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English: During this period of frustration, he learned Buddhism under Tannen Osho, a chief priest at Kezoan in Matsuse, Saga County, and at the age of 21, he received kechimyaku (heritage of the Law) (the light of Buddhism handed down from a master to his disciple) and akonenju (recite a prayer in a form of verses to praise the Amitabuddah in a religious ritual; in which he received his funeral performed while in life and hogo (Buddhist name) Jocho Gyokuzan).
Japanese: 失意のこの頃、佐賀郡松瀬の華蔵庵において湛然和尚に仏道を学び、21歳のときに仏法の血脈(けちみゃく)（師から弟子に法灯が受けつがれること）と下炬念誦(あこねんじゅ)（生前葬儀の式、旭山常朝の法号を受けた）を申し請けている。
English: His ground of valuing compassion, which can be observed in the Hagakure, must have been cultivated during this period.
Japanese: 『葉隠』で慈悲心を非常に重んじている素地はこのとき涵養されたといえよう。
English: In addition, during around this period, even though he had mastered Shinto (belief in god of heaven and earth), Confucianism and Buddhism and he was enjoying the fame of the best scholar of the domain, he frequently visited Ittei ISHIDA, who was living in retirement in Matsuume-mura Village in Shimoda (present Yamato-cho, Saga Prefecture) in order to ask for Ittei's tutelage.
Japanese: さらにこの前後、神道・儒学・仏道の学をきわめ藩随一の学者といわれながら下田（現在の佐賀県大和町）松梅村に閑居する石田一鼎を度々訪れて薫陶を受けた。
English: In July 1682, at the age of 24, he got married with the daughter of Rokudayunaritsugu YAMAMURA, and in November 11 in the same year he received an official appointment to hold the post of goshomotsuyaku.
Japanese: 天和(日本)2年（1682年）24歳のとき、6月、山村六太夫成次の娘と結婚、同年11月、御書物役を拝命。
English: After returning home, at the age of 33, he was again assigned to goshomotsuyaku, and he succeeded to his father's name 'Jinemon.'
Japanese: 帰国後の33歳のとき、再び御書物役を命じられる、命により親の名"神右衛門"を襲名した。
English: Five years later in 1696, when he was appointed Kyotoyaku (official in charge of affaires in Kyoto), he made a great effort as an agent of Mitsushige, to gain Kokin denju (the secret transmissions of the "Kokin Wakashu" [Anthology of Old and New Japanese Poems]), which was the long-cherished desire of Mitsushige, who had a special interest in waka (Japanese poetry).
Japanese: 5年後の元禄9年（1696年）、また京都役を命ぜられ、和歌のたしなみ深い光茂の宿望であった古今伝授（古今和歌集解釈の秘伝を授かること）を得るために、この取り次ぎの仕事に奔走した。
English: It was not easy to gain all the secret transmissions of Kokin denju, but finally he achieved it in 1700, and he sent the complete unit to the bedside of Mitushige, who had been seriously ill in bed after retirement, gaining him honor.
Japanese: 古今伝授のすべてを授かることは容易ではなかった、が元禄13年（1700年）ようやくこれを受け、隠居後重病の床にある光茂の枕頭に届けて喜ばせ、面目をほどこした。
English: When Mitsushige died at the age of 69 on June 15, 1696, 42-year-old Jocho asked for a permission to the authority to let him enter into priesthood, because he had devoted all his life to Mitsushige during more than 30 years with the spirit to 'take charge of all the family affaires of his master by himself,' but he was not allowed to follow his master to the grave due to the oibara (following one's master into death by committing ritual suicide [seppuku]), and in May 19, he received the religious precept from the highest priest of Koden-ji Temple, Ryoi Osho and took the tonsure.
Japanese: 同年5月16日、光茂が69歳の生涯を閉じるや、42歳のこの年まで30年以上「お家を我一人で荷なう」の心意気で側近として仕えた常朝は、追腹禁止により殉死もならず、願い出て出家、5月19日、高伝寺了意和尚より受戒、剃髮。
English: Then in early August he began a secluded life at a hermitage Asahiken (朝陽軒) in Kurotsuchihara, Yamaji Raikoji-mura Village (present Kinryu-machi, Saga City) 10 km to the north from the Saga-jo Castle town.
Japanese: そして、7月初旬佐賀城下の北10キロの山地来迎寺村（現在の佐賀市金立町）黒土原の庵室朝陽軒に隠棲。
English: It was on April 3, 1710, 10 years later, when Tsuramoto TASHIRO, who was adoring Jocho, visited him.
Japanese: 田代陣基が、常朝を慕い尋ねてきたのはそれから10年後、宝永7年（1710年）3月5日のことである。
English: Afterwards, Asahiken became to be called Sojuan, and Mitsushige's wife who came to hold a service for her deceased husband there decided that it would be her graveyard.
Japanese: のち、朝陽軒は宗寿庵となり、光茂の内室がここで供養し、自分の墓所と定めた。
English: Therefore, Jocho refrained from staying there and moved to a hermitage in Daishoguma (present Kureishi (礫石), Yamato-cho, Saga City) about 11 km to the west from Kurotsuchihara in 1713.
Japanese: そこで、常朝は遠慮して、正徳(日本)3年（1713年）黒土原から西方約11キロの大小隈（現在の佐賀市大和町礫石）の庵に移り住む。
English: In June 1714, he started writing "Kakioki " a must-do's book of the feudal lords for Lord of Kawakubo Shuzen KAMISHIRO (the seventh son of Mitushige, later the fifth lord of the Saga Domain, Muneshige NABESHIMA), and when he finished it next year he present it to Shuzen.
Japanese: 正徳4年（1714年）5月、川久保領主神代主膳（光茂七男、のちの佐賀藩五代藩主鍋島宗茂）のために、藩主たる者の心得を説いた『書置』を書き、翌5年、上呈する。
English: On October 24, 1716, Tsuramoto TASHIRO completed the compilation of the eleven volumes in total of the Hagakure (the book of Bushido).
Japanese: 享保元年（1716年）9月10日、田代陣基が『葉隠』全11巻の編集を了える。
English: After 20 year's secluded life in the mountain, in November 21, 1719 he died at the age of 61.
Japanese: 山居すること20年、享保4年（1719年）10月10日、61歳で没した。
English: After becoming a priest, Jocho made detailed chronicle lists of the main events of his father Shigesumi as well as that of his grandfather Jinemon Seimei NAKANO, and he also continued recording his personal details in his chronological list of the main events until two weeks before his death.
Japanese: 出家後の常朝は父重澄や祖父中野神右衛門清明のそれぞれの詳細な年譜を作製し、自分自身の詳しい年譜をも死の2週前まで書きつづけていた。
English: The autograph reprint of Jocho's "Nenpu" (Chronological List of the Main Events) is included in "Hagakure Kenkyu" (Study on Hagakure), Volume 2, published by Hagakure Kenkyukai (study group).
Japanese: なお、常朝自筆『年譜』は葉隠研究会『葉隠研究』第2号に翻刻されている。
English: Michikata NAKANOIN (1189 - February 3, 1239) was a Court noble, an authority of ancient practice of customs and a poet who lived during the early Kamakura period.
Japanese: 中院通方（なかのいんみちかた、文治5年（1189年）-暦仁元年12月28日(旧暦)（1239年2月3日））は、鎌倉時代初期の公卿、故実家で歌人。
English: He was conferred to the Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) at the age of six, and the next year, he was given Inaba Province which was once his father's chigyo-koku (provincial fiefdom).
Japanese: 6歳で従五位下を授けられ、翌年には父の知行国であった因幡国が与えられる。
English: Thereafter, although he held various posts such as Sangi (councilor), Kebiishi no betto (Superintendent of the Imperial Police) and Chunagon (vice-councilor of state), he was obliged to put a rein on his own behavior due to a punishment on suspension given after the Jokyu War.
Japanese: 以後、参議・検非違使別当・中納言を歴任するが、承久の乱後恐懼処分を受けて謹慎した。
English: After the War, he became a guardian for his older sister, Shomeimonin, and her grandson, Prince Kunihito (Emperor Tsuchimikado's son, and later Emperor Gosaga).
Japanese: 乱後は姉の承明門院とその孫邦仁王（土御門天皇の子、後の後嵯峨天皇）を後見した。
English: During that period, he wrote "Kazarisho" (record of costume and lore), a book about Yushoku kojitsu (court and samurai rules of ceremony and etiquette) such as dress code in the events and rituals in the Imperial Court.
Japanese: その間に宮廷行事における服装などの有職故実についてまとめた『飾抄』を著した。
English: Although he was promoted to Dainagon in 1238, he fell ill shortly after that and finished his 50-year life at the end of the old calendar year 1238 (equivalent to January 1239 according to the new calendar).
Japanese: 暦仁元年（1238年）大納言に昇ったものの、間もなく病で倒れ、その年の暮れに50歳の生涯を閉じた。
English: Fujinaga ISSHIKI (the date of birth unknown - May 6, 1596 ?) was Busho (Japanese military commander) in the Sengoku period (Japan).
Japanese: 一色藤長（いっしきふじなが、？-慶長元年4月9日(旧暦)（1596年5月6日）？）は戦国時代(日本)の武将。
English: As the lord of the ISSHIKI -SHIKIBU family, who took in charge of Hokoshu (the shogunal military guard), Fujinaga served Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA and Yoshiaki ASHIKAGA in collaboration with Terutsune Hosokawa and so on.
Japanese: 奉公衆となった一色式部家の当主として、細川輝経らとともに足利義輝・足利義昭に近仕した。
English: Fujinaga is said to have fostered the son of Yoshiaki ASHIKAGA as Yoshitaka ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: 足利義昭の子の義喬を、「足利義喬」として藤長が養育したと言われている。
English: There is also a theory that Fujinaga participated in the Western Camp of the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, and said to have died in the battle.
Japanese: 1600年の関ヶ原の戦いで西軍方として参戦し、討ち死にしたとの説もある。
English: SAKAIBE no Marise (Year of birth unknown - 628) was a person from a powerful family in the Asuka period.
Japanese: 境部摩理勢（さかいべのまりせ、生年不詳-推古天皇36年（628年））は、飛鳥時代の豪族。
English: In 600, Marise was appointed to Mimana Kyuen Shogun (general of support arms for Mimana), in fact, he didn't go to Mimana (Korea).
Japanese: 推古天皇8年（600年）、任那救援将軍に任ぜられる（ただし、実際に赴任はしていない）。
English: He and his brother and the minister SOGA no Umako supported the administration of Empress Suiko and Shotoku Taishi (Prince Shotoku), and built up a strong connection with Jogu Oke (the highest royal family) led by Shotoku Taishi.
Japanese: 大臣である兄・蘇我馬子とともに推古天皇・聖徳太子の執政を支えるが、その過程で聖徳太子一族（上宮王家）との結びつきを深めた。
English: After Umako had died, his son SOGA no Emishi became a minister and led the imperial court; at the same time, Marise enlarged his political power as a member of a powerful family originated from the same Soga clan as Emishi; therefore, gradually he came into serious antagonism with Emishi not only in the Soga clan but also in the imperial court.
Japanese: 馬子の死後は、子の蘇我蝦夷が大臣を継いで朝政を主導するが、摩理勢も蘇我氏族内の有力一門として発言力を保ち、蘇我氏内部においても朝廷政治においても蝦夷の対抗勢力となり、次第に対立を深めていく。
English: In March, 628 (in old lunar calendar), immediate before the death, Empress Suiko called two princes beside her bed; they were powerful candidates for the next emperor.
Japanese: 推古天皇36年（628年）3月、推古天皇は崩御の直前、有力な皇位継承候補となる2人の皇子を病床に呼び寄せた。
English: The Empress preached Tamura no Miko to keep moderateness and be careful about what he says and does, and preached Yamashiro no Oe no Okimi to know his immatureness and listen to vassals' advices.
Japanese: 田村に対しては「慎み深く言動に気をつけよ」と諭し、山背大兄に対しては「あなたはまだ若く未熟なので群臣の意見を聴きなさい」と遺言した。
English: Based on the last words, SOGA no Emishi thought that Empress Suiko had planned to enthrone Tamura no Miko, then put him forward as the next emperor of Yamato (Japan).
Japanese: 蘇我蝦夷は、この遺詔から、推古の思惑は田村皇子後継にあったと考え、田村を次期ヤマト大王として擁立する。
English: However, SAKAIBE no Marise raised objection to it as a guardian of Jogu Oke (the family of Shotoku Taishi) and supported Yamashiro no Oe no Okimi in coming forward aggressively.
Japanese: しかし上宮王家の後見人である境部摩理勢は、これに真っ向から反対し、山背大兄を推薦し、山背大兄も大王継承に積極的に名乗りをあげた。
English: Although Hatsuse no Naka no Okimi (Prince Hatsuse no Naka who was a half-brother of Yamashiro no Oe no Okimi) and SEKI no Azumahito supported him as well, a few people followed him, besides Emishi conciliated people very well to his side, therefore, at last, Yamashiro no Oe no Okimi declined to succeed.
Japanese: しかし摩理勢に同調する勢力は泊瀬仲王（山背大兄の異母弟）や佐伯東人らわずかであり、蝦夷の懐柔政策も功を奏したため、結局山背大兄は大王継承を辞退する。
English: Marise got angry with it and left his duty of building the tomb of SOGA no Umako, then he revolted against Emishi in 'Soga no Taie' (considered to be one of the clan's residences).
Japanese: この情勢に怒った摩理勢は、従事中であった馬子の墓造営の任務を放棄し、「蘇我の田家」なる施設に立て籠もって公然と蝦夷に反旗を翻した。
English: Although he was persuaded by Yamashiro no Oe no Okimi and went back to his house, soon after that, Hatsuse no Naka no Okimi died, and Marise lost his biggest supporter.
Japanese: やがて山背大兄の説得により自邸に戻るが、ほどなく泊瀬仲王が死去し、後ろ盾を失った。
English: Then Emishi's army attacked Marise, and at last, Marise was strangled by a soldier KUME no Mononobe no Ikuhi.
Japanese: 蝦夷は摩理勢を攻め、摩理勢は来目物部伊区比なる者に絞殺されたという。
English: Morouji HOSAKAWA (1305 - 1348) was a busho (Japanese military commander) during the late Kamakura period through the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 細川師氏（ほそかわもろうじ、正安6年（1305年）-正平(日本)3年/貞和4年（1348年））は、鎌倉時代後期から南北朝時代(日本)の武将。
English: Under the Kenmu Government, he accompanied Takauji's brother Naoyoshi to Kamakura and fought the Nakasendai War as well.
Japanese: 建武政権では尊氏の弟である直義に随行して鎌倉へ下り、中先代の乱でも戦う。
English: When the Muromachi Government was established, he was appointed to the position of Awaji shugo (the Provincial Constable of Awaji Province) and defeated the Uhara clan of the Southern Court (Tatekawase Battle).
Japanese: 室町幕府成立後、淡路守護に任じられ、南朝方の宇原氏を征討した（立河瀬合戦）。
English: Kyugoro JINMAKU (June 4, 1829 - 21 October, 1903) was sumo wrestler of the Edo period.
Japanese: 陣幕久五郎（じんまくきゅうごろう、文政12年5月3日(旧暦)（1829年6月4日）-明治36年（1903年）10月21日）は、江戸時代の相撲力士。
English: When Hatsushio died in 1848, Jinmaku moved to Osaka and became a pupil of Shiroemon ASAHIYAMA.
Japanese: 1848年（嘉永元年）、初汐が没したため大阪に出て、朝日山四郎右衛門の門人となる。
English: In 1850, he moved to Edo (Tokyo) and became a pupil of Raigoro HIDENOYAMA (the ninth Yokozuna).
Japanese: 嘉永3年（1850年）江戸に出て、秀の山雷五郎（9代横綱）の門人となる。
English: He began his career as a retained Sumo wrestler of the Tokushima clan, however during the term, he temporarily served as a retained wrestler of the Matsue clan, then from October of 1864, he became a retained wrestler of the Satsuma clan.
Japanese: 徳島藩の抱え相撲力士として出発したが、途中で一時期松江藩の抱え力士となり、1864年（元治元年）10月以降は薩摩藩の抱え力士となった。
English: However, his perpetual transfers caused the hatred of the retainers of the Tokushima clan, which burst up at the match between Jinmaku and Haridashi-Komusubi (wrestler at the fourth highest rank, lower grade) Tanigoro KIMENZAN on the seventh day of the April Tournament in 1867.
Japanese: ただし、この度重なる所属替えは徳島藩士の陣幕への嫌悪へとつながり、1867年（慶応3年）4月場所7日目の陣幕と張出小結鬼面山谷五郎との取組で最高潮に達した。
English: Kimenzan had been a retained wrestler of the Tokushima clan since joining the Makuchi rank and he was a strong wrestler once called Shitenno (The Big Four) of Awa together with Jinmaku; and Jinmaku was of the Satsuma clan which was building on the momentum at the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 対する鬼面山は新入幕以来徳島藩の抱え力士で、陣幕とともに阿波の四天王と称されたこともある強豪力士であり、陣幕は幕末の勢いに乗る薩摩藩抱えであった。
English: In the explosive atmosphere as the retainers of both clans were glaring at each other at the Sunakaburi (lit. sand-covered seats) right next to the ring with their hands on their swords hilts, and the referee Inosuke SHIKIMORI's face white as a sheet, both wrestlers fought and after the referee called Matta (false start of a match) twice and Mizuiri (break granted to wrestlers during a prolonged match) twice, the match ended in a draw.
Japanese: 土俵脇の砂かぶりでは両藩士が刀の柄に手をかけ、行司式守伊之助も顔面蒼白という一触即発の雰囲気の中、両力士は待った2度、水入り2度ののちに引き分けた。
English: Jinmaku became Ozeki (the second highest rank) in the November Tournament in 1866 and he was awarded with Yokozuna licenses, initially from the Gojo family at the New Year of 1867 and from the Yoshida-tsukasa family in October of the same year.
Japanese: 1866年（慶応2年）11月場所に大関となり、1867年（慶応3年）正月に五条家から、同年10月に吉田司家から横綱免許を授与された。
English: However, he only wrestled until the November Tournament in 1867 and after that he was involved in the turbulent of the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: しかし、相撲を取ったのは慶応3年11月場所までで、その後は明治維新の動乱に巻き込まれた。
English: As Yokozuna, his winning average was 100% (7 wins and 2 draws in March of 1867 and 7 wins in November of the same year, which brings the number of win to 14, draws to 2 and no defeat); so as a result he established a great record which would be never broken.
Japanese: 結果的にではあるが、横綱勝率10割【1867年（慶応3年）3月7勝2分、同年11月7勝。計14勝2分無敗】という永遠に破られないであろう記録を打ち立てた。
English: On December 25, 1867 (in old lunar calender), just before the attack against the residence of the Satsuma clan of Mita in Edo, he walked near the residence by accident; he had a premonition and called fellow retained wrestlers and went back to the residence with them.
Japanese: 1867年（慶応3年）12月25日、江戸・三田の薩摩藩邸焼討事件の直前に偶然近くを通り、藩邸への襲撃を予感して、藩抱え力士を召集し、藩邸に戻った。
English: However, the residence was already set fire and attacked by the retainers of the Shonai clan, so Jinmaku ran all the way to Kawasaki to ask his acquaintance to write to Takamori SAIGO (a retainer of the Satsuma clan) who was staying in Osaka.
Japanese: 既に藩邸は庄内藩士らによって焼き討ちされていたため、陣幕は川崎まで走って、知人に大坂の西郷隆盛に手紙を送るよう頼んだ。
English: The letter reached Saigo in the morning of January 2, 1868 (in old lunar calendar).
Japanese: この手紙は、1868年（明治元年）1月2日(旧暦)の朝に西郷に届いた。
English: After that, he was involved deeply in the development of Osakazumo as Toshiyori (retired wrestler), however he resigned at the end of the September Tournament of 1880 and withdrew from the sumo world, and became a business man.
Japanese: その後、年寄陣幕として大坂相撲の発展に尽くしたが、1880年（明治13年）9月場所限りで廃業し、実業家に転進した。
English: He devoted himself especially to erect memorial monuments to sumo and built monuments in many places in Japan including the 'Yokozuna Rikishi Memorial Monument' in Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in Fukagawa, Tokyo in 1900.
Japanese: 特に相撲関係の建碑事業に奔走し、1900年（明治33年）に建立した東京・深川の富岡八幡宮の「横綱力士碑」など、全国各地に碑を建てた。
English: Many politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats such as Genkun (the statemen who contributed in Meiji Restoration) and Genro (elder chairmen) co-operated in his business, which means that he fully used his career as an ex-retained wrestler of the Satsuma clan.
Japanese: 元勲元老を始めとする政財官界の大物が協力しており、薩摩藩抱えであった経歴を十二分に活用している。
English: He dedicated his Dohyo-iri (ring-entering ceremony) at Honozumo (ritual Sumo matches) held at Yasukuni-jinja Shrine in May, 1887.
Japanese: 1887年（明治20年）5月の靖国神社大祭奉納相撲では土俵入りを奉納した。
English: In 1895 he published 'Junmaku Kyugoro Michitaka's Jiseki' (Jinmaku's Achievement) which was the first autobiography sumo wrestler had ever written.
Japanese: 1895年（明治28年）に力士としては初の自伝である「陣幕久五郎通高事跡」を上梓した。
English: In November, 1901, he again presented his Dohyo-iri at the ceremony to celebrate the completion of the main building of Yasukuni-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 1901年（明治34年）11月の靖国神社社殿竣工式でも土俵入りを奉納している。
English: However, at first he did not look strong, so some wrestler, who had been boasting that he would cut his head off, ended up apologizing desperately, and Mitsuemon SHIRANUI, who had snubbed him, was never given even a slight chance to win.
Japanese: ただ、初めのうちは皆弱いと思っていたため、弾みで「生首をやる」とか言って後で必死に謝る羽目になった者がいたり、不知火光右衛門に鼻であしらわれ絶対勝たせなかったりした。
English: The sumo wrestler's professional name of Jinmaku was decided to be inherited by Nihon Sumo Kyokai (Japan Sumo Association) and until today, it has been inherited as a professional name of a Toshiyori (retired wrestler) year after year.
Japanese: 尚、陣幕という四股名は後に日本相撲協会に拠って年寄名跡『陣幕』として現在に至るまで代々受け継がれている。
English: Ninety-five years after the death of Kyugoro JINMAKU, when Mitsugu CHIYONOFUJI, the greatest Yokozuna of the Showa period, retired and inherited the name of Jinmaku as Toshiyori, the Jinmaku's hometown Higashi-Izumo-cho invited Chiyonofuji and his master Katsuaki KITANOFUJI and held a ceremony to honor Jinmaku.
Japanese: 陣幕久五郎の死去から95年後、昭和の大横綱・千代の富士貢が引退して年寄陣幕を襲名した際、陣幕の故郷である東出雲町では、千代の富士とその師匠である北の富士勝昭を招き、陣幕の顕彰記念行事を催している。
English: He was a descendant of Sanzaemon YOSHIKAWA who was one of Nagahama San-doshiyori (three influential families in Nagahama) and had played important roles in building Nagahama castle town by the order of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉の命を受け長浜城下町作りに貢献した、長浜三年寄吉川三左衛門の子孫。
English: He moved from Kyoto to Edo, together with a Chinese medicine doctor Tomohisa HASEGAWA, a Chinese medicine doctor Tomoharu KIMURA who was later adopted into Tomohisa by the marriage with his daughter and became a doctor of the Ogino Yamanaka Domain in 1853, and Eijiro TAKAHASHI who was later adopted into the Yamagishi family which had been running Kagaya (the master was known as Kagakyu), a wholesaler of glass and eyeglasses in Toriabura-cho, Nihonbashi.
Japanese: 漢方医長谷川友尚、漢方医木村友春（後に長谷川友尚の娘と結婚、友尚の養子となり、その後、嘉永6年（1853年）荻野山中藩医となる）、高橋栄次郎（後に日本橋通油町の硝子・眼鏡問屋加賀屋（加賀久）を営む山岸家の養子となる）とともに、京都から上京。
English: Shizuko NOGI (November 29, 1859-September 13, 1912) was a woman who lived from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period and the wife of Maresuke NOGI who was Army General.
Japanese: 乃木静子（のぎしずこ、安政6年11月6日(旧暦)（1859年11月29日）-大正元年（1912年）9月13日）は、幕末・明治期の女性で、陸軍大将・乃木希典の妻。
English: On November 29, 1859, she was born as the fourth daughter (the youngest child among seven brothers and sisters) between Sadayuki YUCHI, a doctor of the Kagoshima domain, and Sadako YUCHI.
Japanese: 安政6年11月6日、鹿児島藩医・湯地定之・湯地貞子夫妻の4女（7人兄弟姉妹の末っ子）として出生。
English: On December 2, 1872, all her family moved to his eldest brother Sadamoto YUCHI's residence at 2 Akasaka, Tokyo, called by Sadamoto who had just come back to Japan from studying abroad when she was 14 years old in the age by the traditional Japanese system, and she entered Kojimachi Girls' School at the Kojimachi Ward, Tokyo Prefecture.
Japanese: 1872年12月2日、当時、数え年14歳の時に海外留学から帰国した長兄・湯地定基に呼び寄せられる形で家族揃って東京赤坂(東京都港区)溜池2番地の湯地定基邸に転居、東京府麹町区にある麹町女學校に入学する。
English: Kojimachi Girls' School was established at the beginning of the Meiji period and abolished in the middle of the Meiji period, so it does not exist now.
Japanese: 麹町女學校は明治初期に創立され、明治中期に廃校になったため、現存しない。
English: In addition, although it is said that Kojimachi Gakuen Girl's High School succeeded Shizuko's alma mater, no evidence has been discovered so far.
Japanese: また、麹町学園女子高等学校が静子の出身校の流れを汲む学校と噂されるも、確たる証拠はいまのところ発見されていない。
English: Recommended by Kosuke IJICHI and Shizuo NOZU who were military men, she hesitantly married Maresuke at the age of 20 in the age by the traditional Japanese system.
Japanese: 大日本帝国陸軍軍人・伊地知幸介や野津鎮雄らの勧めにより、躊躇しながらも数え年20歳で希典と結婚。
English: Some documents describe that 'Shizuko was interested in Maresuke and loved him,' but this is wrong.
Japanese: 「静子の方が希典に対して興味・想いを持っていた」とされる文献もあるが、これは間違いである。
English: They were blessed with four children including their eldest son Katsusuke NOGI, but younger two children died soon after the birth, leaving Katsusuke and the second son Yasusuke NOGI.
Japanese: 長男・乃木勝典を始め、4人の子宝に恵まれるが、勝典と次男・乃木保典を残し、下の二人は生後、間もなく夭折する。
English: When she was just married, she continuously suffered from troubles such as poor life and a conflict with her mother-in-law Hisako (the letter '寿子' is also written as '久子' in some documents) NOGI, so she was separated for one and half year from Katsusuke and Yasusuke.
Japanese: 新婚当時は生活も厳しく、貧しい生活をしている上に姑・乃木寿子（乃木久子表記での文献有り）との確執もあり、苦労・苦悩が続き、1年半ほど勝典・保典を連れて別居している。
English: When the Russo-Japanese War began and Maresuke (who had been already the lieutenant general and the Army General at that time), Katsusuke and Yasusuke (both of them had been already junior lieutenants of Army) left for the front, she bought three bottles of fragrant water among which two cost nine yen and the one cost eight yen and presented to them.
Japanese: 日露戦争が開戦し、出征する希典（出征時は既に陸軍中将-陸軍大将）・勝典・保典（二人とも出征時は既に陸軍少尉）に東京・銀座の高級化粧品店・資生堂で1つ9円もする香水2つと8円の香水1つの計3つを購入し、贈る。
English: At first, Shizuko intended to buy three bottles of fragrant water which cost nine yen and present them to each person, but since only two bottles of fragrant water which cost nine yen were sold, she presented the one which cost nine yen to Katsusuke and Yasusuke, and the other which cost eight yen to Maresuke.
Japanese: 当初、静子は9円の香水を3つ購入して3人にそれぞれ贈るつもりだったが、9円の香水が2つしかなかったため、9円の香水を勝典と保典に、8円の香水を希典に贈った。
English: The nine yen in those days corresponded to about two-months average salary which a woman could earn with hard working.
Japanese: 当時の9円というのは、成人女性が精一杯働いて稼ぐことの出来る平均給与の約2か月分に相当する。
English: The reason why Shizuko presented such expensive fragrant water was that it was a pity if her husband and loving sons died in the battle and their bodies smelled an unusual odor, which was her love for family as a wife and a mother.
Japanese: 静子がそこまでして高価な香水を贈ったのは、もし戦死した後、遺体から異臭が放たれれば夫と愛息子が不憫この上ないという妻として、母親としての哀しいまでの家族を想いやる愛の表現であった。
English: On May 27, 1904, Katsusuke was hit by a gun at Jinshan Nanzan (commonly called Jinshan or Nanzan) and he was injured in the stomach so hard, an air hole was opened.
Japanese: 明治37年5月27日、勝典が金州南山（通称：金山または南山）で銃弾に打たれて腸を損傷、向こう側が丸見えになるほどの風穴が開いた。
English: After that, Shizuko who had been informed Katsusuke's death was prostrated with sorrow and continued to cry for three days and nights.
Japanese: この後、勝典の戦死の知らせを聞いた静子は深い哀しみに暮れ、三日三晩泣き続けた。
English: (It can be guessed that this bleeding of tears showed her read face swollen with crying as if she bled tears, but some documents describe that she actually shed tears with blood, therefore, the truth is unclear.)
Japanese: （ここで記述する血の涙とは、恐らくは血を流しているかのように見えるほど赤く泣き腫らした顔を指しているものと想われるが、実際に血の混じった涙を流したと記す文献もあり、真偽は不明である。）
English: On November 30, 1904, when the Imperial Army which faces an uphill battle attacked 203 high land under the strategy of the third commander Maresuke and the Army General Gentaro KODAMA, Yasusuke was hit by crump, fell down from a quay and crashed into rocks, and his head was pulverized and he died (immediate death).
Japanese: 明治37年11月30日、苦戦を強いられていた帝国陸軍は第3軍司令官・希典と児玉源太郎陸軍大将の戦略で203高地を進軍していたが、この時に保典が砲弾に打たれたショックで岸壁から滑落、岩場に激突し、頭が砕けて戦死した（即死）。