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English: He is counted as the three wise rulers in the middle of the Edo period along with Yozan UESUGI of Yonezawa Domain, Dewa Province and Harusada TOKUGAWA (Kirin [a mythical Chinese animal] of Kii) of the Kishu Domain, Kii Province.
Japanese: 出羽国米沢藩の上杉鷹山や紀伊国紀州藩の徳川治貞（紀州の麒麟）とともに江戸時代中期の三名君とされる。
English: It is believed that those peasants were wealthy in the Kumamoto Domain, and almost no peasants' revolt happened throughout the Edo period.
Japanese: 熊本藩では江戸時代を通じて百姓一揆等が殆ど見られず農民は豊かであったとされる。
English: However, the finance of the clan was a hard one and they were disliked and called 'indigent Hosokawa,' as they repeatedly failed to pay debts to those great merchants in Edo and Osaka.
Japanese: しかし、藩財政は厳しく、江戸・大坂の大商人からの借金に対しては何度も踏み倒して貧乏細川と嫌われている。
English: He established Eisei Bunko Foundation that stored many art works passed down in the Hosokawa family and his own collections.
Japanese: 細川家伝来の多数の美術品や自らの収集品などを収蔵した財団法人永青文庫を開設している。
English: The 17th family head, Morisada HOSOKAWA took a post of secretary of the prime minister, Fumimaro KONOE, he also worked in political action during wartime and left the "Hosokawa diary."
Japanese: 近衛文麿の首相秘書官であった17代細川護貞は戦時中政治的活動も行い『細川日記』を残している。
English: He became a prime minister in 1993 and formed the non-LDP coalition administration.
Japanese: 1993年（平成5年）に内閣総理大臣となり非自民党連立政権を成立させた。
English: After the battle of Sekigahara, Tadaoki considered the importance of the relationship with the Tokugawa family, therefore he ordered a divorce of his legitimate son Tadataka HOSOKAWA and Tadataka's wife Chiyo (a daughter of Toshiie MAEDA) to end the Tokugawa family's vigilance.
Japanese: 関ヶ原の戦いの後、忠興は徳川家との関係を重視し、警戒を解くために嫡男・細川忠隆とその妻・千世（前田利家の娘）の離縁を命じた。
English: Tadaoki showed a will of vassalage to the Tokugawa family by disinherit Tadataka who opposed the order, and made his third son Naiki (Tadatoshi), who had been presented at Ieyasu as a hostage, the successor.
Japanese: これに反発した忠隆を廃嫡・勘当、家康に人質として差し出していた三男・内記（忠利）を跡継ぎとし、徳川家への臣従の意思を表した。
English: Disinherited Tadataka stayed at his grand father Yusai HOSOKAWA, and was at Kinshin Chikkyo (being placed in confinement at home) in Kyoto, naming himself Kyumu NAGAOKA.
Japanese: 廃嫡された忠隆は、京都で謹慎蟄居して長岡休無と号して祖父・細川幽斎の許に身を寄せた。
English: He spent the rest of his life in Kyoto as a Sukisha (zen philosopher) in Chanoyu (the tea ceremony) and Noh, that connected the court noble society and the Hosokawa family.
Japanese: 公家社会と細川家を結ぶ能や茶の湯の数寄者として、京都で余生を過ごした。
English: Tadatsune NAGAOKA and Tadaharu NAGAOKA, who were born between Kyumu and his second wife Kiku, were invited to Kumamoto, Higo by Mitsunao HOSOKAWA after the death of Kyumu and became the Nagaoka-naizen family, a vassal of the Kumamoto clan.
Japanese: 後妻・喜久との間に生まれた長岡忠恒・長岡忠春は、休無の死後に細川光尚から肥後熊本に招かれて熊本藩の一門家臣長岡内膳家となった。
English: In the time of Tsunatoshi HOSOKAWA, Tadashige (Tadasue), the son of Tadaharu, succeeded the total of 6000 koku, and his descendant successively ranked as the head of the family.
Japanese: 細川綱利時代に忠春の子・忠重（忠季）が計6千石を継ぎ、子孫は代々一門首座に列した。
English: The family crest was Goshichi no kiri and the nine-planet crest of the Hosokawa family, and Toki's family crest of a stylized Chinese bellflower of the Akechi clan was used for the Ura-mon to remember Garasha, the family background.
Japanese: 家紋は五七桐および細川九曜紋のほかに、ガラシャ出自を偲び明智氏の土岐桔梗紋を裏紋とした。
English: The Sunatori-tei site, which was originally an ochaya (rest house) of the lord in the Edo period and where the Hosokawa-naizen family lived in the Meiji period, in the suburbs of Kumamoto is maintained as a part of the Suizenji-Ezuko Park (Kumamoto Prefectural library garden).
Japanese: 江戸時代の藩主の御茶屋で、明治時代に細川内膳家が住んだ熊本郊外の砂取邸跡は水前寺江津湖公園の一部（熊本県立図書館庭園）として整備されている。
English: The Gyobu family's suburban residence built in Kokai, the suburb of Kumamoto, was designated as the prefectural important cultural property, and presently it has been reconstructed and open to the public at Sannomaru (outer part of the castle) of Kumamoto-jo Castle.
Japanese: 刑部家が熊本郊外の子飼に設けた下屋敷（旧細川刑部邸）は県の重要文化財に指定され、現在は熊本城三の丸に移築・公開されている。
English: The family lived in the Cannon Sandbar in Edo and moved to Higo, Takase (Tamana City, Kumamoto Prefecture) in the end of Edo period, therefore they are also called as the Takase clan.
Japanese: 江戸鉄砲洲に住み、幕末に肥後高瀬（熊本県玉名市）に移ったため高瀬藩とも言う。
English: The fifth family head, Okinori HOSOKAWA cooperated with Shigekata HOSOKAWA of Honpan (the original domain) for the reformation of domain duties such as the foundation of the han school, Onchikan, and the farmland irrigation and the encouragement of new industries of local productions.
Japanese: 5代細川興文は本藩の細川重賢と協力して藩校温知館の創設や水道による農地灌漑・殖産興業に努めるなど藩政改革を行った。
English: The founder of the clan, Okimoto was a younger brother of Tadaoki HOSOKAWA, but the Yatabe clan was not a branch clan of the Kumamoto clan, it was an independent clan.
Japanese: 藩祖の興元は細川忠興の弟にあたるが、谷田部藩は熊本藩の支藩ではなく、れっきとした独立の藩である。
English: During the Sengoku period, the Yamana clan held a position of significant power as shugo daimyo, provincial military governors who were feudal lords as well; their power was centered in the Sanin region.
Japanese: 山名氏（やまなうじ、やまなし）は、山陰を中心に勢力を持った守護大名、戦国大名である。
English: The Yamana clan is descended from the renowned Nitta family; its progenitor was MINAMOTO no Yoshikuni, the son of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie, who was the Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North) and the head of the Kawachi-Genji (Minamoto clan), a family of the Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: 家系は清和源氏の河内源氏の棟梁鎮守府将軍源義家の子源義国を祖とする名門・新田氏の一門。
English: Yoshinori YAMANA, the illegitimate child of Yoshishige NITTA (also known as Tarosaburo), adopted the name when he resided in Yamana-go in the Togo Country of Kozuke Province, present day neighboring areas of Yamana-machi in Takasaki City in Gunma Prefecture; the clan name Yamana originated from this.
Japanese: 新田義重の庶子・山名義範（または太郎三郎とも）が上野国多胡郡（八幡荘）山名郷（現在の群馬県高崎市山名町周辺）に住して山名三郎と名乗ったことから、山名氏を称した。
English: Unlike the Nitta family who participated in the Southern Courts, Tokiuji YAMANA obeyed his relative, Takauji ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: 南北朝時代(日本)、新田義貞を中心に南朝(日本)に参加した新田一族と異なり、山名時氏は縁戚の足利尊氏に従った。
English: When Takauji came into power, this enabled Tokiuji and the Yaman clan to wield their influence as the shugo daimyo in the Sanin region; they came to be considered as one of the Shishiki-ke (four administrators' families: Yamana, Isshiki, Akamatsu, Kyogoku).
Japanese: 尊氏の世がくると時氏も運気を掴み、守護大名として山陰地方に大勢力を張り、また赤松氏や京極氏、一色氏と並んで四職家の一つにまで数えられるに至った。
English: Subsequently, Tokiuji supported the Southern Court and obeyed Tadafuyu ASHIKAGA in the Kanno War; however, in the era of Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA, the Yamana clan returned to the side of the bakufu.
Japanese: その後の観応の擾乱では、南朝側に与して足利直冬に従ったが、足利義詮時代には幕府側に帰参した。
English: During the generation of Ujikiyo YAMANA, the son of Tokiuji, the Yamana clan served as the shugo of 11 provinces out of the 66 provinces in Japan, and prevailed their power as to be called "Roku-bun no ichi dono" (Mr. One-Sixth).
Japanese: 時氏の子・山名氏清のとき、一族で全国66ヶ国中11ヶ国の守護職を占め、「六分の一殿」と称されて権勢を誇った。
English: However, due to their prevalence, the Yamana clan came to be considered as a potentially dangerous clan by Shogun Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA; Yoshimitsu attempted to conspire the estrangement of the Yamana clan.
Japanese: しかしその結果、将軍・足利義満から危険視され、義満は山名一族離反の謀略を試みる。
English: In 1391, provoked by Yoshimitsu's army, Ujikiyo raised an army with his family members, Mitsuyuki YAMANA and Yoshimasa YAMANA, and fought in the Meitoku War, invading Kyoto in December of that year.
Japanese: そして元中8年・明徳2年（1391年）、氏清は義満の挑発に乗って一族の山名満幸・山名義理とともに挙兵（明徳の乱）、同年12月には京都へ攻め入る。
English: After the war against the bakufu, although the Yamana clan was permitted to have successors, only two members of the clan were allowed to serve as shugoshiki (provincial constables), Tokihiro, in charge of the Tajima Province, and Ujiyuki, in charge of the Hoki Province, both of who were sons of Tokiyoshi YAMANA.
Japanese: 戦後の山名氏は存続こそ許されたものの、時義の子・山名時熙の但馬国守護職、同じく時義の子・氏幸の伯耆国守護職のみとなり、一族は大幅にその勢力を減ずるに至った。
English: In 1441, Mochitoyo YAMANA, or Sozen YAMANA, served successfully as a supreme commander for the subjugation of the Akamatsu clan after Yoshinori ASHIKAGA was assassinated by Mitsusuke AKAMATSU in the Kakitsu War.
Japanese: 山名持豊（山名宗全）は、嘉吉元年（1441年）、将軍・足利義教が赤松満祐によって暗殺（嘉吉の乱）されると、同年、赤松氏討伐の総大将として大功を挙げた。
English: By this great achievement, the Yamana clan was given shugoshiki (post of provincial constable) in the provinces of Bingo, Aki, Iwami, Bizen, Mimasaka, Harima, etc., and regained their glory.
Japanese: この功績によって山名氏は、備後国・安芸国・石見国・備前国・美作国・播磨国などの守護職を与えられ、再び全盛期を築き上げた。
English: Furthermore, as a result of complicated issues such as the succession race of the Shuogun Ashikaga family, the Hatayama clan and the Shiba clan, positioning to accede to the shogunate, the Onin War broke out in 1467.
Japanese: また、足利将軍家や畠山氏、斯波氏などの後継者争いなど複雑な事情も重なった結果、応仁元年（1467年）には応仁の乱の勃発に至った。
English: During the war, Sozen, who was the supreme commander of the Western Camp, fought with the supreme commander of the Eastern Camp Katsumoto HOSOKAWA; however, Sozen died from a disease during the war in 1473.
Japanese: このとき、宗全は西軍の総大将として、同じく東軍総大将の細川勝元と戦ったが、乱の最中である文明_(日本)5年（1473年）に宗全は病死する。
English: Sozen's death and the continuation of the Onin War rapidly diminished the power of the clan, even though Masatoyo YAMANA took over the family estate as the head of the Yamana clan.
Japanese: 宗全の死後、家督は山名政豊が継いだものの、宗全死去や応仁の乱などによって一族の勢力は急速に衰退してゆく。
English: In their territories, several rebellions by kokujin, such as the War of Jiro MORI, occurred repeatedly.
Japanese: 領内では毛利次郎の乱をはじめとする国人による反乱が相次ぎ、家督をめぐる一族内部での争いが始まる。
English: Furthermore, the oppression of the Yamana clan by the Tsunehisa AMAGO in the Izumo Province, Yoshioki OUCHI in the Suo Province and Muramune URAGAMI in the Bizen Province began; the only territories they managed to govern were Tanba, during the generation of Nobutoyo YAMANA, the son of Masatoyo, and Inaba, during the generation of his grandson, Nobumichi.
Japanese: さらに出雲国の尼子経久、周防国の大内義興、備前国の浦上村宗らの圧迫を受けるようになり、次第に領土を奪われて、政豊の子・山名誠豊の時代には、誠豊が但馬、山名豊時の孫・山名誠通が因幡をかろうじて支配するという状態に陥った。
English: During this difficult time, the Yamana clan was split into two families, the Tajima Shugo-family and the Inaba Shugo-family, and declined to a miserable situation where both families fought over the family estate.
Japanese: しかも、これを契機に山名家は但馬守護家と因幡守護家に分裂し、互いが宗家の家督をめぐって争う有様であった。
English: Nobutoyo died in 1528 and his adopted son, Suketoyo YAMANA, succeeded the position of Tajima Shugo.
Japanese: 享禄元年（1528年）には誠豊が死去し、養子の山名祐豊が但馬守護を継ぐ。
English: Suketoyo defeated Nobumichi and assigned the position of the Inaba Shugo to his younger brother, Toyosada, which led to the unification of the Yamana clan.
Japanese: 祐豊は誠通を討って弟の山名豊定を因幡国守護とし、山名氏の統一を果たす。
English: Furthermore, Suketoyo banded with Motonari MORI and restored the Mori clan's position as daimyo (Japanese territorial lord) in the Sengoku period; however, as the power of Nobunaga ODA extended, Suetoyo died during the war, being surrounded by the army of the senior vassal Hideyoshi HASHIBA (later, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI).
Japanese: さらには毛利元就と手を結び、一時は山名氏を戦国大名として再興させたが、織田信長の勢力が伸張してくると、天正8年（1580年）、信長の重臣・羽柴秀吉（豊臣秀吉）の軍勢に取り囲まれて死去した。
English: However that same year, as Toyokuni YAMANA, the son of Toyosada, surrendered Nobunaga, he was appointed the position of Hideyoshi's vassal.
Japanese: しかし同年、豊定の子・山名豊国が秀吉を通じて信長に降伏したため、秀吉の家臣となった。
English: Subsequently, Toyokuni was given a small territory in Inaba and assigned the position of otogishu (adviser).
Japanese: その後、豊国は秀吉から因幡にわずかの所領を与えられ、御伽衆として迎えられた。
English: As a reward for this job, Toyokuni was awarded 6,700 koku in Muraoka of Tajima Province in 1601, and the clan survived serving as kotaiyoriai (alternate yoriai, a family status of samurai warriors in the Edo period).
Japanese: そのため慶長6年（1601年）、家康から但馬国村岡に6700石の所領を与えられ、交代寄合として存続した。
English: In 1869, Yoshinari YAMANA was allowed to increase the koku to 11,000 by the Meiji government; with this increase of koku, the Yamana clan founded the Oka clan in Tajima village.
Japanese: 明治2年（1869年）、山名義済が1万1000石への高直しを明治政府に認められ、新たに但馬村岡藩を立藩した。
English: The real family name was Genji (Minamoto clan) and the family lineage originated from a branch family of the Ashikaga clan and Kira clan traced back to Kawachi-Genji (Minamoto clan) which was one of Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: 本姓は源氏で、家系は清和源氏のひとつ河内源氏の流れを汲む足利氏一門・吉良家の分家にあたる。
English: Like the Kira clan, the Imagawa clan was a renshi (noble sibling) of the Ashikaga family (Ashikaga Shogunate house) and had the right of succession to the head family of Ashikaga, and therefore had a special position different from other branch lines of the Ashikaga family, such as the Shiba clan and Hatakeyama clan.
Japanese: 吉良家とともに足利将軍家の連枝であり足利宗家の継承権を有しており、斯波氏や畠山氏をはじめとする他の足利一門庶流諸家とは別格の地位にあった。
English: As described earlier, the Imagawa clan was a branch of the Kira clan that was specially treated as goikke (head and branch family of Ashikaga) by the Muromachi shogunate family.
Japanese: 前述のとおり、今川家は室町将軍家から御一家として遇された吉良家の分家にあたる。
English: As it was said that 'if the Imperial Palace (Ashikaga Shogunate house) ceased, Kira succeeded and if Kira ceased, Imawaga succeeded,' the Kira clan and Imawaga clan were special families that had the right of succession to the head family of Ashikaga and the Seii taishogun (great general who subdues the barbarians) if the head family of Ashikaga (Muromachi shogunate family and Kamakura kubo [shogunate] family) ceased.
Japanese: 「御所（足利将軍家）が絶えなば吉良が継ぎ、吉良が絶えなば今川が継ぐ」と言われていたように、足利宗家（室町将軍家系統と鎌倉公方家系統）が断絶した場合には吉良家とともに足利宗家と征夷大将軍職の継承権が発生する特別な家柄であった。
English: For this reason, members of the Kira and Imagawa clans did not become kanrei (shogunal deputy) or Samurai-dokoro (the Board of Retainers) (these positions were 'jobs of vassals' and the members of both the clans with the right of succession to the head family of Ashikaga had too high social status to be assigned to kanrei and so on).
Japanese: 吉良家と今川家から管領や侍所が1人も出ていないのはこのためである（これらの役職は「家臣の仕事」であり、足利宗家の継承権を持つ両家の者は管領などに任じられる身分ではなかった）。
English: In fact, Norimasa IMAGAWA was appointed to Seii fukushogun by the Imperial Court, his son Noritada IMAGAWA got preferential treatment called 'one family name in the country' from the Muromachi shogunate family so that only he and his descendents were allowed to use the family name of Imagawa.
Japanese: 実際に今川範政は朝廷から征夷副将軍に任じられ、その子今川範忠は永享の乱の戦功によって室町将軍家から彼とその子孫以外の今川姓の使用を禁じるとする「天下一苗字」の待遇を受けた。
English: Totomi-Imagawa clan: A branch family of 1 with an ancestor Sadayo (Ryoshun) IMAGAWA who received a fief in Totomi Province.
Japanese: 遠江今川家：1.の分家で、遠江国に所領を与えられた今川貞世（了俊）を祖とする一族。
English: Hizen Imagawa clan: Also a branch family of 1 with an ancestor Nakaaki IMAGAWA who received a fief in Hizen Province.
Japanese: 肥前今川家：同じく1．の分家で、肥前国に所領を与えられた今川仲秋を祖とする一族。
English: Kuniuji IMAGAWA, the second son of Osauji KIRA who founded the Kira family as the first illegitimate child of Yoshiuji ASHIKAGA (the third head of ASHIKAGA family), was given Imagawa no sho (the current Imagawacho, Nishio City, Aichi Prefecture), Aomi County, Mikawa Province) and called himself Shiro IMAGAWA (or it is said that Kuniuji was a nephew of Osauji and became an adopted son).
Japanese: 足利義氏(足利家3代目当主)の庶長子として吉良家を興した吉良長氏の2男である今川国氏が、吉良氏の所領から三河国碧海郡今川荘（いまがわのしょう、現在の愛知県西尾市今川町周辺）を分与され、今川四郎を称したのに始まる（あるいは国氏は長氏の甥で、養子になったとも言う）。
English: Today, there is a stone monument of the origin of the Imagawa clan in Imagawa-cho, Nishio City, which was built by Aichi Prefecture.
Japanese: 現在、西尾市今川町には愛知県によって建てられた今川氏発祥地の石碑がある。
English: Since Osauji KIRA who was an ancestor of the Kira and Imagawa clans was an older brother of Yasuuji ASHIKAGA who succeeded to the heir of the Ashikaga family, he played an important role as the Ashikaga clan following the Kira clan.
Japanese: 吉良氏・今川氏の祖であった吉良長氏は、足利家惣領を継いだ足利泰氏の兄にあたることから、吉良氏に次ぐ足利一門として重きをなした。
English: When the Kenmu Restoration occurred after the fall of the Kamakura bakufu, Norikuni IMAGAWA, a grandson of Kuniuji, and his sons sided with the Northern Court of Takauji ASHIKAGA and distinguished themselves on the fields of battles and were appointed to shugo (military governors) of two provinces: Suruga and Totomi.
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府滅亡から建武の新政を経る頃には、国氏の孫である今川範国が子達を率いて足利尊氏の北朝に属し、各地で戦功を挙げた事により駿河国・遠江国2ヶ国の守護に任ぜられた。
English: At the time of Kanno Disturbance, Noriuji IMAGAWA, a legitimate son of Norikuni, sided with Takauji ASHIKAGA, distinguished himself on the fields of battles and succeeded to the military governor of Suruga.
Japanese: 観応の擾乱に際して、範国の嫡男今川範氏は足利尊氏方に属して功を立て、駿河守護職を継承。
English: When Sadayo IMAGAWA, a younger brother of Noriuji, was appointed to Kyushu Tandai (local commissioner) by Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA, kanrei (shogunal deputy), and conquered Kyushu, where the force of the Southern Court was strong, but it seemed that he was displeased by Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: また、範氏の弟の今川貞世は管領の細川頼之に九州探題に任じられると南朝勢力の強かった九州を平定するが、足利義満からは快く思われていなかった様である。
English: The Oei War occurred in which Yoshihiro OUCHI raised an army, but a suspicion was raised that Ryoshun instigated Ujimitsu ASHIKAGA, Kamakura kubo (Governor-general of the Kanto region), to support Yoshihiro.
Japanese: やがて大内義弘が挙兵する応永の乱が勃発するが、一時これに加担する動きを見せた鎌倉公方の足利氏満を焚き付けたのが了俊である、との疑念を掛けられた。
English: Although it was worth subjugation, Norisada UESUGI and so on asked for his life and he was forgiven by going up to Kyoto and apologizing Yoshimitsu.
Japanese: 討伐の対象になるところを上杉憲定たちの助命活動が実を結び、義満への上洛謝罪で赦された。
English: However, his presence was denied in the national political arena and he became a shugo (military governor) of half of the Totomi Province.
Japanese: ただし、中央政界から抹殺された上に、遠江国半国の守護となってしまった。
English: His descendents continued living in Totomi and served the Suruga Imagawa clan after transferring shugoshiki (military governor) to the Shiba clan.
Japanese: その子孫は守護職を斯波氏に譲った後も遠江に土着して駿河今川家に仕えた。
English: Chikanaga SEKIGUCHI, who was the father of Tsukiyama-dono who became a lawful wife of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, was a branch of the Sena clan traced back to the Totomi-Imagawa clan.
Japanese: なお、徳川家康の正室であった築山殿の父関口親永は、遠江今川家の流れである瀬名氏の支流である。
English: At the end of the 15th century, Ujichika IMAGAWA who won succession dispute with the help of his uncle Soun HOJO attempted invasion upon Totomi Province, which had failed at the time of his late father Yoshitada IMAGAWA.
Japanese: 15世紀末に至り、伯父北条早雲の助けで家督争いに勝利した今川氏親は、亡父今川義忠の代で頓挫していた遠江国への再侵攻を試みた。
English: Since Yoshimoto IMAGAWA who was a younger maternal half-brother of Ujiteru and won 'Hanakura no Ran' (Hanakura Rebellion), which was a succession dispute, and allied with the Kai-Takeda clan, he worsened the relationship with the Gohojo clan of Sagami Province, causing the 'Kato War'.
Japanese: その後の家督争いである「花倉の乱」に勝利した氏輝の同母弟今川義元は、甲斐の武田氏と同盟したために相模の後北条氏との関係を悪化させ、「河東の乱」を引き起こした。
English: Yoshimoto invaded Mikawa Province later to subordinate the weakening Matsudaira clan and carried out a westing policy successfully, he fought against the Oda clan in Owari Province who was eager to gain Mikawa in the 'Anjo War,' the 'Battle of Azuki-zaka' and so on, and excluded the Oda clan from Mikawa.
Japanese: その後は三河国に進出し、弱体化した松平氏を従属させるなど西進政策が次々と実を結ぶ一方、三河に食指を伸ばす尾張国の織田氏と「安城合戦」「小豆坂の戦い」などを戦い、三河から織田氏を締め出した。
English: Yoshimoto governed three provinces: Suruga, Totomi and Mikawa and occupied part of Owari Province, and the Imagawa clan reached the zenith, but he was killed by Nobunaga ODA by the attack to his headquarters in the Battle of Okehazama in 1560.
Japanese: こうして、駿河国・遠江国・三河国の3ヶ国を支配する上に尾張国の一部を有するなど、今川氏の最盛期を築くまでに至った義元ではあったが、1560年に桶狭間の戦いで織田信長に本陣を襲撃され、敗死した。
English: In the generation of Ujizane IMAGAWA who succeeded Yoshimoto, independence of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in Okazaki-jo Castle of Mikawa Province affected the territories governed by Ujizane and induced estrangement of vassals from Imagawa.
Japanese: 義元の跡を継いだ今川氏真の代には、三河国岡崎城での徳川家康自立などが支配領国の動揺を招き、臣従国人たちの今川離反を誘発する。
English: In battles to expedite rebels, Ujimasa took the field, but he was defeated by the Matsudaira army in Hoi County, Mikawa Province.
Japanese: 氏真が自ら出陣した造反軍征伐戦では、三河宝飯郡において松平軍に大敗。
English: Soon he lost Yoshida-jo Castle (Mikawa Province) and lost the dominion of Mikawa, he was disregarded by the Takeda clan to which he allied, the tripartite alliance was renounced unilaterally, and Suruga was in danger of invasion by the Takeda clan.
Japanese: やがて吉田城(三河国)を失陥、三河の支配権も喪失すると、同盟関係の武田氏からも侮られて、三国同盟の一方的破棄から武田氏による駿河侵攻に晒される。
English: Suruga Province and Mikawa Province were attacked from the east and west and occupied by the Takeda clan and Tokugawa clan (renamed from the Matsudaira clan) in mere several years.
Japanese: わずか数年の間に領国駿河国と三河国を武田氏と徳川氏（松平氏改め）によって東西から瞬く間に切り獲られた。
English: In 1568, Ujimasa who was sent away to Totomi Province transferred the last foothold Kakegawa-jo Castle to Ienari ISHIKAWA of the Tokugawa army and went away to Odawara to seek help from the Hojo clan together with the lord of Kakegawa-jo Castle Yasutomo ASAHINA.
Japanese: 1568年、遠江国に追い立てられた氏真は、最後の拠点掛川城を徳川軍の石川家成に明け渡し、掛川城主の朝比奈泰朝等と共に北条氏を頼って小田原に退去。
English: It is said recently that the clan collapsed because the economy of the territories worsened due to frequent wars by his father Yoshimoto rather than because Ujimasa was 'incompetent' as was generally rumored.
Japanese: 滅亡の原因は、一般的に言われている氏真の「無能」ぶり以上に、父・義元の度重なる外征がもたらした領国内の疲弊が深刻であったため、と近年では言われている。
English: This caused estrangement and collapse of vassals who exhibited dissatisfaction due to crisis of their life.
Japanese: これにより、生活の危機に不満を爆発させた家臣団の離反崩壊につながった。
English: Ujimasa lived in seclusion in Kyoto, his legitimate son Norimochi IMAGAWA died from a disease, and he was later employed by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA to serve the Edo bakufu and became a Shogun's retainer with a fief of 500 koku due to kindliness of Ieyasu.
Japanese: 氏真は京都で隠棲していたが、嫡子・今川範以が病没し、その後、徳川家康に召し出されて江戸幕府に出仕し、温情により500石を与えられて幕臣に列した。
English: Naofusa IMAGAWA, a legitimate son of Norimochi, was given an additional fief of 500 koku because of his achievement as an envoy to Kyoto.
Japanese: 範以の嫡子・今川直房は京都への使者を務めた功により500石の加増を受けた。
English: The family head at the end of Edo Period, Norinobu IMAGAWA, made efforts as koke to make peace with the government army and surrender Edo-jo Castle, but he lost his fief and fell after the Meiji Restoration and his first legitimate son Yoshito IMAGAWA died before him.
Japanese: 幕末の当主・今川範叙は、高家として官軍との講和、江戸城の開城に尽力するが、明治維新後家禄を失って没落し、嫡子・今川淑人にも先立たれた。
English: However, Takahisa in an illegitimate family lineage of the Imagawa clan was named the Shinagawa clan, became bakufu koke like the main family and left offspring.
Japanese: 但し、今川氏の庶流の高久は品川氏を称し、本家同様幕府高家に列して子孫を伝えている。
English: The ancestral temple is the Hojusan Kanzen-ji Temple of Soto sect in Imagawa, Suginami Ward and the tomb of Ujimasa is also located there.
Japanese: なお菩提寺は杉並区今川(杉並区)の曹洞宗宝珠山観泉寺であり、氏真の墓もここにある。
English: As the different surnames with the same sound, there are 渡邊, 渡邉, 渡部 (Watanobe or Watabu), 亘鍋, 綿鍋, 綿奈部, 綿辺, 渡那部, 渡邁, 渡鍋(Watashinabe) and 綿部.
Japanese: 同音異姓に渡邊、渡邉、渡部（わたのべ/わたぶ）、亘鍋、綿鍋、綿奈部、綿辺、渡那部、渡邁、渡鍋（わたしなべ）、綿部がある。
English: As the same surnames with the different sound (pronounced as Watari), there are 渡利、渡里、亘理、渡、亘、渉、弥、和多利、済、日理、日理、和田利.
Japanese: 異音同姓（わたり）に渡利、渡里、亘理、渡、亘、渉、弥、和多利、済、日理、日理、和田利がある。
English: The patriarch of the Watanabe clan of Saga-Genji was MINAMOTO no Toru who was the Minister of the Left and the Emperor Saga's prince.
Japanese: 嵯峨源氏の渡辺氏は、嵯峨天皇の皇子である左大臣源融（みなもと・の・とおる）を遠祖とする。
English: MINAMOTO no Tsuko, a grandson of Toru, was appointed as Governor of Musashi Province and left the capital Kyoto for Mita, Adachi County in Musashi Province (present-day Konosu City, Saitama Prefecture).
Japanese: 融の孫の源仕（みなもと・の・つこう）のとき武蔵守となって武蔵国足立郡箕田（埼玉県鴻巣市）に下向。
English: MINAMOTO no Atsuru (Atsuru MITA)'s son, MINAMOTO no Tsuna was adopted by MINAMOTO no Atsushi, an adopted son-in-law of MINAMOTO no Mitsunaka who formed an armed group consisting of Seiwa-Genji (the Minamoto clan originated from the Emperor Seiwa) in Tada, Settsu Province (present-day Kawanishi City, Hyogo Prefecture), and lived in Watanabe, Settsu Province (present-day Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture), his mother's hometown.
Japanese: 源宛（箕田宛）の子の源綱（みなもと・の・つな）は、摂津国多田(兵庫県川西市)に清和源氏の武士団を形成した源満仲の娘婿である源氏の源敦の養子となり、母方の里である摂津国渡辺（大阪府大阪市中央区(大阪市)）に居住した。
English: He called himself WATANABE no Tsuna (渡辺源次綱; '源次' was a common name for the legitimate child since the era of Tsuna's father) and became the founder of the Watanabe clan.
Japanese: 渡辺綱（わたなべ・の・つな。渡辺源次綱。「源次」は綱の父以来、嫡子の通称）と称し、渡辺氏の祖となる。