nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Yoshikuni was based in Ashikaga no sho, Shimotsuke Province (Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture), however, the next child of Yoshikuni, MINAMOTO no Yoshiyasu succeeded to Ashikaga no sho and called himself the Ashikaga clan.
Japanese: 義国は下野国足利荘（栃木県足利市）を本拠としていたが、足利荘は義国の次子である源義康が継いで足利氏を名乗った。
English: Thereafter, Yoshikuni and his eldest child, Yoshishige NITTA developed Nitta County, Kozuke Province (Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, former Nitta-machi, Nitta-gun, etc.) on the other side of the Watarase-gawa River which had been devastated by the eruption of Mt. Asama, and donated the developed land to FUJIWARA no Tadamasa in the Taira family side in 1157, which established Nitta no sho estate.
Japanese: その後、義国と長子の新田義重は渡良瀬川対岸の浅間山噴火で荒廃していた上野国新田郡（群馬県太田市、旧新田郡新田町など）を開発し、保元2年（1157年）平家方の藤原忠雅に開発地を寄進し、新田荘が立荘された。
English: The head family became the family of Kongoshin-in Temple, the Gogan-ji Temple (a temple for Imperial family) of the Emperor Gotoba, and the ryoke (a lord of the manor) became the Kazanin family of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan.
Japanese: 本家は鳥羽天皇御願寺の金剛心院、領家は藤原氏藤原北家花山院家となる。
English: Yoshishige who was appointed to a shokan (an officer governing shoen [manor]) called himself the Nitta clan, and established a ruling system by deploying his sons centered in Nitta no sho estate and Yawata no sho estate.
Japanese: 荘官に任ぜられた義重は新田氏を称し、新田荘と八幡荘を中心に息子たちを配して、支配体制を確立する。
English: Yoshishige confronted the Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara clan), Chichibu clan and MINAMOTO no Yoshikata surrounding him, however, he resisted them in cooperation with his nephew, Yoshikane ASHIKAGA and MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo.
Japanese: 義重は周囲の足利氏(藤原氏)や秩父氏、源義賢と対立するが、甥である足利義兼や源義朝と連携し、それらに対抗する。
English: By comparison, the ryoke of Nitta no sho estate, FUJIWARA no Tadamasa is a Kugyo (top court official) who also approached TAIRA no Kiyomori and was promoted as high as the Daijo-daijin (grand minister of state).
Japanese: ちなみに、新田荘領家である藤原忠雅も平清盛に近づき太政大臣にまで昇進した公卿である。
English: In 1180, Yoshitomo's child, MINAMOTO no Yoritomo who had been exiled in Izu Province, and Yoshikata's child, MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka, etc. in Kiso raised armies against the Taira clan government in Kyoto, which led to the Jisho-Juei War.
Japanese: 1180年（治承4年）、伊豆国に流罪となっていた義朝の子源頼朝、木曽では義賢の子源義仲らが京都の平氏政権に対して挙兵し、治承・寿永の乱となる。
English: Yoshishige NITTA, who had belonged to the Taira family and been staying in Kyoto, was ordered a punitive expedition for Yoritomo, and went down to Togoku (the eastern part of Japan, particularly Kanto region).
Japanese: 平家に属し、京に滞在していた新田義重は、頼朝討伐を命ぜられ東国に下った。
English: Yoshishige entered Terao-jo Castle, Yawata no sho estate, Kozuke Province, however, while collecting soldiers, he calmly watched the circumstances and did not join in the punitive expedition for Yoritomo.
Japanese: 義重は上野国八幡荘寺尾城に入り兵を集めながら事態を静観し、頼朝追討に加わらなかった。
English: Thereafter, the Kiso force advanced into Kozuke Province, and confronted Toshitsuna ASHIKAGA of the Ashikaga clan having the family name of Fujiwara (Fujiwara clan) in the Taira family side who was based in Ashikaga no sho, Shimotsuke Province, however, Yoshishige maintained neutrality.
Japanese: その後、木曽勢は上野国へ進出し、下野国足利荘を本拠とする平家方の藤原氏姓足利氏(藤原氏)の足利俊綱と対立するが義重は中立を保つ。
English: In the family, his nephew, Yoshikane ASHIKAGA, his child, Yoshinori YAMANA and his grandchild, Yoshinari SATOMI, etc. called on Yoritomo and joined in the army, however, Yoshishige himself ignored the request to join in the camp and kept watching the circumstances.
Japanese: 一族の中には、甥足利義兼や子山名義範、孫里見義成など、鎌倉を本拠とした頼朝のもとへ参じて挙兵に加わるものもあったが、義重自身は参陣の要請を無視し、静観していた。
English: There is no record to the effect that Yoshishige would have joined in the camp at the battles with the Taira family and the Battle of Oshu thereafter, and at the Jokyu War in 1221, the soryo (heir) did not join in the camp, so a branch family, Serada clan joined in the camp as a local governor.
Japanese: その後の平家との合戦や奥州合戦にも義重が参陣したとの記録がなく、1221年の承久の乱においても惣領は参陣せず、代官として庶家の世良田氏が参陣している。
English: What is more, when Yoritomo requested Yoshishige's daughter who had been Yoshihira's widow to be his concubine, Yoshishige refused the request, therefore, reportedly he drew a rebuke from Yoritomo ("Azuma Kagami" [The Mirror of the East]).
Japanese: そればかりか、義平の未亡人となっていた義重の娘を頼朝が側室にしようとしたところ、義重がそれを拒否したため頼朝から勘気を蒙ったと伝えられている（『吾妻鏡』）。
English: Owing to these circumstances, the rank of the head family of the Nitta clan became a lower one in the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) which was established as the Togoku government in Kamakura.
Japanese: これらの経緯により、鎌倉に東国政権として成立した鎌倉幕府において、新田氏本宗家の地位は低いものとなった。
English: The head family of the Nitta clan was not recognized as a Monyo (blood line, lineage, connected by blood) by Yoritomo, was not allowed to use a family name of Minamoto in public, had a considerably low official court rank, and had not been recommended as a zuryokan.
Japanese: 新田氏本宗家は頼朝から門葉と認められず、公式の場での源姓を称することが許されず、官位も比較的低く、受領官に推挙されることもなかった。
English: In addition, the Yamana clan and the Satomi clan who had earlier joined in the camp under Yoritomo were recognized as an independent gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) respectively, and came to act independently from the control of the head family of the Nitta clan.
Japanese: また、早期に頼朝の下に参陣した山名氏と里見氏はそれぞれ独立した御家人とされ、新田氏本宗家の支配から独立して行動するようになる。
English: The Nitta clan's territory had not been increased thereafter, and the clan was weakened owing to a divided succession along with the establishment of the Serada clan and Iwamatsu clan, etc., and the disposal of the territory.
Japanese: その後も新田氏の所領が増えることはなく、世良田氏や岩松氏の創立などの分割相続と所領の沽却により弱体化する。
English: The fourth family head, Masayoshi NITTA was deprived of an office of gokenin because of a charge that he became a priest without prior consent of the bakufu during his stay in Kyoto as the Kyoto obanyaku (a job to guard Kyoto).
Japanese: 4代の新田政義は、京都大番役での上京中に幕府に無断で出家した罪で御家人役を剥奪される。
English: Nitta clan's soryo-shiki (clan leadership rights) was confiscated and awarded to one of its families, Serada clan, which was shared by the Iwamatsu clan, as well as the Serada clan.
Japanese: 新田氏惣領職は没収され、一族の世良田頼氏に与えられ、世良田氏とともに岩松氏が分担する。
English: At that time, the territory of the head family of the Nitta clan was transferred to the Tokuso family (the direct line of the regency Hojo family), and a hikan (low-level bureaucrat) under the power of the Tokuso family advanced into the estate.
Japanese: このとき、新田氏本宗家の所領が得宗家に渡り、得宗勢力被官が荘内に進出する。
English: Thereafter, when Yoriuji was exiled in Sadoga-shima Island, being implicated in the Nigatsu-sodo (February rebellion), a dispute between the Tokuso family of the Hojo clan and anti Tokuso family, the soryo-shiki returned to the head family of the Nitta clan.
Japanese: その後、頼氏が北条氏の得宗家と反得宗家の争いである二月騒動に連座して佐渡島に流罪となると、惣領職が新田氏本宗家に復する。
English: However, the rank of the head family of the Nitta clan in the bakufu became much lower, and the family was forced to accept no official court rank thereafter.
Japanese: しかし、幕府における新田氏本宗家の地位は非常に低いものとなり、以後は無位無官に甘んずることとなる。
English: In the late Kamakura period, the eighth family head, Yoshisada NITTA, following the movement to overthrow the bakufu by the Emperor Godaigo, raised an army and attacked Kamakura, while adding Senjuo (later Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA), the legitimate son of Takauji ASHIKAGA who was the most dominant gokenin coming from the same family descended from Yoshikuni with a matrimonial relation with the Hojo clan for generations, and overthrew the bakufu.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代後期には、8代新田義貞が後醍醐天皇の倒幕運動に従い挙兵、源義国流の同族にして北条氏と重代の姻戚の最有力御家人足利尊氏（後の尊氏）の嫡男千寿王（後の足利義詮）を加えて鎌倉を攻め、幕府を滅亡させる。
English: At first, owing to the cold treatment by the Kamakura bakufu, the authority of the head family of the Nitta clan at the Kenmu Restoration was regarded as lower than that of the same family, the soryo family of the Ashikaga clan.
Japanese: 当初、鎌倉幕府の冷遇によって建武の新政での新田氏本宗家の権威は同族である足利氏惣領よりも格下に見られていた。
English: Afterward, due to a political dispute inside the regime, Yoshisada as the head of the anti Ashikaga clan group and anti samurai family group confronted Takauji.
Japanese: 後に政権内部の政争により、義貞は反足利氏派・反武家派の首班として尊氏（高氏改め）と対立した。
English: The Nitta family was divided into those who came up to Kyoto with Yoshisada, and those who remained in Kamakura and Nitta no sho estate, and the former mostly followed Yoshisada, while the latter, and Tokiuji YAMANA, the Iwamatsu clan, Odachi clan, Satomi clan, Serada clan and Oshima clan mainly followed Takauji and belonged to the Northern Court.
Japanese: 新田一族中でも義貞とともに上京した者と鎌倉や新田荘に残った者にわかれ、前者は主に義貞に従い、後者や山名時氏や岩松氏・大舘氏・里見氏・世良田氏・大島氏などは主として足利氏に従い北朝方となった。
English: Since then, the Nitta family had played a central role in the Southern Court, but was defeated at the Battle of Minato-gawa River it fought jointly with Masashige KUSUNOKI.
Japanese: 以後、新田氏一族は南朝方の中核を担うが楠木正成とともに戦った湊川の戦いで敗戦。
English: After the battle in Mt. Hiei, Yoshisada, jointly with his first son, Yoshiaki NITTA, obeyed Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi, the Prince of the Emperor Godaigo, and was based in Hokkoku.
Japanese: 比叡山での戦いの後、長男の新田義顕と共に後醍醐天皇の皇子・恒良親王を奉じて北国に拠点とした。
English: However, Yoshiaki committed suicide, and Yoshisada himself was defeated at Kanegasaki-jo Castle, Echizen Province by Takatsune SHIBA in the Ashikaga side, and was killed in the battle in Fujishima in the same province.
Japanese: しかし義顕は自決し、義貞自身も越前国金ヶ崎城で足利方の斯波高経に敗れ、同国藤島で戦死する。
English: After the death of Yoshisada in the battle, his third son, Yoshimune NITTA succeeded to the family estate, and fought battles in various places jointly with his older paternal half-brother, Yoshioki NITTA under cover of the Kanno Disturbance, a domestic conflict of the Ashikaga clan.
Japanese: 義貞の戦死後、三男新田義宗が家督を継ぎ、異母兄の新田義興と共に足利家の内乱である観応の擾乱に乗じて各地を転戦する。
English: However, Yoshimune was defeated at Muramatsu-go, Echigo Province by the army of the Kanto Kanrei (a shogunal deputy for the Kanto region), Noriaki UESUGI, and was killed in the battle, which resulted in the fall of the head family of the Nitta clan.
Japanese: しかし、義宗は越後国村松郷で関東管領の上杉憲顕の軍に敗れて戦死し、新田氏本宗家は滅亡した。
English: And also thereafter, Sadakata NITTA who is assumed to be a Yoshimune's child, Sadakuni NITTA, a Sadataka's child and Yoshinori WAKIYA, reportedly a Yoshimune's child, etc. had continued resistance, however, they were defeated by the army of the Kamakura kubo (Governor-general of the Kanto region), and the resistance by the Nitta clan came to be settled.
Japanese: その後も、義宗の子とする新田貞方とその子新田貞邦や、義宗の子とも伝わる脇屋義則などが抵抗を続けるが、鎌倉公方の軍に破れ新田氏の抵抗は収束していった。
English: Nitta no sho estate, Kozuke Province, and Mitsuzumi IWAMATSU who was an illegitimate child of Yoshimune succeeded to the family estate.
Japanese: 一方、北朝方についた一族の新田岩松氏に上野国の新田荘が与えられ、義宗の落胤を称した岩松満純が入嗣する。
English: The branch families, such as the Odachi clan, Oida clan, etc. served the Muromachi bakufu, and became high officials of the bakufu.
Japanese: 室町幕府には支族である大館氏・大井田氏などが出仕し幕府高官となった。
English: Further, those who remained in Echigo Province had gradually been incorporated in the vassals of the Shugo, Uesugi family.
Japanese: また、越後に残ったものは次第に守護上杉家の家臣に組み込まれていった。
English: In the Sengoku period (period of warring states), the Iwamatsu clan who succeeded to the head family of the Nitta clan was defeated by a gekokujo (an inverted social order when the lowly reigned over the elite) by a senior vassal, Yokose clan.
Japanese: 戦国時代になると新田宗家を継承した岩松氏は重臣横瀬氏に下克上される。
English: The Yokose clan, who changed its family name to the Yura clan, is assumed to be descended from Sadauji YOKOSE, a Yoshimune NITTA's child, which would have little credibility without any specific evidence.
Japanese: 横瀬氏は名字を由良氏と改め、新田義宗の子・横瀬貞氏の子孫とされているが、これといった確証がなく信憑性は薄いという。
English: The Iwamatsu clan had retired in Kiryu in the northeastern part of Nitta no sho estate, and had a reception with Ieyasu TOKUGAWA who had entered the domain of Kanto for the first time in the place of the Gohojo clan.
Japanese: 岩松氏は新田荘北東部の桐生に退隠していたが、後北条氏に代わって関東に入部した徳川家康に接見する。
English: The Iwamatsu clan was requested to present its traditional family tree of the Nitta clan, however, it refused the request, and was awarded 120 koku in Tajima-go, Nitta District, Kozuke Province, and survived as a kotaiyoriai (alternate yoriai, a family status of samurai warriors in the Edo period).
Japanese: 伝来の新田氏系図を進上するよう求められたがこれを拒否し、上野国新田郡田嶋郷内120石の禄を与えられ交代寄合として存続した。
English: Further, the Yura clan was awarded a territory of 5400 koku in Ushiku, Hitachi Province, and the main branch family of the Yura clan which had been divided into several lines became an honorable family with a territory of 1000 koku.
Japanese: また、由良氏も常陸国牛久に5400石の領地を与えられ、数流に分かれた由良氏の中の嫡流家は1000石の高家となった。
English: After the Meiji Restoration, both the Iwamatsu clan and the Yura clan returned to a family name of Nitta, and competed over the main branch of the Nitta clan, then the Iwamatsu clan was recognized its achievement of Nitta kinnoto (loyalist clique of Nitta) by the new government, and was regarded as the main branch and conferred a title of baron.
Japanese: 明治維新後、岩松氏、由良氏ともに新田姓に復し新田氏嫡流をめぐって争い、岩松氏が新政府から新田勤皇党の功績を認められて嫡流とされ男爵に叙された。
English: According to "Banna-ji Nitta Ashikaga Ryoshi Keizu" (the genealogies of the Nitta clan and the Ashikaga clan), Yoshimune is said to have had children named Munechika NITTA and Chikasue MATSUDAIRA, and a descendant of Munechika is said to have left offspring in a line different from the Nitta Iwamatsu clan.
Japanese: 『鑁阿寺新田足利両氏系図』によると、義宗には新田宗親・松平親季という子があったと言い、宗親の子孫は新田岩松氏とは別の系統として子孫を残したという。
English: Further, Chikasue is said to have become an adopted child of Masayoshi MATSUDAIRA, and his child, Arichika and his grandchild, Chikauji MATSUDAIRA are said to have gone down to Mikawa Province and have become the originator of the Matsudaira clan.
Japanese: また親季は松平正義の養子となり、その子の有親と孫・松平親氏が三河に流れ松平氏の祖となったという。
English: In "Chikugo Sada Nitta Keizu" (the genealogy of the Sada Nitta clan in Chikugo Province), Yoshiaki NITTA is said to have had a child named Yoshikazu NITTA.
Japanese: 『筑後佐田新田系図』では、新田義顕には新田義一（よしかず）という子があったという。
English: This line is said to have called itself the Horie clan (Musashi Province) and served the Gohojo clan, and thereafter, have moved to Ashigara district, and be living in Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japanese: この系統は堀江氏(武蔵国)と称し、後北条氏に仕え、後に足柄方面に移住し、神奈川県伊勢原市に現存しているという。
English: Further, another illegitimate child of Sadakata, Sadanaga NAKAMURA, who fled to Oshu (Northern Honshu, the region encompassing Mutsu and Dewa Provinces), whose great-grandchild, Yoshitsuna NAKAMURA served Harmune DATE and became the originator of the Nakamura clan, a vassal of the Sendai Domain.
Japanese: さらに、奥州に逃れた貞方のもう一人の庶子中村貞長の曾孫中村義綱が伊達晴宗に仕え、仙台藩臣中村氏(仙台藩)の祖となる。
English: In addition, Yoshinori NITTA (WAKIYA), reportedly a Yoshimune's child, is also said to have succeeded to the Serada clan on his maternal side, and his child, Sukeyoshi is said to have fled to Mafune Village.
Japanese: また、義宗の子とも伝わる新田（脇屋）義則は、母方の世良田氏も継承したといい、その子・祐義は真船村に逃れたという。
English: His descendant is said to have called itself the Serada clan, and thereafter called itself the Mafune clan from the Edo period.
Japanese: この子孫は世良田氏を称したのち江戸時代に入って真船氏を称したという。
English: The Akamatsu clan was a daimyo (Japanese feudal lord), who ruled the Harima Province during the late Kamakura to Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
Japanese: 赤松氏（あかまつし）は、鎌倉時代末期から安土桃山時代にかけて播磨国を支配した大名である。
English: The clan contributed to toppling the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) as well as setting up the Muromachi bakufu, and enjoyed the domination as one of the shugo daimyo (Shugo, which were Japanese provincial military governors, that became daimyo, which were Japanese feudal lords).
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府の打倒、室町幕府の創設に寄与し、守護大名の一人として勢威を振るった。
English: Later, it provoked the Kakitsu War and was also involved in the Onin War, in consequence, causing the arrival of the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) (Japan).
Japanese: 後に嘉吉の乱を起こし、応仁の乱にも深く関わるなど戦国時代_(日本)の到来の一因を作った。
English: According to a legend, Murakami Genji (Minamoto clan) MINAMOTO no Suefusa (or Suekata) was deported to Sayo-so (estate) in Harima Province, and when Ienori, the heir of Norikage UNO who was the descendant of Suefusa (or Sukekata) became the Jito-daikan (deputy jito [estate steward]) in Akamatsu-mura Village, Ienori began to proclaim 'the Akamatsu clan' (Dubious authenticity.)
Japanese: 伝承によると、村上源氏・源季房（季方とも）が播磨国佐用荘に配流され、後裔の宇野則景の嗣子家範が赤松村地頭代官となったことから赤松氏を称した（真偽不明）と言われている。
English: However, similar to the case of Nagatoshi NAWA, there is no document that confirms the lineage from Suefusa to Norikage, and recently, there is a theory arguing that Norimura AKAMATSU (Enshin AKAMATSU) was allowed to proclaim himself as a descendant of the Murakami-Genji (Minamoto clan) when joining the Emperor Godaigo side because of the connection with Chikafusa KITABATAKE, and since the Kitabatake family belonged to the Murakami-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: しかし、名和長年同様に季房から則景へと繋がる系譜の確証となる資料がないため、近時、赤松則村（赤松円心）が北畠親房との縁により、後醍醐天皇方に参戦した際に北畠家の属する村上源氏の末裔を自称することを許可された説もある。
English: Entering the period of the Northern and Southern Courts, under an excellent military commander Enshin AKAMATSU, the clan supported Takauji ASHIKAGA, who estranged from the Kenmu Restoration, due to being deprived of the province where he ruled as a provincial constable in the Kenmu Restoration carried out by the Emperor Godaigo.
Japanese: 南北朝時代(日本)に入ると、名将・赤松円心のもと、後醍醐天皇の建武の新政で守護国を没収されたことなどから新政から離反した足利尊氏に味方した。
English: While Takauji withdrew westward to Kyushu on the backfoot, the clan blocked the force of Yoshisada NITTA at Shirahata-jo Castle in Ako County, and in the Battle of Minato-gawa River in 1336, its performance became an underlying cause to Takauji's victory.
Japanese: 尊氏が一時形勢不利で九州へ西下している間は新田義貞の勢力を赤穂郡の白旗城で釘付けにして、延元元/建武(日本)3年（1336年）の湊川の戦いが尊氏を勝利に導く遠因を作った。
English: Enshin's son, Norisuke AKAMATSU contributed to consolidating the Muromachi bakufu by such ways as assisting the second Shogun Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA and Kanrei (a shogunal deputy) Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA, and rescuing and protecting infant Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA at his home base castle when Kyoto was temporally occupied by the Southern Court side.
Japanese: 円心の子・赤松則祐は第2代将軍・足利義詮や管領の細川頼之を補佐し、京都が南朝(日本)方に一時占拠された際には、幼い足利義満を自身の居城に避難させて保護するなど、室町幕府の基礎固めにも貢献する。
English: For these distinguished services, the Akamatsu clan was appointed to Shugo (constable) of the Harima Province, and also raised to one of the four distinguished posts, comparable to those of the Kyogoku clan, the Isshiki clan, and the Yamana clan to participate in the shogunate administration in the Muromachi bakufu.
Japanese: その功により播磨1国の守護に任じられると共に、室町幕府では京極氏・一色氏・山名氏と並ぶ四職のひとつとなって幕政に参画した。
English: Enshin's first son, Norisuke AKAMATSU was appointed to Shugo (military governor) of Settsu Province, the second son, Sadanori AKAMATSU was appointed to Shugo of Mimasaka Province, and the third son, Norisuke AKAMATSU was appointed to Shugo of Bizen Province, respectively, and the clan resulted in producing four Shugo (military governors) in total.
Japanese: 円心の長男・赤松範資には摂津国、次男の赤松貞範には美作国、三男の赤松則祐に備前国の守護職が与えられ、合わせて4ヶ国の守護となる。
English: However, Settsu Province was expropriated during the reign of Norisuke's son, Mitsunori AKAMATSU, and after that, Norisuke's family was degraded to a branch line and called itself 'Shichijo family.'
Japanese: 摂津は範資の子・赤松光範の代に召し上げられ、以後、範資の系統は庶流となり七条家を称した。
English: In the Shichijo family, a descendent Yoshimura AKAMATSU, who became Masanori AKAMATSU's successor, achieved to recover the status of the head family.
Japanese: 七条家は後裔の赤松義村が赤松政則の後継となり、宗家への復帰を果たすこととなる。
English: Including the occurrence of the peasant uprising in 1429 in Harima Province, the dominance of the clan started to fade gradually.
Japanese: 永享元年（1429年）に播磨の土一揆が発生するなど、その支配力に次第に翳りが見え始める。
English: In 1441, Mitsusuke AKAMATSU and his son Noriyasu AKAMATSU deliberately murdered the sixth Shogun Yoshinori ASHIKAGA at a feast celebrating the victory of the Yuki War, leading to the Kakitsu War.
Japanese: 嘉吉元年（1441年）、赤松満祐・赤松教康父子が結城合戦の祝勝会で、第6代将軍・足利義教を謀殺するという嘉吉の乱が起こった。
English: As a consequence, the Akamatsu clan was pursued by the bakufu army lead by Mochitoyo YAMANA (Sozen YAMANA) to search out to kill them, and Mitsusuke and Noriyasu were killed and the main line of the Akamatsu clan was collasped.
Japanese: それにより赤松氏は山名持豊（山名宗全）を中心とした幕府軍の追討を受け、満祐と教康は殺され、赤松氏本流は没落した。
English: Afterwards, a surviving retainer of the Akamatsu clan recovered Shinji (the sacred jewel, yasakani no magatama) out of Sanshu no Jingi (Three Imperial Regalia), which was stolen by Gonancho (latter Southern Court) in the Conspiracy of Kinketsu, and killed Nancho-koin (Imperial descendents of the Southern Court), and for this credit, the Akamatsu clan achieved to resuscitate the family.
Japanese: その後、赤松氏の遺臣が嘉吉3年（1443年）の禁闕の変で後南朝に奪われた三種の神器の神璽を取り返し、南朝皇胤を殺した功により、赤松政則のときに再興を果たした。
English: In the Onin War, the clan supported Katsumoto HOSOKAWA, and for this merit, it came back in power regaining the position of powerful daimyo (feudal lord) ruling the three provinces, Harima, Bizen and Mimasaka, then drove away the force of the Yamana clan in 1488.
Japanese: 応仁の乱では細川勝元に与し、その功により播磨・備前・美作の3ヶ国を領する大大名にまで返り咲き、長享2年（1488年）には山名氏の勢力を播磨から駆逐した。
English: In the Sengoku Period, the Akamatsu clan became deteriorated through the internal conflicts; Masanori's son, Yoshimura AKAMATSU was killed by his own retainer Muramune URAGAMI, and in addition, Muramune utilized Yoshimura's son Harumasa AKAMATSU to set up a puppet administration.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)に入ると、政則の子・赤松義村が家臣の浦上村宗に殺されさらにその子・赤松晴政は村宗に傀儡として擁立されるなどして赤松氏は内紛により衰退していく。
English: Moreover, the Akamatsu clan had to live under the unfavorable conditions, such as the independence of the Bessho clan, which had been a member of the clan and a longtime retainer, and the invasion by the Amago clan, and its decline had been accelerated.
Japanese: さらに一族であり家臣でもあった別所氏に独立されたり、尼子氏の侵攻を受けるなどして悪条件が重なってさらに衰退が促進された。
English: To recover the presence, the clan took those countermeasures, including transferring of its home base to Okishio-jo Castle, and the alliance of Yoshisuke AKAMATSU, the son of Harumasa and Nobunaga ODA, who was the then tenkabito (person becoming the ruler of the country), however, the clan lost in the battle against Munekage URAGAMI and it eventually collapsed.
Japanese: このため、本拠を置塩城に移し、晴政の子・赤松義祐は当時の天下人である織田信長と同盟を結ぶなどして勢力回復を図るが、浦上宗景との戦いに敗れて結局は没落した。
English: During the time of Norifusa AKAMATSU, the son of Yoshisuke, the clan became a Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI's retainer, and it was cast down to be a minor daimyo (feudal lord) with the stipend of only 10,000 koku crop yield as of 1583.
Japanese: 義祐の子・赤松則房の時代には豊臣秀吉の家臣となり、天正11年（1583年）にわずか1万石を安堵されるにすぎない小大名にまで没落してしまった。
English: After Hideyoshi's death, as Norihide AKAMATSU, the son of Norifusa, supported the West squad, he was obliged to kill himself in 1600.
Japanese: 秀吉没後の慶長5年（1600年）、関ヶ原の戦いで則房の子・赤松則英は西軍に与したため、自害を余儀なくされた。
English: Masahiro SAIMURA, also a member of the Akamatsu family and was the lord of Takeda-jo Castle in Tajima Province, switched to the East squad from the West squad as well, but after the battle (Battle of Sekigahara) he was ordered to kill himself by Ieyasu Tokugawa, for the charge that Masahiro seriously damaged the castle town by setting fire brutally when he attacked Nagafusa MIYABE of the West squad at his home castle, Tottori-jo Castle, (for this incident, the theory of the false accusation caused by Koremori KAMEI, who encouraged the betrayal and shifted the responsibility is highly likely), and with Masahiro's death, the Akamatsu clan as daimyo had distinguished.
Japanese: 同じく赤松一族で但馬竹田城城主・斎村政広も西軍から東軍に寝返ったものの、西軍に与した宮部長房の居城・鳥取城を攻めるときにあまりに手ひどく城下町を焼き払ったために、徳川家康から戦後、これを理由に自害（この件に関しては寝返りを促した亀井茲矩に責任転嫁された冤罪説が強い）を命じられてしまい、これにより大名としての赤松氏は滅亡したのである。
English: Ujimitsu AKAMATSU was the descendent of Norisuke AKAMATSU, the first son of Norimura AKAMATSU, and he ostensibly proclaimed himself as a member of the Ishino clan, since he was given the Ishino-jo Castle, and he rendered distinguished service in the battle over the Miki-jo Castle as a military commander of Nagaharu BESSHO, by defeating Shigenori FURUTA (Shigenari's older brother), a courageous warrior under the command of Hideyoshi HASHIBA.
Japanese: 赤松則村の長男赤松範資の後裔赤松氏満は石野城を与えられたことで表向きは石野氏を称し、別所長治の部将として羽柴秀吉麾下の猛将古田重則（古田重然の兄）を三木城攻防戦で討ち取るなど活躍。