji died, however, Motouji ASHIKAGA (Takauji's son), the Kamakura kubo (Governor-general of the Kanto region) forcibly reinstated the former Kozuke and Echizen Shugoshoku, Noriaki UESUGI, who was his trusted retainer but an opponent of Takauji in the Kanno Disturbance, as the Kanto Kanrei (a shogunal deputy for the Kanto region), and Noriaki UESUGI tried to make Ujitsuna return the post of Shugoshoku to him.
Japanese: ところが、尊氏が死ぬと鎌倉公方であった足利基氏（尊氏の子）は自分の腹心でありながら観応の擾乱では尊氏と敵対した前上野・越後守護職上杉憲顕を強引に関東管領に復帰させた上に、上杉憲顕が上野・越後守護職を氏綱から強引に返還させようとした。
English: Although the Utsunomiya clan kept the post of Shimotsuke Shugoshoku, it was dissatisfied with the Kamakura Kubo's unreasonable policy, and therefore it tried to regain its power while continuing resistance against the Kamakura Kubo by joining Kyoto-fuchishu (warriors in the Kanto and the northeastern regions) directly under the Muromachi bakufu's command.
Japanese: 宇都宮氏には引き続き下野守護職が残されたものの、鎌倉公方の理不尽な方針に不満を抱かせ、室町幕府直属の京都扶持衆に加わって鎌倉公方に対して抵抗を続けながら勢力挽回を図った。
English: In the late Sengoku period (of Japan), the Utsunomiya clan became daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) and confronted the Gohojo clan emerging in the Kanto region as the shogun family, the Ashikaga clan was weakened.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)末期には戦国大名となり将軍家足利氏の弱体化に伴って関東に台頭した後北条氏と対峙した。
English: The Gohojo clan was destroyed by the attack on the Odawara-jo Castle by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI in 1590, and the Utsunomiya clan kept the territory of Shimotsuke Province yielding 180,000-koku (unit of volume of rice).
Japanese: 天正18年（1590年）豊臣秀吉の小田原城攻撃で小田原の役し、宇都宮氏は下野国18万石の所領を維持した。
English: Since then, the Utsunomiya clan, the family of pedigree in the Kanto region prospering for 22 consecutive generations for 500 years, had faded from the front stage of history.
Japanese: これにより、22代・500年に亘って繁栄した関東の名門・宇都宮氏は歴史の表舞台から去ることとなった。
English: It is said that the reasons for his dismissal were fraudulent crop yield accused by Nagamasa ASANO dispatched for Taiko-kenchi (the cadastral surveys conducted by Hideyoshi) and a trouble on adoption of Nagashige ASANO, the second son of Nagamasa ASANO by the Utsunomiya clan amongst others.
Japanese: 改易の理由は、太閤検地の為に派遣された浅野長政に石高不正を訴えられたことや、浅野長政の2男・浅野長重と宇都宮家の養子話のこじれがあった等と言われている。
English: Moreover, the restoration of the clan was not allowed even after the Osaka no Eki (the Siege of Osaka) because Kunitsuna refused to join Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in the Battle of Sekigahara.
Japanese: さらに関ヶ原合戦で徳川家康に組するのを国綱が拒んだため、大坂の役後も家名の再興は認められなかった。
English: The collateral line of the Utsunomiya clan includes the Oda clan, Hitachi no kuni Shugo (Provincial Military Governor of Hitachi Province) and the Mumo clan regarded as the ancestor of the Okubo clan, which was from Mikawa Province and governed the Odawara domain as a fudai daimyo (feudal lord and hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family) in the Edo period.
Japanese: 傍系として、常陸国守護小田氏や、三河国の出身で江戸時代には徳川家譜代大名として小田原藩を治めた大久保氏が祖と仰ぐ武茂氏がいる。
English: Munefusa Nakahara, the second son of FUJIWARA no Soen left for Kiigo, Nakatsu District, Buzen Province as Jitoshiki (manager and lord of a private estate) and this is said to be the origin of the Kii clan as a branch family of the Utsunomiya clan.
Japanese: 宇都宮庶流としては藤原宗円の次子である中原宗房が豊前国仲津郡城井郷に地頭職として赴任したことが城井氏の始まりといわれる。
English: Based in the Honjo-jo Castle in Tsuigi District for a while, he allocated branch families to districts such as Usa, Chikujo, Shimoge, Nakatsu and Tagawa.
Japanese: 一時期は築城郡の本城城を拠点として、宇佐、筑城、下毛、仲津、田川など各郡に庶家を配す。
English: In recognition of distinguished service rendered by Nobufusa's son, Kagefusa UTSUNOMIYA for the subjugation of Kyushu, Kagefusa's son, Nobukage UTSUNOMIYA was appointed to Bakufu hyoteishu (an organization employing the council system in Bakufu) and Kyushu yon Bugyo (four major magistrates in the Kyushu region) by MINAMOTO no Yoritomo and used to govern warriors in the Kyushu region as well.
Japanese: その子の宇都宮景房は九州平定の功により、景房の子の宇都宮信景は源頼朝から、幕府評定衆、九州四奉行に任じられ、九州の武士を統括したこともあった。
English: The Chikugo-Utsunomiya clan establishing its influence in Chikugo Province is known as another branch family of the Utsunomiya clan.
Japanese: また宇都宮庶流としては、筑後国に勢威を張った筑後宇都宮氏が知られる。
English: Its direct founder was a descendant of a younger brother of Sadatsuna UTSUNOMIYA, Yasumune UTSUNOMIYA who accompanied Sadatsuna (supreme commander of the bakufu forces when Mongol invaded Japan), the eighth head of the Utsunomiya clan (the sixth head if Tomotsuna UTSUNOMIYA was the first head) to the Kyushu region and was based in Oki, Yamato District, Chikugo Province.
Japanese: 宇都宮氏第8代(宇都宮朝綱を初代とすれば第6代)当主宇都宮貞綱（元寇の時に討伐軍総大将）とともに九州に同行し、筑後国山門郡大木を拠点とした貞綱の弟である宇都宮泰宗の子孫が直接の始祖である。
English: That is to say, Yasumune's son, Sadayasu UTSUNOMIYA maintained his influence in Iyo Province of the Shikoku region during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (of Japan) and then moved to Nakatsu, Chikuzen Province which was the Kii clan's base, together with Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi of the Southern Court.
Japanese: すなわち、泰宗の子の宇都宮貞泰は、南北朝時代(日本)に四国伊予国に勢力を保ち、南朝の懐良親王と共に城井氏の拠点の豊前国仲津に移った。
English: Whereas the Utsunomiya clan on the Northern Court side moved to Chikuzen Province, Sadahisa UTSUNOMIYA on the Southern Court side, the second son of Sadayasu UTSUNOMIYA moved to Yatsushiro, Higo Province and is believed to be the founder of the Chikugo-Utsunomiya clan.
Japanese: が、北朝(日本)方の豊前宇都宮氏に対して、南朝(日本)方で肥後国八代に移った宇都宮貞泰の次男の宇都宮貞久が始まりとされる。
English: The grandson of Sadahisa, Hisanori UTSUNOMIYA was the founder of the Kamachi clan descended from the Utsunomiya clan of the head of Chikugo 15 castles.
Japanese: この貞久の孫の宇都宮久憲が筑後十五城筆頭の宇都宮氏系蒲池氏の祖となる。
English: Furthermore, the founder of Iyo-Utsunomiya clan in Iyo Province, Shikoku was Toyofusa UTSUNOMIYA who was appointed to Iyo no kami (Governor of Iyo Province).
Japanese: また、四国伊予国の伊予宇都宮氏は伊予守に任じられた宇都宮豊房が始祖である。
English: The Okubo clan in Mikawa Province, a vassal of the Tokugawa clan is said to be a descendant of the Utsunomiya clan as well, and the genealogy of the Okubo family shows that the clan was descended from Yasufuji UTSUNOMIYA, a son of Tokikage TSUNOMIYA who was a son of Yasumune UTSUNOMIYA (Yasumune TAKESHIGE), a younger brother of Sadatsuna UTSUNOMIYA.
Japanese: 徳川氏の家臣の三河国の大久保氏も宇都宮氏後裔といい、大久保系図によると、宇都宮貞綱の弟の宇都宮泰宗（武茂泰宗）の子の宇都宮時景の子の宇都宮泰藤を祖とするという。
English: His grandson, Doi took the surname of Utsu, and Tadatoshi UTSU, the fifth generation from him is said to be the founder of the Okubo clan.
Japanese: 孫の道意の時に宇津を名のり、その五代後の宇津z忠俊が大久保氏の祖とされる。
English: According to Hankanpu (Genealogy of the Protectors of the Shogunate), Yasufuji UTSUNOMIYA belonged to the Southern Court and settled in Okubo, Mikawa Province from Echizen Province when Yoshisada NITTA was subjugated.
Japanese: 『藩翰譜』によると宇都宮泰藤は南朝方で、新田義貞が討たれた時、越前国を落ち三河国大久保に住んだことにはじまるという。
English: However, the indigenous Okubo clan in Mikawa Province was descended from the Utsunomiya clan which is different clan with the same pronunciation.
Japanese: が、三河土着の大久保氏は宇津宮氏と伝え、宇都宮氏とは同音だが別とされる。
English: The Utsunomiya was Imperial Prince Iyo, the third son of Emperor Kanmu who lived in Uzu, Kita District, Iyo Province in the Shikoku region.
Japanese: 宇津宮とは、四国の伊予国喜多郡宇津に住んでいた人物で、桓武天皇の第３皇子の伊予親王。
English: The Utsunomiya clan was a family which claimed descent of Imperial Prince Iyo, and the Ochi clan, Iyo-Tachibana clan and the Kono clan in Iyo are also known as descents of Imperial Prince Iyo.
Japanese: 宇津宮氏とは伊予親王の子孫と称する一族で、伊予の越智氏や伊予橘氏、河野氏などが知られる。
English: Descendents of Munetsuna Hatta, a son of FUJIWARA no Soen, Hatta families built its sphere of influence which can be said to have been separated from the Utsunomiya clan, the paternal family group founded by Tomotsuna UTSUNOMIYA (Tomotsuna HATTA) who was a legitimate child of Munetsuna HATTA.
Japanese: 藤原宗円の子の八田宗綱の係累の八田一族の家々であるが、八田宗綱の嫡子の宇都宮朝綱（八田朝綱）を祖とする宗族である宇都宮氏からは分離したともいえる勢力を築いた家である。
English: This Hatta family produced the Oda clans in Hitachi Province and Hizen Province and the Shishido clan in Aki Province in particular.
Japanese: この八田一族からは、主に常陸国、肥前国の小田氏や安芸国の宍戸氏などが輩出する。
English: Its honsei (real family name) was Taira at first, and changed to Fujiwara at the time when Hideyoshi was appointed Kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor), and then became Toyotomi after bestowed by the emperor.
Japanese: 本姓ははじめ平氏、秀吉の関白就任時には藤原氏となり、その後賜姓を受け豊臣氏となる。
English: Hideyoshi Tokichiro KINOSHITA, who was the vassal of Nobunaga ODA, a busho (Japanese military commander) in the Sengoku period (period of warring states), became one of the powerful vassals in the Oda family by rendering the distinguished service in war.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)の武将である織田信長の家臣、木下藤吉郎秀吉は戦功を上げて織田家でも有数の有力家臣となった。
English: The oldest document showing the family name of Hashiba was the one issued by Hideyoshi dated on August 27, 1573, collected in Rikyu Hachiman-gu Monjyo (historical documents).
Japanese: 羽柴姓の残る最古の文書は離宮八幡宮文書に所収された元亀4年7月20日の秀吉発給の文書である。
English: Additionally, the name 'Tokichiro KINOSHITA' was used in Shincho koki (Biography of the Warlord Oda Nobunaga) up to August 1572, while 'Hideyoshi HASHIBA' was shown after October 1572.
Japanese: また、信長公記では元亀3年7月までの記述では木下藤吉郎であったが、9月以降の記述では「羽柴秀吉」となっている。
English: It is said that "HASHIBA" was originally named after '羽' (Ha) from 丹羽長秀 (Nagahide NIWA) who was the senior vassal of the Oda family and after '柴' (Shiba) from 柴田勝家 (Katsuie SHIBATA).
Japanese: 『羽柴』の由来は織田家の重臣である丹羽長秀の「羽」・柴田勝家の「柴」の二つにあやかるよう付けられたとされている。
English: Hideyoshi, who seized power in the central government after the death of Nobunaga ODA, started to issue the letters simply signed by the name of 'Hideyoshi,' instead of the name of 'Hashiba.'
Japanese: 織田信長の没後、秀吉は中央政権を掌握し、単に「秀吉」と記した書状を発給し始め「羽柴」と記した書状を発給することはなくなった。
English: After becoming an adopted child of Sakihisa KONOE and receiving an imperial proclamation to become kanpaku in August 6, he was given the family name, TOYOTOMI, in October 21, 1586.
Japanese: 7月11日には近衛前久の猶子となって関白宣下を受け、天正14年（1586年）9月9日には豊臣の姓を賜った。
English: After that, Hideyoshi and Hideyori simply called themselves TOYOTOMI no Ason Hideyoshi and TOYOTOMI no Ason Hideyori, and the family name, HASHIBA, continued to be used as the title for daimyo of their vassals during the Toyotomi regime.
Japanese: 秀吉、秀頼は以降単に豊臣朝臣秀吉、もしくは豊臣朝臣秀頼と名乗り、羽柴の名字は臣下の大名が使用する称号として豊臣政権に使用され続けた。
English: However, it had not been used after the destruction of the head family of TOYOTOMI in Osaka Natsu no Jin (Summer Siege of Osaka) in 1615.
Japanese: しかし慶長20年(1615年)の大坂夏の陣で豊臣宗家が滅亡して以降は用いられなくなった。
English: Due to the death of Hideyori and Kunimatsu in Osaka no Eki (The Siege of Osaka) in 1615, the direct line of the Hashiba family as Daimyo family was extinguished.
Japanese: 慶長20年（1615年）の大坂の役の際に、秀頼と国松は死亡し、大名家としての羽柴直系は断絶。
English: Although the daughter of Hideyori (Tenshu-ni) was spared, the direct family line of Hideyoshi was extinguished due to the death of Tenshu-ni in 1645.
Japanese: 秀頼の娘（天秀尼）が助命されたものの正保2年（1645年）の天秀尼の死で秀吉の直系血族は断絶した。
English: Solid line and dotted line show the biological children and the adopted children, respectively, and the change of the family name is as shown in the left (from the Kinoshita clan to the Hashiba family and then the Toyotomi family.)
Japanese: 実線は実子　点線は養子　家名の変化は左記の通り（木下氏→羽柴家→豊臣家）
English: Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI started to give the family names of TOYOTOMI and HASHIBA to territorial lords around the time he became Kanpaku in 1585.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉は天正13年の関白就任時頃より、諸大名らに豊臣・羽柴の姓を与え始めた。
English: Contrary to the view of 'shinsei' (bestowing a surname) and 'granted' in the family names of TOYOTOMI and HASHIBA, Kenichi NIKI guessed that it had been the custom of the territorial lords to write 'the family name of HASHIBA' in an official manner at that time.
Japanese: 二木謙一は、豊臣・羽柴の「賜姓」「授けられた」といった見方に対し、諸大名は公式には「羽柴姓」を記すことが当時の慣例であったとの推測を述べている。
English: The family was an influential family of the Ashikaga clan, which was founded by MINAMOTO no Yoshikuni, a child of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie who was a Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North) and head of the Kawachi-Genji which was a family line of Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan) originated from Emperor Seiwa.
Japanese: 家系は清和天皇の血をひく清和源氏の一家系　河内源氏の棟梁　鎮守府将軍源義家の子　源義国を足利氏の有力一門。
English: It was a family which became one of the Sankanrei (three families in the post of Kanrei, or shogunal deputy) of Bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) in the Muromachi period, and also became Shugo daimyo (Japanese feudal lords who used to be the provincial military governors) and Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lords in the Sengoku period, or period of warring states) who ruled Echizen Province, Wakasa Province, Ecchu Province, Noto Province, Totomi Province, Shinano Province, Owari Province, Kaga Province, Awa Province, Sado Province and so on.
Japanese: 本姓は室町時代に幕府の三管領の一つとなった一族であり、越前国・若狭国・越中国・能登国・遠江国・信濃国・尾張国・加賀国・安房国・佐渡国などを領した守護大名・戦国大名。
English: Furthermore, the family filled the posts of Oshu Tandai (local commissioner) and Ushu Tandai for generations, and at one time it was appointed as Kyushu Tandai and Kanto Kanrei (a shogunal deputy for the Kanto region).
Japanese: また一門は奥州探題・羽州探題を代々歴任し、一時は九州探題・関東管領にも任じられた。
English: The Shiba clan originally took its name from the area called Shiba-gun County (Shiba-gun, Iwate Prefecture) of Mutsu Province where Ieuji ASHIKAGA became a ruler.
Japanese: 斯波氏は、足利家氏が陸奥国の斯波郡（岩手県紫波郡）を所領としたことから斯波氏と称するのを始まりとする。
English: However, it initially called itself the Ashikaga clan and it wasn't until the Muromachi period that it started to use Shiba for its family name.
Japanese: ただし当初は足利氏を称しており、斯波を名字とするのは室町時代となってからのことである。
English: Ieuji, who was considered to be the first generation of the Shiba clan, was the eldest child of Yasuuji ASHIKAGA and supposed to become a successor to the head family of Ashikaga.
Japanese: 斯波氏初代とされる家氏は足利泰氏の長子であり、本来ならば足利宗家の後継となるはずであった。
English: Since his real mother came from the Nagoe family which was a minority group in the Hojo clan, his younger brother, Yoriuji ASHIKAGA whose mother was an aunt of Tokimune HOJO, became the successor to the head family of Ashikaga.
Japanese: しかし、生母が北条氏一門では非主流派の名越氏の出身であったため、得宗の北条時宗の叔母が産んだ弟の足利頼氏が足利宗家を継承した。
English: However, his social status was certainly Gokenin (Shogunal retainer) of the Kamakura Bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) and he traditionally maintained the family name of Ashikaga, distinguishing clearly between his family and the branch families of the Ashikaga clan which gradually became retainers of the Ashikaga family (the branch families adopted new family names such as the Hosokawa clan and the Isshiki clan, which made them famous).
Japanese: しかし、身分が鎌倉幕府の直臣たる御家人であることに変わりはなく、足利氏の庶流が足利家の家人になっていったのに対し、従来通りに足利の名字を称して一線を画した（庶流は細川氏、一色氏などと新たな家名を立てた）のである。
English: Among the families of the Ashikaga clan, the Owari Ashikaga clan was as influential as the main branch of the family, Mikawa Ashikaga clan (later to become the Kira clan) and served as an alternative family head of the main branch of the Ashikaga clan when the family head was still young.
Japanese: 尾張足利氏は足利氏一門の中でも、嫡流、三河足利氏（後の吉良氏）、と並び称される勢威のあった家で、足利氏本宗家当主が幼少の時は代役を務めている。
English: After the Mongol invasions of Japan of 1274 and 1281, the Kamakura Bakufu, which turned to the tokuso (the title held by the head of the mainline Hojo clan, who monopolized the position of regents of the Kamakura shogunate) dictatorship, gradually began to oppress the other Gokenin (Shogunal retainers), resulting in increasing dissatisfaction among people.
Japanese: 元寇以来、得宗専制に走った鎌倉幕府は次第に他の御家人を圧迫するようになり、社会に不満が溜まるようになる。
English: Takauji ASHIKAGA, who at first stood for the Bakufu to thwart an Emperor Godaigo's plan, gradually began to conceal his intention to overthrow the Shogunate, and after he consulted Sadayoshi KIRA, a grand person of the family, he went over to the side of the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 当初、幕府方として後醍醐天皇の企てを阻止する側に加わっていた足利尊氏は次第に倒幕の志を秘めるようになり、一門の重鎮　吉良貞義に相談の上、朝廷側への寝返りを決行。
English: Later, Takauji ASHIKAGA broke away from the Kenmu Government which treated Samurai families lightly and aimed at establishing a Samurai government while receiving support from the Samurai families.
Japanese: その後、足利尊氏は武家を軽視する建武政権と袂を分かち、武家の支持を集めながら武家政権設立を目指す。
English: In particular, Takatsune SHIBA, who was in the same family as the Ashikaga clan, performed brilliantly and contributed to defeat Yoshisada NITTA in Echizen Province who was the central figure in the downfall of the Kamakura Bakufu, so that he gained tremendous power in the early Muromachi period.
Japanese: とりわけ斯波高経は足利氏と同族で、鎌倉幕府を滅亡させた立役者である新田義貞を越前で討つなど活躍し、初期の室町幕府においては相当な勢力を持った。
English: Furthermore, Ienaga SHIBA, as a supreme commander of Oshu, confronted Akiie KITABATAKE and others of the Southern Court and he himself died young in battle; however, his descendants, who were of noble birth and in the same family as the Muromachi shogunate family, ended up playing a leadership role in all over the Ou (Mutsu Province and Dewa Province) region (for the Shiba clan in Ou region, refer to the Oshu Shiba clan).
Japanese: また、斯波家長は奥州総大将として南朝方の北畠顕家らと対抗し、自身は若くして戦死するも、その子孫は室町将軍家と同族という貴種性により奥羽一帯で指導的役割を果たすこととなった（奥羽における斯波氏については奥州斯波氏を参照）。
English: The Buei family was the main branch of the Shiba clan, that is, a family lineage which served the Muromachi Bakufu as Kanrei (shogunal deputy).
Japanese: 武衛家とは斯波氏の嫡流、すなわち室町幕府の管領をつとめた家柄をいう。
English: Buei meant Hyoe-fu (Imperial Guard Division) and was called so in Chinese, deriving from the fact that the family head had been appointed as Hyoe-fu for generations.
Japanese: 武衛とは兵衛府および兵衛府の唐名で、当主が代々任ぜられたことに由来する。
English: The Shiba clan came to be appointed as Shitsuji (steward) (which was later to become the Kanrei) in the Muromachi Bakufu.
Japanese: 斯波氏は室町幕府において執事(後の管領)として任用されるようになる。
English: However, since Bakufu was the domestic governing institution for the Shogun family, for the Shiba clan, which was almost on the same level of status as the Shogun family, holding an important post in Bakufu meant its acceptance as being lower than the Shogun family in status as well as being a retainer of the Shogun.
Japanese: しかし、幕府は将軍家の家政機関であり、将軍家とほぼ同列の格式を持つ斯波氏が幕府の要職に就くということは、将軍家より格下で臣下だということを認めることであった。
English: However, Yoshimasa SHIBA, a child of Takatsune, finally took office as Shitsuji under the guardianship of Takatsune.
Japanese: しかし、結局は高経の子　斯波義将が執事に就任し、高経がこれを後見することとなった。
English: Although Takatsune and Yoshimasa, the father and son, became the administrator of Bakufu, they lost their positions at one point due to a conspiracy hatched by Doyo SASAKI.
Japanese: 幕府の執政となった高経・義将親子であったが佐々木道誉の策謀により一時は失脚。
English: Yoshimasa became a Kanrei again after the Koryaku Coup in which the anti-Hosokawa faction was gathered together and the third Shogun Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA was asked to dismiss Yoriyuki.
Japanese: 反細川派の勢力を結集し、3代将軍足利義満に頼之の罷免を求める康暦の政変で再び管領となる。
English: Yoshimasa SHIBA assisted the Shogun Yoshimochi ASHIKAGA even after the death of Yoshimitsu, and he was so influential that he declined to accept the offer by the Imperial Court to give the posthumous title of Emperor Daijo (a Japanese Emperor who abdicated in favor of a successor) to Yoshimitsu and offered suggestions to abolish the tally trade (between Japan and the Ming dynasty).
Japanese: 斯波義将は義満の没後も将軍足利義持を補佐し、朝廷から義満に対する太上天皇の尊号を追号する事を拒否したり、勘合貿易の廃止を提言するなど影響力を持った。
English: After the establishment of Sankanrei, Shishiki (Four influential families) and Shichito (Seven influential families) in Bakufu, the Shiba clan was treated with respect as a Kanrei family together with the Hatakeyama clan and the Hosokawa clan and ended up becoming the head of the three Kanrei families by suppressing other two families.
Japanese: 幕府において三管領四職七頭の制ができると、斯波氏は畠山氏、細川氏と管領を出す家柄として重んじられ、他の二家を抑えて三管領筆頭の家柄を有するに至った。
English: In recognition of his conquest of the Ouchi clan in the Oei Rebellion of 1399, Yoshishige SHIBA was appointed as Shugoshiki (military governor) of Echizen and Owari provinces which was kept in the order of succession after that.
Japanese: 斯波義重は1399年の応永の乱における大内氏討伐の功により越前国・尾張国の守護職を与えられ、以降世襲する。
English: Mitsutane SHIBA, a nephew of Yoshimasa, incurred the displeasure of the Shogun Yoshimochi ASHIKAGA in 1414, lost his position as Shugoshiki of Kaga Province, and retired to Mt. Koya.
Japanese: 義将の甥である斯波満種は1414年に将軍足利義持の不興を買い、加賀守護職を失って高野山に隠退。
English: After Yoshiatsu SHIBA, a grandchild of Yoshimasa who had been given the Kanryo shoku (a post of Chief Adviser) in 1409, was soon dismissed, the Shiba clan had been treated coldly by Bakufu for a long time until the inauguration of the sixth Shogun Yoshinori ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: 1409年に管領職を譲られた孫の斯波義淳もまもなく解任され、足利義教が6代将軍に就任するまで長い間、幕府から冷遇される事となった。
English: The Shiba clan with such a high social standing as the head of the Sankanrei (Three deputies) was so powerfulthat both the head family and the branch families of the Shiba clan based in Oshu (the Kosuiji Shiba clan, the Osaki clan, the Mogami clan, the Tendo clan, and so on) were fairly prosperous at first.
Japanese: 斯波氏は家柄としては三管領の筆頭を誇り勢力も大きいことから嫡流も奥州に拠点を持った斯波氏の一門(高水寺斯波氏、大崎氏、最上氏、天童氏など)らも当初は大いに栄えた。
English: For the central government, however, the Hosokawa clan secured the political foothold in the Kinai region (the five capital provinces surrounding the ancient capital of Kyoto) and the Hatakeyama clan possessed the territories around the Kinai region.
Japanese: しかし、中央においては細川氏が政治の拠点　畿内を抑え、畠山氏も畿内近辺に所領を有した。
English: On the other hand, the territories of the Shiba clan, Owari Province and Echizen Province, were away from Kyoto and separated each other.
Japanese: これに対して、斯波氏の所領は尾張国と越前国という京都から遠い場所であり、また領地同士が分断されていた。
English: As the family head frequently stayed in Kyoto, he could not help but entrusting Shugodai (Deputy military governor) with the ruling matters.
Japanese: 当主は京に滞在していることが多いため、支配は守護代に委任せざるをえなかった。
English: Therefore, the real power in its own territories was gradually taken away by Shugodai and Jushin (chief retainer) including the Asakura clan and the Oda clan.
Japanese: このため次第に領国の実権は朝倉氏や織田氏などの守護代、重臣らに牛耳られるようになっていった。
English: When the Onin War started, the above situation resulted in Gekokujo (revolt of vassals against their lords) which quickly began in Echizen Province where the Shiba clan was serving as Shugoshiki.
Japanese: 応仁の乱の際にいち早く斯波氏が守護職をつとめる越前で下克上が発生するのはそのためである。
English: On the eve of the Onin War, a conflict occurred over the succession to the position of family head in the Buei family, the main branch of the Shiba family, after the death of Yoshitake SHIBA.
Japanese: 応仁の乱前夜、斯波家嫡流の武衛家では斯波義健没後、家督相続をめぐる争いが起こった。
English: Yoshitoshi SHIBA who was adopted by the Shiba Ono clan, a branch family of the Shiba clan, and Yoshikado SHIBA who came from the Shibukawa clan fought over the reign of the family.
Japanese: 斯波氏庶家にあたる斯波大野氏からの養子縁組であった斯波義敏と、渋川氏出身の斯波義廉とが家督を巡って争ったのである。