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English: Doan SEN (1546 - March 14, 1607), a Japanese tea ceremony master during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history.
Japanese: 千道安（せんのどうあん、天文(元号)15年（1546年）-慶長12年2月17日(旧暦)（1607年3月14日））は戦国時代(日本)から江戸時代初期の茶道。
English: After Rikyu's Seppuku (ritual suicide), he was said to have been placed with Nagachika KANAMORI (though there is a different view to this), where he was ordered to stay inside in disciplinary confinement.
Japanese: 利休切腹後は金森長近に預けられ（異説あり）、蟄居、謹慎を命じられた。
English: In 1594, he was granted a pardon and returned to Sakai City (though various theories exist as to the time of his return), where he succeeded as the head of the Sen Family (Sakai-Senke).
Japanese: 文禄3年（1594年）に赦されて堺市に戻り（時期には諸説ある）、千家の家督を継いだ（堺千家）。
English: In 1601, upon the invitation of Tadaoki HOSOKAWA, he became Tadaoki's sado (person in charge of the tea ceremony) and was bestowed three hundred koku in Misaki, Buzen Province.
Japanese: 慶長6年（1601年）、細川忠興に招かれ、茶頭となり、豊前国水崎で三百石を拝領する。
English: When he is mentioned, he is often compared with his younger brother-in-law, Shoan SEN, because they were the same age.
Japanese: 同い年と言うことから、義弟である千少庵との対比で語られることが多い。
English: Some anecdotes picture Shoan having better skill at Japanese tea ceremony than Doan, but one needs to consider the fact that only the san-Senke (three Sen Families) of the Shoan lineage exist today.
Japanese: 中には少庵を道安より優れていたように描く逸話もあるが、これは現存しているのが少庵系統の三千家周辺のものである事実を考慮する必要がある。
English: Among such historical materials, there often appear words of praise for Doan, inferring he had demonstrated his exceptional skill in those days.
Japanese: そうした資料の中でも道安についての賞賛が散見されるところから、当時際だった才能を発揮していたことが伺われる。
English: There have been some confirmed contradictions between the historical materials belonging to the san Senke and fact, such as the case in which the person with a congenital leg impairment was Shoan in reality whereas in a san-Senke material it was replaced as Doan.
Japanese: 少庵は先天的に足に不自由があったが、これが三千家系統の資料では道安に置き換えるなどの事実関係の齟齬も確認されている。
English: There is an interesting story about the two, when they were asked by Rikyu to each pick a bamboo rest for a teakettle lid, and Doan picked a rugged one with bamboo joints, while Shoan chose a smooth one without any joints, suggesting that Doan had a open-hearted personality in contrast to Shoan's delicate one (the "Koshin Gegaki").
Japanese: 利休が二人に竹の蓋置を選ばせたところ、道安は節のついたゴツゴツとした蓋置を、少庵は節のない滑らかな蓋置を選んだというエピソードがあり、道安は磊落な性格、少庵は繊細な性格であったとされている（『江岑夏書』）。
English: There remains a story in which Hideyoshi asked Rikyu, "Who should performed a tea ceremony around the inner sanctuary of the Great Buddha (at the Hoko-ji Temple)?", to which Rikyu replied, "Doan should.", recommending Doan ("Sawa Shigetsu shu" [a collection of Genpaku Sotan's talks about tea]).
Japanese: 秀吉が利休に「大仏（方広寺）の内陣を囲いて茶の湯すべき者は誰ぞ」と尋ねたところ、「道安が仕るべき」と道安を推挙したとの逸話が残されている（『茶話指月集』）。
English: It is said that when Rikyu was invited to a Doan's tea gathering, he said while waiting for the host, "One of the stepping stones (tobi-ishi) in the tea garden (roji) is positioned too high.", which Doan had heard in katte (a place used to cook and prepare food in upper class residences), and he corrected it during the intermission (nakadachi) (the "Sawa Shigetsu shu").
Japanese: 道安の茶会に招かれた利休が亭主を待つ間「露地の飛び石の据え方がひとつだけ高い」と話したところ、勝手で聴いていた道安は中立ちの間に的確に直したという（前掲書）。
English: After the restoration of the SEN family, when Doan made tea in front of the Emperor upon the invitation of Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi praised him, saying, "You bear a close resemblance to Soeki (Rikyu's Buddhist name)." (the"Sawa Shigetsu shu")
Japanese: 千家再興の後、秀吉に呼ばれた道安が御前で茶を点てたところ、秀吉は「宗易が手前によく似たる」と褒めた（前掲書）。
English: It seems he was full of creative enthusiasm and came up with ideas to seek strength within simplicity.
Japanese: 創作意欲が旺盛であり、その工夫は簡素さの中に力強さを求めるものであったようである。
English: It is said that metal ash spoons (haisaji) originated when Doan had used a metal piece to level ash.
Japanese: 道安が金属片を使って灰をならしていたのが、金属製の灰匙の始まりだと言われている。
English: He was the biological father of Shigechika KANAMORI (also known as Sowa KANAMORI), and while his exchange with Doan is for certain, some suggest his tea ceremony teacher was actually Shigenari FURUTA.
Japanese: 金森重近（宗和）の実父であり道安と交流があったのは確かであるが、茶の湯の師は古田重然であったともされる。
English: Kanehiro IJUIN (January 27, 1838 - April 20, 1898) was a samurai, a feudal retainer of the Satsuma clan, a military officer, and a government official in Japan.
Japanese: 伊集院兼寛（いじゅういんかねひろ、天保9年1月2日（1838年1月27日）-明治31年（1898年）4月20日）は、日本の武士・薩摩藩士､軍人､官僚である。
English: Kanehiro IJUIN was born in 1838, as the legitimate son of Kaneyoshi IJUIN, a feudal retainer of the Satsuma clan.
Japanese: 伊集院兼寛は天保9年（1838年）薩摩藩士伊集院兼善の嫡男として生まれる。
English: During the Restoration period at the end of the Edo period, he had a strong relationship with Saigo brothers (Takamori SAIGO and Tsugumichi SAIGO) and Toshimichi OKUBO, and came to the fore as one of the most active warriors in the Satsuma Domain.
Japanese: 幕末維新期の兼寛は西郷隆盛・西郷従道兄弟や大久保利通らとの関係が深く薩摩藩きっての行動派の一人として活躍する。
English: He was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), as a comrade of Shinshichi ARIMA in the Teradaya Commotion in 1862, but returned to allegiance upon the decree of the lord of the domain.
Japanese: 文久2年（1862年）の寺田屋騒動に有馬新七の同志として討幕計画に参加するも藩主命令により帰順する。
English: Junijiro HOSOKAWA (March 11, 1834 - July 20, 1923) was a feudal retainer from Tosa Domain and Rangakusha (a person who studied Western sciences by means of the Dutch) during the end of the Edo Period, and also a jurist, educator, and baron during the Meiji and Taisho Period.
Japanese: 細川潤次郎（ほそかわじゅんじろう、1834年3月11日（天保5年2月2日(旧暦)）-1923年（大正12年）7月20日）は、幕末の土佐藩藩士・蘭学者で明治時代・大正時代の法学者・教育家・男爵。
English: His politically important posts to be mentioned were only Shiho-taifu (a post of Ministry of Justice) and a membership of the House of Peers, but he is appreciated as highly as Shinpei ETO in the introduction of the modern law.
Japanese: 政治的要職としては司法大輔・貴族院(日本)位であったが、日本の近代法導入の功績に関しては江藤新平と並んで高く評価されている。
English: He was born in a Confucian scholar's family serving Tosa Domain and made excellent grades in a hanko (domain school), and he was interested in the internal and external tension circumstances at the end of the Edo Period, and learned Western studies in Nagasaki and then studied hard in the Navy Training Center in Edo.
Japanese: 土佐藩に仕える儒学者の家に生まれ、藩校でも優秀な成績を修めたが、幕末の緊張する内外の情勢に関心を持ち、長崎で蘭学を学び、続いて江戸の海軍操練所でも勉学に励んだ。
English: At this time, he got acquainted with Manjiro NAKAHAMA and started to learn English.
Japanese: また、この時期に中浜万次郎の知遇を得て英語も併せて学ぶようになった。
English: After returning to Japan, Toyo YOSHIDA recognized his talent and he taught Western studies as Jidoku (imperial tutor) of Yodo YAMAUCHI and also as an instructor at a hanko (domain school).
Japanese: 帰国後、吉田東洋にその才覚を認められて山内容堂の侍読及び藩校教授として洋学を教えた。
English: He participated with Takachika FUKUOKA and others in compiling the new laws of Tosa Domain, 'Kainan-seiten' (Political Laws of the Sea South) and 'Kainan-ritsurei' (Law Examples of the Sea South).
Japanese: また、福岡孝弟らとともに土佐藩の新しい藩法である「海南政典」・「海南律例」の編纂に参加する。
English: In 1871, he went to the United States for the purpose of inspecting the San Francisco Exhibition, and stayed there to study.
Japanese: 翌年にはサンフランシスコ博覧会の視察を目的にアメリカ合衆国に渡り、そのまま同国に留学する。
English: After coming back to Japan, he served the Ministry of Education and then Genroin (the Chamber of Elders), and was appointed as a member of 'National Constitution Research Committee' with Sakimitsu YANAGIWARA, Bisei FUKUBA, Nobuyuki NAKAJIMA, and other members.
Japanese: 帰国後は文部省・元老院(日本)と移り、柳原前光・福羽美静・中島信行とともに「国憲取調委員」に任じられる。
English: In this committee, he showed his ability as 'an expert of law drafting,' and he played an active role as mastermind of drafting the Criminal Law, the Criminal Procedure Law, the Crimnall Law of Japanese Army and Navy, the Draft of Regulations in the Japan Sea, the Medical Affairs Act, and the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act.
Japanese: ここで彼は「法律起草のエキスパート」としての能力を発揮して、刑法・治罪法・陸海軍刑法・日本海令草案・医事法・薬事法起草の中心人物として活躍する。
English: Later, he served as a privy councilor, a member of the House of Peers, and a chairman of the House of Peers, but his political passion faded away as Japan prepared a modern legal system, and he left the political world early and tried to find 'his second life' in education.
Japanese: 後に枢密顧問官、貴族院議員次いで同副議長などを務めたが、日本が近代的な法制を整えるにつれてその政治的な情熱は影を潜めて、やがて早々と政界を引退して教育界に「第二の人生」を求めた。
English: He successively worked in different positions such as principal of Women's Higher Normal School and director of the Gakushuin School Corporation while he devoted himself to the presidency of compiling "Kojiruien" (Dictionary of Historical Terms) and also the introduction of new printing and agricultural technologies, and in his later years the title of doctor (literature) and membership of the Japan Academy were awarded to him.
Japanese: 女子高等師範学校校長・学習院院長心得などを歴任する一方、『古事類苑』の編纂総裁や、新しい印刷・農業技術の紹介などに力を尽くして、晩年には博士(文学)・日本学士院会員の称号が贈られた。
English: Michikiyo KONO (year of birth unknown - March 6, 1181) was a busho (Japanese military commander) of Iyo Province during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 河野通清（こうのみちきよ、生年未詳-治承5年2月12日(旧暦)（1181年2月27日））は、平安時代末期の伊予国の武将。
English: Because he was conceived right after his mother had paid a visit to Mishima-myojin (the deity of Mishima-jinja Shrine) to pray, he was thought to be a son of answered prayer.
Japanese: 出生時に母親が三島明神に参拝して祈願した直後に身ごもったことから、神に通じた息子とされた。
English: It is said that since then the letter '通,' which means that a prayer is answered, had been customarily used for the name of the head of the KONO clan for generations.
Japanese: 以後の河野氏は当主が代々、「通」の字を用いることが先例となったと伝わる。
English: Michikiyo bore resentment against TAIRA no Kiyomori because Kiyomori had confiscated all his territories but Kono-go district for the reason that he had taken the side of the Minamoto clan in the Heiji War.
Japanese: 平治の乱のとき、源氏側に味方したため、平清盛から河野郷以外の所領を全て没収され、清盛を恨んでいた。
English: For this reason, when MINAMOTO no Yoritomo took up arms against the Taira clan in August 1180, Michikiyo also took up arms and killed mokudai (deputy) of TAIRA no Koremori of the Taira family to rule over Iyo Province completely.
Japanese: このため治承4年（1180年）8月に源頼朝が打倒平氏の兵を挙げると、通清も挙兵して平家の平維盛の目代を討ち、伊予を完全に支配圏に置いた。
English: However, in 1181, Shigeyoshi TAGUCHI and Nuka Saijaku on the side of the Taira clan closed in on Iyo Province.
Japanese: しかし治承5年（1181年）、平氏方の田口成良と奴可西寂が伊予に攻め寄せてくる。
English: Although Michikiyo holed up in Takanawasan-jo Castle in Kazahaya County, Iyo Province (Hojo City, Ehime Prefecture) to make resistance, he was soundly defeated because of the betrayal by his ally.
Japanese: 通清は伊予国風早郡高縄山城（愛媛県北条市）に立て籠もって抵抗したが、味方から裏切り者が出て大敗した。
English: Sukenaga JO (year of birth unknown-1181) was a busho (Japanese military commander) lived in the end of Heian period.
Japanese: 城資永（じょうすけなが、生年未詳-養和元年（1181年））は、平安時代末期の武将。
English: The Jo clan (the Taira clan), which was a noble family descended from TAIRA no Shigemori, the second son of TAIRA no Kunika, had controlled Echigo Province under the Taira clan government.
Japanese: 城氏(平氏)は平国香の次男平繁盛の流れを汲む名族で、平氏政権期において越後国を支配していた。
English: Sukenaga obeyed TAIRA no Kiyomori and played an active part in the Hogen War as a toryo (head of the clan) and also had served on Kebiishi (officials with judicial and police powers) at the capital.
Japanese: 資永はその棟梁として、保元の乱においても平清盛に従い活躍、都で検非違使を努めていたこともある。
English: Sukenaga was appointed to be Provincial Governor of Echigo by TAIRA no Munemori who was the successor of Kiyomori after his death in 1181, and was ordered to hunt down and kill MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka who had raised an army in Shinano Province.
Japanese: 清盛の死後の治承5年（1181年）、後を継いだ平宗盛から越後国越後守に任じられ、信濃国で挙兵した源義仲の追討を命じられる。
English: His younger brother Nagamochi succeeded to Sukenaga, but his family was forced to decline with the downfall of the Taira family.
Japanese: 資永の後は弟の長茂が継ぐが、平家の没落とともに徐々に衰退を余儀なくされた。
English: Michiyo NAKA (February 6, 1851-March 2, 1908) was a historian in the Meiji period.
Japanese: 那珂通世（なかみちよ、嘉永4年1月6日(旧暦)（1851年2月6日）-明治41年（1908年）3月2日）は、明治時代の歴史学者。
English: As he achieved excellent academic records at the domain school, Michiyo was requested by Goro EBATA, a scholar of Chinese classics and a lecturer of the domain school, to join the Ebata family, and was adopted by Ebata at the age of 14.
Japanese: 藩校で優れた成績を修めたため、14歳の時に藩校の教授であった漢学者・那珂梧楼から乞われて江帾家の養子に入る。
English: In 1876, at the age of 26, he released 'Study of Ancient Japanese Characters' in the "Yoyo-sha Journal."
Japanese: 1876年、26歳の時に、「日本古代文字考」を『洋々社談』に発表する。
English: After that, he worked as a teacher at schools for teacher training and junior high schools under the old system of education, then later on, he contributed to the development of education for women, serving as the principal of Chiba Normal School and Tokyo Women's Normal School.
Japanese: その後、師範学校・旧制中学校などの教師を務め、後に千葉師範学校・東京女子師範学校の校長も務めて女子教育に尽力した。
English: Afterwards, he became a teacher at Daiichi High School (the first old-education-system high school) and Tokyo Higher Normal School, and worked also as an instructor at the Literature school of Tokyo Imperial University from 1896.
Japanese: 後に第一高等学校(旧制)や東京高等師範学校の教授となり、1896年に東京大学文科大学の講師も兼ねる。
English: In the meantime, he released many results of his practical studies about the history of Japan, Korea, and China.
Japanese: その間にも日本・朝鮮・中国の歴史における実証的な研究を多く発表した。
English: Also, it is said that he was nicknamed 'the bicycle doctor' because he traveled nationwide and overseas for his studies by bicycle, which was rare at that time.
Japanese: また、研究のために当時珍しかった自転車を使って国内外を旅行したために「自転車博士」という異名が付いたという。
English: His representative works include "Overview of Chinese History" (1880-1890, three volumes, published by Iwanami bunko: although it is an unfinished work, the book was read also in China due to its concise and objective style), and 'Study of Ancient Calendar' (presented for "History Journal" and collected in "Study of Ancient Calendar," revised book compiled by Kagehide MISHINA), a paper that studied about the Japanese calendar systems base on 'Shinyu-kakumei-setsu' (a prediction of revolution in Kanototori of the Chinese astrological calendar).
Japanese: 代表的な著作としては中国史の通史である『支那通史』（1888年-1890年、未完であるが、簡易かつ客観的であったことから中国でも読まれた、岩波文庫全3巻）や、「辛酉革命説」に基づいて日本の紀年問題を研究した「上世年紀考」（『史学雑誌』発表、三品影英増補『上世年紀考』所収）がある。
English: Incidentally, he was on good terms with Konan NAITO, who also came from the Morioka Domain, while Kurakichi SHIRATORI was one of his students when he worked as a teacher at junior high schools.
Japanese: また、同じ盛岡藩出身の内藤虎次郎とは親しく、白鳥庫吉は中学教師時代の教え子である。
English: Misao FUJIMURA, who committed suicide at Kegon Falls, Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, with the farewell note titled 'Gonto no Kan' (Thoughts at the edge of Kegon Falls), was Michiyo's nephew.
Japanese: 栃木県日光市の華厳滝で「巌頭之感」を書き残して投身自殺した藤村操は甥である。
English: Motsugai TAKEDA (April, 1795 to December 20, 1867) was a Buddhist monk of the Soto sect and a martial arts master who lived at the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 武田物外（たけだもつがい、寛政7年（1795年）3月(旧暦)-慶応3年11月25日(旧暦)（1867年12月20日））は幕末の曹洞宗の僧侶、武術家。
English: He enjoyed the friendship of 'loyalists of the Meiji Restoration period' of Choshu domain in his later years, and also worked hard as a mediator of the First conquest of Choshu.
Japanese: 晩年は長州の「勤王の志士」たちと交流し、第一次長州征伐の調停役としても活躍した。
English: On someday between April and May in 1795, he was born the first son to Miki Heidayu Nobushige, a feudal retainer of Iyo-Matsuyama Domain.
Japanese: 寛政7年3月（1795年）、伊予松山藩士、三木平太夫信茂の長男として生まれる。
English: There is a rumor that his mother was a daughter of Tahe MORITA of the same family, and when she worked as a bath servant, Matsudaira Oki no kami, the lord, became intimate with her, but it seems to have been dramatized for storytelling.
Japanese: 母は同家中森田太兵衛の娘で、お風呂女として上がったときに藩主松平隠岐守の手が付いたという落胤説があるが、講談風の脚色とみられる。
English: The childhood name, Torao (literally, tiger boy), is said to have been derived from his birthday; he was born during the Hour of the Tiger (3-5 a.m.), on the Day, Month, and Year of the Tiger.
Japanese: 寅の年、寅の月、寅の日、寅の刻に生まれたので幼名が寅雄であるともいう。
English: The Year of Tiger is 1794, so this is also a popular belief based on his marvelous strength.
Japanese: 寅年とすると寛政6年であるが、これも物外の怪力にかこつけた俗説とみられる。
English: On June 10, 1799, when he was five (according to an age by the traditional Japanese system; the same rule applies to the following), he became a trainee priest of Ryutai-ji Temple.
Japanese: 寛政11年5月7日（1799年）、5歳（数え年以下同じ）のとき松山の龍泰寺の小僧となる。
English: In 1806, at the age of 12, he was taken in by Priest Kanko of Denpuku-ji Temple, becoming his disciple, and moved to Hiroshima Prefecture.
Japanese: 文化(元号)3年（1806年）12歳のとき、伝福寺の観光和尚に引き取られ、弟子となって広島県に移る。
English: A naughty boy was called Shiokara (salted fish guts) in the local dialect, and Motsugai came to be known by the name of 'Shaiokara kozo' (a naughty boy).
Japanese: 土地の方言で腕白のことを塩辛といい、物外は「塩辛小僧」として名が売れはじめた。
English: In 1809, he planned a grand scale fight caused by an argument among a group of friends, but it was found before it happened.
Japanese: 文化6年3月（1809年）、遊び仲間同士の口論から、大がかりな合戦を計画するが、事前に発覚。
English: When a government official examined the Mt. Chausu-yama, where the fight was supposed to be held, he was surprised at a full-scale battle array and devices such as mines.
Japanese: 合戦場所とされた茶臼山を役人が検分したところ、陣立てや地雷などの仕掛けが本格的であることに驚いた。
English: The official called 'Shiokara kozo' to a government office and inspected him, then Motsugai answered that he read "Taikoki" (Chronicle of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI) and devised a good way to handle a situation.
Japanese: 役人が「塩辛小僧」を役所へ呼び出して取り調べると、物外は『太閤記』を読んで工夫したと答えたという。
English: He stayed Eisho-ji Temple in Okayama, Eihei-ji Temple in Echizen Province, Kosho-ji Temple in Uji City (Uji City), and so on during his travel.
Japanese: この間、岡山永祥寺、越前国永平寺、宇治市興聖寺(宇治市)などに滞在。
English: In 1819, he went to Edo, and got a room in the Kaga dormitory of Komagome Kichijo-ji Temple (Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo).
Japanese: 文政2年（1819年）、江戸に出て、駒込吉祥寺(東京都文京区)の加賀寮に入る｡
English: In 1821, at the age of 27, he accompanied Priest Torin of Ruriko-ji Temple in Yamaguchi and became a patriarch.
Japanese: 文政4年（1821年）、27歳で山口瑠璃光寺の東林和尚に随って立職、長老となる｡
English: There is an anecdote about his accompanying Shusaku HONINBO on Chugoku and Shikoku roads and visiting Kotohira-gu Shrine.
Japanese: このころ、本因坊秀策と中四国道を同道、金刀比羅宮参りをしたという逸話がある。
English: The era name was changed into Keio, and Motsugai was asked to be a mediator for the First conquest of Choshu, so he made a petition and submitted it to the Imperial court.
Japanese: 改元して慶応元年、物外は第一次長州征伐の調停役を依頼され、願書をしたためて朝廷に奉呈する。
English: On this occasion, he was not given any instruction, so he went to the capital with his disciple, Torajiro TANABE, and made him appeal directly with the petition.
Japanese: このとき、何の沙汰もなかったため、門弟の田辺虎次郎を連れて上京、田辺に願書を持たせて直訴させた。
English: Although Tanabe was arrested, he succeeded in submitting the petition, so he was called by Emperor Komei and got a chance to report the gist to the throne directly.
Japanese: 田辺は捕えられたが、願書の上呈には成功、孝明天皇に召されて、直接に願書の意を奏上する機会を得たという。
English: On December 20, 1867, when he was on his way to Onomichi by sea, he died at Fukushimaya, a Japanese-style hotel, in Osaka.
Japanese: 慶応3年11月25日（1867年）、海路で尾道への帰途中、大坂の旅館福島屋で没。
English: During his stay in Sosen-ji Temple in Izumo Province, Rokuzo OGURA (later known as the 11th master, Tsutsumi Rokudayu Shigemasa), a disciple of Sadenji ISHIHARA, who was the 10th master of Jikishin-ryu school in Matsue Domain, fought with Motsugai and won.
Japanese: 出雲国宗泉寺に滞在中、松江藩の直信流第10代師範、石原左伝次の門人、小倉六蔵（後の第11代師範、堤六太夫重正）が、物外と試合して勝った。
English: This is a tradition handed down in Matsue, so only favorable parts to Izumo domain (which was in Matsue) might have been told, but if it is true, this is the only game that Motsugai lost.
Japanese: 松江での伝承なので自藩に有利な内容に伝えている可能性もあるが、事実だとすれば物外が試合して敗れたという唯一の例である。
English: Unsuis were at a loss because they could not ring a bell to let everybody know the time of rites in the morning and evening, so they tried to put up the bell among them all, but the bell would not be moved at all.
Japanese: 朝夕の行事の合図に鐘を鳴らすことができないため、困った雲水たちが総がかりで動かそうとしたが、鐘はびくともしない。
English: Then Motsugai came there and said, 'if you treat me to udon (Japanese wheat noodle), I'll do it for you,' so the Unsuis promised him to do so, and Motsugai held up the bell easily, hanging it on the place where it had been set.
Japanese: そこへ物外がやってきて、「うどんをごちそうしてくれたら上げてやる」といったので雲水たちが約束すると、物外は軽々と鐘を持ち上げて、もとの位置に釣下げた。
English: The person who put down the bell was of course Motsugai, and even after that when he wanted to eat udon, he is said to have put down the bell at once.
Japanese: 「犯人」はむろん物外で、その後もうどんが食べたくなると、すぐに釣鐘を下ろしたという。
English: There is a pillar with a handprint of Motsugai in Eihei-ji Temple, and it is said that the prints of his four fingers were clear.
Japanese: 永平寺には物外の手形のついた柱があり、指の痕が4本まで判然としていたという。
English: At Daijo-ji Temple in Kaga, he was said to be 'Aki no Motsugai,' and he made elaborate mischief, for example, he lifted up a pillar of the temple and made it wear a straw sandal.
Japanese: 加賀の大乗寺では、「安芸の物外」といわれ、寺の柱を持ち上げて下に藁草履を履かせるなど、凝ったいたずらをした。
English: One day, there was a big fight between Unsuis and officiating priests, so Honda Awa no kami (Governor of Awa Province), who was the principal supporter of the temple, sent soldiers in order to put down the incident.
Japanese: あるとき、寄食している雲水たちと役僧たちとで大喧嘩になり、これを取り鎮めるために寺の大旦那だった本田安房守が兵を差し向けた。
English: However, no soldier was stronger than Motsugai, and they were thrown into the main building of the temple one after another, and he locked the entrance.
Japanese: しかし、兵の誰ひとりとして物外にかなう者がなく、片っ端から物外に本堂に投げこまれ、入り口の扉を閉められてしまった。
English: Daijo-ji Temple has a big mokugyo (wood block) which is so heavy that it takes three people to move it, but Motsugai is said to have thrown it at that time and it was cracked.
Japanese: 大乗寺には3人がかりでないと動かない大木魚があるが、このとき物外はこれを投げつけて、割れ目を作ったという。
English: There is an anecdote about a contest of physical strength on the bridge during Motsugai's stay in Kanazawa, and he competed with Toda Echigo no kami (Provincial Governor of Echigo), who was a founder of the Toda School and newly employed by the Maeda family of Kaga, but the contest remained unsettled and it ended in a tie.
Japanese: 金沢滞在中、加賀前田家に新規召抱えになった戸田流をたてた戸田越後守と橋の上で力比べして決着がつかず、引き分けたという話がある。
English: At that time, a parapet of the bridge was broken, and they fell down on the river beach, so their fight was not stopped; it is said that pebbles on the beach were dug from 60 feet to 120 feet into the ground.
Japanese: このとき、橋の欄干が壊れて、二人とも墜落したところ、そこは河原だったので取っ組み合いが止まらず、河原の小石が十間から二十間も掘られたという。
English: Motsugai liked the Go board and asked the store person, 'How much is it?' then he answered, 'One ryo and two bu.'
Japanese: 物外が碁盤を気に入り、「いくらだ」と尋ねると、店主は「一両二分でございます」と答えた。
English: I don't have money now, so I'll come and take it later. So please do not sell it to anybody until I come back,' Motsugai asked, and the store person said, 'Can you place something on deposit?'
Japanese: 「いま金を持っていないから、後でもらいに来る。それまで他人に売らないでくれ」と物外が頼むと、店主は「何か、手付けでもいただければ」と催促した。
English: Around the same time, he chastised a group of three tsujikiri (killing in the street to test a new sword) who appeared in the neighborhood of Shiba, and mediated between samurai of Aizu and Higo, who fought with real swords because the tip of a sheath hit the samurai.
Japanese: 同じころ、芝近辺に出没する三人組の辻斬りを懲らしめたり、刀のこじりが当たったことが原因で真剣勝負の決闘に及んだ会津、肥後の侍を調停したりしている。
English: He said, 'Sure,' and removed the bell of Saiho-ji Temple, and brought it to the beach of Yoshiwa village.
Japanese: 「よし」といって、物外は済法寺の鐘をはずして吉和村の海岸にかつぎ出した。
English: He connected the bell between two boats in the sea and floated it, then kept praying for 17 days night and day.
Japanese: 二隻の船の間に鐘を繋いで海上に浮かべ、17日間昼夜を分かたず祈願した。
English: After that he reached the cannon of the bell, wearing only loincloths, then yelled and threw it two to three ken (3.6m to 5.4m) off the coast, and it began to rain in torrents.
Japanese: その上で、今度は褌ひとつで鐘の竜頭に手をかけ、大喝して、二、三間も遠くの沖へ投げ込んだところ、沛然と雨が降り出したという。
English: People said, 'Motsugai's praying for rain works well,' so every time when the dry weather lasted, Motsugai came to be asked to pray for rain by farmers.
Japanese: 「物外さんの雨乞いは、効き目がある」ということになり、それからも日照りがあるたびに、物外は農民たちから雨乞いを頼まれるようになった。
English: The bell thrown into the sea was later came back being caught in a net of fisherman, but eight wartlike dots on the bell were missing.
Japanese: 海中に投げ込まれた鐘はその後、漁師の網にかかって戻って来たが、鐘のイボが8個欠けていた。