nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Miyasudokoro became obsessed with Genji and longed to monopolize him, but due to her sense of inferiority as an older woman and her pride that she was a high-standing noblewoman, she could not show a frank attitude to him and she subdued her real feelings with the intention not to hurt herself.
Japanese: 源氏にのめりこんでいく御息所は、彼を独占したいと渇望しながらも、年上だという引け目や身分高い貴婦人であるという誇りから素直な態度を男に見せることができず、自分を傷つけまいと本心を押し殺してしまう。
English: Such self-restraint made her into a living wraith and shiryo (spirit of a dead person) later in the story.
Japanese: この自己抑圧が、以降物語のなかで御息所を生霊、死霊として活躍させることになる。
English: The jealousy she suppressed came out whenever she lost control and harmed the ladies Genji loved.
Japanese: 押し殺した妬心が、抑制のうしなわれるたびに身からあくがれでて、源氏の愛する女君たちにあだを成すようになるのである。
English: There is a view that the first case was as an mononoke (ghost and specter) that killed Yugao, who met Genji in secret in the volume of "Yugao (Genji Monogatari)" and there is a section in the story that suggests it was Miyasudokoro.
Japanese: その最初は、「夕顔(源氏物語)」の巻で源氏と逢引する夕顔を取殺した物の怪で、物語のなかに御息所のそれではないかと示唆する部分があるとする説がある。
English: In the volume of "Aoi," she came across the gissha (ox-drawn carriage) of Aoi no ue (Lady Aoi), who was the legitimate wife of Genji and suffering from morning sickness, at the viewing of the purification ceremony for the Itsukinomiya at Kamo-gawa River during the Kamo Matsuri festival (Aoi Matsuri festival, in the middle of the Day of Cock in April) and received humiliating treatment by Aoi's servants in securing a place.
Japanese: 「葵」の巻では、賀茂祭（葵祭、4月(旧暦)の中の酉の日）の加茂川での斎院御禊見物の折に、つわり中の源氏の正妻葵の上の牛車と鉢合わせし、場所争いで葵の上方の下人に恥辱的な仕打ちを受けた。
English: This incident was the trigger for Miyasudokoro to become a living wraith and torment the pregnant Aoi no ue and Genji witnessed her.
Japanese: これが発端で御息所は生霊となって妊娠中の葵の上を悩ませるが、それを源氏に目撃されてしまう。
English: The scene in which Miyasudokoro notices that her hair and clothing had the smell of mustard (incense used in incantation to exorcise evil spirits) and knew that she herself became a wraith causing harm to Aoi no ue and her trembling in fear is one of the climaxes of the first half of the story.
Japanese: 御息所が、己の髪や衣服から芥子（悪霊を退けるための加持に用いる香）の匂いがするのを知って、さてはわが身が生霊となって葵の上にあだをなしたか、と悟りおののく場面は物語前半のクライマックスのひとつである。
English: Noticing that she lost Genji's love completely, Miyasudokoro accompanies her daughter, who became an itsukinomiya, and enters the nonomiya (palace for princess before becoming an itsukinomiya) in order to give up her relationship with Genji.
Japanese: 源氏の愛を完全に失ったと察した御息所は、彼との関係を断ち切るため斎宮になった娘に付き添い野宮に入る。
English: She went down to Ise-jingu Shrine at the age of thirty with the itsukinomiya ("Sakaki") after a fond final farewell to Genji, who visited her in the nonomiya on September 7 (old calendar).
Japanese: 9月7日(旧暦)に野宮に訪ねてきた源氏と最後の別れを惜しんだ後、斎宮と共に30歳で伊勢神宮に下った（「賢木」）。
English: She died from a sickness after reminding the visiting Genji not to become intimate with her daughter and entrusted her daughter's future to him.
Japanese: 見舞いに訪れた源氏に娘に手をつけぬよう釘を刺しつつ、将来を託して病没。
English: Although Genji was interested in the itsukinomiya, he followed Miyasudokoro's will and had her enter court as a consort to the Emperor Reizei as Genji's foster daughter and acted as a guardian for her ("Miotsukushi").
Japanese: 源氏は斎宮に興味を持ちつつも御息所の遺言を守り、斎宮を養女として冷泉帝に入内させ後見した（「澪標」）。
English: Aki no machi section of Rokujoin, which was Genji's later residence, was originally Miyasudokoro's residence and it became a home residence for her daughter Akikonomu Chugu (Autumn-loving consort).
Japanese: 源氏が後に住まいとする六条院の秋の町は御息所の旧邸で、娘の秋好中宮の里邸となった。
English: Even after her death, Miyasudokoro tormented Murasakinoue and Onnasannomiya and appeared to complain to Genji (second volume of "Wakana (Genji Monogatari) and "Kashiwagi").
Japanese: 御息所は死後も紫の上や女三宮などにとりつき、源氏に恨み言を言いに出現した（「若菜(源氏物語)下」「柏木」）。
English: Her daughter, Chugu, heard about the rumor and regretted that her mother had not become a Buddha yet and held a mass for Miyasudokoro ("Suzumushi").
Japanese: 娘の中宮もその噂を聞き、母が未だ成仏していないことを悲しんで、御息所のために追善供養を行った（「鈴虫」）。
English: Therefore, there are two different views; one tells that Miyasudokoro was older than Genji by seven years and the other that it was seventeen years.
Japanese: そのため、源氏よりも7歳年長とする説と17歳年長とする説の二つがある。
English: Akashi no onkata, Lady Akashi, is a fictional character appearing in "The Tale of Genji" by Shikibu Murasaki.
Japanese: 明石の御方（あかしのおんかた）は紫式部の物語『源氏物語』に登場する架空の人物。
English: Although she is often called 'Akashi no Ue' by mistake, she is never called 'Ue' in the story because she is a concubine of humble origin.
Japanese: しばしば「明石の上」と誤って呼ばれるが、出自の低い側室なので、作中で「上」と呼ばれることは一切ない。
English: She was loved by Hikaru Genji while he was in Akashi, and gave birth to Genji's only daughter (later Young Lady Akashi).
Japanese: 光源氏の明石時代の愛人で、源氏の一人娘（のちの明石の姫君）を産んだ。
English: The Akashi Priest, who had abandoned the rank of Konoe no chujo (middle captain of the palace guards), became the governor of a province, settled in Akashi and then took tonsure, believed a revelation from a dream that a prospective emperor and empress would be born to his daughter (in other words, his daughter would become the mother of an emperor).
Japanese: 近衛中将の位を捨て明石の受領となり剃髪した入道は、自分の娘から将来天皇と皇后が生まれる（すなわち「国母（天皇の生母）」の母となる）という夢のお告げを信じた。
English: He gave his daughter an education of a level as high as the princesses in Kyoto, and reared her strictly, instructing her that 'If we are not able to realize our ambitions and the revelation does not come true, you are to leap into the sea.'
Japanese: そして娘に京の姫君に劣らないほどの教育をほどこし、「もし心ざし遂げずこの宿世違はば海に入りね」と厳しく育てた。
English: Even after she herself went up to Kyoto, she was apprehensive that she might be outdone by Genji's numerous lovers due to her humble origin in being a local governor's daughter who had been reared in the country.
Japanese: 自身が京へ上ってからも、田舎育ちで受領の娘という身分の低さであまたの源氏の愛人達にひけをとるのではと懸念した。
English: Therefore, instead of living in Genji's residence (the east lodge at Nijo), she lived in a villa in Oi which her father had prepared.
Japanese: そのため源氏の邸（二条東院）へは入らず、父が用意した大堰の別邸に住む。
English: Considering her daughter's future, she had a bitter parting with the young lady, and after that, she could not meet her until her arriving at her womanhood and her bridal entry into court.
Japanese: 娘の行く末を考え辛い思いで姫君を手放したのち、彼女が成人して入内するまで会うことは叶わなかった。
English: She could not even be present at the initiation ceremonies celebrating her daughter's arrival at womanhood, but her bridal entry into court provided an opportunity, and she was at last permitted to accompany her.
Japanese: 娘の裳着にも参列できなかったが、入内をきっかけにようやく付き添いを許された。
English: Meanwhile, she and Lady Murasaki, having learned about each other's good points, grew to be on relatively good terms with each other on either side of their daughter.
Japanese: その一方、互いの美点を見出し合った紫の上とも、女御を挟んで程よい良好な関係を築いていく。
English: Genji's political power, Lady Akashi's excellent discretion and Young Lady Akashi's giving birth to the first prince of the emperor led to her being openly selected as Empress.
Japanese: 源氏の政治権力と明石の御方の見事な裁量、そして第一皇子を産んだことにより、晴れて明石の姫君は中宮に立后した。
English: She is unobtrusive and behaves cleverly on every occasion, but on the other hand, takes pride in herself probably to make up for her humble origin.
Japanese: 万事につけて出しゃばらず賢く振舞うが、反面出自の低さを補うためか矜持が高い。
English: Genji recalls that she resembles his ex-lover Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, who also had a high sense of dignity.
Japanese: 同じく気位の高かった元恋人の六条御息所と似ている、と源氏は述懐している。
English: She also had refined tastes for waka poetry and music, and was an especially accomplished performer of koto and biwa.
Japanese: 和歌や音楽にも洗練された趣味を持ち、特に箏の琴や琵琶の名手でもあった。
English: Before Onna San no Miya, an Imperial princess, married Genji, Lady Murasaki had seen Lady Akashi as the biggest threat to her among Genji's numerous lovers.
Japanese: 女三宮の降嫁前は、紫の上にとって数多い源氏の愛人の中で最も脅威を感じた存在であった。
English: After Genji passes away, she disappears from the story except one last time when she is said to have been guarding the princes and princesses of Empress Akashi (in 'Niou Miya' (His Perfumed Highness)).
Japanese: 源氏が没した後は、明石中宮腹の皇子女たちの後見をしていたと語られる（「匂宮」）のを最後に、物語から姿を消す。
English: In the illustrated comic 'Asakiyumemishi' ("The Tale of Genji seen in a Shallow Dream"), there is a scene that describes where she is beside Genji at his death, after he had become a Buddhist monk, in an original episode equivalent to 'Kumogakure' (Vanished behind the Clouds).
Japanese: なお漫画「あさきゆめみし」では、「雲隠」に相当するオリジナルエピソードとして、出家した源氏の死を見届ける姿が描かれた。
English: Sorobun is a style of literary language in Japanese used from the middle ages to the modern times.
Japanese: 候文（そうろうぶん）は日本語のうち中世から近代にかけて用いられた文語の文体の一つである。
English: The auxiliary verb for politeness (Japanese grammar) 'soro'('そうろう', 'そろ' or 'サウラフ' in historical kana (the Japanese syllabary) orthography) is placed at the end of a sentence.
Japanese: 文末に丁寧の助動詞(国文法)「候」（そうろう、そろ、歴史的仮名遣いではサウラフ）を置く。
English: Originally, 'soro' (in old times, Samorahu'サモラフ,' Saburahu'サブラフ,' and so on) was a verb meaning to serve in the vicinity of a person of high rank ('samurai' also originated from this).
Japanese: 「候」（古くはサモラフ、サブラフなど）は元来、貴人の傍に仕える意の動詞であった（「さむらい」もこれに由来）。
English: At the end of the Heian period, it seems to have often been used in spoken language same as 'desu-masu style' (a formal and polite form of Japanese conversational style) (There are many examples of usage in the narrative part of Heike Monogatari (The tale of the Heike)).
Japanese: 平安末期には現代語の「ですます体」のように口語で盛んに用いられたらしい（平家物語の語りの部分に多くの用例がある）。
English: Around this time, it seems that it have dropped out of usage as spoken language (However, it is said that 'desu' (a word used at the end of a sentence) originated from 'nite soro').
Japanese: この頃には口語としては廃れたらしい（ただし「です」は「にて候」に由来するとされる）。
English: However, it commonly used in writing and during the Edo period, almost all official documents and practical writing utilized this style.
Japanese: しかし、文語としてはさらに普及し、江戸時代には、公文書・実用文などのほとんどをこの文体が占めた。
English: As shown above, in almost all fields, documents related to katatsu (transmission of wishes to subordinates), joshin (report to superior) and gotsu (communications between parties on equal level) exist as documents in 'sorobun' form.
Japanese: 以上のような、ほとんどあらゆる分野にわたって、下達・上申・互通の関係にある文書が、「候文」の形で存在する。
English: Many were written with a certain objective to transmit the writer's wishes to the receiver.
Japanese: 何らかの目的を持って、相手に自分の意志を伝えるために書かれたものが多い。
English: Kanji characters in gyosho (cursive style of writing kanji characters) or sosho (advanced cursive style of writing kanji characters, more abbreviated and flowing than gyosho), variant characters, hentaigana (anomalous Japanese cursive syllabary), auxiliary words of kanji writing in gyosho or sosho, hiragana (Japanese syllabary characters), katakana (fragmentary kana), combined characters, etc. were used.
Japanese: 使われる文字は、漢字の行草書・異体字・変体仮名・行草書の漢文の助辞・ひらがな・カタカナ・合字など。
English: It was also used as for letters in the Meiji period but died out because of the popularization of unifying colloquial and written style and because sorobun was not taken up as part of education in ancient literature.
Japanese: 明治時代にも書簡体として用いられたが、言文一致体の普及や古文教育で取り上げられなかったことなどから廃れた。
English: Characteristics of the style is that standard 'kaeshiyomi (reversal reading in a Chinese of classical Japanese text)' originating from Chinese writing is mixed in a sentence in which word order follows the rules of the Japanese language.
Japanese: 文体の特徴は、日本語の語順で語彙が並ぶ文章に、漢文に由来する定型の「返し読み」を混ぜて書かれたことである。
English: Examples of hendokumoji (kanji characters - in a Chinese or classical Japanese text - to be read in reverse order): auxiliary verbs such as 如 (gotoshi), 不 (zu), 為 (su, sasu, tari), 令 (shimu), 可 (beshi), 被 (ru, raru), and so on.
Japanese: 返読文字の例　助動詞では、如（ごとし）、不（ず）、為（す・さす・たり）、令（しむ）、可（べし）、被（る・らる）など。
English: Many conjunctions, adverbs, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, and so on, which were to be written in 'hiragana' as part of the reformation of the Japanese language after the Second World War were written with kanji (Chinese characters) or their abbreviated forms ('soro' is replaced with a dot or simple mark).
Japanese: 戦後の国語改革ですべて「ひらがな」で表記することになった、接続詞・副詞・代名詞・助動詞などの多くが、漢字またはその略体（「候」を点・簡略記号ですませる）で表記される。
English: Conjunctions: 'aruiwa' (或者), 'shikareba' (然者), 'naomata' (尚又), 'mottomo' (尤), 'matawa' (又), and so on.
Japanese: 接続詞　「あるいは」（或者）、「しかれば」（然者）、「なおまた」（尚又）、「もっとも」（尤）、「または」（又者）など
English: Adverbs: 'isasaka' (聊), 'imamotte' (今以), 'iyoiyo' (弥), 'kanete' (兼而), 'moshi' (若), and so on.
Japanese: 副詞　「いささか」（聊）、「いまもって」（今以）、「いよいよ」（弥）、「かねて」（兼而）、「もし」（若）など
English: Pronouns: 'kono' (此), 'kore' (之/是), 'sono' (其), 'sore' (夫), and so on.
Japanese: 代名詞　「この」（此）、「これ」（之・是）、「その」（其）、「それ」（夫）など
English: Auxiliary verbs: 'soro' (候), 'nari' (也), 如 (gotoshi), 不 (zu), 為 (su, sasu, tari), 令 (shimu), 可 (beshi), 被 (ru, raru), and so on.
Japanese: 助動詞　「そうろう」（候）、「なり」（也）、如（ごとし）、不（ず）、為（す・さす・たり）、令（しむ）、可（べし）、被（る・らる）など
English: Hentaigana (including kanji characters in gyosho and sosho), hiragana, katakana, and ligatures as well as auxiliary words in kanji writing in gyosho or sosho are used as the part of okurigana (kana written after a kanji character to complete the full reading of the word) and postpositional particles, but the more official the document is, the less kana and more kanji is used.
Japanese: 「送り仮名・助詞に該当する部分」に変体仮名（漢字行草書含む）・平仮名・カタカナ・合字、さらには行草書の漢文助辞が使われるが、公式文書に近いほど、仮名部分がなく、漢文調である。
English: Furthermore, depending on the writer and the nature of document, usage of using kanji characters and kana differ.
Japanese: さらには書き手や文書の性質によって、漢字と仮名などの使い方はまちまちである。
English: The use of kana in letters written by women was popular, but men increasingly used kana in private or internal documents.
Japanese: また女性手紙に仮名使用が多いのはもちろんだが、男性でも、私的文書・内輪向けの文書は、仮名が多い傾向が認められる。
English: Other than official documents related to administration or judicial procedures, a considerable number of documents, such as letters, commercial correspondences, records, diaries, acts and deed, licenses to pass barrier stations, religious census certificates and documents related to community life were in 'sorobun' style.
Japanese: 行政司法などの公式文書以外に、書状・商用文・記録・日記・証文・関所手形・宗門手形・共同生活に関わる文書にいたるまで、かなりの文献がこの「候文」様式である。
English: Bungobun (sentences written in a literary style) used for written sentences regardless of spoken language used for daily life was a convenient nation-wide format used to overcome difficulties in communicating with dialects.
Japanese: 普段使っている話し言葉に関係なく、書く文章に使われた文語文は、方言による意思疎通の困難を克服するという意味では、非常に便利に使われた全国的様式だった。
English: Information regarding 'Dialects and sorobun' taken from "Tegami Koza Vol. 1" (volume 1, Lesson of writing a letter) edited by Tsutomu IGARASHI et al., issued by Heibonsha in 1935.
Japanese: 「方言と候文」に関しては五十嵐力他監修『手紙講座第1巻』平凡社、昭和10年より。
English: This sentence looks back on the history of "sorobun" in comparison with spoken style derived from the movement to unify the written and spoken styles of the Japanese language.
Japanese: 言文一致運動からきた口語体に対して、昔の「候文」の由来を懐古する文である。
English: Prohibition of free traffic during the Edo period added to the differentiation of dialects that were already numerous because of geological isolation and some dialects sounded like nanbangekizetsu (foreign language) between people in different domains.
Japanese: 「江戸時代の自由交通厳禁のために、地形上すでにあまたの方言があったところへさらに拍車がかかり、他藩人相互間では南蛮鴃舌(なんばんげきぜつ)としか聞こえない方言が多くなった。
English: As a result, conversation with people from different domains became almost impossible and there were unresolvable situations when a person stayed in Edo.
Japanese: その結果他藩の人士との談話がほとんど不通になり、江戸詰めの際などにはどうにもならないという結果になった。
English: Under such situations, sorobun was created and was often used in yokyoku (Noh song) (sentences of the Kamakura period) which was popular among the military class and introduced the style of oraimono (primary textbooks in the style of the exchange of letters) which was widespread on a nationwide basis.
Japanese: そこで当時士人の間に流行していた謡曲（鎌倉時代の文）詞章や、全国的に普及していた往来物などの口調を借りて用を足したことから、発生し、慣用し来たったものが、候文体である。
English: There is an episode when Satsuma domain attacked the Aizu-jo Castle during the Boshin War, communication with a Shinto priest who was called as a guide impossible., after much consideration, yokyoku was thought of and conversation was carried out in the same way as the dialogue between shite (main actor) and waki (supporting actor) and finally done well.
Japanese: 戊辰の役に、薩摩人が会津城を攻めた時、道案内にと呼び出した神官との間に、どうしても話が通じない。思案の末、謡曲のことを思い出し、シテとワキとの掛け合いよろしく問答を進め、やっとうまく行ったという逸話がある。
English: (This episode is said to be from Toshiaki KIRINO, who became famous in the Seinan War)' (nanbangekizetsu: foreigner's language or songs of bullheaded shrike, in other words, foreigner's non-understandable language)
Japanese: (後の西南戦争の有名人、桐野利秋の話だそうだ）」（南蛮鴃舌＝外国人や鳥の「もず」の鳴き声、転じて外国人のわからない言語）
English: 和宮様御下向之説宿継人馬多入間左之村々中山道浦和宿江當分助郷申付候条問屋方より(よりは'かな'でなく合字)相觸次第人馬 遅参不致無滞差出し相勤可申候尤當時年季休役御用ニ限り是又相勤可申者也 右村々 文久元年(1861年)
Japanese: 和宮様御下向之説宿継人馬多入間左之村々中山道浦和宿江當分助郷申付候条問屋方より（よりは「かな」でなく合字）相觸次第人馬遅参不致無滞差出し相勤可申候尤當時年季休役御用ニ限り是又相勤可申者也右村々文久元年（1861年）
English: (Translation) On the occasion of Kazunomiya's trip to Edo, the following villages are ordered to support Urawa inn town for the time being because many people and horses are needed.
Japanese: （書き下し文）和宮様御下向之説、宿継人馬多く入る間、左の村々中山道浦和宿へ当分助郷申し付け候条。
English: As soon as informed by the forward messenger sent from the wholesaler, send workers and horses without delay.
Japanese: 問屋方より相触れ次第、人馬遅参致さず滞りなく差し出し相勤め申すべく候。
English: Fujitsubo is the name created for a fictional empress who appears in the story and whose real name is unknown.
Japanese: 藤壺（ふじつぼ）は、物語に登場する、本名のわからない架空の皇妃の便宜上の名称。
English: Known examples in addition to three fujitsubo who appear in "Genji Monogatari" (Tale of Genji) is Atemiya in "Utsubo Monogatari" (Tale of the Hollow Tree).
Japanese: 代表的な例として『源氏物語』に3人が登場する他、『宇津保物語』のあて宮などが知られる。
English: Fujitsubo is a fictional character who appears in a novel written by Murasaki Shikibu, "Genji Monogatari."
Japanese: 藤壺（ふじつぼ）は、紫式部が著した小説『源氏物語』に登場する架空の人物である。
English: In order to avoid confusion, she is also called Fujitsubo no Miya or Fujitsubo Chugu.
Japanese: 混同を避けるため藤壺の宮（ふじつぼのみや）、または藤壺中宮（ふじつぼのちゅうぐう）とも呼ぶ。
English: She had an elder brother with the same mother, Hyobukyo no Miya (later becomes Shikibukyo no Miya, father of Murasaki no Ue) and a younger sister with a different mother, Genji Nyogo (empress of the Emperor Suzaku, mother of Onna Sannomiya; also called Fujitsubo).
Japanese: 同母兄に兵部卿宮（後に式部卿宮。紫の上の父）、異母妹に源氏女御（朱雀帝の妃、女三宮の母。同じく藤壺と称した）がいる。紫の上の父）、異母妹に源氏女御（朱雀帝の妃、女三宮の母。同じく藤壺と称した）がいる。
English: The Emperor Kiritsubo, who was overwhelmed with grief after the death of Kiritsubo no Koi, heard of her and eagerly requested her and she entered court at the age of fourteen.
Japanese: 更衣の死後も悲しみに暮れていた桐壺帝がその噂を聞いて熱心に所望し、14歳で入内する。
English: The Emperor Kiritsubo dearly loved Fujitsubo and his most beloved son Genji like an actual mother and a child, partly because of their beauty.
Japanese: 桐壺帝は藤壺と最愛の息子源氏を実の母子のように鍾愛し、共にその輝かんばかりの美しさもあった。
English: Fujitsubo was called 'kagayakuhinomiya' (literally, lady of the shining sun) to Genji's 'Hikarukimi' (literally, shining boy)('Kiritsubo').
Japanese: 藤壺は源氏の「光る君」と並んで「輝く日の宮」と称された（「桐壺」）。
English: Genji, who was only 5 years younger, was taught that Fujitsubo looked exactly like his dead mother and became attached to her, continued to yearn for her and gradually came to love her as his ideal lady.
Japanese: 藤壺が亡き母によく似ていると教えられ、5歳違いの彼女に懐いた源氏は、元服後も彼女を慕い続けて、次第に理想の女性として恋するようになる。
English: Then, when Fujitsubo took temporary leave from court because of her illness, she had an affair with Genji and Fujitsubo gave birth to a boy (later, Emperor Reizei, crown prince to Emperor SUZAKU) who looked exactly like Genii.
Japanese: そして藤壺が病のため里下がりした折に関係をもち（「若紫」）、その結果藤壺は源氏に生き写しの男御子（後の朱雀帝の皇太子、冷泉帝）をもうける。
English: Emperor Kiritsubo, who did not know about the affair, was delighted and doted on the imperial prince born from noble Fujitsubo as his 'flawless gem,' but Fujitsubo had mixed feelings.
Japanese: 何も知らない桐壺帝は高貴な藤壺が産んだこの皇子を「瑕なき玉」と歓喜し溺愛したが、藤壺の心中は複雑だった。
English: The era changed from Emperor Kiritsubo to Emperor Suzaku and after the death of the Retired Emperor Kiritsubo, the power of Kokiden Nyogo (mother of the Emperor Suzaku) increased day by day.
Japanese: その後桐壺帝から朱雀帝に世は移り、桐壺院崩御と共に弘徽殿女御（朱雀帝の母）側の勢力は日に日に増大する。
English: The decline of the power of Genji and sadaijin (Minister of the left) was significant and Fujitsubo, who did not have an influential guardian, decided to become a priestess in order to protect the crown prince after being annoyed by further courtship from Genji ('Sakaki').
Japanese: 源氏・左大臣側の衰勢も著しく、主だった後見もいない藤壺は源氏からの更なる求愛に悩まされた末、東宮を守るために出家を選んだ（「賢木」）。
English: She exhibited her political capability as the empress dowager (kokumo (mother of the Emperor)) equivalent to the position of Daijo Tenno (the retired Emperor) after the crown prince celebrated his coming of age and became the emperor such as to help the former saigu (later, Akikonomu chugu) enter the court of Emperor Reizei.
Japanese: 東宮が元服し帝となった後は太上天皇に准ずる母后（国母）として、前斎宮（後の秋好中宮）の冷泉帝入内に協力したりと政治手腕を発揮する。
English: At the critical age of thirty-seven years old, she fell seriously ill, and died while thanking Genji for his guardianship of Emperor Reizei.
Japanese: 37歳の厄年で重病に伏し、それまでの冷泉帝への後見を源氏に感謝しつつ崩御。
English: Since she died in the volume of 'Usugumo' (Wisps of Cloud), she was called 'Usugumo no Nyoin' after taking vows by the readers of later eras (Fujitsubo is never called 'nyogo' and 'nyoin' in the book and the opinions of researchers on Fujitsubo's position are divided).
Japanese: 「薄雲」帖で亡くなったことから、出家後は後世の読者から「薄雲女院（うすぐものにょいん）」と呼ばれている（なお、作中では藤壺が「女御」「女院」と呼ばれたことはなく、藤壺の身分については研究者の間でも意見が分かれている）。
English: She resented it and appeared in Genji's dream when Genji carelessly told Murasaki no Ue about Fujitsubo after her death, ('Asagao (Genji Monogatari)').
Japanese: 没後、源氏が紫の上に藤壺のことをうっかり語った際、それを恨み源氏の夢枕に立ったりもしている（「朝顔(源氏物語)」）。
English: Genji found Murasaki no Ue because she was the niece of Fujitsubo and had her good looks ('Wakamurasaki').
Japanese: また源氏が紫の上を見出したのも、そもそもは紫の上が藤壺の姪で彼女に瓜二つの美貌であったためである（「若紫」）。
English: Later, when the Emperor Suzakuin proposed the marriage of Onna Sannomiya to Genji, he accepted it because she was the niece of Fujitsubo same as Murasaki no Ue (first volume of 'Wakana' (Genji Monogatari)).
Japanese: 後に朱雀院から女三宮降嫁の話を持ちかけられた折も、女三宮が紫の上同様に藤壺の姪であることにも心動かされて承諾してしまう（「若菜(源氏物語)上」）。
English: Throughout Genji's life, Fujitsubo was his eternal love who continued to deeply influence the basis of his relationships with women.
Japanese: 源氏の生涯を通じて彼の女性関係の根源に深く関わり続けた、永遠の恋人といえる存在であった。
English: She is the second princess (Onna Ninomiya) of Emperor Suzaku, and her mother is Ichijo no Miyasudokoro, who was Emperor Suzaku's koi (a lady in waiting in the court).
Japanese: 朱雀帝の第二皇女（女二宮）で、母は朱雀帝の更衣(女官)であった一条御息所。
English: Tono Chujo felt pity for his son Kashiwagi, who wanted to marry Onna Sannomiya, the younger sister of Onna Ninomiya by a different mother, so he pleaded with Emperor Suzaku to give his daughter in marriage to Kashiwagi.
Japanese: 異母妹・女三宮を得られなかった柏木(源氏物語)を哀れんだ父の頭中将が朱雀院に嘆願する。
English: He made a poem in which he regarded her as a boring woman like a fallen leaf, comparing her with her younger sister, Onna Sannomiya (because of this, she was called 'Ochiba no miya' by the readers in the future).
Japanese: 妹の女三宮に比べると落葉のようにつまらない人だと蔑む歌を詠まれる（このため彼女は後世の読者により「落葉の宮」と呼ばれた）。
English: Subsequently, his best friend, Yugiri, who was asked on Kashiwagi's deathbed to look after his family after he was gone, often visited her. ('Kashiwagi' (The Oak Tree))
Japanese: その後、死の床で柏木に後事を託された親友・夕霧(源氏物語)の訪問を度々受けるようになる（「柏木」）。
English: After the death of her mother, she was almost forced to move from a mountain villa in Ono, where she lived in seclusion, to the principal residence of Ichijo no Miya, and then Yugiri proposed marriage to her.
Japanese: 母御息所の死後、夕霧の手によって半ば強引に隠棲していた小野山荘から本邸の一条宮に移されて求婚される。
English: She refused him at first, but eventually she could not help marrying him. ('Yokobue' (The Flute) - 'Yugiri' (Evening Mist))
Japanese: 初めは拒んだが結局は結婚を余儀なくされてしまう（「横笛(源氏物語)」～「夕霧」）。
English: After Hikaru Genji passed away, she moved to northeast pavilion in Rokujo-in Palace, and adopted Roku no kimi, a daughter between Yugiri and his concubine, To no Naishinosuke. ('Nioumiya' (His Perfumed Highness))
Japanese: 光源氏没後、六条院の北東の町に居を移し、夕霧の側室・藤典侍の産んだ六の君を養女に迎えた（「匂宮」）。