nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: The seated statue of Prince Otsu (a deposit in Nara National Museum) (Important Cultural Property) has been handed down in Yakushi-ji Temple in Nara.
Japanese: 奈良・薬師寺には大津皇子坐像＜奈良国立博物館寄託＞（重要文化財）が伝わっている。
English: This Awazuo is considered the founder of the Toyohara clan, but the genealogy contains many conflicts and is not reliable.
Japanese: なお、この粟津王は豊原氏の祖とされるが、系図には矛盾点が多く、信憑性は薄い。
English: "Gobancho Yugiriro" (A House in the Quarter) is a representative work of Tsutomu MIZUKAMI, based on arson of Kinkaku-ji Temple in 1950 and the author's experience.
Japanese: 『五番町夕霧楼』（ごばんちょうゆうぎりろう）は、水上勉の代表作であり1950年におきた金閣寺放火事件と著者の実体験を基にしている。
English: Set in Goban-cho (Kyoto City), a red-light district existed until the Anti-Prostitution Law was enforced in 1958, this is a blighted love story between a girl who came from Tango to feed her family and a young priest who was her childhood friend.
Japanese: 1958年の売春防止法施行まで存在していた五番町(京都市)遊廓を舞台に家族を養うために丹後からきた少女とその幼馴染である学生僧の悲恋を描いた小説である。
English: The story was set in around 1950, shortly after the end of the World War II, when Yuko, the daughter of a wood cutter in Tarudomari (樽泊), a poor village in Tango, was voluntarily sold to a red-light district Goban-cho Yugiri-ro in Nishijin, Kyoto to be a prostitute to support her poor father, mother with lung disease, and three younger sisters.
Japanese: 戦後間もない昭和25年ごろ、丹後の寒村・樽泊の木樵の娘・夕子は、貧しい父、肺病の母と三人の妹のために京西陣の色町・五番町夕霧楼に自ら売られて遊女となる。
English: Having a patron named Jinzo, a lusting old man who was a textile manufacturer in Nishijin, Yuko became one of the top-selling prostitutes in Goban-cho within a year.
Japanese: 西陣の織元である好色な老人・甚造の贔屓を得て、一年後には夕子は五番町で一、二を争う売れっ妓になっていた。
English: Jinzo intended to make Yuko his mistress, so he informed a chief priest of Hokaku-ji Temple where Seijun lived in as a trainee that the young priest was visiting the red-light district.
Japanese: だが夕子を妾にしようとしていた甚造は、正順が住み込んで修業している鳳閣寺の住職に彼の廓通いを密告する。
English: Meanwhile, Seijun was disappointed with his training as a priest because high-ranked priests at his temple were playing around extravagantly with donations from the supporters of the temple.
Japanese: 一方、信徒の浄財で豪遊する寺の高僧たちの姿を見て、正順は修行に幻滅していた。
English: One day, Seijun quarreled with the chief priest, set fire to the temple out of disappointment and anger, was arrested, and committed suicide.
Japanese: ある日、住職と衝突した正順は幻滅と怒りから寺に放火し、逮捕されたのちに自殺する。
English: Reading of the incident in the newspaper, Yuko escaped from the hospital to go back to her hometown in Yosa Island where she killed herself following her lover Seijun.
Japanese: 新聞で事件を知った夕子は病院を抜け出して故郷の与謝へひとり戻り、正順を追って自ら生命を絶ったのだった。
English: The title comes from the waka poems exchanged between Gen no Naishinosuke and Hikaru Genji: 'Alas, how fickle it is! For all my having been waiting for this festival, which is said to have a miraculous virtue, thinking that it would be the day to meet you, without knowing someone else had already seen you with the raising hollyhock over her hand.' and 'You held up the hollyhock of the day of meeting not only to see me but also as many as eighty clans, didn't you? Isn't it fickle enough to feel unpleasant?'.
Japanese: 巻名は光源氏と源典侍の歌「はかなしや人のかざせるあふひゆえ神のゆるしのけふを待ちける」および「かざしける心ぞあだに思ほゆる八十氏人になべてあふひを」に由来する。
English: On the day of the purification ceremony (when the Saiin (an Imperial Princess appointed to serve the deities of the Kamo-jinja Shrines) performs her ablutions on the beach of the Kamo river) of the Kamo festival (also called the Aoi (Hollyhock) Festival, which is held on the day of the Rooster in the Fourth Month (old lunar calendar)), there occurs a dispute over where to park the spectators' carriages between the retainers of Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, one of Genji's lovers who had been watching without disclosing her identity, and the retainers of Lady Aoi, Genji's lawful wife who was pregnant at that time and had been in poor physical condition and so was there to watch the event for some diversion.
Japanese: 賀茂祭（葵祭、4月(旧暦)の中の酉の日）の御禊（斎院が加茂川の川原で体を禊する）の日、身分を隠して見物していた源氏の愛人・六条御息所の一行は、同じくその当時懐妊して体調が悪く気晴らしに見物に来ていた源氏の正妻・葵の上の一行と、見物の場所をめぐっての車争いを起こす。
English: This was an unbearable humiliation for her, being the daughter of a minister and the former Crown Prince's wife, and for this she bore a deep grudge against Lady Aoi.
Japanese: 大臣の娘で元東宮妃である彼女にとってこれは耐え難い屈辱で、彼女は葵の上を深く恨んだ。
English: Genji also attended and nursed Lady Aoi who had been suffering, but he witnessed the spirit of Rokujo no Miyasudokoro while tending to her and stood aghast.
Japanese: 源氏も苦しむ葵の上に付き添ったが、看病中に御息所の生霊を目撃してしまい愕然とする。
English: Lady Aoi gave birth to Yugiri after a difficult delivery approximately in the middle of the eighth month (old calendar), but a few days later, on the night of the autumn conference on promotions and appointments, her condition took a sudden turn for the worse and she passed away.
Japanese: 8月(旧暦)の中ごろに葵の上は難産のすえ男子（夕霧(源氏物語)）を出産するが、数日後の秋の司召の夜に容体が急変し亡くなった。
English: After completing the memorial service on the forty-ninth day after the death of Lady Aoi, Genji went back to the Nijo-in mansion and secretly married Lady Murasaki.
Japanese: 葵の上の四十九日が済んだ後、源氏は二条院に戻り紫の上と密かに結婚する。
English: It occurred so suddenly that Lady Murasaki was shocked by it and became thoroughly gloomy and did not even try to speak.
Japanese: 突然のことに紫の上は衝撃を受けてすっかりふさぎこみ口をきこうともしなかった。
English: However, Genji took this as an opportunity to announce her origins to her father Hyobukyo no Miya as well as to the public.
Japanese: が、源氏はこれを機に彼女の素性を父兵部卿宮と世間に公表することにした。
English: Gunki monogatari (martial tales) refers to literary works written during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods whose subjects are taken from historical battles.
Japanese: 軍記物語（ぐんきものがたり）とは、鎌倉時代から室町時代にかけて書かれた歴史上の合戦を題材とした文芸である。
English: Although they are called gunki (literally, "military chronicles"), they are not documents that faithfully record the facts, but rather, fictional stories to pass down heroic episodes and love stories for posterity.
Japanese: 軍記とはいえ、事実を忠実に記した書物ではなく、武勇伝や恋愛などを後世に伝えるための物語（フィクション）である。
English: These works have aspects of katarimono (narrative recitations) and there are some works such as the "Heike Monogatari" (The Tale of the Heike) that were recited by people like biwa-playing minstrels.
Japanese: 語り物としての要素があり、『平家物語』のように琵琶法師などによって語られる作品もある。
English: Kagami no Okimi (year of birth unknown - August 5, 683) was a legal wife of FUJIWARA no Kamatari.
Japanese: 鏡王女（かがみのおおきみ、生年不詳-天武天皇12年7月5日(旧暦)（683年8月2日））は藤原鎌足の正妻。
English: In "Manyoshu," her name appears as '鏡王女' while in "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) it is '鏡姫王.'
Japanese: 『万葉集』では「鏡王女」・『日本書紀』では、「鏡姫王」と記されている。
English: Her origin is even more mysterious than that of Nukata no Okimi; although a theory states that Kagami no Okimi was an older sister of Nukata no Okimi, there is no description in "Nihonshoki" to indicate that they were sisters, and thus no proof for the theory.
Japanese: 鏡王女の素性は額田王以上に謎に包まれており、額田王の姉という説があるが、『日本書紀』には二人が姉妹だという記述はなく、確証はない。
English: That is why no scholar these days strongly supports the theory of their sisterhood.
Japanese: そのため､近年では二人の姉妹説を積極的に支持する研究者は見られなくなってきているようだ。
English: Even if Kagami no Okimi was not related by birth to Kagami no O, the father of Nukata no Okimi, the word 'Kagami' (a mirror) in their names indicates a possibility that they were raised by the same clan of mirror makers.
Japanese: しかし、額田王の父・鏡王との血縁関係はなかったとしても、同じ「鏡」という名が付いている事から、同じく、鏡を作る氏族に養育された可能性はある。
English: To pray for the recovery of Kamatari's illness, she established Yamashina-dera Temple (later Kofuku-ji Temple) in 669.
Japanese: 鎌足の病気平癒を祈り、天智天皇8年（669年）に山階寺（後の興福寺）を建立した。
English: In the chapter of July 683 in "Nihonshoki," it is stated that '秋七月 丙戌朔己丑 天皇幸鏡姬王之家 訊病 庚寅 鏡姬王薨' which means, on July 4 (old lunar calendar; August 4) Emperor Tenmu paid a sympathy visit to Kagami no Okimi but she passed away on August 5, 683, the following day.
Japanese: 『日本書紀』の天武天皇12年7月の項に、己丑（4日）、天皇、鏡姫王の家に幸して、病を訊ひたまふ。庚寅（五日）に、鏡姫王薨せぬ（「秋七月丙戌朔己丑天皇幸鏡姬王之家訊病庚寅鏡姬王薨」）とあり、天武天皇が見舞いに来たが、その翌日の天武天皇12年7月5日に亡くなった事がわかる。
English: Kamunabi no Ihase no mori no Yobukodori Itaku na nakiso Waga koi masaru' means 'Do no cry so painfully, Calling bird, In the forest, Of sacred Iwase - My love only increases.'
Japanese: 神奈備の石瀬の社の呼子鳥いたくな鳴きそ我が恋まさる　（「神奈備乃伊波瀬乃社之喚子鳥痛莫鳴吾戀益」）は、神奈備の石瀬の社の呼子鳥よ、そんなに激しく鳴かないでおくれ。私の恋しい思いが募るばかりだから　という意味である。
English: Today, a small tumulus in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture is presumed to be her grave, which is near Jomei Tenno-ryo Tumulus and managed by Tanzan-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 現在墓所に比定されているのは奈良県桜井市にある小墳丘で、舒明天皇陵の近所にあり、現在は談山神社の管理となっている。
English: In 1672 it was written by Mitsuyoshi YOSHIDA, inspired by "Sanpo Toso" (Suanfua tongzong) by Daii TEI of the Ming dynasty of China.
Japanese: 1627年（寛永4年）に吉田光由が明の程大位の著書、『算法統宗』からヒントを得て執筆したもの。
English: This book covers almost all important mathematics useful for daily life in the Edo period, from basic knowledge of naming of numbers, units, and the multiplication table to explanation of mathematics with familiar examples such as calculation of area.
Japanese: 数の桁の名称や単位、掛け算九九などの基礎的な知識のほか、面積の求め方などの算術を日常生活に身近な話題をもとに解説しており、一冊で当時の生活に必要な算術全般をほぼ網羅できるような内容となっている。
English: This book was published at a time when the demand for skill and knowledge of basic mathematics in daily life was increasing due to social and economic development, and it run into several impressions because it had no equal; therefore, it became an enduring and best-selling book of mathematics published in the Edo period.
Japanese: 社会経済の発達に伴い、人々の生活にも基礎的な算術の素養が求められるようになってきた中で出版されたこと、またその後これに比肩するような類書が出版されなかったことなどから同書は初版以後版を重ね、江戸時代に出版された数学書のベストセラーかつロングセラーとなった。
English: It is also known that numerous books with slightly altered contents were published: Up to the Meiji period, 300 to 400 books named after 'Jinkoki' were published.
Japanese: また、多少内容を変えたような異本が多数出版されたことでも知られており、明治時代に至るまで、実に3～400種類の「塵劫記」が出版されたといわれている。
English: This book was further famous for its impact on many scholars of the Edo period, including Takakazu SEKI, who later became an authority of Wasan (Japanese mathematics), and Ekiken KAIBARA, a Confucian scholar; both of them self-studied mathematics using "Jinkoki" when they were young.
Japanese: 同書はまた江戸時代の多くの学者に影響を与えたことでも知られており、後に和算の大家となった関孝和や儒学者の貝原益軒なども若いころ『塵劫記』を用いて数学を独習していたことがわかっている。
English: The title "Jinkoki" was given by Genko, a patriarch of Tenryu-ji Temple, based on a phrase "蓋し塵劫来事糸毫不隔."
Japanese: なお、『塵劫記』という書名は天竜寺の長老玄光がつけたものであり、蓋し塵劫来事糸毫不隔の句に基づく。
English: It is derived from 'jindengo' in Hokke-kyo Sutra (the Lotus Sutra), meaning a innumerably large number that can be counted if a person grinds the earth of this world into granules and drops one granule for every thousand countries the person passes by until all the granules are gone; it is described in chapters such as 'Kejoyubon' in the Lotus Sutra.
Japanese: 法華経の「塵点劫」（この世の土を細かく砕いて粉にしたものを千の国を通るたびに一粒ずつ落としていき、その砂がなくなるまでに通る国の数のことで、数えきれないくらい大きな数のたとえ。法華経の「化城喩品」などにその記述がある）に由来している。
English: A theory states that the title means 'a book of truth that will not change after a time as long as eternity has passed.'
Japanese: 「（永遠に等しいほど）長い時間経っても変わることのない真理の書」という意味が込められているとする説もある。
English: Imperial Prince Toneri (February 8, 675 - December 6, 735) was a prince of Emperor Tenmu.
Japanese: 舎人親王（とねりしんのう、天武天皇4年1月5日(旧暦)（676年1月28日）-天平7年11月14日(旧暦)（735年12月6日））は天武天皇皇子。
English: His sons include Princes Mihara, Mishima, Fune, Ikeda, Moribe, Miura, and Oi (later Emperor Junnin).
Japanese: 子に三原王、三島王、船王、池田王、守部王、御浦王、大炊王（後の淳仁天皇）などがいる。
English: Although he was suffered plague, he survived and lived longest among the sons of Emperor Tenmu.
Japanese: 疫病に倒れたとは言え、天武天皇の皇子のなかで最後まで生き残り、長命を得た人物である。
English: The Kiyohara clan, together with the Takashina clan of the line of Prince Takechi and Prince Nagaya, lasted generation after generation as descendants of Emperor Tenmu.
Japanese: 清原氏は高市皇子・長屋王系列の高階氏共々天武系後裔氏族として長く血脈が続いた。
English: In 718 he was promoted to Ippon (First Order of an Imperial Prince) and in the following year, 719, he and his younger paternal half-brother Imperial Prince Niitabe were ordered by the Empress Gensho to support Crown Prince Obito.
Japanese: 養老2年（718年）、一品の位階に昇叙され、翌養老3年には元正天皇より異母弟の新田部親王と共に皇太子首皇子の補佐を命じられた。
English: When a powerful Minister of the Right, FUJIWARA no Fuhito, died in September of the same year, Prince Toneri was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and established the administration of the Imperial Family together with the Minister of the Right (later of the Left) Prince Nagaya.
Japanese: 同年8月、実力者であった右大臣藤原不比等薨去に伴い知太政官事に就任、右大臣（後、左大臣）の長屋王とともに皇親政権を樹立する。
English: When Emperor Shomu (Prince Obito) ascended the throne in 724, Prince Toneri received 500 additional vassal households.
Japanese: 神亀1年（724年）聖武天皇（首皇子）即位に際し、封500戸を加えられている。
English: Imperial Prince Toneri gradually became closer to the Fujiwara clan, and when the Conspiracy of Prince Nagaya occurred in March 729 he and Imperial Prince Niitabe denounced Prince Nagaya and made him commit suicide.
Japanese: 舎人皇子は次第に藤原氏寄りに傾斜し、天平1年（729年）2月に起こった長屋王の変では新田部親王と共に長屋王を糾問し、自害せしめた。
English: In September of the same year, Imperial Prince Toneri announced the investiture of the Empress Komyo, who came from the Fujiwara clan to cooperate in the establishment of the administration of four brothers of Fujiwara clan.
Japanese: 同年8月には藤原氏出身の光明皇后の立后を宣言するなど藤原四兄弟政権の成立に協力した。
English: He died on December 6, 735 in the smallpox-ridden capital of Heijo-kyo (the ancient capital of Japan in current Nara), and the title Grand Minister was conferred on him.
Japanese: 天平7年（735年）11月14日、天然痘が蔓延する平城京で60歳の生涯を閉じ、太政大臣を贈位される。
English: In 759, when Prince Oi ascended the throne as Emperor Junnin, Imperial Prince Toneri was given a posthumous title Sudoujinkei Kotei (Emperor Sudojinkei) as the father of the Emperor.
Japanese: 天平宝字3年（759年）、大炊王が淳仁天皇として即位するに及び、天皇の父として崇道尽敬皇帝と追号された。
English: Although it had been assumed that his grave was Koganezuka referable mausoleum in Tanaka-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, excavation research conducted in February 2009 revealed that the mausoleum was someone else's grave.
Japanese: 墓所は、奈良県奈良市田中町にある黄金塚陵墓参考地が候補地とされていたが、2009年2月の発掘調査により、別人のものと判明した。
English: KAKINOMOTO no Hitomaro's Collection includes five poems dedicated to Imperial Prince Toneri as reminders of their friendship.
Japanese: また、柿本人麻呂歌集に、親王に献上された5首の歌が残されており、交流の跡が偲ばれる。
English: There is an indication that the imperial prince offered Hitomaro a reward for an interesting poem, so he loved poetry.
Japanese: また、賞金をかけておもしろい歌を作れといった題詞もあり、文雅を愛するひとであったと思われる。
English: Onna San no Miya (also called Nyo San no Miya) is a fictional character in "The Tale of Genji" written by Murasaki Shikibu, and an important character in its second part, from the 'Wakana' (Spring Shoots) chapter and onward.
Japanese: 女三宮（おんなさんのみや・にょさんのみや）は紫式部の物語『源氏物語』の架空の登場人物で、第二部といわれる「若菜(源氏物語)」巻以降の重要人物。
English: (His first lawful wife was Lady Aoi. According to a prominent theory, Lady Murasaki's status is regarded as only remaining eligible to be a lawful wife because she did not go through the proper marriage process.)
Japanese: （最初の正妻は葵の上。紫の上は正式な結婚手続きを踏んでいないため、正妻格に留まるとする説が有力）。
English: When Emperor Suzaku was going to renounce the world, he felt pity for the young and innocent Onna San no Miya, who had lost her own mother and had no guardian, and determined to marry her to Genji, who had been reduced to the status of a subject but had been made a Jun Daijo tenno (quasi ex-emperor).
Japanese: 出家することになった朱雀院が、うら若い女三宮に母も亡く後見人もいないことを不憫に思い、准太上天皇となっていた源氏への降嫁を決断した。
English: Genji was stirred by this and ended up agreeing to the marriage, for one because he could obtain the brand of an Imperial Princess and also because the princess was the niece of Fujitsubo just like Lady Murasaki (Murasaki no yukari, literally "having 'a link to the color purple'").
Japanese: 源氏も内親王というブランドを手に入れること、また紫の上と同じく藤壺の姪（紫のゆかり）であることに心を動かされ結婚を承諾してしまった。
English: However, he was disappointed with how childish the princess was due to having been doted on by her father and reared in an overprotective manner, and he instead grew to love Lady Murasaki even more deeply than before.
Japanese: が、父に溺愛されて過保護に育った故の彼女のあまりの幼さに失望し、却って紫の上への愛を増す。
English: However, the princess went though an aggressive and one-sided tryst with Kashiwagi, who felt deeply about her.
Japanese: しかし、かねてより彼女に思いを寄せていた柏木(源氏物語)との一方的で強引な逢瀬。
English: Things being as they were, Genji was reluctant to let the young princess become a Buddhist nun, but she did not pay the slightest attention to Genji anymore.
Japanese: 尼となった若い宮を源氏は今さらのように惜しんだが、宮はもはや源氏に対して見向きもしなかった。
English: After Genji passes away, she appears in the 'Uji Jujo' (The Ten Books of Uji), in which she has left the Rokujo-in estate and spends her remaining years at the Sanjo mansion that Emperor Suzaku had left to her.
Japanese: 源氏亡き後は六条院を出て、朱雀院から譲られた三条宮で余生を送る姿が「宇治十帖」に登場する。
English: Onna San no Miya's actions, showing no interest in raising her child and instead throwing herself at the teachings of Buddha, have a deep influence on the character of her son, Kaoru.
Japanese: 子育てに興味も示さずにただ仏の道にすがる女三宮の姿は、息子の薫の性格にも根深く影響している。
English: It is said that once Kaoru became an adult he, in turn, became like a parent to her ('Niou no Miya' (His Perfumed Highness)).
Japanese: 薫が成長してからは却って親のように頼りにしていたという（「匂宮」）。
English: MINAMOTO no Mitsuyuki (1163 - April 3, 1244) was a politician, literary scholar and poet during the early Kamakura period.
Japanese: 源光行（みなもとのみつゆき、長寛元年（1163年）-寛元2年2月17日(旧暦)（1244年3月27日））は、鎌倉時代初期の政治家・文学者・歌人である。
English: In 1183, Mitsuyuki, who was in Heian-kyo (the ancient capital of Japan, present-day Kyoto) at that time, went to Kamakura city to submit a petition of apology and to spare the life of MINAMOTO no Mitsusue, his father who had been on the side of the Taira family.
Japanese: 寿永2年（1183年）に平安京にいた光行は、平家方であった父の源光季の謝罪と助命嘆願のため、鎌倉市に下向した。
English: With his cousin 源宗季, who had been begging for the life of his uncle MINAMOTO no Suesada, he appealed to MINAMOTO no Yoritomo for mercy.
Japanese: 叔父の源季貞の助命を嘆願していた従兄弟の源宗季と共に源頼朝に助命を願った。
English: Although the result of this is unknown, he was favored by Yoritomo because of his talent and became his advisor.
Japanese: その結果は定かではないが、頼朝にその才能を愛されて、そのブレーンとなった。
English: When the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) had come into power, he was appointed as the first betto (director) of the Mandokoro (Administrative Board), and frequently went back and forth between Kamakura and Kyoto to make and keep the relationship between the Imperial court and the bakufu running smoothly.
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府が成立すると、政所の初代別当となり、朝廷と幕府との関係を円滑に運ぶ為に、鎌倉・京都間を往復した。
English: Meanwhile, he was appointed as the governor of Kawachi Province and the governor of Yamato Province by the Imperial court, despite already being a high-ranking officer of the bakufu.
Japanese: 一方で、幕府の高官でありながら、朝廷からも河内守、大和国守に任命された。
English: As a result of this, later, during the time of the Jokyu war, he was unable to decide which side he would support and ended up following the party of the Emperor Gotoba.
Japanese: 結果として後の承久の乱の際に去就を迷い、後鳥羽天皇方に従ってしまった。
English: However, even under these circumstances, he avoided being sentenced to a severe punishment thanks to the petitions of people who were reluctant to lose his talents.
Japanese: が、この際も、その才能を惜しんだ人々の助命嘆願のおかげで、重刑を免れた。
English: He is regarded as one of the planners of the "Wakamiya no yashiro no uta-awase" (a poetry contest held at the Wakamiya no yashiro shrine, on April 5, 1191).
Japanese: 『若宮社歌合』（建久2年（1191年）3月3日）の企画者とされている。
English: According to historical materials in which he is recorded as 'the former governor of Yamato Province, Jugoinojo (Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade), MINAMOTO no Asomi Mitsuyuki' it is discerned that he had already served as the governor of Yamato Province in his twenties.
Japanese: 史料には「前大和守従五位上源朝臣光行」と記載されていることから、二十歳代で大和守になっていたことがわかる。
English: Lady Aoi is a fictional character appearing in "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu.
Japanese: 葵の上（あおいのうえ）は紫式部の物語『源氏物語』に登場する架空の人物。
English: This name, given by readers in later generations for convenience, comes from the chapter 'Aoi' (Hollyhock) where she is presented as a leading character.
Japanese: この名は後世の読者がつけた便宜上の名前で、彼女が主役級の扱いを受ける「葵(源氏物語)」帖から取られている。
English: She has a brother named To no Chujo (which of the two is the elder is unclear in the story).
Japanese: 頭中将という同腹のきょうだいがいる（どちらが年上なのかは作中では不明）。
English: She was, at first, intended to be the wife of the Crown Prince (Later Emperor Suzaku), but in accordance with the Sadaijin's plans, she became the lawful wife of Genji after he completed his initiation ceremonies into adulthood ('Kiritsubo' (The Paulownia Court)).
Japanese: 当初東宮（のちの朱雀帝）妃にと希望されていたが、左大臣の思惑で元服した源氏の北の方に納まる（「桐壺」）。
English: However, Genji, who had been secretly in love with Fujitsubo, felt unsatisfied with Aoi despite the fact that she had been brought up with the greatest care in a good family as a candidate for empress.
Japanese: だが密かに藤壺を恋い慕う源氏には、后がね（皇后候補）として大切に育てられた深窓の姫とはいえ物足りない心地がした。
English: Lady Aoi also did not lower her guard to her husband, who was four years her junior and often smitten with other ladies, and maintained a very distant attitude toward him.
Japanese: 葵の上も他の女君にうつつを抜かす4歳下の夫にうちとけずよそよそしい態度をとっていた。
English: The cold relations between her and Genji are symbolized by the fact that no waka poems composed by Lady Aoi appear in the story (from 'Hahakigi' (The Broom Tree) through 'Hana no En' (The Festival of the Cherry Blossoms)).
Japanese: 源氏との夫婦仲の冷淡さは、葵の上が詠んだ和歌が一首も登場しないことにも象徴されている（「帚木(源氏物語)」～「花宴」）。
English: Genji found that Lady Aoi looked helpless due to painful morning sickness, and felt a love for her as he rarely had before.
Japanese: 源氏もつわりの苦しさに心細そうな葵の上の様子に珍しく愛しさを感じた。
English: At this time, it was the season of the Kamo festival (the Aoi (Hollyhock) Festival, in the fourth month (old calendar)), and taking the advice of the people around her she went to watch the purification ceremony performed by the Saiin (Imperial Princess appointed to serve the deities of the Kamo-jinja Shrines).
Japanese: 折りしも時は賀茂祭（葵祭、4月(旧暦)）、周囲に勧められるままに斎院の御禊の見物に行った。
English: However, her retainers unexpectedly got into a fight with the retainers of Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, Genji's lover, broke Rokujo no Miyasudokoro's gissha (ox-drawn carriage) and disgraced her.
Japanese: ところが、図らずも家来が源氏の愛人の六条御息所の家来と車争いし、御息所の牛車を壊し恥をかかせてしまう。
English: When Genji was paying a visit to Aoi in bed, the spirit of Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, who had been possessing her, appeared before his very eyes.
Japanese: 床を見舞った源氏の前で彼女に取りついた御息所の生霊が姿を見せるという事件が起きた。
English: After a brief period where she and Genji patched up their relationship, she suddenly started to suffer and died all too soon on the night of the autumn conference on promotions and appointments.
Japanese: そして源氏との仲も修復されたと思うもつかの間、秋の司召の夜に急に苦しんで呆気なく他界。
English: Deeply regretting his having been cold to her, Genji confined himself to the Sadaijin's residence and went into mourning ('Aoi' (Hollyhock)).
Japanese: 源氏はそれまで妻に冷たくあたってきたことを後悔しつつ、左大臣邸にこもって喪に服した（「葵(源氏物語)」）。
English: Rokujo no Miyasudokoro is a fictional character who appears in "Genji Monogatari" (The Tale of Genji).
Japanese: 六条御息所（ろくじょうのみやす（ん）どころ）は『源氏物語』に登場する架空の人物。
English: She was a consort of the former crown prince in the era of Emperor Kiritsubo and her name comes from the fact that she had a residence in the vicinity of Rokujo Kyogoku.
Japanese: 桐壺帝時代の前東宮の妃で、六条京極付近に住まいを構えていることからこの名がある。
English: She had a daughter with the crown prince and the daughter became an Saigu (Imperial Princess appointed to serve the deities of the Ise-jingu Shrine) in "Aoi (Genji Monogatari)" and, after resigning, entered into court as a consort of the Emperor Reizei (Akikonomu Chugu, the second consort of an emperor).
Japanese: 東宮との間に一女があり、その娘は後に「葵(源氏物語)」で斎宮となり退下した後冷泉帝に入内する（秋好中宮）。
English: (Details about the beginning of their love is lacking in "Genji Monogatari." Refer to various views concerning establishment, production and author of Genji Monogatari.)
Japanese: （この間のなれそめが『源氏物語』では欠落している。源氏物語成立・生成・作者に関する諸説参照）。
English: She was beautiful, elegant, intelligent and well educated but acted superior to others and when Genji eventually found it difficult to deal with her, the intervals between their meetings became longer and longer.
Japanese: だが源氏は、美しく気品があり、教養も知性も人に優れているために矜持の高い彼女をやがて持てあますようになり、逢瀬も間遠になってしまう。