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English: He was a poet of Hototogisu (the traditional haiku style) and shasei ("sketching") haiku and a pupil of Kyoshi TAKAHAMA, who called him "Kachofuei Shinkoccho Kan" (a man who shows a perfect exemplar of his art of very objective description on nature).
Japanese: 高浜虚子に師事し、虚子に『花鳥諷詠真骨頂漢』とまで言わしめたホトトギス派・写生派の俳人。
English: With many Buddhist words being employed and his verse style so commanding, sonorous, and unique, his poems were called "Bosha Jodo" (Bosha's Pure Land).
Japanese: 仏教用語を駆使したり、凛然とし朗々たる独特な句風は、茅舎の句を『茅舎浄土』と呼ばしめる。
English: Bosha was born in 1897, at Nihonbashi Kakigara-cho, Tokyo Prefecture, and was raised with his stepbrother, Ryushi.
Japanese: 1897年、東京都日本橋区蛎殻町で生まれた茅舎は、腹違いの兄である龍子とともに育てられる。
English: His father worked as an assistant at his brother's hospital before he opened a retail tobacco store.
Japanese: 父は弟の病院で手伝いとして働いていたが、その後煙草の小売商を始める。
English: Bosha had written in the Hototogisu magazine that his father was a man with such a refined taste in haiku poems, Japanese-style paintings, and hand-copying of Sutra script, who even had a pseudonym "Jusando" himself.
Japanese: 父は「寿山堂」という雅号を自分で持つほど、俳句や日本画や写経を好むような風流人であったと、ホトトギス(雑誌)の中で茅舎は述べている。
English: Therefore, it is considered his father had a great influence on the career paths that the brothers of Bosha and Ryushi would take.
Japanese: そのことから、茅舎と龍子の兄弟が進むべき道に大きく父親が影響したと考えられている。
English: After graduating from the elementary school, Bosha entered the School of the Society for German Studies (the present Dokkyo Junior High School).
Japanese: 無事小学校を卒業した茅舎は、1909年、獨逸学協会学校（のちの獨協中学校）へ入学。
English: Because his mother and uncle worked at a hospital, he was expected by those around him, especially his father, to become a doctor one day.
Japanese: 叔父と母が病院に勤める関係者であったことから、周囲から（特に父から）将来は医者になることを期待されていた。
English: He seemed to follow the path taken by his brother, who had been self-supporting as a painter by then, gradually setting his heart on becoming a painter himself.
Japanese: そのころには画家として独立していた兄・龍子の後を追うように、次第に茅舎自身も画家を志すようになる。
English: Also, at around 17 years of age, he began using "Bosha" as his haiku pen name and writing haiku poems with his father.
Japanese: また17歳頃から、自らの俳号を「茅舎」と名乗り始め、父とともに句作するようになる。
English: Bosha became a second-type member of Saneatsu MUSHANOKOJI's "New Village", which introduced the thought of the "Shirakabaha" (White Birch Group) to him, and he would gradually become influenced by Western thought.
Japanese: （武者小路実篤の「新しき村」の第二種会員になり、白樺派の思想に触れた茅舎は次第に西洋思想に感化されていく。
English: That brought him to pursue Western painting in the field of painting, and he became a pupil of a Western-style painter, Ryusei KISHIDA.
Japanese: それが契機で、絵画の分野で明確に西洋絵画を志すようになり、その後洋画家岸田劉生に画を師事する。
English: Staying at Shogaku-an, a sub-temple of Tofuku-ji Temple in Kyoto Prefecture, he diligently produced paintings and haiku poems and, at the same time, worshipped Buddha.
Japanese: 京都府の東福寺の正覚庵に籠もり、絵や句の制作に勤しみ、同時に仏道に参じる。
English: But lung diseases such as spinal caries and tuberculosis began to undermine his body, and Ryusei, whom Bosha respected as his mater, passed away, bringing him to seriously focus on the field of haikai (a popular style of Japanese linked verse).
Japanese: しかし虚子門や脊椎カリエスや結核といった肺患に身体が蝕まれていき、師と尊崇していた劉生も死去してしまったこともあり、俳諧の道へ本格的に専念するようになる。
English: Instead of sending his haiku poems to "Kirara", which he had continued until then, he began to concentrate on the "Hototogisu" haiku magazine to send his poems, and his poem appeared on the opening page of the magazine.
Japanese: 投句を続けていた『キララ』から『ホトトギス(雑誌)』に専念的に投句をし始め、雑詠の巻頭を飾るまでになる。
English: After that, he became a beloved pupil of Kyoshi TAKAHAMA, and, with his talent being recognized, he became a member of the" Hototogisu" group in 1934.
Japanese: その後、高浜虚子の愛弟子となり、俳句の実力が認められ、1934年に『ホトトギス』の同人となる。
English: His haiku poems in the pictorial shasei style were spun with his Western and Eastern sensibilities, and they were so brilliant that Kyoshi, who advocated the ideology of Kachofuei (very objective description on nature), called him "Kachofuei Shinkoccho Kan" (a man who shows a perfect exemplar of his art of Kachofuei).
Japanese: 西洋的な感性と東洋的な感性で紡ぎ出された写生的な句は、花鳥諷詠を唱えた虚子に「花鳥諷詠真骨頂漢」と評価されるほどであった。
English: Seishi YAMAGUCHI (November 3, 1901 - March 26, 1994) is a haiku poet (a Japanese poem in seventeen syllables having a 5-7-5 syllabic form and traditionally containing a reference to the seasons) from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 山口誓子（やまぐちせいし、1901年11月3日-1994年3月26日）は京都府京都市出身の俳人。
English: His haiku pen name 'Seishi ' (誓子) is on-yomi (Chinese reading of kanji) of 'Chikai' (誓い) 'Ko' (子), because his real name 'Chikahiko' (新比古) also can be read 'Chikai-ko' in historical kana orthography.
Japanese: なお「誓子（せいし）」の俳号は、本名の「新比古（ちかひこ）」が歴史的仮名遣では「ちかいこ」とも読めるため、「誓い・子」を音読みしたものである。
English: He started posting haiku to 'Hototogisu' (a magazine: Hototogisu means a bird's name) by the invitation from his schoolmate, Sojo HINO.
Japanese: その時の学友だった日野草城の誘いが契機で、「ホトトギス(雑誌)」へ投句し始める。
English: However, his chest disease was getting worse from around 1940, so he quit the company at the 16th year of service in 1942.
Japanese: しかし1940年頃、胸部に疾患が悪化し始め、1942年に勤続16年目で退社。
English: Seishi, who started to garner attention with Zatsuei (haiku without set themes) column, became a Dojin (literary group [coterie]) of 'Hototogisu' in 1929, the year after he got married to Hatsujo ASAI.
Japanese: 雑詠欄で注目を浴びはじめた誓子は、浅井波津女と結婚した翌年の1929年「ホトトギス」の同人となる。
English: After that, he led to the heyday of Haidan (the world of the haiku)as one of "4S" with Shuoshi MIZUHARA, Suju TAKANO and Seiho AWANO, and livened up Haidan in the early Showa period.
Japanese: その後、水原秋桜子や高野素十、阿波野青畝とともに『四S』の1人として全盛期を築き、昭和初期の俳壇を賑わせる。
English: In the wake of publication of a haiku collection "Koki" (Yellow Flag) in 1935, he fell away from 'Hototogisu' and took part in 'Ashibi' as Dojin, and he became a leader of Shinko Haiku Undo with Shuoshi MIZUHARA.
Japanese: 1935年に刊行した句集『黄旗』を契機に、「ホトトギス」を離れ「馬酔木（あしび）」に同人として参加、水原秋桜子とともに新興俳句運動の中心的存在となる。
English: In the postwar period, he rebelled against "Daini Geijutsu Theory" (Second-Class Art Theory), and he aspired to the revival of haiku and launched a magazine, 'Tenro' (Sirius), with Sanki SAITO in 1948.
Japanese: 戦後は桑原武夫の『第二芸術論』に反発、俳句の復活を志し1948年、西東三鬼らとともに「天狼」を創刊。
English: He had worked as selector of the Asahi haidan since 1957, and he had traveled to The Asahi Shimbun Company in Tokyo by SHINKANSEN (Bullet Trains) Super Express to select haiku.
Japanese: 1957年より朝日俳壇の選者を務め、新幹線で東京の朝日新聞社に赴き、選を行った。
English: He received Award of the Japan Art Academy in 1987 and award as a Bunkakoro-sha (Person of Cultural Merits) in 1992 for the whole of his great achievement.
Japanese: それまでの文化的な功績が評価され、1987年には芸術院賞を受賞し、1992年には文化功労者として表彰される。
English: The residence where Seishi YAMAGUCHI had lived was collapsed by Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and instead, a poem monument and a commemoration were built.
Japanese: 山口誓子が住んでいた屋敷は阪神・淡路大震災で倒壊し、代わりに句碑と記念碑が建てられている。
English: Now the residence has been reproduced in the campus of Kobe University Faculty of Agriculture, and it is open irregularly as Seishi YAMAGUCHI Memorial House to Kobe University.
Japanese: 現在、屋敷は神戸大学文理農学部キャンパス内に再現され、神戸大学に山口誓子記念館として不定期に公開されている。
English: So, Dojins of Tenro living in Nagoya asked him to stop at Nagoya and hold kukai (a haiku gathering) for devotees of 'Tenro' who lived in Tokai region.
Japanese: そこで、名古屋に住む天狼の同人などが、名古屋で途中下車して東海地区に住む「天狼」の愛好者のために句会をしてほしいと頼んだ。
English: Since Seishi gave a ready consent to this offer, Tenro Nagoya Kukai in which Seishi directly taught the students held monthly near Nagoya Station.
Japanese: 誓子はこの申し出に快く承諾したので、毎月名古屋駅前にて誓子の直接指導が受けられる天狼名古屋句会が開かれることになった。
English: This kukai produced quality haiku poets such as Morinao TSUKAKOSHI, Kousui TOMINAGA and Yoshie MURAKAMI.
Japanese: この句会によって、塚腰杜尚・富永晃翆・村上美枝など優秀な俳人が輩出された。
English: Tenro Nagoya Kukai was now reborn as 'Mori' Haiku-kai, and it is held monthly to inherit and develop the haiku spirit of Seishi.
Japanese: この天狼名古屋句会は、現在、「森」俳句会として生まれ変わったが、誓子の俳句精神を受け継ぎ、発展させようと毎月開かれている。
English: This 'Mori' Haiku-kai, based on the fundamentals of haiku such as keeping 5-7-5 syllabic form including season words, learns followings as 'teaching of Seishi': 1. Two objects' impact technique (making readers feel emotions by writing of two objects), 2. Montage technique (writing active aspects) and 3. Continuous flight technique (associating an 'object' with a related thing).
Japanese: この「森」俳句会では、定型（五七五）を守る、季語を詠み込むといった俳句の基本を踏まえた上で、「誓子の教え」として①二物衝撃の方法（「物」と「物」を詠み込んで、読者に喜怒哀楽を感じさせる）②モンタージュの技法（動きのある様子を詠む）③連続飛躍法（「物」から関連するものを連想させる）ということを学んでいる。
English: Mitsunori ISSHIKI (1368-January 25, 1409) was a son of the family head of the Isshiki clan, Akinori ISSHIKI.
Japanese: 一色満範（いっしきみつのり、応安元年/正平(日本)23年（1368年）-応永16年1月6日(旧暦)（1409年1月25日））は一色氏の当主、一色詮範の子。
English: He and his father were distinguished in military service during Meitoku War and helped uplift the position of the Isshiki clan in bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun); then in January of 1392, he was appointed as Military Governor of Tango Province.
Japanese: 父とともに明徳の乱で軍功を示め、幕府内での一色氏の地位を高め、明徳3年（1392年）正月には丹後国守護にも補任された。
English: He and his father built Takebeyama-jo Castle (Maizuru City); they made Tango Province their foodhold, and in Oei War, they defeated Hiroshige OUCHI and firmly established their position as the nucleus of bakufu.
Japanese: 父とともに建部山城(舞鶴市)を築城し、丹後国を地盤とすると、応永の乱では、大内弘茂を打ち滅ぼし、幕府中枢の地位をも確固たるものとした。
English: Mitsunori's success led him to rule over land such as Tango Province and Mikawa Province; he became a dominant Shugo Guardian Feudal Lord holding three provinces, and established the height of power for the Isshiki family.
Japanese: 満範の活躍により、丹後の他、三河国なども治め、3ヶ国を有する有力守護大名となり、一色家の最盛期を築いた。
English: In June 1406, his father Akinori died; on November 20, 1406, only a little while after Mitsunori succeeded the family estate, Nagaharu OGASAWARA, the provincial governor of Mikawa Province (the Hazu-Ogasawara clan), and his son Nagayori were captured in Mitsunori's residence in Kyoto, and were imprisoned in Ishikawa-jo Castle in Tango Province.
Japanese: 応永13年（1406年）6月、父・詮範が死去し、満範が家督を継いで間もない10月1日、京都にある満範の屋敷で三河国守護代小笠原長春(幡豆小笠原氏)・長頼父子が捕らえられ、丹後国石河城に監禁される事件が起こる。
English: Then two years later in 1408, Meichin's younger brother (or uncle) Nagamasa OGASAWARA battled with the Isshiki army in Hazu District, Mikawa Province; on January 21, Nagamasa died in battle along with his families and retainers.
Japanese: 更に2年後の応永15年（1408年）、明鎮の弟（または叔父）小笠原長正が三河国幡豆郡で一色軍と交戦し、12月26日一族郎党とともに敗死した。
English: Mitsunori died on January 31, 1409; he was given the hogo (posthumous Buddhist name) of "Jikoji dono".
Japanese: 満範は直後の応永16年（1409年）1月6日に没し、法号を慈光寺殿とした。
English: Meichin and his son who had been imprisoned were ordered to commit suicide by disembowelment in March, two months after Mitsunori's death, and the Ogasawara clan who had power as shugodai (deputy military governor) of Isshiki clan fell about the same time with Mitsunori's death.
Japanese: 監禁されていた明鎮父子はその2ヶ月後の3月に切腹を命じられ、一色氏の守護代として勢力のあった小笠原氏は満範の死と時を同じくして滅亡した。
English: TAIRA no Kiyosada (date of birth unknown-March 20, 1184) was a busho (Japanese military commander) who lived during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 平清貞（たいらのきよさだ、生年未詳-寿永3年2月7日(旧暦)（1184年3月20日））は、平安時代末期の武将。
English: During the Battle of Ichinotani in 1184, he fought under the command of his brother-in-law, TAIRA no Tomonori, and kept watch over the Siege of Ikutanomori.
Japanese: 寿永3年、一ノ谷の戦いにおいては、義兄平知盛の指揮下に入り、生田の森の陣を警備する。
English: However when the siege was broken by the army of MINAMOTO no Noriyori, Kiyosada charged to the enemy encampment with three horsemen, who were Kiyosada, his male cousin TAIRA no Tsunetoshi, and his brother-in-law TAIRA no Kiyofusa, and was killed in battle.
Japanese: しかし源範頼軍に陣を突破されると、従兄弟の平経俊、義兄の平清房とともに三騎で敵陣に突入し、討ち取られた。
English: (1791 - August 20, 1848) was a Japanese Ukiyoe artist who did remarkable work in the late Edo period.
Japanese: 寛政3年〈1791年〉-嘉永元年7月22日(旧暦)〈1848年8月20日〉）は、江戸時代後期に活躍した日本の浮世絵。
English: He had several stage names including Ippitsuan and Mumeio.
Japanese: 亭号としては、一筆庵（いっぴつあん）、旡名翁（むめいおう、無名翁）など数号あり。
English: He was renowned for decadent and voluptuous Bijinga (a type of Ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women) with strong originality and produced many works of Shunga (erotic arts) and Koshokubon (books on love).
Japanese: 独自性の際立つ退廃的で妖艶な美人画で知られ、春画と好色本にも作品が多い。
English: On the other hand, he established a reputation for his Ukiyoe landscapes (landscape paintings) and produced "The Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Road" in collaboration with Hiroshige UTAGAWA.
Japanese: その一方で名所絵（風景画）にも定評があり、『木曽街道六十九次』では歌川広重と合作している。
English: His main name was Matsumoto, however, he took the name of Ikeda after his father, Masabei Shigeharu reverted to his former surname, Ikeda.
Japanese: 本姓は松本であったが、父・政兵衛茂晴が池田姓に復して以後、池田を名乗る。
English: On the occasion of his coming-of-age ceremony at the age of 15, he entered government service in the Edo residence of the successive lords of Hojo Domain, Awa Province (Mizuno Iki no kami Tadateru).
Japanese: 15歳・元服を機に、安房国北条藩の北条藩歴代藩主（みずのいきのかみただてる）の江戸屋敷に仕官する。
English: At the age of 17, he had a quarrel with his superior and was forced out of office being slandered.
Japanese: 17歳の時に上役と喧嘩沙汰となり、讒言（ざんげん）によって職を追われている。
English: Zenjiro became a Ronin (masterless samurai) and, by the help of his father's connection, ended up studying as an apprentice for Kabuki playwright under kinji SHINODA the First (Later, Gohei NAMIKI), a Kabuki (traditional performing art) playwright of the Ichimura-za Theater.
Japanese: 浪人となった善次郎は父の知り合いのつてで、市村座の歌舞伎・狂言作者であった初代篠田金治（後の並木五瓶〈なみきごへい〉）に狂言作者見習いとして師事することとなった。
English: However, at the age of 20, he ended up starting to rear his three younger sisters after his father and step mother died successively.
Japanese: ところが20歳の時、父と継母が相次いで亡くなり、3人の妹を一人で養う身となった。
English: Zenjiro was, however, not satisfied with it and started taking up his paintbrush in earnest in Fukaya shuku as a disciple of Eizan KIKUGAWA, an Ukiyoe artist.
Japanese: しかし、善次郎はそれでよしとせず、深谷宿にて浮世絵師・菊川英山（きくがわえいざん）の門人格として本格的に絵筆を執ることとなる。
English: It was that time when Zenjiro's talent expressed itself and he started his career as an Ukiyoe artist, Eisen KEISAI.
Japanese: そして、ここからが善次郎の才能の発露であり、浮世絵師・渓斎英泉の始まりであった。
English: Eizan, his teacher was like his Anideshi (senior apprentice) only four years older than him, but a popular Eshi painter for sweet Bijinga (a type of Ukiyoe portraying beautiful women).
Japanese: 師の英山は4歳年上でしかない兄弟子のような存在ながら、可憐な美人画で人気の絵師であった。
English: While Eisen lived in Eizan's house without paying and learned Bijinga as a disciple, he frequently visited the house of Hokusai KATSUSHIKA nearby and brought himself under Hokusai's benign influence in painting technique.
Japanese: 英泉は英山宅の居候（いそうろう）となって門下で美人画を学びつつ、近在の葛飾北斎宅にも出入りし、私淑をもってその画法を学び取っていく。
English: Furthermore, he was fond of Chinese-style paintings of Sung and Ming and also he was interested in being devoted to reading.
Japanese: また、宋(王朝)・明の唐画を好み、書を読み耽ることを趣味とする人でもあった。
English: By the way, it was Eisen who painted Aizuri-e with bero-ai (Berlin blue) for the first time in Japan ahead of Hokusai.
Japanese: なお、北斎に先駆けて日本で初めてベロ藍を用いた藍摺絵（あいずり-え）を描いたのは、英泉である。
English: Kunisada UTAGAWA may be referred to as an Eshi painter who learned a lot from the style of Eisen.
Japanese: 英泉の画風に多くを学んだ絵師としては、歌川国貞を挙げることができる。
English: Eisen, a writer and Eshi painter, gave many pornographic Enpon (Koshokubon - books on love) and Shunga (erotic arts) to the public, which cannot be discussed without touching on Eisen.
Japanese: 著作家にして絵師である英泉は、数多くの艶本（好色本）と春画を世に送り出しており、これを抜きにしては語れない。
English: He published another Enpon, "Koi-no-Ayatsuri" at he age of 24.
Japanese: 24歳の時には同じく『恋の操（こい-の-あやつり）』を発表している。
English: Although he painted his Bijinga (a type of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women) sweetly under the influence of Eizan at first, he started making them uniquely voluptuous around that time, by which his works became popular.
Japanese: 当初は英山の影響を受けて可憐に描いていた美人画のほうも、この時分から英山色を脱して独自の艶を放つようになり、それに連れ、評判を取るようにもなっていた。
English: In 1816 at the age of 26, he published a Gokan (bound-together volumes of illustrated books), "Hanagumori Haru no Oboroyo" under the appellation of 'Kako' given by Hokusai.
Japanese: 文化(元号)13年（1816年）、26歳の時には、北斎から譲られた号「可候」をもって、合巻『櫻曇春朧夜（はなぐもりはる-の-おぼろよ）』を発表。
English: While he wrote Enpon every year and gave popular books to the public under various secret pen names, he wrote the famous masterpiece (a fine piece of work), "Haru no Usuyuki" in 1822.
Japanese: 艶本は毎年のように作られ、さまざまな隠号をもって人気本を世に送り出すなか、傑作と名高い『春野薄雪』も文政5年（1822年）に著された。
English: Furthermore, the representative work in the same year, an Enpon "Keichu Kibun Makurabunko" was a sexually-oriented medical text and an encyclopedia at that time which was referred to as an instructing book on the secrets of sex and at the same time is known as a fantastic book among fantastic books.
Japanese: また、同じく文政5年の代表作である艶本『閨中紀聞枕文庫』は、当時の性の医学書・百科事典にして性奥義の指南書であり、同時に、奇書の中の奇書として知られている。
English: At the age of around 30, he started painting Sashie (illustrations) for Ninjobon (a romantic genre of fiction) and Yomihon (reader) and took on Sashie for "Nanso Satomi Hakkenden" (the story of eight dog samurai and a princess of Satomi family in Nanso region) by Bakin KYOKUTEI.
Japanese: 30歳ごろからは人情本や読本の挿絵も手掛け、曲亭馬琴の『南総里見八犬伝』の挿絵も請け負っている。
English: In April 1829, he had his house burned by a spreading fire and further underwent as a guarantor a relative's default, but he was a dissolute and unruly man with eccentric behavior, who got hooked on wine and women.
Japanese: 文政12年3月には、大火による類焼で家を失った上、縁者の保証倒れにも見舞われる英泉であったが、酒と女を愛す放蕩無頼の人、奇行めいた人である。
English: After the Tempo Reforms by which entertainment as a whole was strictly regulated, he stopped his painting activities leaving them to many of his disciples and devoted himself for literary pursuits including Gokan (bound-together volumes of illustrated books) and Kokkeibon (literally "comical book") under the appellation of Ippitsuan Kako.
Japanese: 娯楽全般に厳しく統制される天保の改革の時勢を迎えたのちは、画業はもっぱら多くの門人に任せて自らは描く事をやめ、一筆庵可候の号をもって合巻や滑稽本を主とする文筆業に専念した。
English: Commonly called 'Zoku Ujkiyoe Ruiko (the sequel of biographies and background of Ukiyoe artists) and is maintained today as a precious material on Ukiyoe also for the study of historical artifacts and documents.
Japanese: 天保4年〈1833年〉、池田義信名義）は、「続浮世絵類考」と俗称され、考証学的にも優れた浮世絵の貴重な資料として今日に伝わっている。
English: He was in friendly relations with Shunsui TAMENAGA, a writer of light literature who was good at Ninjobon (a romantic genre of fiction) and, some say, one of the amanuenses of Eisen.
Japanese: また、人情本をよくする戯作者・為永春水（ためながしゅんすい）とよしみを通じ、彼の代筆者の一人との説もある。
English: His main disciples included Eishun, Eisho SHUNSAI, Eishi BEIKASAI, Senju EISAI, Sencho TEISAI, Senkitsu SHIHANSAI and Senri REISAI.
Japanese: 主な門人に、英春（えいしゅん）、春斎英笑（しゅんさいえいしょう）、米花斎英之（べいかさいえいし）、英斎泉寿（えいさいせんじゅ）、貞斎泉晁（ていさいせんちょう）、紫領斎泉橘（しはんさいせんきつ）、嶺斎泉里（れいさいせんり）がいる。
English: Eisen as an Ukiyoe artist at first painted Bijinga of frail women as his teacher, Eizan, did but later ended up becoming popular by his unique voluptuous painting style.
Japanese: 浮世絵師としての英泉は、当初、師・英山が描くような儚（はかな）げな女性の美人画を描いていたが、その後、独自の妖艶な画風で人気を博することになる。
English: One of the characteristics of his style was an image of not so well-proportioned, long-torsoed and a little stooped women filled with distorted emotions.
Japanese: 6頭身で胴長、猫背気味という、屈折した情念の籠（こも）った女性像が特徴である。
English: He painted women in Okabasho (whorehouse) like Fukagawa and licensed quarter Yoshiwara as women who had voluptuous beauty and look displaying strong will.
Japanese: 英泉は、深川のような岡場所や吉原遊廓の女を、妖艶さと強い意志を湛（たた）えた眼差しを持つ女性として描いた。
English: Bijinga painted by Eisen is considered to have symbolically shown a decadent sense of beauty in the Bunka-Bunsei eras in the late Edo period.
Japanese: 英泉の描いた美人画は、江戸時代の後期、文化・文政期の退廃的な美意識を象徴的に表していると考えられている。
English: The Eisen's Bijinga fitted in with the sense of the timesin that they made the existing sense of beauty reversed and found the beauty in it, which was called 'Egumi' (bitter and astringent tastes).
Japanese: それは"えぐみ"と言われる、既存の美意識を逆転させたところに美を見出す点で、時代の感覚と符合した。
English: It can be mentioned that Eisen's talent was found in the fact that he described such feminine beauty in a voluptuous way.
Japanese: そのような女性美を妖艶に描き出したところに、英泉の才能があったと言えよう。
English: While Eisen dominated the minds of the people with his Bijinga and was well-known by his Shunga, he also established a reputation for his Ukiyoe landscapes (landscape painting).
Japanese: 美人画で一世を風靡し、春画で知られる英泉であるが、名所絵（風景画）にも定評がある。
English: The Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Road completed around 1835 by Eisen and Hiroshige UTAGAWA in the form of a joint work consisted of 72 pictures of which 24 were painted by Eisen.
Japanese: 英泉と歌川広重が合作のかたちで天保6年（1835年）ごろ完成させた『木曽街道六十九次』は、全72図のうちの24図が英泉の筆による。
English: It was planned by the Hanmoto (publisher), Magohachi TAKENOUCHI following a success of the series of "Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi" (the 53 stages on the Tokaido) by Hiroshige.
Japanese: 広重の『東海道五十三次』シリーズの成功を受け、版元の竹内孫八が新たに企画したものである。
English: There were circumstances where at first Eisen played a part of Eshi painter but backed out and Hiroshige took over the part.
Japanese: 当初、英泉が絵師を務めていたが手を引き、広重に引き継がれた経緯がある。
English: Although this series carries the title 'Kami Kaido' (Kisokaido Road), the landscapes mainly painted were along Nakasendo Road of which Kisokaido was a secondary route (Reference: The Sixty-nine Stations of Nakasendo Road).
Japanese: 「上街道(木曽街道)」と銘打っているが、主として描かれているのは木曽街道を脇往還とする中山道である（参照：中山道六十九次）。
English: Picture 1 : "Kiso kaido Tsuzuki no ichi Nihonbashi (Chuo Ward, Tokyo) Yuki no Akebono"
Japanese: 画像-1：『木曾街道続ノ壱日本橋(東京都中央区)雪之曙』（きそ-かいどうつづき-の-いちにほんばしゆき-の-あけぼの）
English: Picture 3 : "Kiso kaido Warabi no eki Todagawa Watashiba"
Japanese: 画像-3：『木曾街道蕨宿戸田川渡場』（きそ-かいどうわらび-の-えきとだがわ-わたしば）
English: Picture 4 : "Kiso Dochu Kumagai shuku Haccho tsutsumi no kei"
Japanese: 画像-4：『岐阻道中熊谷宿八丁堤ノ景』（きそ-どうちゅうくまがい-しゅくはっちょう-つつみ-の-けい）
English: Picture 5 : "Kiso kaido Fukaya no eki" Fukaya no eki was a place remembered in connection with Eisen as a Ukiyoe artist.
Japanese: 画像-5：『岐阻街道深谷宿』（きそ-かいどうふかや-の-えき）　深谷宿は浮世絵師としての英泉ゆかりの地。
English: Picture 6 : "Kiso kaido Kuragano shuku Karasugawa no zu"
Japanese: 画像-6：『木曾街道倉賀野宿烏川之図』（きそ-かいどうくらがの-しゅくからすがわ-の-ず）
English: Picture 7 : "Kiso kaido Kutsukake no eki Hiratsukahara Uchu no kei"
Japanese: 画像-7：『木曾街道沓掛宿平塚原雨中之景』（きそ-かいどうくつかけ-の-えきひたつかはらうちゅう-の-けい）
English: Picture 8 : "Kiso dochu Shiojiri toge Suwa no Kosui chobo" cf. Shiojiri shuku, Suwako (Lake Suwa)
Japanese: 画像-8：『木曾道中塩尻峠諏訪ノ湖水眺望』（きそ-どうちゅうしおじり-とうげすわ-の-こすい-ちょうぼう）　cf.塩尻宿、諏訪湖
English: Picture 9 : "Kiso kaido Yabuhara shuku Torii toge (Nagano Prefecture) Suzuri no Shimizu"
Japanese: 画像-9：『木曾街道藪原宿鳥居峠(長野県)硯ノ清水』（きそ-かいどうやぶはらとりい-とうげすずり-の-しみず）
English: Picture 10 : "Kisoji eki Nojiri shuku Inagawabashi enkei"
Japanese: 画像-10：『岐阻路驛野尻宿伊那川橋遠景』（きそじ-えきのじりいながわばしえんけい）
English: Picture 11 : "Kiso kaido Magome eki toge yori enbo no zu"
Japanese: 画像-11：『木曾街道馬籠宿峠遠望之図』（きそ-かいどうまごめ-えきとうげ-より-えんぼう-の-ず）
English: Picture 12 : "Kisoji no eki Godo shuku Nagaragawa Ukai fune" (cormorant fishing in the Nagara river)
Japanese: 画像-12：『木曾路ノ驛河渡宿長良川鵜飼wikten舩』（きそじ-の-えきごうどなからがわ-うかい-ふね）
English: SAEKI no Imaemishi (719 - 17 November 790) was a noble who lived in the Nara Period.
Japanese: 佐伯今毛人（さえきのいまえみし、養老3年（719年）-延暦9年10月3日(旧暦)（790年11月17日））は奈良時代の貴族。
English: He gained a reputation in the field of architecture and construction by first starting off as a Sakan for the construction of Shigaraki no Miya Palace and later working on the construction of Todai-ji Temple and Saidai-ji Temple (Nara City), and the transfer of the national capital to Nagaoka.
Japanese: 紫香楽宮造営司に主典として出向したのを皮切りに以後東大寺や西大寺(奈良市)の造営、長岡京遷都の任に当たるなど主に建築や造営の面で活躍した。
English: In 763, Imaemishi discussed the plan with FUJIWARA no Yoshitsugu, ISONOKAMI no Yakatsugu and OTOMO no Yakamochi to assassinate the tyrant Taishi (Grand Minister), EMI no Oshikatsu (FUJIWARA no Nakamaro); however, it did not succeed due to betrayal.
Japanese: 天平宝字7年（763年）今毛人は藤原良継、石上宅嗣、大伴家持らと、当時、太師（太政大臣）となり専横を極めていた恵美押勝（藤原仲麻呂）の暗殺を謀議するが、密告により露見。
English: EMI no Oshikatsu died in the war which he started in 764 (FUJIWARA no Nakamaro's War).
Japanese: 恵美押勝は翌天平宝字8年（764年）に乱を起こして滅びている（藤原仲麻呂の乱）。
English: In April, 777, he received Setto (a sword given from the Emperor to the chief envoy) and departed (he only made it to Dazaifu last year); however, he became very sick near Rajo-mon Gate and gave up the mission and stayed in Settu.
Japanese: 宝亀8年(777年)4月、節刀を賜り再度（前年は大宰府から引き返している）出発したが羅城門までくると病になり渡航を断念し摂津に留まることとなった。