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English: Fighting a battle after finding an opportunity to win would have been the intention of both Nobunaga's and the Sakuma's, but continuing to adhere to any protracted battle based on your own arbitrary ideas was frivolous and in poor judgment.
Japanese: 勝敗の機を見極め一戦を遂げれば、信長にとっても佐久間親子にとっても本意なことであったのに、一方的な思慮で持久戦に固辞し続けたことは分別もなく浅はかなことである。
English: 3. The achievements of Mitsuhide AKECHI are astonishing and earn him honor, while the services of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI are also incomparable.
Japanese: 一、明智光秀の働きはめざましく天下に面目をほどこし、豊臣秀吉の功労も比類なし。
English: Tsuneoki IKEDA has a small stipend, but he swiftly captured the Settsu Hanakuma Castle and earned his honor.
Japanese: 池田恒興は少禄の身であるが摂津花隈を時間も掛けず攻略し天下に名誉を施した。
English: 4. Katsuie SHIBATA heard of these vassals' achievements and worried about his reputation because he had not had any significant achievements despite owning the entire Echizen Province, so he invaded and conquered Kaga Province this spring.
Japanese: 一、柴田勝家もこれらの働きを聞いて、越前国一国を領有しながら手柄がなくては評判も悪かろうと気遣いし、この春加賀へ侵攻し平定した。
English: 5. Those who are not confident in their military power conceive of stratagems, report what they are short of, and ask for my suggestions, but you have not done these things for five years.
Japanese: 一、武力に不甲斐ない者は謀略などをこらし、相足らぬ所を報告し意見を聞きに来るのに、五年間それすらない。
English: 6. A letter from Nobumori's yoriki (assistant commander) Tomomune YASUDA says that if you defeat the enemy of the uprising entrenched in Hongan-ji Temple, the rest in other small castles will run away, and the letter has the seals of Nobumori and Nobuhide.
Japanese: 一、信盛の与力・保田知宗の書状では本願寺に籠もる一揆衆を倒せば他の小城の一揆衆もおおかた退散するであろうとあり、信盛親子も連判している。
English: You have never reported such a thing and just sent a letter, which means you are giving a plausible reason and an excuse to get out of your difficult position, aren't you?
Japanese: 今まで一度もそうした報告もないのにこうした書状を送ってくるというのは、自分のくるしい立場をかわすためあれこれ理由を付け言い訳しているのではないか。
English: Including the Negoroshu (a group of armed priests in Negoro-ji Temple), he was given yoriki (mounted warriors) from seven provinces such as Mikawa Province, Owari Province, Omi Province, Kawachi Province, Izumi Province, and Kii Province.
Japanese: 三河国・尾張・近江国・大和国・河内国・和泉国に、根来衆を加えれば紀伊国にもと七ヶ国から与力をあたえられている。
English: Adding your own vassals to this, you should not be able to lose any battles.
Japanese: これに自身の配下を加えれば、どんな一戦を遂げようともこれほど落ち度を取ることはない。
English: 5. I gave you Kariya after the death of Nobumoto MIZUNO, but there was no increase of the number of vassals.
Japanese: 一、水野信元死後の刈谷を与えておいたので家臣も増えたかと思えばそうではない。
English: You banished the old retainers of MIZUNO without establishing an heir, eventually putting the banished MIZUNO chigyo (enfeoffment) under your direct control, which is outrageous.
Japanese: 水野の旧臣を追放しておきながら、跡目を新たに設けるでもなく、結局、追放した水野の旧臣の知行を信盛の直轄としてしまうのは言語道断。
English: 7. It is understandable if you increase your vassals' chigyo, give them yoriki, or take them into your service, but you have not done these things.
Japanese: 一、譜代の家臣に知行を加増してやったり与力を与えたり、新規に召し抱えたりしているなら未だいいがそれも無い。
English: 8. Last year, when we defeated ASAKURA, you insisted on your legitimacy despite being scolded for your bad forecasting in the battle, and moreover you breached your position, staining Nobunaga's honor.
Japanese: 一、先年、朝倉をうち破ったとき、戦機の見通しが悪いとしかったところものともせず、結局自身の正当性を吹聴し、あまつさえその場を立ち破るに至って信長も面目を失った。
English: 10. Broadly saying, he is greedy to begin with, hard to please, and will not take good men into his service.
Japanese: 一、大まかに言えば、第一に欲深く、気むずかしく、良い人を抱えようともしない。
English: Besides, when he does not perform his service well, these things happen since neither the father nor the son understand the way of a warrior.
Japanese: その上、いい加減な働きをすれば、行き着くところ親子共々武者の道を心得ていないからこのような事になる。
English: 11. You mainly employ yoriki and only use yoriki for liaison with other warriors and for military services during battles, but you do not use your own vassals.
Japanese: 一、与力を専ら使役し、他への取り次ぎや戦事にはこの与力で軍役を済まし自身の家臣を使わない。
English: It became like this because even as you boasted of your understanding and put on a genial act, your treatment was frightening, like a needle hidden in cotton.
Japanese: 自身の思慮を自慢し穏やかなふりをしても綿の中に針を隠し立てたような怖い扱いをするのでこの様になった。
English: 13. While you have served me for 30 years since the generation of Nobunaga started, you have never performed services by which your achievements would be called incomparable.
Japanese: 一、信長の代になり30年間奉公し信盛の活躍は比類なしと言われるような働きは一度もない。
English: 14. During Nobunaga's life, the time when I lost a battle was when I sent the reinforcements for the Battle of Mikatagahara last year, and it is ordinary that someone wins and someone loses.
Japanese: 一、信長の生涯の内、勝利を失ったのは先年三方ヶ原の戦いへ援軍を使わした時で、勝ち負けの習いはあるのは仕方ない。
English: Even if you fell behind because of Ieyasu, if your brothers or family, or one of your fudai had died on the battle field, people would not have doubted you since you luckily scapegoated the dead, but nobody died.
Japanese: しかし、家康のこともあり、おくれをとったとしても兄弟・身内やしかるべき譜代衆が討死でもしていればその甲斐あって運良く戦死を免れたと人々も不審には思わなかっただろうに、一人も死者をだしていない。
English: In addition, it is clear that you were thoughtless in consideration of the fact that you looked calm even after you saw that Hirohide HIRATE, another commander of the reinforcements, died because you did not make any attempt to help him.
Japanese: あまつさえ、もう一人の援軍の将・平手汎秀を見殺しにして平然とした顔をしていることを以てしても、その思慮無きこと紛れもない。
English: 15. After all of this, all you have to do is conquer some enemy to vindicate your honor or die on a battle field.
Japanese: 一、こうなればどこかの敵をたいらげ、汚名を濯いだ上帰参するか、どこかで討死するしかない。
English: 16. As a matter of course, Nobumori and Nobuhide should enter the priesthood and seclude themselves in Mt. Koya to beg perpetually for forgiveness.
Japanese: 一、親子共々頭をまるめ、高野山にでも隠遁し連々と赦しを乞うのが当然であろう。
English: The reason that the Ishiyama War was protracted was because he did not ask Nobunaga for a stratagem like Hideyoshi did for the war against China, and so he was idle enough to hold tea ceremonies too many times at the front.
Japanese: 石山合戦が長期に及んだ点は、中国攻めにおける秀吉のように信長に対策を求める事もなく、陣中で茶会三昧の所業は無為の証左に他ならない。
English: Kazumasu TAKIGAWA and Toshiie MAEDA, later mentioned, are not appropriate for comparison with Nobumori since they produced adequate results (Toshiie is greatly different from Nobumori in position and authority), but it looks as if Nobumori could not damage the army of Hongan-ji Temple and let the situation drag on since he was stingy about the military costs, and as if he spent that money on pleasure.
Japanese: なお、後述の滝川一益や前田利家、この2人は確かな結果を出しているため比較対象には適切ではなく（利家は信盛とは地位・権限や態度にも大きな違いがある）、信盛が軍費をケチった為に本願寺勢に打撃をあたえられず、数年間もの間持たせ、またその費用を道楽につぎ込んだようにも見える。
English: Nobumori's escape after 'losing the will to fight' at the Battle of Mikatagahara was far from the attitude of samurai which Ieyasu and Hirohide HIRATE took to face the battle from the front.
Japanese: 三方ヶ原の戦いの際の信盛の｢戦意喪失｣の末の逃亡は、真正面から戦闘をした家康や平手汎秀らの武士としての姿勢とは程遠いものがあった。
English: Also, his behavior which looks as if he had let Ieyasu die without attempting to help him was not an act appropriate for a person who was an experienced warrior of the Oda family, and it was possible that this might have led to a problem for all of the Oda family if he had let the Tokugawa family become the enemy after Ieyasu's death, or if the number of allies had decreased.
Japanese: また、同盟者である家康を見殺しにしたとも見えるこの行動は、織田家の宿将ともいえる人物の行いとしては適切とはいえず、家康が死んだ場合の徳川家が敵側へと回る可能性を上げたり、同盟する者を減らすなどの織田家全体に関わる問題に発展した可能性がある。
English: Whatever the process of his judgment on Ieyasu's matter was, it was his mistake not to confirm his ally's safety fully enough.
Japanese: このように、家康の判断等の過程はどうあれ同盟者への安全確認も満足にしなかったのは、間違いであったと言わざるを得ない。
English: As for this, however, we need to take into account that Ieyasu made a reckless move.
Japanese: しかし、この点に関しては家康が無謀な策に打って出てしまった失敗も考慮しなければならない。
English: By the way, Nobunaga ODA also looks as if he ran away for his life at the Battle of Kanagasaki, but it was a full retreat without major damage or confusion while being attacked from both sides, and from these facts we know Nobunaga ran away with his own small forces after giving a handful of directions and did not run away without trying to help the allies.
Japanese: ちなみに、織田信長も金ヶ崎の戦いでは同様にただ一目散に逃亡したかのようであるが、退却戦である上に挟撃されるという状況ながら大した混乱もなく本隊は被害を小規模に留めており、この事からある程度の指示を与えてから僅かな手勢のみを引き連れて逃亡したのであり、見殺しにしたわけではない。
English: With all Nobumori's selfish behaviors, he would not have been able to say, "I'm doing my duty," and his excuses for the attack against Asakura were nothing other than his haughtiness, resting on his past achievements.
Japanese: 我侭三昧やっておいて「私は職責を果たしている」と言い切れるものでは無く、朝倉攻めの際の弁明は過去の功績に胡座をかいた上での驕りと断じざるを得ない。
English: In fact, he did not gain an advantage over Hongan-ji Temple and did not manage any appreciable results.
Japanese: 実際、本願寺に対して有利に進めたわけではなく、誰もが認めるほどの結果を残さなかったのは事実である。
English: Under these circumstances, it was thoughtless that he would devote himself to tea ceremonies which could only have been for pleasure, as mentioned above.
Japanese: また、このような状況ながら前述の様に道楽ともいえる茶に傾倒したのも軽率であった。
English: The misbehavior of his son Nobuhide came from his father's haughtiness, and Nobumori should be charged for this too.
Japanese: 息子の信栄の不行状も父の驕りを見て育ったからのものであり、信盛の責任である。
English: The four years it took for subjugation in the Ishiyama War was never too long when we consider that a forcible attack could not be carried out because the enemy owned many guns, that stratagems were ineffective on the army of Hongan-ji Temple, and that the enemy could carry army provisions into Hongan-ji Temple from the sea, which could not be blockaded.
Japanese: 石山合戦の際に討伐に4年もかかった件については相手に鉄砲が多く力攻めが無理であり調略のきかない本願寺勢であること、海上封鎖ができず海から本願寺に兵糧を運びこめたことを考えれば致し方ないといえる。
English: Besides, as the rebellion of Murashige ARAKI shows, the situation in the Kinai region at that time was not stable enough for the Oda family.
Japanese: また荒木村重の謀反が示すように、当時の畿内情勢は決して織田家にとって磐石の状態ではなかった。
English: As for the claim that Nobumori ran away without helping his ally at the Battle of Mikatagahara, the circumstantial judgment of Ieyasu, who decided to fight in an open field under those circumstances, was more at fault (TOKUGAWA's army had enough forces for besiegement if ODA's reinforcements were counted, so there was a high probability of not losing the battle if he decided to be besieged).
Japanese: 三方ヶ原の戦で味方を見殺しにした点についてはむしろあの状況で野戦に打って出た家康の状況判断に非がある（徳川軍は織田の援軍を含めれば籠城に必要な兵力をそろえていたため、籠城すれば敗戦とならなかった可能性が高い）。
English: If Nobumori had died, the person who had been directing the battles against Takeda and Hongan-ji Temple would have been missing and there might have been a possibility to disrupt the battle lines.
Japanese: 信盛が死んだ場合、対武田戦・本願寺戦の指揮をとる人物がいなくなり戦線に混乱を招く恐れがあった。
English: Considering these points, his escape without fighting was not the best but understandable.
Japanese: これらのことを考えれば、戦わずして逃げたことは最善とはいえなくても許容範囲である。
English: (As a matter of fact, when Naomasa BAN, the predecessor of Nobumori, died in the battle, the battle line against Hongan-ji Temple collapsed and the Oda family itself was also about to collapse.)
Japanese: （現に信盛の前任、塙直政が戦死したときに本願寺戦線が崩壊し、織田家そのものが崩壊しかけた。)
English: (Besides, at the Battle of Kanagasaki, Nobunaga himself did the same kind of thing, but the fact that his act is not under criticism should be considered.)
Japanese: (また、金ヶ崎の戦いで信長自身が同様の行為をしているが、批判の対象とされてないことも考慮すべきである。）
English: His talking back on the issue of attacking Asakura must have been in order to patch things up for the moment since Nobumori was in the position of patriarch among the retainers.
Japanese: 朝倉攻めで口答えした件については、信盛が家来の長老格であるためその場を取り繕おうとしたのだろうとも考えられる。
English: The claim that he did not maintain his vassals means that he was good at accounting and he did not employ any more vassals than necessary, so it was actually a virtue as a high-ranking officer.
Japanese: 家来を養わないことについては、信盛が勘定ができ必要以上の家臣を雇わなかったということだから高級幹部としてはむしろ美徳である。
English: The failure caused by a shortage of vassals was seen only in the Battle of Mikatagahara, but, as mentioned above, the main reason for this failure was Ieyasu's misjudgment.
Japanese: 家臣が少なかったことによる失敗は三方ヶ原の合戦しかないが、上述の通りこの失敗は家康の判断ミスが最大の原因である。
English: As for the Ishiyama War which was brought up as an issue, Nobumori had enough forces for starvation tactics, and he did not commit a blunder such as Naomasa BAN, whose siege was broken.
Japanese: 問題になっている石山合戦についても兵糧攻めに必要な人数はきちんとそろえており、塙直政のように囲みを破られる失態は犯していない。
English: Considering that he performed military service as a reinforcement to the allies at various places without any mistakes, the fact that he did not employ vassals cannot be a reason to charge him.
Japanese: また、各地の援軍もそつなくこなしている点も考えれば家臣を雇わなかった点については非難する理由とならない。
English: Besides, Kazumasu TAKIGAWA and Toshiie MAEDA did not employ enough vassals for their stipend, but they were not punished.
Japanese: なお、滝川一益や前田利家なども石高に比して家臣を養っていないが罰せられていない。
English: For the misbehavior of Nobuhide, it is certain that his parents and family were hugely responsible, but as far as Nobumori was doing his duty, it cannot be a reason big enough for the banishment.
Japanese: 信栄の行状が悪いことについても、たしかに親や一族の長としての責任は大きいが、信盛が職責を果たしている以上、追放の理由になるほどの問題とはいえない。
English: After considering these points, the contents of the letter of chastisement are weak as a basis for Nobumori's banishment, and there is no evidence to show Nobumori was planning a rebellion, so Nobunaga's negative evaluation of Nobumori was just Nobumori's bad luck, or from another viewpoint, it was Nobunaga's will.
Japanese: こう考えると、折檻状の内容では追放の理由としては弱く、また、信盛自身に謀反の兆候があった証拠もないから、信長がそのような評価を下したとすれば信盛の運がなかった、あるいは信長の内心に理由があったという見方もある。
English: The reason that Nobuhide was forgiven and allowed to return to the service of his master soon after the death of Nobumori is that Nobunaga decided that he had fully reflected on his conduct or that, from another perspective, Nobunaga was aware that his previous evaluation was wrong.
Japanese: 信盛の死後まもなく信栄の帰参が許されたのは信長が反省したと判断した、もしくは自身の評価の誤りを自覚してたからとも解釈できる。
English: The novelist Haruhiko HIGUCHI writes in his book "Nobunaga no kashin-dan--'Tenka-fubu' wo sasaeta busho 34 nin no kiroku" (The Vassals of Nobunaga--A Record of 34 Commanders Who Supported 'Tenka-fubu' [a slogan that means that the samurai governs the whole world]) that the reason that Nobumori was banished was that Nobumori, who held territory in both Kinai and Mino, was an obstacle to Nobunaga, who owned Kinai and Mino as the directly controlled land of the Oda family and also had an idea of unifying the whole country, and HIGUCHI also claims that the letter of chastisement consisting of 19 articles was Nobunaga's false accusation written in order to confiscate Nobumori's territory with no conditions.
Japanese: 作家・樋口晴彦は著書『信長の家臣団―「天下布武」を支えた武将34人の記録』の中で、信盛が追放された理由は、畿内・美濃を織田家の直轄地とする信長の天下統一構想において双方に領地を持つ信盛の存在が邪魔になったためで、19ヶ条の折檻状は無条件で領地を取り上げるための言いがかりであったとしている。
English: According to HIGUCHI's analysis, Mitsuhide AKECHI, who also owned territory in Kinai, felt a sense of danger about Nobumori's banishment, and that Nobunaga's confiscation of Mitsuhide's territory in Sakamoto, Omi Province and Tanba Province, triggered the Honnoji Incident.
Japanese: そして、同じく畿内に領地を持つ明智光秀がこの追放劇に危機感を覚え、後に自身の領地である近江国坂本郡・丹波国の領地を召し上げられた事が本能寺の変のきっかけになったと分析している。
English: Anyway, the letter let Nobumori choose to either go into seclusion for the remainder of his life or regain his honor by making achievements at the risk of his life, and so the banishment was his choice and it should be taken into account that Nobunaga did not banish him without any choices (Toshiie MAEDA regained his honor by making an achievement).
Japanese: どちらにせよ、折檻状は命を惜しんで隠棲するか命を懸けて功績を挙げ挽回するかという道を選ばせており、少なくとも追放されたのは信盛自身が選択したことで信長自身が問答無用で追放したのではないことを考慮する必要がある（ちなみに前田利家は功績を挙げて挽回したくちである）。
English: Toshihisa SHIMAZU (1537- August 25, 1592) was the third son of Takahisa SHIMAZU, and is the younger brother of Yoshihisa SHIMAZU and Yoshihiro SHIMAZU.
Japanese: 島津歳久（しまづとしひさ、天文(元号)6年（1537年）-天正20年7月18日(旧暦)（1592年8月25日））は島津貴久の三男で、島津義久、島津義弘の弟。
English: As his grandfather described him as 'the cleverest man at inferring the whole interest in holoscopic view,' he was known as a rare 'resourceful general.'
Japanese: 祖父の忠良から「始終の利害を察するの智計並びなく」という評価をされていて、稀代の「智将」といわれた。
English: He was in a key position to determine the policies of Shimazu's army as a general officer responsible for war strategies.
Japanese: 主に兄義久の傍らで、作戦参謀として活躍をしており、島津軍団の方針を左右する立場にあった。
English: He is also known as a warrior who participated in many wars from his first battle with his older brother Yoshihiro and younger brother Iehisa, followed by well-known contributions he made to the Siege of Yokokawa-jo castle attack (called Yokokawa-jo seme or Yokokawa kuzure), Yoshihiro's rescue mission, the Siege of Obama-jo castle in the Osumi Province, the Siege of Ito clan, the Battle of the Mimikawa, the Siege of the second Minamata-jo castle, and vice-shogun in the war force of the Higoguchi side led by Yoshihiro in the Bungo Province.
Japanese: また初陣での奮戦から、兄義弘・弟家久と並び島津家の多くの合戦に参加し、横川城攻め(横川崩れ)、大口市堂ヶ崎における義弘救出戦、大隅国小浜城(大隅国)攻め、伊東氏攻め、耳川の戦い、第二次水俣城攻め、豊後国入りでの義弘が指揮した肥後口側の軍勢の副将などが主な功績として挙げられる。
English: He also contributed to the government of the area during the defensive war in the Kagoshima region.
Japanese: 政治面においても、鹿児島を中心とする防衛戦の要となる地で治世の実りを上げる。
English: After the older brother Yoshihisa surrendered at Taihei-ji Temple, he continued to resist in his shoryo (territory), Kedoin-cho, and cleverly enticed the Hideyoshi army into a rough and dangerous street, then surprised the tenkabito (person becoming the ruler of the country) by shooting six arrows at the palanquin of Hideyoshi, the kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor).
Japanese: 兄義久が泰平寺(薩摩川内市)にて降伏後は、一転して自身の所領祁答院町にて抵抗、秀吉軍を巧みに険相な路へと引き込み、関白である秀吉の駕籠に矢を六本射掛け天下人の肝を冷やさせている。
English: Later, at the time of Unekita-ikki, the incident at Taihei-ji Temple was raised as an issue; this led Hideyoshi to issue an order to track down and kill Toshihisa which made him commit suicide by disembowelment (seppuku) at Ryugamizu.
Japanese: その後、梅北一揆に伴い、この祁答院での件が再燃、秀吉による島津家への歳久追討令を受け、竜ヶ水にて責任をとり切腹した。
English: At the time of the Kyushu Conquest of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, when the all the clan members were getting prepared to fight back in the war, he was the only one among his four brothers who insisted on reconciliation, referring to Hideyoshi as 'an extraordinary person who rose to this status born from a farming family'.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉の九州征伐の際、家中が抗戦へ傾く中で秀吉を「農民から体一つで身を興したからには只者ではない」と評価して、四兄弟中ただ一人上方との和平を唱えたという。
English: When Hideyoshi moved from Taihei-ji Temple in Sendai (Satsumasendai city) to Okuchi city, Toshihisa sent his servants to the western edge of his shoryo (territory), Kedoin-cho, and cleverly enticed the Hideyoshi army into a rough and dangerous street and attempted to shoot six arrows at the palanquin of Hideyoshi.
Japanese: 秀吉が川内の泰平寺(薩摩川内市)から大口市に陣を移す途中に位置する歳久の祁答院町領の西端の山崎にて、家来を使いにやり、巧みに秀吉軍を険相な路に案内し、秀吉の駕籠に矢を六本射かけさせた。
English: Toshihisa's attempt to shoot Hideyoshi failed as Hideyoshi's palanquin was empty, being prepared for the attacks; however, it is said that no one else but him exhibited rebellious behavior against Hideyoshi.
Japanese: 予め襲撃に備えた秀吉の駕籠は空駕籠にしていた為、秀吉は難を逃れたが、全国を見渡しても、関白となった後の秀吉に対してここまで徹底した反骨を見せた者はいないとされる。
English: There are several theories which have tried to explain his contradictory attitudes toward Hideyoshi: from the grudge he started to develop due to the loss of his adopted son, Tadachika SHIMAZU, and from the reasoning that he tried to shoulder all the displeasure that the Shimazu family received, etc, however, there is no proven theory and this contradiction has come to be one of the biggest mysteries about Toshihisa in later years.
Japanese: この征伐前後における彼の矛盾した秀吉への対応には、秀吉の九州征伐で婿養子・島津忠隣を失ったことからの怨恨説、今征伐における秀吉の島津家への不興を一身に背負おうとした説など複数あるが、定説はなく歳久の後年を語る最大の謎である。
English: Yoshihisa, the eldest child, seems to have used the vassals who were against Hideyoshi and Toshihisa to obtain advantageous conditions of peace (Shoryo Ando, act of providing authorization for land ownership and guaranteeing feudal tenure, of the three provinces, Satsuma, Osumi and Hyuga) with Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka area).
Japanese: ちなみに総領である義久は、歳久を代表とする反秀吉派の家臣達を戦後処理における上方との有利な講和条件引き出し(薩摩、大隅、日向三カ国の所領安堵)に利用した節がある。
English: He did not participate in Japan's invasion of Korea (the Bunroku-Keicho War) in 1592 due to illness.
Japanese: 1592年、秀吉の始めた朝鮮出兵（文禄・慶長の役）も病気を理由に出陣しなかった。
English: However, because he continued to be rebellious against Hideyoshi and also because many of his vassals participated in the uprising against Hideyoshi (Unekita-ikki) started by a vassal of the Shimazu clan, Kunikane UMEKITA, Hideyoshi became angry with Toshihisa, and this led Toshihisa to attempt suicide, however, he landed in Ryugamizu as the army of his older brother, Yoshihisa, came surrounding him.
Japanese: しかし上記のように反抗的な態度を取り続けたことと、同年に島津氏の家臣・梅北国兼が秀吉に対して反乱（梅北一揆）を起こしたとき、その反乱軍に歳久の家臣が多く参加したことなどから秀吉の怒りを買うことになり、兄・義久の追討を受けて自殺しようとしたが、追手が立ちはだかっていたため、竜ヶ水に上陸した。
English: Although he tried to commit suicide, he could not do so due to his physical handicap; in addition, the army could not kill him right away, since it was led by his own brother, however, Jinji HARADA finally killed Toshihisa following Toshihisa's remark, "Come here quickly and cut off my head."
Japanese: 自害しようしたものの、体が不自由なため、上手く自害できず、また追手も太守の実弟ということで手が出せずいたところで「早う近づきて首を取れ」と歳久が言い暫くの後、原田甚次が首を取った。
English: A will written for Yoshihisa and a death haiku were found by Toshihisa's corpse; the will said 'since I know I was ill and could not serve the Imperial Highness Taiko (retired imperial regent), I have nothing to hide which would make me suffer from a sense of guilt.
Japanese: 亡骸を調べると義久に宛てた遺書と辞世の句が見つかり、そこには「私は病に侵され、太閤殿下の前に出ることが出来なかったのであって、何らやましいところはない。
English: Since the vassals do not seem to believe me, I have no choice other than to fight them as the Bushi's duty, however, this does not mean I want to rebel against my older brother.'
Japanese: 家臣たちは承服しがたいらしいので武士の本分を貫くべくやむをえず交戦するが、これは兄に対して弓を引こうというものではない」という主旨の文がしたためられていたという。
English: The severed head was stored in Jofuku-ji Temple in Kyoto after being exposed at Ichijo Modori-bashi Bridge in Kyoto, and the dead body was placed in the Chosa of the Sozen-ji Temple; a kuyo (memorial service for the dead) was given at the family temple, Fukusho-ji Temple in Kagoshima city.
Japanese: 首級は京都・一条戻橋に晒された後京都浄福寺に、遺体は帖佐の総禅寺に、それぞれ葬られ、霊は島津氏歴代の菩提寺・福昌寺(鹿児島市)にて供養された。
English: It is said that he could not hold a sword and suffered from anguish when he tried to use the stone beside him to kill himself.
Japanese: また、自害の折刀を握ることが出来ず、傍らの石を持って自害せんとして苦痛を味わったとも伝えられている。
English: After death, I wish to save women from these sufferings'; because of this anecdote, he is also worshipped as a 'god for a smooth delivery,' not just as a 'god of war.'
Japanese: 自分の死後はそういった女性の苦しみを救ってやろう」と言ったともされており、平松神社には「戦の神」として以外に「安産の神」としても信仰されている。
English: In the former Satsuma Province, his way of life as it was taught in the Goju (education for the samurai in Satsuma Province) received such great respect that Toshihisa was worshipped even more than his older brother Yoshihiro.
Japanese: 旧薩摩藩内ではその生き様が郷中教育とも相まって、兄義弘を凌ぐほどの崇拝を受けた。
English: There is another anecdote which relates that when Takamori SAIGO was in a predicament at the Ansei no Taigoku (suppression of extremists by the Shogunate), he told the story of Toshihisa to the priest Gessho, joined his hands in prayer in the direction of Shingaku-ji Temple and plunged himself into the water.
Japanese: 安政の大獄にて追い詰められた西郷隆盛が、小舟の上で同乗していた僧月照に歳久の故事を語り、心岳寺の方角へと手を合わせ水中に身を投じたエピソードも存在する。
English: Hisamitsu SHIMAZU (December 2, 1817-December 6, 1887) was a person in paramount authority in Satsuma Province in the last days of the Edo period.
Japanese: 島津久光（しまづひさみつ、文化(元号)14年10月24日(旧暦)(1817年12月2日)-明治20年(1887年)12月6日）は、幕末の薩摩藩における事実上の最高権力者。
English: The Miyanojo family was succeeded by Hisaharu SHIMAZU, the second son, the Shigetomi family by Uzuhiko SHIMAZU, the forth son, and the Izumi family by Tadakane SHIMAZU, the fifth son, respectively.
Japanese: 次男島津久治は宮之城家、四男島津珍彦は重富家、五男島津忠欽は今和泉家をそれぞれ相続した。
English: In 1817, he was born in Kagoshima Castle in Kagoshima County, Satsuma Province (present Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture), as the fifth son of Narioki.
Japanese: 文化14年（1817年）、薩摩国鹿児島郡（現鹿児島県鹿児島市）の鹿児島城で斉興5男として誕生する。
English: On April 6, 1818, he became an adopted child of Hisamichi TANEGASHIMA, the Tanegashima clan, and was treated as a child of the domain lord.
Japanese: 文政元年（1818年）3月1日に種子島氏・種子島久道の養子となり公子（藩主の子）の待遇を受ける。