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English: Furthermore, when he was about to die, he said, "The family strife will break out because of the mismanagement of the former lord, and I will be sorry if false suspicions fall on a bugyo (magistrate) or others." He wrote his Kao (written seal mark) on every possible papers before he died.
Japanese: また死の際には、「御家騒動はいつも先代の不始末が原因だ、自分の死後、奉行らにあらぬ疑いをかけられては気の毒だ」と言ってありとあらゆる書類に対し花押を押してから没した。
English: In the Toyotomi government, he worked as a contact person for territorial lords, and partly because of that, he was admired by a lot of people.
Japanese: 豊臣政権では諸大名の連絡役などを務めたこともあり、多くの者達に慕われたという。
English: "Although Mr. Dainagon (Major Counselor, indicating Toshiie here) is lower in the official rank and the number of owning provinces, he is five times as popular in the castle."
Japanese: 「御位も国数も大納言様(利家)は下なれども、お城にて人々用ひ(人々の尊信)は、五雙倍にも大納言様つよく候。」
English: "Secondly, because he is trusted by Mr. Taiko (Retired Imperial Regent, indicating Hideyoshi here), so both in the castle and on a journey he was more respected by people than Naifu (Minister of the Interior, indicating Ieyasu here), and even we feel encouraged."
Japanese: 「さてまた太閤様(秀吉)御前よき故にても候由、お城にても道中にても、内府(家康)より人々あがまへ、我らまでも心いさみ申す。」
English: (This means that although Toshiie is lower than Ieyasu both in the official rank and the territories and kokudaka (crop yield), he is a man of brilliant military feat and is trusted by Hideyoshi, so Toshiie is by far more popular than Ieyasu.)
Japanese: (利家は家康より官位も領国石高も下だが、彼は武勲の者であり秀吉に信頼されているため、人望は利家のほうがはるかに大きい、という意)。
English: Above all, he seemed to be admired by Ujisato GAMO, Hideie UKITA, Nagamasa ASANO, Hideyori MORI and others of the Bobaishu (Comrades).
Japanese: なかでも傍輩衆の、蒲生氏郷、宇喜多秀家、浅野長政、毛利秀頼らから慕われたようである。
English: Because Toshiie was admired by not only the above-mentioned persons but also the persons called the military government group represented by Kiyomasa KATO and Masanori FUKUSHIMA, he made every effort as an arbitrator of the conflict between the civilian government group including Mitsunari ISHIDA, Yukinaga KONISHI and others and the military government group after Hideyoshi's death.
Japanese: 上記の者のみに留まらず、加藤清正、福島正則らを代表する武断派と呼ばれる者達からも尊われていた利家は、秀吉死後の石田三成や小西行長らの文治派と武断派との争いの仲裁役として働いた。
English: Among others, Kiyomasa is said to have respected Toshiie who had been excellent in valor since he was young.
Japanese: なかでも清正は若き頃より武勇に優れていた利家を尊敬していたと言われている。
English: In fact, while Toshiie was still alive, when a disturbance broke out in which territorial lords gathered in the Toshiie's residence and the Ieyasu's residence for the issue about the relation by marriage, although Kiyomasa was the very person who made the issue, he attended the Toshiie's residence.
Japanese: 事実、利家存命中は姻戚問題で利家邸、家康邸に各大名が集結する騒ぎとなった際も、姻戚問題を起こした当人にも関わらず利家邸に出席している。
English: Then Toshiie died, and his death triggered a trouble to break out immediately after in which the Hideyoshi's Seven Warriors of the military government group including Kiyomasa attacked Mitsunari ISHIDA.
Japanese: また利家が没すると、その直後に清正を含む武断派七将が、石田三成を襲撃する騒ぎが起こっている。
English: When Toshiie's legitimate son Toshinaga said that he didn't hear Toshiie talk about the art of warfare or the strategies so much, Kiyomasa envied Toshinaga saying, "It's regrettable of you when you have a father like him who is so familiar with the military strategies."
Japanese: 清正は利家からあまり兵法や軍略の話を聞かないと言った嫡子利長に対し、「あれ程武略に通じた父上がおられるのに勿体ない」と言って羨ましがったという。
English: Toshiie took part in 38 battles in his life, and he mastered his own way for fighting under Nobunaga ODA
Japanese: 利家は生涯38の戦に参戦し、その戦い方は織田信長の下で得たものであった。
English: "If you fight, you should invade the territory of the enemy and fight, and you must not allow the enemy to step in even a little to your own territory."
Japanese: 「合戦の際は、必ず敵の領内に踏み込んで戦うべきだ、わずかでも自分の領国へ踏み込まれてはならない。」
English: It is said that one day, Toshiie's son-in-law Hideie UKITA asked him about his tactics, he talked about the Nobunaga-style tactics, that is, "You should deploy one or two groups of experts in fighting for the sakite (first attacking troops), Taisho (Major Captain) should run around on horseback not sticking to his honjin (headquarters of army), and you let the sakite fight hard and move the soldiers as you want."
Japanese: またある時、女婿の宇喜多秀家が利家の戦法を質したところ、「先手にいくさ上手な者を一団、二団と配備し、大将は本陣にこだわらず馬を乗り回し、先手に奮戦させて思いのままに兵を動かす」という信長流の戦い方を語ったという。
English: It is supposed that he could not get along well with his nephew-in-law Toshimasu (Keijiro) MAEDA, and there remains an anecdote that when Keijiro ran away, Toshiie was made to take a cold-water bath.
Japanese: 義理の甥である前田利益（慶次郎）とはソリが合わなかったとされ、慶次郎出奔の際に水風呂に入れられたとの逸話が残る。
English: In the novel "Ichimuan furyuki (The Story of Keijiro MAEDA)" by Keiichiro RYU, and the comic book "Hana no Keiji" by Tetsuo HARA with the aforesaid novel being the original, the strife between Toshiie and Keijiro (Keiji) is expressed in the comical, and sometimes touching description.
Japanese: 隆慶一郎の小説『一夢庵風流記』、およびそれを原作とする原哲夫の漫画『花の慶次』では、利家と慶次郎（慶次）の確執が面白可笑しく、時にはホロリとさせられる描写で表現されている。
English: In this comic book, Toshiie was described as an old man with middle-aged spread who envies Keijiro persistently, is made fun of, or cries loudly like a child, and because of his role he is looked down on considerably in comparison with real Toshiie.
Japanese: なお、この漫画での利家は慶次郎に執拗に嫉妬したり、からかわれたり、子供のように大泣きをしたりする中年太りした老人として役柄上、実際の利家からはかなり貶められて描かれている。
English: Besides, although Toshiie is described as an old man and Keiji as a young man, there was little difference in the ages of real Toshiie and Keijiro (the reliable materials say that Toshiie was two years older, or that Keijiro was six years older.)
Japanese: また利家と慶次を老人と青年として描写されているが、実際の二人に年齢差はほとんどない（利家が二歳年上、又は利益が六歳年上との資料が有力である）。
English: Furthermore, the historical fact that Toshiie himself was a kabukimono and preferred the tendency of kabuki is ignored, or rather Toshiie is described as if he were a stubborn man who was unsympathetic toward kabukimono Keiji.
Japanese: その他に利家自身が傾奇者であったと事や、傾きの風潮を好んでいたという史実も無視されて、むしろ傾奇者の慶次に対し、無理解で頑固な利家という風に描写されている。
English: However, the young Toshiie who appears in Hideyoshi's recollection in "Hana no Keiji" is described as a reckless kabukimono just like Keiji.
Japanese: ただ『花の慶次』で秀吉の回想に登場する若き頃の利家は、慶次のような無鉄砲なかぶき者として描かれている。
English: (It should be noted that the young Toshiie described in this scene is in the same composition as Toshiie in the picture of triumphantly returning from Okehazama in which Toshiie is riding a horse with a lot of severed enemy heads hanging on the spear point and around his waist.)
Japanese: （なお、ここで描かれる若年利家は馬上にて槍先、腰元にいくつもの敵首をぶら下げている桶狭間凱旋図の利家と同じ構図である。）
English: Later in life, whenever he talked about the days when he lived a ronin life after he was sentenced to the penalty of prohibition of serving for the murder of Juami, he never failed to say as follows.
Japanese: 後年、捨阿弥を惨殺した罪で出仕停止処分を受け浪人暮らしをしていたときの事を語る際は、必ず下記のように言っている。
English: "That's why I say the persons who speak to you in such an occasion are your true friends (reliable persons)."
Japanese: 「だからこそ、そのような時に声をかけてくれる者こそ真の友人（信用できる人物）だ。」
English: When Toshiie fell into a critical condition, Matsu (Hoshunin) who sewed up a kyokatabira (shroud) in person and was about to get him into it said as follows.
Japanese: 危篤の際には自ら経帷子を縫い、利家に着せようとするまつ（芳春院）が次のように言った。
English: Then, Toshiie is said to have refused to put it on saying as follows (the headnote of Night Stories of Lord Toshiie, Koshindo Sosho [Koshindo Collection]).
Japanese: すると利家は、次のように言って着るのを拒んだという（古心堂叢書利家公夜話首書）。
English: "I have taken part in a lot of wars and killed enemies until now, but I have never killed nor tortured people without a good reason."
Japanese: 「わしはこれまで幾多の戦に出て、敵を殺してきたが、理由なく人を殺したり、苦しめたことは無い。」
English: "If I were to go to Hell, I would fight a battle against Enma (the King of Hell) and Gozumezu (Enma's followers with heads of horses and cows) with the people who had gone to Hell before me."
Japanese: 「もし地獄へ参ったら先に行った者どもと、閻魔・牛頭馬頭どもを相手にひと戦してくれよう。」
English: These words means "The Tokugawa family with Mitsubaaoi-mon (one of family crests designed with a mallow leave), the Maeda family with Kenumebachi-mon (one of family crests designed with a Japanese apricot flower), ume blossoms bloom at the higher place than aoi."
Japanese: 『三葉葵紋の徳川家よ剣梅鉢紋の前田家よ梅の花は葵より高い所に咲く』という意味である。
English: In the days of Hideyoshi, Ieyasu and Toshiie were seated at the most honorable Kamiza (seat of honor) of Gotairo of the same rank, but after Hideyoshi died, the Tokugawa family assumed the post of Taishogun (the head of bakufu) who governed the whole of Japan.
Japanese: 家康と利家は秀吉の時代、五大老の一番の上座に肩を並べて座っていたが、秀吉が死ぬと徳川家が天下をおさめる大将軍となった。
English: Although the Maeda family was a great daimyo, it had no other choice but to become a vassal of the Tokugawa family.
Japanese: 前田家は大々名であるとはいえ、徳川家の家来にならなければならなかった。
English: It has been said that the people of Kaga Provinces sang the frustration to the fortune of that time.
Japanese: その時の運に対し、加賀の人々はその口惜しさを歌ったと伝えられている。
English: Narimasa SASSA was a busho (Japanese military commander) in the Sengoku (period of warring states) and Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
Japanese: 佐々成政（さっさなりまさ）は、戦国時代(日本)・安土桃山時代の武将。
English: Since his brothers Masatsugu SASSA and Magosuke (Naritsune) SASSA were killed in the war one after another, Narimasa took over the family estate and became the lord of the Hira-jo Castle in 1560.
Japanese: 兄に佐々政次（政次）、佐々孫介（成経）がいたが、相次いで戦死したため、永禄3年（1560年）に家督を継ぎ、比良城主となる。
English: He worked for Nobunaga ODA, having made remarkable progress in his war service since he was a horse guard and in 1567, he was selected as kurohoroshu (black knights).
Japanese: 織田信長に仕え、馬廻りから戦功を重ねて頭角を表し、永禄10年（1567年）、黒母衣衆の一員に抜擢された。
English: On the so called Kanegazaki no nokiguchi (withdrawal from Kanegazaki) in 1570, it is said that Narimasa also participated in the army of the lord, leading a few armed forces of horse guards with Hiromasa YANADA and Masakane CHUJYO and worked to support Hideyoshi using firearms troop.
Japanese: 元亀元年1570年の俗に言う金ヶ崎の退き口では、梁田広正・中条将艦らと共に、僅かな兵力である馬廻り衆を率いて、成政も殿の軍に参加し、鉄砲隊を用いて秀吉軍を救援し活躍したとされる。
English: In the Battle of Nagashino in May 1575, he led firearms troops with Toshiie MAEDA, Masanari NONOMURA, Hidekatsu FUKUTOMI, Naomasa BAN.
Japanese: 天正3年（1575年）5月の長篠の戦いでは前田利家、野々村正成、福富秀勝、塙直政とともに鉄砲隊を率いた。
English: In September 1575, Nobunaga ODA appointed Katsuie SHIBATA as the head of army corps in Hokuriku-do Road after he conquered the Echizen Province.
Japanese: 天正3年（1575年）9月、織田信長は越前国制圧後、柴田勝家を置き北陸道方面の軍団長とした。
English: Nobunaga awarded 33,000 goku of Fuchu, Echizen Province to the Fuchu sannin shu, Narimasa, Toshiie MAEDA and Mitsuharu FUWA as Katsuie's Yoriki (mounted warrior who belonged to a general in the Sengoku period) and Narimasa built the Komaru-jo Castle to use as the headquarters.
Japanese: その与力として成政・前田利家・不破光治の3人（府中三人衆）に越前府中3万3000石を与え、成政は小丸城を築いて居城とした。
English: Although Fuchu sannin shu were the yoriki of Katsuie SHIBATA, they were a half independent flying column of Oda and often dispatched as reinforcement for the siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple, the stabilization of the Harima Province and the conquest of Murashige ARAKI.
Japanese: 府中三人衆は柴田勝家の与力とはいえ、半ば独立した織田軍の遊撃軍的存在で、石山本願寺攻めや播磨国平定、荒木村重征伐などに援軍として駆り出されることが多かった。
English: In 1580, he was involved in stabilizing the Ecchu Province, the font line of the Uesugi clan against uprising of Ikko sect followers as a support for Nagazumi JIMBO.
Japanese: 天正8年（1580年）、神保長住の助勢として対一向一揆・上杉氏の最前線にある越中国平定に関わる。
English: In February 1581, he was awarded half of the Ecchu Province formally and became Shugo (military commander and administrator of province) due to the downfall of Nagazumi and upgraded the Toyama-jo Castle largely to use it as the headquarters.
Japanese: 天正9年（1581年）2月、正式に越中半国を与えられ、翌年の長住失脚により一国守護となり、富山城に大規模な改修を加えて居城とした。
English: When Honnoji Incident occurred in 1582, Hokuriku army had just succeeded in the attack of the Uozu-jo Castle, Uesugi's last foothold, after three months of siege.
Japanese: 天正10年（1582年）本能寺の変が起こった時、北陸方面軍は上杉軍の最後の拠点魚津城を3ヶ月の攻囲の末攻略に成功したばかりであった。
English: However, the new of conspiracy arrived, warlords drew off and encountered counterattack of the Uesugi army, and Narimasa could not move for the defense.
Japanese: しかし変報が届くと、各将はそれぞれ領地に引き揚げたため上杉軍の反撃に遭い、成政はその防戦で身動きが取れなかった。
English: Although Katsuie SHIBATA, who visited Kyoto, was surpassed by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, Hideyoshi was reconciled with the also confronted Mori clan and achieved Chugoku Ogaeshi (reaction to Honnoji Incident by Hideyoshi HASHIBA, in which he rushed back to Bichu even though he was in a battle with Mitsuhide AKECHI in Yamazaki which is near the boundary between Settsu Province and Yamashiro Province when he learnt the news).
Japanese: 上洛した柴田勝家も豊臣秀吉に先を越され、同じように対峙していた毛利氏と和睦して中国大返しを成し遂げた秀吉とは明暗が分かれた。
English: At the Kiyosu conference after the conquest of Mitsuhide AKECHI, when a fight for power of the Oda family occurred between Katsuie SHIBATA and Hideyoshi HASHIBA, Narimasa took side of Shibata, but he could not participate in the battle of Shizugatake since he could not leave Ecchu due to preparations for the attack of the Uesugi army.
Japanese: 明智光秀征伐後の清洲会議において、柴田勝家と羽柴秀吉との織田家の実権争いが勃発すると、成政は柴田方につくが、賤ヶ岳の戦いには上杉軍への備えのため越中を動けず、本人は合戦に参加出来なかった。
English: (However, he dispatched 600 soldiers with his uncle Heizaemon SASSA as reinforcement) after the death of Katsuie, due to betrayal of the Maeda clan or pressure from the Uesugi family, Narimasa surrendered by making his daughter a hostage and taking the tonsure.
Japanese: （しかし、叔父の佐々平左衛門に兵600を付けて援軍には出している）勝家の敗死後は、前田氏の寝返りや上杉家の圧迫もあり、成政は娘を人質に出し、剃髪する事で降伏。
English: In the next year, 1584, when the battle of Komaki-Nagakute began, although Narimasa indicated a practice swing that he supported Hideyoshi in his letter around March, he supported Ieyasu TOKUGAWA and Nobukatsu ODA in the summer and opposed to Toshiie MAEDA who stood for Hideyoshi and the battle of the Suemori-jo Castle (Noto Province) occurred.
Japanese: 翌天正12年（1584年）、小牧・長久手の戦いが始まると3月頃の書状では秀吉方につく素振りをみせていたものの、夏頃になって成政は徳川家康・織田信雄方につき、秀吉方に立った前田利家と敵対して末森城(能登国)の合戦が起こった。
English: Since he also opposed to Kagekatsu UESUGI in the Echigo Province, he was forced to face two-front operations and had hard battle.
Japanese: また越後国の上杉景勝とも敵対していたため二正面作戦を強いられ、苦戦が続いた。
English: However, when Hideyoshi and Ieyasu compromised and Narimasa was driven to the extremity, he had a great achievement that he crossed over Hida Mountains and Tate-yama Mountains and entered the Hamamatsu City at midwinter to persuade Ieyasu to have another try.
Japanese: ところが秀吉・家康らとの間で和議が成立し、進退が窮まると、成政は家康に再挙を促すため、厳冬の飛騨山脈（飛騨山脈）・立山山系を越えて浜松市へと踏破するという壮挙を成し遂げた。
English: However, he failed to convince him, so he also pressed Nobukatsu ODA and Ichimasu TAKIGAWA to persuade Ieyasu, but good answer was not obtained and the achievement failed in vain.
Japanese: しかし結局説得は功を奏せず、織田信雄や滝川一益にも説得を迫ったが、快い返事は得られず、壮挙は空しく失敗した。
English: In the next year, 1585, Hideyoshi started to conquest Ecchu by himself and surrounded the Toyama-jo Castle with his large 100 thousand army.
Japanese: 翌・天正13年（1585年）、秀吉自ら越中征伐に乗り出し、富山城を10万の大軍で包囲。
English: Thanks to the adjudication of Hideyoshi, his life was saved, but all territories other than Shinkawa County in the east part of the Ecchu Province were forfeited and he was forced to live in Osaka with his wife and children and then worked for Hideyoshi as his Otogishu (adviser).
Japanese: 秀吉の裁定により、一命は助けられたものの越中国東部の新川郡を除く全ての領土を没収され、妻子と共に大阪に移住させられ、以後御伽衆として秀吉に仕えた。
English: The achievement in the Kyusyu Conquest in 1587 brought him the Province of Higo.
Japanese: 天正15年（1587年）の九州征伐で功をあげたことを契機に、肥後国一国を与えられた。
English: Hideyoshi was said to have ordered him to refrain from rapid reform, but it is not clear whether it can be accepted at face value.
Japanese: 秀吉は性急な改革を慎むように指示したとも言われるが、これが言葉通りの意味に取れるかは不明。
English: Narimasa, who was said to have disease, attempted to perform Taiko-kenchi (Hideyoshi's nationwide land survey) quickly, but local people resisted by the revolt by inhabitant of Higo Province.
Japanese: 病を得ていたとも言われる成政は、早速に太閤検地を行おうとするがそれに反発する国人が一揆（肥後国人一揆）を結び反抗した。
English: Therefore, he was accused of the misgovernment and was not condone in spite of the plea for sparing his life of Ekei ANKOKUJI and he was forced to commit seppuku at the Amagasaki Hoen-ji Temple in the Settsu Province (Teramachi, Amagasaki City).
Japanese: このため、失政の責めを受け、安国寺恵瓊が助命嘆願をしたが、許される事はなく、摂津国尼崎法園寺(尼崎市寺町)にて切腹させられた。
English: He was died at the age of 53 (53 is most likely, but there are various theories about his age at death, and since birth year was calculated based on this, the accurate birth year is unknown.)
Japanese: 享年53（53説が最も有力視されているが、没年は50歳から73歳説まで諸説あり、そこから逆算した生年になっているので、正確な生年は不詳である）。
English: He was often described as an impulsive doer who dislikes Hideyoshi, but it seems that this was largely because of the adaptation in stories created in future ages.
Japanese: 大の秀吉嫌い、猪突猛進型の猛将として描かれることが多いが、後世に作られた物語などで脚色された影響が大きい。
English: Since the Ecchu Province was suffered from flood disaster due to flood of river in the medieval period, Narimasa built bank during his few years of administration in Ecchu, so he was well-liked by people in his dominion.
Japanese: 中世の越中は河川の氾濫による水害に悩まされていたが、成政は僅か数年に過ぎない越中統治期間に堤防を築き水害を防いだため領民に慕われた。
English: His dislike of Hideyoshi may be adaptation in future ages, but it seems that he actually disliked Hideyoshi, since he was so loyal to the Oda clan (Nobunaga) that he attempted to rise in revolt with Ieyasu after Nobukatsu ODA surrendered.
Japanese: 秀吉嫌いは後世の創作もあろうが、織田信雄が降伏した後も家康と共謀して叛旗を翻そうとするなど、織田氏（信長）に対する忠誠心は厚く、秀吉嫌いが事実だったとの印象も見受けられる。
English: It seems that he created emery more than required; he created animosity on Kagekatu UESUGI since he massacred soldiers in the Uozu-jo Castle opened on the condition that the return of the castle soldiers was accepted, and he killed the 13-year-old second son of Masashige DOI who seceded via crucifixion in front of the Doi army holding the castle.
Japanese: 城兵の越後への帰還を認める条件で開城した魚津城の兵士を虐殺して上杉景勝の恨みを買う、離反した土肥政繁の13歳になる次男を籠城する土肥軍の前で磔刑にするなど、必要以上に敵を作る部分も認められる。
English: Chogoro KAIONJI pointed this and presented harsh assessment that a person who relied on such cruel methods could not oppose to Hideyoshi, who was good at winning the hearts and minds of the people.
Japanese: 海音寺潮五郎はこの点を指して「このような残虐な手口に頼るようでは人心掌握に長けた秀吉に対抗するのは無理」と厳しい評価を下している。
English: Although Narimasa was often regarded as an adversary of Hideyoshi like Katsuie SHIBATA, since he disliked Hideyoshi and fought in the same Hokuriku area when Nobunaga was alive, a document of the Maeda family describes that he became so upset unlike a lord about the attack of the Toyama-jo Castle usurped by the Uesugi clan and had big quarrel with Katsuie for a period of time, so it seems difficult to say that he had good relationship with anti-Hideyoshi side.
Japanese: 大の秀吉嫌いで、信長存命時には同じ北陸方面で戦ったことから、秀吉の敵対者として柴田勝家とひとくくりにされることが多いが、一時期、上杉方に奪われた富山城の攻略では大将とは思えぬ取り乱しぶりで勝家と大喧嘩したという記録が前田家の文書に残っており、必ずしも反秀吉という面で親密な関係にあったとは言い難いようだ。
English: Actually, whatever his real feelings might be, after the ruin of Katsuie, he simply took the tonsure without resistance and bowed before Hideyoshi, and he dispatched only a small troop for the Battle of Shizugatake, which might be due to public position of preparations for the Uesugi clan, it is widely thought that especially after the death of Nobunaga, they tied the relationship due to the interest that they did not want to create enemy each other.
Japanese: 実際、本心はともかく勝家の滅亡後は、あっさり抗戦する事なく剃髪し秀吉に降っていたり、上杉家への備えという建前もあるが、賤ヶ岳の戦いでも僅かな援兵しか派遣していない事などから、ことさら信長死後は、お互い背後に敵を作りたくないという利害関係上、結んでいたという見解が強い。
English: The Sassa clan was said to originally belong to Nobuyasu ODA, a guard of Owari and head of the Iwakura-jo Castle (Bukoyawa) and according to Shinchoko-ki (biography of Nobunaga ODA), there is a anecdote that since there was a rumor that Narimasa attempted to assassinate Nobunaga ODA, Narimasa apologized.
Japanese: 佐々氏は、元々は尾張守護代・岩倉城主、織田信安に属していたとされ（武功夜話）、信長公記首巻によれば、成政は織田信長暗殺を企んだという風聞が流れ、釈明したという話が残っている。
English: In the Battle of Keikai during attack of Mino in 1562, he and Toshiie MAEDA offered the neck of Mataemon INABA each other, which remained unsettled, so Katsuie SHIBATA cut the neck and reported what happened to Nobunaga and Nobunaga commended three of them (according to Jyozankidan and Meisho Genkoroku [the collections of anecdotes of great commanders in Japanese history]).
Japanese: 永禄5年（1562年）美濃攻めの際、軽海の戦いにおいて敵将・稲葉又衛門の首を前田利家と譲り合って埒があかないので、柴田勝家がその首をあげ、その次第を報告して信長に三人とも褒められたという（常山記談・名将言行録等）。
English: However, according to 'Shincho Koki,' it was Narimasa and Tsuneoki IKEDA who avenged Inaba and it is highly possible that the anecdote of Shibata and Maeda was invented later since they went together to the Hokuriku area as the attack army.
Japanese: しかし、「信長公記」では稲葉を討ったのは成政と池田恒興とされ、柴田・前田との逸話は後に北陸方面の攻略軍として同行した事から創作された話の可能性も高い。
English: Actually, Toshiie MAEDA told that he disliked Narimasa because although in the Toami murder for which Toshiie paid the penalty of temporary banishment, he forgave the sin of stole of Toami due to the petition of Narimasa, he spoke ill of him.
Japanese: 実際、前田利家は一時期追放の罰を受けた十阿弥殺害事件では、成政の嘆願で十阿弥の窃盗を許したにもかかわらず顔を立てた彼に悪口を言いふらされて以降は彼を嫌っていたと述べている。
English: It is said that there were constant streams of applications to be his vassal since he was so lavish that he awarded more chigyo (fief) than the rokudaka (stipend) he first presented after starting to work as his vassal, when a new vassal was hired.
Japanese: 新規の家臣を召抱える際、最初に提示した禄高よりも仕官後に約束よりも多くの知行を与えた事から、気前の良い殿様だという事で仕官を望む者が絶えなかったという。
English: In the interview with the applicant, he emphasized 'how the military achievement was made in the past' and he was willing to hear the story.
Japanese: また、この仕官の際の面接においても、家柄や血筋ではなく、「いかに過去、武功を挙げたか」という部分を重視し、その話を聞くのが大好きであったとされる。
English: There is an anecdote that Ujisato GAMO asked Hideyoshi whether he could use the 'Three-layer sedge hat' uma-jirushi (horse insignia); Hideyoshi said 'the uma-jirushi ('Three-layer sedge hat') was used by heroic Narimasa SASSA during the Siege of Odawara in 1590. You would allow to use it when you achieved appropriate feat.'
Japanese: 天正18年（1590年）の小田原の役で、蒲生氏郷が「三階菅笠」の馬印を使用願いたいと秀吉に申し出たところ、秀吉は「（「三階菅笠」は武勇高き）佐々成政が使用した馬印。それに相応しい手柄を立てれば使用を許そう」と言った。
English: Ujisato worked outstandingly in the Siege of Odawara having wounds all over his body and succeeded in being allowed to use the uma-jirushi.
Japanese: これを聞いた氏郷は満身創痍となりながらも小田原の役で活躍し、見事馬印の使用を許されたという逸話が残る。
English: (Jyozankidan, a collection of anecdotes compiled in the Edo period) Narimasa tended to be underestimated due to the bad reputations created by the winners Hideyoshi or Maeda, but Hideyoshi and Maeda seemed to have highly recognized the heroic act of Sassa as an army commander and there are many heroic records commending him.
Japanese: （常山紀談）このように勝者である秀吉や前田氏に悪評を創作され、過小評価を受けがちな成政であるが、その秀吉・前田も佐々の軍事指揮官としての武勇は非常に認めていたようで、多くの賞賛をした記録が残っている。
English: In the Toyama Prefecture, Narimasa, who conducted good politics such as embankment works and remained faithful to the last, is more popular than the Maeda clan, who reigned as the lord of the Kaga and Toyama domains all through the Edo period and betrayed his boss Katsuie SHIBATA in the Battle of Shizugatake in contrast.
Japanese: 富山県では、江戸時代をとおして加賀藩・富山藩の藩主として君臨し、賤ヶ岳の戦いで上司である柴田勝家を裏切った前田家とは対称的に最後まで忠節を尽くし、治水工事などの善政を行い治めた佐々成政の人気が高い。
English: Since he had no sons other than Matsuchiyomaru who died young, he had several adopted sons including Katsuyuki SAKUMA, younger brother of Morimasa SAKUMA, but his family estate was not succeeded and he had no direct line descendant.
Japanese: 早逝した松千代丸の他に男子がなかったために佐久間盛政の弟佐久間勝之など何人かの養子がいたが、家督は継承されず直系の子孫はない。
English: His branch descendant (his older sister) includes Munekiyo SASSA who worked for Mitsukuni TOKUGAWA (a person who is said to be the model of Sukesaburo SASAKI, Suke-san in 'Mito Komon'), and Atsuyuki SASSA (former head of the Cabinet Security Affairs Office).
Japanese: 傍流（実姉）の子孫として、徳川光圀に仕えた佐々宗淳（「水戸黄門」の助さんこと佐々木助三郎のモデルとされる人物）、元内閣安全保障室室長の佐々淳行などがいる。
English: The daughter held hostage by Hideyoshi (although she was said to be his second daughter, details are unknown, maybe because she was an infant of nine years old.) and her foster mother were killed in the way of crucifixion in Kyo no Nanakuchi (seven entrances of Kyoto).
Japanese: 秀吉に人質に取られていた娘（次女ともされるが庶子だった為か、9歳という幼年の為か詳細は不明）と、その乳母が京都京の七口で磔刑にされたという。
English: Sanosuke HARADA (1840 - July 6, 1868) was the leader of the Tenth Unit of Shinsengumi.
Japanese: 原田左之助（はらださのすけ、天保11年（1840年）-慶応4年5月17日(旧暦)（1868年7月6日））は、新選組十番隊組長。