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English: As the last Dajo Daijin, he supported the System of Departments of State to the last moment, although he took the post of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal without any opposition, knowing that it was an honorary office created for him, and congratulated Hirobumi ITO on becoming the first prime minister.
Japanese: また、最後の太政大臣として太政官制を最後まで擁護しながらも、内閣制度の発足に伴い内大臣職を宛てがわれるとこれが三条処遇のために作られた名誉職である事を承知の上であっさりと引き受け、初代内閣総理大臣伊藤博文の門出を祝った。
English: In Akama, there stands 'Gokyo Seisen no Hi,' a monument commemorating the month long stay of five court nobles in the Akama inn town located along the Karatsu-kaido Road in Munakata City.
Japanese: また宗像市の唐津街道赤間宿に一ヵ月間宿泊した記念に赤間には、「五卿西遷の碑」がある。
English: Tsuneoki IKEDA was a warlord during the Sengoku period (Period of Warring States) and Azuchi-Momoyama period.
Japanese: 池田恒興（いけだつねおき）は、戦国時代(日本)・安土桃山時代の武将。
English: His formal name (imina) was reported to be Nobuteru in some military epics, but is not found in any reliable historical data in the same period.
Japanese: 諱を信輝としている軍記物もあるが、信頼できる同時代史料には見当たらない。
English: The name may have been given because Nobunaga was his foster brother and because he was the father of Terumasa.
Japanese: 信長の乳兄弟であり輝政の父であることからついた名ではないかと思われる。
English: He participated in the Battle of Okehazama and the capture of Mino, and in 1570 he actively fought against the Azai and Asakura clans in the Battle of the Anegawa and became the Lord of Inuyama-jo Castle.
Japanese: 桶狭間の戦い、美濃攻略などで戦い、元亀元年（1570年）、浅井氏・朝倉氏との姉川の戦いで活躍し、犬山城主となる。
English: In 1580, he beat Murashige ARAKI, who stood against Nobunaga and locked himself in Hanakuma-jo Castle (the Battle of Hanakuma-jo Castle) and was given Murashige's domain.
Japanese: 天正8年（1580年）、信長に抵抗し花隈城に籠もる荒木村重を破り（花隈城花熊城の戦い）、その旧領を領する。
English: In 1582, when Nobunaga was assassinated by Mitsuhide AKECHI in the Honnoji no Hen (Conspiracy of Honno-ji Temple), he joined Hideyoshi HASHIBA, who came back from the attack in the Chugoku region; and in the Battle of Yamazaki, he lead 4000 troops, acted as the spearhead in the right wing, beat Mitsuhide, and became the chief vassal of Oda family.
Japanese: 天正10年（1582年）、本能寺の変で信長が家臣の明智光秀に討たれると、中国攻めから引き返した羽柴秀吉に合流、山崎の戦いは兵4000を率いて右翼先鋒を務めて光秀を破り、織田家の宿老に列する。
English: In the same year, at the Kiyosu conference for deciding a successor of the Oda family, he and Hideyoshi supported the Nobunaga's heir Sanboshi (Hidenobu ODA) in opposition to Katsuie SHIBATA and others; and in the following year, he fought against Katsuie in the Battle of Shizugatake and in 1583, he was given 130000 koku in Mino Province and became the Ogaki-jo Castellan.
Japanese: 同年、織田家の後継を巡る清洲会議では、柴田勝家らに対抗して、秀吉とともに信長嫡孫の三法師(織田秀信)を擁立、翌年には賤ヶ岳の戦いで勝家と戦い、天正11年（1583年）、美濃国にて13万石を拝領し大垣城主となる。
English: In the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute in 1584, his behavior received attention, and he finally took part on the side of Hideyoshi against Ieyasu TOKUGAWA from Mikawa Province and Nobukatsu (Nobuo) ODA.
Japanese: 天正12年（1584年）、三河国の徳川家康、織田信雄との小牧・長久手の戦いでは、去就が注目されたが結局は秀吉方として参戦。
English: At the beginning of war, he attacked Inuyama-jo Castle, and then he attempted to attack Ieyasu's home province of Mikawa together with Hidetsugu MIYOSHI (Hidetsugu TOYOTOMI), Nagayoshi MORI (husband of a Tsuneoki's daughter), and Hidemasa HORI, but he met with a misfortune of receiving a shot in the saddle and falling from a horse during the early part of the war (the misfortune doubled as he let himself become furious and lost freedom to move due to injury), he died in Nagakute together with Nagayoshi.
Japanese: 緒戦で犬山城を攻略したのち、三好秀次（豊臣秀次）・森長可（恒興の娘婿）・堀秀政とともに家康の本拠三河を攻めようとしたが、合戦の前半で鞍に銃弾を受け落馬したことが災いとなり（逆上してしまったことと負傷し身動きの自由を失ったことと二重に災いをなした）長久手にて長可とともに戦死。
English: He is reported to have died after being stabbed with a spear by Naokatsu NAGAI, while he was The situation of his death was reported to have occurred after receiving a spear from Naokatsu NAGAI while he was rebuilding camp by sitting on a Shogi camp stool.
Japanese: 戦死の状況は、床机に座って陣中を立て直しているところに、永井直勝の槍を受けてのものだと言われている。
English: His dead body was once interred in Arai in Totomi Province but was reinterred later in Gokokuin in Myoshin-ji Temple in Kyoto.
Japanese: 遺体は一時、遠江国にあった新居に葬られたが、後に京都・妙心寺の護国院に改葬されている。
English: He was in tune with the times and was brave, but his impulsive nature was reported to have caused him harm.
Japanese: 時勢を見る目もあり勇猛ではあったが、短慮な性格であったことが災いしたともいう。
English: At that time, his first son Motosuke IKEDA also died, so his second son Terumasa IKEDA succeeded him as the head of Ikeda family.
Japanese: この時、嫡男の池田元助も討ち死にしたため、池田家の家督は次男の池田輝政が相続した。
English: FUJIWARA no Tadabumi (873 - July 16, 947) was a councilor in the Heian period who served as Minbukyo (Minister of Popular Affairs).
Japanese: 藤原忠文（ふじわらのただぶみ、貞観(日本)15年（873年）-天暦元年6月26日(旧暦)（947年7月16日））は、平安時代の参議で民部卿を務めた。
English: His father was FUJIWARA no Edayoshi (845 - 917), who was a councilor from the Ceremonial House of the Fujiwara clan, with his grandfather being FUJIWARA no Harutsu and his great-grandfather FUJIWARA no Otsugu who served as Sadaijin (Minister of the Left).
Japanese: 父は藤原氏藤原式家の参議藤原枝良（845年-917年、祖父は左大臣藤原緒嗣、父は藤原春津）。
English: The following year, 940, he was designated Seito-taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the eastern barbarians") to quell the war in Kanto (eastern Japan) staged by TAIRA no Masakado, but before he arrived, Masakado was killed.
Japanese: 翌940年（天慶3年）関東で乱を起した平将門を追討するため征東大将軍に任じられたが、関東に到着する前に将門は討たれていた。
English: In 941, he was appointed Seisei-taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the western barbarians") to suppress an uprising in the Seto Inland Sea led by FUJIWARA no Sumitomo, and this time, he was successful.
Japanese: 941年（天慶4年）には瀬戸内海で反乱を打つため征西大将軍となり、藤原純友を討っている。
English: According to a story, Tadabumi, who had not been rewarded for subduing the TAIRA no Masakado's War due to opposition from FUJIWARA no Saneyori, cursed Saneyori's descendants after he died.
Japanese: なお、藤原実頼の反対で平将門の乱鎮圧の恩賞が得られず、忠文の没後実頼の子孫にたたったという言い伝えが残っている。
English: As a result, people called Tadabumi 'Akuryo-Minbukyo (Minbukyo, the evil sprit)' and built the Matafuri-jinja Shrine in Uji to soothe his spirit.
Japanese: このことから悪霊民部卿とも呼ばれ、忠文の霊を慰めるため宇治に末多武利神社が創建された。
English: Imperial Prince Nariyoshi (his name can also be read as Narinaga) (1326 - January 29, 1344) was the son of Emperor Godaigo of the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 成良親王（なりよししんのう/なりながしんのう、嘉暦元年（1326年）-興国5年/康永3年1月6日(旧暦)（1344年1月21日））は、南北朝時代(日本)の後醍醐天皇の皇子である。
English: In 1333, warriors including Takauji ASHIKAGA and Yoshisada NITTA put to an end to the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) and Emperor Godaigo initiated the Kenmu restoration, and in 1334, Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi, Nariyoshi's brother, was appointed crown price, and Nariyoshi was designated Shogun of Kamakura-fu, moving to Kamakura to rule the Kanto region while being served by Tadayoshi ASHIKAGA, Takauji's younger brother, following the demise of the Kamakura bakufu.
Japanese: 元弘3年/正慶2年（1333年）、足利尊氏・新田義貞らにより鎌倉幕府が滅亡し、後醍醐天皇の建武の新政がはじまると、翌建武(日本)元年（1334年）、兄恒良親王が皇太子に指名され、成良は鎌倉府将軍となり、尊氏の弟である足利直義に奉じられて鎌倉幕府崩壊後の関東地方統治を目的に鎌倉へ下向する。
English: When the Nakasendai War broke out the following year, he returned to Kyoto and was appointed Seii-taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") but dismissed after only a short period.
Japanese: 翌年の中先代の乱の際に帰京し、一時征夷大将軍となるが、短期間で停止されている。
English: In 1336, he became the crown prince of Emperor Komyo, who had been supported by Takauji, but was later overthrown.
Japanese: 延元元年/建武3年（1336年）、尊氏によって擁立された光明天皇の皇太子となるが、後に廃される。
English: According to the historical epic, "Taiheiki" (the Records of the Great Peace), he is said to have been poisoned together with his brother, Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi.
Japanese: 古典『太平記』では、兄である恒良親王らとともに毒殺されたと伝えられている。
English: He is believed to have taken over as the head of the Kawachi-Genji after his foster father, MINAMOTO no Yoshitada (who was actually his uncle and the fourth son of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie), was assassinated.
Japanese: 養父（実は叔父）源義忠（源義家の四男）の暗殺事件のあと河内源氏の家督を継いたという。
English: In 1109, he was ordered by Emperor Shirakawa to hunt down and kill MINAMOTO no Yoshitsuna (a younger brother of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie and the grand uncle of the clan), who had allegedly assassinated Yoshitada, but did not carry it out.
Japanese: 天仁2年（1109年）、義忠暗殺の嫌疑を受けた一族（大叔父）の源義綱（義家の弟）追討を白河天皇に命じられ、これを伏す。
English: Later, after the real assassin of Yoshitada was found to be MINAMOTO no Yoshimitsu, another younger brother of Yoshiie, Tameyoshi was commended and made Saemon no jo (Lieutenant at the Left Division of Outer Palace Guards).
Japanese: （これは冤罪で義忠暗殺の真犯人は義家の弟の源義光とされる）功により左衛門尉となる。
English: During the Eikyu no Goso (Eikyu Petition) in 1113, when the priests of Kofuku-ji Temple rioted, calling for the replacement of the appointed head of the temple, he was orderd by the Retired Emperor Shirakawa to prevent the priests from coming into Kyoto.
Japanese: 永久(元号)元年（1113年）、永久の強訴に際して白河院の命を受けて出動して衆徒を防いだ。
English: In 1143, he approached FUJIWARA no Yorinaga, who was dearly loved and trusted by his father, Otono (Grand Minister) FUJIWARA no Tadazane, and offered his services and, in 1150, for the benefit of Yorinaga, he raided the villa of the Kanpaku (the chief adviser to the Emperor), FUJIWARA no Tadamichi, together with his son, Yorikata, taking the Shuki-daiban (vermilion-lacquered utensils and stands), possession of which signified the head of the clan.
Japanese: 康治2年（1143年）には大殿こと藤原忠実に溺愛されていた藤原頼長に接近、主従関係を結び、久安6年（1150年）、藤原頼長のために頼賢と兵を率いて関白藤原忠通の別邸を襲って氏長者の印たる朱器台盤を奪う。
English: In 1154, his eighth son, MINAMOTO no Tametomo committed violent acts while disguised as the So-Tsuibushi (the head of the military and police) of Chinzei in Kyushu.
Japanese: 久寿元年（1154年）、子である八男の源為朝が鎮西の惣追捕使を僭称、九州で乱行。
English: This made the Cloistered Emperor Toba furious and in May 1155, Tameyoshi was dismissed from his posts of Saemon no daijo (Senior Lieutenant at the Left Division of Outer Palace Guards) and Kebiishi and handed over the family estate to his eldest son, MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo.
Japanese: 鳥羽法皇の怒りを買い、久寿2年（1155年）4月、為義は左衛門大尉と検非違使を解官され、家督を嫡子源義朝に譲った。
English: During the Hogen War in 1156, Tameyoshi, in command of the clan, including his sons, MINAMOTO no Yorikata and Tametomo, was defeated fighting for Daijo-tenno (a retired emperor) against Yoshitomo and TAIRA no Kiyomori on the Emperor's side.
Japanese: 保元元年（1156年）、保元の乱では、為義は子の源頼賢、為朝ら一族を率いて太上天皇方につき、天皇方の義朝、平清盛らと戦うが敗れる。
English: In spite of Yoshitomo's plea for the life of Tameyoshi and his younger brothers for their distinguished war services, they were not pardoned and on August 24, they were beheaded by Yoshitomo, either in Funaoka, according to "Heihanki" (TAIRA no Nobunori's diary), or in Shichijo-Suzaku, according to "Hogen Monogatari" (Tales of the Hogen War).
Japanese: 義朝は自らの戦功に代えて、為義と弟たちの助命を願うが許されず、7月30日(旧暦)に源義朝によって斬首された（場所は、『兵範記』では船岡、『保元物語』では七条朱雀）。
English: It is not until around the time that MINAMOTO no Yoritomo became Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") and established the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) that the family estate is recognized to have been passed down from MINAMOTO no Yoshitada to MINAMOTO no Tameyoshi, then to MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo and then MINAMOTO no Yoritomo; it is uncertain that Tameyoshi was actually the head of the family when he was alive.
Japanese: 源義忠の死後、家督継承が源為義、源義朝、源頼朝と継承されたとするのは、源頼朝が征夷大将軍となり鎌倉幕府を開く前後あたりからのことであり、為義在世中は棟梁として存在していたかは定かではない。
English: Although some historical documents of a later period suggest that he was designated the heir of the Minamoto clan by MINAMOTO no Yoshiie, it can not be confirmed from contemporary sources.
Japanese: 一部に源義家が後継指名をしていたとする史料があるが、後世の作で当時の史料からは確認できない。
English: It is known that the following clan leaders also took over part of the Kawachi-Genji estate as Tameyoshi did, and that they considered themselves to be the heir of Yoshitada: MINAMOTO no Yoshinobu, the son of MINAMOTO no Yoshichika and Tameyoshi's elder brother; MINAMOTO no Yoshitaka, the second son of MINAMOTO no Yoshitada, who served as Sahyoe no gon no suke (Provisional Assistant Captain of the Left Division of Middle Palace Guards); and MINAMOTO no Yoshikuni, an elder brother of Yoshitada and a younger brother of Yoshichika.
Japanese: また、為義と同じく、源義親の子で長兄である源義信や、義忠の次男の源義高(左兵衛権佐)、義忠の兄で義親の弟の源義国らも当時、河内源氏の勢力の一部を継承しており、義忠後継を自任していたことがわかっている。
English: MINAMOTO NO Yoshitaka: the second son of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie's fourth son and former clan head, MINAMOTO no Yoshitada; ranked Jushiinoge (Senior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade) and served as Sahyoe no gon no suke.
Japanese: 源義高(左兵衛権佐)…源義家四男で前棟梁の義忠の次男（従四位下左兵衛権佐）
English: In contrast to the Taira clan, who had been given high-ranking posts by the Retired Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba, Tameyoshi was given the cold shoulder; having had his request to serve as Governor of Mutsu Province, a post served by his father, MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi, and his grandfather, MINAMOTO no Yoriie, turned down, he had to serve as Saemon no jo for more than thirty years.
Japanese: 平氏が白河院、鳥羽天皇に重用されるのに対して、為義は源頼義、義家と父祖代々任じられた陸奥国守任官の要望も却下され、30余年もの間、左衛門尉のまま冷遇された。
English: This is partly because he maintained a close relationship with the losing side of the Sekkan-ke, who had been plagued with inheritance battles, which Tameyoshi remained unaware of, even after the the system of cloistered rule had been established and to compete with the Taira clan, who were close to FUJIWARA no Tadamichi, the Sessho (regent), he approached FUJIWARA no Yorinaga, who had been dearly loved by his father, Tadazane, and who looked to have a promising future, helping him become the head of the Fujiwara clan.
Japanese: それは院政誕生後も相次ぐ家督争いでその風下に立つ事となってしまった摂関家との密接な関係を続けていたのも原因の一つであるが、その事に気づく事無く、ライバルの平氏が摂政藤原忠通と親しかった事に対抗して、父の忠実に溺愛され、有望と見た弟の藤原頼長に接近し、藤氏長者獲得等に貢献した。
English: Financially, the family was affluent as it had fortunes handed down from generation to generation in their homeland, Tsuboi, Ishikawa-gun, Kawachi Province (Tsuboi, Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture).
Japanese: 経済的には河内国石川郡壷井（大阪府羽曳野市壷井）の河内源氏本拠地伝来の財産があり裕福であった。
English: However, it is known that Tameyoshi was developing his own ideas for reviving the fortunes of the Minamoto clan, which, because of concerns about their future, had been declining due to too many offspring produced and adopted and scattered across the country.
Japanese: また、一族の将来を慮り多くの子供をつくり、養子や猶子も多く、彼らを全国に配置して衰退していた源氏を盛り返そうと為義なりに考えていたことはわかっている。
English: However, Yorinaga, who, in retrospect, was destined to share his fate with Tameyoshi, was certainly a well-learned, knowledgeable man that no one could have competed with (if there was one, it was FUJIWARA no Shinzei), but he was cold, unloving, inflexible and therefore he met with opposition from people around him, when he insisted on punishing the Taira clan for causing a rebellion by priests from Gionsha Shrine, and he was also hated by Emperor Konoe.
Japanese: しかし、為義らと運命共同体を成す事となった頼長は確かに学識高く、比類する者（いたとしたら、藤原信西ぐらいであったろう）なきほどであったが、酷薄で融通をつける事を知らず、園社神人と騒動を起こした平氏に厳重な処罰を主張する等周囲から反発を買い、時の近衛天皇にも嫌われていた。
English: The clan was incessantly beset by internal feuds like the one between his second son, MINAMOTO no Yoshikata, and his grandchild, MINAMOTO no Yoshihira, and once he was removed from office and forced to retire in 1154 (as stated earlier) and his first son, MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo, who had been appointed Governor of Shimotsuke Province, took over as the head of the family, other Minamoto clan leaders increasingly switched their support to the more capable and competent Yoshitomo.
Japanese: 一族についても、次男の源義賢と孫の源義平の対立等内輪揉めが絶えず、前述の久安6年（1154年）年の解官・隠居で既に下野守などに任官した長男、源義朝が家督を次ぐとますます多くの源氏与党の人心は彼から離れ、才幹豊かな義朝に靡いてしまう。
English: This is considered to have adversely affected the relationship between father and son, causing Tameyoshi to treat Yoshitaka as his heir.
Japanese: それが親子の仲を冷めたものにしてしまったといわれ、為義は義賢を後継として遇した。
English: All of these events culminated in the outbreak of the Hogen War, where his gallant death helped to partly salvage his reputation but made his long-term plan mentioned above pointless.
Japanese: それらの結果が保元の乱であり、潔い最後を遂げた事はかろうじて為義の名誉を救ったが、上記のような遠謀は無駄になってしまった。
English: As his achievements show, he was not talented as a politician, skilled as a strategist, or dependable as the head of the Minamoto clan when compared to his immediate ancestors, Yoshiie, his great grandfather, Yoshichika, his brave father, and the skilled politician, Yoshitada, his adoptive father.
Japanese: これらの事績からも明らかなように政戦両略の才に乏しく、偉大な祖父義家、勇猛だった実父義親、政略に長けた養父義忠などの父祖に比較すると、源氏の棟梁というには頼りない人物であった。
English: It is true that he was a victim of his times but it is also true that his lack of ability contributed to the Minamoto clan's downfall.
Japanese: 時代の状況も悪かったが、彼の能力不足も源氏の凋落の要因であったことは否めない。
English: Being of the main branch of the Taira clan and of extraordinary good looks, his appearance in the imperial court was associated with the coming of Hikaru Genji.
Japanese: 平氏一門の嫡流であり、美貌の貴公子として宮廷にある時には光源氏の再来と称された。
English: Although he went off to the front as Taishogun (commander-in-chief) in the Jisho-Juei War, he was not competent as a warlord and was devastatingly defeated in the decisive Battle of Fujigawa and Battle of Kurikara-toge.
Japanese: 治承・寿永の乱において大将軍として出陣するが、武将としての力量はなく、富士川の戦い・倶利伽羅峠の戦いの二大決戦で壊滅的な敗北を喫する。
English: Partly because his father died young, he tended to be isolated in the clan; he left the front line after the Taira clan fled from Kyoto, and committed a suicide by drowning himself in the sea off Nachi.
Japanese: 父の早世もあって一門の中では孤立気味であり、平氏一門が都を落ちたのちに戦線を離脱、那智の沖で入水自殺した。
English: In the ceremony celebrating the Cloister Emperor Goshirakawa's 50th birthday held in April 21, 1176, Koremori, who was aged 19, performed a dance titled 'Seigaiha play,' wearing the twigs of cherry and plum trees in his Eboshi (black-lacquered headgear), which won him the name of Obai-shosho (general of flowers) as he was so handsome.
Japanese: 安元2年（1176年）3月4日、19歳の時に後白河法皇50歳の祝賀で、烏帽子に桜の枝、梅の枝を挿して｢青海波｣を舞い、その美しさから桜梅少将と呼ばれる。
English: The way he danced the Seigaiha play was described in detail in diaries including "Gyokuyo" (Kanezane KUJO's diary) and "Angen Onga no Nikki" (the record of the ceremony celebrating Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa's 50th birthday), where FUJIWARA no Takafusa, who attended the ceremony, describes the scene as 'Koremori comes out and dances a Rakuson dragon dance in the Iriaya style, wearing a blue Uenokinu coat and an Uenohakama kilt that matched his complexion, his expression, and his aura, which filled the atmosphere and fascinated the audience; the beauty and magnificence of his dance was no less than those of the cherry blossoms he was wearing.'
Japanese: 青海波の様子は『玉葉』や『安元御賀日記』などにも詳細に記されており、臨席した藤原隆房はその様子を「維盛少将出でて落蹲（らくそん）入綾をまふ、青色のうえのきぬ、すほうのうへの袴にはへたる顔の色、おももち、けしき、あたり匂いみち、みる人ただならず、心にくくなつかしきさまは、かざしの桜にぞことならぬ」と書いている。
English: When his father, TAIRA no Shigemori, who had been supposed to succeed Taira no Kiyomori, died of disease in July 1179 and TAIRA no Munemori took over as the head of the clan, Koremori and the other sons of Shigemori were put in a delicate position in the clan.
Japanese: 治承3年（1179年）7月、平清盛の後継者と目されていた父・平重盛が病死し、叔父の平宗盛が平氏の棟梁となると、維盛ら重盛の息子達は平氏一門で微妙な立場となる。
English: His wife being the daughter of FUJIWARA no Narichika, who had been killed in the Shishigadani Conspiarcy, made his position more difficult.
Japanese: 維盛の妻が鹿ヶ谷の陰謀で殺害された藤原成親の娘である事も、維盛の立場を苦しいものにしていた。
English: On October 2, 1180 when MINAMOTO no Yoritomo raised an army, he was designated So-daisho (the supreme commander) to defeat Yoritomo.
Japanese: 治承4年（1180年）9月5日、源頼朝の挙兵に際し、頼朝追討軍の総大将となる。
English: There was an infighting between Koremori, who wanted to depart as soon as possible, and FUJIWARA no Tadakiyo, Samurai-daisho (the commander of warriors), who insisted that the date chosen for departure should be avoided as it was inauspicious, causing the departure to be delayed to the end of the month.
Japanese: 出発しようとする維盛と日が悪いので忌むべきだという侍大将の藤原忠清で内輪もめとなり、結局出発は月末まで遅れた。
English: The beauty of Koremori, aged 23, dressed in the samurai outfit, and ready to go to battle as Taisho (the supreme commander) was beyond description.
Japanese: 出陣する23歳の大将維盛の武者姿は、絵にも描けぬ美しさだったという。
English: Going down the Tokaido road, Koremori's army had difficulty not only recruiting soldiers due to the information that the Minamoto clan around the country were raising armies one after another and on the advance, disseminated while his army was procrastinating but also procuring food due to the poor crop during the summer.
Japanese: 東海道を下る追討軍は、出発が伸びている間に各地の源氏が次々と兵を挙げ、進軍している情報が広まっていたために兵員が思うように集まらず、夏の凶作で糧食の調達もままならなかった。
English: The Mokudai (Governor's representative) of the Suruga Province, who was on the Taira side and had been waiting for Koremori's army to arrive, went off to attack the Kai-Genji (Minamoto clan) (Takeda army) fighting them at the foot of the Fuji-gawa River and suffering a crushing defeat.
Japanese: 追討軍の到着を待って甲斐源氏（武田軍）討伐に向かった平氏側の駿河国目代は、富士川の麓で武田軍と合戦となり惨敗する。
English: On October 17, the day before the Battle of Fujigawa, the Takeda army sent a letter to Koremori's camp, following the rules of warfare of that time, which said as follows:
Japanese: 10月17日富士川の戦いの前日、当時の戦闘の作法として武田軍が維盛の陣に送ってきた書状には下記のように書かれてあった。
English: As you are here as the Emperor's envoy, I should be visiting you.'
Japanese: 「幸い宣旨の使者として来られたので、こちらから参上したいと思っております。」
English: However, since we are still far apart and the path is steep, I would appreciate it if we could arrange to meet at Ukishimagahara.'
Japanese: 「しかしながら、路が遠く険しいのでここはお互い浮島ヶ原で待ち合わせましょう。」
English: Furious at this bold letter, Tadakiyo, in violation of the art of warfare, beheaded the two envoys who had brought the letter (source: "Sankaiki" (Tadachika NAKAYAMA's diary), "Gyokuyo," and "Kikki" (Tsunefusa YOSHIDA's diary)).
Japanese: この不敵な内容に忠清が激怒し、兵法に反して使者2人の首を斬った（『山槐記』『玉葉』『吉記』）。
English: According to "Heike Monogatari" (the Tales of the Taira Family), the Taira army that faced the Takeda army across the Fuji-gawa River on November 14 was seventy thousand strong, but in fact, there were only some four thousand soldiers, whose number became further reduced to one or two thousand as some fled or surrendered to the enemy while resting.
Japanese: 10月18日、富士川を挟んで武田軍と向き合う平氏軍は『平家物語』では7万の大軍となっているが、実際には4千騎程度で、逃亡や休息中に敵軍へ投降するなど残兵は千～2千騎ほどになっていた。
English: In the face of Yoritomo's large army, there was no longer a chance of the Taira army winning.
Japanese: 鎌倉の頼朝も大軍を率いて向かっており、もはや平氏軍に勝ち目はなかった。
English: Although Koremori had no intention of retreating, he had no choice but to do so, partly because Tadakiyo repeatedly insisted on it and partly because it was what his demoralized soldiers wanted.
Japanese: 維盛は引き退くつもりはなかったが、忠清は再三撤退を主張、もはや士気を失っている兵達もそれに賛同しており、維盛は撤退を余儀なくされる。
English: On the night the evacuation order was given from the camp at the Fuji-gawa River, tens of thousands of water birds that had been gathering on Fuji-numa Marsh flew up all at one time, the noise frightening the Taira soldiers and making them run in panic, assuming that the enemy was storming them.
Japanese: 富士川の陣から撤収の命が出た夜、富士沼に集まっていた数万羽の水鳥がいっせいに飛び立ち、その羽音を敵の夜襲と勘違いした平氏の軍勢はあわてふためき総崩れとなって敗走する。
English: (Some scholars say that the Taira army, who knew that the Takeda army of the Minamoto side was coming to attack them that night because they had heard the birds, was trying to pullback temporarily when an evacuation order came out of blue, causing confusion among soldiers and making them run.)
Japanese: （ただし、羽音によって源氏方の武田氏の夜襲を察知して一時撤退を計ろうとしたところ、不意の命令に混乱して壊走したという説もある。）
English: His grandfather, TAIRA no Kiyomori, was furious, saying that he should have fought to death even if he ended up exposing his body to the enemy and that running back home as a loser was a shame of the clan, and forbade him from entering Kyo.
Japanese: 祖父・平清盛は維盛の醜態に激怒し、なぜ敵に骸を晒してでも戦わなかったのか、おめおめと逃げ帰ってきたのは家の恥であるとして維盛が京に入る事を禁じた。
English: In April of the same year, Koremori, together with TAIRA no Shigehira and TAIRA no Tadanori, defeated MINAMOTO no Yukiie in the Battle of Sunomata-gawa River in Owari Province, which earned him Junii (Junior Second Rank), and the posts of U-Chujo (lieutenant general of the Imperial Guards of the Right) and Kurodo no to (head chamberlain), which made people call him Komatsu no Chujo (literally General of the small pines).
Japanese: 同年3月、尾張国墨俣川に平重衡、平忠度と共に源行家を破り、従二位右中将・蔵人頭となり小松中将と呼ばれる。