nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: The dog warriors, whose family names contain the kanji for 'dog' in common, have a peony-shaped bruise somewhere on their body, as well as a bead of Juzu (rosary) with the kanji for humanity, justice, courtesy, wisdom, loyalty, sincerity, filial piety and obedience respectively (Beards of Jingi-hachigyo [eight benevolences and righteousnesses]).
Japanese: 共通して「犬」の字を含む名字を持つ八犬士は、それぞれに仁・義・礼・智・忠・信・孝・悌の文字のある数珠の玉（仁義八行の玉）を持ち、牡丹の形の痣を身体のどこかに持っている。
English: Born in different places within Kanhasshu (the Eight Provinces of Kanto region), they get to know each other guided by the fate while experiencing hardships, and gather together under the Satomi family.
Japanese: 関八州の各地で生まれた彼らは、それぞれに辛酸を嘗めながら、因縁に導かれて互いを知り、里見家の下に結集する。
English: For example, both stories have a similar beginning and structure, as can be seen from the fact that in "Suikoden" 108 magic stars fly in all directions and later appear as heroes and heroines in various locations while in "Hakkenden" eight beards fly in all directions and later appear as the eight dog warriors.
Japanese: たとえば『水滸伝』では百八の魔星が飛び散り、のちに豪傑英雄として各地に現われるが、『八犬伝』では八つの数珠玉が飛び散り、のちに八犬士として世に現われる、というように発端と構成が共通する。
English: "Hakkenden" is made from the story of "Suikoden," that contains violent parts, new ideas were added and it was established as a moral story of kanzen choaku (rewarding good and punishing evil) based on Confucian ethics, in which loyal subjects, dutiful children and faithful women are rewarded and crafty courtiers, adulterers and evil women are punished.
Japanese: 粗暴な部分もある『水滸伝』の英傑たちの物語を換骨奪胎したものが『八犬伝』であり、忠臣・孝子・貞婦のおこないは報いられ、佞臣・姦夫・毒婦のおこないは罰せられる、儒教的道徳にもとづいた勧善懲悪の物語となっている。
English: Bakin spent last half of his life, from 48 to 75, writing this story.
Japanese: 馬琴はこの物語の完成に、48歳から75歳に至るまでの後半生を費やした。
English: Though he met with difficulties including the loss of his sight in the course of writing, he barely managed to make it to the last episode with the help of Michi TOKIMURA, the wife of his son Sohaku, who took dictation.
Japanese: その途中失明という困難に遭遇しながらも、息子宗伯の妻である土岐村路の口述筆記により最終話まで完成させることができた。
English: In those days "Hakkenden" had an average circulation of 500 copies a year but it was read by a larger number of people than that through book lending, and it was so popular that Bakin himself said, 'Hakkenden for those who know me, Hakkenden even for those who don't know me.'
Japanese: 『八犬伝』の当時の年間平均発行部数は500部ほどであったが、貸本により実際にはより多くの人々に読まれており、馬琴自身「吾を知る者はそれただ八犬伝か、吾を知らざる者もそれただ八犬伝か」と述べる人気作品であった。
English: During the Meiji period Shoyo TSUBOUCHI, in "Shosetsu shinzui" (The essence of the novel), criticized "Hakkenden" as the typical gesaku literature from another age which must be overcome by early-modern literature, insisting that 'the eight dog warriors were monsters of Jingi-hachigyo instead of being human beings,' but such criticism gives evidence of the major impact that "Hakkenden" had in those days.
Japanese: 明治に入ると、坪内逍遥が『小説神髄』において、八犬士を「仁義八行の化物にて決して人間とはいひ難かり」と断じ、近代文学が乗り越えるべき旧時代の戯作文学の代表として『八犬伝』を批判しているが、このことは、当時『八犬伝』が持っていた影響力の大きさを示している。
English: "Hakkenden" has influenced creative activities in various genres including popular literature, drama, comics and animation, and has been adapted many times.
Japanese: 本作は現在に至るまで大衆文学・ドラマ・漫画・アニメなど各ジャンルの創作に影響を与え、多くの翻案が生み出された。
English: Countless works use similar motifs as those of "Hakkenden," including 'Gikyodai (nonbiological brothers based on mutual vows) bound by a fateful connection in another life,' 'common stigma, ball of soul or character in the name' and 'Murasame, celebrated sword which gives out mist when drawn.' (see "Works based on Nanso Satomi Hakkenden.")
Japanese: 「前世の因縁に結ばれた義兄弟」「共通する聖痕・霊玉・名前の文字」「抜けば水気を放つ名刀・村雨」などのモチーフを借りた作品は枚挙にいとまない（→南総里見八犬伝を題材にした作品）。
English: Furthermore, Bakin's anecdotes from the time when he wrote "Hakkenden" have been made a theme of many creations including "Gesakuzanmai" written by Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA.
Japanese: また、『八犬伝』執筆時の馬琴のエピソードも、芥川龍之介『戯作三昧』などの創作の題材となっている。
English: The Satomi clan is a daimyo (feuderal lord) which really existed, but it is sometimes referred to as 'the SATOMI family famous for Hakkenden.'
Japanese: なお、里見氏は実在の大名であるが、「八犬伝で有名な里見氏」と語られることがある。
English: Images of the fantastic romance concerning "Hakkenden" contribute to tourism and publicity of the areas connected with the SatomiI family, including the Awa area, but fiction is sometimes confounded with historical facts.
Japanese: 『八犬伝』の持つ伝奇ロマンのイメージは安房地域をはじめとする里見家関連地の観光宣伝に資しているが、史実とフィクションが混同されることもある。
English: The long plot of this novel can be roughly divided into three parts; the beginning part telling the sudden rise of the Satomi family in the Nanso region and the fateful connection between Princess Fuse and Yatsufusa (Story of Princess Fusa), the story of eight dog warriors who, born in different places within Kanhasshu, wander and band together (Lives of Dog Warriors) and the part leading to the denouement in which the eight dog warriors, serving the Satomi family, fight the kubo (shogunal representative) allied forces led by Koga, Kanto Kanrei (A shogunal deputy for the Kanto region) (the great battle of Kanto or the war against Kanrei).
Japanese: 長大な物語の内容は、南総里見家の勃興と伏姫・八房の因縁を説く発端部（伏姫物語）、関八州各地に生まれた八犬士たちの流転と集結の物語（犬士列伝）、里見家に仕えた八犬士が関東管領・滸我（古河）公方連合軍との戦争（関東大戦、対管領戦）を戦い大団円へ向かう部分に大きく分けられる。
English: Yoshizane SATOMI, a warrior who survived the Yuki War, fled to Awa, where he became the lord of Takita-jo Castle after defeating Sadakane YAMASHITA, Gyakushin (rebellious subject) who had killed the former lord, Mitsuhiro JINYO.
Japanese: 結城合戦の落武者里見義実は、落ち延びた安房で、滝田城主神余光弘を殺した逆臣山下定包を討って城主となる。
English: Yoshizane considered sparing Tamazusa, Sadakane's wife, but went back on his word after being reproached by Hachiro KANAMARI, and so Tamazusa was decapitated with curses.
Japanese: 義実は定包の妻玉梓の助命を一度は考えるが、金碗八郎に諌められてその言葉を翻し、玉梓は呪詛の言葉を残して斬首された。
English: When the castle was about to fall, Yoshizane joked with his dog Yatsufusa that he would give the dog his daughter, Princess Fuse, if it killed Kagetsura, and Yatsufusa, barking once, jumped into the enemy encampment and came back with Kagetsura's head.
Japanese: 落城を目前にした義実は飼犬八房に「景連の首を取ってきたら娘の伏姫を与える」と戯れを言うが、八房は一声吠えると敵陣に踊り込み、景連の首を持参して戻って来た。
English: Yoshizane offered to Yatsufusa feasts fit for a king as well as its personal valets, but the dog showed no interest and finally broke into Princess Fuse's bedroom.
Japanese: 義実は褒美として山海珍味や係の役人を与えるが八房は一切興味を示さず、ついに伏姫の寝所へ乱入する。
English: Yoshizane was furious when he found it out, but Princess Fuse told him that a lord should not break his promise, even a promise he has made to a dog, and entered Mt. Toyama with Yatsufusa.
Japanese: これを知っていきり立つ義実に、伏姫は「犬相手とは言え、君主たる者が一度口にした約束を違えてはいけない」と八房を伴い富山に入った。
English: Princess Fuse spent her days there reading Buddhist sutras to god, never allowing Yatsufusa to touch her, and Yatsufusa listened to the sutras.
Japanese: 伏姫は、八房に肉体の交わりを許さず読経の日々を過ごし、八房は経に耳を傾ける。
English: The next year Princess Fuse showed signs of pregnancy, and a child hermit whom she encountered in the mountain told her that Yatsufusa had been cursed by Tamazusa, that Tamazusa's curse had been cleared up by the merit of the sutras but that Princess got pregnant with Yatsufusa's ki (essence, phenomenon).
Japanese: 翌年、伏姫に懐妊のしるしがあらわれ、山中で出会った仙童から八房が玉梓の呪詛を負っていたこと、読経の功徳によりその怨念は解消されたものの、八房の気を受けて種子を宿したことが告げられる。
English: She was so ashamed of her pregnancy that she tried to kill herself, when Daisuke KANAMARI, who had just entered Mt. Toyama, shot her by mistake.
Japanese: 伏姫は懐妊を恥じて自害しようとしたが、おりしも富山に入った金碗大輔の銃弾を受けてしまう。
English: On the verge of death, Princess Fuse disemboweled herself in front of Yoshizane and Daisuke and demonstrated that she did not have a dog's baby in her womb.
Japanese: 絶命を前に義実と大輔の前で伏姫は割腹し、胎内に犬の子がないことを証した。
English: Pure essence which flowed out of her wound carried her beads into the sky, and dispersed eight large beads bearing letters of Jingi-hachigyo.
Japanese: その傷口から流れ出た白気は姫の数珠を空中に運び、仁義八行の文字が記された八つの大玉を飛散させる。
English: Daisuke, who was prevented by Yoshizane from following the Princess and killing himself, took on the form of Buddhist priest, called himself Chu-dai, a name made from the kanji for a dog by dividing it into two characters, and set out on a journey to find the dispersed beads.
Japanese: 義実は後を追い自害しようとした大輔を留め、大輔は僧体となって、『犬』という字を崩し丶大（ちゅだい）を名乗り、八方に散った玉を求める旅に出るのだった。
English: Shino INUZUKA in Musashi-Otsuka village had been brought up as a girl since he was little as requested by his mother, who had died young, in her will.
Japanese: 武蔵大塚村の犬塚信乃は、若くして死んだ母の遺言により、幼い頃から女子として育てられた。
English: One day Shino's uncle and aunt, the village head reported that Shino's dog Yoshiro ran wild in their house and destroyed migyosho (document of shogunate order) given by the Kanryo Family (the family in control) (, which was a scheme conceived by Hikoroku and his wife), and Shino's father Bansaku committed suicide in order to take responsibility.
Japanese: ある日、村長である伯母夫婦の家にて信乃の飼い犬、与四郎が暴れ、管領家から賜った御教書を破損したとの訴えがあり（これは蟇六夫婦の罠であった）、責を取って父・番作は自害。
English: However, his aunt and uncle were planning to rob Shino of Murasame (a fictitious sword), a treasure sword of the Kamakura kubo family which had been entrusted to Shino by his father, and to get rid of him.
Japanese: しかし伯母夫婦は、信乃が父から託された鎌倉公方家の宝刀村雨(架空の刀)を奪い信乃を除くことを企んでいた。
English: Hikiroku and Kamezasa ordered Gakuzo (Sosuke INUKAWA), a houseboy working for the Otsuka family, to watch Shino, but by mere accident Shino and Gakuzo discovered that they had the same beads and bruise, and secretly decided to associate with each other as brothers (Gikyodai).
Japanese: 蟇六夫婦は大塚家の下男・額蔵（犬川荘助）を信乃の監視にあてるが、ふとしたきっかけから信乃と額蔵は互いが同じ玉と痣を持っている事を知り、二人は密かに義兄弟の契りを結ぶ。
English: In the summer when Shino was 18 years old, his aunt and uncle secretly substituted Murasame-maru with a fake and sent him to Nariuji ASHIKAGA, kubo in Koga.
Japanese: 信乃18歳の夏、伯母夫婦は村雨丸をすりかえ、信乃を滸我（古河）の公方足利成氏の許に旅立たせた。
English: In his absence Hikiroku and his wife tried to make Hamaji Jindai's mistress, but Hamaji, longing for Shino, was deceived and was kidnapped by Samojiro ABOSHI.
Japanese: 蟇六夫婦はこの間に浜路を陣代の側妾にしようとするが、信乃を慕う浜路は網乾左母二郎に騙されて攫われてしまう。
English: On the way Hamaji found that the sword carried by AboshiI was the real Murasame-maru, and in fighting to get it back was put to the sword.
Japanese: 道中、網乾の持っている刀が本物の村雨丸と知った浜路はこれを取り返そうとし、逆に斬り殺されてしまう。
English: Having an audience with Nariuji in Koga, Shino was suspected of being Kanrei's spy because Murasame-maru was a fake, and Nariuji's people tried to kill him.
Japanese: 滸我にて成氏に謁見する事となった信乃だったが、村雨丸が贋物であった事から管領方の間者と疑われ、命を狙われる。
English: He desperately fought to protect himself, being cornered at last on the roof of Horyukaku, tackled by a former prison guard Genpachi INUKAI and fell into the Tone-gawa River together.
Japanese: ついに芳流閣の屋根に追い詰められた信乃は必死に防戦するが、そこに現れた元獄舎番、犬飼現八と組み合ううちに、ともに利根川に転落。
English: They were carried to Gyotoku, Shimousa Province and rescued by Kobungo INUTA and his father Bungobe KONAYA, an owner of hatago (inn with meals).
Japanese: 下総行徳へと流れつき、犬田小文吾とその父である旅籠の主人古那屋文五兵衛に助けられた。
English: Konaya offered shelter to them and one day Shino was out with a high fever from tetanus which was caused by an injury he had gotten in Horyukaku.
Japanese: 古那屋に匿われたある日、信乃は芳流閣での怪我が元で破傷風にかかってしまい、高熱で寝込んでしまう。
English: As Kobungo went out to mediate a fight among his fellows and Bungobe was summoned by shokan (an officer governing shoen - manor), only Kobungo's sister Nui and her little son Daihachi were left to hold the fort at Konaya's.
Japanese: 小文吾は仲間の喧嘩の仲裁、文五兵衛は荘官に呼ばれ、古那屋の留守を守るは小文吾の妹沼藺とその幼子大八のみ。
English: Then Nui's husband Fusahachi YAMABAYASHI showed up to capture Shino, who was now a wanted person.
Japanese: そこへ沼藺の夫、山林房八がお尋ね者となった信乃を捕らえようと現れる。
English: Surprised, Fusahachi drew a sword, but mistakenly killed Nui, who was trying to cover Shino.
Japanese: これはとばかりに刀を抜いた房八だが、信乃を庇う沼藺を勢いで斬ってしまった。
English: Kobungo came home at that time and, seeing his sister cut down, killed Fusahachi with the sword.
Japanese: そこに戻ってきた小文吾は、妹を斬られた光景を目の当たりにして房八を斬り殺す。
English: Shino was hidden in a backroom for a while, and Fusahachi's head was submitted to shokan's emissary under the guise of Shino's.
Japanese: ひとまず信乃は奥部屋へと匿われ、房八の首を信乃と偽って荘官の使いへと差し出す。
English: Bungobe and Genpachi came back and grieved for the loss of Fusahachi and his wife as well as of Daihachi, but Chu-dai, who happened to stay at that hatago, brought Daihachi back to life with his juho (magic).
Japanese: 帰ってきた文五兵衛・現八らは房八夫婦と大八の死を悲しむが、宿に居合わせた丶大の呪法により大八は息を吹き返す。
English: The Dog Warriors were told by Chu-dai about their fateful connection with the Satomi family, and they hurried to Otsuka village in order to rescue Sosuke, who was about to be executed for killing his master.
Japanese: 丶大から里見家との因縁を知らされた犬士たちは、主人殺しの廉で処刑されようとする荘助を救う為大塚村へと急ぐ。
English: In the meantime, Daihachi left for Awa with Chu-dai and Myoshin, Daihachi's grandmother, but was spirited off on the way.
Japanese: 一方大八は、丶大・祖母妙真らに連れられ安房に向かうが、途中神隠しに遭う。
English: In Otsuka village the three Dog Warriors narrowly saved Sosuke, who was crucified and about to be executed.
Japanese: 大塚へと向かった三犬士は、磔にされ今にも処刑されようとしていた荘助をすんでの所で救う。
English: Back on the safe ground, the four Dog Warriors left for Kozuke Province, when they saw Dosetsu avenging on kanrei, Sadamasa OGIGAYATSU.
Japanese: 危地を脱し上野国に向かった四犬士は、道節による管領扇谷定正への仇討ちに遭遇する。
English: Thus the five Dog Warriors gathered together on Mt. Arame, Joshu, but they split away pursued by the army of the Kanrei Family.
Japanese: こうして上州荒芽山に五犬士が集結するが、管領家の軍勢が迫り犬士たちは離散する。
English: His wife Funamushi, while mourning her husband's rampageous behavior, gave Kobungo hitoyogiri (one-jointed bamboo musical instrument), a kind of Shakuhachi bamboo flute, as a token of good faith.
Japanese: 並四郎の妻、船虫は夫の狼藉を悲しみながらも、せめてもの侘びにと一節切の尺八を小文吾に渡す。
English: Kobungo, after receiving the instrument, thought that it was too valuable and secretly put it back on the shelf while Funamushi was away.
Japanese: 一度は受け取った小文吾であったが、この尺八は価値のあるものと思い、船虫の留守中にそっと戸棚へと返しておいた。
English: In fact the bamboo flute which Funamushi had given him was famous fue Arashiyama, a treasure which had been passed down in the Chiba family but had been lost, and Funamushi reported to the Chiba family that Kobungo had stolen it.
Japanese: 船虫から渡された尺八は、かつて失われた千葉家代々の家宝、名笛嵐山であり、船虫が「小文吾が盗んだものである」と申し出たのだ。
English: As Kobungo told all that had happened since the previous night and the flute was discovered in the house, he was cleared of suspicion and Funamushi was arrested.
Japanese: 小文吾は昨夜からの事を残らず打ち明け、笛も家から見つかった事で、疑いは晴れ、船虫が取り押さえられる。
English: Gandai invited Kobungo to Ishihama-jo Castle for a more detailed explanation, and introduced him to Karo (chief retainer) of the Chiba family, Daiki MAKUWARI.
Japanese: 眼代は事の釈明をと石浜城へ小文吾を招き、千葉家家老・馬加大記に引き合わせる。
English: Kobungo met a female Dengaku performer Asakeno (Keno INUSAKA) in the castle, whose father Tanenori AIHARA had been unjustly killed for the theft of Arashiyama and who avenged Daiki, one of the foes of her family, in Taigyuro.
Japanese: 小文吾が城内で出会った女田楽師旦開野（犬坂毛野）は、嵐山盗難の一件により不当に殺された粟飯原胤度の遺児であり、一族の仇の一人・大記を対牛楼で討ち果たす。
English: In the meantime Genpachi, visiting Shimotsuke after several provinces, encountered a specter cat in Mt. Koshin and shot it in the left eye with his bow.
Japanese: 一方、諸国を経て下野国を訪れた現八は庚申山山中にて妖猫と対峙、現八は弓をもって妖猫の左目を射る。
English: He chased the fleeing cat and met with Kakutaro INUMURA in Tamagaeshi village at the foot of the mountain.
Japanese: 逃げ去る妖猫を追ううち、麓の返璧（たまがえし）の里にて犬村角太郎とめぐり合う。
English: Kakutaro had had a wife named Hinakinu, and she was expecting a baby though she had never slept with Kakutaro since his father Norikiyo INUMURA died.
Japanese: 角太郎には妻、雛衣がいたが、雛衣の腹には父、犬村儀清の死以来、床を共にしていないにも拘らず、子を宿していた。
English: Believing that his wife had committed adultery, Kakutaro divorced Hinakinu and he himself was confined to a hermitage in Tamagaeshi village.
Japanese: これを不義とみた角太郎は、雛衣を離縁、自らは返璧の庵に蟄居していた。
English: Then a man falsely taking the name of Ikkaku AKAIWA, Kakutaro's biological father, showed up and requested the pre-born baby's liver and his mother's heart as miracle medicine for a wound to his eye.
Japanese: そこに角太郎の実父、偽赤岩一角が現れ、自らの目の怪我に効く妙薬として、孕み子の肝とその母の心臓とを要求する。
English: Kakutaro was about to decline this request, but found himself at a loss for words when Ikkaku cried, 'Are you going to let your father die, protecting a child from an act of adultery?' and Hinakiku disemboweled herself in order to get Kakutaro out of a hole and to prove her innocence.
Japanese: 角太郎はこれを断ろうとするが、一角は「不義の子をかばって父を殺すのか」と恫喝、返事に窮した角太郎に対し、雛衣はその窮地を救うべく、またわが身の証を立てるため、腹に刃を立てる。
English: In fact, when she had been ill in bed in the past, she had mistakenly swallowed the bead of soul with water.
Japanese: 実は以前に雛衣が病に伏した際、誤って水と共に霊玉を飲んでしまっていたのだ。
English: To see this, Kakutaro realized how he had misunderstood and killed the specter cat in cooperation with Genpachi.
Japanese: ここに至って自らの思い違いを知った角太郎は、現八と共に妖猫を退治する。
English: When he was plunged into a crisis, he was saved by Chu-dai and Dosetsu, who had established a base for searching for the Dog Warriors in an old temple in Isawa town.
Japanese: 信乃は危機に陥るが、石和町の寺に犬士捜索の拠点を置いた丶大と道節により救われる。
English: Arriving in Ojiya, Echigo Province, Kobunji met Sosuke again when he was attacked by Funamushi.
Japanese: 越後小千谷にたどり着いた小文吾は、船虫に襲われたのを契機に荘助と再会。
English: After escaping from execution by a lord, Kobunji and Sosuke met Keno by chance in Shinano and told her about their fateful connection with the Satomi family, but Keno had already vowed to avenge her last remaining foe, Itsutota KOMIYAMA.
Japanese: 領主による処刑の危機を脱した二人は信濃で毛野と邂逅して里見家との縁を伝えるが、毛野は残る仇・籠山逸東太への復讐を誓っていた。
English: In the meantime Keno had an opportunity to meet Kaname no mae, Sadamasa OGIGAYATSU's wife, in Yushima Tenjin and asked to assassinate Itsutota KOMIYAMA, a cunning retainer.
Japanese: そのころ毛野は湯島天神で扇谷定正夫人蟹目前らの知遇を得て奸臣籠山逸東太の殺害を依頼される。
English: Eavesdropping on this conversation, Dosetsu raised an army with Hokita goshi (country samurai) in order to kill Sadamasa taking advantage of Keno's avenge, but retreated after hearing about Kanae no mae's suicide.
Japanese: これを立ち聞きした道節は毛野の仇討ちに乗じ、穂北郷士たちとともに挙兵して定正の命を狙うが、蟹目前らの自害を知って兵を退く。
English: In the meantime Motofuji HIKITA, the lord of Tateyama-jo Castle in Kazusa Province, launched a rebellion against the Satomi family with the help of Happyaku-bikuni Myochin.
Japanese: そのころ、上総館山城主蟇田素藤は八百比丘尼妙椿の助力を得て里見家に反旗を翻した。
English: When the old lord Yoshizane SATOMI was attacked by an assassin in Mt. Toyama, Daihachi, who had been raised by God Princess Fuse, came to his rescue, calling himself Shinbe INUE.
Japanese: 富山で刺客に襲われた老侯里見義実の前に、伏姫神に育てられた大八が犬江親兵衛と名乗り現れる。
English: Shinbe suppressed Motofuji's rebellion, and Myochin, having been beaten, revealed her basic essence, a raccoon dog possessed by Tamazusa's curse.
Japanese: 親兵衛は素藤の乱を討ち、妙椿は退治されて本体（玉梓の怨念の宿った狸）をあらわす。
English: Yoshinari SATOMI sent Shinbe INUE to Kyoto as an emissary to the Yoshino Court, but Kanrei Masamoto HOSOKAWA liked him so much that he refused to let him go.
Japanese: 里見義成は朝廷への使者として犬江親兵衛を京都に遣わすが、親兵衛は管領細河政元に気に入られて抑留される。
English: In the meantime Sadamasa OGIGAYATSU, hating the Dog Warriors and their master, the Satomi family, raised an army to defeat the Satomi family in cooperation with Akisada YAMANOUCHI and Nariuji ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: そのころ犬士たちと彼らが仕える里見家を恨む扇谷定正は、山内顕定・足利成氏らと結び、里見討伐軍を発していた。
English: Wars were fought in Gyotokuguchi, Konodai and Sunozaki, and the Satomi family made great victories in each of those wars.
Japanese: 行徳口・国府台・洲崎沖の三ヶ所で合戦が行われ、いずれも里見家の大勝利に終わった。
English: An imperial messenger came to negotiate a cease-fire, a peace agreement was concluded and the Satomi family returned the castles it had conquered.
Japanese: 朝廷から停戦の勅使が訪れて和議が結ばれ、里見家は占領した諸城を返還した。
English: Shino presented Murasame-maru to Nariuji, who had been taken prisoner, and accomplished a desire cherished by the three generations.
Japanese: 信乃は、捕虜となっていた成氏に村雨丸を献上し父子三代の宿願を遂げる。
English: After the third head of SatomiI family Yoshimichi died, the Dog Warriors, being elderly, transferred the head of the family to their sons and confined themselves to Mt. Toyama.
Japanese: 里見家三代当主の義通が没すると、高齢になった犬士たちは子供に家督を譲り富山に籠った。
English: In the afterword, Bakin disclosed reference materials that he had relied upon, to explain about the historic facts concerning the Satomi family (based on gunkimono or war chronicles, prevailing in those days) and geography of Awa, revealed the fact that he had lost his eyesight, and said a word of appreciation for Omichi, who had transcribed the story for him.
Japanese: 馬琴が用いた参考史料の開示、里見氏の史実（当時の軍記物にもとづく）や安房の地理の解説のほか、著者の失明の事実が明かされ、筆記者お路への慰労の言葉が書かれている。
English: They are eight large beads of the 108 beads, which originally bore the letters meaning humanity, justice, courtesy, wisdom, loyalty, sincerity, filial piety and obedience, but after Yatsufusa began to love Princess Fuse the letters turned into 'Nyoze Chikusho Hotsubo Daishin.'
Japanese: 108つの玉の内の8つの大玉で、「仁義礼智信忠孝悌」と現れていたが、八房が伏姫を恋い慕うようになってからは「如是畜生発菩提心」の8文字がひとつずつ浮かぶようになった。
English: When the beads flew in all directions at the time of Princess Fuse's suicide, the letters on the beads turned into 7humanity, justice, courtesy, wisdom, loyalty, sincerity, filial piety, and obedience7 again.
Japanese: 伏姫の自害に伴って数珠が飛散する際にそれぞれの玉の文字が「仁・義・礼・智・忠・信・孝・悌」と変わったものである。
English: The remaining 100 beads were threaded again and were always carried by Chu-dai hoshi as juzu (rosary).
Japanese: 残りの100個の小玉は繋ぎなおされて、丶大法師が数珠として常に携帯している。
English: When the eight Dog Warriors get close to one another, the beads react to one another to tell the existence of another Dog Warrior, and they also have the power to accelerate healing of physical wounds and illness.
Japanese: 八犬士同士の距離が近づくと感応しあってその存在を教え、肉体的な傷や病気の治癒を早める力を持っている。
English: This is a treasure sword which has been handed down in the Ashikaga family, Kamakura kubo (Governor-general of the Kanto region) and it gives off a mist when drawn with an intention to kill.
Japanese: 鎌倉公方足利家に伝わる宝刀で、殺気をもって抜き放てば刀身から水気が立ち上る。
English: It was entrusted by Shosaku INUZUKA, kinju (attendant) serving the kubo family, to his only son Bansaku at the time of the fall of Yuki-jo Castle, and Bansaku, on the verge of death, entrusted it to his son Shino INUZUKA and asked him to present it to Nariuji the Koga kubo.
Japanese: 結城落城の際、公方家の近習であった大塚匠作から一子・番作に託され、番作はその死に際して子の犬塚信乃にこの刀を滸我公方成氏に献上することを託した。
English: Historically, Sadamasa UESUGI's castle (in Honjo City, Saitama Prefecture) is called "ikako (or ikakko or ikatsuko or irako)-jo"and located quite differently.
Japanese: 史実の上杉定正の居城であった五十子の戦い（埼玉県本庄市）は「いかこ（いかっこ、いかつこ、いらこ）じょう」と読み、所在地もまったく異なる。
English: According to the annals, the Satomi and the Hojo families fought two wars in Konodai, and the Satomi family lost both of them.
Japanese: 史実では、里見氏と北条氏の間でおよそ前後2度にわたる国府台合戦が行われ、いずれも里見方が敗れている。
English: In "Hakkenden" it is featured first as Kagetsura ANZAI's castle, and in the denouement as a castle given to Shinbe INUE.
Japanese: 『八犬伝』では発端で安西景連の居城として、大団円では犬江親兵衛に与えられる城として登場する。
English: Tateyama-jo Castle,' where Motofuji HIKITA lived, is located in Kazusa Province and different from the former castle of the Anzai family, although the two castles are often confounded with each other in various books.
Japanese: 諸書でもしばしば混同されるが、蟇田素藤が居城とした「館山城」は上総国にあり、安西氏の旧城とは別である。
English: According to the annals, the Satomi family moved their base to the actual Tateyama domain (Tateyama City) at the end of the Sengoku period (period of warring states).
Japanese: 実際の館山藩（館山市）には、史実の里見氏が戦国時代末に本拠を移した。
English: It is a fictitious shoen (manor in medieval Japan) in "Hakkenden," which was autonomously controlled by those who had joined the Yuki War and the remnants of the Toshima family including Zanzo HIGAKI, and the eight Dog Warriors set their base there when they challenged Sadamasa OGIGAYATSU, Kanrei.
Japanese: 『八犬伝』に登場する架空の荘園で、氷垣残三ら、結城合戦の参加者や豊島家の残党が自治的な支配をおこなっており、管領扇谷定正に戦いを挑む八犬士が拠点とした。
English: Warlords in the Kanto region who obeyed Shunomaru and Anomaru, sons of late Mochiuji ASHIKAGA, who had perished in the Eikyo War, raised a rebellion against the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) in 1440, establishing themselves in the Yuki-jo Castle.
Japanese: 永享の乱で滅びた足利持氏の遺児・春王丸と安王丸を奉じた関東の諸将が、永享12年（1440年）結城城に拠って幕府に叛旗を翻した。
English: The Yuki side lost, and Shunomaru and Anomaru, after being captured, were killed in Ogaki, Mino Province while they were taken to Kyoto.
Japanese: 結城方は破れ、捕らえられた春王丸と安王丸も京都に連行される途中美濃大垣で殺害された。
English: In "Hakkenden" Suemoto and Yoshizane SATOMI, Shosaku and Bansaku INUZUKA, I no Tanzo and Zanzo HIGAKI joined the Yuki side.
Japanese: 『八犬伝』では、里見季基・義実親子、犬塚匠作・番作親子、井丹三、氷垣残三が、いずれも結城方で参戦している。