nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: When the Chokyo Rebellion, an internal discord of the Uesugi family, started, the Nanasawa Fort fell by the invasion of Kanto Kanrei (a shogunal deputy for the Kanto region) Akisada UESUGI in 1488, and therefore, Tomomasa stayed in the Oba Fort (the present Fujisawa City) after that.
Japanese: 上杉家同士の内訌である長享の乱が始まると、長享2年（1488年）に関東管領上杉顕定の侵攻を受けて七沢要害は陥落し、以後は大庭要害（現藤沢市）に拠った。
English: After the death of Sadamasa, his older brother, Tomomasa had Tomoyoshi, his own son, be the family head and he himself became the son's conservator, but had been losing power due to the advancement of Soun HOJO into the Sagami province.
Japanese: 兄定正の死後、自分の子である朝良を当主としてその後見役となったが、北条早雲（北条早雲）の相模進出に伴い勢力を失っていった。
English: In September 6, 1499, a Buddhist memorial service for the 32nd anniversary of the death of Mochitomo, his father, was performed and Mochitomo's three sons (Takahira UESUGI, Bonju SHUKUHO, and Tomomasa) were alive at that time.
Japanese: 明応8年（1499年）9月6日、父持朝の三十三回忌法要が行われたが、この時点で生存している持朝の男子は三人（上杉高救、叔彭梵寿、朝昌）だった。
English: It is confirmed that Tomomasa entered into priesthood again during the Eisho era (1504-1521) and called himself Koteki, but the later movement was unknown.
Japanese: 永正年間に再び出家して光迪と名乗った事は確認できるが、その後の動向は不明。
English: "Another tale of the genealogy of the Uesugi family' described that the Tomoyasu's name was Tomonori and he was an Tomoyoshi's older brother, and his official court rank was Minbu shoyu (Junior Assistant Minister of Popular Affairs).
Japanese: 『上杉系図別本』では名は朝憲で朝良の兄にあたり、官位は民部少輔と記載されている。
English: In 1530, she became a concubine of Nobutora TAKEDA with the intention of Tomooki, her nephew and the family head of that time.
Japanese: 享禄3年（1530年）、当時の当主である甥の朝興の意思により武田信虎の側室となった。
English: Marriage between Norifusa's dowager and Nobutora, and that between Tomooki's daughter and Shingen TAKEDA, Nobutora's legitimate son, three years later, promoted a matrimonial relation between the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan and the Takeda clan, which solidified their alliance.
Japanese: 憲房後室と信虎の婚姻、さらに三年後の朝興娘と信虎嫡子武田信玄との婚姻により、扇谷上杉氏と武田氏は姻戚関係となり同盟はより強固なものとなった。
English: Namely, YAKO no Tamafuru studied Rekiho (method of making calendars), OTOMO no Koso studied Tenmon tonko (a type of fortune telling), and YAMASHIRO no Hitate studied Hojutsu (arts and skills, including a kind of magic like producing elixir), and all of them reportedly acquired the necessary knowledge.
Japanese: すなわち暦法は陽胡玉陳、天文遁甲は大友高聡、方術は山背日立を学ばせ、みな成業したという。
English: The Rekihon was adopted by Shotoku taishi in 604 (N.B. the official adoption of the Rekiho was awaited until the time of Empress Jito).
Japanese: 暦本は604年に聖徳太子によって採用された（ただし正式な暦法の採用は持統朝である）。
English: In the same year, an incident occurred in which a monk hit his grandfather with an ax, and the empress attempted to punish not only that monk but also the entire clergy of Buddhist temples.
Japanese: この年ある僧が斧で祖父を殴る事件が起こり、天皇はこの僧だけでなく諸寺の僧尼を処罰しようとした。
English: There Kanroku addressed a memorial to the empress, in which he explained that the history of Buddhism in Japan was still shorter than a century, and therefore monks and nuns had not learned the law, which caused the incident, and he thus petitioned for mercy not to punish the innocent monks and nuns except for the monk who had committed the crime.
Japanese: この時観勒は上表して、日本に仏教が伝来してまだ百年にならず、僧尼が法を学んでいないことからこのようなことが起こったとし、件の僧以外は罰しないよう求めた。
English: The empress complied with Kanroku's petition, and for the first time, created a system of Sojo and Sogo (ancient Buddhist ecclesiastical authorities), thereby raising Kanroku to the position of Sojo.
Japanese: 天皇はこれを許し、この時に初めて僧正・僧綱の制を定め、観勒を僧正に任じたという。
English: Sekitei KIUCHI/KINOUCHI (January 14, 1725 - April 6, 1808) was a herbalist and collector of unusually-shaped stones who lived during the Edo period.
Japanese: 木内石亭（きうち/きのうちせきてい、享保9年12月1日(旧暦)（1725年1月14日）-文化(元号)5年3月11日(旧暦)（1808年4月6日））とは、江戸時代の奇石収集家、本草学者。
English: In 1751, he went to Osaka to study herbalism under Joran TSUSHIMA (Keian).
Japanese: 安永4年（1751年）、大坂に赴き津島如蘭（桂庵）から本草学を学んだ。
English: He was interested in unusually-shaped rocks from an early age and hosted the unusually-shaped rock club together with hundreds of people who had the same interests.
Japanese: 幼少時から奇石に興味を持ち、奇石の同好者数百人を集めて奇石会を主催。
English: He actively traveled around the country to collect an enormous number of unusually-shaped rocks and was known as a 'rock tycoon.'
Japanese: 全国各地を精力的に旅し、夥しい数の奇石珍石を収集し、石の長者と呼ばれた。
English: Yoshinao SATAKE (1612 - May 31, 1656) was a person in the Edo period.
Japanese: 佐竹義直（さたけよしなお、慶長17年（1612年）-明暦2年閏4月8日(旧暦)（1656年5月31日））は江戸時代の人物。
English: In July 1621, he was adopted by Yoshinobu SATAKE(Ukyo no daibu) (Master of the Western Capital Offices), his eldest brother and the lord of Kubota Domain, Dewa Province.
Japanese: 元和(日本)7年（1621年）7月、長兄で出羽国久保田藩主の佐竹義宣(右京大夫)の養子になる。
English: Moreover, Yoshihiro ASHINA, Sadataka IWAKI, and Nobuie TAGAYA (Nobutaka IWAKI) who were his other brothers and children of the lawful wife had been adopted by other families.
Japanese: なお、ほかの兄で正室の子だった蘆名義広、岩城貞隆、多賀谷宣家（岩城宣隆）は他家に養子に出ていた。
English: According to the 'History of the Satake family', Yoshinao fell asleep during seeing sarugaku (form of theater popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries) and provoked his foster father Yoshinobu.
Japanese: 「佐竹家譜」によれば、江戸城における猿楽の見物中に居眠りをしてしまい、養父義宣の怒りをかったためという。
English: He was allowed to leave Akita to climb up Koya-san Mountain on August 3, 1628.
Japanese: 寛永5年（1628年）8月3日、秋田を離れ、高野山に上る許可を得る。
English: According to the 'Total Genealogy of Satake clan of the Minamoto family', he died in the leap April 8, 1656 at the age of forty-seven (it is said that he was born in 1610).
Japanese: 「源姓佐竹氏総系図」によれば、明暦2年（1656年）閏4月8日に死去、47歳（慶長15年誕生としている）。
English: Moreover, it is said that he was conveniently named 'Yoshitsugu' in later years not to be mixed up with Yoshinao SATAKE, the family head of the Eastern House of Satake.
Japanese: なお、佐竹東家の当主佐竹義直と混同しないように、後世、便宜的に「義継」と名付けたという説もある。
English: A father of the lawful wife of Shigetaka IWAKI, the second lord of the Kameda domain of Dewa Province (Edo period) can be raised as a confusing case.
Japanese: 紛らわしい事例としては、出羽国亀田藩2代藩主・岩城重隆(江戸時代)の正室の父親をあげられる。
English: Though the lawful wife of Shigetaka IWAKI was a daughter of Yoshinao SATAKE, this is Yoshinao of the Eastern House of Satake (Genrokuro) and different from Yoshinao of the head family of Satake (Hikojiro) in this article.
Japanese: 岩城重隆の正室は佐竹義直の娘であるものの、佐竹東家の義直（源六郎）であり、本項目の佐竹宗家の義直（彦次郎）とは別人である。
English: Bunrei KATO (1706 - April 17, 1782) was a Japanese painter in the middle of the Edo period.
Japanese: 加藤文麗（かとうぶんれい、宝永3年（1706年）-天明2年3月5日(旧暦)（1782年4月17日））は江戸時代中期の日本の画家である。
English: His name was Yasuto, childhood name was Yasutaka, azana (courtesy name) was Bunrei, go (shogo) (second name or alias) was Yosai, and common name was Orinosuke and Sakingo.
Japanese: 名前は泰都、幼名は泰高、字を文麗、号(称号)は豫斎、通称を織之助、左金吾と称した。
English: That is, he was the sixth son of Yasutsune KATO, the third lord of the Ozu Domain, Iyo Province, adopted by Yasushige KATO, one of the families, and inherited the family estate of three thousand koku (crop yields).
Japanese: すなわち伊予国大洲藩第3代藩主加藤泰恒の6男で、一族の加藤泰茂の養嗣子となって家督3千石を継いだ。
English: Bunrei liked painting since childhood and studied brushwork of the Kano School under the painters in Kano of Kobiki-cho, (first Tsunenobu KANO, later Chikanobu KANO) while training the martial art.
Japanese: 幼少より画を好み、武道の修練の傍らに木挽町狩野の画家（狩野常信のちに狩野周信）について狩野派の画法を学ぶ。
English: Bunrei and Rokkoku TANI, the father of Buncho TANI, had known each other, therefore Bunrei became the master in Buncho's boyhood and conveyed the Kano School.
Japanese: 文麗と谷文晁の父谷麓谷とは旧知の仲であったため少年期の文晁の師となり狩野派を伝えた。
English: Actually, Buncho described himself as disciple of Bunrei in the introduction document in 1821.
Japanese: 事実、文晁は文政4年（1821年）の伝来書に自ら文麗門下と称している。
English: It is unusual that the high rank samurai like Bunrei left a name as Gajin painter.
Japanese: 文麗のように高位の武士にして画人として名を残した例は珍しいといえる。
English: Akinobu KITABATAKE (c. 1317 - 1380) was a busho (Japanese military commander) who lived in the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 北畠顕信（きたばたけあきのぶ、正和6年?（1317年?）-天授(日本)6年/康暦2年?（1380年?））は、南北朝時代(日本)の武将。
English: In 1336, he took up arms in Ise Province and assisted the departure of Emperor Godaigo from the capital.
Japanese: 1336年（延元元年/建武(日本)3年）に伊勢国において挙兵し、後醍醐天皇の遷幸を援助した。
English: In 1338, after his older brother died, he tried to go to Mutsu Province to take the place of his brother as the Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North), but encountered a storm along the way and returned to Yoshino.
Japanese: 1338年（延元3年/暦応元年）兄の死後、代わって鎮守府将軍として陸奥国に赴こうとしたが、途中で暴風にあって吉野に戻る。
English: Because he had donated documents to Chokaisan-Omonoimi-jinja Shrine to pray for the restoration of the South Court and the peacefulness of Dewa Province in 1358, he was assumed to have been in Dewa in this period.
Japanese: 1358年（正平(日本)13年/延文3年）鳥海山大物忌神社に南朝復興と出羽国静謐を祈願した寄進書を納めている事から、この時期出羽にいたと思われる。
English: A rumor has it that he returned to Yoshino to work as the udaijin or moved down to Kyushu to support Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi.
Japanese: 吉野に帰還して右大臣を務めたとも、九州に下向し懐良親王を補佐したとも言われる。
English: Torahiko ENOMOTO (February 24, 1866 - November 16, 1916) was a Kyogen (farce played during a Noh cycle) and Kabuki (traditional drama performed by male actors) writer, who lived during the Meiji and Taisho Periods.
Japanese: 榎本虎彦（えのもととらひこ、慶応2年1月10日(旧暦)（1866年2月24日）-大正5年（1916年）11月16日）は明治・大正期の狂言・歌舞伎作家。
English: He wrote masterpieces such as "Nanto Enjo" (Southern Kyoto into flame) and "Meiko Kakiemon" (Master craftsman Kakiemon), as the principal play writer attached to the Kabuki-za Theater.
Japanese: 歌舞伎座の立作者として『南都炎上』、『名工柿右衛門』などの代表作を残す。
English: ENOMOTO managed to graduate from Wakayama University for himself, and became a teacher at an elementary school, but at the age of 21 he went up to Tokyo in order to study literature.
Japanese: 榎本は自力で和歌山大学を卒業して小学校の教員となるが、、21歳のときに文学を志して上京する。
English: He firstly became a shosei (a student who is given room and board in exchange for performing domestic duties) of Ochi FUKUCHI, and after working as a Nipposha's press reporter for two years, he became a probation writer at Kabuki-za Theater, of which Ochi was involved in the foundation and was working as the principal play writer attached to the theater.
Japanese: 福地桜痴の書生となり、日報社の新聞記者として働いた後、桜痴が創設に関わり立作者を務めていた歌舞伎座で2年後には見習い作家となった。
English: He had a close friendship with Kido OKAMOTO, who was his colleague at the newspaper company, and he also took Kido to FUKUCHI's residence to introduce him.
Japanese: 新聞社で同僚だった岡本綺堂とは親交があり、福地宅に綺堂を案内したりもした。
English: Afterwards, he became a press reporter of Yamato Shinbun and wrote several novels for the newspaper for a while, but he became a Kabuki play writer again in 1898.
Japanese: その後やまと新聞の記者として小説を書いた時期もあったが、1898年に歌舞伎作者に戻る。
English: This was an adaptation of a story (Noh play) written by Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU, and it was performed by Chusha ICHIKAWA (the seventh).
Japanese: これは近松門左衛門の作品を翻案したもので、市川中車(7代目)）が主演した。
English: It is said that after Ochi's death in 1906 he took over the post of the principle writer attached to the Kabuki-za Theater, but the details are unknown.
Japanese: 1906年に桜痴死後の歌舞伎座の立作者となったというが、このあたりの経緯は不明である。
English: Since then, he was active as a Kabuki play writer, mainly producing adaptations, and he wrote 56 pieces including unperformed and revised ones.
Japanese: 以後も翻案を中心に歌舞伎作家として活動し、未上演・改作を含めて56本の作品を残した。
English: Among them, "Nanto Enjo"written in 1909 and "Meiko Kakiemon"written in 1912 especially for Nizaemon KATAOKA (the 11th) are his masterpieces.
Japanese: 明治39年の『南都炎上』や、に片岡仁左衛門(11代目)のために書いた『名工柿右衛門』が代表作。
English: One of his outstanding joint works is an adaptation of "Sukeroku," originally written by Ochi, which he rewrote to make it into a Kabuki play jointly with Kenji ENOKIDO, and the principle role, Gyou OGUCHIYA, was performed by Danjuro ICHIKAWA (the 9th).
Japanese: 名前の残る共作では榎戸賢二とともにに桜痴の『助六』を歌舞伎に翻案、主役の大口屋暁雨は市川團十郎_(9代目)が勤めている。
English: His last work was "Shinkyoku Adachigahara" (New Adachigahara), which he wrote for Danshiro ICHIKAWA (the 2nd) in 1916, and he died at the age of 51 in the same year.
Japanese: 1916年に市川段四郎(2代目)のために書いた『新曲安達原』が絶筆となり、同年51歳で死去。
English: Sanekane SAIONJI (1249 – October 21, 1322): a kugyo (a court noble) of the late Kamakura period.
Japanese: 西園寺実兼（さいおんじさねかね、建長元年（1249年）-元亨2年9月10日(旧暦)（1322年10月21日））は、鎌倉時代後期の公卿。
English: His children were Kinhira SAIONJI, Kinaki SAIONJI, Kanesue IMADEGAWA, Shoshi SAIONJI (the second consort of Emperor Fushimi), Eishi SAIONJI (the consort of Emperor Kameyama), and Kishi SAIONJI (the second consort of Emperor Godaigo).
Japanese: 子に西園寺公衡、西園寺公顕、今出川兼季、西園寺しょう子（伏見天皇中宮）、西園寺瑛子（亀山天皇後宮）、西園寺禧子（後醍醐天皇中宮）。
English: In 1291 he gave the post of Kanto Moshitsugi to his son Kinhira SAIONJI, but assumed the post again due to Kinhira's death.
Japanese: 正応4年（1291年）、子の西園寺公衡に関東申次を譲ったが、公衡の死去により再度就く。
English: At first he took the position near the Jimyoin-to and severely confronted with Daikakuji-to to devote to erection of Emperor Fushimi to the throne, but gradually turned to pro-Daikakuji-to due to strife with Tamekane KYOGOKU.
Japanese: 当初は持明院統に近い立場に立って伏見天皇の践祚に尽力したために大覚寺統と激しく対立したが、京極為兼との確執から次第に大覚寺統寄りに転換していった。
English: Also he was not only a famous waka poet whose poems were chosen in Shoku Shui Wakashu (12th imperial anthology), Gyokuyo Wakashu (Collection of Jeweled Leaves, an imperial poetic anthology), and Shoku Senzai Wakashu (Waka Collection of a Thousand Years Continued), but also a master of the biwa (a Japanese lute).
Japanese: また、続拾遺和歌集・玉葉和歌集・続千載和歌集などの勅撰集に入集するなど有名な歌人でもあり、また琵琶の名手でもあった。
English: By the way 'Snow Dawn' who appears as her love in Lady Nijo's (Gofukakusain no Nijo's) 'Towazugatari' (The Confessions of Lady Nijo, literally 'narrated without being asked') is said to be Sanekane.
Japanese: なお後深草院二条の「とはずがたり」に登場する恋人「雪の曙」は実兼であるとされる。
English: Sadamoto NONOMIYA (August 10, 1669 - August 13, 1711) was a court noble in the middle of the Edo Period.
Japanese: 野宮定基（ののみやさだもと、寛文9年7月14日(旧暦)（1669年8月10日）-正徳(日本)元年6月29日(旧暦)（1711年8月13日））は江戸時代中期の公家。
English: Sadatoshi NONOMIYA's wife, Shigetaka NIWATA's wife and Tadakata OKUBO's wife were his daughters, and Sadatoshi NONOMIYA was his adopted son.
Japanese: 子に娘（野宮定俊室）、娘（庭田重孝室）、娘（大久保忠方室）、養子に野宮定俊。
English: "Sadamotokyo ki" (Record of Sadamoto NONOMURA) gives us a glimpse into the complicated society of court nobles at that period.
Japanese: 『定基卿記』からは、当時の複雑な公家社会の様子を垣間見ることが出来る。
English: He wrote books including "Honcho Jikki" (Imperial court fact record), "Heike Monogatari Ko" (A study on the Tale of the Heike), "Nonomiya Nikki" (Diary of Sadamoto NONOMIYA), "Gunki Ruikan" (Record of historical matters of Kamo-jinja Shrine), "Sadamoto Kashu" (Collection of waka poems by Sadamoto), and "Niino Mondo" (Ohaku Mondo [Arai - Nonomiya dialogue]).
Japanese: 著書に『本朝実記』『平家物語考』『野宮日記』『群記類鑑』『定基歌集』『新野問答』等がある。
English: Soshinni (1588 - April 5, 1675) was a daughter of Toshisada MAKIMURA who was a lord of the Iwate castle in the Ise province and nun served Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, the third seii taishogun (great general) of the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) in the Edo Period.
Japanese: 祖心尼（そしんに、天正16年（1588年）-延宝3年3月11日(旧暦)（1675年4月5日））は、伊勢国岩手城主・牧村利貞の娘で、江戸時代の江戸幕府3代征夷大将軍・徳川家光に仕えた尼である。
English: She was a niece-in-law of Kasuga no tsubone, who dominated O-oku (inner halls of Edo Castle where the wife of the Shogun and her servants reside) in the same period, and served as an assistant asked by Kasuga no tsubone.
Japanese: 同時期に大奥で権勢を振るった春日局の義理の姪にあたり、局に請われてその補佐役を務めた。
English: Ona-a (later Soshinni) was born as a daughter of Toshisada MAKIMURA who was a lord of the Iwate castle in the Ise province in 1588.
Japanese: おなあ（のちの祖心尼）は天正16年（1588年）、伊勢国岩手城主・牧村利貞の娘として生まれた。
English: However, her father joined the Bunroku-Keicho War caused by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI who he was serving and died in 1593.
Japanese: しかし、父は、仕えていた豊臣秀吉による文禄・慶長の役に出陣し、文禄2年（1593年）に死亡。
English: Ona-a was taken care of by the Maeda family in the Kaga domain guided by Toshiie MAEDA who had been close to her father and raised with Toshitsune MAEDA.
Japanese: おなあは父と懇意であった前田利家の導きにより、加賀藩前田家に引き取られ、前田利常とともに養育される。
English: Ona-a was grown up in due course and married with Naotomo Maeda in the Komatsu-jo Castle (the son of Ko, the first daughter of Toshiie), a branch family of the Maeda family, and had two sons, but she was suddenly forced to divorce from the Maeda family.
Japanese: やがて、成長したおなあは前田家の分家である小松城の前田直知（利家の長女・幸の息子）へ嫁ぎ2人の男児を産むが、その後、突然、前田家より離縁を申し付けられる。
English: The reason of this divorce was unknown with various theories and one of them was that she was close to Ukon TAKAYAMA, a Christian daimyo (Christian feudal lord).
Japanese: この理由は諸説あって明らかではないが、おなあがキリシタン大名である高山右近との親交が深かったためとも言われている。
English: After the divorce, Ona-a took her youngest son and stayed with Icchu-zenji (master of Zen Buddhism), who was her younger uncle and a chief priest in 'Zakke-in Temple' of the Myoshin-ji Temple in Kyoto established by her father while in life.
Japanese: 離縁を受け、おなあは幼い下の子供を連れ、生前の父が建立した京都・妙心寺「雑華院」住職で叔父の一宙禅師を頼り、身を寄せる。
English: Soon she remarried with Yukikazu MACHINO who was a senior vassal of Tadasato GAMO, the lord of the Aizu domain, and exerted power as a wife of the senior vassal, but their lord Tadasato GAMO died not so long afterward and the rank of the Gamo Family was forfeited because there was no successor and her husband became ronin (masterless samurai).
Japanese: やがて、会津藩主蒲生忠郷の重臣町野幸和と再婚、重臣の妻として権勢を振るうが、ほどなく藩主・蒲生忠郷が死亡して、跡継ぎのいない蒲生家は改易となったため、夫は浪人となってしまう。
English: Being a ronin family, they moved to Edo and Ona-a read many books because she had plenty of spare time and acquired a wide range of knowledge and education.
Japanese: 浪人となった一家は江戸に移住、おなあは暇に任せて多くの書物に触れ、この時期に多くの知識と教養を得た。
English: After that, Kasuga no tsubone who was Ona-a's aunt and dominated O-oku of that time highly regarded Ona-a's education and asked her to serve as own assistant, and so she started to work at O-oku.
Japanese: その後、この教養を見込まれ、おなあの叔母で当時の大奥を取り仕切っていた春日局から自分の補佐役を依頼され、大奥に出仕するようになった。
English: Ona-a entered O-oku and made efforts to improve awareness of maids by utilizing experiences acquired in the Zakke-in Temple, such as expostulating Zen mind to women in O-oku.
Japanese: 大奥に入ったおなあは、やがて、雑華院で得た経験を生かし、大奥の女たちに禅の心を説いて聞かせるなど、女中の意識向上に尽力した。
English: Moreover, she called Jishoin, her own granddaughter, in O-oku asked by Kasuga no tsubone as an adopted daughter of Kasuga no Tsubone and made her a concubine of Iemitsu (called Ofuri-no-kata).
Japanese: また、春日局に乞われて自身の孫娘である自証院を春日局の養女として大奥に入れ、家光の側室とした。
English: In 1637, Ofuri-no-kata had Chiyohime, the first daughter of Iemitsu (later became the wife of Mitsutomo TOKUGAWA, the lord of the Owari domain), but her health deteriorated due to the childbirth and Ona-a nursed her (Ofuri-no-kata died in 1640 in spite of Ona-a's nursing).
Japanese: お振の方は寛永14年（1637年）に家光の長女・千代姫（のちに尾張藩主徳川光友の妻）を生むが、産褥が思わしくなかったため、その看病にあたった（お振の方は、看病の甲斐なく寛永17年（1640年）に死去）。
English: While spending such days, Ona-a became a priestess and announced her name as 'Soshinni' in 1643 with a recommendation of Iemitsu as one of the reasons.
Japanese: このような日々を送るうち、おなあは家光の勧めもあって、寛永20年（1643年）に出家し「祖心尼（そしんに）」と名乗った。
English: Soshinni preached Zen even to Iemitsu, and soon after that he donated the land which was the site of residence of Ryukei OHASHI, a former private secretary of the bakufu, to Soshinni and instructed to erect a temple, and thereby the Saisho-ji Temple was erected with Soshinni as its kaiki.
Japanese: 祖心尼は、家光にも禅を説き、やがて、家光は祖心尼に幕府祐筆の大橋龍慶屋敷跡を寺領を寄進して寺院建立を指示し、祖心尼を開基として済松寺が建立される。
English: Iemitsu called in Soshinni at his deathbed and left words that "This body shall be buried in Nikko, but my sole shall stay in this Saisho-ji Temple".
Japanese: 家光は臨終の際に祖心尼を呼び、『わが身は日光に葬られても、わが心はこの済松寺に留まる』と言い残した。
English: Ochi no iratsume and Mei no Iratsume, daughters of SOGANOKURA-YAMADA no Ishikawamaro, who also became wives of Emperor Tenchi, were her cousins.
Japanese: 同じ天智天皇の妃となった、蘇我倉山田石川麻呂の娘遠智娘・姪娘姉妹とは従姉妹にあたる。
English: Yasukazu YASUBA (May 14, 1835 - May 23, 1899) was a bureaucracy and statesman in the early days of modern Japan.
Japanese: 安場保和（やすばやすかず、男性、天保6年4月17日(旧暦)（1835年5月14日）-明治32年（1899年）5月23日）は、近代日本草創期の官僚・政治家。
English: He was born in Kumamoto Domain, Higo Province, and although he kept a delicate distance from the domain clique constituted by the domains of Satsuma and Choshu, he dedicated all of his life to developing and modernizing the regions of Tohoku and Hokkaido and finding out the capable persons from the ordinary people.
Japanese: 肥後国熊本藩出身で薩摩藩・長州藩の藩閥と微妙な距離を保ちながらも、東北地方・北海道地方の開発と近代化、草の根からの人材発掘に生涯を捧げる。
English: One of his typical achievements was pushing on with the construction of the Asaka canal in Fukushima Prefecture by inviting a Dutch engineer Cornelis Johannes Van Doorn.
Japanese: 福島県の安積疎水をオランダの技師、ファン・ドールンの招聘によって進めたのはその典型。
English: Although according to the original plan it should have crossed the Tohoku region from the Abukuma-gawa River through Lake Inawashiro to the Agano-gawa River, he canceled that gigantic-scale canal plan and adopted the construction of a railroad instead, and in the end he realized the plan by giving up shipping passengers and goods in a canal system but limiting its function only to running the water.
Japanese: 当初の構想である東北地方を横貫して阿武隈川から猪苗代湖にいたり阿賀野川に抜ける大運河構想を破棄し鉄道建設に取って代わらせ、疎水方式による通航が出来ない通水のみの機能に絞って実現した。
English: Besides, by the means like constructing also Totsuna-bashi Bridge with the budget of Fukushima Prefecture, he made an effort to dissuade the hearts of the people from resigning or leaving their lands.
Japanese: また、十綱橋の福島県費を使った建設をも行うなど、人心の慰留につとめた。
English: As a disciple of Shonan YOKOI, he and his equals, Ujifusa KAETSU, Taketoshi YAMADA, Fusayuki MIYAGAWA, were called Shitenno (the big four).
Japanese: 横井小楠門下として、嘉悦氏房・山田武甫・宮川房之らと並ぶ四天王と称される。
English: The social standing of Yasuba family was Karo (chief retainer) of Hosokawa Domain, and Yasuba family had so enormous influence in the domain that one of the ancestors Ippei YASUBA was entrusted with carrying out Kaishaku (assistance in someone's committing hara-kiri by beheading him) of Kuranosuke OISHI, Hitto karo (head of chief retainers) of Asano family of Ako Domain who had been left to Hosokawa Domain, in the hantei (residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo) of the Hosokawa Domain in Takanawa, Tokyo (because of this relationship, Yasuba family has kept the deep knowledge about Genroku Ako Incident, and the present head of Yasuba family Mr. Yasumasa YASUBA is acting as Kaicho (Chairman) of Zenkoku Gishikai Rengokai (National combination of loyal retainers societies).
Japanese: 細川藩家老の家柄で、先祖である安場一平は、東京高輪の細川藩邸で、細川藩預かりとなっていた赤穂藩浅野家筆頭家老大石内蔵助の介錯を行うなど（この縁で安場家は元禄赤穂事件に造詣が深く、現在の安場家当主安場保雅氏は全国義士会連合会の会長をつとめている）、藩内でも影響力のある家柄であった。
English: Immediately after his assumption, he presented the impeachment of Okura no taifu (Senior Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Treasury) Shigenobu OKUMA only to be rejected, but ironically, this increased the sense of danger about the split in the government, and led to gathering again in the government by Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures).
Japanese: 就任直後に大蔵大輔大隈重信の弾劾を行って否決されたものの、皮肉にもこれが政府分裂の危機感を高めて、廃藩置県による政府内再結集への動きにつながった。
English: While the Tohoku region in those days was in the midway from Shizoku no hanran (revolt by family or person with samurai ancestors) after Boshin Civil War to Jiyu Minken Undo (Movement for Liberty and People's Right), he made an effort to dissuade the hearts of the people from resigning or leaving their lands, and carried out the reclamation and development in various places.
Japanese: 戊辰戦争後の士族反乱から自由民権運動に至る途上の東北地方の人心慰留につとめ各地の開拓と開発を行った。
English: When he was Genroin gikan, he carried out survey starting from Nemuro of Hokkaido, and going north along Chishima (Kurile) Islands to Shumushu Island, and on the way back he continued to survey Kunashiri Island and the inland area of Hokkaido as he was moving by land from Nemuro, so that he compiled 'The opinions on the guards of Chishima and the reclamation of Hokkaido.'
Japanese: 元老院議官時代には、北海道の根室から千島列島を北上して、シュムシュ島に渡り、帰りには国後島や根室から陸路北海道の内陸部を調査し「千島警備及び北海道開拓に対する意見書」をまとめた。
English: This "opinions" submitted to Hirobumi ITO who was then Sangi (Councilor) are regarded as those that explained the importance of the Hoppo (northern regions).
Japanese: 当時参議であった伊藤博文に提出されたこの意見書は、北方の重要性を説いたものとされる。