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English: Meanwhile, he became a high tax paying member of the House of the Peer in 1890, published 'Kobe Newspapers' in 1898, and was appointed as the chairman of Kobe Kawasaki Bank which he established in 1905.
Japanese: 一方、明治23年（1890年）に多額納税貴族院議員、明治31年（1898年）「神戸新聞」を創刊、明治38年（1905年）神戸川崎銀行を開設、監督に就任した。
English: He was also known as an art collector and made a museum named Choshunkaku in his own house in Kobe.
Japanese: また美術品の収集でも知られ、神戸の自邸内に美術館をつくり、長春閣と名付けた。
English: He was more commonly known as an art collector than as an industrialist in the shipbuilding business after his retirement in 1896.
Japanese: 明治29年に第一線を引退してからの川崎正蔵は、造船事業家としてよりもむしろ美術蒐集家として社会的に有名であった。
English: As Shozo visited other houses for his work, he paid close attention not only to the houses and gardens but also to the calligraphic works, paintings, ornaments, and decorations displayed in the tokonoma, which helped to develop his eye for arts.
Japanese: 正蔵は仕事で他家を訪問するごとに、家屋や庭園、さらに床の間の書画、置物、装飾品にいたるまで、深い注意を払うのを常とし、これがおのずから美術鑑賞眼を養った。
English: Houses, gardens and arts were his only hobbies, and this helped to keep his ambitions encouraged.
Japanese: そして、家屋、庭園、美術品は川崎の唯一ともいうべき趣味であり、自分の大志を励ます何よりの刺激剤であった。
English: Kawasaki's involvement in the art collection was similar to the reasoning behind his involvement in the shipbuilding business, which was based on the nationalism of people who lived in the Meiji Period, and that is to say Japanese traditional arts were exported to art collectors in Europe and the United States which left very few masterpieces to be admired in Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 川崎の美術蒐集は、彼の造船業への参入の動機と同じように、明治時代に生きた人間らしいナショナリズムに基づくもので、すなわち明治維新後には日本の伝統的な美術品は欧米の美術愛好者のために輸出されることが多くなり、多くの名品が日本で見られなくなる状態が出現しつつあった。
English: Since Kawasaki was concerned about traditional artworks being exported to foreign countries, he began collecting them at around the time of starting Tsukiji Shipyard in 1878 and purchased more than 2,000 masterpieces in his lifetime.
Japanese: 川崎はこのような伝統的美術品が国外へ流出することを恐れる心情も手伝って、明治11年に築地造船所をの経営に着手したころからおりにふれて美術品を蒐集し始め、生涯にわたって2000余点の名品を買い集めた。
English: He built a museum at his magnificent house in Nunobiki, Kobe which began construction in 1885, and his collections were exhibited and open to the public.
Japanese: そして明治18年から着工した神戸の布引の豪壮な本邸内に美術館を建てて、自分の蒐集した名品を陳列し、一般に公開した。
English: Among his collections, 'Kanzan Jitttoku Nifukutsui' by a famous Chinese artist from the Gen Period, Ganki and 'Senju Sengen Kannon' by KASUGA no Motomitsu (both were later designated as national treasure) were quite well known.
Japanese: その所蔵品の中でも、とくに中国の元時代の名画家である顔輝の「寒山拾得二幅対」や、春日基光画「千手千眼観音」（いずれも後に国宝に指定された）は世間で有名であった。
English: However, most of his collections were sold in order to save the Kawasaki, when they were caught in a financial crisis in 1927.
Japanese: しかし彼の蒐集した美術品の多くは、後に昭和2年の金融恐慌の際に川崎家が危機に陥った時に、売却される運命にあった。
English: Kawasaki was not only well known for being an art lover but also for creating artworks of his own.
Japanese: 川崎は美術愛好家として高名であっただけでなく、自ら美術品の製作にも乗り出している。
English: When he began aiming to create cloisonné wares in 1896 which were as good as Banreki cloisonné from Ming Dynasty, Owari cloisonné successor Sataro KAJI and his entire family were sent to Kobe in 1897 to research on the cloisonné wares in a studio built on Mt. Nunobiki where they successfully created beautiful cloisonné wares 3 years later.
Japanese: 彼は明治29年ごろから、明代の万暦七宝に匹敵できる七宝焼を完成することを志し、尾張七宝焼の後継者であった梶佐太郎一族を30年に神戸に呼びよせ、布引山に七宝焼の工場を設けて研究させ、3年後には見事な七宝の製作に成功した。
English: He displayed the big incense burner and vase in World Exposition held in Paris in 1990 and won the grand prize of honor.
Japanese: そして明治33年にパリで開催された万国博覧会に大花瓶と大香炉を出品して名誉大賞を獲得した。
English: Although he carried on producing beautiful cloisonné wares which were named as 'Kawasaki's jewel cloisonné wares,' no items were being sold since he found joy in giving them away to art lovers.
Japanese: 彼はその後も七宝の名品を多く製作したが、1品も売却せず、「川崎の宝玉七宝」と名づけて美術愛好家に贈ることを喜びとしていた。
English: In order to attend World Exposition in Paris, Kawasaki took 7 family members to Europe where they viewed the shipbuilding industry of England and arts from various countries.
Japanese: このパリ万国博覧会(1900年)に出席するために、川崎は7人の一族を引き連れてヨーロッパを巡遊し、イギリスの造船業と諸国の美術工芸を見てまわった。
English: After that, he became ill and visited his villa all across Japan to prioritize his health, and 'a wealthy person's retirement' was the word to describe Shozo KAWASAKI's lifestyle around this time.
Japanese: その後は体調を崩し、健康の回復を第一の目標として、全国各地の別荘をめぐる「富豪の隠居」が川崎正蔵の実像であった。
English: Kojiro MATSUKATA (January 17, 1866 - June 24, 1950) was a Japanese businessman and a statesman.
Japanese: 松方幸次郎（まつかたこうじろう、慶応元年12月1日(旧暦)（1866年1月17日）-昭和25年（1950年）6月24日）は、日本の実業家、政治家。
English: He dropped out of The University of Tokyo in 1884 to enter Yale University the same year, and returned to Japan in 1890.
Japanese: 明治17年（1884年）に東京大学を中退し、同年イェール大学に留学し明治23年（1890年）帰国。
English: In 1891, as the first Matsukata Cabinet was formed, he became the secretary to the prime minister, his father.
Japanese: 明治24年（1891年）第1次松方内閣組閣に伴い、父の首相秘書官となる。
English: After managing Kobe Shimbun Co., Ltd. and working as the government official for some time, Matsukata assumed the post of vice president of Naniwa Insurance in 1894, initiating the money management operation in the Kansai region.
Japanese: 一時、神戸新聞社経営や官途についたが、明治27年に浪速火災保険の副社長に就任し関西における財活動を開始した。
English: In 1896, requested by Shozo KAWASAKI, the founder of Kobe kawasaki Zaibatsu(a financial clique or group, or company syndicate), Matsukata became the first president of Kawasaki Dockyard Ltd.
Japanese: 明治29年（1896年）神戸川崎財閥創設者・川崎正蔵に要請されて株式会社川崎造船所初代社長に就任。
English: Since then, he assumed the presidency of Osaka Seimi Kogyo (1898), Kobe Gas (1898), the Kobe Shimbun News (1899), Kobe Pier (1908), Kyushu Electric Tramway (1908), Kyushu Land Trust (1908), Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (1920), Kokusai Kisen (1920), Shinko Club, Velvet Soap, and Nihon Rubber horseshoe, and also worked as an executive of 11 other companies.
Japanese: それをきっかけとして大阪舎密鉱業（31年）、神戸瓦斯（同）、神戸新聞（32年）、神戸桟橋（41年）、九州電気軌道（同）、九州土地信託（同）、川崎汽船（大正9年）、国際汽船（同）、神港倶楽部、ベルベット石鹸、日本ゴム蹄鉄、の社長に就任し、その他11社の役員をつとめた。
English: In addition, he was the president of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1912, being a magnate in the political and business world of Kobe.
Japanese: 一方神戸商業会議所会頭、明治45年（1912年）衆議院議員に当選し神戸の政財界の巨頭であった。
English: However, he adopted no prudent measures to cope with the business slump during the prolonged recession period from 1920 to 1931, and instead implemented a diversification strategy that led to bankruptcy of Kawasaki Dockyard amid the financial crisis in 1927.
Japanese: しかし大正9年から昭和6年までの連続不況期に、慎重な不況対策を一切採用せず、無謀ともいえる多角化戦略のため昭和2年の金融恐慌で、川崎造船所は破綻した。
English: Furthermore, Jugo bank, whose president was Matsukata's older brother Iwao MATSUKATA, also went bankrupt as it had made huge loans to Kawasaki Dockyard, resulting in the collapse of Kawasaki Zaibatsu, which Shozo KAWASAKI had built.
Japanese: 川崎造船所に巨額の融資を行っていた兄の松方巌が頭取を務める十五銀行も破綻し川崎正蔵が築き上げた川崎財閥を崩壊へと追いやった。
English: Afterwards, Matsukata served as the member of the House of Representatives for three consecutive terms from 1936, and moved to the U.S. as a national ambassador to work internationally.
Japanese: その後は衆議院議員を昭和11年（1936年）から連続3期務め、国民使節として渡米し国際的に活動した。
English: Also, his collection of paintings, sculptures, and Ukiyoe (Japanese woodblock prints) which Matsukata had bought in Europe during the First World War, when he was prospering as president of Kawasaki Dockyard, had come to be known as "Matsukata collection," a part of which became a base of The National Museum of Western Art.
Japanese: また川崎造船所社長として隆盛を誇った第一次世界大戦の際、ヨーロッパで買い集めた絵画、彫刻、浮世絵は松方コレクションの名で知られ、その一部は国立西洋美術館の母胎となった。
English: Tomokichi FUJISAWA (March, 1866 - April 17, 1932) was a Japanese businessman.
Japanese: 藤澤友吉（ふじさわともきち、1866年3月-1932年4月17日）は、日本の実業家。
English: In his childhood, Fujisawa moved to Osaka to work as a sales clerk of a pharmaceutical warehouse merchant, and was adopted by Shinpei FUJISAWA who was previously a doctor for Amagasaki Province.
Japanese: 少年時代から大阪に出て薬品問屋の店員を勤め、旧尼崎藩医藤沢新平の養子となった。
English: Having started his business as a second-class drug seller, Fujisawa established a camphor refinery in Temma, Kita Ward, Osaka City in 1898 selling "Fujisawa Camphor."
Japanese: 薬種商を始め、明治31年（1898年）大阪市北区(大阪市)天満に樟脳精製所を設立、藤沢樟脳を発売した。
English: As the president of Fujisawa Shoten (Fujisawa Pharmaceutical), Fujisawa did great jobs including the production of the new medicine Macnin, a lumbricide.
Japanese: のち回虫駆除の新薬マクニンを製造、株式会社藤沢商店（藤沢薬品工業）社長として活躍した。
English: Also, he served as the director of Japan Camphor, the auditor of Nihon Baiyaku, the councilor of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the president of Osaka Druggist Wholesale and Brokerage Association.
Japanese: また日本樟脳取締役、日本売薬監査役、大阪商業会議所議員、大阪薬種卸仲買商組合長も務めた。
English: Jisuke OKAHASHI (January 21, 1826 – November 2, 1913) was a Japanese businessman.
Japanese: 岡橋治助（おかはしじすけ、文政8年12月14日(旧暦)（1826年1月21日）-大正2年（1913年）11月2日）は、日本の実業家。
English: In 1842, he came to Osaka and became a trainee at Shimaya dealing with futomono (cotton cloth and hemp cloth) and in 1856, he had a shop of Jisuke ABURAYA which was a branch family of Shimaya and started as a cotton merchant and became one of the best cotton warehouse merchant in Osaka.
Japanese: 天保13年（1842年）大坂に出て、太物商島屋で商売見習をし、安政3年（1856年）島屋の別家油屋治助の店を持ち、木綿商をはじめ、大阪屈指の木綿問屋となる。
English: In 1878, he established the Thirty-fourth Shikoku National Bank (The former Sanwa Bank) and assumed Todori (chief).
Japanese: 明治11年（1878年）第三十四国立銀行（三和銀行の前身）を設立、頭取に就任。
English: Moreover, he participated in the planning of about 30 businesses or more such as railways of Kanan, Osaka Prefecture, Nippon Life Insurance Company, Nippon Fire Insurance Company, Nippon Warehouse, and Teikoku Bussan.
Japanese: さらに大阪・河南の諸鉄道、日本生命保険、日本火災保険、日本倉庫、帝国物産など30余りの事業創設に参画した。
English: In 1887, he established Tennma Boseki and became a president and trailblazer in the world of Osaka cotton spinning industry serving a development and growth of Nippon Menka, Nippon Boseki.
Japanese: また明治20年（1887年）に天満紡績を設立し社長となり、ほかに日本綿花、日本紡績などの育成・発展に努め、大阪綿紡界の草分けとなった。
English: Masutane NAKAJIMA (December 8, 1830 – October 4, 1905) was a bureaucrat in the Meiji Period.
Japanese: 中島錫胤（なかじまますたね、1830年1月2日（文政12年12月8日(旧暦)）-1905年（明治38年）10月4日）は、明治時代の官僚。
English: In 1851, he changed his name to Eikichi NAKAJIMA when he was adopted by a long time Confucian Ryoin NAKAJIMA after becoming his disciple.
Japanese: 1851年京都の老儒である中島椋隠の門に入り養子となり中島永吉と称した。
English: In 1852, he was imprisoned for the Sakuradamon incident for having contact with Magojiro KANEKO and Taichiro TAKAHASHI but was later forgiven.
Japanese: 1852年金子孫二郎、高橋多一郎らと関わったため桜田門外の変に関係したと投獄されたが赦免になる。
English: Kinkichi NAKATA (January 6, 1865 - February 20, 1926) was the fourth chief director of Sumitomo.
Japanese: 中田錦吉（なかたきんきち、元治元年12月9日(旧暦)（1865年1月6日）-大正15年（1926年）2月20日）は、第四代住友総理事である。
English: After working as a judge of Tokyo Appellate Court, a department director of Yokohama District Court, an office manager of Mito District Court and a department director of Tokyo Appellate Court, he joined Sumitomo with help from Masaya SUZUKI in 1902 and became the manager of Besshi Mining Company in 1902.
Japanese: 東京控訴院判事、横浜地方裁判所部長、水戸地方裁判所所長、東京控訴院部長を経て、明治33年（1900年）大学の3年先輩である鈴木馬左也の推挽によって住友に入り、明治35年（1902年）別子鉱業所支配人となる。
English: When he became a director of the head office in 1903, he went on a business trip to Europe and America to learn about commerce in 1909 and began working concurrently as a bank manager in 1910.
Japanese: 明治36年（1903年）本店理事となり、明治42年（1909年）商工視察のため欧米へ出張し、明治43年（1910年）からは銀行支配人を兼務した。
English: When the bank was reorganized into a joint-stock company, he worked concurrently as a managing director which was considered as the head of the organization.
Japanese: 明治45年（1912年）銀行を株式会社に改組し、その実質的トップである常務取締役を兼務した。
English: He was appointed as the director of Casting Company (later known as Sumitomo Metal) in 1915, Osaka Hokko (later known as Sumitomo Tochi Komu) in 1919 and Electric Wiring (later known as Sumitomo Electric Industries) NEC Cooperation in 1920.
Japanese: 大正4年（1915年）鋳鋼所（住友金属の前身）、大正8年（1919年）には大阪北港（住友土地工務の前身）、大正9年（1920年）電線（現、住友電工）・日本電気の各取締役に就任した。
English: In 1922, he became the chief manager of Sumitomo, Ltd. after Masaya SUZUKI retired.
Japanese: 大正11年（1922年）鈴木馬左也の後をついで住友合資総理事に就任。
English: After purchasing a coal mine in Hokkaido (1924), he established Sumitomo Coal Mining (later known as Sumitomo Coal Mining Co., Ltd.) in 1925.
Japanese: 大正13年（1924年）北海道の坂炭坑を買収し、大正14年（1925年）住友坂炭坑（住友石炭鉱業の前身）を設立。
English: In the same year, the land of Sumitomo Copper and Brass in Ajigawa (later known as Sumitomo Metal) and Sumitomo Warehouse 89,100 sq.m. were offered to Osaka city due to the foundation of the public market.
Japanese: 同年大阪市の公設市場設立に応じ、安治川の住友伸銅所（住友金属の前身）と住友倉庫の敷地約2万7000坪を同市に譲渡。
English: In April, the stores which handled Sumitomo products (later known as Sumitomo Corporation) were established in Kobe and Nagoya, and the reorganization of Sumitomo Fertilizer Manufacturing (later known as Sumitomo Chemicals Co., Ltd.) into a joint-stock company as well as the purchase of Hinode Life Insurance Company (later known as Sumitomo Life Insurance Company) took place in June.
Japanese: 4月には住友製品の販売店を神戸と名古屋に設置（住友商事の前身）、6月には肥料製造所（住友化学の前身）を株式会社とし、大阪の日之出生命（住友生命の前身）を買収。
English: He founded Sumitomo Trust and Banking in July and worked concurrently as a director of Sumitomo Bank, O.S.K. Lines, Sumitomo Wearehosue, NEC Coporation and Toa Kogyo.
Japanese: 7月には住友信託銀行を設立し、住友銀行、大阪商船、住友倉庫、日本電気、東亜興業などの取締役を兼任した。
English: His father was Moroyoshi YAMANA, his elder brother was Yoshiyuki YAMANA, his younger brothers were Tokihiro YAMANA and Mitsuyuki YAMANA, and his son was Hiroyuki YAMANA.
Japanese: 父は山名師義、兄に山名義幸、弟に山名時熙、山名満幸、子に山名熙之がいる。
English: Ujiyuki, who was born as Moroyoshi YAMANA's second son, inherited the position of Shugo of Hoki and Oki Provinces in 1389, since his elder brother did not succeed to the family estate.
Japanese: 山名師義の二男として生まれた氏之は兄の山名義幸が家督を継がなかったため、康応元年（1389年）に伯耆国・隠岐国2ヵ国の守護職を継承した。
English: After Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA stepped in the Yamana clan's succession dispute and gave a command for putting down Ujiyuki and Tokihiro in 1390, Ujiyuki was attacked and ruined by Mitsuyuki YAMANA in his home ground, Hoki Province, and fled to Bingo Province.
Japanese: 明徳元年（1390年）、山名家中の家督争いに介入した足利義満によって氏之・時熙兄弟に討伐令が下ると、氏之は山名満幸によって本拠地の伯耆国に攻め込まれ没落し、備後国へ逃れた。
English: In the following year, 1391, Ujiyuki and others came back to Kyoto secretly, and was allowed by Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA when they met at Kinkaku-ji temple; Ujiyuki became Shugo of Hoki Province again when Mitsuyuki YAMANA was defeated at the Meitoku War.
Japanese: その翌年の明徳2年（1391年）、京都市へ密かに戻った氏之らは清水寺にて足利義満と対面し赦免され、明徳の乱で山名満幸が没落すると再び伯耆守護職に就任した。
English: Ujiyuki assumed the post on February 23, 1393, and worked as a Shugo in Hoki Province for about 30 years until the end of Oei era (the beginning of the 15th century).
Japanese: 明徳4年（1393年）1月4日(旧暦)に伯耆守護職に就いた氏之はこの後、応永年間の末まで約30年間在職した。
English: Many of the documents issued during that period still remain; these documents show that Ujiyuki ruled counties of Hoki Province by appointing a member of the Sasaki clan, Kiyotaka TAHARA, and so forth, to be Shugodai (a junior deputy of Shugo).
Japanese: この間に発給された文書の多くは今もなお現存しており、氏之は守護代に佐々木氏や田原清高などを任命して分国の統治を行った。
English: Ujiyuki, in his late years, called himself 'Gensan,' his posthumous Buddhist name, and it is thought that he passed away after his final donation of 'Zaichotonariato, Kume County, Hoki Province' to Joko-ji Temple, Kume County on October 23, 1424.
Japanese: 晩年の氏之は法名の「源賛」を名乗るようになり、応永31年（1424年）10月23日(旧暦)に久米郡定光寺に「伯耆国久米郡在庁富成跡」を寄進したのを最後に没したものと見られる。
English: It has become clear that Ujiyuki did not give the family estate to his son, Hiroyuki YAMANA, but directly to his grandson, Noriyuki YAMANA.
Japanese: ちなみに氏之は子息の山名熙之には家督を譲らず、孫の山名教之に直接譲ったことが明らかになっている。
English: Other Kanji characters, '氏幸,' were often used instead of '氏之'; however, '氏之' was mainly used in the documents and letters.
Japanese: 「氏之」はよく「氏幸」とも表記されることがあるが、当時の文書や史料には「氏之」と記されている。
English: For example, "Sanpo-in Temple Documents" in 1397 contains the description that 'Ujiyuki (氏之) YAMANA's letters of enforce,' and in later years of "Kogen-in Temple Documents" which is thought to have been completed in 1549, contains 'Representatives of the Yamana clan, Hakushu (Hoki Province),' in which Ujiyuki's name was written as 'Daizen no daibu, Ujiyuki (氏之).'
Japanese: 例として挙げるならば応永4年（1397年）の『三宝院文書』所収「山名氏之遵行状」などがあり、時代は下るが天文(元号)18年（1549年）の成立とされる『光源院文書』の「伯州山名代々次第」にも「大膳大夫氏之」と記されている。
English: Considering the fact that the descendants of Ujiyuki of the Yamana clan of Hoki Province used the letter '之,' as Toshiji (one of two kanji characters adopted by members of the same family), it seems that '氏之' was the original way.
Japanese: 加えて氏之以降の伯耆山名一族が「之」を通し字としていることも踏まえると「氏之」の表記の方が本来の姿に近いものと思われる。
English: Chikusei MIMURA (male, May 4, 1876-August 26, 1953) was a bibliographer in Japan.
Japanese: 三村竹清（みむらちくせい、男性、明治9年（1876年）5月4日-昭和28年（1953年）8月26日）は、日本の書誌学者である。
English: His real name was Seizaburo MIMURA, but used 'Chikusei' for his go (pseudonym), as his family ran a bamboo wholesaler.
Japanese: 本名は三村清三郎、竹問屋を営んでいたことから、竹清と号(称号)した。
English: Being a bookworm, he kept purchasing and reading books, ending up in 8 years with a volume which could fill a small boat.
Japanese: その後も本好きが高じて8年間で小舟１艘ほどの本を買い、読みあさった。
English: When he served the Russo-Japanese War as a chief orderly, he was such a booklover that he brought in "Jusankyo (Thirteen Classics)" while marching, and troubled his friends as he had them carry the books on their back.
Japanese: 日露戦争に看護長として従軍したときも本好きは変らず、『十三経』を行軍に持ち込み友人に背負わせて困らせている。
English: In the meantime, he started writing, using thoughts and ideas he put down in more than 20 notebooks.
Japanese: そうするうちに気付いたことなどを書き溜めたノートが20冊を超え、それを整理して書き物を始める。
English: To enrich his knowledge and education, he also started studying Keisho (important literatures in Confucianism) and Sinology (study of the Chinese classics) under 長坂或斎.
Japanese: 一方で知識・教養を深める為に勉学を始め、経学・漢学を長坂或斎に学ぶ。
English: He also learned shoho (penmanship) under Daiiki NARUSE, Nihonga (Japanese-style Painting) under Kinpo Ikeda and Kanpo ARAKI, and drawing under Fuko MATSUMOTO.
Japanese: また成瀬大域について書法を、池田琴峰、荒木寛畝には日本画を受け後には松本楓湖にも画を学ぶ。
English: Taken under the wing of book collector Tokuro NAKAGAWA and visiting him frequently, MIMURA began to associate with Kyoko YAMANAKA, Wakaki HAYASHI, Roan UCHIDA, Shigetomo KODA, and Shachiku ONO.
Japanese: 蔵書家の中川得楼の知遇を得て出入りを繰り返すうちに、山中共古、林若樹、内田魯庵、幸田成友、大野洒竹などとの交流が始まる。
English: MIMURA joined a group of reproducing extremely valuable books, established in 1918 and sponsored by Seisaku YAMADA, in its second phase, and made a good contribution in searching and reproducing kikosho (extremely valuable book) for a long time.
Japanese: 稀書複製会（山田清作主催：大正7年創立）に第2期から加わり、以降長期にわたり、稀覯書の探索や複製に尽力する。
English: Through Beisan-do master Seisaku YAMADA, MIMURA get associated with Shoyo TSUBOUCHI and Shunjo ICHISHIMA.
Japanese: 米山堂主人山田清作の仲介などで、坪内逍遥や市島春城との交友も生まれる。
English: Based upon his detailed and extensive knowledge about the people of the old which he accumulated through reading of old books, MIMURA began writing biographies.
Japanese: 古書などから得られた古人の詳細で膨大な知識を蓄え、伝記を起し始める。
English: He intentionally avoided writing about famous people, but deliberately picked up those who lived rather unrecognized in the history.
Japanese: 著名な人物はわざと避けて、歴史に埋もれしまった人物を好んで取り上げた。
English: He chose magazines as inconspicuous as possible in which his biography works were carried, and he almost ignored manuscript fees.
Japanese: 掲載する雑誌も原稿料を度外視し、できるだけ目立たないものを選んでいる。
English: Senzo MORI called Chikusei MIMURA, Wakaki HAYASHI (son of Kenkai HAYASHI), and Engyo MITAMURA as 'three great experts on Edo period.'
Japanese: 森銑三は、三村竹清・林若樹（林研海の子）・三田村鳶魚を「江戸通の三大人」と評している。
English: Chikusei's diary, "Fushusodo nichireki," is in custody at the TSUBOUCHI Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University.
Japanese: 早稲田大学演劇博物館には竹清の日記『不秋草堂日歴』が保管されている。
English: This diary, beginning in 1910 and ending in January 1953, records his life in detail, and few mistakes in writings or ellipses and incorrect characters are found.
Japanese: この日記は明治43年（1910年）から昭和28年（1953年）1月までの日々が克明に綴られ、書き損じや誤字脱字もほとんどない。
English: The diary, consisting of an enormous 145 volumes, or an equivalent of 15,000 pages of writing manuscript, is introduced by a research society of Chikusei MIMURA diary in the bulletin "Theatre Research," published by the TSUBOUCHI Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University, since its volume 16, 1993.
Japanese: 全145冊、原稿用紙にして1万5千枚という膨大な量の日記であるが、三村竹清日記研究会によって早稲田大学演劇博物館が発行する紀要『演劇研究』16号（1993年）から毎号に連載されている。
English: "Chikusei MIMURA Anthology" edited by Senzo MORI, with Kozo HIDA, Mitsutoshi NAKANO, series 23 of "Nihon Shoshi gaku Taikei" Seishodo Shoten, 1982
Japanese: 『三村竹清集』森銑三監修、肥田晧三・中野三敏共編、<日本書誌学体系23>青裳堂書店、昭和57年
English: Magoshichiro SUGI (February 13, 1835-May 3, 1920) is a Japanese samurai, from the Choshu Domain.
Japanese: 杉孫七郎（すぎまごしちろう、1835年2月13日（天保6年1月16日_(旧暦)）-1920年（大正9年）5月3日）は、日本の武士・長州藩。
English: He was born as the second son of Goroemon UEKI in Mihori village in the Yoshiki County, Suo Province (currently Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
Japanese: 植木五郎右衛門の次男として周防国吉敷郡御堀村（現在の山口県山口市）で生まれる。
English: After working as a pageboy for the lord of domain, SUGI, under the order of the domain, visited western countries with Yasunori TAKEUCHI and Yasuhide MATSUDAIRA, who were envoys of the Edo bakufu.
Japanese: 藩主の小姓を務めた後、1861年（文久元年）、藩命により江戸幕府の遣欧使節である竹内保徳・松平康英らに従って欧米諸国を視察する。
English: After returning from the trip to the western countries, SUGI made efforts with Kaoru INOUE for peace negotiations of the Shimonoseki War, while he opposed to military clashes against the conservative parties, during the domestic conflict of the Genji period.
Japanese: 帰国後、下関戦争では井上馨とともに和議に尽くし、元治の内乱では高杉晋作を支持しつつも、保守派との軍事衝突には最後まで反対した。
English: In 1871 after the Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures), SUGI was assigned as Kunai-taijo (post of Imperial Household Ministry), prefectural governor of the Akita Prefecture, and Kunai-taijo again.
Japanese: 廃藩置県後の1871年（明治4年）、宮内大丞、秋田県県令を歴任後再度宮内大丞を務める。
English: In 1874, SUGI became Kunai shoyu (Junior Assistant Minister of the Sovereign's Household), Kunai-taifu (post of Imperial Household Ministry) in 1877, assigned additional post of jiho (an aide) and became kotaigo gu no daibu (Master of the Empress Dowager's Household) later.
Japanese: 1874年（明治7年）に宮内少輔、1877年（明治10年）に宮内大輔、1878年（明治11年）に侍補を兼務、後に皇太后宮大夫に転じる。
English: In 1887, SUGI was conferred as viscount, and in 1906, became privy councilor.
Japanese: 1887年（明治20年）に子爵に叙せられ、1906年（明治39年）に枢密顧問官に転じた。
English: Kendo KOZONE (male, June 13, 1828-November 27, 1885) was a seal-engraver from the last stage of the Edo period to the Meiji period in Japan.
Japanese: 小曽根乾堂（こそねけんどう、男性、文政11年5月2日(旧暦)（1828年6月13日）-明治18年（1885年）11月27日）は、江戸時代末期から明治時代の日本の篆刻家である。
English: Kozone's forefathers were believed to be vassal of Katsuyori TAKEDA, while founder of his family was Michiyoshi HIRADO, who lived in the early Edo period.
Japanese: 小曽根家の遠祖は武田勝頼の家臣とされるが、家祖は江戸時代初期の平戸道喜である。
English: Michiyoshi lived in Hakata-ku, Hirado city, and Motohakata machi during the Keicho era, and made his living by secondhand dealer and trading.
Japanese: 道喜は博多区・平戸市と移り、慶長年間に長崎本博多町に住み、古物商と貿易を生業とした。
English: Michiyoshi ran a variety of businesses which included construction of Southeast Asian country-style residences in Dejima, repair works of 'Megane-bashi' (a bridge with two semicircular arches), and built Zuikozan Eisho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 出島の南蛮屋敷の建設、眼鏡橋の修復、瑞光山永昌寺の建立など様々な事業を行った。
English: Kendo's father, Rokuzaemon, became one of goyo-shonin (chartered merchants) for Domains of Echizen and Saga toward the end of Edo period, and succeeded as one of the leading wealthy merchants in Nagasaki.
Japanese: 父六左衛門は幕末頃、越前藩や佐賀藩の御用商人となり長崎屈指の豪商になった。
English: Rokuzaemon had deep knowledge in literature, and called himself as 'Chikuei,' believed to have named after Shochiku SHINOZAKI.
Japanese: また父六左衛門は文芸にも造詣が深く、竹影と号しているが篠崎小竹に因んだと言われる。