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English: Gakusen SODANI (1738-December 7, 1797) was a tenkokuka (artist of seal engraving) in the middle of the Edo period.
Japanese: 曽谷学川（そだにがくせん、元文3年（1738年）-寛政9年10月20日(旧暦)（1797年12月7日））は、江戸時代中期の篆刻家である。
English: His azana (adult male's nickname) was 応聖, his second names or aliases were 仏斎居士, 曼陀羅居 and 読騒菴 in addition to Gakusen, his common name was Tadasuke, which was later changed into 宇作.
Japanese: 字は応聖、号(称号)は学川の他に仏斎居士、曼陀羅居、読騒菴、通称は忠助、後に宇作に改める。
English: Recommended by Hiroatsu ASANO (Yahei FUJIYA) of 星文堂, he went to Osaka and lived by selling seals under the patronage of 西村孟清 and his son 子恭.
Japanese: 星文堂浅野弘篤（藤屋弥兵衛）の勧めで大坂に出て西村孟清・子恭父子の庇護の下、篆刻作品を売って生活した。
English: Also, he joined a prose and poetry association Kontonshisha and had close relationships with literary men in Osaka such as the leader Hokkai KATAYAMA, Kenkado KIMURA and Shikin KATSU.
Japanese: また詩文結社混沌詩社に参加し、盟主片山北海・木村蒹葭堂・葛子琴ら大坂の文人との交流を深める。
English: Especially he often visited Kenkado's house and read and obtained knowledge from then current books shipped from China while helping his publishing business.
Japanese: 特に蒹葭堂宅に出入りし出版事業を手助けしながら、中国から舶載された当時最新の書籍に触れ知見を広める。
English: In addition to actively compiling Inpu (compilation of seal marks) and writing discussions regarding tenkoku, he published books of "Tofu Hyakuchin" and "Tofu Hyakuchin Continued" under the name of Suikyodojin Kahitsujun, which became bestsellers.
Japanese: 篆刻に関する印譜や論考などを精力的に著すほかに、醒狂道人何必醇（すいきょうどうじんかひつじゅん）という戯号で出版した『豆腐百珍』・『豆腐百珍　続編』はベストセラーとなった。
English: Also, "Naniwa Kyoyuroku" (Directory of Osaka), which imitated "平安人物史" of Kyoto, became a koshi (pioneering figure) of name lists of Osaka.
Japanese: また京都の『平安人物史』にならって出版した『浪華郷友録』は大坂の人名録の嚆矢となる。
English: However, he lost the adopted daughter and grand child in succession, and Gakusen himself died of illness soon after that.
Japanese: しかし、その長女、孫を相次いで失い、学川自身もその後すぐに病没する。
English: Tadayoshi ICHIJO (May 2, 1774 - July 5, 1837) was a Court noble who lived during the Edo period.
Japanese: 一条忠良（いちじょうただよし、安永3年3月22日(旧暦)（1774年5月2日）-天保8年6月3日(旧暦)（1837年7月5日））は、江戸時代の公卿。
English: He had a number of children including Sanemichi ICHIJO, Tadaka ICHIJO, Takemichi KOGA, Hideko ICHIJO (the lawful wife of Iesada TOKUGAWA), Princess Tomo (also known as Kanshoin, the lawful wife of Nariteru IKEDA), Michiko (the lawful wife of Yorisato MATSUDAIRA), and Takako (the lawful wife of Sukehiro TAKATSUKASA).
Japanese: 子に一条実通、一条忠香、久我建通、一条秀子（徳川家定室）、知君（寛彰院。池田斉輝室）、通子（松平頼学室）、崇子（鷹司輔熙室）らがいる。
English: In 1783, he was granted the rank of Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank) (he was later granted the rank of Juichii [Junior First Rank] in 1799), and experienced the Naidaijin (Inner Minister), the Udaijin (Minister of the Right), and the Sadaijin (Minister of the Left).
Japanese: 天明3年（1783年）従三位となり（のち寛政11年（1799年）には従一位となった）、内大臣、右大臣、左大臣を歴任。
English: He resigned as Kanpaku in 1823, but was granted the title of Jusango (honorary rank next to the three Empresses: Great Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, and Empress) in 1828.
Japanese: のち文政6年（1823年）関白を辞めたが、同11年（1828年）准三后となっている。
English: Teruyoshi ICHIJO (November 28, 1756 - November 25, 1795) was a Court noble who lived during the Edo period.
Japanese: 一条輝良(いちじょうてるよし、宝暦6年11月7日(旧暦)（1756年11月28日）-寛政7年10月14日(旧暦)（1795年11月25日））は、江戸時代の公卿。
English: He married Princess Yoshi, the daughter of Shigenori TOKUGAWA and had several children such as Tadayoshi ICHIJO, Sanetsugu SAIONJI, and a daughter who married Kinosa SANJO.
Japanese: 徳川重倫の娘懿姫を娶り、子に一条忠良、西園寺実韶、三条公修室らがいる。
English: He became the Naidaijin (Inner Minister) in 1771 and later experienced the Udaijin (Minister of the Right) and the Sadaijin (Minister of the Left), and finally became the Kanpaku (Chief Adviser to the Emperor) in 1791.
Japanese: 明和8年（1771年）に内大臣となり、以後、右大臣、左大臣を歴任し、寛政3年（1791年）に関白になった。
English: In 886, he was granted the rank of Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade), and then served as Shuri Oiseki-shi (a person who was in charge of the maintenance of the sluice of the Oi-gawa River) after experiencing a sani (courtier without post).
Japanese: 仁和2年（886年）従五位下となり、その後、散位を経て、修理大井堰使を務めた。
English: Sanemasa SHIGENOI (May. 23, 1700 - Dec.4, 1735) was Kugyo (a Court noble) in the middle of Edo period.
Japanese: 滋野井実全（しげのいさねまさ、元禄13年4月5日_(旧暦)（1700年5月23日）－享保20年10月20日_(旧暦)（1735年12月4日））は、江戸時代中期の公卿。
English: He was conferred a peerage at the age of three, and he was raised to Jugoinoge jiju (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade Chamberlain) when he was celebrated his coming of age in 1707.
Japanese: 3歳で叙爵を受け、宝永4年（1707年）に元服して従五位上侍従に任じられる。
English: In 1735, at the time when Imperial Prince Teruhito became the Emperor Sakuramachi, Sanemasa was appointed as Gon Chunagon (Provisional Middle Counselor).
Japanese: 享保20年（1735年）、皇太子昭仁親王が即位して桜町天皇となると、実全も権中納言に任命された。
English: Hiroto TADOKORO (year of birth and death unknown) was a member of Mibu Roshi (masterless samurai group of Mibu) and also a member the Shinsengumi (a Tokugawa shogunate police force located in Kyoto).
Japanese: 田所弘人（たどころひろと、生没年不詳）は壬生浪士、新選組の隊士である。
English: He joined the corps in around June 1863, and his name was on the 'Bakufu Teishutsu Josho Shomeisha Ichiran' (List of Signers for Official Documents Submitted to the Shogunate) which was submitted on July 10, 1863.
Japanese: 文久三年五月頃に入隊し、同月二十五日の「幕府提出上書署名者一覧」に名前を連ねる。
English: Shizuma MATSUZAKI (year of birth and death unknown) was a member of the Mibu Roshi-gumi (masterless samurai group of Mibu) and the Shinsengumi (a Tokugawa shogunate police force located in Kyoto).
Japanese: 松崎静馬（まつざきしずま、生没年不詳）は壬生浪士組、及び新選組の隊士である。
English: As his name is in the 'persons died from accidents or disease' section on the stone monument erected in Itabashi by Shinpachi NAGAKURA, it is believed that he died while he was in the corps for reasons still unknown.
Japanese: 永倉新八が建てた板橋の石碑の中で「変死・病死」に列記されている為、在隊中に何らかの理由で死亡したと考えられる。
English: Kinosa SANJO (Sep. 6, 1774 - Oct.2, 1840) was Kugyo (a Court noble) in the Edo period.
Japanese: 三条公修（さんじょうきんおさ、安永3年8月1日(旧暦)（1774年9月6日）-天保11年9月7日(旧暦)（1840年10月2日））は、江戸時代の公卿。
English: He had brothers including Sanemochi OSHIKOJI and Kucho SHIKAZONO, sons including Sanetsumu SANJO and Sanemoro SANJO, and a daughter who became a wife of Saneiso SANJONISHI.
Japanese: 兄弟に押小路実茂、鹿園空晁、子に三条実万、三条実師、三条西実勲室がいる。
English: On April 5, 1784, he was appointed Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank).
Japanese: 天明4年2月16日(旧暦)（1784年4月5日）に従三位に叙任する。
English: She was born as the second daughter of Kazuma YOKOTA from Matsushiro clan in Matsushiro-cho, Hanishina-gun, Nagano Prefecture (present Matsushiro Town, Nagano City [Matsushiro, Nagano Prefecture]).
Japanese: 長野県埴科郡松代町（現・長野市松代町(長野県)松代）に松代藩横田数馬の次女として生まれる。
English: In 1874, she retired from Tomioka Seishi-jo with the opening of Rokko-sha in Nishijo Village, Hanishina-gun, Nagano Prefecture (present Matsushiromachi Nishijyo, Nagano City).
Japanese: 1874年、長野県埴科郡西条村(現・長野市松代町西条)の六工社の事業開始に伴い富岡製糸場を退職。
English: Mitsuosa IRAKO (October 7, 1823-September 23, 1881) was a Japanese medical doctor from the end of Edo period to the early Meiji period.
Japanese: 伊良子光順（いらこみつおさ、文政6年9月4日(旧暦)（1823年10月7日）－明治14年（1881年）9月23日）は、幕末から明治時代初期の日本の医師。
English: He was from present-day Nara City, Nara Prefecture and belonged to Tenyakuryo (the Department of Drugs and Medical Care in Imperial Household Agency), and he served the Emperor Komei and the Emperor Meiji.
Japanese: 現在の奈良県奈良市出身で、典薬寮に所属し孝明天皇と明治天皇に仕えた。
English: He was born in Nara in 1823 as a son of a doctor Yukihiro WASUMI who served a chief priest of Ensho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 文政6年（1823年）、円照寺の門跡に仕えた医師・和角之寛（わすみ　ゆきひろ）の子として奈良に誕生。
English: Later, he moved to Kyoto to learn things and became a disciple of a goteni (doctor who is hired by bakufu [Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun] or daimyo [feudal lord]) Mitsumichi IRAKO.
Japanese: 後に京都へ遊学し、御典医・伊良子光通（～みつみち）の門下生となった。
English: Mitsumichi was adopted into his wife's family as a son-in-law of a surgeon Mitsuaki IRAKO, and permitted to establish another new school (Sennodo Irako school) separated from Soke (the head family) (Kendosai Irako school) taken over by Mitsuaki's biological child.
Japanese: 光通は都に名高かった外科医・伊良子光顕（～みつあき）に婿養子として迎えられ、光顕の実子が継いだ宗家（見道斎伊良子家）から分かれた新たな一家（千之堂伊良子家）の創設を許されていた。
English: At the same time, Mitsumichi was a known doctor who was appointed to conduct actual medical examinations of the Emperor Ninko, with the official court rank of Jushiinoge (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade), Assistant Director of the Bureau of Taxation, but he has lost his successor since his biological son Mitsutaka passed away in 1844.
Japanese: 同時に、従四位下主税助の官位を授けられ仁孝天皇の天脈拝診（実際に天皇の診察に携わること）も命じられた名医であったが、天保15年（1844年）に実子の光敬（みつたか）に先立たれて後継者を欠いていた。
English: Then, a disciple Mitsuosa married Iwao, who was a Kokei's daughter, to become an adopted son of Mitsumichi.
Japanese: そこで門人の光順が、光敬の娘・巌を妻とすることによって光通の養子となった。
English: Additionally, since Mitsuosa's successor Mitsutsugu was also an adopted son-in-law, the maternal line of inheritance continued in Sennodo Irako school over three generations.
Japanese: ちなみに、光順の後継者・光續も婿養子であるため、千之堂伊良子家は3代に渡って女系で相続されていることになる。
English: On January 14, 1846, assisted by a doctor from Tenyakuryo, Mitsuosa was given the court rank of Jurokui (Junior Sixth Rank) and the government post of Bizen no suke (Assistant Governor of Bizen Province).
Japanese: 弘化2年12月17日（1846年1月14日）、光順は典薬寮医師に補せられ、朝廷から従六位の位階と備前介の官職を与えられた。
English: In 1849, his foster father Mitsumichi passed away and Mitsuosa became the family head of Sennodo Irako school at the age of 26.
Japanese: 嘉永2年（1849年）には養父の光通が世を去り、光順が26歳にして千之堂伊良子家の当主となる。
English: At that time, there were 20 doctors in total with or without the post in the government belonging to Tenyakuryo, but in reality, only several of them were allowed to conduct medical examinations of an emperor and Imperial Princes and Princesses while the remaining doctors were engaged in that of court ladies in Empress' residence, regents to Emperor, and members of Imperial families.
Japanese: 当時の典薬寮には有官無官合わせて20人以上の医師が在籍していたが、実際に天皇や親王の拝診を許されたのは数名に留まり、あとの者は後宮の女官や摂関・皇族などの診察に従事した。
English: Mitsuosa was not entitled to conduct that examinations at that time when he succeeded the family, so he examined mainly court nobles and ladies.
Japanese: 光順も家督相続当初は天脈拝診の資格がなく、公卿や女官たちの診察を主としていた。
English: The Emperor Komei had suffered from hemorrhoid since around 1849 and other several doctors from Tenyakuryo provided medical care using Chinese herbal drugs, which, however, had no effect and indicated the limitations of internal treatment for his condition.
Japanese: 孝明天皇は嘉永2年（1849年）頃から痔に悩まされ、他の複数の典医たちが漢方薬を用いた治療を行ったが病状は好転せず、内科的治療に限界が見えていた。
English: Then, Irako school came to draw the attention suddenly since they had been a family of surgeons that had certain achievements in the medical care for hemorrhoid.
Japanese: そこで、外科を家業とし痔の治療で実績を持っていた伊良子流がにわかに注目されたわけである。
English: On November 21, 1851, he examined the affected part for the first time, while serving the Emperor Komei at his bedside.
Japanese: 嘉永4年10月28日（1851年11月21日）、光順は初めて孝明天皇の寝所に侍して患部の診察を行った。
English: At this time, because the Emperor's condition had already progressed to prolapsed hemorrhoid, he diagnosed the Emperor with no-cure hemorrhoid unless the prolapsed part would be removed by surgery, however, following an opinion from Kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor) Masamichi TAKATSUKASA saying 'it was too august to cut the body of Emperor with knife', he decided to give up surgical operation and to employ supportive measures using medical pad and other things.
Japanese: このとき、天皇の痔疾はすでに脱肛の症状まてで進行しており、脱出部位を手術で切除しなければ根治は出来ないと診断するが、「天皇の体に刃物を当てることは畏れ多い」とする関白・鷹司政通の意見により、光順は手術を断念して貼り薬等での対症療法をとることとした。
English: In fact, it was 136 years later that the first surgical operation on an emperor was performed (an abdominal surgery on Emperor Showa).
Japanese: ちなみに、天皇に対して初めて外科手術が実施されたのは、この136年後のことである（昭和天皇の開腹手術）。
English: As a result of this success, he was given the court rank of Jugoi (Junior Fifth Rank)and appointed to be the Mutsu no kami (Governor of Mutsu Province) in 1855 when he was only 32 years old.
Japanese: この功績により、光順は安政2年（1855年）、32歳の若さで従五位に叙せられ、陸奥守に任命されている。
English: Since his foster father Mitsumichi was given the same rank at the age of 47, it seemed that the Emperor Komei had much confidence in Mitsuosa.
Japanese: 養父の光通が同じ位を与えられたのは47歳になってからであったから、孝明天皇の光順に寄せる信頼が大きかったことが伺える。
English: Moreover, in 1857, he received an incentive award especially for the effectiveness of his medical treatment and was given the government post of the Oribe no kami (Governor of Oribe Province) as well as the Mutsu no kami concurrently.
Japanese: さらに安政4年（1857年）には、治療の効果を特に褒賞され、陸奥守と兼任で織部正の官職を与えられた。
English: On December 11, 1866 (in old lunar calendar), the Emperor Komei, who had a touch of cold, push himself to a Shinto ritual held in the Imperial Court and on the next day, December 12, he developed a fever.
Japanese: 慶応2年12月11日（1867年1月16日）、風邪気味の孝明天皇は宮中で執り行われた神事に無理をして参加し、翌12日に発熱する。
English: Mitsuosa kept taking notes on the Emperor's medical conditions from his onset of fever to death, describing them in a journal in detail.
Japanese: この発病から崩御に至るまでの病状も、光順は詳細にメモを取り、日記に詳述している。
English: According to the descriptions from the journal on December 12, 1866 (in old lunar calendar), when the Emperor developed a fever, Tsuneyoshi TAKASHINA, who was in the rank of Emperor's attending doctor (to manage Emperor's daily health), conducted examinations and dispensed drugs for the Emperor but even the next day the Emperor had never got better.
Japanese: 日記の記述よれば、孝明天皇が発熱した12日、天皇の執匙（天皇の日常健康管理を行う主治医格）であった高階経由が拝診して調薬したが、翌日になっても病状が好転しなかった。
English: On December 14 (in old lunar calendar), one of the top-ranked doctors from Tenyakuryo Zui YAMAMOTO took part in the medical treatment, and on December 15, Mitsuosa was also summoned and thorough clinical examinations night and day started.
Japanese: 14日、典医筆頭のひとりである山本隨が治療に参加、15日には光順も召集され、昼夜詰めきりでの拝診が始まった。
English: On December 16 (in old lunar calendar), four doctors, Zui, Tsuneyoshi, Mitsuosa and Tsuneyoshi's son Tsunenori, all together, reexamined the Emperor and they found out that there was a strong possibility that he had been affected with smallpox.
Japanese: 12月16日（1月21日）、隨・経由・光順と、経由の息子・経徳の計4名で改めて拝診した結果、天皇が痘瘡（天然痘）に罹患している可能性が強まる。
English: On December 17 (in old lunar calendar), the official announcement regarding the name of the Emperor's disease was made to bukedenso (Imperial official in charge of communication between the shogunate and the court) and others, and after that, 15 qualified doctors for Emperor's examination were divided into three groups and around-the-clock medical treatment started.
Japanese: 17日には正式に武家伝奏などへ天皇の病名を発表、以後、天脈拝診の資格を持つ15人の医師を下記の3班に分け、24時間体制での治療が始まった。
English: Because generally, a patient with smallpox showed a certain process of medical conditions to heal, doctors from Tenyakuryo had planned the treatments for the Emperor, anticipating roughly how the disease would progress.
Japanese: 通常、痘瘡は治癒までに一定の病状プロセスがあることから、典医たちもおおよその病期を予測して天皇の治療計画を立てていた。
English: In fact, up to December 23 which was the 11th day after the onset of symptoms, the condition was improved as they anticipated, which they called it 'gojunsho' (the condition shows the patient is in the process of recovery).
Japanese: 実際、発症から11日目の12月23日までは、典医たちの予測どおりに病状が進行し、「御順症」であった。
English: However, according to the record of the following day, December 25, the Emperor suffered from sputum, and Atsuhira and Seiken FUJIKI rubbed his body while Mitsuosa plastered him.
Japanese: しかし、翌25日の記録には、天皇が痰がひどく、藤木篤平と静顕が体をさすり、光順が膏薬を張った。
English: Regardless of which group one belonged to, doctors attended on him at his bedside night and day, however, he passed away past 11:00 p.m. of the same day.
Japanese: 班に関係なく昼夜寝所に詰めきりであったが、同日亥の刻（午後11時）過ぎに崩御された、と記されている。
English: Several days after the Emperor's demise, the doctors were ordered to take turns to serve his dead body standing by his bedside.
Japanese: 崩御から数日間、典医たちは交代で天皇のなきがらの傍に詰めるよう命じられた。
English: In the meantime, on December 30, Mitsuosa noted 'a so-called ofune (coffin) was lighted by the moon' in his examination journal, most contents of which were almost medical-records-like, business-like descriptions.
Japanese: その間の12月30日、カルテに近い事務的な記述が大半だった拝診日記に、光順は「御舟ト申ス物ニ月サス」と記した。
English: Ofune refers to a coffin and his note provides lyrical depiction on the night deep in winter silence, where the Emperor's coffin was lighted by the moon.
Japanese: 御舟とは棺のことで、真冬の静まり返った夜、天皇の棺に月明かりが差す様子を叙情的に写生している。
English: Though it was just an only 10-letter short line, it is almost impossible to imagine Mitsuosa's feeling to lose the lord whom he had served for many years.
Japanese: 僅か10文字の短い一文ながら、長年仕えた主君を失った光順の心中を伺うに余りある記述といえる。
English: The doctors from Tenyakuryo including Mitsuosa were thanked for their medical service to the Emperor during the Emperor's life and were permitted to worship the deceased placed in a coffin in Seiryoden (Emperor's residence).
Japanese: 光順ら典医は天皇在世中の拝診の労をねぎらわれ、清涼殿に安置された棺を拝礼する事を許された。
English: Additionally, after the funeral service, the doctors were given a reward as an Imperial gift and Mitsuosa was exclusively given the deceased's watch since he had long been engaged in the medical care of the Emperor's hemorrhoid.
Japanese: また葬儀後、典医たちには慰労金が下賜されたほか、特に長年痔疾の治療に携わった光順には、特別に天皇遺品の時計を与えられた。
English: Due to the demise of Emperor Komei, Imperial Prince Mutsuhito (Emperor Meiji) of Crown Prince ascended to the throne, and Mitsuosa still remained as a medical doctor for Emperor.
Japanese: 孝明天皇の崩御に伴って儲君の睦仁親王（明治天皇）が践祚すると、光順は引き続き天脈拝診を許された。
English: In 1869, he was given the title of Shogoinoge; however, because of the governmental reform of the same year due to the Meiji Restoration, Tenyakuryo was abolished and he came to lose the official ranks of Oribe no kami and Mutsu no kami.
Japanese: 明治2年（1869年）には正五位下に叙せられるが、明治維新に伴う同年の官制改革で典薬寮が廃され、織部正・陸奥守の官職を失う。
English: According to a new system, Emperor's court physicians were divided into three ranks such as Senior, Middle and Junior Tenyaku physicians, and Mitsuosa was appointed as Junior Tenyaku physician.
Japanese: 新制度によって天皇の侍医は大典医・中典医・少典医の3階級に分けられることとなり、光順は少典医に任ぜられる。
English: When the capital was moved to Tokyo, he followed the Emperor to go east but in 1871, as he lost the post, he returned to Kyoto.
Japanese: 東京奠都の際には天皇に従い東下するが、明治4年（1871年）、免官により京都に帰る。
English: On September 23, 1881, Mitsuosa passed away in Kyoto, and was buried in Hoto-ji Temple in Kii County, Fukakusa-mura (the present Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City).
Japanese: 明治14年（1881年）9月23日、光順は京都で生涯を閉じ、紀伊郡深草村（現在の京都市伏見区）の宝塔寺に葬られた。
English: November 19, 1870: Court ranks abolished by the decree of Grand Council of State and reappointed as Shoshichi (Senior Seventh Rank)
Japanese: 明治3年（1870年）11月19日(旧暦)　太政官布告により位階廃止、改めて叙正七位
English: Tsuguko NIWATA (1820 - Dec. 4, 1867) was Naishi no suke (a court lady of the first rank) serving Emperor Ninko.
Japanese: 庭田嗣子（にわたつぐこ、文政3年（1820年）-慶応3年11月9日(旧暦)（1867年12月4日））は、仁孝天皇の典侍。
English: Emperor Ninko demised in 1846 but Tsuguko was not allowed to retire.
Japanese: 仁孝天皇は弘化3年（1846年）に崩御するが、嗣子は退く事を許されなかった。
English: In 1860, when Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Chikako, who was a sister of the Emperor Komei, was engaged to marry Iemochi TOKUGAWA, who was Seitaishogun (commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians, great, unifying leader) in the form of koka (the marriage of an Imperial princess to an ordinary person), she was ordered to serve Princess Kazunomiya and went down to Edo with her.
Japanese: 万延元年（1860年）、孝明天皇の皇妹和宮親子内親王の征夷大将軍である徳川家茂への降嫁が決まると、和宮付きを命ぜられてともに江戸へ下った。
English: In the inner palace of Edo Castle called O-oku, she made a substantial contribution as a close adviser of Princess Kazunomiya, in cooperation with Tsuneko HASHIMOTO (Kangyoin), who was the real mother of the princess.
Japanese: 江戸城大奥では和宮の生母・橋本経子（観行院）と供に和宮の側近として大いに貢献した。
English: Even after Kangyoin died in 1865, she remained royal to Princess Kazunomiya throughout her life, while being in conflict with Tenshoin or Otoshiyori of O-oku who criticized the princess.
Japanese: 慶応元年（1865年）に観行院が亡くなると、終生、和宮に尽くし、和宮を批判する天璋院や大奥御年寄らと対立した。
English: He appears in Episode 4 "TAIRA no Koremochi gets killed by a retainer) and Episode 5 "TAIRA no Koremochi punishes FUJIWARA no Moroto" in the volume 25 of "Konjaku Monogatari shu" (Tales of Times Now and Then collection).
Japanese: 『今昔物語集』では巻第25第4「平維茂が郎党、殺され話」、第5「平維茂、藤原諸任を罰ちたる語」に出てくる。
English: Further, his legend (Momiji-Densetsu) from the time when he was the governor of Shinano Province has been dramatized as a program of Noh, "Momijigari (Noh)" and widely known.
Japanese: その他信濃守のときの伝承（紅葉伝説）は能の演目『紅葉狩(能)』等として劇化されており、広く知られる。
English: Also according to the two episodes from "Konjaku Monogatari shu," he was the son of TAIRA no Kanetada, Kazusa no suke (Assistant Governor of Kazusa Province), who was the younger brother of TAIRA no Sadamori and the grandson of TAIRA no Shigemori, governor of Mutsu Province, but he was adopted by TAIRA no Sadamori, who adopted many of his nephews, as his fifteenth adopted son, so he was called the Yogo prince.
Japanese: また『今昔物語集』によると二話とも平貞盛の弟陸奥守平繁盛の孫で上総介平兼忠の子であるが、平貞盛の養子となり、平貞盛は甥達を大勢養子としており、子としては15番目だったことから余五君。
English: In "Sonpi Bunmyaku" (a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the lineages of the aristocracy), it is written that he was the son of TAIRA no Shigemori, who was the younger brother of TAIRA no Sadamori, and the younger brother of TAIRA no Kanetada (Kazusa no suke (Assistant Governor of Kazusa Province).
Japanese: 『尊卑分脈』では平貞盛の弟陸奥守平繁盛の子で平兼忠（上総介・出羽守従五位上）の弟とある。
English: Also in "the genealogy of Kanmu-Heishi (Taira clan" compiled in "Zoku-Gunsho-Ruiju," he appears as the son of Shigemori, and he is also mentioned as 'the same shogun called Yogo' and 'Shogun Dewa no suke (Assistant Governor of Dewa Province).'
Japanese: 『続群書類従』収録の「桓武平氏系図」でも繁盛の子となっており「同将軍号余五」「将軍出羽介」と注記がある。
English: Since he does not appear in other documents from the same period, Minoru NOGUCHI argues in 'TAIRA no Koremochi and TAIRA no Koreyoshi' in "A Research on Togoku Samurai in the medieval period" that he is the one and the same as TAIRA no Koreyoshi, who was the son of TAIRA no Kanetada and Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North).
Japanese: それ以外には同時代の記録に見えないことから、野口実は『中世東国武士団の研究』「平維茂と平維良」において平兼忠の子の鎮守府将軍平維良と同一人物と言う説を展開している。
English: As for his posterity, the descendants of his eldest son, Shigesada, lived on as middle class aristocrats up to the Kamakura period, while the descendants of his third son, Shigenari, became the Jo clan (the Taira clan) after settleing down in Echigo Province.
Japanese: 後代、長子・繁貞の子孫が鎌倉時代に至るまで代々中級の貴族として続いたほか、三男・繁成の子孫は越後国に土着し城氏(平氏)などとなった。
English: TAIRA no Kanetada was a military aristocrat of the Juryoso (career provincial official class), which was called "Tsuwamono" (soldiers), who lived during the Heian period.
Japanese: 平兼忠（たいらのかねただ）は平安時代の「兵（つわもの）」と呼ばれる受領層の軍事貴族。
English: He appears in Episode 4, 'TAIRA no Koremochi gets killed by a retainer' of Volume 25 of 'Konjaku monogatari shu' (Tales of Times Now and Then collection).
Japanese: 「今昔物語集」では巻第25第4「平維茂が郎党、殺され話」に登場する。
English: He appears in 'Sonpi Bunmyaku' (Bloodlines of Noble and Base) as the son of TAIRA no Shigemori, who was the younger brother of TAIRA no Sadamori and governor of Mutsu Province, and he has the official rank of Jugoinojo (Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade) and is Kazusa no suke (Assistant Governor of Kazusa Province) and governor of Dewa Province.
Japanese: 「尊卑分脈」では平貞盛の弟陸奥守平繁盛の子で官位官職は従五位上上総介・出羽守。
English: In 1003, he was hunted down by FUJIWARA no Nobukaze, Oryoshi (suppressor), for burning down Shimousa Province and rooting the goods paid as taxes or tithes and he fled to Echigo Province.
Japanese: 長保3年（1003年）、下総国府を焼討ちし官物を掠奪したかどで押領使藤原惟風の追補を受け、越後国に逃亡した。
English: In 1014, in the section of February 7 in "Shoyuki" (the Diary of FUJIWARA no Sanesuke), it is written that he presented 20 horses and other luxurious items to FUJIWARA no Michinaga in order to be reappointed as Chinju-fu shogun of Mutsu Province and onlookers were crowded in front of his house to see this incident, so it means that he had been Chinju-fu shogun before this.
Japanese: 長和3年（1014年）、『小右記』の2月7日条には陸奥国鎮守府将軍の重任を得るため、藤原道長に馬20疋他豪華な貢ぎ物を行い、門前にはそれを見ようとする見物人が列をなしたとあり、それ以前に鎮守府将軍であったことが解る。