nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: They had a family line in the western area of Bizen Province in the late Muromachi period; another in Kyoto as a shogun's retainer in the Muromachi period; the head family of the Sagami Matsuda family serving for the Kaga Maeda family after serving for the Odawara Gohojo family; and the Yuki family and a family line serving as a hatamoto (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu) of the Tokugawa Shogun family as its branch families.
Japanese: 室町時代後期に備前国西部一帯に存在した家系、室町時代に幕臣として京都に存在した家系、また、小田原後北条氏に仕えた後に加賀前田家に召抱えられた相模松田家本家、その分家は結城家、徳川将軍家旗本になった家系がある。
English: It is thought that they were the Soryo (government) family which orchestrated the Hatano family which resided in Sagami Province in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 鎌倉期には相模国内に残存した波多野氏一族を統合する惣領家であったと考えられる。
English: From the period of the Northern and Southern Courts to the Muromachi period, the Soryo system collapsed, and influential non-heir families and clans got independent from the head family, so it is uncertain which family was the head family of the Matsuda clan.
Japanese: 南北朝期から室町期にかけ、惣領制が崩壊し有力庶子家・一族が本宗家から独立していった時代であり、松田氏においてもいずれが本宗家かは定かではない。
English: Its origin is said to be either a family of the Hatano clan, a descendant of FUJIWARA no Hidesato or a Gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods)in Sagami Province, and in fact, they had several family trees and there is no accepted theory about it.
Japanese: 出自については、藤原秀郷の末裔波多野氏の一族であるとも相模国の御家人の出とも言われ、実際系図が何通りもあり定説化されていない。
English: According to the theory of the Gokenin, Motokuni MATSUDA, a son of Motoyasu MATSUDA, took sides with Emperor Godaigo, and he was given Ifuku-go in Mino County, Bizen Province as a reward for the subjugation of the Kamakura Shogunate, and he built Toyama-jo Castle there to make it his base.
Japanese: 御家人説では、松田元保の子松田元国が後醍醐天皇に味方し、鎌倉幕府討伐の功により備前国御野郡伊福郡を与えられ、彼の地に富山城を築き本拠地にした。
English: Meanwhile, the record that Moriaki MATSUDA (松田盛明) was Shugo (military governor) in Bizen Province in this period is confirmed, but the relationship with Motoyasu or Motokuni is unclear.
Japanese: 一方、この時期に備前国守護として松田盛明がいた事が記録で確認されてるが、元保らとの関係は不明である。
English: In a later period, in 1467 in the time of Motozumi MATSUDA (松田元澄) when the Onin War occurred, he took sides with the Akamatsu clan in the Eastern army, and made a great achievement to clear off the Yamana clan in the Western army, which made him the Akamatsu clan's vassal, in a position equivalent to Shugodai (deputy military governor) in Ifuku-go.
Japanese: 時代が下り、松田元澄の代になり応仁元年（1467年）、応仁の乱が起こると東軍の赤松氏方につき、西軍の山名氏の追い落としに功績があり、赤松氏の被官になり、伊福郷の守護代に相当する地位になった。
English: Because of the Matsuda clan's having built the unchallenged power in the western Bizen Province in around 1483, the Akamatsu clan, the Shugo, was wary of them, and Norikuni URAGAMI, a family member of Norimune URAGAMI, who was ordered to hunt down and kill them by Masanori AKAMATSU, attacked them.
Japanese: 文明_(日本)15年（1483年）頃には備前国西部に確固とした力を築いていたためか、守護の赤松氏から警戒され、赤松政則の追討の命を受けた浦上則宗の一族の浦上則国に攻め込まれることとなる。
English: Motonari MATSUDA asked the Yamana clan for reinforcements as well as making a sortie from Kanagawa-jo Castle, the new base from 1480, and took control of the Fukuoka-jo Castle (Bizen Province), where Ogamo Yamato-no-kami (the governor of Yamato Province) in the Akamatsu clan's side resided, in the New Year in 1484.
Japanese: 松田元成は山名氏に援軍を要請すると同時に、文明12年（1480年）に新しい本拠地とした金川城を出撃し、赤松方の小鴨大和守の居る福岡城_(備前国)を文明16年（1484年）正月に落とした。
English: Motonari, building on the momentum, he advanced to the east to take control of Mitsuishi-jo Castle, where Norikuni URAGAMI resided, in March, 1484, with an aim to hold Bizen Province in his hand.
Japanese: 勢いに乗った元成は備前国を掌中に収めるため、文明16年（1484年）2月、浦上則国の居城三石城を落とすため東へ進撃する。
English: But he encountered the Uragami's forces at Tennobara to the east of the Yoshii-gawa River on the way, where he suffered a major defeat at the battle, and he killed himself at Yagami Murayama in Iwanashi County when he was caught up by the Uragami's forces on his way of backdown.
Japanese: が、途中の吉井川東の天王原で浦上勢と遭遇し合戦に及ぶも大敗し、退却する途中、浦上勢に追いつかれ磐梨郡弥上村山で自害する。
English: In a later period, in the time of Motomichi MATSUDA, he assumed his post as Shoshidai (deputy governor of the Board of Retainers) in the capital in Kyoto in 1522 under the reign of Yoshiharu ASHIKAGA, but he died at the Battle of Tennoji in 1531along with his colleague Muramune URAGAMI.
Japanese: 時が下り、松田元隆の代には、足利義晴のもと大永2年（1522年）京の都で侍所室町幕府に就任するなどしていたが、享禄4年（1531年）、天王寺合戦で味方の浦上村宗とともに討死。
English: In the time of his grandson Mototeru MATSUDA, when Naoie UKITA increased his influences, he had his son Motokata MATSUDA marry a daughter of Naoie to ally, and further, he took sides with Haruhisa AMAGO, who had strong influence in Mimasaka and Bicchu at the time, advancing to Bizen to attack the Uragami clan, by which he tried to maintain his power.
Japanese: 孫の松田元輝の代になると宇喜多直家の力が強大になり、子の松田元賢に直家の娘と婚姻させ、姻戚関係を結ぶ、更には当時美作・備中への影響力が強かった尼子晴久が浦上氏を攻撃すべく備前へ侵攻してきた際には、尼子方に属するなどによって勢力の維持を図ろうとした。
English: In 1568, however, Yoemon UGAKI, his important senior vassal, was killed by Naoie UKITA, and Hisataka IGA, the lord of Kogura-jo Castle, went over to the other side by Naoie's plot, and in August in the same year, Kanagawa-jo Castle was attacked by the Ukita's forces, and Mototeru was killed by the firearms troop of Hisataka IGA.
Japanese: が、永禄11年（1568年）、宇喜多直家に主力の重臣である宇垣与右衛門を謀殺され、さらに直家の調略により虎倉城主の伊賀久隆に寝返られ、同年7月、宇喜多勢に金川城を攻撃され元輝は伊賀久隆の鉄砲隊により討死。
English: Motokata's brother Motonaga fled to Bicchu (one theory is that he served for Toyokuni YAMANA in Inaba), and the Matsuda clan was destroyed.
Japanese: 元賢の弟の松田元脩は備中に逃れ（一説には因幡の山名豊国に仕えたという）、松田氏は滅亡した。
English: The Matsuda clan earned its place as a devote believer of the Nichiren sect as well as the Kazusa Sakai clan in the history of Buddhism.
Japanese: また、松田氏は仏教史においては上総酒井氏と並ぶ日蓮宗の熱心な信奉者として名を残している。
English: After Mototaka MATSUDA challenged Daikaku (a disciple of Nichizo), who was doing missionary work in Bizen during Kenmu and Rekio era (1334-1341), on a religious debate and lost, and he protected this.
Japanese: 建武_(日本)・暦応年間頃に備前において布教活動をしていた大覚（日像門人）に宗論を挑んで敗れた松田元喬がこれを保護した。
English: After that, the successive family heads provided protection for the temples of this sect, and also forced temples of the other sects to convert where they advanced.
Japanese: 以後、代々の当主が同派寺院に保護を与えただけでなく、進出した先の他宗の寺院を強制的に改宗させたといわれている。
English: Therefore, even after the destruction of the Matsuda clan, a powerful follower group called 'Bizen Hokke' was formed, which later made Bizen known as the base of Fujufuse (Not Receive and Not Give) School.
Japanese: このため、松田氏滅亡後も「備前法華」と称される強力な門徒団が形成され、後に備前は不受不施派の拠点として知られるようになる。
English: The Matsuda clan, which was among Hyojoshu (members of the Council of State) of the Muromachi Shogunate along with the Nikaido clan and the Hatano clan, existed in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 室町時代に二階堂氏・波多野氏と並んで室町幕府評定衆に列した松田氏がいた。
English: In the Oei era (1394-1427), there appeared a person in history as Mandokoro shitsujidai (deputy steward of the administration office), and Mitsuhide MATSUDA, Hideoki MATSUDA and Kazuhide MATSUDA were appointed as Kunin bugyo, the head of bugyonin (magistrates).
Japanese: 応永年間には政所執事代として史上に現れる者もおり、松田満秀・松田秀興・松田数秀らは奉行人の筆頭の公人奉行に任じられる。
English: After the Onin-Bunmei Wars, Kazuhide MATSUDA, Nagahide MATSUDA, Kiyohide MATSUDA and Haruhide MATSUDA were appointed as Mandokoro shitsujidai, the head of Mandokoro yoriudo (officers of the administration office), and they were active as bugyonin of the shogunate along with the Inoo clan and the Sei clan until the Eiroku era (1558-1570).
Japanese: 応仁・文明の乱以後、松田数秀・松田長秀・松田清秀・松田晴秀らが政所寄人の筆頭である政所執事代に任じられ、飯尾氏・清氏らとともに幕府奉行人として永禄年間（1558～1570）に至るまで活動していた。
English: The forefather of the Sagami Matsuda clan was FUJIWARA no Kamatari, and the 13th head FUJIWARA no Kinmitsu became the governor of Sagami Province and settled in Hadano, Sagami Province.
Japanese: 相模松田氏は藤原鎌足を遠祖とし、その13代目藤原公光の時に相模守となり相模国秦野に土着した。
English: The families separated from the Hatano clan at the time were Kawamura, Hirosawa, Otomo, Shobu, Numata, Otsuki, Koiso and Uji other than Matsuda.
Japanese: 当時波多野氏から分かれた一族は松田の他に河村、広沢、大友、菖蒲、沼田、大槻、小磯、宇治等がある。
English: The Hatano and Matsuda families originally sided with the Minamoto clan, and Yoshimichi HATANO moved to Kyoto and served for MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo.
Japanese: 当初波多野、松田一族は源氏方であり、波多野義通は京都に上って源義朝に仕えていた。
English: After the Hogen War in 1156, however, he ended up being forced to kill MINAMOTO no Tameyoshi, Yoshitomo's father and the former lord, which made him fall out with Yoshitomo and go back to Sagami Province.
Japanese: が、1156年保元の乱後、旧主である義朝の父・源為義を殺さなければならない羽目になって義朝との間が不和になり、相模国に帰国。
English: Yoshitsune defeated the Yoritomo's army at the Battle of Ishibashiyama in 1180 along with Kagechika OBA, and he held Matsuda-jo Castle to offer resistance with his family when Yoritomo entered Kamakura, but he was forced out by Yoritomo and killed himself.
Japanese: 義常は1180年石橋山の合戦では大庭景親と共に頼朝軍を破り、頼朝の鎌倉入りの際にも一族と共に松田城に籠り抗戦をしたが、義常は頼朝に追われ自害をした。
English: The mother of MINAMOTO no Tomonaga, MINAMOTO no Yoritomo's older half brother, was also Yoshitsune's aunt, and Kageyoshi OBA was a senior vassal of Yoshitomo, Yoritomo's father, and a patriarch of the Kamakura Shogunate as well.
Japanese: 源頼朝の腹違いの兄・源朝長の母(坊門姫)は義常の叔母でもあり、大庭景義は頼朝の父義朝の重臣で、鎌倉幕府の長老であった。
English: Since Aritsune MATSUDA was also a nephew of Kageyoshi OBA, Kageyoshi secretly provided him with protection, being aware of the attacking against Yoshitsune in advance.
Japanese: 松田有常は大庭景義の外甥でもあったので、景義は義常誅伐の事を事前に察知していて、密かに保護を加えたものである。
English: Later, Kageyoshi OBA brought Aritsune MATSUDA to see Yoritomo, and Aritsune was forgiven and given Matsuda-go, and he called himself Jiro MATSUDA, which was the foundation of the Matsuda clan.
Japanese: 後に大庭景義は松田有常を伴って頼朝の元に参上して許され、後に松田郷を与えられ、松田次郎を名乗り松田氏が起こった。
English: At the Battle of Wada in 1213, there were numbers of the Matsuda family members, who took sides with Yoshimori WADA.
Japanese: 1213年の和田合戦では和田義盛に味方した者が松田一族より多数見受けられる。
English: After Yoshisada NITTA entered Musashi Province to defeat the Kamakura Shogunate, and was crushed by the Kamakura Hojo Army at the Bubaigawara War, the Matsuda family joined the army of Yoshisada NITTA along with the partisan army of Sagami Province.
Japanese: 1333年新田義貞が鎌倉幕府を討つ為に武蔵国に入り分倍河原の戦い(鎌倉時代)で鎌倉北条軍に敗れた後、松田一族は相模国の同志軍と共に新田義貞軍に参陣。
English: In the period of the Northern and Southern Courts, they took sides with Emperor Godaigo of the Southern Court, and jointed the army of Yoshisada NITTA.
Japanese: 南北朝時代(日本)に於いては南朝方の後醍醐天皇に味方し、新田義貞軍に組した。
English: After Yoshisada NITTA died, a total of 6,000 troopers of the army of Yoshioki NITTA and Yoshiharu WAKIYA moved to castles in Nishi Tanzawa including Matsuda-jo Castle and Kawamura-jo Castle, and Takauji ASHIKAGA himself attacked them with a large force, which made Ashigara a major battlefield.
Japanese: 新田義貞の没後、新田義興、脇屋義治軍総勢6,000騎が松田城、河村城や西丹沢の諸城に移り、これを足利尊氏自ら大軍を率いて攻め込んできたので、足柄の地は一大戦場と化した。
English: At that time, the Matsuda family spread across various areas, and the Bizen Matsuda clan belonged to the Muromachi Shogunate in the Northern Court.
Japanese: この頃松田一族は各地に分散し、備前松田氏は北朝方の室町幕府に属していた。
English: In the late Muromachi period, the Ashikaga clan as Kanto-kubo (Governor-general in Kanto region) declined, and the eighth head Yorihide MATSUDA, who lived in Kyoto, went to Kanto by order of the shogun.
Japanese: 室町時代の後半になると関東公方の足利氏が衰微しており、8代松田頼秀は京都に居住していたが、将軍の命で関東に下向した。
English: At that time in Sagami Province, the Omori clan occupied Odawara-jo Castle and conquered other clans, and tried to overpower the Matsuda clan as well.
Japanese: その頃、相模国では大森氏が小田原城を占拠して諸家を征服、松田氏にも攻略の手を加えてきた。
English: The Matsuda clan faced a hard battle against the offense of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan and the Omori clan, and in 1495, when Soun HOJO brought down Fujiyori OMORI and entered Odawara-jo Castle, Yorihide MATSUDA cooperated.
Japanese: 扇谷上杉氏と大森氏の進攻に苦戦をしていたが、1495年北条早雲が大森藤頼を倒して小田原城に入城した時に松田頼秀が協力した。
English: The Bizen Matsuda clan, the Matsuda clan serving as Muromachi Shogunate's retainer, and the Sagami Matsuda clan had a close connection, and Kazuhide MATSUDA, Nagahide MATSUDA, Yorisuke MATSUDA, Hideyuki (秀致) MATSUDA, Morihide MATSUDA and Haruhide MATSUDA from the Bizen Matsuda clan, the Matsuda clan serving as Muromachi Shogunate's retainer rushed over for the back up at that time.
Japanese: 備前松田氏、室町幕臣松田氏と相模松田氏とは緊密な脈絡があり、この時に備前松田氏と室町幕臣松田氏からは松田数秀、松田長秀、松田頼亮、松田秀致、松田盛秀、松田晴秀等が応援に駆け付けた。
English: They had the highest value of shoryo (territory) among the vassals of the Hojo clan: 2798 kan (unit of currency) 110 mon (unit of currency) (3922 kan 995 mon as the Matsuda family).
Japanese: 北条氏家臣団中最高の2798貫110文(松田一族では3922貫995文)の所領高であった。
English: The Matsuda clan was at their zenith at the time of the tenth head Norihide MATSUDA, and they were unmatched in power as successive Hitto karo (the head of chief retainers) of the Hojo family.
Japanese: 10代松田憲秀に至って松田氏は全盛に達し、北条家の重代の筆頭家老として権勢並ぶものが無かったという。
English: On the occasion of the Siege of Odawara by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI in 1590, Norihide insisted on a plot to hold the castle at the hyojo (meeting) in the Odawara-jo Castle, saying 'The Toyotomi side has 220 thousand soldiers and The Hojo side is outnumbered with 50 thousand, so having an open battle without any chance of winning is reckless.'
Japanese: 1590年豊臣秀吉の小田原の役の時に際し、憲秀は「豊臣方22万に対し北条方は5万と劣勢にあって勝ち目の無い野戦は無謀である」と、小田原城中の評定に於いて籠城策を主張する。
English: On the other hand, Ujiteru HOJO and Ujikuni HOJO insisted on an open battle, but Norihide's plot to hold the castle was adopted.
Japanese: これに対して北条氏照、北条氏邦は野戦を主張したが、憲秀の籠城策が採られた。
English: Meanwhile, Norihide used tactics on the postwar management with Toshiie MAEDA and Hidemasa HORI on his own accord to surrender the castle 'under the condition of securing Sagami Province and two provinces in Izu, and life of all the members for the Hojo family.'
Japanese: 一方憲秀は「北条家に相模の国と伊豆二国の安堵と全員の助命を条件」として開城する事で独自に前田利家、堀秀政と戦後処理についての駆け引きをしていた。
English: However, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI trumpeted a strategic rumor of Norihide's betrayal aiming at disruption inside Odawara-jo Castle.
Japanese: ところが、豊臣秀吉は小田原城内の混乱を狙って憲秀内通との戦略的噂を吹聴した。
English: After the fall of the Hojo clan, the Matsuda clan was employed for 4,000 koku (crop yield) by the Maeda clan that they were negotiating with.
Japanese: 北条氏滅亡後、松田氏は交渉をしていた前田氏に4,000石で召抱えられた。
English: Although their kokudaka (yield quantity) changed later, the Matsuda clan existed as the retainer of the Kaga Domain until 1871, when Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures) was executed.
Japanese: その後石高に変化はあるが、1871年廃藩置県まで加賀藩臣として存在した。
English: The name originates from the fact that the descendants of Masashige KUSUNOKI's younger brother, Masasue KUSUNOKI, ruled Kainosho in Nishikiori County, Kawachi Province.
Japanese: 楠木正成の弟楠木正季の子孫が河内国錦織郡甲斐庄を領有し、甲斐庄を名乗ったことに由来する。
English: They were originally part of the Kusunoki clan, but after surrendering to the Hatayama clan, whose leader was the Shugo (military governor) for Kawachi Province, they became vassals of the Hatayama clan and were allowed to keep their main domain as their fiefdom.
Japanese: 楠木氏の一族ではあるが、室町時代に河内守護であった畠山氏に降伏し、その家臣となり、本領安堵された。
English: Known descendants of the clan include Takanari KAINOSHO, who lived during the first half of the Sengoku period (period of warring states), and Heiemon Masaharu KAINOSHO, who was the lord of Eboshigata-jo Castle and a Christian who lived during the later half of the Sengoku period.
Japanese: その子孫として戦国時代(日本)前期に甲斐庄隆成、戦国時代後期に烏帽子形城城主でキリシタンであった甲斐庄兵右衛門正治の名が見える。
English: Although Masaharu was a senior vassal of the Hatakeyama family and a lord of Eboshigata-jo Castle, due to the fall of the Hatayama clan, he lost the Castle, which eventually led to his downfall.
Japanese: 正治は畠山家重臣で烏帽子形城城主であったが畠山氏没落に伴い、烏帽子形城を失い没落した。
English: His child, Kiemon Masafusa KAINOSHO also served Ieyasu TOKUGAWA and their family name continued as gokenin (an immediate vasal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods).
Japanese: また、その子、甲斐庄喜右衛門正房も徳川家康に仕え、御家人として家名が存続した。
English: Since he was familiar with the geography of Kawachi, he assumed the positionas a guide during the Osaka no Jin (The Siege of Osaka), and and eventually promoted to hatamoto (direct retainers of the bakufu, which is a form of Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) with an increase in territory.
Japanese: 大坂の陣では河内の地理に詳しいことから道案内をつとめ、加増を受けて旗本となった。
English: According to a theory, it is also thought that Kiemon Masafusa KAINOSHO was a local clan in Kawachi that was appointed as hatamoto of 4000 koku (2000 of them was the regain of the former territory and the rest 2000 was a raise) as a reward for having served as Ieyasu's guard.
Japanese: 一説によると、本能寺の変の際、堺市から三河国へ帰国する家康に同行した河内の土豪で、家康の警護をした恩賞として、旧領復帰（2,000石）と加増（2,000石）で4,000石の旗本になったともいう。
English: Masahusa's child, Masanobu served as a Nagasaki bugyo (Nagasaki magistrate) and his child, Masachika HIDANOKAMI served as kanjo bugyo (commissioner of finance) and Edo Minamimachi Bugyo (Magistrate) (served from August 30, 1680 to December 3, 1690).
Japanese: 正房の子、正述は長崎奉行をつとめ、その正述の子、飛騨守正親は勘定奉行、江戸南町奉行＜在任期間：延宝8年（1680年）8月30日～元禄3年（1690年）12月3日＞などをつとめるなど活躍した。
English: The Noto Kainosho clan was part of the Kainosho clan, but from a different family line; Ieshige KAINOSHO, who was a member of this clan and held the position of Suruga no kami (the governor of Suruga Province), served as a senior vassal to the Noto Hatakeyama clan.
Japanese: また、同族で別系統に能登甲斐庄氏があり、甲斐庄駿河守家繁が能登畠山氏重臣として見える。
English: It is believed that this family branch of the Kainosho clan serve Noto Hatakeyama clan, also a branch family of Hatakeyama clan from Kawachi Province.
Japanese: 河内国の畠山氏からの分家である能登畠山氏に、甲斐庄氏からも分家した一族が従っていたものと思われる。
English: Masachika KAINOSHO is the same person as Hidanokami KAINOSHO, Minamimachi bugyo (magistrate), who appears in "Yaoya Oshichi (Greengrocer's Oshichi)'s story."
Japanese: 甲斐庄正親は「八百屋お七悲恋物語」にも登場する南町奉行、甲斐庄飛騨守と同一人物である。
English: Masayuki KAINOSHO is another person from the same family who served as a hatamoto and as a Minogundai (a magistrate of Mino region) from 1683 to 1885.
Japanese: また、同族として、旗本で美濃郡代（在任期間：天和(日本)3年（1683年）～貞享2年（1685年））をつとめた甲斐庄正之がいる。
English: As this preiod is during the time of Masachika's tenure, it is conjectured that they could have been brother but there is no clear evidence to support this theory.
Japanese: 正親が南町奉行在職中であるので、その兄弟ではないかと推測されるが断定はできない。
English: Tadaoto KAINOSHO (1894 - 1978), a renowned Japanese painter during the the Taisho and Showa period.
Japanese: 甲斐庄楠音　（かいのしょう・ただおと　1894年～1978年）：大正・昭和期の著名な日本画家。
English: Taisei KAINOSHO (later changed his name to Masaaki KAINOSHO) is a senior researcher of the System Consulting department of Japan Research Institute, Ltd.
Japanese: 甲斐荘泰生→甲斐莊正晃　株式会社日本総合研究所システムコンサルティング部上席主任研究員。
English: He has published books such as "Agent System - Computer Dairinin Shakai no Yukue (What computer agent society leads us to)".
Japanese: 著書「エージェント・システム―コンピュータ代理人社会のゆくえ」など。
English: After changing his name, he has become the president of KAINOSHO (former Keiburein) and the author of a book, 'Inner Branding.'
Japanese: 改名後、株式会社KAINOSHO（旧社名：ケイブレイン株式会社）代表取締役、著書「インナーブランディング」。
English: Masatsune KAINOSHO, professor of Chemistry at the Department Graduate School, Science and Engineering of Tokyo Metropolitan University and the president of the Japanese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Japanese: 甲斐荘正恒　東京都立大学理学研究科化学専攻教授、日本核磁気共鳴学会会長。
English: Keiji KAINOSHO, a senior researcher of Japan Energy Co. and a co-author of the book 'Hakushoku LED Shome system Gijutsu no Oyo to Shorai Tenbo (The Application of the White LED Lighting System Technology and its Future Prospects).'
Japanese: 甲斐荘敬司　株式会社ジャパンエナジー精製技術センター主任研究員、共著「白色LED照明システム技術の応用と将来展望」。
English: The Kusunoki clan was Gozoku, a local ruling family of the Kawachi Province, and a samurai family of the Southern Court of Japan.
Japanese: 楠木氏（くすのきし）は、河内国の豪族で、南北朝時代_(日本)に活躍した南朝(日本)方の武家。
English: His real name was Tachibana no Toyasu and he lived in the Iyo Province of the Iyotachibana clan (a branch family of the Ochi clan) that descended from Kumanokuni no miyatsuko.
Japanese: 本姓は熊野国造の系統に属する伊予国の伊予橘氏（越智氏の分家）の橘遠保という。
English: One thing that is certain is that they were the head of Akuto (a villain in the medieval times) in Kawachi (or some view that they were descended from the Hata clan)
Japanese: 確実なのは、河内の悪党の棟梁格だったことである（あるいは秦氏の系統との見方もある）。
English: After the World War II, there were several theories as to the family origins such as the Kusunoki being the chief of an armed group of merchants who possessed the rights and skills of cinnabar exploitation, for example, like Nagatoshi NAWA, or billionares in sanjo (manor's area where people of the sanjo provided special skills to the imperial authority instead of rice tax); to date, none of these theories have been proven.
Japanese: 戦後、名和長年と同じく辰砂の採掘権と技術を有した商人的武装集団の頭目説、散所の長者説などが出されたが、いまだ定説は存在しない。
English: It is also viewed that they were the local powerful clan in the territories of the Kanshin-ji Temple of Kongo-san Mountain in Kawachi Province; however, place names that trace back their origins to the family name 'Kusuniki' has not been found in the Kawachi Province or its surrounding neighbourhoods.
Japanese: また、河内国の金剛山観心寺領の在地豪族ともされるが、河内国や近隣には「楠木」という苗字の元となる地名はない。
English: Recently, it has been noted that the record on "Azuma Kagami" (The Mirror of the East) states that originally they were one of the powerful samurai groups in the eastern part of Japan, Togoku Samurai, who were based in the area of Tonegawa River and also gokenin (an immediate vasal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods)who belonged to an upper class like Tamai clan, Okabe clan, Nin clan and Takise clan from the Musashi-shichito Parties such as Yokoyama Party or Inomata Party (seven parties of samurai in Musashi Province).
Japanese: 近年では『吾妻鏡』によると、元は関東にいた御家人で、玉井氏・忍氏・岡部氏・滝瀬氏ら武蔵七党の横山党や猪俣党と並ぶ家柄であり、もともとは利根川流域に基盤をもつ東国武士の有力集団の一派だったという。
English: It has been recorded that as the hikan (a low-level bureaucrat) of the Tokuso Family of the Hojo clan, Togoku Samurai in fact moved to their Shugo's territory, such as Harima, Minamikawachi, and Izumi, it is thought that they may have settled down in these areas.
Japanese: 実際にその東国武家集団は北条得宗家の被官として、赤松氏と共に播磨や摂津・南河内・和泉など北条氏の守護国などに得宗領に移住した事項があるので、そのまま、土着したのではないかと言われている。
English: What is clear from the historical records is that Masashige KUSUNOKI fought together with the court during the Genko War when Emperor Godaigo raised an army against the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), joined the Kenmu Government established after the fall of the bakufu, and played an active role on the side of the Southern Court, or Yoshino Court, during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts.
Japanese: 史料上はっきり記されているのは、鎌倉時代後期に楠木正成が後醍醐天皇が鎌倉幕府に対して挙兵した元弘の乱において宮方に従い、幕府滅亡後に成立した建武政権に加わり、南北朝時代(日本)に南朝(日本)（吉野朝廷）方として活躍した以降である。
English: After that, Masashige's sons, Masatsura KUSUNOKI and Masatoki KUSUNOKI, and younger brother, Masasue KUSUNOKI, died in battle with Takauji ASHIKAGA of the Northern court; however, another son of Masashige, Masanori KUSUNOKI, survived even after the Southern Court's fall into straitened circumstances and served actively as a powerful military commander and served as a mediator of the reconciliation with the Northern Court.
Japanese: その後正成の子の楠木正行、楠木正時や、正成の弟の楠木正季などは北朝(日本)の足利尊氏との戦いで戦死し、生き残った正成の子の楠木正儀は南朝零落後にも有力武将として活躍し、北朝との和睦を仲介する。
English: According to the kamijima-ke bunsho (documents of the Kamijima family; it was the manuscript from the end of Edo Period) found in 1962 from an old house in Ueno city (present day Iga city) in Mie Prefecture, the third son of Gensei UESHIMA is Kanami, the master of sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries) or Noh and his mother is a sister of Masashige.
Japanese: なお、昭和37年（1962年）、三重県上野市（現・伊賀市）の旧家から発見された上嶋家文書（江戸時代末期の写本）によると、伊賀、服部氏族の上嶋元成の三男が猿楽（能）の大成者である観阿弥で、その母は楠木正成の姉妹であるという。