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English: In 1956, he appeared in the movie "Onibi" (A Will o' the Wisp), a movie that was based on a work of literature and produced as part of those Toho labeled Diamond Series.
Japanese: 1956年には東宝がダイヤモンド･シリーズと銘打った文芸映画『鬼火』で主演した。
English: Thanks to his performance in the above-mentioned movies, he was selected by the director Yasuki CHIBA as an actor for the role of stock trader Gyuchan, the hero of serialized novel "Oban (novel)" written by Bunroku SHISHI.
Japanese: これがきっかけで、監督の千葉泰樹に獅子文六の連載小説『大番(小説)』の主人公・株屋のギューちゃん役に抜擢された。
English: Four movies were produced in Oban series and the nickname of Gyuchan ultimately became a synonym for Kato himself.
Japanese: 大番シリーズは4本も作られ、ギューちゃんのあだ名はそのまま加東自身の代名詞となるまでになった。
English: He also played the role of a witty director in the movies in Shacho (president) series, in which he acted together with Hisaya MORISHIGE and Keiju KOBAYASHI, and won a reputation as being an indispensible supporting actor in Japanese movies.
Japanese: また森繁久彌、小林桂樹と共演した社長シリーズでも軽妙な重役を演じるなど、日本映画にかかせない名脇役として人気を博した。
English: When he talked about his war experiences in New Guinea in Musei taidan, a column appeared in Shukan Asahi (Weekly Asahi magazine), he was strongly exhorted by Musei TOKUGAWA to compile such experiences into a book.
Japanese: 週刊朝日の夢声対談でニューギニアでの戦争体験を語ったところ、徳川夢声から是非執筆するよう強く勧められた。
English: This novel was dramatized by Isamu ONODA, and broadcasted by Japan Broadcasting Corporation under the title of "Minami no shima de yuki ga furu."
Japanese: また小野田勇の脚色によって『南の島で雪が降る』の題で日本放送協会でドラマ化された。
English: In his last years, he appeared not only in movies but also in TV dramas and on the stage, and in 1971, he appeared on the stage of Zenshinza for the first time in 28 years.
Japanese: 晩年は映画のみならず、テレビや舞台でも活躍、1971年には28年ぶりに前進座の舞台にも立った。
English: He was hospitalized in February 1975 because of colon cancer without knowing he suffered from cancer, and continued to commute to the studio in order to record the drama in which he appeared regularly.
Japanese: 1975年2月に結腸がんで入院、本人はガンであることは知らず、病院からレギュラー出演であるドラマの収録現場に通い続けた。
English: While he was loved by everybody thanks to his downtown boy like generous character, he is said to have been a serious-minded person who never drunk alcohol.
Japanese: 下町っ子らしい気っぷの良さで誰からも好かれた反面、一滴の酒も飲まないほどの真面目人間だったという。
English: His son Haruyuki KATO married Kazuko KUROSAWA, a daughter of Akira KUROSAWA, and his grandson Takayuki KATO (actor) was born but they've got divorced later.
Japanese: 息子・加藤晴之は、黒澤明の娘・黒澤和子と結婚して孫・加藤隆之（俳優）が産まれるが離婚。
English: 1952 - Best Supporting Actor Prize of the seventh Mainichi Film Contest: "Okasan", "Araki Mataemon Ketto Kagiya no tsuji"
Japanese: 1952年　第7回毎日映画コンクール　男優助演賞：「おかあさん」、「荒木又右衛門　決闘鍵屋の辻」
English: 1952 - Best Supporting Actor Prize of the third Blue Ribbon Prize (movie): "Araki Mataemon Ketto Kagiya no tsuji"
Japanese: 1952年　第3回ブルーリボン賞(映画)　男優助演賞：「荒木又右衛門　決闘鍵屋の辻」
English: 1955 - Best Supporting Actor Prize of the sixth Blue Ribbon Prize "Chiyari Fuji", "Kokoni izumi ari"
Japanese: 1955年　第6回ブルーリボン賞男優助演賞：「血槍富士」、「ここに泉あり」
English: Sukenao INADOME (1552 - March 20, 1611) was a firearms expert who lived from Sengoku period (period of Warring States) period into the early Edo period.
Japanese: 稲富祐直（いなどめすけなお、天文(元号)21年(1552年)-慶長16年2月6日(旧暦)(1611年3月20日)）は、戦国時代(日本)から江戸時代初期の砲術家。
English: Because he was taught gunnery techniques by his grandfather Sukehide, he was surpassingly skilled in gunnery and it is said that he made further advances beyond his grandfather's technique, thereby founding the Inadome school of gunnery.
Japanese: 祖父・祐秀から砲術を学んだため、砲術に優れ、それをさらに発展させて稲富流砲術を創始したと言われている。
English: He initially served the Isshiki clan, but upon their annihilation in 1582, he began serving Tadaoki HOSOKAWA.
Japanese: 一色氏にはじめは仕えていたが、1582年に一色氏が滅亡したため、細川忠興に仕えた。
English: In 1600, when the battle of Sekigahara broke out, Sukenao was at the Osaka mansion of the Hosokawa clan, serving as the bodyguard to Gracia HOSOKAWA, Tadaoki's wife; when Gracia became embroiled in Mitsunari ISHIDA's hostage strategy and committed suicide, it is said that Sukenao was aided by his gunnery pupils and managed to flee the mansion.
Japanese: 1600年、関ヶ原の戦いが起こったときは、細川氏の大阪屋敷にいて、忠興の妻である細川ガラシャの警護をしていたが、ガラシャが石田三成の人質作戦に巻き込まれて自殺すると、自身は砲術の弟子に助けられて屋敷から逃亡したという。
English: For this reason, after the battle Sukenao earned the hatred of Tadaoki, who had lost his beloved wife Gracia, and for a time it seemed certain Tadaoki would kill him, but Ieyasu TOKUGAWA greatly valued his skills and expertise at gunnery so his life was spared.
Japanese: このため戦後、愛妻のガラシャを失った忠興から恨まれて殺されそうになったが、徳川家康にその砲術の腕と知識を惜しまれて助命された。
English: During battle he wore two overlapping suits of armor, which led to his nickname, Niryo gusoku (Double-collared armor; note that this has no connection to the Ichiryo gusoku of the Chosokabe family).
Japanese: 戦の際に具足を二枚重ねて着ていたため二領具足の異名を持つ（長宗我部家の一領具足とは関係が無い）。
English: Sukenao had no children, so he adopted Hideaki INADOME, the son of his elder sister, and made him his heir, but because Hideaki died sometime during the Shoho era (1644 - 1648).
Japanese: 子がいなかった為に、実姉の子稲富秀明を養嗣子としたが、正保年間(1644年～1648年)に没した為、
English: As the legitimate son and heir of the Kawachi-Genji founder MINAMOTO no Yorinobu, he was born in the family mansion in Koroho, located in Tsuboi, Furuichi-gun, Kawachi Province (the modern-day Tsuboi, Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture).
Japanese: 河内源氏初代の源頼信の嫡子として河内国古市郡壷井（現・大阪府羽曳野市壷井）の香炉峰の館に生まれる。
English: An expert marksman with the bow, Yoriyoshi earned high praise for his bravery starting when he was still young, and in 1030 he and his father Yorinobu took up arms to suppress TAIRA no Tadatsune War (also called the Chogen War); thereafter, he took over the headship of the Kawachi-Genji from his father Yorinobu, and began planning to relocate the seat of his power in eastern lands.
Japanese: 弓の達人で若い頃から武勇の誉れ高く、長元3年（1030年）には父の頼信とともに平忠常の乱（長元の乱）を平定し、父頼信の後を継いで河内源氏の東国への進出を図る。
English: He took as his bride the daughter of TAIRA no Naokata, who had failed to suppress Tadatsune's rebellion, inheriting Naokata's mansion in Kamakura; henceforward, this mansion became the seat of the Kawachi-Genji's power and influence in the east.
Japanese: 忠常の討伐に失敗した平直方の娘を娶り、鎌倉の直方の屋敷を譲り受け、以後その屋敷が河内源氏の東国支配の拠点となる。
English: As the successor to FUJIWARA no Narito, he became both the governor of Mutsu Province and the Chinju-fu Shogun (Commander-in-chief of the Northern Defense Forces), and took up arms against the Abe clan (of Mutsu Province) starting in 1051 (in what is known as the Zen Kunen no Eki (Former Nine Years' Campaign)).
Japanese: 藤原登任の後任として陸奥国守・鎮守府将軍となり、永承6年（1051年）から安倍氏(奥州)と戦う（前九年の役）。
English: This armed conflict was meant to magnify the Kawachi-Genji clan's power and influence and spread it into Mutsu Province, but after the fighting, Yoriyoshi failed to be renamed governor of Mutsu Province, instead being appointed governor of Iyo Province by the court, which forced him to return to the capital and leave control over Mutsu firmly in the hands of the Kiyohara clan.
Japanese: この戦乱は陸奥への河内源氏勢力拡大のためのものであったが、頼義は戦後朝廷より伊予国守に叙任されて陸奥守への再任に失敗し、清原氏に陸奥の支配権を譲る形で帰京。
English: He presided over prayers for the creation of branch shrines of the Kawachi-Genji clan tutelary shrine, Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine, leading to two new branch shrines, Tsuboi Hachimangu Shrine (located in what today's Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture) and Tsurugaoka Wakamiya-gu Shrine (which later became Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine which is located in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture).
Japanese: 河内源氏の氏神である石清水八幡宮を勧請して、壷井八幡宮（大阪府羽曳野市）と鶴岡若宮（鶴岡八幡宮の前身。神奈川県鎌倉市。）を創建した。
English: February 25, 1063 (under the old calendar): Promoted to Jushiinoge (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade) and appointed the governor of Iyo Province.
Japanese: 1063年（康平6年）2月25日(旧暦)、従四位下に昇叙し、伊予守に任官。
English: In the "Mutsuwaki" (Record of Mutsu), which depicts the events of the Former Nine Years' War and the Latter Three Years' War, Yoriyoshi is described as 'Calm and levelheaded, and excelling in military strategy, he was a commander of the finest caliber' and 'he loved his warriors and was fond of charity.'
Japanese: 前九年・後三年の役を描いた『陸奥話記』では「沈毅にして武略にまさり、最も将帥の器なり」「士を愛し施しを好む」とされている。
English: On the other hand, some have come to doubt his abilities as a commander in the battles he fought with the Abe clan following the Incident at the Akuto-gawa River, since his strategic efforts began to fail due to a sense of alienation and estrangement among his subordinates.
Japanese: 一方で、阿久利河の事件後の安倍氏との戦いでは、部下の離反により作戦行動に失敗していることなどから、その能力を疑問視する意見もある。
English: The Minamoto clan had quite a number of branches, and yet a great many of its most famous members, pillars of the warrior class and those who would come to be called Minamoto clan generals, trace their ancestry to none other than MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi.
Japanese: 源氏一門は数多いが、武門の棟梁、源氏の大将と称される有力なもの、名流とされるものの多くはこの源頼義を祖としている。
English: A list of exemplary descendants would begin with his eldest son MINAMOTO no Yoshiie and include MINAMOTO no Tameyori, MINAMOTO no Yoritomo and MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka, but would also include MINAMOTO no Yoshishige, founder of the Nitta clan, as well as MINAMOTO no Yoshiyasu, founder of the Ashikaga clan; in other words, his descendants include great numbers of the Minamoto clan's most famous and exemplary military commanders.
Japanese: 代表的な子孫としては、長男源義家からは、源為朝、源頼朝や源義経、源義仲の他、後の新田氏の祖となる源義重や足利氏の祖となる源義康といった源氏の代表的な武将が輩出される。
English: And from his third son, MINAMOTO no Yoshimitsu, came a great many members of the Satake clan, whose founder was Masayoshi SATAKE, son of MINAMOTO no Yoshinari, who had succeeded to headship of Yoshimitsu's elder brother MINAMOTO no Yoshitsuna's family after him, while from Yoshinari's younger brother MINAMOTO no Kiyomitsu came great numbers of the Takeda clan, founded by Nobuyoshi TAKEDA, as well as the Ogasawara clan, who traced their ancestry to Kiyomitsu's own younger brother Tomitsu KAGAMI's son Nagakiyo OGASAWARA.
Japanese: また、三男源義光からは、兄の家系である源義綱の跡を継承した源義業の子・佐竹昌義を祖とする佐竹氏、義業の弟源清光の子からは武田信義を祖とする武田氏やその弟加賀美遠光の子・小笠原長清を祖とする小笠原氏が輩出されている。
English: According to a legend handed down within the Kono clan of Iyo Province, a certain son-in-law Chikakiyo KONO is considered to be Yoriyoshi's fourth son, Chikakiyo MISHIMASHIRO.
Japanese: 伊予の河野氏の伝承では女婿となった河野親清は頼義の四男三島四郎親清であるとされている。
English: Jokoin (1570 ? - September 30, 1633) was a woman in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) (Japan) to the early Edo period.
Japanese: 常高院（じょうこういん、永禄13年（1570年）？－寛永10年8月27日(旧暦)（1633年9月30日））は、戦国時代(日本)から江戸時代前期の女性。
English: She was a legal wife of Takatsugu KYOGOKU, the head of Kyogoku family which was descended from Omi-Genji (Minamoto clan) and thrived in the Muromachi period as a military governor and one of the Four major feudal lords who worked for Muromachi Shogunate Government.
Japanese: 室町時代に守護大名、四職の一つとして繁栄した近江源氏の流れをくむ京極家当主京極高次の正室である。
English: Her father was Nagamasa AZAI, the lord of Odani-jo castle in the north Omi Province, and her mother was Oichi no kata, a daughter of Nobunaga ODA (Nobunaga's youngest daughter).
Japanese: 父は北近江国小谷城主・浅井長政、母は織田信秀の娘・お市の方（織田信長の末妹）。
English: Her elder sister was Chacha (Yodo-dono), the concubine of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, and her younger sister was Go (Sugenin), the legal wife (second wife) of Hidetada TOKUGAWA.
Japanese: 姉は豊臣秀吉の側室となった淀殿（淀殿）、妹は徳川秀忠・正室（継室）の崇源院（崇源院）。
English: Although we tend to think that she married into the lowest-ranked family among the three sisters, we might say that she married into the highest-ranked family, because the Kyogoku family was, compared with newly-risen Toyotomi family and Tokugawa family, the distinguished feudal lord family which governed several provinces and counted as one of Shishiki in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 三姉妹のなかで一番格下の家に嫁いだと思われがちだが、新興の豊臣家や徳川家に比べ、京極家は室町時代に数ヶ国の守護を兼ね、四職に列した名門の大名家であり、一番格上の家に嫁いだといえる。
English: Though she had no children with Takatsugu, she adopted Hatsuhime (Koanin), the fourth daughter of the couple of a daughter of her younger sister Go and the second shogun Hidetada TOKUGAWA, and Kona (her mother was Takatsugu's younger sister), a daughter of Yukihiro UJIIE.
Japanese: 高次との間に子は無く、妹・江の娘と2代将軍徳川秀忠の四女・初姫（興安院）や氏家行広の娘・古奈（母は高次の妹）らを養女とした。
English: She also actively reared concubines' children Tadataka KYOGOKU (his mother was from the Yamada clan), the successor of the family head, and Takamasa (his mother was from the Ogura clan), as well as children of relatives and vassals including one adopted child whose identity is unknown.
Japanese: また、側室の子で嫡子の京極忠高（母は山田氏）や高政（母は小倉氏）、また詳細不明の養子1名をはじめとした、血縁・家臣らの子女の養育に積極的に関わったとされる。
English: Some people say that she changed her name to 'Fuji' when she adopted Hatsuhime, because her name was also Hatsu.
Japanese: 初姫を養女とした際、初と同名であったため「藤」と改めたとの説もある。
English: She was born circa 1570 in the Odani-jo castle in Omi Province (present Kohoku-cho, Shiga Prefecture).
Japanese: 永禄13年（1570年）？、近江国小谷城（現・滋賀県湖北町）に生まれる。
English: In 1573, her father Nagamasa fought her uncle Nobunaga, and the Odani-jo castle fell and her father Nagamasa and her grandfather Hidemasa committed suicide.
Japanese: 天正元年（1573年）、父の長政は叔父・信長と交戦し、小谷城は落城して父・長政と祖父・浅井久政は自害する。
English: Since Nobunaga was killed by his vassal Mitsuhide AKECHI in the Honno-ji Incident occurred on July 1, 1582, the Kiyosu conference was held on July 26 in order to decide the successor of the Oda family.
Japanese: 天正10年（1582年）、6月2日の本能寺の変で信長が家臣の明智光秀に討たれた為、6月27日に織田家後継者を決める清洲会議が行われた。
English: According to the decision made at the above-mentioned conference, her mother Ichi remarried Katsuie SHIBATA, a vassal of the Oda family, and moved to the Kitanosho-jo castle in Echizen Province.
Japanese: その結果、母・市は織田家の家臣・柴田勝家と再婚し、越前国北ノ庄城へ移る。
English: In 1583, Katsuie, who was in confrontation with Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI in the wake of the Kiyosu conference, was defeated by Hideyoshi in the battle of Shizugatake and Ichi committed suicide together with Katsuie when the Kitanosho-jo castle fell.
Japanese: 天正11年（1583年）、勝家は清洲会議がきっかけで豊臣秀吉と対立していたが賤ヶ岳の合戦で勝家は秀吉に敗れ、北ノ庄城の落城のさいに市は勝家と共に自害した。
English: In 1587, she married her cousin Takatsugu KYOGOKU through the good offices of Hidetoshi.
Japanese: 天正15年（1587年）、秀吉の計らいにより従兄弟にあたる京極高次と結婚。
English: After Hideyoshi died in 1600, Mitsunari ISHIDA, one of the five major magistrates, was in confrontation with Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, the head of the council of five elders.
Japanese: 慶長5年（1600年）、秀吉の死後に五奉行の一人、石田三成と五大老の筆頭・徳川家康が対立する。
English: When Mitsunari ISHIDA and those in the West squad raised an army, Kyogoku forces once sided with Mitsunari, but in the Battle of Sekigahara, they belonged to the East squad while being confined in the Otsu-jo castle (the battle at besieged Otsu-jo castle).
Japanese: 石田三成ら（西軍）が挙兵すると京極家は一時、三成側につくが、関ヶ原の戦いでは大津城に籠城して東軍に属する（大津篭城戦）。
English: In 1609, Hatsu entered the Buddhist priesthood with the Buddhist name Jokoin after the death of her husband Takatsugu.
Japanese: 慶長14年（1609年）、夫・高次が亡くなると剃髪・出家して常高院と号す。
English: From around that time, a confrontation between her nephew Hideyori TOYOTOMI (it is said that her elder sister Chacha (Yodo-dono) seized real power in the Toyotomi family) and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA (her sister GO's father-in-law) became known and Jokoin strived for mediation as the messenger of the Toyotomi side.
Japanese: この頃から甥・豊臣秀頼（姉の茶々〔淀殿〕が豊臣家の実権を掌握とも）と徳川家康（妹・江の舅）の対立が露呈するようになり、常高院は豊臣方の使者として仲介に奔走。
English: In the Winter Siege of Osaka occurred in 1614, she, along with the Tokugawa side messenger Unkoin, strived for peace negotiations between the two families.
Japanese: 慶長19年（1614年）、大坂冬の陣では徳川側の雲光院とともに和議を取りまとめ両家の和議に尽力した。
English: It is said that she asked Ieyasu to save the life of Nakahime, a daughter of Hideyori (later, Tenshuni), when the Toyotomi family fell in the Summer siege of Osaka occurred in 1615.
Japanese: 慶長20年（1615年）、大坂夏の陣で豊臣家が滅亡すると、秀頼の娘・奈阿姫（後の天秀尼）の助命を家康に嘆願したとも言われている。
English: In the graveyard, gravestones of nuns who served her are situated with the gravestone of Jokoin Eishoniko in the center.
Japanese: 墓所は、常高院永昌尼公の石塔を中心に、尼公に仕えていた尼僧達の石塔が会席する形をとって並んでいる。
English: Jokoin left a will stating 'even if the Kyogoku family is transferred to another place in future, please keep at least Joko-ji Temple in Wakasa.
Japanese: 常高院は遺言で「もし、将来国替えがあっても常高寺だけはこの若狭の地に、留めおいて下さい」と遺言に残している。
English: In fact, when the Kyogoku family was transferred to the Izumo Matsue domain in 1634 after Jokoin's death, Joko-ji Temple remained in Wakasa.
Japanese: 実際、常高院没後の翌寛永11年（1634年）京極家は出雲松江藩に国替えした時も、常高院は若狭に残された。
English: Hatsu was a slim and beautiful woman, and all of three sisters had a reputation as beautiful women who inherited the beauty of their mother Ichi.
Japanese: また、初は細身の美女であり、三姉妹は母市の美しさを受け継いだ、誉れ高い美女であったという。
English: Since childhood, she had a good relationship with both of her elder sister Chacha (Yodo-dono) and her younger sister Go (Sugenin).
Japanese: 姉・茶々（淀殿）、妹・江（崇源院）とは幼少の頃からたいへん仲の良い姉妹であった。
English: Munenori YAGYU was a Japanese military commander, a feudal lord, and a swordsman in the early Edo period.
Japanese: 柳生宗矩（やぎゅうむねのり）は江戸時代初期の武将、大名、剣術家である。
English: He was the fifth son of the swordsman Muneyoshi YAGYU (Sekishusai), a local lord of the Yagyu Village in the Yamato Province, who was conferred full mastership in the Shinkage-ryu (Shinkage school of swordsmanship) from Nobutsuna KAMIIZUMI in 1565.
Japanese: 大和国柳生の領主で、永禄8年（1565年）に上泉信綱から新陰流の印可状を伝えられた剣術家・柳生宗厳（石舟斎）の五男。
English: In his childhood, his father lost his fief because his hidden paddy fields were discovered when taiko kenchi (the cadastral surveys conducted by Hideyoshi) was carried out; however, he served Ieyasu TOKUGAWA with his father in 1594.
Japanese: 少年時代に太閤検地の際の隠田の露見によって父が失領していたが、文禄3年（1594年）に父とともに徳川家康に仕えた。
English: After he performed distinguished services at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he was given a fief of yielding 2,000 koku in the Yagyu Village, Yamato Province, which was a former fief of his father.
Japanese: 慶長5年（1600年）の関ヶ原の戦いに功をたて、父の旧領の大和国柳生荘に2000石を与えられる。
English: In 1601, he became a sword instructor to Hidetada TOKUGAWA, who was later to become the second Shogun; he subsequently served the third Shogun, Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, also as a sword instructor.
Japanese: 慶長6年（1601年）にのちの2代将軍・徳川秀忠の剣術師範役となり、ついで3代将軍・徳川家光にも剣術師範として仕えた。
English: In the Siege of Osaka in 1615, he fought for Shogun Hidetada and killed seven Toyotomi soldiers who drew swords against Hidetada.
Japanese: 慶長20年（1615年）の大坂の役では将軍秀忠のもとで従軍、秀忠の元に迫った豊臣方7人を斬り捨てている。
English: It was the only recorded example where Munenori killed people through his whole life.
Japanese: なお、宗矩が人を斬ったと記録されているのは後にも先にもこの時だけである。
English: The following year in 1616, he worked hard to settle an attempted rebellion by Naomori SAKAZAKI, who was a friend of his.
Japanese: 翌元和(日本)2年（1616年）には友人でもあった坂崎直盛の反乱未遂事件の交渉と処理に活躍する。
English: In spite of a pledge that the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) would settle the matter, if only Naomori killed himself; the bakufu soon broke up the Sakazaki family and confiscated its fief.
Japanese: なお直盛の自害のみで事を治めると約束した幕府はその後、坂崎家を取り潰している。
English: Munenori dissuaded Naomori on the basis of that pledge, but after all, he might as well have deceived his friend.
Japanese: その約束で直盛の説得を行った宗矩は結果的に友人を陥れたことになった。
English: He adopted the crest of the Sakazaki family (a pair of straw lampshade hats with ties) and used it along with the Yagyu family's crest (great burnet), probably because he determined to keep this incident in mind throughout his life.
Japanese: 宗矩はそれを終生忘れぬためなのか柳生家の家紋（地楡：吾亦紅われもこう）に坂崎家の二蓋笠（にがいがさ）を加えて（譲り受け?）使い続けている。
English: He gradually gained the confidence of the Shogun and had an increase in stipend, and was invested with Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, and appointed the governor of Tajima Province in 1629.
Japanese: 次第に将軍の信任を深めて加増を受け寛永6年（1629年）に従五位下に叙位、但馬守に任官する。
English: In 1632, he became the first inspector general for bakufu, assuming the task of supervising feudal lords.
Japanese: 寛永9年（1632年）には初代の幕府総目付（大目付）となり、諸大名の監視を任とした。
English: In 1636, he had his stipend raised to 10,000 koku in total, ranked with feudal lords, and established the Yagyu Domain in the Yamato Province.
Japanese: 寛永13年（1636年）の加増で計1万石を受けて大名に列し、大和国柳生藩を立藩。
English: In his later years, he had another allowance, raised to Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade; finally held a fief of 12,500 koku.
Japanese: 晩年さらに加増を受けて位階は従四位下に昇叙、所領は1万2500石に達した。
English: He died in 1646 and was buried in the Hotoku-ji Temple located in Yagyu shimo-cho, Nara City, which was founded by himself to pray for the repose of his father's soul, having invited his friend Takuan Soho as the first chief priest.
Japanese: 正保3年（1646年）に没し、自身が父の菩提を弔うために友人の沢庵宗彭を招いて柳生に開いた奈良市柳生下町の芳徳寺に葬られた。
English: Besides, his graveyard is also located in the Kotoku-ji Temple in Sakuradai, Nerima Ward; and his gravestone is in the ancient site of 華将寺 Temple in Tayama, Minamiyamashiro-mura, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: なお、そのほかに、練馬区桜台の広徳寺にも墓所があり、京都府南山城村田山の華将寺跡に墓碑がある。
English: His four children were as follows: Mitsuyoshi YAGYU (Jubei), the eldest son, well-known as a one-eyed swordsman; Tomonori YAGYU, who won Iemitsu's favor, and died young before his father; Munefuyu YAGYU, who succeeded to the post of sword instructor to the Shogun family in place of Mitsuyoshi who died soon after his father's death; Gisen RETSUDO, who became the first chief priest of Hotoku-ji Temple, a family temple of the Yagyu clan.
Japanese: 子には隻眼の剣士として有名な長男の柳生三厳（十兵衛）、家光の寵愛を受けたが父に先立って早世した柳生友矩、父の死後まもなく没した三厳に代わって将軍家師範役を継いだ柳生宗冬、菩提寺芳徳寺の第一世住持となった列堂義仙の4子が知られる。
English: Jubei, his legitimate son, became blind in one eye because Munenori struck him by mistake during a sword-sparring session to instruct a fencing technique called Tsukikage no tachi (Moonshadow sword).
Japanese: 嫡子・十兵衛が隻眼になったのは、宗矩が月影の太刀伝授中に誤って傷つけたためと言われている。
English: After Munenori's death, when Iemitsu was in trouble, he would often say, 'How would Munenori deal with this problem if he were alive?'
Japanese: 家光は宗矩の死後何かあると、「この問題は宗矩がいたらどうしただろう」と言ったとされる。
English: This drama showed Munenori as a kind and warmhearted master swordsman, and a good instructor to Iemitsu.
Japanese: この作品での宗矩は情誼に篤い剣聖であり、家光のよき師として描かれている。
English: However, lately there is a tendency that Munenori has often been depicted as a bad guy in many stories (partly because he served Hidetada).
Japanese: しかし、近年特に見られる傾向だが（秀忠に仕えていたためもあってか）多数の作品で悪役として描かれることが多い。
English: e.g.: (novels written by Yasusuke GOMI, Keiichiro RYU, and Toru ARAYAMA, including "Kagemusha: Tokugawa Ieyasu" [Ieyasu Tokugawa's body double]; a manga series "Azumi;" a film and a TV drama "The Shogun's Samurai: Yagyu Clan Conspiracy;" the NHK historical drama "Musashi;" and a Play Station action game "Onimusha" [Oni warrior])
Japanese: （小説では五味康祐、隆慶一郎、荒山徹の諸作『影武者徳川家康』や漫画『あずみ』、映画・ドラマ『柳生一族の陰謀』、大河ドラマ『武蔵MUSASHI』、ゲーム『鬼武者』など）
English: To understand Munenori through these works may cause confusion about his character.
Japanese: そのため、これらの作品を通じて柳生宗矩を知るとその印象に混乱をきたすおそれがある。
English: The way he is depicted in stories varies according to the era and people's sense of values; from a political point of view, he is regarded as a person with a fine character and distinguished in both literary and military arts, devoted himself to peace; from a view point of genuine swordsmanship, he is regarded as a skillful swordsman but a little inferior to other contemporary great swordsmen, his father, his son Jubei, or his nephew Toshiyoshi YAGYU (Hyogonosuke); and he is also described as an evil individual who distorted swordsmanship by politics.
Japanese: また時代や価値観によって描かれ方が異なり、政治的な視点を通して見ると文武両道の太平を望み尽力した人格者として描かれることがあるが、純粋に剣術的な視点からの描き方だと達人ではあるが同時代の剣豪や父、息子・十兵衛、甥の柳生利厳（兵庫助）には一手及ばず、政を以って剣を歪めた悪役として描かれる事もある。
English: No matter how he was depicted in stories, he was consistently described as a strict person remarkable for both wisdom and courage; Munenori's image as an outstanding figure is commonly observed.
Japanese: ただ、どのような描かれ方でも厳格で知勇兼備であるという点ではぶれがなく、傑物としての宗矩像は共通している。
English: Two Kabuki actors in mid Edo period and two in the modern era have used the name but those in different periods are not related and hereditary numbering are applied individually.
Japanese: 江戸時代中期に二人、近代に二人が名乗っているが、双方に関連性はなく、代数も別にして数えられている。
English: From Juzo SANOGAWA, through Juzo NAKAMURA, Kazuemon (嘉津右衛門) NAKAMURA, the First Kitsuemon (喜津右衛門) NAKAMURA, to Kichiemon NAKAMURA (Sanogawaya, the first).
Japanese: 佐野川十蔵→中村十蔵→中村嘉津右衛門→初代中村喜津右衛門→佐野川屋初代中村吉右衛門
English: Nobumasa OKUDAIRA was a busho (Japanese military commander) over the Sengoku period and the Edo period.
Japanese: 奥平信昌（おくだいらのぶまさ）は戦国時代(日本)から江戸時代にかけての武将。