nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: When a certain samurai had a quarrel with him and said, "you are of low birth and don't even know how to commit seppuku suicide," he actually demonstrated it by cutting his own belly.
Japanese: ある武士と喧嘩をして「腹を切る作法も知らぬ下司め」と言われ、腹を切って見せた。
English: Although a straight-lined scar was left on his belly, he used to say, exposing the scar to the sun on a sunny day, "I am not soft like you guys. My belly knows the taste of metal."
Japanese: 腹に一文字の傷が残ったが、天気の良い日には傷を日にさらしながら「てめぇたちのようなヤワなとは違うんだ。俺の腹は金物の味を知ってるんだぜ」と言っていた。
English: He was quite rough, and when drunk, he would boast the scar on his belly or shout loudly "kill, kill!"
Japanese: また、かなりの暴れん坊だったこともあり、酒を飲んでは腹の傷を自慢したり、大声で「切れ切れ!」と叫んだという。
English: After stabbing to death, from behind, Kojuro KUSUNOKI, a spy of the Choshu clan, he laughed and said, "Oh, I feel good."
Japanese: 長州藩の間者（スパイ）だったという楠小十郎を背後から斬り殺して「あぁ、良い気持ちだ」と言って笑っていた。
English: It is said that Toshizo HIJIKATA, the Vice Commander, trusted Soji OKITA of the First Unit and Sanosuke HARADA of the Tenth Unit, and often gave them tasks.
Japanese: 副長の土方歳三は、一番隊の沖田総司と十番隊の原田左之助を信頼して、よく使ったという。
English: Commanding the Tenth Unit as the leader of the rear guard, Harada participated in all major fights of Shinsengumi.
Japanese: 殿軍の組長として十番隊を指揮し主だった新選組の戦闘には原田の名が必ずあり活躍している。
English: (The purge of Kamo SERIZAWA's faction, killing of Kojuro KUSUNOKI, a spy of the Choshu clan, assassination of Hikojiro UCHIYAMA, a yoriki [police sergeant] of the Osaka-Nishimachi Magistrate's office, Ikedaya Incident, Kinmon Incident, Sanjo-ohashi Bridge Noticeboard Incident, Aburanokoji Incident, and so on.)
Japanese: （芹沢鴨一派の粛清、長州藩の間者・楠小十郎斬殺、大阪西町奉行与力・内山彦次郎暗殺、池田屋事件、禁門の変、三条制札事件、油小路事件など）
English: (It was because Kashitaro ITO testified that the scabbard left in the scene was Harada's. They also heard the assassin say "Konakuso! (Damn!)" with an accent of Iyo Province.)
Japanese: （暗殺現場に落ちていた鞘を伊東甲子太郎が原田の差し料と証言したため。また、下手人が伊予の国訛りの言葉（「こなくそ!」）を発したのを聞かれたため）。
English: The 2004 NHK Historical Drama "Shinsengumi!," broadcast by Japan Broadcasting Corporation, made good use of the rumor spread at that time that Harada had assassinated Ryoma SAKAMOTO.
Japanese: 2004年の日本放送協会大河ドラマ『新選組!』の中では、坂本龍馬暗殺犯が原田であるという当時の伝聞を上手く利用した描かれ方がされていた。
English: He had fought as a member of Shinsengumi until the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and the campaign of Koyo Chinbutai (a military unit formed specially for the campaign in Kai Province), and then formed Seiheitai with Shinpachi NAGAKURA.
Japanese: 鳥羽・伏見の戦い、甲陽鎮撫隊まで新選組として戦いその後、永倉新八と共に靖兵隊結成。
English: After leaving Edo, however, he strangely returned to Edo, saying that he remembered that he had something to do there, and then joined Shogitai.
Japanese: だが、なぜか江戸を離れてから用を思い出したと江戸に戻って彰義隊に加入。
English: According to a different theory, an old soldier in Matsuyama, during the Sino-Japanese War (also during the Russo-Japanese War), talked about old times and said, "I am Sanosuke HARADA."
Japanese: 異説があり、日清戦争のときに松山で昔語りをする老軍人がいて「私は原田左之助だ」と名乗ったと伝わっている（日露戦争の時も）。
English: It is said that Harada went to the continent via Ueno, Niigata City, Shimonoseki City and Busan Metropolitan City, and became a head of mounted bandits.
Japanese: 原田は上野、新潟市、下関市、釜山広域市を経て大陸へ渡り馬賊の頭目になったという。
English: His wife, Masa HARADA, is said to die around 1931, being watched over by many of her grandchildren.
Japanese: 妻の原田まさは昭和6年ごろまで生き、沢山の孫たちに見守られ亡くなったとされる。
English: She talked about her husband Sanosuke in Shinsengumi trilogy (written by Kan SHIMOZAWA), which was the records of testimonies about Shinsengumi.
Japanese: また新選組の証言などをまとめた記録文書新選組三部作（子母澤寛著）にて、夫・左之助の事を語っている。
English: Shungaku MATSUDAIRA was a Japanese feudal lord, the 16th lord of the Fukui Domain of Echigo Province in the late Edo period.
Japanese: 松平春嶽（まつだいらしゅんがく）は、江戸時代後期の大名、第16代越前国福井藩主。
English: He was educated by Yukie NAKANE and then became the head of the domain at the age of 11 after Narisawa died in 1838.
Japanese: 中根雪江に教育を受け、天保9年（1838年）に斉善が死去すると11歳で藩主となる。
English: Supported by Nakane, Kiminasa YURI and Sanai HASHIMOTO, he carried out the reformation of domain duties such as establishing yogakusho (English school) and implementing military system reform.
Japanese: 中根や由利公正、橋本左内らに補佐され、洋楽所の設置や軍制改革などの藩政改革を行う。
English: When the American fleets led by Matthew PERRY came to Japan to ask for commerce in 1853, he insisted on reinforcement in marine defense and expulsion of foreigners together with Nariaki TOKUGAWA from the Mito-Tokugawa family and Nariakira SHIMAZU, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, but turned to the open country wing after interaction with Masahiro ABE, Roju (senior councilor of the Tokugawa shogunate).
Japanese: 嘉永6年（1853年）アメリカのマシュー・ペリー率いる艦隊が来航して通商を求めた際には、水戸徳川家の徳川斉昭や薩摩藩主の島津斉彬とともに海防強化や攘夷を主張するが、老中の阿部正弘らと交流して開国派に転じる。
English: For the issue on succession to the 13th Shogun Iesada TOKUGAWA, he sent Sanai HASHIMOTO to conduct a campaign and supported Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI (later Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA), the head of Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family.
Japanese: 13代将軍徳川家定の将軍後継問題では、橋本左内を京都に派遣して運動させ、一橋徳川家当主の一橋慶喜（後の徳川慶喜）を後押しする。
English: The cabinet officials of the Shogunate belonged to the Nanki group, which recommended Yoshitomi TOKUGAWA from the Kisyu-Tokugawa family (later Iemochi TOKUGAWA) for the shogun successor issue and then Yoshitomi became the 14th Shogun after the lord of the Hikone domain, Naosuke II became Tairo (chief minister).
Japanese: 幕閣では将軍後継問題で紀州徳川家の徳川慶福（後の徳川家茂）を推す南紀派で彦根藩主の井伊直弼が大老となり、14代将軍後継は慶福に決定する。
English: When the bakufu signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan without permission of the Imperial Court, Shungaku came to the castle with Nariaki TOKUGAWA for protest and was suspended at home for going to the Castle untimely.
Japanese: 幕府が朝廷の勅許無しでアメリカとの日米修好通商条約を調印すると春嶽は徳川斉昭らとともに登城をして抗議し、不時登城の罪を問われて謹慎処分を下された。
English: Naosuke II was assassinated in the Sakuradamongai Incident and Shungaku was allowed to join the shogunate government in 1862.
Japanese: 井伊直弼は桜田門外の変で暗殺され、春嶽は文久2年（1862年）に幕政への参加を許される。
English: In the Imperial Court, after the death of Nariakira SHIMAZU, his younger brother Hisamitsu SHIMAZU went up to Kyoto with his solders and was actively involved in politics.
Japanese: 朝廷では島津斉彬の死後、弟の島津久光が兵を率いて京都へ上洛し、政局に積極的に関わっていた。
English: Hisamitsu went down to Edo with an imperial envoy, Shigetomi OHARA to ask the bakufu to appoint Yoshinobu to Shogun-kokenshoku (one of three major posts of Edo bakufu) and Shungaku to the president of political affairs.
Japanese: 久光は勅使の大原重徳とともに江戸へ下り、慶喜将軍後見職就任や春嶽の政事総裁職就任を求める。
English: On July 9, Shungaku was appointed to a new post, the president of political affairs and then pushed forward the policy of kobu-gattai (the union of the imperial Court and the Shogunate) with Yoshinobu such as establishing Kyoto shugoshoku (Military governor of Kyoto), appointing the lord of the Aizu Domain Katamori MATSUDAIRA to shugoshiki (military governor) and the shogun's going up to Kyoto (Bunkyu Reform).
Japanese: 7月9日、春嶽は新設の政事総裁職に就任し、慶喜とともに京都守護職の設置、会津藩主松平容保の守護職就任、将軍の上洛など公武合体政策を推進する（→文久の改革）。
English: Shungaku recruited Shonan YOKOI from the Kumamoto Domain as a political advisor and listened to his opinions on the reformation of domain duties and the shogunate political reform.
Japanese: 春嶽は熊本藩出身の横井小楠を政治顧問に迎え、藩政改革や幕政改革にあたって彼の意見を重用した。
English: Although he went up to Kyoto in 1863, he resigned as the president of political affairs on March 2nd when Yoshinobu tried to make a compromise with Sonno Joi ha (supporters of the doctrine of restoring the emperor and expelling the barbarians) including the Choshu Domain, which had a strong influence in Kyoto.
Japanese: 翌文久3年（1863年）には上洛するが、京都では長州藩など尊皇攘夷派が強く、慶喜が尊攘派と妥協しようとすると反対して3月2日に総裁職を辞任する。
English: After the Choshu Domain was driven out of Kyoto in the Coup of August 18 for which the Aizu Domain and the Satsuma Domain worked together and fell from power in the Kinmon Incident, he became sanyo (councilor) (Council).
Japanese: 会津藩と薩摩藩が協力した八月十八日の政変で長州藩が追放され、禁門の変で長州が失脚すると参預となる（→参預会議）。
English: Replacing Takamori, the general manager of military affairs then, he became Kyoto shugoshoku (Military governor of Kyoto) on February 15, 1864 and changed his post from Echizen no kami (Governor of Echizen Province) to Okura no taifu (a senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Treasury) the following day.
Japanese: 元治元年（1864年）2月15日には軍事総裁職に転じた容保に替わり京都守護職に就任し、翌日、越前守から大蔵大輔に転任する。
English: In 1867, he held the Shiko-kaigi (four major lords' meeting) with Hisamitsu SHIMAZU, Toyoshige YAMAUCHI, who was the former lord of the Tosa Domain, and Munenari DATE, who was the lord of the Uwajima DomainE to discuss punishment on the Emperor's enemy, the Choshu Domain, which resulted in the twice Choshu conquest although Shungaku opposed it.
Japanese: 慶応3年（1867年）には、島津久光や前土佐藩主の山内豊信（容堂）、宇和島藩主・伊達宗城らと四侯会議を開き、朝敵となった長州の処分について話し合い、春嶽は長州征伐には反対するが、2次に渡る長州征伐に至る。
English: The day before the Restoration of Imperial Rule (of Japan) was declared on December 9, he was appointed to gijo (official post) by the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 12月9日の王政復古(日本)の宣言の前日、朝廷より議定に任命される。
English: In the new government after the Meiji Restoration, he became the ministerial governor of Home Affairs on January 17, 1868, the governor of Popular Affairs on May 15, 1869, and Minbukyo (Minister of Popular Affairs) on July 8 of the same year, and served concurrently as Okura-kyo (Minister of the Treasury).
Japanese: 維新後、新政府では慶応4年（1868年）1月17日に内国事務総督、明治2年（1869年）5月15日民部官知事、同年7月8日民部卿、8月11日には大蔵卿を兼任。
English: He received Juichii (Junior First Rank) in 1888 and Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in the following year.
Japanese: 明治21年(1888年)に従一位に叙せられ、翌年勲一等旭日大綬章を受章。
English: In 1891, a year after his death, the sprit of Shungaku was enshrined together in the Sakaeno-yashiro Shrine (Echizen Tosho-gu Shrine).
Japanese: 死の翌年の明治24年（1891年）には佐佳枝廼社（越前東照宮）に春嶽の霊が合祀された。
English: The Fukui-jinja Shrine, the Bekkaku-Kanpeisha (a special government shrine), which enshrines Shungaku as a main deity, was built in 1943.
Japanese: 昭和18年（1943年）には春嶽を主祭神とする別格官幣社福井神社が創建された。
English: His death poem (composed on the eve of his death) is: "If I don't come back alive, I'll fly in the sky to save the imperial reign for our country".
Japanese: 辞世の歌は、「なき数によしや入るとも天翔り御代をまもらむすめ國のため」。
English: Chuji MATSUBARA (date of birth unknown, 1835 - October 20, 1865) was a Roshi (masterless samurai) from Harima Province (Osaka, according to Shinpachi NAGAKURA), joined Shinsengumi and became a Fukucho-jokin (assistant vice commander), leader of the Fourth Unit and instructor of jujutsu.
Japanese: 松原忠司（まつばらちゅうじ、天保五年（1835年）？-慶応元年9月1日(旧暦)（1865年10月20日））は新選組において副長助勤及び四番隊組長と柔術師範を務めた播磨国出身の浪士（永倉新八によれば大坂浪人）。
English: In the Coup of August 18, 1863, he guarded the front of Sento Imperial Palace and the south gate of Kinri-gosho (imperial palace and residence) with a white headband on his shaven head and a large naginata (Japanese halberd) at his side, just like Benkei, and won the nickname of "Imabenkei (contemporary Benkei)."
Japanese: 文久三年、八月十八日の政変では坊主頭に白鉢巻、脇には大薙刀を備え弁慶さながらの格好で仙洞御所前および禁裏御所南門の警備にあたり、「今弁慶」の異名をとる。
English: In the Ikedaya Incident in 1864, he belonged to Hijikata's squad and received 15 ryo (currency unit) as a reward for his achievement on that night.
Japanese: 元治元年の池田屋事件では土方隊に属し、当夜の戦功により報奨金15両を賜る。
English: He was known for being mild mannered, and people used to say, "the kind ones are Yamanami (Keisuke YAMANAMI) and Matsubara."
Japanese: 温厚な人柄で知られ、「親切者は山南（山南敬助）と松原」といわれたという。
English: Matsubara participated in the Coup of August 18 with a white headband on his shaved head and a naginata at his side, in addition to being so big.
Japanese: 松原は、八月十八日の政変の出動の際、丸坊主に白鉢巻、薙刀を携え、さらに巨漢であった。
English: There are two theories about the death of Matsubara: a disease and a joint suicide (It is said to be a disease according to the record of Shinsengumi).
Japanese: 松原の死については病死と心中という二つの説がある（新選組の記録には「病死」とある）。
English: Many stories say that he attempted to commit seppuku for some reason but failed, and was then demoted to the lowest rank in the group.
Japanese: 何らかの理由で切腹したが未遂に終わり、その後平隊士に降格されたという点は多くの話で共通する。
English: The joint suicide theory, however, might have been created by Kan SHIMOZAWA (or Tamesaburo YAGI) as "Mibu shinju" (lovers' suicide in Mibu) in "Shinsengumi Monogatari" (the Tale of Shinsengumi).
Japanese: しかし心中説は子母沢寛（あるいは八木為三郎）が「新選組物語」にて「壬生心中」として創作したのではないかといわれる。
English: Shortly after Matsubara became the leader of the Fourth Unit and instructor of jujutsu, he was strongly criticized by Toshizo HIJIKATA, the Vice Commander, for keeping a mistress (wife of a masterless samurai whom he had killed) near their quarters.
Japanese: 松原が四番隊組長並びに柔術師範となってからまもなく、松原は屯所の近くに愛人（自分が殺害した浪人の妻女）を囲っており、その件を副長の土方歳三に厳しく咎められた。
English: "Shinsengumi!," the NHK Historical Drama of 2004, also follows this theory.
Japanese: 2004年の大河ドラマ『新選組!』もこの説に従った物語となっている。
English: Matsubara is stabbed with a knife by a widow of a statesman of the Choshu clan, who avenges her husband's death.
Japanese: 松原は長州藩士の未亡人に懐刀で刺され、夫の仇を討たれた事になっている。
English: (The widow is killed at the scene and their deaths are officially treated as joint suicide.)
Japanese: （未亡人はその場で斬り捨てられ、表向きは二人の心中として片付けられるのである。)
English: Kan SHIMOZAWA wrote "Mibu shinju" on Matsubara's death, reconstructing the stories that Tamesaburo YAGI of the Yagi family, where Shinsengumi quartered, had heard about him from Tainoshin SHINOHARA and Hajime SAITO.
Japanese: 松原の死に関しては、新選組が屯所を構えていた八木家の八木為三郎が篠原泰之進や斎藤一から聞いた松原忠司の話を子母沢寛が再構成した「壬生心中」がある。
English: However, it is doubtful whether this story is true, because the works of Kan SHIMOZAWA and stories by Tamesaburo YAGI often contain exaggerations or fictions.
Japanese: しかし、子母沢寛の作品や八木為三郎の語る話には脚色や創作がしばしば見られるため、この話も事実であるかどうかには疑いがある。
English: Izo OKADA (1838 - June 3, 1865) was one of the Bakumatsu Shidai Hitokiri (Four famous assassins of Bakumatsu, end of the Edo Period) who joined the Tosa kinnoto (loyalist clique of Tosa) in his hometown, Tosa Province.
Japanese: 岡田以蔵（おかだいぞう、天保9年（1838年）-慶応元年閏5月11日(旧暦)（1865年6月3日））は、土佐国の郷士で土佐勤王党に加わった幕末四大人斬りの一人。
English: In 1848, his father Yoshihira was enlisted as the domain's ashigaru (common foot soldier) to guard the seaside against ships from overseas that appeared off the coast of Tosa; he continued to live in Shichiken machi inside the castle town, and Izo himself succeeded the status as ashigaru.
Japanese: 嘉永元年（1848年）、土佐沖に現れた外国船に対する海岸防備のために父義平が藩の足軽として徴募され、そのまま城下の七軒町に住むようになり、以蔵自身はこの足軽の身分を継いでいる。
English: It is not known whether if it was TAKECHI's idea or not, but Izo voluntarily went forward to the scene of the assassination following the instruction of TAKECHI.
Japanese: 武市の意向なのか分からないが、暗殺の現場には、武市の指示に従って進んで出ている。
English: It is also said that TAKECHI used uneducated Izo merely as an instrument in the assassinations.
Japanese: 武市が、教養の無い以蔵を、ただ単に暗殺の道具として使ったともいわれている。
English: Starting with Saichiro INOUE, who was the shita metsuke (low class inspector of foot soldiers) of the Tosa Domain, Izo assassinated, in the name of heaven's punishment, Seiichiro HONMA who was his comrade, Daigaku IKEUCHI, Magoroku MORI, Juzo OGAWARA, Kinzan WATANABE, and Jonosuke UEDA, who were government officials and yoriki (police sergeants) that belonged to the Kyoto City Magistrate, Tatewaki TADA who was the son of Kazue MURAYAMA (she was tied to a bridge and made a public display alive), a mistress of Shuzen NAGANO (who commanded Ansei no Taigoku [suppression of extremists by the Shogunate]).
Japanese: 土佐藩下目付けの井上佐一郎をはじめ、同志の本間精一郎や池内大学、森孫六・大川原重蔵・渡辺金三・上田助之丞などの京都町奉行の役人や与力、長野主膳（安政の大獄を指揮した）の愛人村山加寿江の子多田帯刀などを天誅と称して暗殺（村山加寿江は橋に縛りつけられ生き晒しにされた）。
English: However, around June of 1864, he was captured by a shogunate official, and on being tattooed, he was banished from the capital Kyoto; at the same time, an official of the Tosa Domain captured him, and deported him to his hometown.
Japanese: しかし元治元年（1864年）6月頃、幕吏に捕えられ入墨のうえ京洛追放、と同時に土佐藩吏に捕われ国もとへ搬送される。
English: In the Tosa Domain, all his comrades of the Tosa kinnoto were arrested for the assassination of Toyo YOSHIDA and the series of assassinations that took place in the capital Kyoto, and with the exception of Zuizan TAKECHI, who was a Joshi (superior warrior) rank, they underwent severe torture.
Japanese: 土佐藩では吉田東洋暗殺・京洛における一連の暗殺について土佐勤王党の同志がことごとく捕らえられ、上士格の武市瑞山を除いて厳しい拷問を受けた。
English: Izo endured severe torture, but he finally made a full confession and was beheaded on May 11 1865, and his head was put on public display.
Japanese: 以蔵も過酷な拷問に耐えたが、遂に全てを白状し、慶応元年（1865年）5月11日に打ち首、晒し首となった。
English: Documents from the same period or letters written by Izo himself that tell the achievements of OKADA are scarce, but several documents tell about his personality and disposition.
Japanese: 岡田以蔵の事績については同時代資料も本人の書簡なども乏しいが、その性格・性質についてはいくつかの資料によって伺うことが出来る。
English: According to "Tosa Ijinden" (Lives of Great People of Tosa) (Masamichi TERAISHI), he was 'courageous, fond of martial arts, and a giant with an extremely robust body.'
Japanese: 『土佐偉人伝』（寺石正路）によれば、「性質は剛勇で武技を好み、非常に逞しい体躯を持った巨漢」であった。
English: It must be added that there was a bit of a sense of glorification, for this book was written in 1921, a time when loyal supporters of the Emperor at the end of the Edo Period were extolled owing to the historical view that Japan was peerless as a country under the eternal reign of a ceaseless line of "living-god" emperors.
Japanese: もっとも同書は皇国史観に伴って幕末勤皇志士が持てはやされた大正10年（1921年）に記された本であり、いささか美化された感もあるとされる。
English: According to recent studies, he was in fact rough, and loved sake and women; especially in his later years, he was treated coldly even by his comrades of the Tosa kinnoto.
Japanese: 最近の研究では実際には性格は粗く酒色を好んだとされ、殊に晩年は土佐勤王党の仲間からさえ疎まれていたようである。
English: Hanpeita TAKECHI, who learned of Izo's arrest, wrote in a letter to his home, 'it is better for such a fool to die soon, and how his parents would lament over him for returning unashamedly to his hometown,' which indicates his ill feeling towards Izo.
Japanese: 以蔵が捕縛されたと知った武市半平太は、実家への手紙で「あのような安方（あほう）は早々と死んでくれれば良いのに、おめおめと国許へ戻って来て、親がさぞかし嘆くであろう」と、以蔵に良い感情を持っていなかったことが伺われる。
English: Letters which were considered to be written by Keikichi TAUCHI (TAKECHI's real younger brother) and so on tell that since his house stood in Shichiken machi, Izo was also disdainfully referred to as '七以.'
Japanese: 以蔵はまた、家が七軒町にあったことから「七以」と軽蔑的に呼ばれていたことも、田内恵吉（武市の実弟）などの書簡として伝えられる。
English: According to one theory, on learning of Izo's arrest, TAKECHI became afraid that Izo's confession may put his comrades on line, and he even tried to poison Izo through a jail keeping government official who was devoted to TAKECHI.
Japanese: 一説によれば、以蔵の捕縛を知った武市は彼の自白によって他の同志が危険に晒されるのを恐れ、自分に心酔した牢役人を通じて以蔵に毒を盛ろうとしたとさえ言われている。
English: There is an episode widely known through novels and so on that is interpreted in many ways; according to versions of this episode, TAKECHI was anxious that a weak natured Izo may easily give into torture; or that Izo may go under a far more severe torture than his other comrades due to his frivolousness; or that Izo received the poison and drank it (not knowing that it was poison), but did not die and confessed for not being able to withstand the torture; or he confessed in anger in finding out that it was poison.
Japanese: これは小説をはじめ広く知られるエピソードで、それらによればこの際、武市は性根の弱い以蔵が拷問に簡単に屈してしまうと心配したとか、以蔵が軽輩故に他の同士より一層激しく耐え難い拷問に遭うであろうと予想した、また、毒を送られた以蔵はそれを（毒とは知らずに）服んだが死なず拷問に屈して白状したとか、毒を見破って憤りのあまり自白に及んだなどと様々に解釈されている。
English: These show why, through the eyes of TAKECHI, Izo was considered 'merely as an instrument for assassination.'
Japanese: こうした点が、武市から見た以蔵が「ただの暗殺の道具」に過ぎなかったのではないか、とされる所以である。
English: Later, a pistol which was thought to have belonged to Izo OKADA was found, and from July 1, 2006 to August 31, it was put on display during the event 'The end of the Edo period for Ryoma, Hanpeita, and Izo' at the Kochi Prefectural Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum.
Japanese: 後に、岡田以蔵が所有していたとされるピストルが発見され、2006年7月1日より8月31日にかけ、高知県立坂本龍馬記念館の催し『それぞれの幕末‐龍馬・半平太・そして以蔵』にて展覧された。
English: According to the explanation by this museum, the pistol was made in France, and was a gift from Kaishu KATSU.
Japanese: 同館の説明によればこれはフランス製で、勝海舟より贈られた物だという。
English: A 'pistol' by the way, was a name applied for the public display, and in the strict sense, it was actually a handgun.
Japanese: ちなみに「ピストル」とは公開の折に称されたものだが、厳密には拳銃である。
English: Apart from this, it was also transmitted that when Manjiro NAKANOHAMA tried to give his pistol to Izo, Izo had refused.
Japanese: また、これとは別に中浜万次郎が護衛を受けた際に自らの短銃を以蔵に託そうとしたが受け取らなかったとの伝承もある。
English: Saichiro INOUE was a shita yokome who was investigating the case of the assassination of Toyo YOSHIDA that took place on May 6th of the same year.
Japanese: 井上佐一郎（いのうえさいちろう）は土佐藩の下横目（下級警官）で、同年4月8日の吉田東洋暗殺事件を捜査していた。
English: The Kinnoto, which regarded him dangerous, summoned INOUE at first to a fancy Japanese-style restaurant called 'Daiyo (otherwise written as 大與) and intoxicated him; then on the Shinsai-bashi Bridge, the four men Izo, Kiyoma HISAMATSU, Hachinosuke OKAMOTO, and Kinzaburo MORITA, restrained and strangulated INOUE, and threw his corpse over the bridge into the Dotonbori-gawa River.
Japanese: これを危険と見た勤王党では、まず井上を料亭「大与（大與・だいよ）」に呼び出して泥酔させ、心斎橋上にて、以蔵・久松喜代馬・岡本八之助・森田金三郎の4人で、身柄拘束のうえ絞殺、遺体は橋上から道頓堀川へと投げ棄てた。
English: Yataro IWASAKI, a colleague accompanying Saichiro INOUE on this occasion who had escaped this ordeal, later became the founder of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu.
Japanese: この事件の際、井上佐一郎と同行していて難を逃れた同僚の岩崎弥太郎は後の三菱財閥の創始者となった。
English: It was said that there was an interrogation when Izo and the others were finally arrested, and only Kinzaburo MORITA, who remained silent, survived, and took part in the Boshin War.
Japanese: 以蔵らが最終的に捕縛された際、この事件についての取調べもあったといい、実行犯の1人である森田金三郎だけが黙秘を貫いたため生き残って戊辰戦争に参戦している。
English: Later, MORITA told this story to Takayuki IGARASHI, who left behind a record called "An incident of the assassination of Saichiro INOUE."
Japanese: 森田は後にこれを五十嵐敬之に話し、五十嵐によって『井上佐一郎暗殺一件』なる記録が残された。
English: Seiichiro HONMA was one of the supporters of the pro-Imperial from Echigo Province, but since he was a disputant who did not belong to a particular domain, patriots from each of the domains, who thought his attitude frivolous, began to hate him.
Japanese: 本間精一郎（ほんませいいちろう）は越後国出身の勤皇の志士の1人であったが、特定の藩に属しない論客であったため、その態度を浮薄と見た各藩の志士から疎まれ始めていた。
English: Meanwhile, there was a dispute between Imperial Prince Kuninomiya Asahiko and Yodo YAMAUCHI over the imperial envoy to demand expulsion of foreigners, and when there was a confrontation between HONMA, who went forward with Imperial Prince Kuninomiya Asahiko, and the Kinnoto, who supported YAMAUCHI, HONMA cast doubt that he was communicating secretly with the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: そこへ久邇宮朝彦親王と山内容堂との間で、攘夷督促勅使を巡る争いが持ち上がり、前者を推進する本間と後者を推す勤王党の間で対立が起きたとも、本間が幕府と通じているのではないかと疑われたとも言われる。
English: According to "Documents of the Ito family, "HONMA was surrounded by a couple of men when he came out drunk from a fancy Japanese-style restaurant, and although both of his arms were pinned down and his long and short swords were taken away, he furiously fought against them and made some of them shrink back; however, in an unguarded moment, he was stabbed in the ribs, and was beheaded when he was on the verge of dying.
Japanese: 『伊藤家文書』によると当日、本間は料亭から酔って退出したところを数人の男に取り囲まれて両腕を押さえつけられ、刀と脇差を取り上げられながらも激しく抵抗して格闘し数名を怯ませたものの、わずかな隙にわき腹を刺され、瀕死のところに止めをさされて斬首された。
English: There was however, a different opinion, for there was a testimony by a person inside the house who heard a sound 'like throwing coals' when HONMA and the assassins were fighting with swords.
Japanese: 但し異説もあり、屋内にいた人物が本間と刺客が刀で打ち合う「炭をぶつけ合うような」音を聞いた、という証言もある。
English: The criminals included Izo, as well as Shujiro HIRAI, Ekichi SHIMAMURA, Shinzo MATSUYAMA, Magozaburo OBATA, Kenta HIROSE, Gojiro TANABE and Shinbei TANAKA, who was known as the Hitokiri of Satsuma.
Japanese: このときの実行犯は以蔵をはじめ、平井収二郎・島村衛吉・松山深蔵・小畑孫三郎・広瀬健太・田辺豪次郎、そして薩摩の人斬りこと田中新兵衛であった。
English: Shigekuni UGO (Ugo Genba no kami) was a shodaibu (fourth and fifth rank official) to the former chancellor Hisatada KUJO, and he suppressed the patriots with Sakon SHIMADA during Ansei no Taigoku, and because he was also involved in the set up of Kazunomiya koka (the marriage of Imperial princess Kazunomiya to an ordinary person), he was hated by the patriots of Joi (principle of excluding foreigners) group.
Japanese: 宇郷重国（うごうげんばのかみ）は先の関白九条尚忠の諸太夫であり、安政の大獄の際、島田左近と共に志士弾圧を行い、また和宮降嫁推進にも関わったために攘夷派志士からの遺恨を買っていた。