nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: In Kagoshima Prefecture, Satsuma-Heki was popular; in Okayama Prefecture during the Edo period, Bizen-Heki was taught to the Tokuyama family iat the teachers' house of the Hekito school.
Japanese: 鹿児島県に薩摩日置、岡山県には江戸時代・日置当流師家であった徳山家に備前日置が伝わっている。
English: The Urakami group, which belongs to schoolof Bizen-Heki, is popular mainly in Kanto.
Japanese: 静岡県には印西派遠州系の流れの2系統が伝わりそれぞれ宗家が存在する（奥村家→河合治明系と上村清兵衛系）、近年になって、上村清兵衛系の遠州系から摂津系が分派した。
English: The main active groups include Tokuyama Shika Dojo (training hall of Tokuyama, teachers' house), Tokuyama Seishakai, Urakami Domonkai, archery laboratory of the University of Tsukuba, Sakura-isshakai (archery circle), Issuikai, Satsuma Heki-ryu Koshiya Hozonkai (Preservation Society of Koshiya - archery for battle where a group of archers shoot under the command of a general - of the Heki school in Satsuma).
Japanese: 主な活動団体としては、徳山師家道場・徳山正射会、浦上同門会、筑波大学弓道研究室、桜一射会、一水会、薩摩日置流腰矢保存会などがある。
English: Moreover, the Heki-ryu Insai-ha Shionosaki Onkyu Hozonkai (Preservation Society of archery in Shionosaki, founded by Issuiken's student Yoshishige INABA) is active in Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture, and the Enshu group of Seibe KAMIMURA group is active in the training hall within the premises of Kusanagi-jinja Shrine, Shizuoka, and Settsu-kei Domonkai (Fellow Association of Settsu group) is active in Kawanishi City, Hyogo Prefecture.
Japanese: 他に、日置流印西派塩崎御弓保存会（一水軒の弟子・稲葉吉重が始まり）が福島県南相馬市で、上村清兵衛系の遠州系が静岡草薙神社境内の道場で、摂津系同門会が兵庫県川西市で活動している。
English: University archery clubs related to archery schools include Waseda University, Hosei University, Tsukuba University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ochanomizu University, Kansai University, Okayama University, Kyoto University, Osaka City University, Osaka Sangyo University, Department of Engineering at Tohoku Gakuin University, etc.
Japanese: 流れを汲む大学弓道部は、早稲田大学、法政大学、筑波大学、東京工業大学、お茶の水女子大学、関西大学、岡山大学、京都大学、大阪市立大学、大阪産業大学、東北学院大学工学部など。
English: In the Tokai region, besides being popular among the samurai, archery is also popular among Shoya (village headman) and in the Nanushi hierarchy (village headman); even now, it is preserved in the form of the so-called 'Omatsuri-yumi' (archery for the festival), which is related to festivals in the Shinto shrine.
Japanese: 東海地方では武士以外に庄屋・名主層にも弓術が普及し、現在でも「お祭り弓」と称して神社において祭礼と結びついた形で保存されている。
English: In Aichi Prefecture, there are schools such as Hoshino group of Bishu-Chikurin group, and Okabe group, and in Kumamoto Prefecture, Higo-Chikurin school is being succeeded.
Japanese: 愛知県に尾州竹林派の星野系・岡部系などが、熊本県に肥後竹林派が継承されている。
English: Higo-Chikurin school was temporarily discontinued after the Imperial restoration, however, it was later inherited by the family of karo (chief retainer of daimyo - Japanese territorial lord) of the former Kumamoto Domain by the Matsui clan, which was the eighth owner of the castle, and it has succeeded from generation to generation up to the present time.
Japanese: 肥後竹林派は維新後一時絶えたが、その後旧熊本藩家老家で八代城主であった松井氏に相伝され、現在まで代々受け継がれている。
English: University archery clubs related to the archery schools include Ryukoku University, Doshisha University, Nagoya University, Kagawa University, etc.
Japanese: 流れを汲む大学弓道部は、龍谷大学、同志社大学、名古屋大学、香川大学など。
English: University archery clubs related to the archery schools include the University of Tokyo, Kokugakuin University, Gakushuin University, Tokyo University of Science, and Kwansei Gakuin University, etc.
Japanese: 流れを汲む大学弓道部は、東京大学、國學院大學、学習院大学、東京理科大学、関西学院大学など。
English: Ohaguro (tooth blackening) is the cosmetic treatment of dyeing teeth black used chiefly by married women (or occasionally men) in Japan, southeast China or Southeast Asia, before the Meiji period.
Japanese: お歯黒（おはぐろ）は明治時代以前の日本や中国南東部・東南アジアの主として既婚女性、まれに男性などの歯を黒く染める化粧法である。
English: Among the common people, it was also called something like Kanetsuke (Iron Paste attachment), Tsukegane (attached Iron Paste), or Hagurome (Tooth Black).
Japanese: 民間では鉄漿付け（かねつけ）、つけがね、歯黒め（はぐろめ）はなどとも。
English: In "Sengaikyo" (oldest topography of China), it was written that there is Kokushi-koku (literally, "black-teeth country"); in Gishi-wajin-den (the first written record of Japan's commerce) of the history book "Sangokushi" (Three Kingdoms of Saga), it was written as Wakoku Toho (eastern country, Japan).
Japanese: 山海経に黒歯国（『三国志(歴史書)』魏志倭人伝では倭国東方）があると記述がある。
English: (In the explanatory note of the chapter Suetsumuhana in "The Tale of Genji," it was written that, Sengaikyo says there is a black-teeth country in which the women practice the custom of dyeing their teeth black.)
Japanese: （『源氏物語』末摘花の注では「歯黒山海経云東海有黒歯国其俗婦人歯志黒染」とある。）
English: In the late Heian period, not only did girls who had shown secondary sex characteristics or who had attended coming-of-age ceremony, but male nobles, Samurai in the Taira clan, and children in a festival procession in big temples or shrines also practiced tooth blackening.
Japanese: 平安時代の末期には、第二次性徴に達し元服・裳着を迎えるにあたって女性のみならず男性貴族、平氏などの武士、大規模寺院における稚児も行った。
English: Especially for the royal families and high-ranked aristocracy, the boys and girls were dressed up in Hakamagi (ceremony fitting child with a hakama - Japanese skirt) with make-up, blackened teeth and Hikimayu (painted eyebrows), this lasted until the end of Tokugawa Shogunate period.
Japanese: 特に皇族や上級貴族は袴着を済ませた少年少女も化粧やお歯黒、引眉を行うようになり、皇室では幕末まで続いた。
English: During the Muromachi period, this custom was even diffused among adults amongst the common people, moreover, during the Sengoku period (period of Warring States) of Japan, it was done as a symbol of being an adult for bushos' (Japanese military commanders) daughters at the age around 8 to 10, at that time, the wife of a guardian relative was called kaneoya (godmother of kanetsuke).
Japanese: 室町時代には一般の大人にも浸透したが、戦国時代(日本)に入ると政略結婚に備えて8～10歳前後の戦国武将の息女へ成年の印として鉄漿付けを行ない、このとき鉄漿付けする後見の親族の夫人を鉄漿親(かねおや)といった。
English: Moreover, it is said that some of the commanders (mainly the Taira family series including the Odawara-Hojo family) during the Sengoku period (period of warring states) had make up as intense as a woman to the extent of even blackening their teeth when they proceeded to the battlefield in order that they did not look bad even if they were struck in the head.
Japanese: 又、一部の戦国武将(主に小田原北条家をはじめとする平家系)は戦場に赴くにあたり首を打たれても見苦しくないように、ということから女性並みの化粧をし、お歯黒まで付けた、という。
English: Since the Edo period, it was almost abolished among men other than the royalty and the aristocrats, moreover, young women refrained from this practice because it was stinky, time-consuming, and made them feel aged, therefore it became a form of make-up exclusively used by married women, single women above 18 or 20, prostitutes or geishas.
Japanese: 江戸時代以降は皇族・貴族以外の男性の間では殆ど廃絶、又、悪臭や手間、そして老けた感じになることが若い女性から敬遠されたこともあって既婚女性、未婚でも18～20才以上の女性、及び、遊女、芸妓の化粧として定着した。
English: Farmers blacken their teeth only on special occasions such as festivals, weddings, funerals and so on (this is also depicted in the children's tale called "Gon the Fox").
Japanese: 農家においては祭り、結婚式、葬式、等特別な場合のみお歯黒を付けた（童話ごんぎつねにもその描写がある）。
English: On February 5, 1870, government put a ban on tooth black among the royalty and aristocrats; consequently, this practice also faded gradually among the common people (after the Meiji period, it was once popular among farm villages), and in the Taisho period, it almost completely disappeared.
Japanese: 1870年2月5日、政府から皇族・貴族に対してお歯黒禁止令が出され、それに伴い民間でも徐々に廃れ(明治以降農村では一時的に普及したが)、大正時代にはほぼ完全に消えた。
English: Nowadays, it can only be seen in dramas, fleshpots, certain festivals, some Jidaigeki-eiga (period movies) until the 1960s (by some movie companies such as Daiei).
Japanese: 現代においては、演劇、花街、一部の祭り、1960年代頃までの時代劇映画(大映、等)のDVD、等で見ることが出来るだけである。
English: Royalty and Heian aristocrats (in Genpuku and Mogi (coming-of-age ceremony) (for both boys and girls after putting on the hakama (Japanese skirt for formal wear), regardless of gender and whether he/she is married or not).
Japanese: 皇族・平安貴族(元服・裳着後(袴着後の少年少女もする場合あり)、男女、未既婚を問わず)
English: The main component is a tea-brown extremely stinky solution of dissolved iron in acetic acid (vinegar) that is called "Kanemizu" (Iron Paste Water), to this, the so-called fushiko or gallnut powder is added and mixed, then a hydrophobic solution is the result.
Japanese: 主成分は鉄漿水（かねみず）と呼ばれる酢酸に鉄を溶かした茶褐色・悪臭の溶液で、これに五倍子粉（ふしこ）と呼ばれる、タンニンを多く含む粉を混ぜて非水溶性にする。
English: It is considered to have practicable effects such as the prevention of tooth decay by forming a film on the teeth's surface, and strengthening of teeth against erosion by infiltrating into the enamel.
Japanese: 歯を被膜することによる虫歯予防や、成分がエナメル質に浸透することにより浸食に強くなる、などの実用的効果もあったとされる。
English: Moreover, as a handy treatment, some teeth were blackened by painting with a powder mixture of fushiko (gallnut powder), iron sulfate, and oyster shell, however, this method was not so popular.
Japanese: 又、簡便にした処方として、五倍子粉、硫酸鉄、蠣殻を合わせた粉末を歯に塗るだけのものもあったが、あまり普及しなかった。
English: For dramas, pine resin mixed with ink is used, nowadays, tooth wax (wax mixed with ink) is used.
Japanese: 演劇用には松脂に墨を混ぜたものが使われ、現代ではトゥースワックス(蝋に墨を混ぜたもの)が使われる。
English: There is a legend saying that, although the specter Ittan-momen (a ghostly phenomenon formed as one-tenth hectare of cotton) cannot be cut, but it can be cut by teeth once blackened before.
Japanese: 妖怪一反木綿は刀では切れないが一度でもお歯黒をした歯なら噛み切れる、という伝承がある。
English: In the Meiji period, in certain regions, there were well-spread rumors that 'Virgin's lifeblood is painted on electric wires.'
Japanese: 明治時代に一部地域で「電線に処女の生き血を塗る」という噂が広まった。
English: Thus, women of marriageable age in those regions often blackened their teeth, penciled their eyebrows and dressed in plain clothes as married women so that their blood would not be taken.
Japanese: これにより、その地域の妙齢の女性の多くが生き血を取られないようにお歯黒・引眉・地味な着物・等の既婚女性と同様の容姿となった。
English: In Norio YAMADA's "Tohoku Kaidan no Tabi" (Trip to scary stories in Tohoku Region), a rumor of the specter Ohaguro-bettari in Fukui Prefecture was described.
Japanese: 山田野理夫『東北怪談の旅』に福島県の話として妖怪お歯黒べったりのことと思われるものが記述されている。
English: Even nowadays, regular tooth blackening can be seen in the following regions of minority races.
Japanese: 現代においても、以下の少数民族地域において、本式のお歯黒が見られる。
English: Chiefly, since it is limited to elderly women, it is rare for a young woman to have her teeth blackened even if she is married.
Japanese: 主に、年配の女性に限られ、既婚でも若い女性が、お歯黒をすることは稀である。
English: Maizuru City developed as a naval port town and this festival is an event that uses the Maizuru Aka-renga Soko-gun (red-brick warehouses of Maizuru) that the Imperial Japanese Navy was using: the gourmet corner displays Nikujaga (simmered meat and potatoes) and naval dishes; the local product exhibition introduces seafood taken from the Japan Sea and other local production.
Japanese: 軍港の街として発展した舞鶴市が、旧日本海軍が利用していた舞鶴赤レンガ倉庫群を活用したイベントで、舞鶴が発祥といわれる肉じゃがや海軍料理などのグルメコーナーや日本海でとれた魚介類などの物産展。
English: There are also exhibitions of art that uses bricks, and Kyu-gunko yonshi Kindaika Isan Shashin-ten (photographic exhibition of the site of modernization of four cities of former military ports).
Japanese: レンガを用いたアート展示会、旧軍港4市近代化遺産写真展などが行われている。
English: Since Maizuru is the town with the most brick buildings of prewar days remaining in Japan, some of the warehouses are lit up at night, it creates a fantastic, romantic spectacle.
Japanese: 舞鶴は戦前の煉瓦建築物が日本で最も多数現存している街で、その一部倉庫群は夜間ライトアップされるため、幻想的でロマンチックな光景を観ることができる。
English: From Kyoto Station, there are special express trains 'Maizuru' and 'Tango Discovery' that arrives at Higashi-Maizuru Station in about one hour and 30 minutes.
Japanese: 京都駅から特別急行列車「まいづる(列車)」「タンゴディスカバリー」で約1時間30分で東舞鶴駅着。
English: From Kanazawa Station, one may take the Limited Express train 'Thunder Bird,' transfer at Tsuruga Station to Obama Line, and arrive Higashi-Maizuru Station in about two hours.
Japanese: 金沢駅から特急「サンダーバード(列車)」で敦賀駅乗換え、小浜線に乗り、約2時間で東舞鶴駅着。
English: Backup - Maizuru branch of the Asahi Shinbun Company, the Kyoto Shinbun, Maizuru branch of the Sankei Shinbun, Maizuru branch office of the Mainichi Shinbun, Osaka Headquarters of the Yomiuri Shinbun, Kyoto broadcast station of Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Kyoto Broadcasting System Company Limited, and FM Kyoto.
Japanese: 後援-朝日新聞舞鶴支局、京都新聞、産経新聞舞鶴支局、毎日新聞舞鶴支局、読売新聞大阪本社、日本放送協会京都放送局、京都放送、エフエム京都
English: Noryo-yuka (Noryo-doko) or the riverbed (in general, for the Kamo-gawa River (Yodo-gawa River water system), it is pronounced as 'kawayuka;' for Kifune or Takao in Kyoto, it is pronounced as 'kawadoko') is one of the poetic sceneries of the Kyoto summer.
Japanese: 納涼床（のうりょうゆか、のうりょうどこ）、あるいは川床（鴨川(淀川水系)では「かわゆか」、貴船、高雄(京都市)では「かわどこ」と読むのが一般的）は京都の夏の風物詩の一つである。
English: Restaurants or teahouses may set tables and offer cuisine near rivers or outdoors so that the river can be seen well.
Japanese: 料理店や茶屋が川の上や、屋外で川のよく見える位置に座敷を作り、料理を提供する。
English: From around May to September, it is possible to enjoy this in various places in Kyoto city such as Kamogawa, Kibune, Takao, and Takagamine.
Japanese: 5月ごろから9月ごろまで、鴨川、貴船、高雄、鷹ヶ峯など京都市内各地で楽しむことができる。
English: Besides Kyo-ryori (local cuisine of Kyoto), because Chinese cuisine and grilled meat can be selected, one can readily enjoy the breeze-enjoying floor.
Japanese: 京料理以外にも中華や焼肉など各国の料理が選べるので、気軽に納涼床を楽しむことができる。
English: Moreover recently, the popular chain cafe Starbucks Coffee has opened their Kyoto-sanjo-ohashi branch utilizing a breeze-enjoying floor; one can feel the flow of the era there.
Japanese: また、最近では大衆的なチェーン店であるスターバックス京都三条大橋店でも納涼床を楽しむことができ、時代の流れを感じる。
English: Basically, the breeze-enjoying floor is mainly for enjoying the cool evenings; but in May or September, one can also enjoy the coolness of the daytime as well.
Japanese: 基本的に夜の納涼床が中心であるが、5月・9月は昼の納涼床も楽しめる。
English: Walking a little bit from Kibuneguchi Station towards Kibune-jinja Shrine, one can find about 20 restaurants displaying these floors.
Japanese: 貴船口駅から貴船神社に向けて少し歩くと20軒ほどの店が床を並べている。
English: The price also differs according to the restaurant, and you may not enter without an introduction depending on the restaurant.
Japanese: 値段も店により異なり、店によっては紹介がないと利用できないところもある。
English: It is a place compiled of Japanese culture such as feast cuisines, tableware, plates and utensils for Japanese cuisine, tea-ceremony room style of building, Japanese garden, work of art, furniture, geisha (Japanese professional female entertainer in kimono at drinking party), and Japanese music, where one can enjoy the orthodox traditional Japanese culture to the full.
Japanese: 日本の文化の集大成の場でもあり、会席料理・食器和食器・数寄屋造り・日本庭園・美術品・家具・芸妓・邦楽などの正統派の日本文化を堪能できる。
English: Today, in general, it is referred to as a Japanese style restaurant where tables or rooms are for reservation and a professional full-time chef is employed to prepare cuisine other than sake, a geisha delivers the cuisine to the reception room, and other geisha are performing entertainment.
Japanese: 今日では一般に、専任の板前を抱え、座敷があり芸妓を上げるような料理屋のことを指すことが多いが、芸妓衆のもてなしを主として、酒以外の料理は主に仕出しでまかなう。
English: Occasionally, the charge is paid on the same day by cash, however it is often paid some days later by bank transfer, etc.
Japanese: 代金は当日、現金で払う場合もあるが、後日、銀行振込等によって後払いすることが多い。
English: Since there is no clear criteria, many Japanese restaurants nowadays claim themselves to be 'Ryotei' because the term 'Ryotei' looks luxurious and sounds good, however, they are not really 'Ryotei.'
Japanese: 明確な基準がないために、現在では、料亭という言葉の高級感や響きの良さから、通常の日本料理店が自ら「料亭」と名乗る例が非常に多いが、それらは本来の料亭ではない。
English: However, even if the above-mentioned requirements are met, a Japanese garden etc. often may not exist because of the site.
Japanese: しかし、以上の条件を満たしていても、上記に記してある日本庭園等は、敷地の関係で存在しない場合も多い。
English: The number of ryotei in the whole nation is around 60 in Tokyo, and also less than one hundred in Kyoto.
Japanese: 全国の料亭(料理屋）の数は、東京で60軒前後、京都でも2桁にとどまる。
English: Even including the provinces, there are only a few to about some tens in each prefecture, so totally it is just about a few hundred in the whole nation (data from Traditional Japanese Cuisine Restaurant Association and Junior Traditional Japanese Cuisine Restaurant Association).
Japanese: 地方ともなれば、各県内中にわずか数軒から数十軒ほどであり、全国合わせても数百軒ほどである（料理業組合、芽生会加盟店数）。
English: A new visitor had to be either be introduced by another person who is already a guest, or invited by the ryotei, or else, he/she could not enter.
Japanese: 新規に利用する際にはすでに客として通用している者の紹介を通すか、料亭側の縁故等を経由してからではないと入店できなかった。
English: Therefore, the customers were limited mainly to the very few VIP such as politicians in various places, managers of powerful enterprise, famous financiers; various receptions and gatherings were held for such VIPs.
Japanese: したがって利用客は、主に各地の政治家、強大な企業の経営者、名の通った財界人らごく一部に限られ、それらの面々が各種接待や会合を行ってきた。
English: Up to now, ryotei have been thought to be an unknown space shut out from the general public, however in recent years, they are opening nationwide with increasing customers from the common people sector.
Japanese: 今までは、料亭というと未知で閉ざされた空間とされてきたが、近年では全国的に開放されて、かつて縁のなかった庶民層の利用が増えてきている。
English: This background has been attributed to the burst of the economic bubble and the drastic decrease of the mutual receptions among bureaucrats (however, be aware that there are still some ryotei which refuse visitors without invitation).
Japanese: （一部では一見さんお断りもあるので注意が必要）その背景には、バブル崩壊や官官接待の激減があげられる。
English: Before, ryotei were used almost every day by the receptions among enterprises, politicians, financiers and bureaucrats, however, now these receptions are rare, so ryotei nationwide are lowering prices to be reasonable for common people, changing the style, providing various plans and events to attract customers.
Japanese: 以前までは、企業間の接待や政財界人の利用、官官接待が毎日のように行われてきたが、現在ではほとんど行われなくなったために、全国の料亭は一般に利用しやすい価格にしたり、スタイルを変えたり、様々なプランやイベントを行ったりし、顧客の誘致をしている。
English: Moreover in recent years, large-scale ryotei also devote their efforts for wedding ceremonies and reception banquets, that can be seen nationwide.
Japanese: また、近年では大規模な料亭では、結婚式・披露宴に力を注ぐ光景も全国的に見られる。
English: However, there are a lot of ryotei that closed due to the drastic change in usage rate and the decrease of customers.
Japanese: しかし、利用状況の激変、利用客の低下により、閉店してしまう料亭も多い。
English: First of all, it is thought that the ryotei side could not respond fast enough to the drastic flow of the era; they could not lower their pride by popularizing their food menu.
Japanese: まず、料亭側は、急激な時代の流れそのものに対応できなかった事と、気位（プライド）の高さからなかなか大衆化できないことが上げられる。
English: Second, it is thought that customers didn't know how to use the ryotei for the first time; they could not understand the contents and meanings in the food menu.
Japanese: また、利用する客側も、急に利用しだしたために、使い方がわからなかったり、料理の内容や料亭の意味・意義が理解できていないことが上げることができる。
English: Food, drink, table fee (and room charge), service charge (and serving fee) and tax are basically included, moreover if geishas are called, there will be additional charges.
Japanese: 料理+飲み物+席料（または部屋代）+サービス料（または奉仕料）+税が基本で、芸妓衆を呼べばその代金が加算される。
English: However, as previously described, because ryotei are making their prices more reasonable, there are a lot of plans or set menus which attract everyone.
Japanese: が、先にも述べたように利用しやすい料金形態になってきているので、すべて込みのプランやセットになった企画も多数ある。
English: Even if a main dish is taken, the ingredients are often high grade and specially selectedl; the layout of the tables, the interior design, the facilities, the furnishings, the perfect service, the traditional Japanese performances, all these are incomparable from other food stalls or restaurants, these are the origins of the term high class.
Japanese: 主役の料理ひとつ取っても、選りすぐりの高級食材を多用し、座敷のつくり、しつらえ、調度品、行き届いたサービス、伝統芸能、その数々が、他の料理店や飲食店と違うところであり、高級の由来である。
English: For example, neither the building nor the table was made by modern tenant companies, rather they are traditional tea-ceremony-room style of buildings or Japanese architecture.
Japanese: 例を挙げれば、建物や座敷は現代のテナント業者によるものではなく伝統的な数寄屋造りや日本建築からなる。
English: It is also not uncommon that the hanging scrolls, paintings, furnishings, etc. are real items of eminent artists in Japan.
Japanese: 座敷の掛け軸や絵画、調度品などは日本でも屈指の作家の本物が置いてあることも珍しくはない。
English: Such furnishings are allowed to be rearranged in accordance with season, guest's purpose, etc.
Japanese: このような調度品は季節や来店時の客の目的等に応じて架け替えられたりと配慮される。
English: The cuisine is purely Japanese style foods; in order that the best ingredients such as vegetables, the fish, and meat are available for the day, preparation deliberately starts several days before.
Japanese: 料理は純日本料理だがその日に応じて野菜・魚・肉など最高のものが準備され数日前から支度がはじまり丹念に仕込まれて当日に出される。
English: Reservations are said to be necessary because it takes time for the room arrangement and preparing the cuisine.
Japanese: 予約が必要と言うのはこのためで、座敷や料理に時間が必要であるからである。
English: Besides high quality of the ingredients, it also requires the superior techniques of the chef, who is required at least ten years of training before a chef is recognized.
Japanese: それらの素材の高さもさることながら料理に従事する者の料理における技術の高さも必要であり、最低でも10年の修行を経てようやく仕事が内外から認められるようになり、それ相当になるにはさらに期間が必要である。
English: Besides the usual enjoyment of Japanese cuisine, and as a place of receptions, feasts, appreciation of dance by geishas, and table games, ryotei are also used frequently as a hall for exhibitions or various events.
Japanese: また料亭は、日本料理を堪能したり、接待や会食の場に利用したり、芸妓衆の舞の鑑賞やお座敷遊びなどの通常の用途の他に、しばしば展示会や各種の催し物の会場にも使われる。
English: (From the judgment criteria of history, scale, customer's types, influence on other restaurants nationwide, reputation, style, ownership of artwork, building, and other episodes, these three restaurants are said to be the top three ryotei in Japan.)
Japanese: (歴史、規模、出入りする顧客の種類、全国料理屋への影響力、知名度、格式、美術品の所有状況、建物、エピソード、などからこの三店が日本の主要とされる向きが強い）
English: During the mid Edo period (under the rule of Emperor Kyoho), this ryotei originated from a restaurant of freshwater fish cuisine established near the Sanjo-ohashi Bridge, Kyoto.
Japanese: 江戸時代中期（享保年間）に京都･三条大橋で創業した川魚料理店が発祥。
English: Though there is a Kyoto head restaurant and a Tokyo branch (Akasaka) restaurant, the Kyoto head restaurant is specialized in delivering cuisine to tea ceremonies, etc.
Japanese: 京都本店と東京店（赤坂）があるが、京都本店はお茶席等への出張料理専門。
English: Located in Yokaichi City (Higashiomi, Shiga Prefecture), which is remote from big cities, it is well-known widely as a restaurant of tea-ceremony dishes and a lot of guests even come all the way from Kyoto, Osaka, etc.
Japanese: 大都市から離れた場所（滋賀県東近江市八日市）にありながら、茶懐石の名店として広く知られ、京都や大阪などから足を運ぶ客も多い。
English: On his way to the Battle of Toba and Fushimi, Imperial Prince Komatsunomiya Akihito was defeated at arm-wrestling by the ryotei's owner lady at the time, Etsuko MORI while having a sake feast, so he granted the ryotei his name.
Japanese: 鳥羽伏見の戦いに従軍した小松宮彰仁親王が酒の席上で当時の女将であった森悦子との腕相撲に負け、自分の名前を料亭に与えたことに始まる。
English: During the war, it even had a branch restaurant in the Truk Islands, and it was a favorite ryotei for top generals of the navy such as Isoroku YAMAMOTO and Heihachiro TOGO.
Japanese: 戦時中はトラック諸島にも支店を持ち山本五十六や東郷平八郎など海軍最高将官贔屓の店であった。
English: It is divided into Tankuma Kitamise (Tankuma North Restaurant) Group succeeded by the founder's eldest son Kumazaburo KURISU, and Tankuma Minamimise (Tankuma South Restaurant) (also called Tankuma Honke - Tankuma Main Restaurant) succeeded by the second son.
Japanese: 創業者栗栖熊三郎の長男が継承した「たん熊北店」グループと、次男が継承した「たん熊南店」（たん熊本家）に分かれている。
English: Nadaman - the restaurant which Mansuke NADAYA established in Osaka during 1830 is the parental form.
Japanese: なだ万-1830年（天保元年）に灘屋萬助が大阪で創業した料理屋が母体。
English: In 1974, it moved from Imabashi of Osaka to Kioi-cho of Tokyo, and settled its main restaurant "Sazanka-so" (Sasanqua Teahouse) inside the garden of Hotel New Otani.
Japanese: 1974年（昭和49年）に大阪・今橋から東京・紀尾井町に移転し、ホテルニューオータニ庭園内の山茶花荘（さざんかそう）を本店とした。
English: Genyadana Hamadaya - Founded during 1912 in Ningyo-cho, Nihonbashi as a ryotei.
Japanese: 玄冶店濱田家-1912年（大正元年）に日本橋人形町に料亭として開業。
English: In the Michelin Tokyo version issued in 2007, it was granted the highest rank of three stars.
Japanese: 2007年に発行されたミシュラン東京版において最高ランクである三ツ星を獲得した。
English: Nanchi Yamatoya (literally "Japanese House of South Land) - Founded in 1912 as a tea house, it adopted a parental form of Geisha-okiya (dwelling of geisha).
Japanese: 南地大和屋-芸者置屋を母体とするお茶屋として、1912年（明治45年）に開業。
English: Though it was known as a ryotei with a Noh stage, the main restaurant in Soemon-cho was closed in 2003; now, it remains as Yamatoya in Sogo Department Store.
Japanese: 能舞台を持つ料亭として知られたが、宗右衛門町の本店は2003年（平成15年）に閉店、現在はそごう内に大和屋として残る。
English: Besides the 'Yamatoya-Sangen' in the group, there is 'Kyoyamato (Yamatoya-rinsen)' as goodwill branch.
Japanese: グループに「大和屋三玄」があるほか、暖簾分けとして「京大和（大和屋林泉）」がある。