nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Otabe is the name of a Kyoto-based (Minami Ward, Kyoto City) sweet manufacturer, and also the name of its main product, a soft sweet dumpling filled with chunky sweet azuki bean paste called "nama-yatsuhashi."
Japanese: おたべとは、京都市南区(京都市)に本社を置く、八ツ橋などを製造販売する企業であり、主力製品であるつぶあん入りの生八ツ橋の商品名でもある。
English: The company also manufatures chocolates and cookies for sale as souvenirs at Tokyo Disney Resort and Universal Studios Japan.
Japanese: また、東京ディズニーリゾートやユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン土産のチョコレートやクッキー等の製造もしている。
English: Sanpogakuso was an organization for handing down gagaku (Japanese ancient court music and dance), established as a system in the early Edo period and each ho (one office) consisted of 17 musicians and, therefore, sanpogakuso consisted of 51 musicians in total.
Japanese: 三方楽所（さんぽうがくそ）は江戸時代初期に制度化された雅楽の伝承組織で、一方17人ずつ計51人からなる。
English: Sanpo refers to three offices for musicians which were Kyoto-ho (the Imperial court), Nanto-ho (Kofuku-ji Temple), and Tennoji-ho (Shitenno-ji Temple) and the term "sanpo" is also used as a collective name for these offices for those that existed before the Edo period.
Japanese: 三方とは京都方（宮廷）、南都方（興福寺）、天王寺方（四天王寺）のそれぞれの楽所を指し、これらの総称として江戸以前についても用いる。
English: Under the ancient Ritsuryo codes, gagaku-ryo (a governmental agency for gagaku musicians) was established, however, various families gradually monopolized gagaku as their family art and the actual base of activities of the musicians was shifted to gakuso (chamber of music) which was established in kurododokoro (the Chamberlain's Office) in the 10th Century associated with the dissolution of the Ritsuryo system.
Japanese: 古代律令制では雅楽寮が置かれていたが、しだいに諸家が家芸として独占的に世襲するようになり、律令制度の解体に伴って10世紀に蔵人所におかれた楽所（がくそ）に実質が移ることになる。
English: Almost concurrently, gakuso was established in Nanto and Tennoji, and gakunin, the musicians who belonged to these gakuso were also invited to the Imperial court to perform gagaku.
Japanese: ほぼ同時期に南都や天王寺にも楽所が成立し、これらの楽所に属する楽人らも宮廷に召されて雅楽が行われていた。
English: However, because of the riots that started with the Onin War as a trigger, gakunin in Kyoto were scattered and the gagaku in the Imperial court declined to the extent that it was scarcely performed only by gakunin of Nanto and Tennoji.
Japanese: しかし応仁の乱を端緒とする動乱によって京都の楽人は四散してしまい、宮廷雅楽は南都や天王寺の楽人らによって細々と行われる程度に衰退する。
English: When the Azuchi-Momoyama period started, part of the gakunin were ordered by the Emperor Ogimachi and the Emperor Goyozei to move to Kyoto and the scattered gakunin also gradually returned to Kyoto.
Japanese: 安土桃山時代になると、正親町天皇・後陽成天皇などによって南都や天王寺の楽人の一部に京都移住が命じられるようになり、四散していた京都の楽人も次第に京都へ帰還するようになった。
English: In the "Kinriyo-gakuninshu" published in 1603 when the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) was established, the names of 24 gakunin for sanpo.in total were listed.
Japanese: 江戸幕府が成立した慶長8年（1603年）の『禁裏様楽人衆』には三方あわせて24人の名前がみえる。
English: The economic power of sanpogakunin in the early Edo period was about 2.5 million koku in total for 38 families and was poor, and it is said that, apart from Nanto-ho and Tennoji-ho who were protected by the power of temples and shrines, the musicians in Kyoto-ho who were subordinated to the court nobles were bad off.
Japanese: 江戸時代初期の三方楽人の経済力は38家合わせても250石程と貧弱であり、寺社勢力に保護された南都方や天王寺方はともかく、公家に隷属していた京都方では、生活に困窮していたようである。
English: For the 50th Buddhist memorial service of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in 1665, 57 sanbogakunin went to Edo and it was determined that a territory of 2,000 koku was provided for sanpogakuso.
Japanese: 寛文5年（1665年）の徳川家康50回忌法要に際して三方楽人57名が江戸に向かい、三方楽所領2000石が給されることになった。
English: When the Meiji period started, gakunin of sanpogakuso moved to Tokyo and joined Momijiyama-gakunin of the Edo bakufu and they together were incorporated in the Gagaku Dept. of the Imperial Household Agency and, currently, the department holds its activities as the Court Ceremony Music Dept. of the Imperial Household Agency with its gagaku being designated as an important intangible cultural asset.
Japanese: 明治を迎えると、三方楽所の楽人は東京へ移り、江戸幕府の紅葉山楽人と合流して宮内省雅楽部に編成され、現在は宮内庁式部職楽部として活動しており、宮内庁式部職楽部の雅楽は重要無形文化財に指定されている。
English: Maigaku, the Japanese ancient music for dancing of Seireikai Society which preserves the tradition of Tennoji-ho, is an important intangible ethnocultural asset, and Nanto-ho hands down not only gagaku but also ancient music such as dengaku and seinoo in mainly Kasuga-taish shrine and has organized 'Nantogakuso' after 'Kasuga Ancient Music Preserving Socity' and Shinto rituals and entertainments in Kasuga Wakamiya Festival performed by 'Nantogakuso' is also designated as an important intangible ethnocultural asset.
Japanese: また、天王寺方の伝統を受け継ぐ聖霊会の舞楽は重要無形民俗文化財であり、南都方は春日大社を中心として、雅楽のみならず、田楽、細男などの古楽もあわせて伝承し、「春日古楽保存会」雅楽部門を経て「南都楽所」を結成、「南都楽所」による春日若宮おん祭の神事芸能も重要無形民俗文化財に指定されている。
English: An Imperial order that utao (men who sing songs handed down from ancient times), utame (women who sing songs handed down from ancient times), and fuefukimono (flute player) had to hand down their artistic skills to their descendants and have them practice the skills, was announced in 684 and, later on in 778, an article called ("Kyokunsho") was present which collected 'the secrets of handing down in various families' and, therefore, it is considered that secret songs to hand down from father to son were present in those days.
Japanese: 白鳳13年（684年）に歌男・歌女・笛吹者は子孫に伝えて歌笛を習わしめよという詔勅があり、下って宝亀9年（778年）には「家々の伝受の秘説」を集めた（『教訓抄』）という記事があるため、この頃には父子相伝の秘曲が存在していたと思われる。
English: In the 12th Century, such family art became proprietary ones and it is said that to perform art other than the art of the family was prohibited.
Japanese: 12世紀ごろにはこうした家芸は独占的なものになり、家芸以外のものは実演できなかったとされる。
English: However, there were various changes after the Sengoku period (Period of Warring States) and the families as listed in the table on the right were present as gakuke (musician families) of sanpogakuso.
Japanese: しかし戦国時代(日本)の動乱を経てさまざまな変遷があり、三方楽所の楽家としては右の表にあげるような各家があった。
English: In those days, in addition to the songs handed sown from father to son proprietarily as its family art, some songs were handed down only for one generation from another family were started to be performed.
Japanese: この頃になると、父子相伝による家芸の曲目以外に、必要によって他家から一代相伝を受けて演奏するということがされるようになる。
English: "Handing down" in this case does not mean to teach a specific skill but to give the right to perform.
Japanese: この場合の相伝というのは、具体的な技能の教授ではなく、むしろ演奏権を授ける意味である。
English: The power of the Imperial court was present in the background of this right and the Yotsutsuji family which performed the role of gakuso betto (chief) and gaku bugyo (assistant) for generations managed the right.
Japanese: この権利の背景には宮廷権威があり、代々楽所別当・楽奉行を務めた四辻家がこれを取り仕切った。
English: The Yotsutsuji family was from the House of Urin (holding military ranks) which adopted the Japanese harp as its family art and, every time sanpogakunin who were jigenin (a lower rank of ancient Japanese nobility) wanted to perform Japanese harps, they received one-day handing down which was effective for the day of the performance.
Japanese: 四辻家は和琴を家芸とする羽林家であり、地下人である三方楽人が和琴を弾奏する場合には、その都度その日かぎりの一日相伝を受けていた。
English: Until the Genroku era, it was prohibited by to adopt any disciples from ordinary people other than people belonging to gakuke.
Japanese: 元禄期までは楽家以外の一般の弟子を取ることは申し合わせにより禁じられていた。
English: However, as time passed to reach the period of culture of Bunka and Bunsei, many gakuke including from gakuke each with long history such as the Toyohara family, the Shiba family, and the Tsuji family to families of low-ranked gakunin became so-called iemoto, the head of a system of licensing from a head family of a school with many pupils.
Japanese: しかしさらに時代が下って化政文化のころには、豊原家・芝家・辻家といった古来からの楽家から下級楽人の家々にいたるまで、多くの門人を抱えるいわゆる家元になっていった。
English: It can be considered that this was a measure against the poverty of gakuke caused by the influences of famines and price increases similarly to bakufu and the clans because of the income of gakuke being based on the koku system.
Japanese: これは楽家の収入が石高制であり、幕府や諸藩と同様に飢饉や物価上昇のあおりを受けて困窮したことに対する打開策と考えることができる。
English: However, during Meiji period, it was prohibited for some time period to take disciples from ordinary people and gagaku was intensively managed in the Ministry of Imperial Household and, therefore, such an iemoto system has not been continued to the modern times.
Japanese: ただし明治になって一般の弟子を取ることを禁じられた時期があり、また雅楽が宮内省で集中的に管理されたこともあって、こうした家元制度は現代には続いていない。
English: The system of gakunin was that the 51 gakunin in sanpogakuso were ranked into three classes of advanced-level artists, intermediate-level artists, and secondary-level artists, art charges were additionally given as wages to those at the advanced level and the intermediate level.
Japanese: 三方楽所の51名の楽人は上芸・中芸・次芸の3階級に分けられ、上芸・中芸の者には芸料が加給される仕組みであった。
English: What decided those ranks of the musicians was an all-participating-type practical skill examining system called sanpokyudai or gakuko.
Japanese: この階級を決定するのが三方及第あるいは楽講とよばれる全員参加型の実技試験制度である。
English: The examining system started in 1665 and the was conducted every four years until 1865 as far as no special reason for not conducting the system was present.
Japanese: 寛文5年（1665年）に始まり、慶応元年（1865年）まで特別な事情がないかぎり4年ごとに行われた。
English: Gakuko was conducted changing the musical notes for each of its sessions with one note on one day in order of Ichikotsu-cho note, Hyo-jo note, So-jo note, Oshiki-cho note, and Banshiki-cho note (after the Tenpo era, Taishiki-cho note was also included).
Japanese: 楽講は、各回で調子を変えながら、壱越調・平調・双調・黄鐘調・盤渉調（天保以後は太食調も）の順に日を改めながら行われた。
English: The subjects were only the three kinds of flutes (sho, hichiriki, ryuteki) and they were played with the accompaniment of only kakko and taiko drums and all the songs were those of sahogaku (togaku).
Japanese: 課目は三管（笙・篳篥・龍笛）のみで、助奏として鞨鼓・太鼓のみが演奏され、曲目はすべて左方楽（唐楽）であった。
English: The examinee-musicians had to decide in advance which of the advanced-level examination and the intermediate-level examination to take and those who each obtained the majority in the voting which was conducted after gakuko was finished passed the examination.
Japanese: 上芸・中芸のいずれを受験するかをあらかじめ決め、楽講が終わった後の入札で過半数を得れば及第である。
English: The voting was conducted in a manner that each of eight examiners of each one office voted for the examinees of the two offices other than the office to which the examiner belonged and, in order to secure the fairness, those of the advanced-level musicians who did not play in the accompaniment during the year were selected as examiners and these musicians further submitted their written oaths.
Japanese: 入札は各方8名が自分の属している以外の二方の受験生に対して入札するものであるが、公平を期するために上芸者のうちその年に助奏をしなかったものが最終回の楽講の前に選ばれてさらに誓状を提出していた。
English: Because the song-and-performer combinations were decided by lottery on the day of the examination, the examinees had to practice all songs in sahogaku, therefore, gakuko performed a significant role in handing down and sophistication of gagaku.
Japanese: 試験当日になってくじ引きで曲目と演奏者の組み合わせが決定されるため、左方楽の全曲目について修練を積まねばならず、したがって楽講は雅楽の伝承と洗練に大きな役割を果たしてきた。
English: Sanpo was something like a regional school and, in sanpo, a type of iemoto licensing system was employed which handed down the secret skills and secret songs in each head family.
Japanese: 三方は地域別の流派のようなものであったし、その中でも家ごとに秘伝秘曲の伝承をする一種の家元制が行われていた。
English: However, it can be considered that sanpokyudai was a system to compete for their skillfulness and evaluate each other across such schools and sanpokyudai was a peculiar case in Japanese traditional entertainment.
Japanese: しかし三方及第はそうした流儀を越えて技を競い批評し合うシステムであったと考えることができ、これは日本の伝統芸能の中では特異なものである。
English: After the Gagaku Department of the Ministry of the Imperial Household was organized during the early Meiji period, the examining method of the department basically was based on sapokyudai.
Japanese: 明治になって宮内省雅楽部が組織された後も、その試験法は基本的には三方及第を踏襲したものであった。
English: There are two opinions: one is the Yoshida family origin, that the Yoshida family produced 125 works of ancient Shinto music and dancing that became the origin of Naniwa kagura-dance, and the other is the Fushimi Inari-jinja Shrine origin, that 16 forms out of 25 works of Gosho kagura-dance handed down to the shrine are in common with Naniwa kagura-dancing and thus became an origin of Naniwa kagura-dance.
Japanese: 吉田家が神楽125座を編み出したのが浪速神楽の始まりという吉田家説と、かつて伏見稲荷神社に伝わっていた御所神楽25座のうち、16座位が浪速神楽と共通する事による伏見稲荷神社説がある。
English: It is similar to the general shrine maiden costume, however, part corresponding to chihaya (Japanese coat for female priests) is called maiginu (kimono sash) and has no breast cord and when clad, an obi-sash like wide braided cord is tightened.
Japanese: 一般的な巫女装束に似てるが千早にあたる部分は舞衣(まいぎぬ)と呼ばれ、胸紐が無く、太い組み紐の様な帯を締める。
English: Noami (1397 - 1471) is a painter, master of ceremonial tea, and a renga (linked poem) poet who lived during the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 能阿弥（のうあみ、応永4年（1397年）-文明(日本)3年（1471年））は、室町時代の画家、茶人、連歌師。
English: Originally a subordinate of the Echizen-Asakura clan, Noami served Yoshinori ASHIKAGA and Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA as a member of Doboshu (Shogun's cultural curators or experts) and called himself Noami; and he appraised and managed things imported from China such as paintings and writings, and he also established higashiyama gyomotsu (things, such as paintings, tea utensils, flower vases, collected by Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, shogun of the Muromachi bakufu - Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 元は越前朝倉氏の家臣だったが、足利義教、足利義政に同朋衆として仕えて能阿弥と号し、幕府における書画等（唐物）の鑑定や管理を行い、また東山御物の制定を行った。
English: Noami was especially excellent at Suiboku-ga (ink painting) and is considered the founder of the Ami-ha group of painters; and it is said that Noami's painting of cranes was highly praised by Yoshimasa.
Japanese: 特に水墨画に優れ阿弥派の開祖とされ、鶴図を描き義政に絶賛されたといわれる。
English: The 'Hakui Kannon zu' (painting of Kannon (Buddhist deity of mercy - wearing white) in Myogon-in, Sennyu-ji Temple was painted by Noami in 1471.
Japanese: 泉涌寺妙厳院のある「白衣観音図」は、1471年（文明3年）に能阿弥が描いたものである。
English: In Sado (tea ceremony), Noami completed the shoin kazari (decoration of shoin (one of Japan's most important residential architectural styles, established in the Momoyama period - rooms and buildings) and established the formalities for daisu kazari (decorating the utensil stand), among other achievements, and is described as an 'expert of the companions' in "Yamanoue no Soji ki" (book of secrets written by YAMANOUE no Soji, best pupil of SEN no Rikyu, a great tea master).
Japanese: 茶道においては、書院飾りの完成、台子飾りの方式の制定などを行い、『山上宗二記』では「同朋中の名人」と記されている。
English: Furthermore, Noami also excelled at renga and kado (flower arrangement); and he was named one of the Seven Wise Men in Renga and served Renga Bugyo (magistrate of renga party) of Kitano Tenmangu Shrine.
Japanese: そのほか連歌、華道にも優れ、連歌では七賢の一人に挙げられ、北野天満宮の連歌奉行も務めた。
English: It is largely divided into a number of groups as a result of its teachings being passed on to successive generations of the family during its early days; furthermore, each region has its own tradition of succession.
Japanese: 初期の伝承系譜によって大きくいくつかの派に分けられるほか、地域ごとに継承の伝統がある。
English: Yoken FUJIMURA was the second son of Soei HISADA, the ancestor of the Hisada family, and he is said to have been adopted by the Fujimura family, who ran a shop called Juniya that dealt in kimono fabrics.
Japanese: 藤村庸軒は、久田家初代の久田宗栄の次男で、呉服商十二屋の藤村家に養子に入ったとされる（異説あり）。
English: Monjin (pupils) of Yoken FUJIMURA include many who are distinguished in tea preparation, and their genealogies have been passed down, respectively.
Japanese: 藤村庸軒の門人には茶に優れた人が多く、それぞれの系譜が伝わっている。
English: Of those, the styles by Seiin FUJIMURA, Ryuka KONDO, and Soseki HIKITA are still present today.
Japanese: そのうち現在まで伝わっているのが藤村正員、近藤柳可、比喜多宗積の流れである。
English: The original Juniya of the Fujimura family was succeeded by Joken, the first son of Yoken, and continued by employing adoption along the way, but the genealogy of tea preparation came to an end with only Joken and Shoken.
Japanese: 藤村家の本家十二屋は庸軒長男の恕堅から、途中養子を取りながら継承されたが、茶の系譜としては恕堅と松軒のみで絶えている。
English: As Shoin was in poor health throughout his life, it is said that Sado became his sole entertainment.
Japanese: 正員は一生のあいだ病身であったため、茶道のみを楽しみに暮らしていたとされる。
English: Kantoya was ran by Yoken's relatives, its originator being Tsugukazu FUJIMURA, Yoken's uncle; Kantoya was temporarily discontinued after Seisai in spite of successions by adopted sons, but it was later restored.
Japanese: 関東屋は庸軒の叔父の藤村紹和を元祖とする縁戚であり、養子による継承を重ねて正斎のあと一時断絶したがのちに再興した。
English: After Seisai FUJIMURA, Sado was supported by Kanzan, a chief priest of Myofuku-ji temple, and is thus regarded as a restored art.
Japanese: 藤村正斎のあと茶道は明福寺住職の観山によって盛り立てられ、中興と称されている。
English: Monjin of Shoin FUJIMURA includes Dosetsu SAITO (1684 - 1766), who was originally from Osaka but later introduced the Yoken-ryu school in Edo (present-day Tokyo).
Japanese: 藤村正員の門人に斎藤道節（1684年～1766年）という人があり、元は大阪の人だがのちに江戸で庸軒流を広めた。
English: Although this genealogy was introduced in Tokyo along with Kado (flower arrangement) of Yoken-ryu school, Sado died out during the early Showa period.
Japanese: この系譜が庸軒流華道とともに東京で伝わっていたが、茶道については昭和初期に絶えた。
English: Ryuka KONDO went to Tsu at the request of the Todo clan of the domain of Tsu to serve as a saju (priest in charge of tea ceremony in Zen temple); for generations afterwards, the Kondo family played the role of a coach in the Todo family.
Japanese: 近藤柳可は津藩藤堂氏の依頼により津に赴き茶頭を勤めた人で、以来近藤家は代々藤堂家において指南役を務めてきた。
English: After Ryuka, the eighth head of the Kondo family, the genealogy divided into Sotsu KONO in Tsu and Muan MURAGUCHI in Tokyo, and further into Muan SUGAMORI in Tokyo; thus there are three genealogies today.
Japanese: 近藤家の8代柳可の後は、津の河野宗通と東京の村口無庵の系譜に分かれ、さらに東京で菅森夢菴の系譜がわかれて現在3系統が伝わっている。
English: Soseki HIKITA was a wealthy merchant who operated Daimonjiya in Kyoto, and he is also known to have owned famous products such as Hino Katatsuki (fine tea container).
Japanese: 比喜多宗積は屋号を大文字屋という京都の豪商で、日野肩衝を始めとする名物を所蔵していたことでも知られる。
English: The fifth head, Soken NAKATA, was an adopted son who came from the Tsuji clan of Katata, Omi Province, and as he had many Monjin he dominated the tea ceremony community of Kyoto at the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 5代中田疎軒は近江国堅田の辻氏から養子になった人で、多くの門人があり幕末の京都茶道界で一世を風靡した。
English: The seventh head, Gassan, resided in Keishun-in as the five-hundred thirty-seventh chief priest of Myoshin-ji Temple, and his Montei (disciples) included Chuken ISHIKAWA, Taikan HASEGAWA, and Dokei YUGENAN.
Japanese: 7代月山は妙心寺537世で桂春院に住し、石河中軒・長谷川諦観・幽玄庵道契といった門弟を育てた。
English: As such, the Montei separated into respective genealogies, but these genealogies are collectively called the Soseki HIKITA-ha group.
Japanese: これによってそれぞれの系譜に分かれたが、これらをまとめて比喜多宗積派と称している。
English: Yuan KITAMURA (1650 - 1719) was a wealthy farmer of Katata, Omi Province and was conversant in kaiseki-ryori (set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests) and landscape gardening, and he left a name in Yuan Yaki (Japanese grill, using meat or fish which are marinated, impaled on long skewers and broiled over hot coals), among other things.
Japanese: 北村祐庵（1650年～1719年）は近江国堅田の豪農で、会席料理と造庭に通じ、幽庵焼きなどにその名を残している。
English: Although the tradition was succeeded by the Kitamura family for generations, the family line failed in 1913 with the death of the ninth head, Tsuguhisa TSUJI.
Japanese: 北村家代々で伝承していたが、1913年に9代にあたる辻紹久が没して絶えた。
English: The genealogy of tea preparation was passed down by the Yagura family of the Nishinotoin-dori Street, Kyoto, and was traditionally succeeded for generations, but it died out during the Meiji period.
Japanese: 茶の系譜としては京都西洞院通の矢倉家に伝えられて代々伝承してきたが明治になって絶えた。
English: Toho YOKOI (1639 - 1725) was a wealthy merchant in Nakadachiuri-dori Street, Kyoto, and he was also conversant in the Yonekawa-ryu school of Kodo.
Japanese: 横井等甫（1639年～1725年）は京都中立売通の豪商で、米川流香道にも通じていた。
English: The genealogy is said to have been passed down to Matamu KUBO, Yoshitaka KUBO, and Norikazu NAKAMURA, but it is considered to have died out before the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: その後、久保又夢、久保可隆、中村範寿と伝えられているが、幕末を待たずに絶えていると考えられる。
English: Soan KUSUMI (1636 - 1728) was from Kyoto and was a son-in-law of Yoken FUJIMURA.
Japanese: 久須美疎安（1636年～1728年）は京都の人で、藤村庸軒の婿である。
English: He was famous as the author of "Sawa Shigetsu Shu" (tea ceremony book), and as he was a pupil of SEN no Sotan in the beginning, he is sometimes counted as one of Sotan's four best students.
Japanese: 『茶話指月集』の著者として有名であり、はじめは千宗旦の門人であったことから、宗旦四天王の一人に数えられることもある。
English: The Matsuo family was founded by Gensai TSUJI, an adopted son of the Tsuji family in Sakai, who carried on as a dealer in kimono fabrics under the company name of Sumiya in Kyoto.
Japanese: 松尾家の家祖は堺の辻家の養子で、京都で呉服商（屋号は墨屋）を営んだ辻玄哉である。
English: Gensai TSUJI, who was a disciple of Jo TAKENO, is well known as a senior apprentice who initiated SEN no Rikyu into daisu temae (the tea ceremony using daisu, a utensil stand.)
Japanese: 辻玄哉は武野紹鴎の門人であり、また千利休に台子点前を伝授した兄弟子として知られている。
English: Among the family's heads, Soji MATSUO (Bussai), was a well known disciple of SEN no Sotan, from whom he was awarded a description of 'Rakushiken' together with a chashaku (bamboo tea spoon for making Japanese tea) and a flower vase, each having an inscription of 'Rakushi.'
Japanese: このうち松尾宗二（物斎）は千宗旦の門人として著名であり、宗旦から「楽只軒」の書、「楽只」銘の茶杓と花入を贈られている。
English: The first head of the family, Soji MATSUO (Rakushisai), who was born in Omi and adopted by the Matsuo familly, became firstly a disciple of Shuha MACHIDA to learn the tea ceremony and delved into its secrets under the guidance of the sixth head of Omote-Senke school, Kakukakusai.
Japanese: さて初代松尾宗二（楽只斎）は元は近江の生まれで松尾家の養子に入り、始めは町田秋波に茶を学び表千家6代覚々斎のもとで奥儀を極めた。
English: In the age of Kyoho, when the Sowa-ryu school was dominant among the town people in Nagoya, Kakukakusai dispatched Shuha MACHIDA to Nagoya by their request to give them lessons of the tea ceremony.
Japanese: 享保のころまで名古屋の町衆の間では宗和流が盛んだったが、このころ覚々斎は依頼によって町田秋波を名古屋に遣わして稽古をみさせていた。
English: Since Shuha MACHIDA died after a short time, Rakushisai Soji was sent to Nagoya to succeed him in 1724.
Japanese: 秋波はまもなく亡くなり、その代わりに享保9年（1724年）楽只斎宗二が名古屋へ派遣されるようになった。
English: At the same time, Rakushisai Soji received a special favor from the Konoe family and the Takatsukasa family in Kyoto, so he had to travel frequently between Kyoto and Nagoya and tried his best to disseminate the tea ceremony.
Japanese: 京都においては近衛家・鷹司家より殊遇を得ており、たびたび京都と名古屋を往復して茶道普及に努めた。
English: Since then, the heads of Matsuo family became accustomed to travel between Kyoto and Nagoya, while the second head, Gankosai, added another official business with the lord of the Owari Domain.
Japanese: これより代々京都と名古屋を往復し、2代翫古斎の時からさらに尾張藩の御用も勤めるようになる。
English: Among the heads of the Matsuo family, the fifth head, Fushunsai, who was the husband of the younger sister of the fourth head, Fukansai, was a prodigy with extraordinary talents for earthware, architecture, gardening and poetry, and regarded as the originator of the restoration of Matsuo-ryu school.
Japanese: このうち5代不俊斎は4代不管斎の妹の婿だが、焼きもの・建築・造園、さらに詩歌に通じた非凡の人で、松尾流中興の祖と称せられている。
English: At the end of Edo period, then-current head Kokosai had to emigrate his family to Nagoya due to a fire caused by the Battle of Toba and Fushimi who burned his residence at Oshinokoji-dori street, Higashinotoin-dori street, Kyoto.
Japanese: 7代好古斎の時に幕末を迎え、鳥羽・伏見の戦いで京都東洞院通押小路通にあった家を焼失したため、名古屋に移住することになった。
English: The eldest son of Kokosai performed ascetic practices of Zen at Kohoan, Daitoku-ji Temple, in order to succeed the Matsuo-ryu school, but, once he returned to Nagoya after Zen practices, he became a Zen priest.
Japanese: 好古斎の長男は松尾流を継ぐべく大徳寺狐篷庵で禅の修行をしたのだが、一旦は名古屋に戻ったもののとうとう禅僧となってしまった。
English: Consequently, the third son of Kokosai succeeded the Matsuo-ryu school as its eighth head, Kyukosai, after the sudden death of the seventh head Kokosai, but after his four year service as the head, Kyukosai went abroad to Taiwan.
Japanese: このため好古斎が急逝したあとは3男が8代汲古斎として家元を継いだのだが、汲古斎もわずか4年で台湾に渡ってしまう。
English: Since Hankosai also died young, the tenth head Fusensai succeeded the family after performing ascetic practices for 13 years under the guidance of the twelfth head of the Omote-Senke school, Seisai.
Japanese: 半古斎も早世したため、10代不染斎は13年間に渡って表千家12代惺斎のもとで修行を積んでから継承した。
English: During the vacant period without a head, the Matsuo-ryu school was maintained chiefly by his younger sister, Sanetomo MATSUO, who was later awarded to become the eleventh head of the family.
Japanese: この間家元不在の松尾流は妹の松尾実知が中心になって支え後に11代を贈られた。