nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: I said that I was ready to follow any orders of Mr. Yoshihiro and Mr. Tadatsune, but Mr. Yoshihisa was not convinced at all and prohibited travel to Shonai.
Japanese: 義弘様と忠恒様の命に従うつもりであることを申し上げたが、義久様は全く納得せず、庄内への通行を禁止しておられる。
English: It seems that I am being treated like my father and the boundary of the territories is set on fire,' whereby he claimed that Yoshihisa was going to demolish the Ijuin clan.
Japanese: 私も父同然に扱われるつもりのようで、（知行地の）境目に放火している」とあり、義久が伊集院氏を滅ぼすつもりであったと主張している。
English: Tadazane asked for Yoshihiro to mediate between them in this letter, but Yoshihiro advised Tadazane to surrender.
Japanese: 忠真はこの書状で義弘の調停を依頼しているが、義弘は忠真に降伏を勧告している。
English: Miyakonojo was an impregnable fort, having Miyakonojo as a main castle, which was protected by 12 outer castles: Tsuneyoshi-jo Castle, Umekita-jo Castle, Shiwachi-jo Castle, Kajiyama-jo Castle, Katsuoka-jo Castle, Yamanokuchi-jo Castle, Gassan Hyuga-jo Castle, Yasunaga-jo Castle, Nonomidani-jo Castle, Sueyoshi-jo Castle, Yamada-jo Castle, and Takarabe-jo Castle.
Japanese: 都城は、都之城を本城とし、恒吉城、梅北城、志和池城、梶山城、勝岡城、山之口城、月山日向城、安永城、野々美谷城、末吉城、山田城及び財部城の12箇所の外城に守られており、容易に攻めることはできない。
English: According to the Shonai Gunki, Tadazane's forces numbered 20,000, but actually they were about 8,000.
Japanese: 庄内軍記によれば、忠真の兵力は2万人と記されているが、実際は8千人程度であった。
English: According to the 'Takajirocho history,' those including Kiyomasa KATO and Suketaka ITO, who shared the borders with the Shimazu clain, provided support including materials in secret, although they are not counted as a direct military power.
Japanese: （高城町史）また、直接的な兵力ではないが、物資の援助などを島津氏と領地を隣接する加藤清正、伊東祐兵らが密かに行っている。
English: According to the Shonai Gunki, Tadatsune's forces numbered approximately 100,000, but actually they amounted to about 30,000 to 40,000.
Japanese: 庄内軍記によれば、忠恒の兵力は10万人と記されているが、実際は3万から4万人程度であった。
English: Ieyasu TOKUGAWA sent his vassal, Naotomo YAMAGUCHI, as a messenger and asked the parties to reconcile but failed.
Japanese: 徳川家康は家臣の山口直友を使者として遣わし、和睦を促したが成立しなかった。
English: He then captured Tsuneyoshi-jo Castle, which was not followed by any achievements and the battle reached a stalemate.
Japanese: 次いで恒吉城を落としたがその後はなかなか戦果を挙げられず、戦いは膠着状態となった。
English: Afterward, Tadatsune set camp in Morita between Nonomitani and Shiwachi, and laid siege to Shiwachi-jo Castle.
Japanese: その後、忠恒は、野之美谷と志和地の間の森田に陣を築き、志和地城を兵糧攻めにした。
English: Since Tadamasa tried to send food to Shiwachi-jo Castle but couldn't succeed, the starvation within the castle was severe.
Japanese: 忠真は志和地城へ食糧を送り込もうとしたがうまくいかなかったので、城内の窮乏は甚だしかった。
English: On the other hand, those including the resourceful general Eisen SHIRAISHI on Tadamasa's side fought actively, so on the Tadatsune's side had heavy casulatlies.
Japanese: 一方、忠真側の智将白石永仙らの活躍により、忠恒側の死傷者も多数にのぼった。
English: Yoshihisa also went into battle and attacked Takarabe-jo Castle (Takarabe, Kagoshima Prefecture) but couldn't capture it.
Japanese: 義久も出陣し、財部城（鹿児島県財部）を攻めたが落とすことはできなかった。
English: Naotomo had a letter of proof from Yoshihisa and Tadatsune stating, 'If Tadamasa surrenders, you will continue to be vassals as before.'
Japanese: 直友は、義久と忠恒から「忠真が降伏すれば今までどおり召抱える。」という証文をとった。
English: The other outer castles were then surrendered in turn, and Tadamasa accepted Ieyasu's peace terms and surrendered on April 28.
Japanese: その後、他の外城も順次降伏し、忠真は、家康の調停を受け入れ、3月15日、降伏した。
English: The next year in 1601, the Shimazu family issued a ban on the Ikko sect (a formal notice with the names of Yoshihisa, Yoshihiro and Tadatsune), and ultimately this became the cause of the later 'hidden chanting.'
Japanese: また翌年の慶長6年、島津家では一向宗禁止令が出され（義久、義弘、忠恒の連名による正式な通達として）、その後の「かくれ念仏」の原因となった。
English: According to an opinion, this policy was related to the fact that Tadamune was a devoted Ikko believer.
Japanese: この政策は、忠棟が熱心な一向宗門徒であったことが関係しているとする説がある。
English: In fact, Tadamasa had sent a secret messenger to Kiyomasa KATO in Higo Province to ask for his help in vengeance.
Japanese: 事実、忠真は肥後国の加藤清正に対し仇を討つための助力を願う密使を送っている。
English: Not only Tadatsune but also Ieyasu was angry with Tadamasa; however, they decided to forgive him because he could no longer be a threat to the Shimazu clan.
Japanese: 忠恒のみならず家康も忠真に立腹したが、もはや島津の敵ではあるまいとこの場は許すに至っている。
English: But after the Battle of Sekigahara, in 1602, Tadatsune ordered Tadamasa to accompany him to the capital and shot him to death during a hunt in Nojiri, Hyuga Province.
Japanese: しかし関ケ原の戦い後の慶長7年、忠恒は上洛に際し忠真に同行を命じ、日向国野尻で狩りを催した際、これを射殺した。
English: Yamashiro no Kuni no Miyatsuko (also known as Yamashiro Kokuzo, written as 山背国造 or 山代国造) was a kuninomiyatsuko (provincial governor) who ruled the south-west part of Yamashiro Province.
Japanese: 山背国造・山代国造（やましろのくにのみやつこ・やましろこくぞう)は山城国南西部を支配した国造。
English: It is said that Atane-no-mikoto and Sonofuri-no-mikoto were appointed as Yamashiro no Kuni no Miyatsuko during the Emperor Jinmu's era and the Emperor Seimu's era respectively, appointment in the Emperor Jinmu's era is questionable.
Japanese: 神武天皇朝に阿多根命が、成務朝に曾能振命が山代(山背)国造に任じられたとされるが、神武朝の設置は疑わしい。
English: The clan has branch lines such as immigrant clans that derived from King Bailong of Lu, and other lines that derived from Hoakari.
Japanese: 同氏には魯の白竜王を祖とする渡来系氏族や、火明命を祖とする別系もある。
English: Shrines in Yamashiro Province that enshrine Amatsuhikone-no-mikoto include Ogura-jinja Shrine (Oyamazaki Machi, Kyoto Prefecture) and Hosono-jinja Shrine (Seika-cho, Kyoto Prefecture), the latter of which was founded in the Nara period.
Japanese: 天津彦根命を祭る山城国内の神社としては、小倉神社(京都府大山崎町)や祝園神社(京都府精華町)などがあるが、後者は奈良時代の創立。
English: The Yanagisawa clan descended from the Kai Ichijo clan belonging to the Kai-Genji (Minamoto clan) and became part of the Mukawa-shu group, one of the warrior groups in the remote Kai area based in Mukawa, in the northwestern part of Kai Province.
Japanese: 柳沢氏が甲斐源氏の一族である甲斐一条氏の子孫が甲斐国北西部の武川筋に土着した武川衆と呼ばれる辺境武士団であった。
English: Yasutada YANAGISAWA became a retainer of the Dainagon (chief councilor of state) Tadanaga TOKUGAWA (a son of Hidetada TOKUGAWA) of Suruga Province, but when Tadanaga was placed under house arrest by his elder brother Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, Yasutada became a warrior without a lord.
Japanese: 柳沢安忠のときに駿河国大納言徳川忠長（徳川秀忠の子）の家臣となったが、忠長が兄徳川家光によって蟄居・幽閉に処せられたため浪人になった。
English: Yasutada later became a retainer of Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA, who was the lord of Tatebayashi, Kozuke no kuni Province (the present-day Tatebayashi City, Gunma Prefecture) and became kanjo gashira (chief treasurer).
Japanese: その後、安忠は上野国館林藩主（現在の群馬県館林市）徳川綱吉に仕えて勘定頭を務めた。
English: Yoshiyasu YANAGISAWA, the son of Yasutada, became a confidant of Tsunayoshi, and when Tsunayoshi became the fifth shogun, Yoshiyasu was given 10,000 koku, became a goyonin (one of the most senior retainers of the shogun) and was allowed to use the name MATSUDAIRA.
Japanese: 安忠の子柳沢吉保は綱吉の腹心となり、綱吉が5代将軍になると元禄元年（1688年）1万石を与えられて側用人になり、松平姓を許された。
English: In 1704, he became the lord of Kofu-jo Castle with 151,200 koku and also became the lord of Kai.
Japanese: 宝永元年（1704年）甲府城主15万1200石となり、甲府藩主となる。
English: During the time of Yoshisato YANAGISAWA, the son of Yoshiyasu, the governing land of the clan was switched to the Koriyama Domain, Yamato Province (currently Yamato Koriyama City, Nara Prefecture), and his family continued to be a daimyo with 150,000 koku until the end of the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 吉保の子柳沢吉里の代で大和国郡山藩（奈良県大和郡山市）に転封され、彼の家系は15万石の大名として幕末まで至った。
English: They attained peerage during the Meiji period, and in 1884 Yasunobu YANAGISAWA became a count.
Japanese: 明治時代に華族に列し、明治17年（1884年）柳沢保申が伯爵になった。
English: The YANAGISAWA clan had a close relationship with the Koke Takeda clan, the main stream of the Takeda clan; Nobuyasu TAKEDA, the second son of Yasunobu, became the head of Koke Takeda clan, and the bloodline continues today.
Japanese: 武田氏宗家の高家武田氏とは密接な関係にあり、保申の次男、武田信保が高家武田氏の当主を継ぎ、血筋が絶えることなく現在に至っている。
English: Tsunetaka YANAGISAWA, the fourth son of Yoshiyasu, was bestowed the Kai Nitta Domain with 10,000 koku in Yashiro gun, Kai Province (the present-day cities of Yamanashi and Kofu) in 1709, then in 1724 became the daimyo of the Kurokawa Domain with 10,000 koku in Kurokawa, Kanbara-gun, Echigo Province (which became Kurokawa Town, Kanbara gun, Niigata Prefecture (Kita Kanbara-gun, Niigata Prefecture) and is currently Kurokawa Tainai-shi City, Niigata Prefecture) and the descendents continued to hold that post until the end of the bakufu.
Japanese: 吉保の4男柳沢経隆は宝永6年（1709年）甲斐国八代郡（現在の山梨市・甲州市）に甲府新田藩1万石を与えられ、享保9年（1724年）越後国蒲原郡黒川（新潟県蒲原郡黒川村(新潟県北蒲原郡)・現在の新潟県胎内市黒川）で黒川藩1万石の大名になり、幕末まで続いた。
English: Tokichika YANAGISAWA, the fifth son of Yoshiyasu, was given 10,000 koku in Kanbara-gun (currently in the northern part of Shibata City and the western part of Kajikawa village, Kita Kanbara gun, Niigata Prefecture) in 1724, and became the lord of Mikkaichi City.
Japanese: また吉保の5男柳沢時睦も享保9年蒲原郡内（新潟県新発田市北部・北蒲原郡加治川村西部）において1万石を与えられて三日市藩主となった。
English: The Ichikaiso Government was a politically prominent group in Kyoto, the center of politics at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate; it was formed of Kinri-goshuei-sotoku (Governor-general of the inner palace's guard) Sekkai-bogyo-shiki (Commander of the coastal defense of Osaka-wan Bay) Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI, Kyoto-shugoshoku (Military governor of Kyoto) Katamori MATSUDAIRA from the Aizu clan, and Kyoto-shoshidai (Deputy for Governor-general of Kyoto) Sadaaki MATSUDAIRA from the Kuwana clan.
Japanese: 一会桑政権（いちかいそうせいけん）は、幕末の政治動向の中心地京都において、禁裏御守衛総督兼摂海防禦指揮・一橋慶喜、京都守護職・松平容保（会津藩）、京都所司代・松平定敬（桑名藩）三者により構成された体制。
English: At first the group had been formed to counter the group of Sonno Joi (19th century slogan advocating reverence for the Emperor and the expulsion of foreigners) and the Choshu clan; after the Sonno Joi group had been purged by the August 18 Coup (the Bunkyu Coup of 1863), the powerful lords including the three of the Ichikaiso Government participated in the Sanyo-kaigi (the Councilor Council in the Court) which had been set up so that the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Imperial Court cooperate on dealing with impending matters; although the Sanyo-kaigi was unraveled soon, the three politicians had maintained their power and dominated over the politics in Kyoto until the Overthrow of the Shogunate and the Decree for the Restoration of Imperial Rule (1867).
Japanese: この体制は尊皇攘夷・長州藩への対抗を通じて形成され、八月十八日の政変以降、尊皇攘夷派が退潮し、さらに公武合体論に基づく有力諸侯による参預会議が崩壊したのち、王政復古の大号令による倒幕派クーデタまでの京都政界をほぼ支配した。
English: Originally they were to represent the Tokugawa Shogunate, however, in Kyoto, far from Edo (present Tokyo, the hub of the Shogunate), they gained the Emperor's trust and didn't always speak for the Shogunate, but instead formed an original force of politics; for that reason recently there is a historian saying that they should be called the 'Ichikaiso Government.'
Japanese: 徳川幕府を代理する立場ではあるが、江戸を離れた京都にあって天皇の信任を得る一方、必ずしも江戸の幕閣の意向を代弁するわけではなく、相対的に独自の勢力を形成していたとする見方からこのように呼ばれる。
English: For a long time historians had considered that the conflict between 'Saccho' (the alliance between the Satsuma clan and the Choshu clan) and the Shogunate had driven the politics at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, however, recently Yoshiki IECHIKA, an assistant professor of Osaka University of Economics, proposed the new idea of 'the Ichikaiso Government' for the simple reason that it's impossible to grasp the whole political situation during the tempestuous period from only the past historical point of view.
Japanese: 大阪経済大学助教授の家近良樹が、幕末期の政治状況は従来の薩長と幕府との対立というだけでは説明できないとしてこの「一会桑政権」と呼ばれる歴史概念を主張している。
English: The three politicians of the government hadn't been considered important by the past historians who had followed the majority viewpoint (appreciating 'Saccho'), however recently the significance of their political works is being reconsidered due to the assistant professor's idea.
Japanese: 従来の薩長史観では見過ごされがちだが、この三者が幕末において果たした役割を再評価している。
English: After the Perry Expedition and the Opening of Japan, the following of Sonno Joi greatly extended their influence, accordingly the Emperor and the Imperial Court rapidly gathered momentum, and the political center moved from Edo to a distant city, Kyoto (the Imperial Court and its vicinity).
Japanese: 黒船来航・開国以来、尊皇攘夷が高まりを見せ、天皇・朝廷が急速に政治的求心力を備えてくると、幕府の所在する江戸から離れた京都が政治動向の中心となった。
English: In the Sakuradamongai Incident (1860), extremists murdered Tairo (a councilor of the Council of Five Elders) Naosuke II who had conducted Ansei no Taigoku (the suppression of extremists by the Shogunate), soon after that, in 1861 the Shogunate offered the lawful marriage of Seii Taishogun (literally, 'great general who subdues the barbarians') the 14th shogun Iemochi TOKUGAWA with Kazunomiya (a younger sister of Emperor Komei) to the Imperial Family for the purpose of gaining the Imperial Court's cooperation; especially since then, statesmen of strong clans including the Satsuma clan, the Choshu clan and the Tosa clan aimed for advance to the political center, and the following of Sonno Joi came to Kyoto one after and another.
Japanese: 特に安政の大獄を断行した大老井伊直弼が桜田門外の変で横死して後、公武合体を望む幕府が征夷大将軍徳川家茂の正室として孝明天皇の妹和宮の降嫁を求めた1861年（文久元年）頃から、薩摩藩・長州藩・土佐藩などの雄藩が中央政界への進出をうかがうようになり、尊王攘夷派がぞくぞくと京都に集まるようになった。
English: In leap August 1862 (according to the old lunar calendar), the Shogunate appointed the head of the Aizu clan Katamori MATSUDAIRA to a newly established post, Kyoto-shugoshoku (Military governor of Kyoto), for suppressing increasing masterless samurai extremists whom Kyoto-shoshidai (Deputy for Governor-general of Kyoto) had been no longer able to control.
Japanese: 京都所司代の力のみでは過激派浪士を抑えることができなくなった幕府は、1862年(文久2年)閏8月に会津藩主松平容保を新設の京都守護職に任命する。
English: After the statesmen of the Aizu clan had come to Kyoto, the Sonno Joi movement gained additional strength, assassinations and threats by masterless samurai extremists became commonplace; even in the Court, sympathetic court nobles to Sonno Joi had a great influence, they often gave Imperial order without asking the Emperor's permission and demanded that the Shogunate immediately renounce the treaties with foreign countries following the Joi group's proposal (expulsion of foreigners), and what's more, in August 1863 (according to the old lunar calendar) they planned the Emperor's visit to Yamato for carrying out the Emperor's direct commitment to Joi.
Japanese: 会津藩上洛後の京都では尊攘運動がますます激しく、尊攘激派浪士による暗殺・脅迫が横行、朝廷においても尊攘派公家によって朝議が左右されるようになり、天皇の意向はまったく無視されて勅旨が乱発され、幕府に破約攘夷の実行を要求し、さらに1863年(文久3年)8月には天皇による攘夷親征を実行するための大和行幸が企てられた。
English: In the Choshu Domain, the extremists had dominated in the government; they had advanced to Kyoto, cooperated with other clans on those actions and gradually extended their political influence.
Japanese: 尊攘激派が政権を掌握した長州藩も、これらと結びつき京都における政治力を強めていた。
English: However, the Emperor disliked the strong connection between the Sonno Joi group and the Choshu clan, he suggested a purge to Kyoto-shugoshoku Katamori MATSUDAIRA (Aizu clan), then the Aizu clan and the Satsuma clan privately joined hands and on August 18 (according to the old lunar calendar) expelled the Choshu clan and sympathetic court nobles to Sonno Joi including Sanetomi SANJO from Kyoto (the August 18 Coup).
Japanese: だが、尊攘派と長州藩の動きを嫌う天皇の意を受け、京都守護職の会津藩と薩摩藩が密かに手を結び、8月18日、三条実美ら尊攘派公家とを京都から追放した（八月十八日の政変）。
English: After the Coup, Nariyuki NIJO was appointed to Kanpaku (Chief adviser to the Emperor), and he and Imperial Prince Kuninomiya Asahiko led the Imperial Court.
Japanese: 政変後の朝廷は関白に就任した二条斉敬と久邇宮朝彦親王によって主導されることになる。
English: During the months from October to December (according to the old lunar calendar) the powerful lords agreeing to the political cooperation between the Shogunate and the Imperial Court, such as Hisamitsu SHIMAZU (the father of the head of the Shimazu clan), Shungaku MATSUDAIRA (the former head of the Fukui clan), Munenari DATE (the former head of the Uwajima clan), Yodo YAMAUCHI (the former head of the Tosa clan), and Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI came to Kyoto one after another, and they were appointed as members of the Sanyo-kaigi with Katamori MATSUDAIRA, then the political cooperation between the Shogunate and the Imperial Court began in the form in which the delegates of the Shogunate speak in the Imperial Court.
Japanese: また、10月から12月にかけて公武合体派の島津久光（薩摩藩主の父）、松平春嶽（前福井藩主）、伊達宗城（前宇和島藩主）、一橋慶喜、山内容堂（前土佐藩主）が上洛、松平容保とともに朝廷参与会議に任命され、朝廷の下での雄藩の国政参画が実現した。
English: However, conflict arose over the agenda of Yokohama-ko Port against the background of different purposes between Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI who aimed to protect the Shogunate and the Satsuma clan who aimed to take advantage of the Council to gain leadership, therefore, in February 1864 (according to the old lunar calendar) Yamauchi went back to his domain, and in the following March other members also resigned, consequently the Sanyo-kaigi was broken up.
Japanese: しかし、これを機に主導権を握ろうとする薩摩藩と幕府・一橋慶喜の思惑の違いが絡んで横浜鎖港をめぐって対立、1864年（元治元年）2月に山内が帰国、3月には残る全員が辞表を提出してあっけなく瓦解した。
English: After that occasion, Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI was appointed to Kinri-goshuei-sotoku and Sekkai-bogyo-shiki, Katamori MATSUDAIRA, who had retired from Kyoto-shugoshoku, was appointed to the previous post again, and Sadaaki MATSUDAIRA (a younger brother of Katamori and the head of the Kuwana clan) was appointed to Kyoto-shoshidai.
Japanese: 代わって一橋慶喜は新たに禁裏御守衛総督兼摂海防禦指揮を命じられ、いったん京都守護職を退いていた松平容保も復帰、容保の実弟で桑名藩主の松平定敬が京都所司代に任ぜられた。
English: The Ichikaiso Government' was practically formed, and afterwards the three lords and the members of the Imperial Court, Emperor Komei, Nariyuki NIJO, and Imperial Prince Nakagawanomiya (Kuninomiya) Asahiko led politics in Kyoto until the Restoration of Imperial Rule.
Japanese: 以後、孝明天皇・二条斉敬・中川宮朝彦親王の朝廷と「一会桑政権」とが協調して王政復古に至るまでの京都における政治を主導していくことになる。
English: Minakuchi Okayama-jo Castle is located in Minakuchi, Minakuchi-cho, Koka-shi City, Shiga Prefecture.
Japanese: 水口岡山城（みなくちおかやまじょう）は滋賀県甲賀市水口町水口にある城。
English: Under the orders of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, Kazuuji NAKAMURA built the castle as the headquarters from which to rule the Koka-gun district, and became the lord of the castle in 1585.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉の命により中村一氏が1585年（天正13年）、甲賀郡の支配の拠点として築き、入城した。
English: He developed the structure of Minakuchi, which had prospered since the Heian period as a post town on the main route from Kyoto to Ise.
Japanese: その時、平安の昔から、都から伊勢へと通じる街道の要所として栄えていた宿場町水口の原型をつくった。
English: Nagamori MASHITA, and then Masaie NATSUKA, who were among the Five Administrators, successively became the lord of the castle, the former in 1585 and the latter in 1595.
Japanese: その後1585年（天正18年）に増田長盛が、1595年（文禄4年）には長束正家と五奉行を務めた2人が相次いで入城している。
English: At the Battle of Sekigahara, Masaie NATSUKA joined the West Camp but was unable to participate in the battle and fled to Minakuchi-jo Castle.
Japanese: 関ヶ原の戦いでは長束正家は西軍に属し、関ヶ原に布陣していたが戦闘には参加できず水口城に敗走した。
English: Minakuchi-jo Castle was attacked by Terumasa IKEDA, who chased Masaie NATSUKA, and was burned down in a fire that Masaie had set.
Japanese: 水口城は追ってきた池田輝政に攻められ、長束正家が自ら放った火により落城した。
English: In 1051, Yorito, together with his son MINAMOTO no Arimitsu, went to Oshu (Northern Honshu, the region encompassing Mutsu and Dewa provinces) following the Governor of Mutsu Province, MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi, to serve in Zen Kunen no Eki (Former Nine Years' Campaign.)
Japanese: 永承6年（1051年）、頼遠は子の源有光とともに陸奥守源頼義に従って奥州に下向、前九年の役に従軍した。
English: In 1063, Arimitsu was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, Governor of Aki Province and granted the land of Shirakawa-gun County in Mutsu Province (later Iwaki no kuni) for distinguished war service.
Japanese: 康平6年（1063年）、有光はその軍功により従五位下安芸守に任じられ、陸奥国（後の磐城国）白河郡の地を下賜された。
English: When the sixth head of the family Hirosue ISHIKAWA heard that MINAMOTO no Yoritomo raised an army to defeat the Taira family in Izu, he dispatched an army headed by his uncle Mitsuharu to Kamakura in 1183.
Japanese: 第6代石川広季は、伊豆で源頼朝が平家討伐の兵を挙げたことを知り、寿永2年（1183年）、伯父光治率いる軍を鎌倉に送る。
English: In 1188, when Yoritomo advanced to the Shirakawa Barrier to attack the Oshu-Fujiwara clan, he visited the Kawabe Hachiman-gu Shrine in the land of Ishikawa and prayed for a victory, and after three days' stay, headed for the battlefield of Mt. Atsukashi in Date-gun County.
Japanese: 文治4年（1188年）、奥州藤原氏攻めの為に白河関に到った頼朝は、石川の地にある川辺八幡宮に戦勝祈願を行い、三日間の滞在後に伊達郡厚樫山の戦場に向かった。
English: Tokimitsu ISHIKAWA, the thirtieth head of the family, sent an army headed by his eldest son Yoshimitsu ISHIKAWA to join the shogunate government overthrowing army headed by Yoshisada NITTA.
Japanese: 第13代石川時光は、新田義貞による倒幕の軍に長子石川義光率いる軍を従わせる。
English: When the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) fell and the Kenmu Restoration started in 1333, Tokimitsu ISHIKAWA went up to Kyoto and was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, the Imperial Household Secretary by the new government, and Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade, the Master of the Palace Table in 1334.
Japanese: 元弘3年（1333年）、鎌倉幕府が滅亡して建武の新政が成ると、上洛して新政権から従五位下宮内大輔に、翌建武(日本)元年（1334年）に従四位下大膳大夫に任じられた。
English: Nevertheless, the Ishikawa clan was treated coldly by the new government for the reason that it was tied closely with the Kamakura bakufu, and in the time of Sadamitsu ISHIKAWA, the fourteenth head of the family, the Governor of Mutsu Province, Akiie KITABATAKE, distributed the fief traditionally succeeded and controlled by Ishikawa clan to the Yuki family and the Wachi clan.
Japanese: しかし、鎌倉幕府との結びつきが強かったことを理由に新政府に冷遇され、第14代石川貞光の時、陸奥守北畠顕家は古来から石川氏が治めていた領地を結城家や和地氏に与える。
English: Sadamitsu raised the army to make a stand but was defeated instead, and in 1335, followed Takauji ASHIKAGA and took the side of the Northern Court.
Japanese: 貞光はこれを迎え撃つために軍を挙げるが敗れ、建武2年（1335年）に足利尊氏に従って北朝(日本)方に属した。
English: Yoshimitsu participated in the Battle of Minatogawa as a leader of the Ashikaga army and was killled in the Battle of Hieizan Sakamoto.
Japanese: 義光は足利軍の将として湊川の戦いに参戦、比叡山坂本の合戦において討ち死にした。
English: Thereafter, fierce battles were repeated between the Ishikawa clan, which aimed to recover the former fief, and the Yuki clan.
Japanese: 以後は旧領奪還を目指す石川氏と結城氏の間で激しい争いが繰り返された。
English: In 1563, Harumitsu ISHIKAWA, the twenty-fifth head of the family, adopted Kojiro (later, he was renamed Akimitsu ISHIKAWA), the fourth son of Harumune DATE and handed over the head of the family to him and retired.
Japanese: 第25代石川晴光は、永禄6年（1563年）、伊達晴宗の四男小二郎（後に石川昭光と改名）を養子に受け、家督を譲って隠居した。
English: In 1590, Akimitsu, the twenty-sixth head of the family, postponed sending the reinforcements to the Invasion of Odawara headed by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, as he was afraid of Masamune DATE who did not participate in the invasion.
Japanese: 第26代昭光は天正18年（1590年）、豊臣秀吉による小田原攻めに参陣しない伊達政宗を憚って自らも援軍の派兵を見送った。
English: Hideyoshi bore resentment against Akimitsu and transferred the fief of the Ishikawa clan to Ujisato GAMO on the pretext of punishment of the powerful warriors in the area of Oshu to prevent them from strengthening their power.
Japanese: しかし秀吉に恨まれ、奥州仕置によって領地は蒲生氏郷に与えられることとなった。
English: A senior vassal Rokuro MIZOI insisted on Akimitsu's clear assertion that he bear no treacherous intentions against Hideyoshi, but nobody agree to that opinion; and at last, they were obliged to serve the Date family.
Japanese: 老臣溝井六郎は秀吉に対して異心のないことを闡明することを主張するが、秀吉軍が迫る中で賛同する者はなく、ついに伊達家に仕えることを余儀なくされた。
English: In 1598, Akimitsu became the lord of Kakuda in Igu-gun County, the land worthwhile a million koku of rice, moved Chosen-ji Temple, which was the site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet of Ishikawa family, from Ishikawa to the new fief, and did the ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location of God of War, which was a guardian deity of the Ishikawa family, from Ishikawa to the new fief.
Japanese: 昭光は慶長3年（1598年）、伊具郡角田1万石の領主となり、石川家の碑所である長泉寺を石川から移し、守護神である八幡神を石川から勧請した。
English: On this occasion, some members of the clan followed Akimitsu and moved to Kakuda, the others abandoned the samurai status and remained in Ishikawa as farmers and merchants.
Japanese: この時、一族の中には昭光に従い角田に移ったものと、刀を捨て農民・商人として残るものとに分かれた。
English: In 1603, Akimitsu handed over the headship of the family to his legitimate son Yoshimune, but in 1610 when Yoshimitsu died at the age of 34, Akimitsu returned to Kakuda-jo Castle and attended to government affairs.
Japanese: 慶長8年（1603年）、家督を嫡男石川義宗に譲るが、慶長15年（1610年）、義宗が34歳で没すると、昭光は角田城に戻って政務を執る。