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English: A different theory holds that the legend of 'Takeshiba'-dera Temple as heard by SUGAWARA no Takasue's daughter, who was the author of "Sarashina Nikki" (The Sarashina Diary), had been spread by someone who wished to mythologize the ups and downs of all the generations from MUSASHI no Fuwamaro, who rose from a small local ruling family to become Kuninomiyatsuko (the heads of local governments), to MUSASHI no Takeshiba.
Japanese: なお、『更級日記』で著者である菅原孝標女が武蔵国で聞いたとされる「たけしば」寺の伝説は、地方の小豪族から国造に昇った武蔵不破麻呂から武蔵武芝までの盛衰が一人の人物による伝説化して語られたものとする説もある。
English: Kajiro NISHINOUMI (February 19, 1855 - November 30, 1908) was sumo wrestler in the middle of the Meiji period.
Japanese: 西ノ海嘉治郎（にしのうみかじろう、安政2年1月3日(旧暦)（1855年2月19日）-明治41年（1908年）11月30日）は、明治中期に活躍した大相撲の力士。
English: At the January Tournament of 1882, he made his debut with the name of Nishinoumi set at the Makuuchi (top) rank.
Japanese: 明治15年（1882年）1月場所、西の海として幕内格付け出しで初土俵。
English: His winning average of that tournament was not below fifty percent, therefore it is considered that his demotion was only for convenience of the producers or for some publicity.
Japanese: 負け越してはいないため、この降格はまったく興行上の都合と考えられる。
English: According to his result, his name had been supposed to be written at the margin of Ozeki's section of the chart (such wrestler was called 'Haridashi-Ozeki' who was originally considered to be at the lower grade than Ozeki) in the May Tournament, however, since he had just gained the title of Yokozuna (called 'Shin-Yokozuna'), he resisted to be called Haridashi, then the producers and masters decided to write the title of Yokozuna at the margin and Nishinoumi compromised on that.
Japanese: 新横綱の5月場所は、成績では張出大関に相当するものだったが、横綱免許を受けたものが張出となることに不満を表明したために、横綱を明記して張出となることで妥協が成立した。
English: At the result, at the May Tournament in 1890, for the first time in the sumo history, the name of Yokozuna was written on the chart (his name was written in the margin of the east side and after that his name had been written in the margin through all the twelve tournaments until his last tournament in January 1896); and after that, Yokozuna became regarded not as an honor but as an official rank.
Japanese: その結果相撲史上初めて明治23年（1890年）5月場所、横綱が番付に明記（東方に張出、西ノ海は引退する明治29年（1896年）1月場所まで12場所、番付上は全て張出されている）され、この後横綱は名誉ではなく地位とみなされていくようになる。
English: His result in the Makuuchi was 29 tournaments, 127 wins, 37 defeats, 25 draws, 4 holds, 97 absences, and winning average 77.4%
Japanese: 幕内通算成績は29場所127勝37敗25分4預97休、勝率.774。
English: He was known for his easy-going character and he was said to have snored loudly in the changing room even just before a bout against a very strong wrestler.
Japanese: 豪放磊落な性格で知られ、強豪との取組を前にしても支度部屋で高いびきをかいていたとされる。
English: He became independent and opened Izutsu Stable and coached Yokozuna Kajiro NISHINOUMI (the second), Ozeki Kuniriki KOMAGATAKE, Matsutaro OEYAMA and Sekiwake Yojiro SAKAHOKO.
Japanese: 独立して井筒部屋を興し、横綱西ノ海嘉治郎(2代)、大関駒ヶ嶽國力、大江山松太郎、関脇逆鉾与治郎を育成した。
English: Because he was from Kagoshima Prefecture, many young wrestlers from the prefecture visited and they also became pupils of Izutsu Stable.
Japanese: 鹿児島出身だったことから、同県出身の若者の多くがその後も井筒部屋の門を叩いている。
English: Akihide CHUJO (1348 – November 29, 1432) was a busho (military commander) who lived during the early Muromachi period.
Japanese: 中条詮秀（ちゅうじょうあきひで、貞和4年/正平(日本)3年（1348年）-永享4年11月7日(旧暦)（1432年11月29日））は室町時代前期の武将。
English: Took over the family estate from his father Hidetaka in 1369, becoming a Koromo-jo castle lord.
Japanese: 応安2年/正平(日本)24年（1369年）に父の秀孝から家督を譲り受け、衣城主となる。
English: Dedicated Kashidoriito-odoshi no Yoroi, an armor currently designated as an important cultural property, on April 5, 1395.
Japanese: 応永2年（1395年）4月5日には現在、重要文化財に指定されている樫鳥糸威鎧（かしどりいとおどしのよろい）を奉納している。
English: After losing his eldest heir Mitsuhide to sickness the following year, Akihide appointed his younger son Mitsuhira his official heir and had him serve the shogun.
Japanese: 翌年、嫡男満秀を病で失ったため、その弟の満平を惣領にして将軍に近侍させる。
English: However, after Yoshinori ASHIKAGA became the sixth generation shogun Akihide never visited Kyoto - nor did he pay his respects to Yoshinori while the latter was touring Fuji in September 1432 and stayed at an inn in Yahagi which was close to his territory – and fell out of Yoshinori's favor.
Japanese: しかし、足利義教が第6代将軍となってから一度も京都へ出仕せず、永享4年（1432年）9月の富士遊覧の際も所領に近い矢作宿に義教が宿泊しているにもかかわらず伺候しなかったため、義教の忌諱に触れた。
English: In October of the same year Takahashi Manor and his territory of Kaito District in Owari Province were confiscated; the former was given to Mochinobu ISSHIKI and Yoshinao KIRA, the latter to Owari Province's provincial guard, Yoshiatsu SHIBA.
Japanese: 同年10月、高橋荘及び尾張国海東郡は没収となり、前者は一色持信と吉良義尚に分給され、後者は尾張国守護の斯波義淳に与えられた。
English: Furthermore, Mitsuhira, who lived in Kyoto, had even his home confiscated and retired to seclusion at Mt. Koya-zan; Akihide was ordered by Yoshinori to travel to the capital, and as he arrived at Owari with his 9-year-old grandchild was stopped by the provincial governor Kageyu ODA and forced to commit suicide at Tokimune's dojo.
Japanese: その上、京都にいた満平は邸宅まで没収され高野山へ遁世し、詮秀は義教から上洛を命ぜられたため、9歳の孫を連れて尾張まで来たところを守護代・織田勘解由に止められ、時宗の道場で自害させられた。
English: His three accompanying footmen and one chugen (rank below soldier) also committed suicide, and although his grandchild also attempted to commit suicide, was stopped by the provincial governor.
Japanese: 同行していた若党3名と中間1名も自害し、孫も自害しようとしたが守護代に止められたという。
English: This incident caused the downfall of the Chujo clan, and although they were later able to regain Takahashi Manor through distinguished service during the Yuki and other wars, their power never recovered to what it had once been and the clan's influence gradually declined.
Japanese: この事件により中条氏は一時没落し、のち一族が結城合戦などで戦功を立て高橋荘を取り戻すが、支配力は以前のようには回復せず、中条氏の勢力は徐々に衰えていく。
English: In 1493 Hideaki CHUJO lost the Battle of Idano against Chikatada MATSUDAIRA, accelerating the clan's decline in strength.
Japanese: 明応2年（1493年）には、中条秀章が松平親忠に対抗した井田野の戦いに破れ、衰えを加速させた。
English: MURAKUNI no Shigamaro (year of birth and death unknown) was a figure who lived from Japan's Asuka period into the Nara period.
Japanese: 村国志我麻呂（むらくにのしがまろ、生没年不明）は、日本の飛鳥時代から奈良時代にかけての人物である。
English: The Murakuni clan was the most powerful local family in the Kakami district of Mino Province, and thanks to MURAKUNI no Oyori winning distinction in the fighting during the Jinshin War (of 672), their fame appears to have grown enough to be known to the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 村国氏は美濃国各務郡の豪族で、村国男依が672年の壬申の乱で功を立てたことにより、朝廷でも知られるようになった。
English: On the seventh day of the fifth month of 716, Shigamaro, at that time of Jurokuinoge (Junior Sixth Rank, Lower Grade), was awarded "lands for meritorious service" thanks to the battlefield honors his father Oyori had accumulated in the 672 Jinshin War.
Japanese: 霊亀2年（706年）4月8日、父の小依（男依）が壬申の年に立てた功によって、従六位下の志我麻呂は功田を与えられた。
English: On the 30th day of the tenth month of 726, Jushiinoge (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade) MURAKUNI no Shigamaro was appointed a Zotongushi (palace builder) along with seventeen others, including Jushiinoge (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade) KADOBE no Okimi and Shogoinoge (Senior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) TAJIHI no Hirotari.
Japanese: 神亀3年（726年）9月26日に、従四位下の門部王、正五位下の多治比広足、従五位下の村国志我麻呂ら18人が、造頓宮司に任命された。
English: At the time, Emperor Shomu was planning on sojourning to Inamino in Harima Province, and those named palace builders were responsible for erecting an angu (temporary palace) for him there.
Japanese: 聖武天皇はこのとき播磨国の印南野に出かけようと計画しており、その行宮を造るのが彼らの仕事であった。
English: According to the "Shoku Nihongi" the Emperor gave the people of Harima provinces special marks of favor on the nineteenth day, and on the twenty first arrived at the Nanba palace, which suggests the temporary palace Shigamaro and others had erected was in use from the eleventh to the nineteenth, or in other words for seven days.
Japanese: 『続日本紀』には17日に播磨国の人々に恩典を与え、19日に難波宮に着いたとあるので、利用は10日から17日までの7日間と思われる。
English: MURAKUNI no Komushi (year of birth and death unknown) was a figure who lived during Japan's Nara period.
Japanese: 村国子虫（むらくにのこむし、生没年不明）は、日本の奈良時代の人物である。
English: In the first month of 739, Komushi was promoted from Shorokuinojo (Senior Sixth Rank, Upper Grade) to Ge-jugoinoge (Jugoinoge [Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade] given to persons outside Kyoto).
Japanese: 天平11年（739年）1月に、子虫は正六位上から外従五位下に昇った。
English: One other member of the Murakuni clan, namely Oyori's son MURAKUNI no Shigamaro, was also a court official and appears before Komushi in the historical sources; the final mention of Shigamaro is an article in the "Shoku Nihongi" which notes that he was promoted to Jugoinojo (Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade) in 731.
Japanese: その前に現れる村国氏の官人としては、男依の子村国志我麻呂がおり、天平3年（731年）に従五位上になったのを最後に『続日本紀』の記録がなくなる。
English: In 740, in the middle of FUJIWARA no Hirotsugu's Revolt, Emperor Shomu suddenly made an imperial sojourn to Ise Province.
Japanese: 天平12年（740年）、藤原広嗣の乱の最中に、聖武天皇は突然伊勢国に行幸した。
English: MURAKUNI no Komushi accompanied the Emperor, and separately from the promotions given out to the Emperor's attendants on the occasion of the Emperor's departure on the eighteenth day of the twelfth month, Komushi was promoted to Ge-jugoinoge.
Japanese: 村国連子虫はこれに従い、11月21日に発せられた陪従者の昇叙に連なって外従五位下に昇った。
English: MURAKUNI no Oi (year of birth and death unknown) was a figure who lived during Japan's Nara period.
Japanese: 村国子老（むらくにのおい､生没年不明）は、日本の奈良時代の人物である。
English: In 763 he was promoted to Ge-jugoinoge (Jugoinoge [Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade] given to persons outside Kyoto) and named the governor of Noto Province, but was implicated in FUJIWARA no Nakamaro's Revolt and punitively dismissed from his post and rank.
Japanese: 763年に外従五位下に進み、能登守になったが藤原仲麻呂の乱に連座して処分された。
English: In 770 he was restored to his original rank, and then in 771 he was named Sonoike no kami (director of gardens and ponds) before he was successively named, in 772, Izu no kami (governor of Izu province) and Izumo no suke (the assistant governor of Izumo province).
Japanese: 770年に元の位に復帰し、771年園池正、772年伊豆守、出雲介を歴任した。
English: On the 18th day of the seventh month of 741, MURAKUNI no Oi, who at that time was Sanuki no kuni no suke (Assistant Governor of Sanuki Province) and was Shorokuinojo (Senior Sixth Rank, Upper Grade), was dismissed from his post, as was NICHIKIBE no Okasa, the Jo (secretary of provincial offices) of Echigo Provice.
Japanese: 天平13年（741年）5月27日に、讃岐国の介、正六位上村国連子老が、越後国の掾錦部男笠とともに、解任された。
English: On the first day of the third month of 763, Oi was promoted from Shorokuinojo (Senior Sixth Rank, Upper Grade) to Ge-jugoinoge (Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) given to persons outside Kyoto), and was appointed Shusen no kami (Director of the Ministry of Ships).
Japanese: 天平宝字7年（763年）1月9日、子老は正六位上から外従五位下に進み、主船正に任じられた。
English: No records survive of how Oi was dealt with, but it seems that he was dismissed from his post as Noto no kami (the governor of Noto Province) and either stripped of his court rank or demoted.
Japanese: 子老の処分は明記されないが、能登守を解任され、位を奪われるか下げられるかしたらしい。
English: The year after he was named Sonoike no kami (director of gardens and ponds), and in 774 he was first made Izu-no-kuni-no-kami (the governor of Izu Province) and then Izumo no suke (the assistant governor of Izumo province); after this point no further mention is made of Oi in the historical record.
Japanese: 翌年に園池正、宝亀5年（774年）に伊豆国守、出雲国介を歴任したところで、子老の記録は途切れる。
English: MURAKUNI no Mushimaro (year of birth and death unknown) was a figure who lived during Japan's Nara period.
Japanese: 村国虫麻呂（むらくにのむしまろ、生没年不明）は、日本の奈良時代の人物である。
English: During FUJIWARA no Nakamaro's Revolt in 764, Mushimaro served under Nakamaro's son FUJIWARA no Kokachi as Echizen no suke (assistant governor of Echizen Province), and was stripped of his rank and position after being implicated in Nakamaro's revolt, but was restored to his original rank in 766.
Japanese: 764年の藤原仲麻呂の乱のとき、仲麻呂の子藤原辛加知の下で越前介で、連座して官位を剥奪されたが、766年に元の位に復帰した。
English: On the fifteenth day of the second month of 761, MURAKUNI no Mushimaro, Shorokuinojo (Senior Sixth Rank, Upper Grade), was promoted to Ge-jugoinoge; this marks the first mention of Mushimaro in the "Shoku Nihongi."
Japanese: 天平宝字5年（761年）1月2日、正六位上の村国連虫麻呂は、外従五位下に昇り、初めて『続日本紀』に記される。
English: On the second day of the third month of 764, upon FUJIWARA no Kokachi becoming the governor of Echizen Province, Mushimaro became his assistant governor.
Japanese: 翌8年（764年）1月21日に、藤原辛加知が越前国守になったとき、虫麻呂はその介とされた。
English: The revolt was suppressed, and thereafter, on the second day of the second month of 767, Mushimaro, who had been lacking any court rank since 764, was restored to his original rank of Ge-jugoinoge.
Japanese: 乱後の天平神護2年（766年）12月25日に、無位の虫麻呂がもとの外従五位下に復帰した。
English: Before this change of fortunes for Mushimaro, the government acknowledged that MURAKUNI no Shimanushi, who had been killed for his supposed involvement in Nakamaro's Revolt, had been innocent.
Japanese: これより先に、同じ乱で仲麻呂に与する者と疑われて殺された村国島主が無実であったと認められている。
English: MURAKUNI no Shimanushi (year of birth unknown - October 23, 764) was a figure who lived during Japan's Nara period.
Japanese: 村国島主（むらくにのしまぬし、生年不明-天平宝字8年（764年）9月20日））は、日本の奈良時代の人物である。
English: He served under FUJIWARA no Nakamaro, and was made the shojo (junior secretary) of Mino Province, but was killed during FUJIWARA no Nakamaro's Revolt of 764.
Japanese: 藤原仲麻呂に仕え、美濃国少掾になったが、764年の藤原仲麻呂の乱のときに殺された。
English: The Murakuni clan was the most powerful local family in the Kakami district of Mino Province, and thanks to Shimanushi's grandfather MURAKUNI no Oyori winning a name for himself in the fighting during the Jinshin War, their clan reached sufficient prominence in the capital to begin turning out great numbers of middle-ranking government officials.
Japanese: 村国氏は美濃国各務郡の豪族で、島主の祖父、村国男依が壬申の乱で功を立ててから、都で中級官人を輩出するようになった。
English: MURAKUNI no Shigamaro was known to be Oyori's son, but whether Shigamaro was Shimanushi's father remains uncertain.
Japanese: 男依の子としては村国志我麻呂が知られるが、これが島主の父かどうかは不明である。
English: When FUJIWARA no Nakamaro's Revolt broke out in 764, the loyalist court faction dispatched envoys to close the barrier checkpoints in and out of Mino Province in an effort to prevent Nakamaro from raising more troops and to prevent his escape.
Japanese: 宝字8年（764年）に藤原仲麻呂が反乱を起こすと、朝廷側は仲麻呂の募兵と脱出を阻止するために美濃国に固関の使者を遣わした。
English: Although Shimanushi did as ordered by the court in an attempt to show his support for the loyalist court faction, the envoys believed he was actually a Nakamaro supporter and killed him.
Japanese: 島主は朝廷に味方するためにやってきたが、使者は島主を仲麻呂派とみて殺してしまった。
English: Two years later, on the twentieth day of the twelfth month of 766, the court admitted that Shimanushi had not been guilty of any crime, and posthumously promoted him to Jugoinoge.
Japanese: 2年後の天平神護2年（766年）11月10日に、島主に罪がないことが認められ、従五位下が贈られた。
English: Seppo KAWAGUCHI (1818 - 1890) was a calligrapher from the Satsuma Domain at the end of the Edo period and being taken under the wing of Takamori SAIGO, he taught calligraphy and Chinese poetry.
Japanese: 川口雪篷（かわぐちせっぽう、文政元年（1818年）-明治23年（1890年））は、江戸時代後期（幕末）の薩摩藩出身の書家であり、西郷隆盛の知遇を得て、書道と漢詩を教えた。
English: As mentioning below, after returning from Okinoerabu-jima Island, he lived at the residence of the Saigo family until his death and served as superintendent of the residence during the master Takamori's absence and also educated Takamori's children.
Japanese: 後述するように、沖永良部島から帰島後は亡くなるまで西郷家に寄寓して、西郷家の留守居役を果たし、また西郷の子弟の教育にも当たった。
English: He was born in Nouso, Nishinoomote City, Tanegashima Island in 1818 as the fourth son of Nakazaemon KAWAGUCHI who was a retainer of the Satsuma clan and his family had been successively serving as Umamawari-yaku (body guard) of the residence of the Satsuma clan in Edo (Tokyo).
Japanese: 江戸居付馬廻役として代々江戸藩邸に詰める薩摩藩士川口仲左衛門の四男として文政元年（1818年）に種子島西之表市納曾（のうそ）に生まれた。
English: His real name was initially Ryojiro, and he changed it to Shunsaku on February 6, 1869 and then to Seppo on October 21, 1872.
Japanese: 本名は初め量次郎、後に明治元年12月25日に俊作と改名し、さらに明治5年9月19日に雪篷と改めた。
English: In Kagoshima, his older brother began some work and readjusted the family, however he committed a crime and the family name was taken; and Ryojiro was implicated in that and sent to Okinoerabu-jima Island (according to the description from the Kagoshima Prefectural Library).
Japanese: 兄が鹿児島で家を再生したが、罪を犯して名跡を取り上げられたのに連座して量次郎は沖永良島へ遠島になったとされる（鹿児島立図書館の紹介文による）。
English: However, according to another story, when he was working as copyist for Hisamitsu SHIMAZU, he was found that he had been buying shochu (Japanese distilled grain liquor) by putting the public documents in pledge, and sent to Okinoerabu-jima Island (and this is the popular theory).
Japanese: しかし、別の説では島津久光の写字生として勤めていたが、公の書物を質に入れて焼酎を飲んでいたことがばれて、沖永良部島に流されたとされる（これが流布されている通説）。
English: There is also another story which says that in 1862 when Takamori SAIGO was exiled to Okinoerabu-jima Island and was locked in jail of Wadomari-cho, Kawaguchi went to the island to teach calligraphy and poetry to Saigo, although he was not a criminal (according to Yasutsugu SHIGENO's idea).
Japanese: さらに、文久2年（1862年）に西郷隆盛も同じ島に流されて和泊町の牢に入れられたときに、川口は罪人ではないけれども、わざわざ沖ノ永良部へ往って西郷の書や詩作の指導をしたとする説もある（重野安繹による）。
English: Among the descendants of the Kawaguchi Family remains a story that since Ryojiro was given an important position such as Hisamitsu's shosei (a post managing clerical works) although he was just a so-called 'Shimagoro' (countryman from island) from Tanega-shima Island, some people were jealous of him and put a crime upon him.
Japanese: 川口家の子孫の間には、種子島出身のいわゆる「島五郎（しまごろ）」であるのに久光の書生として重用されたことを周囲に嫉まれて罪を着せられたという言い伝えもある。
English: Although the real reason for his exile is not clear because of many different theories, it is a fact that Kawaguchi had been exiled to Okinoerabu-jima Island for some reason before Saigo was sent there in 1862, and that he lived in Nishihara Village and taught reading and writing to the children of the island.
Japanese: 諸説紛々として判然としないが、文久2年つまり西郷の沖永良部遠島の前から何らかの事情で同じ島に流されて西原村に住み、島の子供たちに読み書きを教えていた。
English: According to the popular theory, Kawaguchi got on very well with Saigo from the first time they met; and everyday Kawaguchi visited Saigo's cell of the prison of Wadomari which was 3.4 kilometers away from Nishihara and discussed current issues and talked about learning, and he came to teach calligraphy and poetry to Saigo.
Japanese: 通説によれば、西郷とは初対面から大いに意気投合し、西原から1里弱(3.4km)離れた和泊の西郷の座敷牢まで毎日のように通っては、時世を論じ学問を語り、書や詩作を教えるようになった。
English: When Magiri-yokome (officer of prison) Masahiro TSUCHIMOCHI worried that Saigo might have been annoyed and asked if Saigo wanted him to limit visiting, then Saigo answered "no, Mr. Kawaguchi knows a lot about both Chinese and Japanese classics and is worth talking with, leave it like this."
Japanese: 間切横目の土持正照は、西郷が迷惑ではないかと案じて面会の制限を問うたところ、「いや。川口どんは和漢の学に通じ、語るに足るお人じゃ。こんままでよか」と西郷が答えたと伝えられている。
English: Once, pointing at a poem by Li Po, Kawaguchi laughed and taught Saigo "Mr Saigo, a poem should be written like this, yours cannot form four ('四' [shi] which pronunciation is the same as '詩' [shi] Chinese poetry) yet, and cannot form even three ('三' [san] which pronunciation is the same as '賛' [san] a style of Chinese literature for praising someone or something), hahaha!"
Japanese: ある時などは、李白の詩を示して、「西郷さん、詩はこう作らないといけません、あなたのはまだ四（詩）になりません。三（賛）にもどうですかなあ、ハッハッハ」と笑ったという。
English: Then Nanshu (Saigo) gave Kawaguchi a gago (pseudonym) of 'Suimin-sensei' (睡眠先生, literally, 'Mr. Sleep'), however Kawaguchi changed it to 'Suimin-sensei' (酔眠先生, literally, 'Mr. Drunk and Sleep') saying he preferred it although they had the same pronunciation.
Japanese: それで南州が＜睡眠先生＞と雅号を贈ったところ、同じスイミンなら＜酔眠先生＞がいいですよと改めた。
English: One day Kawaguchi lost his way on the way to visit Nanshu; although he left his home early in the morning, he went round and round the way of only 4 kilometers, and arrived at the destination in the evening.
Japanese: またある時、南州を訪ねるのに一里の道を迷いに迷って、朝出たのにやっと夕方になってから着いた。
English: Then Nanshu said "oh, that's unheard-of incident, maybe a fox did some trick, we should call you Ukatsu-sensei (Mr. Careless) from now on," and Seppo answered "call me whatever you like, since it's convenient to have a lot of names," and they promised each other, "whoever gets out of here first would support the other."
Japanese: 南州が「それは前代未聞のこと、狐にでもだまされたんですかな、これからは＜迂闊先生＞とでも着け替え申そう」と言ったら、雪篷は「どうでもお勝手に、名前はいくらでもあった方が便利です」と答えて、それから次の約束を交わしたという、「われわれ二人はどちらでも先に赦免された者が、おくれた者を扶養すること」。
English: After Saigo had returned to the mainland, Kawaguchi was discharged around 1865 and went back to Kagoshima City, and at first drifted from one relative's house to another.
Japanese: 西郷の本土帰還の後、慶応元年頃に赦免されて鹿児島城下に戻って、当初は親戚の家を転々としていた。
English: After that, although it is not clear whether they had made such promise or he had another reason, he casually showed up at the door of Saigo's house in Uenosono and stayed as the family's guest.
Japanese: その後、前記の約束あってか上之園の西郷邸に飄然と現れてそのまま食客になった。
English: Because Saigo was busy with national affairs and was not at home mostly, his family needed a man who could manage the master's works, therefore Kawaguchi worked as butler to deal with the outside such as attending visitors and using his calligraphy for writing letters, and worked as rusui-yaku (person representing the master during his absence) as well as teaching calligraphy and Chinese literature to Saigo's children.
Japanese: 西郷は国事に奔走して家を空けることが多く男手が乏しい西郷家にあって、来客の応対や能書を生かした信書連絡などもっぱら外回りの役目を果たす家令あるいは留守居役を果たすとともに、西郷の子弟の書や漢学の師ともなった。
English: During the Seinan War, all the adult males went to the front, and the women had to protect the Saigo family; and after the residence of Takemura had been burnt down, they drifted from one place to another in Kagoshima; during such days Seppo kept following them sharing the pains and sorrows, and gave them emotional support.
Japanese: また、西南戦争中に成人男子が出征して西郷家は完全に女所帯となり、武村の屋敷が焼亡した後は鹿児島各地を転々としたが、雪篷は常に一家と苦患をともにし、その精神的支柱となった。
English: It has been said that when Saigo's oldest son Kikujiro SAIGO was injured in a battle and lost his leg, Seppo made his best effort in obtaining a false leg for him.
Japanese: 西郷の長子西郷菊次郎が戦場で片足を失う重傷を負ったときは義足の手配に心をくだいたという。
English: According to the reminiscences by Mitsuru TOYAMA who visited Kagoshima in 1879, "in Saigo's house, there was a butler around the age of 70, called Seppo KAWAGUCHI who wrote calligraphy and poems well" (in fact Seppo was aged 62 at that time), and when Toyama asked first "I would like to see Mr. Nanshu," Seppo was appalled and yelled in anger "Don't you know Saigo died in Shiroyama?"
Japanese: 明治12年（1879年）に来鹿した頭山満の回想では、「西郷家には、当時七十歳ぐらいの川口雪篷という詩書をよくする老人が家令をつとめていた」（実際には、雪篷は当時62歳）とあり、頭山は、開口一番「南州翁に会いたい」と言ったが、雪篷は「西郷が城山で斃れたことも知らないのか」と呆れたように一喝した。
English: To answer him, Toyama said "There must remains Saigo's spirit" and they exchanged conversations as follows (cited from "Seinan Kiden").
Japanese: 頭山はそれに答えて「西郷の精神ぐらいは残っているだろう」と答え、以下の会話が交わされたという（以下、『西南記伝』から引用）。
English: Seppo ruefully said "although Kagoshima had many talented people before the war, such people and talents all vanished like those trees disappeared and only bald hills remain here, I cannot stand even saying this; it takes a hundred years to raise a tree, and I think a titan like Saigo would appear only once in a hundred years or once in a thousand years, so, we can never see anyone like him."
Japanese: 雪蓬、悵然之に謂て曰く『十年役前の鹿児島は、有用の人材輩出せしも、今や、禿山と一般、人才一空、復言ふに忍びざるなり。樹を植ゆるは、百年の計なり。想ふに西郷の如き巨人は、百年又は千年にして一たび出づるもの。而して、斯人再び見る可からず』と。
English: Mitsuru then asked Seppo to see Saigo's cherished books, and Seppo showed him "Senshin Dosatsu-ki" and said "Saigo always had this book by his side and read during he was shutting himself up at the southern island."
Japanese: 満乃ち雪蓬に就て、西郷遺愛の文藉を見んことを求めしに、雪蓬『洗心洞剳記』を出し、満に謂て曰く『是れ、西郷が南島謫居中愛読して措かざりし書なり』と。
English: Mitsuru visited Kagoshima again and went to see Seppo to return the book; then Seppo was delighted and took out his "Wang Yangming Collection" to give Mitsuru, besides, Seppo apologized for his irrational behavior.
Japanese: 満、再び鹿児島に遊び、雪蓬に見えて、其書を返しゝに、雪蓬大に喜び、更に『王陽明全集』を出して之に贈り、却て其軽忽を謝したりと云ふ。
English: The "Senshin Dosatsu-ki" mentioned above is a collection of lecture notes written by Heihachiro OSHIO (Chusai) who stood up against the maladministration of Osaka Magistrate Office not considering the people's distressed conditions during the Tenpo Famine; and the book was widely read not only by Saigo but also by other supporters of the Restoration at the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 文中の『洗心洞剳記』とは、天保の大飢饉の際に万民の窮状を顧みない大阪奉行所の悪政に敢然と立ち上がった大塩平八郎（中斎）が記した講義録で、西郷に限らず幕末維新の志士の間で愛読されたという。