nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: According to the account in the "Sonpi Bunmyaku" (a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the genealogy of the aristocracy), the descendants of his second son, Iemitsu, were government officials (primarily of low to medium rank) in the capital down to the fifth generation, and a child named Tamesada born to his fourth son, who had become the monk Bo Saijo, came to hold the title of Chunagon (Middle Counselor) and lived in Nakano, Owari Province, assuming the name Genzo NAKANO.
Japanese: 『尊卑分脈』の記述によれば、次男・家光の子孫が5代後まで都の官人として存続しており、また四男で僧となった中納言房西乗の子・為貞は尾張国中野に居住して中野源三を称したとされる。
English: Kazuyasu NAKANO, who was a vassal of Nobunaga ODA during the Period of Warring States is said to have been a descendant of Tamesada, and it is said that Yukitomo SHINGU, who was a military commander (busho) also in the Period of Warring States, was a descendant of Yukiie, but the genealogy of Yukitomo is not clear.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)には、織田信長の家臣として名が見える中野一安が為貞の後裔を称したほか、同じく戦国武将・新宮行朝も明確な系譜は不明であるが行家の末裔を称した。
English: There are accounts maintaining that the main gates of Chosen-ji and Shinsen-ji Temples are gates of this castle that were removed and rebuilt; and that the pond in front of Hachiman Shrine was the moat of the castle.
Japanese: 長泉寺、真清寺の山門はこの城の門の移築で、八幡社の前の池は城の堀であるなど諸説がある。
English: Nagayasu (Choan) OKUBO was a military commander in the period of warring states.
Japanese: 大久保長安（おおくぼながやす（ちょうあん））は、戦国時代_(日本)の武将。
English: The grandfather of Nagayasu was the sarugaku-shi of Sarugaku (present Noh play) in the Konparu School who performed in Kasuga-jinja Shrine in Yamato Province, and his father Shinan was exiled to Okura, Suma Province before establishing the Okura School.
Japanese: 長安の祖父は大和国春日神社で奉仕する猿楽（現能）金春流の猿楽師で、父の信安の時代に播磨国大蔵に流れて大蔵流を創始した。
English: However, there were several uncertainties involving the mother and father of Nagayasu, and one theory stated that Nagayasu was a foreigner (Chinese) or a descendant of Hata clan.
Japanese: ただし、長安の父親や母親については不明な点が多く、一説に長安は異人（中国人）であったとも言われている。また、秦氏の子孫だったとも。
English: His father Nobuyasu was exiled to Kai Province as sarugaku-shi and served as the personal sarugaku-shi of Shingen TAKEDA, rumored at that time to be the strongest territorial lord in the Sengoku period.
Japanese: 父の信安は猿楽師として甲斐国に流れ、そこで当時、最強の戦国大名と謳われていた武田信玄お抱えの猿楽師として仕えるようになった。
English: However, Nagayasu was noticed by Shingen and recruited not as sarugaku-shi but as a samurai warrior who served Masatsugu TSUCHIYA.
Japanese: しかし長安は信玄に見出されて、猿楽師では無く武士として取り立てられ、土屋昌次の与力に任じられた。
English: However, Shingen recruited him not as a fighting warrior but as a retainer in charge of finance of the feif (kuramaeshu).
Japanese: ただし信玄は長安を戦闘の武士としてではなく、蔵前衆として取り立てた。
English: Shingen saw his superb ability in accounting, and made him government official who handled general affairs such as the establishment of mines such as Kurokawa Gold Mine as well as taxes within the estate of Takeda.
Japanese: つまり信玄は長安の優秀な経理の才能を見抜いて、武田領における黒川金山などの鉱山開発や税務などの庶務を任せる行政官として採用したのである。
English: His older brother Shinnojo and his adopted parent Masatsugu TSUCHIYA joined the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, died on front lines, but Nagayasu did not participate in the battle.
Japanese: 1575年の長篠の戦いでは、兄の新之丞や寄親の土屋昌次は出陣して討死しているが、長安は出陣していない。
English: The Minamoto clan of Kai Province and Takeda clans disappeared from the main political arena due to the invasion of the joint armies of Nobunaga ODA and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA in 1582.
Japanese: 1582年、織田信長・徳川家康連合軍の侵攻によって、甲斐源氏・武田氏は歴史の表舞台から姿を消した。
English: However, one theory stated that he was bullied by Katsuyori who succeeded after the death of Shingen and left Takeda clan by himself, and returned to live in Mikawa Province as a sarugaku-shi.
Japanese: ただし一説では信玄の死後、後を継いだ勝頼から疎まれたため、武田氏を自ら離れて猿楽師に戻り、三河国に移り住んでいたとも言われている。
English: Nagayasu built a temporarily mansion when Ieyasu was on his way to subjugate Takeda, then, Ieyasu saw his excellent home construction ability in it that and allowed Nagayasu to become his officer.
Japanese: 家康が武田攻めのときに逗留するための仮館を長安が建設したが、このときに家康がその館を見て長安の作事の才能を見抜き、仕官を許したといわれている。
English: In addition, there was a story that Nagayasu appealed to Ieyasu that he was one of the excellent officials accepted even by Shingen and that he had knowledge about gold mines through Masakazu NARUSE (a warrior in the Warring States period), who was a former vassal of Takeda family and the close servant of Ieyasu, and consequently began to serve under Ieyasu.
Japanese: また、一説では家康の近臣で、旧武田家臣の成瀬正一(戦国武将)を通じて自分が信玄にも認められた優秀な官僚であり、金山に関する才能に恵まれていることを売り込んで、家康に仕えるようになったともいわれている。
English: Ieyasu assigned Masanobu HONDA and Tadatsugu INA as land managers and ordered them to reestablish the internal government of Kai Province.
Japanese: そこで家康は本多正信と伊奈忠次を所務方に任じて甲斐の内政再建を命じた。
English: However, Nagayasu was supposedly the one who actually reestablished the government as a land manager.
Japanese: ただし、実際に所務方として再建を行なったのは長安であるとされている。
English: Nagayasu worked on the reconstruction of the embankment of Kamanashi-gawa and Fuefuki-gawa Rivers and the development of new rice fields as well as the mining of gold in Kai Province, and reestablished the internal government of Kai Province within just a few years.
Japanese: 長安は釜無川や笛吹川の堤防復旧や新田開発、甲斐の金山採掘などに尽力し、わずか数年で甲斐の内政を再建したと言われている。
English: Nagayasu was ordered to the position of magistrate along with Tadatsugu INA, Tadanari AOYAMA, and Motomasa HIKOSAKA, and created the cadastral documents after Ieyasu entered Kanto.
Japanese: このとき長安は伊奈忠次や青山忠成、彦坂元正らと共に奉行に任じられ、家康が関東に入った後の土地台帳の作成を行なった。
English: This came into great use when Ieyasu provided a group of his vassals with his Kanto estates afterwards.
Japanese: これは家康が後に関東で家臣団に所領を分配するときに、大いに役立ったと言われている。
English: In addition, a million koku land of 2,500,000 koku Kanto region came under the direct control of Ieyasu, and Nagayasu at this time managed the secretarial work of the direct estate of Ieyasu along with Tadatsugu as the head governor of Kanto.
Japanese: また、関東250万石のうち、100万石は家康の直轄領となったが、このときに長安は元正、忠次と共に関東代官頭として家康直轄領の事務差配の一切を任されている。
English: In 1591, he received a land of 8,000 koku in Hachioji (later became Yokoyama), Musashi Province from Ieyasu.
Japanese: 1591年には家康から武蔵国八王子（のち横山）に8000石の所領を与えられた。
English: However, he supposedly received the land of 90,000 koku of the former estate of Ujiteru HOJO, who previously controlled Hachioji, as it was.
Japanese: ただし、実際は八王子を以前に支配していた北条氏照の旧領をそのまま与えられた形となったらしく、実際は9万石を与えられていたという。
English: Nagayasu built the camp at Hachioji-shuku Station (present Hachioji City, Tokyo) and continued the construction of Hachioji-shuku Station and an embankment to prevent the flooding of Asa-gawa River (Tokyo).
Japanese: 長安は八王子宿（現・東京都八王子市）に陣屋を置き、八王子宿の建設を進め、浅川(東京都)の氾濫を防ぐため土手を築いた。
English: There was a town called Aikawa in Sado, allegedly with a maximum population of 200,000.
Japanese: 佐渡に相川という町があったが、この人口は最大で20万人とも言われる。
English: At that time, there were less than ten cities around the world with a population of 200,000, even the newly formed Edo was just a district of government offices where lines of samurai residences stood.
Japanese: 当時、世界に20万都市は10もなく、できたばかりの江戸も単に武家屋敷の立ち並ぶ官庁街にすぎない。
English: Nagayasu also pointed out the importance of maintaining the security and guarding the provincial border in Musashi Province, and asked and received permission to create Hachioji Five Hundred Lower Class Officials with the former vassals of Takeda clan.
Japanese: 長安はまた、家康に対して武蔵国の治安維持と国境警備の重要さを指摘し、八王子500人同心の創設を具申して認められ、ここに旧武田家臣団を中心とした八王子500人同心が誕生した。
English: In 1599, Ieyasu allowed him to double the number of the lower class officials which became Hachioji Thousand Lower Class Officials.
Japanese: 1599年には同心を倍に増やすことを家康から許され、八王子千人同心となった。
English: When the Battle of Sekigahara occurred in 1600, Nagayasu together with Tadatsugu, transported the Tokugawa army led by Hidetada TOKUGAWA.
Japanese: 1600年、関ヶ原の戦いが起こると、長安は忠次と共に徳川秀忠率いる徳川軍の輜重役を務めている。
English: All of the Gold Mine at Sado and the Silver Mine at Ikuno under control of the Toyotomi clan became a direct estate of Tokugawa clan after the war.
Japanese: 戦後、豊臣氏の支配下にあった佐渡金山や生野銀山などが全て徳川氏の直轄領になる。
English: Nagayasu was assigned to be the governor of Yamato in September 1600, police officer for Silver mine at Iwami in October, an officer for the Gold mine at Sado in November, magistrate at Kai Province in spring of 1601, the magistrate of Iwami in August, and the governor of Mino Province in September.
Japanese: すると長安は1600年9月に大和代官、10月に石見銀山検分役、11月に佐渡金山接収役、1601年春に甲斐奉行、8月に石見奉行、9月には美濃代官に任じられた。
English: While it could be said that it was a special promotion, it could be said that Ieyasu highly valued Nagayasu's talent in economics.
Japanese: 異例の昇進と言ってもよく、家康が長安の経理の才能を高く評価していたことがうかがえるものである。
English: When Ieyasu was appointed Shogun on February 12, 1603, Nagayasu was given the rank of Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade and assigned to the governor of Iwami and also assigned to the attendant chief retainer of the sixth son of Ieyasu, Tadateru MATSUDAIRA.
Japanese: 1603年2月12日、家康が将軍に任命されると、長安も特別に従五位下、石見守に叙任され、家康の六男・松平忠輝の附家老に任じられた。
English: Nagayasu was appointed the magistrate of Sado Province in July, the magistrate of estates (later, the commissioner of finance) in December, and was simultaneously ranked among senior administrators (later, a member of shogun's council of elders).
Japanese: 7月には佐渡奉行に、12月には所務奉行（のちの勘定奉行）に任じられ、同時に年寄（のちの老中）に列せられた。
English: Nagayasu was completely responsible for the control of gold and silver mines across Japan, the development of transportation system in Kanto region, and the construction of milestones at intervals of one "Ri"(about 3.927 km).
Japanese: つまり長安は家康から全国の金銀山の統轄や、関東における交通網の整備、一里塚の建設などの一切を任されていたのである。
English: The currently known table of distances, i.e., units of ri, 1 ri = thirty-six cho (unit), sixty ken= 1 cho, six shaku = 1 ken of Kenjaku (a rope with a label on every 1 ken) were established by Nagayasu.
Japanese: 現在知られる里程標、すなわち一里＝三十六町(単位)、六十間＝一町、六尺＝一間という間尺を整えたのも長安である。
English: This idea came from the start of the unified government body called shogunate government which originated from feudal Japan where various powers were scattered across the mountainous land.
Japanese: 山がちであり、各地に諸勢力が散在する封建日本でこうした着想があったのは幕府という統一的な行政機構の発足ゆえであろう。
English: Nagayasu who concurrently filled the positions of all these magistrates is said to have an extremely strong power.
Japanese: これら一切の奉行職を兼務していた長安の権勢は強大であったと言われる。
English: He made his seven sons marry the daughters of Yasunaga ISHIKAWA and Terumasa IKEDA, and negotiated the marriage of Tadateru with the first daughter of Masamune DATE, Princess Iroha, and since Masamune became the fathe-in-law of Tadateru, Nagayasu also built a close relationship with Masamune.
Japanese: また、7人の息子を石川康長や池田輝政の娘と結婚させ、忠輝と伊達政宗の長女・五郎八姫の結婚交渉を取り持ち、忠輝の岳父が政宗となったことから政宗とも親密な関係を築いていたと言われている。
English: As a result, he was called the 'chief officer of the whole country' and formed the Okubo party within the bakufu along with Tadachika OKUBO, battled with Masanobu HONDA, who was favored by Ieyasu, over the power of the early bakufu government, and won against the Honda party, temporarily winning control of the bakufu government.
Japanese: そのため、その権勢や諸大名との人脈から、「天下の総代官」と称され、大久保忠隣と共に大久保派を幕府内に形成し、家康に寵愛されて本多派を形成していた本多正信と、初期幕政の権勢をめぐって争い、岡本大八事件で本多派に勝利し、一時は幕政を牛耳ったとまで言われている。
English: Nagayasu managed the estate of 8,000 koku (in fact it was 90,000 koku) Hachioji as well as the estate directly under the control of Ieyasu of 1,500,000 koku.
Japanese: この頃、長安の所領は八王子8000石（実際は9万石）に加えて、家康直轄領の150万石の実質的な支配を任されていたと言われている。
English: However, when he reached the end of his life, he started to lose the favor of Ieyasu due to decreased silver and gold harvest yields from mines across Japan, and was consecutively dismissed from local governor positions, starting from the governor of Mino.
Japanese: しかし晩年に入ると、全国鉱山からの金銀採掘量の低下から家康の寵愛を失い、美濃代官をはじめとする代官職を次々と罷免されていくようになる。
English: He passed away on April 25, 1613 due to a stroke, as many unfortunate events happened to him, including the death of his legal wife.
Japanese: さらに正室が早世するなどの不幸も相次ぐ中で、1613年4月25日、卒中のために死去した。
English: After the death of Nagayasu, all seven male children of Nagayasu were executed and various daimyo faced the forfeit of Samurai rank and properties due to a connection in crime from a claim that Nagayasu illegally collected money when he took control of a gold mine while he was alive.
Japanese: 長安の死後、生前に長安が金山の統轄権を隠れ蓑に不正蓄財をしていたという理由で、長安の7人の男児は全員処刑され、縁戚関係にあった諸大名も連座処分で改易などの憂き目にあった。
English: Ieyasu dug up the dead body of Nagayasu that was half molded, beheaded him, and displayed his head at the banks of Abe-gawa River at the foot of Sunbu-jo Castle.
Japanese: さらに、家康は埋葬されて半ば腐敗していた長安の遺体を掘り起こして、駿府城下の安倍川の川原で斬首して晒し首にしている。
English: However, there were few speculations that Nagayasu had carried out fraud, and that it was probably a conspiracy by the Masanobu HONDA and his son Masazumi HONDA, who were trying to regain their power in the bakufu.
Japanese: しかし長安が不正蓄財を行っていたという見解はほとんどなく、これは近年では、幕府内における権勢を盛り返そうと図っていた本多正信・本多正純父子の陰謀とも言われている。
English: It could also be the result of purging by the Tokugawa family who feared his financial and political strength, and to set an example to other daikan who may have been prone to committing crimes Incident of Nagayasu OKUBO.
Japanese: また、彼の財力と権勢を警戒した徳川家による粛清や、不正を行い易い他の代官に対する見せしめの意味もあると思われる（大久保長安事件）。
English: He liked lavishness from the time he was assigned with the magistrate of gold mines and wrote a will to put his body in a gold coffin and carry out a lavish funeral after his death (this lavishness was a source of doubt by Ieyasu concerning illegal savings of Nagayasu).
Japanese: 金山奉行などをしていた経緯から、派手好きであり、死後、自分の遺体を黄金の棺に入れて華麗な葬儀を行なうように遺言したという（このような派手な出費ぶりが家康に長安の不正蓄財の疑いを抱かせたとも）。
English: There was one theory that Nagayasu believed that Masamune was more fit to be the ruler of Japan than Ieyasu, and participated in the Masanune's plan to overthow the bakufu.
Japanese: 一説に長安は、家康より政宗のほうが天下人にふさわしいと考え、政宗の幕府転覆計画に賛同していたと言われている。
English: It is not known about where the Nagayasu's grave is, but one theory states that it is in a hot springs district of Toi in Izu.
Japanese: 長安の墓の所在は不明だが、一説には伊豆の土肥温泉街にあるのではないかと言われている。
English: Masasue KUSUNOKI was a busho (Japanese military commander) who lived from the late Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 楠木正季（くすのきまさすえ）は、鎌倉時代後期から南北朝時代(日本)の武将。
English: In 1336, his elder brother, Masashige was ordered to fight against the army of Takauji ASHIKAGA who was heading from Kyushu to Kyoto under the command of Yoshisada NITTA, but was defeated in the Battle of Minato-gawa River (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture).
Japanese: 1336年（建武7年/延元元年）に兄の正成は九州から京都目指す足利尊氏の軍に対して新田義貞の指揮下で戦う事を命じられ、湊川の戦い（兵庫県神戸市）において戦って敗北する。
English: In classical literatures such as 'Taiheiki' (The Record of the Great Peace), he is described to have committed suicide with his elder brother Masashige by stabbing each other, and he swore the famous 'shichishohokoku' (which means if he is reborn seven times, he will destroy enemies of the Emperor to serve the country every time he is reborn); but this has been mistaken as the words that Masashige said by some people.
Japanese: 古典「太平記」などには兄・正成と刺し違えて自害したと記され、このとき有名な「七生報国」（七たび生まれ変わっても、朝敵を滅ぼし、国に報いるの意）を誓っているが、一部ではこれが正成の発した言葉と誤解されている。
English: While his father, Masashige, was given a honorific title of 'Dai-Nanko', he was called 'Sho-nanko.'
Japanese: 「大楠公」と尊称された父の正成に対して小楠公（しょうなんこう）と呼ばれる。
English: As he is described to have been eleven years old at the time of sakurai no wakare (Separation in Sakurai) in "Taiheiki" (The Record of the Great Peace), some surmise that he was born in 1326, but many historians doubt it.
Japanese: 『太平記』には父との「桜井の別れ」の当時は11歳であったとあることから1326年とも推測されているが、これは多くの史家が疑問視している。
English: There has been another opinion for long that doubts the description in the Taiheiki and guesses the year of Masatsura's birth to have been a little earlier; however as there are not any definite historical materials, it is a mere conjecture.
Japanese: 『太平記』の記述を疑って正行の生年をもう少し遡らせる説も古くからあるが、明確な史料が存在しない以上推測の域を出ない。
English: It is said that after the death of his father, Masashige, in the Battle of Minato-gawa River in 1336, when his severed head reached him, he was so shocked in spite of his previous preparation of mind as to enter into Butsuma (a room for Buddha staue) and tried to kill himself with a short sword named 'Kikusui' which was a remembrance of his father, but changed his mind by his real mother's admonishment.
Japanese: 延元元年/建武(日本)3年（1336年）の湊川の戦いで父の正成が戦死した後、覚悟していたこととはいえ、父・正成の首級が届き、衝撃のあまり仏間に入り父の形見の菊水の短刀で自刃しようとしたが、生母に諭され改心したという。
English: Masatsura, following his deceased father's last wish, became the toryo (head of the clan) of the KUSUNOKI clan and fought as the Southern Court (Japan) side.
Japanese: 正行は亡父の遺志を継いで、楠木家の棟梁となって南朝(日本)方として戦った。
English: He defeated the allied armies of Tokiuji YAMANA and Akiuji HOSOKAWA of the Ashikaga Shogunate at Sumiyoshi-hama Beach, Tennoji, Settsu Province.
Japanese: 足利幕府の山名時氏・細川顕氏連合軍を摂津国天王寺・住吉浜にて打ち破っている。
English: He fought against the brothers of KO no Moronao and KO no Moroyasu of the Ashikaga side in the Battle of Shijonawate which took place at Hojo, Kawachi Province (Shijonawate City, Osaka Prefecture, as of now) in 1348, but he was defeated and committed suicide with his younger brother, Masatoki KUSUNOKI, by stabbing each other (there are various opinions about his age of death).
Japanese: 正平(日本)3年/貞和4年（1348年）に河内国北條（現在の大阪府四條畷市）で行われた四條畷の戦い（四條縄手）において足利方の高師直・高師泰兄弟と戦って敗北し、弟の楠木正時と刺し違えて自害した（享年に関しては諸説がある）。
English: Previously, when he defeated the Ashikaga side at Sumiyoshi-hama Beach, he rescued drowning soldiers fleeing in disorder from the battlefield at Watabe-bashi Bridge, Settsu Province, gave them medical treatments and clothes and sent them back to the enemy camp.
Japanese: 先に住吉浜にて足利方を打ち破った際に、敗走して摂津国・渡部橋に溺れる敵兵を助け、手当をし衣服を与えて敵陣へ送り帰した。
English: It has been told that there were many who participated in this battle as the KUSUNOKI side to repay the obligation.
Japanese: この事に恩を感じ、この合戦で楠木勢として参戦した者が多かったと伝えられている。
English: He had been prepared in mind for the death long since, and he declined an offer of marriage to Bennonaishi by Emperor Gomurakami.
Japanese: かねてより死を覚悟しており、後村上天皇よりの弁内侍賜嫁を辞退している。
English: It is also well known that when he departed for this battle, he engraved his farewell poem (which will be mentioned later) on the gates of Nyoirin-ji Temple in Yoshino with an arrowhead.
Japanese: この合戦に赴く際、辞世の句（後述）を吉野の如意輪寺の門扉に矢じりで彫ったことも有名である。
English: Before the decisive battle, Masatsura leading the members of his clan including his younger brother, Masatoki and Katahide NIGITA (Kenshu WADA), visited the Yoshino no Angu (temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit of Yoshino), and was given the command by Emperor Gomurakami.
Japanese: 決戦を前に、正行は弟正時・和田賢秀ら一族を率いて吉野行宮に参内、後村上天皇より仰せを頂いた。
English: But it has been told that his resolution for inevitable death was so firm that after the visit to the Imperial Palace, he visited the Mausoleum of Emperor Godaigo, likening the board wall of Nyoirin-do (main hall) to kakocho (a family register of deaths), wrote on the board 143 names of the family members and retainers who had resolutions for inevitable death, with his farewell poem written in the inner part of the board wall, and dedicated his own hair.
Japanese: しかし決死の覚悟は強く、参内後に後醍醐天皇の御廟に参り、その時決死の覚悟の一族・郎党143名の名前を如意輪堂の壁板を過去帳に見立てその名を記して、その奥に辞世を書き付け自らの遺髪を奉納したという。
English: In 1876, he was conferred court rank posthumously of Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank) for his sincere loyalty, pure dutifulness and justice which were regarded as the model of the thought of reverence for the emperor in the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 明治維新の尊王思想の模範とされた、その誠忠・純孝・正義により明治9年従三位を追贈された。
English: In 1889, a request to establish a shrine to enshrine the KUSUNOKI clan including Masatsura by the supporters living in the place where the clan and others had died out of loyalty was approved, and an imperial proclamation for the name of the shrine and sanction to place it as Bekkaku-Kanpeisha (a special government shrine) were given.
Japanese: 明治22年には殉節地の地元有志等による正行を初め楠木一族を祀る神社創祀の願いが聴届けられ、社号宣下と別格官幣社列格の勅許が下りた。
English: In 1890, next year, the shrine building was completed, and Shijonawate-jinja Shrine of which shusaijin (main enshrined deities) was Masatsura was founded.
Japanese: 翌明治23年、社殿が竣功し、正行を主祭神とする四條畷神社が創建された。
English: Moreover, Second Shogun of Ashikaga ShogunateYoshiakira ASHIKAGA who was one of his enemies left words in his will, "After my death, I want to sleep beside the tomb of Masatsura KUSUNOKI in Kanrin-ji Temple (Hokyo-in Temple, as of now) whom I have adored for a long time,' and according to his will, his tomb (Hokyoin-to) was erected next to the tomb of Masatsura KUSUNOKI (Gorin sekito).
Japanese: また、彼の敵である足利幕府二代将軍足利義詮は遺言に「自分の逝去後、かねており敬慕していた観林寺（現在の宝筐院）の楠木正行の墓の傍らで眠らせてもらいたい」とあり、遺言どおり、楠木正行の墓（五輪石塔）の隣に彼の墓（宝筐印塔）は建てられた。
English: There is also a tomb at Ojoin Rokuman-ji Temple in Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture, where his body has been buried.
Japanese: 大阪府東大阪市の往生院六萬寺にも墓があり、こちらには胴体が葬られている。
English: Masatoki KUSUNOKI (the date of birth unknown – February 4, 1348) was a military commander during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 楠木正時（くすのきまさとき、生年不詳-貞和4年/正平(日本)3年1月5日(旧暦)（1348年2月4日））は、南北朝時代(日本)の武将。
English: In 1346 in the Battle of Shijonawate, he fought against the brothers KO no Moronao and KO no Moroyasu and was defeated, as a result, he committed suicide together with his older brother Masatsura by stabbing each other.
Japanese: 1348年、四條畷の戦いにおいて高師直・高師泰兄弟と戦って敗北し、兄・正行と刺し違えて自害。
English: When his older brothers, Masatsura KUSUNOKI and Masatoki KUSUNOKI, were defeated and killed by the army of KO no Moronao in the Shijonawate War in 1348, Masanori took over the family estate to be the head of family, and became a spearhead busho of the Southern Court (Japan).
Japanese: 正平(日本)3年/貞和4年（1348年）、四條畷の戦いにおいて兄楠木正行・楠木正時が高師直の軍に敗れて討死すると、楠木氏の家督を継ぎ、南朝(日本)の先鋒武将となる。
English: In the same year, he battled against the army of KO no Moroyasu of the Northern Court (Japan) at Ishikawa in Kawachi Province, and in the next year, 1349, he also conducted small-scale battles at places in the southern area of Kawachi Province.
Japanese: 同年、北朝(日本)の高師泰の軍と河内国石川で戦い、翌正平4年/貞和5年（1349年）にも河内国南部の各地で北朝方と小規模な戦闘を繰り広げている。
English: When an internal conflict of the Muromachi shogunate (the Kanno Disturbance) occurred in 1350, Masanori, taking advantage of such an internal conflict, made efforts to regain and strengthen the power of the Southern Court and also conducted activities toward the unification of the Southern and Northern Courts.
Japanese: 正平5年/観応元年（1350年）に勃発した室町幕府の内紛（観応の擾乱）に際しては、これを機として南朝の勢力挽回に努めるとともに、南北両朝合一に向けての活動を行う。
English: In 1352 after the Shohei itto (temporal unification of the Northern and Southern Courts), he drove out Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA in cooperation with Akinobu KITABATAKE, Akitsune CHIGUSA and so on, and regained Kyoto after an interval of seventeen years.
Japanese: 正平一統後の正平7年/文和元年（1352年）に北畠顕信、千種顕経らとともに足利義詮を駆逐して17年ぶりに京都を奪還する。
English: However, Masanori was defeated at Otokoyama hachiman by Yoshiakira who had retrieved the power, and was forced to evacuate from Kyoto in just over a month.
Japanese: しかし、勢力を回復した義詮に男山八幡で敗れ、わずか1月あまりで京都を追われる。
English: But, Masanori spread warriors to places in Kinai region thereafter, and extended his influence over Settsu Province and Kawachi Province.
Japanese: しかし、その後も畿内各地に兵を広げ、摂津国・河内国において勢力を拡大する。
English: In 1354 when Tadafuyu ASHIKAGA came up to Kyoto from Kyushu as the Southern Court, Masanori battled together with him and regained Kyoto again.
Japanese: 正平9年/文和3年（1354年）、足利直冬が南朝方として九州から上洛した際には、ともに戦い、京都を再び奪還する。
English: In 1361, Masanori succeeded in the third regaining of Kyoto together with Kiyoji HOSOKAWA, former steward of the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), who had been overthrown due to political strife in the Muromachi shogunate (Koan Coup) and come to subject to the Southern Court, and so on, but they had to withdraw the next month.
Japanese: 正平16年/康安元年（1361年）、室町幕府の政争（康安の政変）で失脚し南朝に降った元幕府執事の細川清氏らとともに、三度目の京都奪還に成功するが、翌月には撤退している。
English: On the other hand, Masanori prodded Doyo SASAKi and others to realize the Incorporation of the Northern and Southern Courts, and in 1367, he tried a reconciliation with the Northern Court through the assistance of Shogunal Deputy Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA.
Japanese: その一方、正儀は南北朝合体を佐々木道誉らに働きかけ、正平22年/貞治6年（1367年）、管領細川頼之を仲介して北朝と和睦を結ぼうとする。