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English: After returning home from war, his only possession was a briefcase that contained catalogues and bills because he gave his subordinates his salary and other possessions.
Japanese: 凱旋した際、給料や品の多くは部下に与えていたため、目録や明細書ばかりカバンに入っていた。
English: When he was warned by Keiroku TSUZUKI, Yoshifuru said 'I understood the point of each speech.'
Japanese: 一緒に参加していた都築馨六から注意されると「演説の要領は分かりましたよ」と応えたという。
English: While he was studying in France, Aritomo YAMAGATA, who was the highest ranking official in the army at the time, asked Yoshifuru to run errands to a high ranking military official in the French army.
Japanese: フランスに騎兵留学中、当時の陸軍の最高位にあった山縣有朋にフランス軍内の高級軍人へのお使いを頼まれたことがあった。
English: However, Yoshifune was so intoxicated that he fell asleep on the train and was robbed along the way.
Japanese: しかし、使いの途中の電車内において酒を飲みすぎ、居眠りした揚句、置き引きにあっている。
English: Chikashige (親成) MIMURA (year of birth unknown - October 28, 1609) was a lord of Nariwa-jo Castle (Kakushu-jo Castle) in Bicchu Province during the reign of the Mimura clan and Mori clan.
Japanese: 三村親成（みむらちかしげ、生年不詳-慶長14年10月1日(旧暦)（1609年10月28日））は、三村期～毛利期の備中国成羽（鶴首城）主。
English: According to the genealogy handed down to his descendants, his name is written as '親重' in Chinese characters (there is another man also called 'Chikashige MIMURA [三村親重]' who was a relative of the same Mimura clan in Bicchu).
Japanese: 子孫に伝わる系図では「親重」とも（同じく備中三村氏の縁者に「三村親重」もいるが、これとは別人）。
English: Chikashige was so trusted by the Mori clan that when Motonari sent a letter to the Mimura family, he told messengers to show it not only to the head of the family Iechika but also to Chikashige.
Japanese: 毛利氏家の信任が厚く、元就が三村家宛の文書を当主・家親のみならず親成にも見せるように使者に言い含めていたほどである。
English: In 1566, when his older brother Iechika was assassinated by Hidekiyo ENDO, assassin sent by Naoie UKITA, he substituted for his older brother to lead the army, using his wit to prevent it from getting disturbed.
Japanese: 1566年に兄・家親が宇喜多直家からの刺客（遠藤秀清）に暗殺された際、機転をきかせて陣中の動揺を押さえ、兄が率いていた軍勢を代行指揮する。
English: He then withdrew so smoothly, without disclosing the death of Iechika, that Naoie is said to have not believed easily the report of successful assassination.
Japanese: この際、家親横死を秘しての余りに鮮やかな引き際であったため、直家は暗殺成功の報告を容易に信じなかったという。
English: Since then until the Disturbance of Bicchu, he gave good support from his home Nariwa to Motochika of the head family in Bicchu-Matsuyama, and was called the backbone of the Mimura family.
Japanese: 以後は備中兵乱に至るまで、成羽から本家である備中松山の元親をよく補佐し、三村家の屋台骨と評された。
English: When the Mori clan aligned itself with the Ukita clan that was a deadly enemy for the Mimura family, Nobunaga ODA took this opportunity to invite the family to turn against the Mori clan, but Chikashige insisted, together with the family's old retainer Takei clan, 'Oda is not trustworthy and it is too early to decide to turn against Mori and align ourselves with Oda.'
Japanese: 毛利氏が三村家にとって不倶戴天の宇喜多氏と結び、それを好機と見て取った織田信長が毛利家からの離反を誘った際、親成は三村家旧臣竹井氏などとともに「織田はとても信用できかねる相手であり、毛利と手を切って織田と手を結ぶのは時期尚早である」旨主張した。
English: However, most of the family members, who attached themselves to the former family head Iechika, agreed on the alliance with Oda and thus the family head Motochika MIMURA decided to turn against the Mori clan.
Japanese: しかし、前当主・三村家親を慕う一族の大勢は織田方につくことで一致し、当主三村元親は毛利家離反を決定した。
English: Chikashige, feeling his safety in danger, gave the information to the Mori clan and supported it to destroy the Mimura family including Motochika (the Disturbance of Bicchu in 1575).
Japanese: 身の危険を感じた親成は、毛利氏に通じ、元親を初めとする三村家討伐に協力した（備中兵乱1575年）。
English: After the Disturbance of Bicchu, the Mori clan recognized his achievements in some extent and allowed him to remain in the position of lord of Nariwa-jo Castle (Kakushu-jo Castle), but decreased his territory to about 8,000 koku, which was less than half of his original territory, for his failure to prevent the rebellion of the Mimura head family.
Japanese: 備中兵乱後、一定の功績が毛利氏より認められて備中成羽（鶴首）城主の地位は安堵されたが、備中松山・三村本家の叛乱を諫止できなかった咎を問われ、所領は原封の半分以下といわれる約8千石にまで減封された。
English: Around that time, Katsunari MIZUNO, who was a maternal cousin of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA traveling around various provinces, stayed in his residence twice.
Japanese: この頃徳川家康の母方の従兄弟にあたり諸国を放浪していた水野勝成が2度に亘って寄食した。
English: Chikashige then looked after Katsunari very well, valuing him highly, and let him marry his daughter (whose name was Osaku, an adopted daughter who was in fact a daughter of his older brother Iechika MIMURA), and when Katsunari was recalled by Ieyasu, Chikashige even made his vassals to accompany him.
Japanese: その際、親成は勝成の人物を見込んでよく世話を焼き、娘（名を於柵と言い、兄三村家親の女を養女にしたもの）を娶わせ、勝成が家康から呼び出された際も供をつけて送り出している。
English: He remained in the position of lord of Nariwa-jo Castle (Kakushu-jo Castle) until the Battle of Sekigahara, after which he was forced to leave Nariwa in Bicchu Province and lost his power.
Japanese: 関ヶ原の戦いまで成羽（鶴首）城主の地位にあったが、関ヶ原の戦い後、備中成羽からの離封を余儀なくされ没落。
English: He later stayed with the Miyake clan in Kojima, Bizen Province, and after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Katsunari MIZUNO, who had been given the feudal territory of Bingo Province, employed him as chief retainer (with a stipend of 1,500 koku).
Japanese: その後備前児島三宅氏のもとへ身を寄せていたが、徳川幕府開府後備後に封ぜられた水野勝成に家老（1,500石）として召抱えられた。
English: A legend has been told among his descendants that his tomb is at the Genju-ji Temple in Nariwa, Bicchu Province (now Nariwa-cho, Takahashi City), which was founded by Chikashige's nephew Motochika for his father Iechika, but the head priest of the temple says that for Chikashige only a Buddhist mortuary tablet exists and no stone pagoda has been discovered.
Japanese: なお、墓は甥・元親がその父・家親のために創建したと言われる備中成羽（現：高梁市成羽町）の源樹寺にあると従前子孫の間では言われてきたが、源樹寺の住職によれば親成については位牌のみで、石塔は発見できてないという。
English: His posthumous Buddhist name is 'Genjuin Tensho Soun Daikoji,' which is of higher rank than that of his nephew Motochika who founded the same temple.
Japanese: 法名は「源樹院天勝宗運大居士」で、同寺創建者の甥・元親よりも一段格の高い法名となっている。
English: Ryoko-ji Temple in Fukuyama City also has a Buddhist mortuary tablet for him, but his name during his lifetime is referred to as '親重' not '親成.'
Japanese: 位牌は福山市の龍興寺にもあるが、俗名は親成でなく｢親重｣となっている。
English: Some say that he or his descendants might have changed the character '成' of his name to '重' when he was employed by Katsunari MIZUNO, in order to avoid having the same character as his lord, though it was read differently.
Japanese: これは親成が水野勝成に召抱えられた際、訓みは違うものの｢成｣の字が重なることを避け、親成自身または子孫が｢重｣に改めたのではないかともいわれる。
English: Chikashige, as other warlords in the Sengoku period, seems to have associated himself well with people of culture, and Shuryo SAKUGEN (1501 - 1579), who was a priest of the Rinzaishu sect, gave Chikashige a calligraphy, which is owned by Kyoto National Museum.
Japanese: 親成は当時の戦国武将の例に漏れず、文化人との交流も盛んに行っていたようで、京都国立博物館には臨済僧の策彦周良（1501年-1579年）が親成に与えた墨蹟が収蔵されている。
English: The descendants of Chikashige prospered, led by the head family who succeeded to the position of chief retainer of the Mizuno family in the Bingo-Fukuyama Domain, and several branch families were established.
Japanese: 親成の子孫は備後福山藩水野家の家老職を受け継ぐ嫡流を中心に繁栄し、幾流かに分かれた。
English: Among his descendants surviving to the present day, the main branch, according to the genealogy, is the line continuing from Chikazumi MIMURA (the third descendant of Chikashige), who was a senior retainer of the Mizuno family in the Bingo-Fukuyama Domain (with a stipend of 1,000 koku) and after the Mizuno family's losing its position and properties, became a masterless samurai and settled in Yuzaki-mura in Bicchu Province (now in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture).
Japanese: 現在に至る子孫の中でも系譜の上で嫡流とされるのは、備後福山藩水野家中に於いて大寄合（1,000石）を務めていた三村親澄（親成の3代後裔）が水野家改易後に｢牢人｣（＝浪人）となり、備中勇崎村（現在の岡山県倉敷市）へ土着して以来続いている系統である。
English: The descendants seem to have not been allowed to have a surname and bring swords, but owned large fields and treated equally well as village headman until the Meiji period began.
Japanese: その子孫は苗字帯刀までは認められていなかったようだが、多数の田畑を所有し、名主と同等の扱いを受け、明治期を迎えた。
English: Many descendants of Chikashige also remain around the area of current Kawaguchi-cho, Fukuyama City, and they are of the line continuing from Chikayoshi, uncle of Chikazumi MIMURA.
Japanese: 現在の福山市川口町周辺にも親成の子孫は多く残り、これらは三村親澄の叔父親義の係累にあたる。
English: The descendants of Chikashige include Daisojo (the highest-ranking Buddhist priest) Nisshu MIMURA, who was a chief priest in the Meiji period, of the Nichirenshu sect based in Mt. Minobu in Koshu region, and Junya MIMURA, who is a contemporary haiku poet and professor of Osaka University of Art.
Japanese: 明治期の甲州身延山日蓮宗管長大僧正三村日修上人や現代の俳人で大阪芸術大学教授三村純也も親成の子孫である。
English: Hisamasa AZAI was a Japanese military commander called busho during the Sengoku period (the Warring States period).
Japanese: 浅井久政（あざいひさまさ、淺井久政、）は日本の戦国時代(日本)の武将。
English: Although "浅井" has been pronounced as "Azai" not as "Asai" when it represents the family name and the territory, one of the theory based on the latest research states that it should be pronounced as "Asai" (see "Asai-shi sandai" [The Three Generations of the Asai Clan] by Kei-ichi Miyajima).
Japanese: なお、名字および所領地の「浅井」の読みは「あざい」が正しく、「あさい」という読み方は誤りであると考えられてきたが、最新の研究では、やはり「あさい」が正しいという学説もある（宮島敬一著「浅井氏三代」参照）。
English: His real mother was Kaan AMAGO, a daughter of the Amago clan, who was a concubine (the Amago clan in Omi Province, and the Amago clan in Izumo Province was its branch family.
Japanese: 生母は側室尼子氏の娘尼子馨庵（近江国の尼子氏で、出雲国の尼子氏はその庶家。
English: As for his real mother, there are several theories: "Rokkaku Sasaki-shi keizuryaku" [Rokkaku Sasaki Family Tree Rough] and "the Azai family register of deaths" show it was Chiyozuru AZAI.
Japanese: 生母については、諸説があり『六角佐々木氏系図略』・「浅井過去帳」に浅井千代鶴とある。
English: This woman was a concubine of Muneyoshi [Chikayasu] ROKKAKU, and Hisamasa was an adopted child, whose adopted mother was from the Amago clan.)
Japanese: この女性は六角宗能（親泰）側室で、久政は養子であり、尼子氏は養母であるとも）。
English: In 1542, when his father Sukemasa died, Hisamasa succeeded to his position as head of the family, but unlike his father he was not celebrated for his valor.
Japanese: 1542年に父・亮政が没したため後を継いだが、武勇に優れた父とは対照的に武勇に冴えなかった。
English: It is said that Sukemasa expected Akimasa TAYA (the Taya is a branch family of the Azai) to succeed to the head position as the husband of Tsuruchiyo, his daughter with his lawful wife (an older paternal half-sister of Hisamasa), but Hisamasa, who was born of a concubine when Sukemasa was young, finally took over as head of the family.
Japanese: 亮政は正室との間に生まれた鶴千代（久政の異母姉）の婿として、田屋明政（田屋氏は浅井氏庶家）に家督を譲ることを望んでいたともいわれるが、亮政が若いころに側室との間に生まれた久政が家督を継ぐこととなった。
English: Accordingly, his brother-in-law, Akimasa, did not accept Hisamasa's succession to the position of family head by raising a rebellion, which resulted in the significant cause of later trouble in his family.
Japanese: そのため、義兄・明政は久政の家督相続を承服せず、反乱をおこすなど久政の家督相続は家中に少なからぬ禍根を残す結果となった。
English: The Azai family headed by Hisamasa was gradually overwhelmed by the power of the Rokkaku clan, and finally the Azai became their subordinate.
Japanese: 久政が当主となってからの浅井家は次第に六角氏の攻勢に押されてついにその配下となってしまった。
English: Hisamasa persistently showed a subordinate posture to the Rokkaku clan by taking in part of Yoshikata ROKKAKU's name, "taka (賢)," into his heir's name as "Takamasa (賢政)," in addition to his marriage with a daughter of Sadatake HIRAI, a vassal of the Rokkaku clan.
Japanese: 嫡男に六角義賢の一字　賢の字を偏諱として受けさせ、「賢政」と名乗らせたりその妻に六角氏家臣平井定武の娘を娶らせるなど、六角氏に対しては徹底した従属的姿勢をとった。
English: Dissatisfied with Hisamasa's weak-kneed diplomacy, many of his vassals forced Hisamasa to retire for transferring his position as head of the family to Nagamasa AZAI, the heir to Hisamasa in 1560, when Nagamasa won a landslide victory over Yoshikata ROKKAKU at the Battle of Norada and became independent from the Rokkaku clan.
Japanese: このような、久政の弱腰外交に家臣たちの多くが不満をもつようになり、1560年に久政の嫡男・浅井長政が野良田の戦いで六角義賢に大勝し六角氏から独立すると、家臣たちから家督を長政に譲ることを強要され、強制的に隠居させられることとなった。
English: However, this coup-like transfer of power has some ambiguous aspects: it is said that Hisamasa maintained a big voice even after his retirement and continued to oppose the establishment of an alliance with an emerging force, the Oda clan, sticking to the amicable relationship with the Asakura clan, which had been maintained since his father was in power.
Japanese: しかしこのクーデター的家督移譲には不明瞭なところが多く、久政は隠居してもなおも発言力を持ちつづけ、父以来の朝倉氏との友好関係に固執し、新興勢力の織田氏との同盟関係の構築には終始反対しつづけたとされる。
English: However, this vague relationship between Hisamasa and Nagamasa resulted in the underlying cause of the ruin of the Azai family.
Japanese: しかし、この久政と長政との曖昧な関係が結果的には浅井家滅亡の遠因となってしまう。
English: When the Azai family had to make a decision on which side they should take under the serious confrontation between the Oda and the Asakura clans as a partner of both sides, Hisamasa strongly insisted that they should side with the Asakura, and Nagamasa rebelled against Nobunaga, compromising with his father.
Japanese: 織田氏と朝倉氏が対立を深め、両家と同盟関係にあった浅井家はどちらにつくかの決断を迫られた場面で久政は強硬に朝倉方につくべきであると主張し、長政が折れる形で信長に反旗を翻すこととなった。
English: As a result of a struggle over several years, the alliance of the Azai and the Asakura was defeated by the Oda clan, and in 1573, Hisamasa killed himself in the Kyogokumaru section inside Odani-jo Castle due to fierce attacks from the Oda army while Nagamasa soon fell on his sword, which resulted in putting an end to the Azai family as a feudal lord in just three generations.
Japanese: 結果的に数年間の抵抗の末、浅井・朝倉連合は織田氏に敗北し、1573年、織田軍の猛攻を受けた久政は、小谷城京極丸にて自害し、長政もやがて自刃し戦国大名浅井氏は三代で終幕した。
English: Many of the history books regarded as grounds for the theories where Hisamasa was an imbecile are considered to be academically apocryphal, and most of them were exaggerated or embroidered in later years.
Japanese: 久政暗愚説の根拠となっている歴史書の多くが学術的には偽書と位置付けられており、後年になって誇大に記述されたり、脚色されたものがほとんどである。
English: The alliance between the Asai and the Asakura had already existed when Sukemasa AZAI, the father of Hisamasa and the grandfather of Nagamasa, was in power.
Japanese: 浅井・朝倉同盟は久政の父で長政の祖父である浅井亮政の代には存在した。
English: Sukemasa, who was the provincial constable of Minami Omi, had established an alliance with the Asakura clan when he was in conflict with the Rokkaku family, the head family of the Kyogoku serving as the provincial constable of Kita Omi, who once was the master of Sukemasa.
Japanese: 亮政は南近江守護であり、かつての主家である北近江守護京極家の本家筋である六角家と対立していた際に、朝倉氏との同盟を築き上げた。
English: Headed by the wise ruler Sadayori, the Rokkaku family was in the ascendant, and the gap in power between the two families could not be bridged even by Sukemasa, who was a brilliant ruler.
Japanese: 当時の六角家は名君六角定頼を筆頭に日の出の勢いであり、その優劣の差は亮政の才をもってしても補うことはできなかった。
English: Even the Asakura family had a flash point of Ikko sect's revolt in the northern area, and they were not willing to directly conflict with the Rokkaku family, a large force.
Japanese: その朝倉家にしても、北に一向一揆という爆弾を抱えており、大勢力である六角家との直接対立は望むことではない。
English: The alliance with the Azai clan, who controlled Kita Omi, was reasonable enough to leave as a buffer zone.
Japanese: 緩衝地帯として、北近江を手中に収める浅井氏との同盟は理に適ったものあった。
English: However, after the death of Takakage ASAKURA (the tenth head) and Soteki (宗滴) ASAKURA, the Asakura family was not so powerful as in the past, and the alliance had little significance.
Japanese: しかし、朝倉孝景(10代当主)と朝倉宗滴が世を去った後の朝倉家はかつての勢いを失っており、同盟の意味は薄まっていった。
English: Therefore, Hisamasa is regarded to have transferred to the Rokkaku family from the Asakaura family.
Japanese: だからこそ、久政は朝倉家から六角家へと乗り換えたのだろうと思われる。
English: In fact, the Azai family ran into difficulty due to repeated attacks from the Kyogoku clan and Dosan SAITO in the neighboring province, Mino when they subordinated themselves to the Rokkaku clan.
Japanese: 六角氏に臣従した頃、浅井家は京極氏や隣国美濃の斎藤道三からたびたび攻撃され、窮地に陥っていた事実がある。
English: Under the protection from the Rokkaku clan as their subordinate, the Azai family was able to concentrate on the management of their territory while preventing invasions from other powers with restraints put on them.
Japanese: 六角氏に臣従して庇護を受ければ、他の勢力を牽制することになって侵攻を食い止められ、領国経営に専念することができる。
English: In fact, Hisamasa succeeded in building up the foundation for the Azai family's rise to a feudal lord while stabilizing political circumstances (mentioned later) and putting effort into taking control of powerful local clans who were forced to be affiliated with the former lord, Sukemasa AZAI, at sword point.
Japanese: 事実、その間に久政は政治の安定化（後述）や先代浅井亮政が武力によって傘下に収めた土豪たちの掌握に努めており、浅井家を戦国大名へと押し上げる基礎を築きあげることに成功していた。
English: In addition, the Azai family maintained the family name as a feudal lord without reducing the territory even under the control of the Rokkaku clan, which was a rare case for a subordinate lord.
Japanese: さらに、六角氏の勢力内といっても、大名の家名を保ち、領土も削られていないのは、従属大名としては稀な例である。
English: Taking this into account, Hisamasa seems to have had superior ability in diplomacy.
Japanese: このことからすると、久政は優れた外交能力を持っていたのではないかと思われる。
English: Subordination, often regarded as a sign of weakness, may have been a means to protect his territory, and Hisamasa seems to have succeeded in the field of diplomacy.
Japanese: 弱腰と見られがちな従属という形も領国を守る手であり、外交の分野では成功を収めたのではないだろうか。
English: Issuing regulations and documents to conciliate the confrontation over where to use river water among the villages in Kohoku, he put pressure upon the local ruling families who seemed to be preventing the conciliation.
Japanese: 湖北の村々の河川用水の使用区域の対立を調停するため、法令や文書を発給し、それを阻害すると思われる豪族に対して圧力をかけている。
English: It was the Iguchi clan, a local ruling family, that controlled the water flow of the Takatoki-gawa River, the water source around there.
Japanese: その辺りの用水の源である高時川の水流を握るのは、力を持つ豪族の井口氏であった。
English: Although Hisamasa put pressure upon the Iguchi clan at the request of the villagers, the Iguchi clan made an unreasonable demand of an enormous amount of tribute in order to keep them quiet.
Japanese: 久政は村民の願いによって井口氏へ圧力をかけたが、井口氏は大量の貢物という難題をふっかけ、あきらめさせようとした。
English: However, a rich clan in Nakano (now Higashiazai County) accepted this demand, so the Iguchi clan reluctantly agreed in the end.
Japanese: しかし中野（現東浅井郡）の土豪がこれを引き受けたため、井口氏も渋々承諾したという。
English: The weir was named "Mochinoi" after the rice cake loaded on 1,000 oxen to be delivered part of the tribute, commemorating their deed.)
Japanese: また貢物の中に餅千駄とあったため、彼らの業績をたたえて餅ノ井と名づけられた。)
English: Although Hisamasa secured water and expanded the irrigation project, a conflict was caused over the water among the villages.
Japanese: 用水路を確保した久政は灌漑事業を拡大したが、用水をめぐって村同士の争いが発生した。
English: For mediation, Hisamasa prescribed the size of weirs for unification, the volume of water consumption and the priority among the villages.
Japanese: この調停のため、用水口の統一や水量や村による優先順位の指定などをしている。
English: In addition, Hisamasa built rokubo (a complex of temples) on the top of the mountain where Odani-jo Castle is located while guaranteeing the ownerships of territory to temples and shrines with reinforced taxation policies.
Japanese: また、小谷城山上に六坊（寺の集住）を建設したり、寺社衆に対して所領の安堵や税政策の強化などを打ち出した。
English: Furthermore, Hisamasa, who was well known as a man of culture, proactively promoted culture including Noh (he had an exclusive Noh player, Tsurutayu MORIMOTO), and enjoyed falconry and renga (linked verses), which led to a bad reputation in later generations.
Japanese: この他に、後世の悪評にもつながるが、積極的に能などの文化を推進し（久政には森本鶴太夫というお抱えの舞楽師がいた）、鷹狩や連歌を嗜み、文化人としても名を馳せた。
English: In general, whether or not a fight have taken place, the influence of the former head is completely lost in the family when the position is forcibly transferred in a coup.
Japanese: 通常、戦の有無にかかわらず、クーデターという実力行使によって家督が移った場合、前代当主の家中における発言力は皆無になることが通例である。
English: Taking account of the fact that Hisamasa incarcerated in Chikubu Island returned to Odani-jo Castle under reconciliation with Nagamasa and his vassals, this transfer incident may be regarded as only a play to closely unite the vassals by releasing dissatisfaction with Hisamasa that was growing in the Azai family through the transfer of the head position to Nagamasa.
Japanese: しかし、竹生島に幽閉された久政が、長政や長政派の家臣たちと和解したという形で小谷城に帰還していることからすると、この家督移譲劇は、浅井家中にある久政に対する不満を長政に家督を譲ることで沈静化させ、家臣団の結束を高めるための芝居に過ぎなかったとみることができる。
English: In other words, this transfer did not actually aim to deprive Hisamasa of his political power.
Japanese: 言い換えれば、久政自身の政治力を剥ぐためのものではなかったということである。
English: In addition, the party against which a coup was launched often tries to regain control of the power when that party has been maintaining the power even after the loss of position, which did not occur in the Azai family.
Japanese: それに、クーデターを起こされた側が失脚後も権力を維持していた場合、元の権力の奪還のための動きが起こり得るのに、浅井家では起こっていない。
English: Taking these into consideration, there is a high possibility that this transfer may have been a play aiming to become independent from the Rokkaku family.
Japanese: こうしたことを考えると、この家督移譲は六角家からの独立を意図した芝居であった可能性が高い。
English: It is said the reasons why Hisamasa insisted that they should side with the Asakura clan were as follows: "the alliance had been maintained since Sukemasa was in power;" "they were deeply indebted to the Asakura clan for joint fights against repeated attacks from the Saito, the Kyogoku, and the Rokkaku clans;" and "Hisamasa himself was skeptical about the character and policy of Nobunaga."
Japanese: 久政が朝倉方につくべきだと主張した理由として、「亮政の代からの同盟関係であること」、「度重なる斎藤氏氏、京極氏、六角氏の攻勢に共闘した大恩」、「久政自身が信長の性格や方針に懐疑的であったこと」などが挙げられている。
English: The Azai would not have subordinated themselves to the Rokkaku family if they had built an alliance with the Asakura family, which implies the possibility that the alliance between the Asakura and the Azai may have not existed.
Japanese: しかし、朝倉家との同盟関係があるなら、六角家に服属するようなことはしないはずであり、朝倉・浅井同盟は存在しない可能性も指摘されている。
English: (However, the following facts should be taken into account: it was difficult for the Asakura family to take military action during the wintertime, and it was hard to willingly intervene in Omi Province in association with Hisamasa's succession to the position of the family head when the tension between the Asakura family and the Ikko sect followers in Kaga was running high again, and the Asakura family was deeply involved in the internal conflict of the Toki family in Mino.)
Japanese: （ただし、朝倉家は冬場の軍事的活動が困難な上、久政が当主を継いだ時期には朝倉家は加賀一向一揆との緊張が再燃する一方、美濃土岐家の内紛に深く関与しており、近江方面への積極的な介入が困難であった事実は考慮されるべきである。)
English: As collateral evidence of this perception, it is said that the Asakura family and the Oda family, the acting military governor under the control of the Shiba family, had been in an enemy-like relationship since the Asakura family occupied Echizen by depriving the Shiba family, their master, of the territory.
Japanese: この傍証として、朝倉家が主家である斯波家からその領土を奪うような形で越前を乗っ取った時点で、斯波家配下の守護代であった織田家と朝倉家は仇敵のような間柄であったはずという考え方がある。
English: If so, Hisamasa would not have accepted the younger sister of Nobunaga, the head of the Oda family in confrontation with the Asakura family, as the lawful wife for his son, under the alliance between the Asakura and the Azai.
Japanese: そうであるなら、朝倉家と対立する織田家の当主である信長の妹を、息子の正室に迎えることは、朝倉・浅井同盟があるのならば、しなかったはずというのである。
English: In addition, completely surrounded by the Miyoshi clan, the Asakura clan, Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple, the Takeda clan and the Azai clan, Nobunaga was facing extreme difficulty.
Japanese: また、三好・朝倉・石山本願寺・武田、そして浅井家による信長包囲網の成立した頃は、信長が最も窮地に立たされた時期である。
English: However, due to good luck and his unique strategic perspective, Nobunaga escaped the difficulty to become the hegemon.
Japanese: だが、幸運と独自の戦略眼によって信長はその窮地を脱し、覇者となった。
English: Taking this into account, the reason Hisamasa abandoned the Oda clan to choose the coalition with the Asakura clan seems to not have been his reactionary emotion, but the result of his strategic perception as a feudal lord.
Japanese: これらのことからすると、久政が織田氏を見限って朝倉氏との共闘を選択したのは、従来言われてきたような復古的・情緒的理由からではなく、戦国大名としての戦略的な思考によるものではないかと考えられる。
English: Leading to the ruin of a feudal lord, the Asai clan, Hisamasa seems to have been regarded as a foolish leader who could not read the current of the times.
Japanese: 結果的に戦国大名浅井氏が滅亡に追い込んだことから、久政は時の流れを読むことができなかった暗愚な当主と言われるようになったのであろう。
English: "I'm committing hara-kiri, so please hold the enemy in check for the time being."
Japanese: 「今よりわしは腹を切るゆえ、その間敵勢を食い止めてくれ」と言い渡した。
English: After drinking the last sake together with Koreyasu AZAI, his relative, and MORIMOTO Tsurumatsu Dayu (鶴松大夫), a Noh dancer, Hisamasa committed hara-kiri.
Japanese: 久政は一族・浅井惟安、舞楽師の森本鶴松大夫と共に盃を傾けた後に切腹した。
English: Saying, "it is terribly rude to die in the same room together with the lord," Tsurumatsu Dayu (鶴松大夫) went down into the garden, where he committed hara-kiri to die.
Japanese: 鶴松大夫は、「主君と同じ座敷では恐れ多い」と言って庭へ降り、そこで切腹して果てた。