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English: However, this Mitsusuke AKAMATSU schemed to assassinate Yoshinori in his own palace in 1441 (Kakitsu War).
Japanese: 嘉吉元年（1441年）、その赤松満祐が、自邸で義教を暗殺するという挙に出る（嘉吉の乱）。
English: It was in a midst of the noh performance, 'U no ha' (Cormorant plumes) of Onami invited for the party.
Japanese: それはまさに、饗応のため呼ばれた音阿弥が能「鵜羽」を舞うさなかでの出来事であった。
English: Onami, who lost his greatest supporter, temporarily fell into poverty and performed Kanjin noh (performances held to raise subscriptions for the construction of shrines or temples) in order to get himself out from that difficult situation.
Japanese: 最大の後援者を失った音阿弥は一時困窮し、私的な勧進能を行うなどしてその打破に努めたようだ。
English: During the Kanjin noh of 1444, he made efforts such as lowering the price of audience seats.
Japanese: 文安元年（1444年）の勧進能では観客席の値段を下げるなどの努力をしている。
English: On the other hand, he made a claim to the bakufu (government by feudal lord) along with Konparu-za to prevent other za (trade-guilds) from performing sarugaku in Kyo (Kyoto).
Japanese: 一方で金春座とともに幕府に訴えて、他座が京で猿楽を舞うのを妨害したりもしている。
English: However, from around 1452 he began to receive a warm welcome from the child of Yoshinori, Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA.
Japanese: しかし義教の子・足利義政が長じて後の享徳元年（1452年）頃からは、その厚遇を受けることになる。
English: Yoshimasa, who loved and watched noh even during the Onin War, greatly valued Onami and pulled him up to the front stage once again.
Japanese: 応仁の乱の中でも能を見ていたほどの愛好家である義政は音阿弥を高く評価し、再び表舞台に引き上げた。
English: Onami passed the position of master to his child, Masamori KANZE, in 1458 when he became sixty years old, and entered priesthood with the homyo (Buddhist name) of 'Onami.'
Japanese: 60歳を迎える長禄2年(1458年)頃には子の観世正盛に大夫の座を譲って出家し、以後法名の「音阿弥」を名乗る。
English: This name probably represented his self-conceitedness as the successor of Kanami and Zeami (when the first letters of the names are aligned together, they become 'Kanzeon Bosatsu' (the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy)).
Japanese: この名は観阿弥・世阿弥の後継者としての自負を示すものであろう（一字目を並べると「観世音菩薩」となる）。
English: Similar to Zeami, he performed even after entering priesthood, and kanjin sarugaku on Tadasu-gawara was performed by Masamori with the support of Yoshimasa as the Shite (main performer) in twelve out of twenty-nine plays, including 'Kantan' (The Pillow of Kantan, Noh play), 'Koi no Omoni' (The Burden of Love), 'Futari Shizuka' (a couple of the young ladies named Shizuka), and 'Yoro' (Longevity springs, Noh play) in 1464.
Japanese: 世阿弥同様に出家の後も第一線で活動を続け、寛正5年（1464年）には正盛が義政の後援で行った糺河原での勧進猿楽でも、「邯鄲」「恋重荷」「二人静」「養老(能)」など29番のうち12番でシテを務めている。
English: This performance was viewed by the couple Yoshimasa and Tomiko HINO, Mochimichi NIJO, who held the title of Kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor), and powerful Shugo daimyo (Japanese territorial lord serving as provincial constable), showing off the authority of the Kanze guild.
Japanese: この催しには義政・日野富子夫妻は無論のこと、関白二条持通、また有力守護大名たちが臨席し、観世座の権威を見せ付けた。
English: He performed noh in front of Emperor Gohanazono, and made Yoshimasa struck with admiration, as he said, 'he becomes better as he ages.'
Japanese: 同年には後花園天皇の御前で能を舞い、「老いて益々健在である」と義政を感嘆させた。
English: However, Onami seemed to worry about the political situation, and his life style was not easy, for it was stated in the records that he visited the Inryoken Household of Sokoku-ji Temple in 1466 and forcefully performed a short song accompanied with shamisen and komai (short dances in Noh farce).
Japanese: とはいえ政情の不安もあり、暮らし向きはそれほど楽でなかったようで、文正元年（1466年）には相国寺の蔭涼軒を訪ね、押し売り同然に小歌・小舞を披露したことが記録に残っている。
English: It was stated in "Yoza yakusha mokuroku" (Catalog of Actors of the Four Noh Troupes) that he became a believer of Sojun IKKYU and received a requiem from him, but this is doubtful.
Japanese: 一休宗純に帰依してその引導を受けたと『四座役者目録』などに語られるが、疑わしい。
English: Starting from his legitimate child Masamori MATASABURO (Matsumori) who succeeded to the fourth dayu position, his children were Matashiro, Koshiro (or pronounced Shoshiro) (Shirozaemon), Yoshiro (Sokan), Hachiro, Koreshige KANZE (Sukekata), who became the fifth dayu, and KANZE Kojiro Nobumitsu.
Japanese: 嫡子で四世大夫を継いだ又三郎正盛（松盛）を始め、又四郎、小四郎（四郎左衛門）、与四郎（宗観）、八郎、五世大夫を継いだ観世之重（祐賢）、観世小次郎信光などの子があった。
English: It was considered for a long time that the fifth generation Koreshige was the child of Masamori, but it is most likely that he was the sixth child of Onami, as written in "Jinsonki" (Diary of Jinson).
Japanese: うち五世之重については長らく正盛の子とされてきたが、『尋尊記』などの記述から音阿弥の第六子とする説が近年有力となっている。
English: Except for two brothers who became the Dayu, the rest of the brothers took the roles of attendants, hayashikata (people who play hayashi, or musical accompaniment), or sakuno (noh writers) and supported the successor.
Japanese: 大夫を継いだ二人を除く兄弟たちは、それぞれ脇、囃子方、あるいは作能などに回って、後継者を皆で支えたものと考えられる。
English: The connection between the Kanze guild and bakufu power became definite during his time, and the Kanze school took the opportunity to suppress other schools and take the central part of the world of nogaku.
Japanese: 彼の時代に観世座と幕府権力の結びつきは決定的なものとなり、以後観世流が他を圧して能楽界の中心を担う契機を作った。
English: On the other hand, none of the noh composed by him remained, unlike Kanami, Zeami, and Motomasa who excelled as noh writers (there is a piece of music supposedly composed by 伝音阿弥 but not publicly confirmed), and no densho (books handed down from ancestors) are present (Noyusuchi (能優須知) claimed that he was the author of "Kabuzuinoki" (The Essence of Dance and Song), but this was written by people of current days).
Japanese: 一方で、能作者としても傑出した存在であった観阿弥、世阿弥、元雅とは対照的に、彼の作になる能は残っておらず（伝音阿弥作とする曲もあるが、一般的には認められていない）、また伝書の類も存在しない（『能優須知』が『歌舞髄脳記』の著者とするが、近世の偽書である）。
English: Instead, he rose within the Kanze guild as an actor and left his name as the greatest actor even to the present day.
Japanese: その代わり役者としての活動によって、観世座を大成させ、また現代に至るまで名優としての名を遺したのである。
English: His child KANZE Kojiro Nobumitsu and the child after him, Nagatoshi KANZE, inheriting the flamboyant style of Onami, were active as noh writers and created many pieces of colorful music unlike the mysterious atmosphere of the way of Zeami.
Japanese: 子の観世小次郎信光、さらにその子の観世長俊は能作者としても活躍し、世阿弥系の幽玄な作風とは異なる、音阿弥の芸風を受け継いだと思われる花やかな曲を多く作っている。
English: After Masamori, the Kanze-dayu position was succeeded by the descendants of Onami, leading to the current twenty-sixth Kiyokazu KANZE.
Japanese: 正盛以降も観世大夫職は以後音阿弥の子孫により受け継がれ、当代の二十六世観世清和に至っている。
English: FUJIWARA no Kiyofusa (year of birth and death unknown) was kuge (court noble) and retainer of the Imperial Court who lived from the end of the Heian Period to the early Kamakura Period.
Japanese: 藤原清房（ふじわらのきよふさ、生没年未詳）は平安時代末期から鎌倉時代初期にかけての公家、廷臣。
English: His father, Morinori, and his uncle, FUJIWARA no Tsunenori, were exiled after the Hogen War and the family declined.
Japanese: 父盛憲、叔父藤原経憲はともに保元の乱で流罪となり、一時一家は没落した。
English: Kiyofusa served the Emperor Gotoba whom MINAMOTO no Zaishi, his cousin, married and made an effort to recover the luck of the family.
Japanese: 清房は従姉妹の源在子が入内した後鳥羽天皇に近侍し家運の回復に努める。
English: However, when the Retired Emperor Gotoba was exiled to Oki Province as a result of the Jokyu War in 1221, Kiyofusa entered into the priesthood, going to Oki to follow him.
Japanese: しかし、承久3年（1221年）の承久の乱の結果、後鳥羽上皇が隠岐国へ流罪となると、清房もこれに従い、出家の上隠岐へと下った。
English: Shigefusa UESUGI, his second son, became Shigefusa UESUGI after seizing Uesugi no sho, Ikaruga County, Tanba Province (now, Uesugi-cho area, Ayabe City, Kyoto Prefecture) and went to Kamakura in the Kanto region with Imperial Prince Munetaka, seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians").
Japanese: 次男の上杉重房は丹波国何鹿郡上杉庄（京都府綾部市上杉町周辺）を領して上杉重房となり、征夷大将軍の宗尊親王と共に関東の鎌倉へ下ることになる。
English: FUJIWARA no Tadafusa (year of birth unknown - January 19, 929) was a retainer of the Imperial Court, court music and dance performer and poet in the early Heian Period.
Japanese: 藤原忠房（ふじわらのただふさ、生年未詳-延長(元号)6年（928年）12月1日(旧暦)）は、平安時代前期の廷臣、舞楽家、歌人。
English: His record of offices and ranks held was: Uhyoe no suke (assistant captain of the Right Division of Middle Palace Guards), Sashosho (Minor Captain of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards), Yamashiro no kuni no kami (Governor of Yamashiro Province) with the rank of Jushiijo (Junior Fourth Rank, Upper Grade), and Ukyo no daibu (Master of the Western Capital Offices).
Japanese: 官歴は右兵衛佐、左少将等を歴任し、大和国国司、従四位上・山城国守、右京大夫。
English: Among his family there were people who excelled in gagaku (ancient Japanese court dance and music), and Tadafusa himself was an excellent player of the biwa (lute), for he received that talent from his father, Okitsugu, and was active in the fields of utamai (a performance of singing and dancing) and Kangen (gagaku piece without dance).
Japanese: 一門には雅楽に秀でた者が多く、忠房も琵琶の名手であった父の興嗣よりその才を受け継ぎ、歌舞や管弦の分野において活躍した。
English: Kocho (Butterflies) and Engiraku for which Tadafusa composed the music and which Imperial Prince Atsumi choreographed were famous as representative works of Komagaku (Korean Music).
Japanese: 忠房が作曲し敦実親王が振付を施した胡蝶や延喜楽は、高麗楽の代表的な作品として知られる。
English: He also held a high reputation as a poet, performed his poetry in 'Nihongi Kyoen Waka' (The Poems at the Completion Banquet for the Lectures on "Nihon Shoki") and 'Uda hoo kasuga gyoko meisyo waka' (poems at Cloistered Emperor Uda's visit to famous place), and served as a judge in 'Kyogoku no Miyasundokoro utaawase' (poetry contest of KYOGOKU no Miyasundokoro).
Japanese: また歌人としての名声も高く、に開催された「日本紀竟宴和歌」や、の「宇多法皇春日行幸名所和歌」などに出詠するとともに、同じくの「京極御息所歌合」では判者を務めた。
English: He was known to be one of the Chuko Sanjurokkasen and had seventeen of his waka poems in Chokusen wakashu (anthology of Japanese poetry compiled by Imperial command) ("Kokin Wakashu" (A Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry), "Gosen Wakashu" (the second of the Imperial anthologies of classical Waka poetry), and "Shui Wakashu" (Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems)).
Japanese: 中古三十六歌仙の一人として知られ、勅撰和歌集（『古今和歌集』、『後撰和歌集』、『拾遺和歌集』）に17首が入首している。
English: MINAMOTO no Kishi (Motoko) (1049-August 5, 1134) was the daughter of MINAMOTO no Motohira and the grandchild of Imperial Prince Atsuakira, who had the title of Koichijo-in.
Japanese: 源基子（みなもとのきし（もとこ）、永承4年（1049年）-長承3年7月7日(旧暦)（1134年7月29日））は、源基平の娘、小一条院敦明親王の孫。
English: She first served as the nyobo (court lady) for the First Crown Princess Soshi of Emperor Gosanjo.
Japanese: 始めは後三条天皇第一皇女・聡子内親王(後三条天皇皇女)に女房として仕える。
English: She eventually received the affection of Emperor Gosanjo and gave birth to two crown princes, Sanehito and Sukehito, and became a nyogo despite her late father Motohira having a low social class of Sangi (councilor).
Japanese: やがて後三条天皇の寵愛を受け、実仁・輔仁の二皇子を産んで、亡き父基平が参議という低い身分でありながら女御とされた。
English: Although Imperial Prince Sanehito was made the Togu (Crown Prince), the imperial prince passed away at the age of fifteen in 1085.
Japanese: その後実仁親王が東宮に立てられるも、親王は応徳2年（1085年）に15歳で薨去。
English: Although Emperor Gosanjo wrote in his dying will to make the younger brother Imperial Prince Sukehito the next Crown Prince after Imperial Prince Sanehito, Emperor Shirakawa opposed and in the following year promoted the Imperial Prince Taruhito (Emperor Horikawa) to crown prince.
Japanese: 後三条天皇は実仁親王の次には弟輔仁親王を皇太子に立てるよう遺言していたが、白河天皇はその遺志に背いて翌年皇子善仁親王（堀河天皇）を立坊・即位させた。
English: The sister of Kishi was the wife of MINAMOTO no Toshifusa, who supported Imperial Prince Sukehito but was overthrown after being suspected of planning treason against Emperor Toba in the Senjumaru Incident (an assassin who failed in an assassination attempt) in 1113, and Imperial Prince Sanehito was led to house confinement and passed away in 1119 from despair before his mother Kishi.
Japanese: また基子の姉妹は輔仁親王を支持する源俊房の妻であったが、俊房は永久(元号)元年（1113年）千手丸事件で鳥羽天皇に対する謀反の嫌疑により失脚、輔仁親王も閉門に追いやられ、失意のうちに元永2年（1119年）母基子に先立って没した。
English: Kishi, who was left powerless, spent the rest of her life praying for the peace of the dead and passed away at Kyogokudono (residence facing Higasikyogoku-oji Street in Heiankyo (present-day Kyoto)) of her grandchild, MINAMOTO no Arihito.
Japanese: 遺された基子は親王の菩提を弔う余生を送り、孫にあたる源有仁の京極殿で薨じた。
English: MINAMOTO no Suekuni (c.1151-June 20, 1180) was a busho (Japanese military commander) at the end of the Heian Period.
Japanese: 源季邦（みなもとのすえくに、仁平元年（1151年）？-治承4年5月26日(旧暦)（1180年6月20日））は、平安時代末期の武将。
English: The provision on May 26, 1180 in "Azuma Kagami" (The Mirror of the East) shows that Suekuni (Yoshifusa) fought with the army of the Taira family, led by TAIRA no Tomomori, as a busho of MINAMOTO no Yorimasa and finally died in the Battle of Uji-gawa River during the War of Prince Mochihito on June 27, 1180.
Japanese: 『吾妻鏡』治承四年五月二十六日の条によると、季邦（義房）は治承4年閏5月26日に以仁王の乱による宇治川の戦いに源頼政の武将として、平知盛率いる平家の軍勢と戦って、戦死したと記されている。
English: Arisue TSUCHIMIKADO (1527-January 20, 1577) was a Kugyo (top court official) and Inyoka (a practitioner of the Yin and Yang school of philosophy) who lived from the Muromachi Period to the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
Japanese: 土御門有脩（つちみかどありすえ、大永7年（1527年）-天正5年1月2日(旧暦)（1577年1月20日））は、室町時代から安土桃山時代の公卿・陰陽家。
English: He was the 30th family head of the Tsuchimikado family which was Tosho-ke, or the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks, of which the social standing was hange (kuge), kuge of lower rank and the Abe clan.
Japanese: 堂上家（家格は、半家(公家)・阿倍氏）である、土御門家の30代目当主。
English: His biological children included Hisanaga TSUCHIMIKADO, Onmyo no kami, Hisangi, Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank), and the wife of Haretoyo KAJUJI (the mother of Mitsutoyo KAJUJI), Jun-daijin (Vice Minister).
Japanese: 実子に陰陽頭（非参議従三位）土御門久脩、准大臣・勧修寺晴豊の室（勧修寺光豊の母）らがいる。
English: Tsuneto KANROJI (1576-1602) was a court noble in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
Japanese: 甘露寺経遠（かんろじつねとう、天正4年（1576年）-慶長7年（1602年））は、安土桃山時代の公家。
English: He was the 28th family head of the Kanroji family which was Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks), and the main branch of Kajuji of the Takafuji group of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, an important noble family.
Japanese: 堂上家（名家(公家)、藤原北家高藤流勧修寺嫡流）である、甘露寺家の28代目当主。
English: He was the second son of Haretoyo KAJUJI, Jun-daijin (Vice Minister) and became an adopted son of Tsunemoto KANROJI, Gon Dainagon (Provisional chief councilor of state).
Japanese: 実は、准大臣・勧修寺晴豊の次男で、権大納言・甘露寺経元の養子となる。
English: Sukefusa MADENOKOJI (1542-September 1, 1573) was a court noble in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period.
Japanese: 万里小路輔房（までのこうじすけふさ、天文(日本)11年（1542年）-天正元年8月5日(旧暦)（1573年9月1日））は、安土桃山時代の公家。
English: He was the twelfth family head of the Madenokoji family which was Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks), and the main branch of Kanroji of the Takafuji group of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, an important noble family.
Japanese: 堂上家（名家(公家)、藤原北家高藤流甘露寺支流）である、万里小路家の12代目当主。
English: Ariharu TSUCHIMIKADO (1501-August 1, 1569) was Kugyo (top court official) and Inyoka (a practitioner of the Yin and Yang school of philosophy) who lived from the Muromachi period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period.
Japanese: 土御門有春（つちみかどありはる、文亀元年（1501年）-永禄12年6月19日(旧暦)（1569年8月1日））は、室町時代から安土桃山時代の公卿・陰陽家。
English: He was the twenty-ninth family head of the Tsuchimikado family which was Tosho-ke, the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks, and the social standing was hange (kuge), kuge of lower rank and the ABE clan.
Japanese: 堂上家（家格は、半家(公家)・阿倍氏）である、土御門家の29代目当主。
English: His biological children included Ariyasu TSUCHIMIKADO, Onmyo no kami (Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank), non-Councilor) and KAMO no Aritaka (the adopted child of KAMO no Aritomi), Inyoka.
Japanese: 実子に陰陽頭（従三位非参議）土御門有脩、陰陽家・賀茂在高（賀茂在富の養子）など。
English: Hisanaga TSUCHIMIKADO (1560-February 24, 1625) was Kugyo (top court official) and Inyoka (a practitioner of the Yin and Yang school of philosophy) who lived from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the Edo period.
Japanese: 土御門久脩（つちみかどひさなが、永禄3年（1560年）-寛永2年1月18日(旧暦)（1625年2月24日））は、安土桃山時代から江戸時代の公卿・陰陽家。
English: He was the thirty-first family head of the TSUCHIMIKADO family which was Tosho-ke, or the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks, of which the social standing was hange (kuge), kuge of lower rank and the ABE clan.
Japanese: 堂上家（家格は半家(公家)・阿倍氏）である、土御門家の31代目当主。
English: His biological children included Yasushige TSUCHIMIKADO, Sahyoe no kami (Captain of the Left Division of the Middle Palace Guards), Junii (Junior Second Rank and non-councilor), Yasuyoshi KURAHASHI (the ancestor of the Kurahashi family), Minbukyo (Minister of Popular Affairs) and Narinaka ITSUTSUJI (the adopted child of Korenaka ITSUTSUJI, non-councilor).
Japanese: 実子に左兵衛督（従二位・非参議）・土御門泰重、民部卿・倉橋泰吉（倉橋家初代）、五辻斉仲（非参議・五辻之仲の養子）らがいる。
English: FUJIWARA no Tomoyasu (year of birth unknown - 977) was a court official during the mid-Heian Period.
Japanese: 藤原倫寧（ふじわらのともやす、生年未詳-貞元(日本)2年（977年））は平安時代中期の廷臣。
English: One of his daughters gave birth to FUJIWARA no Michitsuna with FUJIWARA no Kaneie, and she was historically famous as the author of "Kagero Nikki" (The Gossamer Years), 'FUJIWARA no Michitsuna no Haha'.
Japanese: 娘の一人は藤原兼家との間に藤原道綱を生み、『蜻蛉日記』の作者「藤原道綱母」として史上に名高い。
English: Another daughter had a daughter with FUJIWARA no Takasue, ('FUJIWARA no Takasue no Musume', the author of "Sarashina Nikki" (The Sarashina Diary")).
Japanese: また別の娘は菅原孝標との間に女子（『更級日記』の作者「菅原孝標女」）を儲けている。
English: MINAMOTO no Morotoshi (1080-January 5, 1142) was a court noble and poet at the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 源師俊（みなもとのもろとし、承暦4年（1080年）-永治元年12月7日(旧暦)（1142年1月5日））は、平安時代後期の公卿・歌人。
English: He held positions of Danjodai (Board of Censors), Hyobusho (Ministry of War), Minbusho (Ministry of Popular Affairs), and Sangi (Royal Advisor) in 1133 before receiving the Jusanmi Rank in April 1134.
Japanese: 弾正台、兵部省、民部省などを経て、長承2年（1133年）参議に任ぜられ、長承3年（1134年）4月従三位に叙せられる。
English: He was assigned to be Gon Chunagon in 1135 but entered priesthood on June 21 of the following year due to illness.
Japanese: 保延元年（1135年）権中納言に任ぜられるが、翌年5月13日病のため出家した。
English: He actively participated as a poet in 'Naidaijin Tadamichi Uta-awase' (poetry contest hosted by Minister of the Center, FUJIWARA no Tadamichi) on November 23, 1118 and had eleven poems in imperial anthologies of poetry in Japanese after "Kinyo Wakashu" (Kinyo (Golden Leaves) Collection of Japanese poems).
Japanese: 元永元年（1118年）10月2日の「内大臣忠通歌合」などに参加するなど歌人として活発に活動していたらしく、『金葉和歌集』以下の勅撰和歌集に11首入集している。
English: He supposedly excelled in Chinese poetry as well, but there were only two sections in "Wakankensakushu" (Japanese and Chinese Poetry Collection) that remains until today.
Japanese: 漢詩にも優れていたとされるが、現在伝わっているのは『和漢兼作集』の2篇のみである。
English: MINAMOTO no Masako (1066-May 4, 1152) was the wife of Nagamitsu FUJIWARA, who had the title of Chunagon (vice-councilor of state).
Japanese: 源方子（みなもとのまさこ、治暦2年（1066年）-仁平2年3月21日(旧暦)（1152年4月27日））は、中納言藤原長実の妻。
English: After her husband Nagazane passed away on September 29, 1133, she entered nunhood in the following year and was called Echigoamako.
Japanese: 長承2年（1133年）8月19日に夫長実と死別した後、翌年出家して越後尼公と呼ばれた。
English: Tsuneshige KAJUJI (1430-June 17, 1500) was a court noble, or Kugyo (the top court official), in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 勧修寺経茂（かじゅうじつねしげ、永享2年（1430年）-明応9年5月21日(旧暦)（1500年6月17日））は、室町時代の公家（公卿）。
English: He was the eighth family head of the Kajuji family which was Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks), and the main branch of Kanroji of the Takafuji group of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, an important noble family.
Japanese: 堂上家（家格は名家(公家)、藤原北家高藤流甘露寺支流）である勧修寺家の8代当主。
English: MINAMOTO no Morotoki (1077 - May 15, 1138) was a Kugyo (high court noble) and poet during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 源師時（みなもとのもろとき、承暦元年（1077年）-保延2年4月6日(旧暦)（1136年5月8日））は、平安時代後期の公卿・歌人。
English: In 1107 he became a Kogogushiki (officer of the Empress's household), and in 1123 became the Kurodo no to (Head Chamberlain) and Sangi (Royal Advisor).
Japanese: 嘉承2年（1107年）皇后宮職になり、保安(元号)4年（1123年）蔵人頭を経て参議となる。
English: In 1134, he took the post of Taikotaigogu Gon no Daibu (Provisional Master of the Grand Empress Dowager's Household) and was granted Shosanmi (Senior Third Rank) in the following year when he was 59 years old.
Japanese: 長承3年（1134年）太皇太后宮権大夫になり、翌年（1135年）正三位に叙された（59歳）。
English: Morotoki won the trust of Retired Emperor Shirakawa and Retired Emperor Gotoba as their parliamentary advisory, and was also engaged in building the Toba Rikyu (Toba Imperial Villa) and Rikusho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 白河上皇・鳥羽上皇両院の政務諮問官として厚く信任され、鳥羽離宮・六勝寺などの造営にも携わった。
English: He served Imperial Princess Reishi (junbo (a woman who was given the status equivalent to the emperor's biological mother) of Emperor Toba) for around 30 years as Kogo no Miya Gon no Suke, Kogo no Miya no Gon no Daibu and Taikotaigogu Gon no Daibu.
Japanese: また令子内親王（鳥羽天皇の准母）に皇后宮権亮・皇后宮権大夫・太皇太后宮権大夫として三十年余りの間仕えた。
English: His diary that started at the age of around 11 and ran until his death has been handed down as an important historical material on the insei period (during the period of the government by the retired Emperor) in the reprint name of "Choshuki" (The Diary of MINAMOTO no Morotoki).
Japanese: 彼が11歳頃から没年までつけていた日記は、現在では『長秋記』として翻刻され院政期の重要な史料として伝わっている。
English: He was prominent in composing poetry: his four poems were selected for "Kinyo Wakashu" (Kinyo Collection of Japanese poems), three poems for "Senzai Wakashu" (Collection of a Thousand Years), and one poem for "Shin Kokin Wakashu" (New Collection of Ancients and Modern Poems).
Japanese: 詩歌に優れ、和歌では『金葉和歌集』に4首、『千載和歌集』に3首、『新古今和歌集』に1首入集。
English: Within the field of Chinese-style poems as well, Morotoki received the words of praise in "Imakagami" (The Mirror of the Present), "Morotoki has a good command of poetry and composes them well."
Japanese: 漢詩においても師である大江匡房から「この君は、詩の心得て、よく作り給ふ」『今鏡』と賞賛されている。
English: Allegedly he had six to seven wives, each of whom he visited every night, so he would often sleep until noon.
Japanese: 妻を6-7人持ち、毎晩のようにそれぞれの妻の所へ一晩中渡り歩き、正午頃まで朝寝をしていたこと。
English: In another anecdote, his wives were said to be close to each other and had good relations through their conversations ("Imakagami").
Japanese: また妻同士も仲が良く、言葉を交わして交際していたという逸話がある（『今鏡』）。
English: FUJIWARA no Nariko (year of birth unknown - April 18, 1177) was a court lady of the Kokyu (residence of the empress) of Emperor Goshirakawa during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原成子（ふじわらのしげこ、生年不詳-安元3年3月11日(旧暦)（1177年4月5日））は、平安時代後期・後白河天皇後宮の女官。
English: Nariko began winning the emperor's favor before his enthronement, receiving it for about ten years and giving birth in succession to two sons and four daughters: Cloistered Imperial Prince Shuhaku, Prince Mochihito, Imperial Princess Ryoshi (Empress Dowager Inpumonin), Imperial Princess Shikishi, Imperial Princess Koshi and Imperial Princess Kyushi.
Japanese: 天皇の即位前から10年余にわたって寵愛を受け、守覚法親王、以仁王、亮子内親王（殷富門院）、式子内親王、好子内親王、休子内親王ら二男四女を相次いでもうけた。
English: However, she was not given the status of a legal wife (nyogo (consort)) as high as TAIRA no Shigeko.
Japanese: しかし平滋子のように正式な妃（女御）として重んじられることはなかった。
English: FUJIWARA no Atsumoto (1046-1106) was a court official and a composer of Chinese poems during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原敦基（ふじわらのあつもと、永承元年（1046年）-嘉承元年（1106年））は、平安時代後期の廷臣、漢詩人。
English: Atsumoto not only served close to Emperor Goshirakawa from the time the emperor was a crown prince, but also worked as Keishi (household superintendent) under FUJIWARA no Morosane.
Japanese: 白河天皇の皇太子時代よりその傍に仕え、また藤原師実の家司をも務める。
English: Starting from the position of Monjo tokugosho (Distinguished Scholars of Letters) and promoted to Kurodo (Chamberlain), Atsumoto finally became a Monjo hakase in 1088.
Japanese: 文章得業生より出発し、蔵人などを経た後、寛治2年（1088年）に文章博士に至る。
English: Included in his works were "The Kokushi Kosho" and "The Chukaruirin," in addition to books such as "Honcho Zoku Monzui" (Literary Essence of Our Court, Continued) and "Honcho Mudaishi" (An anthology of Chinese verses).
Japanese: 著作として『国史後抄』『柱下類林』があり、また作品が『本朝続文粋』『本朝無題詩』などに収められている。
English: Tsunenao KAJUJI (date of birth unknown - April 5, 1449) was a court noble, or Kugyo (the top court official), in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 勧修寺経直（かじゅうじつねなお、生年不明－文安6年3月13日(旧暦)（1449年4月5日））は、室町時代の公家（公卿）。
English: He was the sixth family head of the Kajuji family which was Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks), and the main branch of Kanroji of the Takafuji group of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, an important noble family.
Japanese: 堂上家（家格は名家(公家)、藤原北家高藤流甘露寺支流）である勧修寺家の6代当主。