nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Since making his first appearance on stage at the age of five, he studied under his father, Kasetsu KANZE and Gasetsu KANZE to acquire the gentle style of the Kyoto Kanze school and the subtle grace of the Tetsunojo KANZE lineage.
Japanese: 5歳で初舞台を踏んで以来、父および観世華雪、観世雅雪に師事し、京観世のやわらか味と観世銕之亟家系統の幽玄静穏な芸味を身につける。
English: He went on to win the Arts Festival (Agency for Cultural Affairs) award for excellence (three times), the Art Academy Prize and the Shiju Hosho (Order of the Purple Ribbon) as well as being made a member of the Art Academy in 1995 a Living National Treasure in 2001.
Japanese: 以降芸術祭(文化庁)優秀賞（3回）、芸術院賞、紫綬褒章などを受け、1995年芸術院会員、2001年人間国宝。
English: Yoshitaka (義尊) OUCHI (1545 - October 11, 1551) was the heir of Yoshitaka (義隆) OUCHI.
Japanese: 大内義尊（おおうちよしたか、天文(元号)14年（1545年）-天文20年9月2日(旧暦)（1551年10月1日））は大内義隆の嫡子。
English: When Takafusa SUE, a senior vassal of the Ouchi clan, raised a rebellion against Yoshitaka (義隆) in 1551 and other senior vassals followed the action of Takafusa, Yoshitaka (義尊) escaped from Yamaguchi to the Dainei-ji Temple in the Nagato Province with his father Yoshitaka (義隆) and other nobles.
Japanese: 天文20年（1551年）、大内氏の重臣である陶隆房が義隆に謀反を起こし、他の重臣も隆房の動きに同調するに及び山口より脱出、父義隆や公家衆とともに長門国大寧寺へ逃れる。
English: There was a theory that Takafusa had been going to put up Yoshitaka (義尊) as an heir of the Ouchi clan without killing him.
Japanese: 隆房は義尊を殺さずに大内氏の後継者として擁立するつもりでいたという説もある。
English: In the Motonari MORI (Taiga-dorama (NHK Historical Drama)) there was a scene based on this theory that Takafusa wished to revive the Ouchi clan by putting Yoshitaka (義尊) as an heir but regretted the undesirable result caused by a warrior who did not know his intention.
Japanese: 毛利元就(NHK大河ドラマ)においてもその説にもとづき、義尊を当主として大内氏を立て直そうとしたが、それを知らぬ部将によって望まざる結果となり悔やむ描写が描かれている。
English: The long tradition of the main branch of the Ouchi clan, which had served as successive Shugo (provincial constable) of the Suo and Nagato Provinces, was broken by this incident.
Japanese: 周防国・長門国の歴代守護を務めた名門・大内氏の嫡流はここに途絶えることとなる。
English: Noriyuki Ouchi (1430 - February 14, 1472) was a member of the Ouchi clan.
Japanese: 大内教幸（おおうちのりゆき、永享2年（1430年）-文明(日本)3年12月26日(旧暦)（1472年2月5日））は大内氏の一族。
English: In February 1470, right in the middle of the Onin War, Noriyuki OUCHI planned a rebellion against Masahiro OUCHI in Suo no kuni (Suo Prefecture, currently Yamaguchi Prefecture) who was away fighting in Kyoto at the time, getting on his side people including Takemori NAITO, Moriyasu NIHO, Nobuyori YOSHIMI and Kazukane SUFU, through Chikashige OTOMO and Katsumoto HOSOKAWA of the Eastern alliance which was attacking the family estate.
Japanese: 大内教幸は応仁の乱真っ只中の1470年2月、家督を奪うべく東軍側であった大友親繁や細川勝元と通じて、内藤武盛・仁保盛安、吉見信頼や周布和兼を味方に付け、京都に出陣中であった大内政弘に対し周防国で謀叛を起こした。
English: They attacked Bingo no kuni (Bingo Province, currently part of Hiroshima Prefecture) however, they were defeated by the young Hiromori SUE, who had the role of rusuiyaku (a person representing the master during his absence) of Suo Prefecture and did not take up Noriyuki's invitation, and the following year Noriyuki committed suicide at his hideout at Umagatake Castle in Buzen Province.
Japanese: 備後国などを急襲したが、教幸の誘いに乗らなかった周防国留守居役であった若年の陶弘護に敗北を喫し、翌年逃亡先の豊前国馬ヶ岳城で自害した。
English: The fourth family head called himself Seiemon and henceforth the head of every generation from the sixth head onwards (excluding the ninth head) took the name Seiemon.
Japanese: 四代目当主が清右衛門をなのり、六代目以降九代目をのぞき、代々の当主は清右衛門という名を継いだ。
English: The factory is located on the corner of Sanjo-dori Street and Kamanza-dori Street in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City, where the "Onishi Seiwemon Museum" is also located.
Japanese: 京都市中京区の三条通釜座通（かまんざ）に工房があり、「大西清右衛門美術館」も併設されている。
English: Motokiyo GOTO (birth date unknown – July 29, 1221) was a busho (Japanese military commander) during the early Kamakura period.
Japanese: 後藤基清（ごとうもときよ、生年不詳-承久3年7月2日(旧暦)（1221年7月22日））は、鎌倉時代初期の武将。
English: According to "The Sonpi Bunmyaku" (a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the lineage of the aristocracy), his biological father was Nakakiyo SATO who was the brother of Norikiyo SATO (Saigyo, who can be said to be a direct descendant of the FUJIWARA no Hidesato line), and he became Sanemoto GOTO's foster son.
Japanese: 『尊卑分脈』によると実父は藤原秀郷流の嫡流とも言える佐藤義清（西行）の兄弟、佐藤仲清で、後藤実基の養子となった。
English: In 1185, he obtained a court rank without Yoritomo's permission, and was reviled by Yoritomo as 'eyes that are meek like a mouse's and can only follow people, how could he get a position?' ("Azuma Kagami" (The Mirror of the East), entry for May 23, 1185)
Japanese: 同年、頼朝の許しを得ずに官位を得た事で、頼朝に「目は鼠眼にて、ただ候ふべきのところ、任官希有なり」と罵倒されている（『吾妻鏡』1185年（元暦2）4月15日条）。
English: He was a samurai for Yosiyasu ICHIJO, the Kyoto Shugo (military governor of Kyoto), and was active as a Kyoto gokenin (vassal), but in 1199, he planned an attack on MINAMOTO no Michichika and was dismissed as the Shugo (provincial constable) of Sanuki Province (Sanzaemon Incident).
Japanese: 京都守護一条能保の侍でもあり、在京御家人として活躍するが、正治元年（1199年）源通親への襲撃を企て讃岐国守護を解任される（三左衛門事件）。
English: Soseki (1474 – May 28, 1533) was a linked verse poet during the Sengoku period (period of Warring States).
Japanese: 宗碩（そうせき、文明(日本)6年（1474年）-天文(元号)2年4月24日(旧暦)（1533年5月18日））は、戦国時代(日本)の連歌師。
English: After Sogi died, he kept the center of his activities in Kyoto and was active as a linked verse poet, traveling around the Hokuriku, Togoku, Kyushu regions as a messenger for the aristocracy and Daimyo.
Japanese: 宗祇が亡くなってからは、京都に拠点を置きながら連歌師として活躍し、公家や大名の使者として北陸・東国・九州などを旅した。
English: He was known to be have had interactions with Yoshihiro OUCHI of Yamaguchi, Suo Province and aristocrats such as KONOE no Naomichi and Sanetaka SANJONISHI.
Japanese: 公家の近衛尚道・三条西実隆や周防国山口の大内義弘などとの交流が知られる。
English: His poems are part of 'Jikkasenku' 'Isesenku' and there are several 'Soseki Collections,' 'Sano no Watari,' writing while travel to Ise.
Japanese: 「十花千句」「伊勢千句」などに句が入集されているほか、いくつかの「宗碩集」、伊勢への紀行文である「佐野のわたり」がある。
English: In classical studies, he has written in 'Jikkosho' about the interpretations of Sogi on 'Kokin Wakashu' (A Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry), and 'Chokusen Meisho-Waka Shoshitsu' 'Genji Nannyo Sozoku Sho.'
Japanese: また、古典学では宗祇の「古今和歌集」を講釈したこと書き記した「十口抄」や「勅撰名所和歌抄出」「源氏男女装束抄」がある。
English: Jiro SURUGA (birth and death date unknown) lived in the late Heian period and was a vassal of MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune.
Japanese: 駿河次郎（するがじろう、生没年不詳）は、平安時代末期の人物で源義経の郎党。
English: He was MINAMOTO no Yoritomo's vassal, but around October 1180, he became the vassal of MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune.
Japanese: 初めは源頼朝の家臣であったが、治承4年（1180年）10月頃に源義経の郎党になる。
English: Later, he followed Yoshitsune in the Battles of Uji River, Ichinotani, Yashima, and Dannoura.
Japanese: その後、義経に従って宇治川の戦い・一の谷の戦い・屋島の戦い・壇ノ浦の戦いなどに参戦。
English: According to the "Genpei Seisui Ki" (Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and the Taira clans), after the decline of the Taira clan, he killed TAIRA no Munemori's child, TAIRA no Yoshimune, who was a captive, on the orders of Yoshitsune.
Japanese: 平氏滅亡後、『源平盛衰記』では義経の命で捕虜となった平宗盛の子・平能宗を斬る。
English: In "Gikeiki" (a military epic about the life of Yoshitsune), he warded off the assassin Shoshin TOSANOBO, who had received an imperial order to attack Yoshitsune, and beheaded him at Rokujo Kawara riverbank..
Japanese: 『義経記』では義経追討の院宣を受けて現れた刺客土佐坊昌俊を撃退後、六条河原にて斬首している。
English: Soyo (1526 - December 13, 1563) was a renga poet (linked-verse poet) in the Sengoku period (period of warring states).
Japanese: 宗養（そうよう、大永6年（1526年）-永禄6年11月18日(旧暦)（1563年12月3日））は、戦国時代(日本)の連歌師。
English: He learnt renga from an early age from his father Soboku, however in 1545, at the age of 20, his father died and Soyo succeeded to his writings and position as a renga poet, becoming preeminent in the world of renga.
Japanese: 早くから父宗牧から連歌を学んだが、1545年（天文14年）20歳のとき父を失い、後連歌師としての地盤や伝書を引き継いで連歌界の第一人者となる。
English: He had poetic exchanges with such people as members of the Konoeke clan which was part of the Sekkan-ke (line of regents and advisors), the court noble Kineda SANJONISHI, and the warlords Haruhisa AMAGO and Nagayoshi MIYOSHI.
Japanese: 摂関家である近衛家や公家の三条西公条、武将の尼子晴久・三好長慶などとも交流があった。
English: Similarly to his father, his artifices were subtle, and his works include 'Ishiyama Shigin Senku' and 'Soyo Kushu.'
Japanese: 父と同様に工夫は繊細であり、「石山四吟千句」「宗養句集」などがある。
English: Mitsunobu TOSA (1434-June 20, 1525) was a painter from the middle of the Muromachi period to the Sengoku period (period of Warring States).
Japanese: 土佐光信（とさみつのぶ、永享6年（1434年）?-大永5年5月20日(旧暦)（1525年6月10日）?）は、室町時代中期から戦国時代(日本)にかけての絵師。
English: According to a migyosho (order written by a substitute) by Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, the eighth Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feaudal government headed by a shogun), he was assigned as Edokoro-azukari in 1469.
Japanese: 室町幕府8代征夷大将軍足利義政の御教書によると、1469年（文明元年）に絵所預に輔任されている。
English: After becoming Ukon no jo (Lieutenant of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), a kuzen-an (a written appointment) promoting him to Gyobu no taifu (Senior Assistant Minister of Justice) was issued, and he obtained the highest position as a painter.
Japanese: 右近将監を経て､1496年（明応5年）には刑部大輔に任じる旨の口宣案（くぜんあん）が出され、絵師としては最高の位を得た。
English: He painted many pieces for the aristocracy, military class and temples and enlarged the themes, techniques, and styles of Yamato-e painting (a traditional Japanese style painting of the late Heian and Kamakura periods dealing with Japanese themes).
Japanese: 公家や武家、寺社のため多くの作品を描き、大和絵の題材・技法・様式を拡大した。
English: Many pieces such as 'Seiko-ji Engi' (Legends of Seiko-ji Temple), 'Kiyomizu-dera Engi' (Legends of Kiyomizu-dera Temple), 'Kitano-tenjin Engi' (Legends of Kitano-tenjin Shrine) still exist today.
Japanese: 作品には「星光寺縁起」のほか「清水寺縁起」、「北野天神縁起」など数多くの作品が残っている。
English: Nyudo Shinno means an Imperial Prince who has entered the priesthood, becoming a lay Buddhist (Ubasoku).
Japanese: 入道親王（にゅうどうしんのう）とは、別称を入道の宮、ウバソクノ宮ともいい、出家・入道した親王のことをいう。
English: FUJIWARA no Tsugutada (727 – August 27, 796) was a courtier from the late Nara period to the early Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原継縄（ふじわらのつぐただ、神亀4年（727年）-延暦15年7月16日(旧暦)（796年8月27日））は、奈良時代後期から平安時代初頭の公卿。
English: When the FUJIWARA no Nakamaro War occurred in 764, he became the Governor of Echizen Province at the same time his father, Toyonari, returned as Udaijin after being shunted off as Dazai ingai no sochi (ex-officio governor general of Dazai-fu, Kyushu Government Office).
Japanese: 天平宝字8年（764年）藤原仲麻呂の乱が起こると、大宰員外帥に左遷されていた父豊成が右大臣に復位すると同時に越前守に任じられた。
English: FUJIWARA no Nakamaro was planning on an escape via the Hokuriku-do Road and Echizen was a strategically important place and hence this is thought to be an order due to military reason.
Japanese: 藤原仲麻呂は北陸道への逃亡を企てており越前は軍事的に重要な場所であった点から、軍事目的の任命であったと考えられる。
English: Under the Dokyo government, he continued to be promoted and in 766, he became Sangi (royal advisor) and was promoted to Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank) in 771 after the succession of Emperor Konin.
Japanese: 道鏡政権下で叙位・任官を重ね、天平神護2年（766年）に参議、光仁天皇即位後の宝亀2年（771年）従三位に昇叙された。
English: In 780, after promotion to Chunagon (vice-councilor of state), the chief of the Emishi KOREHARI no Azamaro rebelled in Mutsu Province and murdered the Azechi (inspector of the provincial government) KI no Hirozumi (Hoki War), and Tsugutada was appointed as Seito Taishi (great general who subdues the eastern barbarians) to settle this rebellion.
Japanese: 宝亀11年（780年）中納言昇進後に陸奥国で蝦夷の族長伊治呰麻呂が反乱し、按察使紀広純を殺害する事件がおきると（宝亀の乱）、これを鎮圧すべく征東大使に任ぜられた。
English: However, Tsugutada refused to leave Kyoto stating lack of preparation as a reason and was finally excused from his post as Taishi (the post was given to FUJIWARA no Oguronomaro).
Japanese: しかし継縄は準備不足などを理由にして京から出発しようとせず、遂に大使を罷免されてしまった（後任大使は藤原小黒麻呂）。
English: After the succession of Emperor Kanmu, FUJIWARA no Tanetsugu was assassinated in 785, and Kanmu's Empress FUJIWARA no Otomuro and wife, FUJIWARA no Tabiko died in succession and the power of the Ceremonial House of the Fujiwara clan declined.
Japanese: 桓武天皇即位後は、延暦4年（785年）の藤原種継暗殺や、桓武の皇后藤原乙牟漏・夫人藤原旅子の相次ぐ死により藤原式家の勢力が衰えた。
English: Therefore he was steadily promoted and after becoming Dainagon (chief councilor of state), he further jointly held Nakatsukasa-kyo (Minister of the Ministry of Central Affairs) and Sakyo no daibu (Master of the Eastern Capital Offices).
Japanese: そのため、叙位任官も順調で、大納言を経て更に中務卿と左京大夫を兼ねる。
English: An important event during the time he was at the top of the Daijokan (Grand Council of State) was that he abolished the national soldier system and placed Kondei ('stalwart youth') in 792.
Japanese: 彼が太政官筆頭にいた時期の重要事項として、延暦11年（792年）全国の兵士を廃止して健児を置いたことがあげられる。
English: He is considered as an editor of the "Shoku Nihongi" (Chronicle of Japan Continued) but only part of it was finished while he was alive so it is thought that he was in fact involved in only a small part.
Japanese: 『続日本紀』の編纂者として挙げられているが彼の生前には一部分しか出来上がっておらず、実際に関与した部分は少なかったと見られている。
English: He is said to be one of the politicians who had the personal trust of Emperor Kanmu and that Kanmu frequently visited his residence because his wife was from a immigrant family and Kanmu's mother, TAKANO no Niigasa, is said to be from a immigrant family originally from Kudara (Paekche).
Japanese: また夫人が渡来系氏族出身であったためか、同じく百済系渡来氏族出身とされる高野新笠を母に持つ桓武天皇からの個人的信頼が厚かった政治家の一人であり、天皇が継縄の邸に訪れることもしばしばであった。
English: According to the koden (memorial records) in "Nihon Koki" (Later Chronicle of Japan), he was an ordinary man, but had a good personality.
Japanese: 『日本後紀』の薨伝によれば、凡庸な人物であるが人柄はよかったという。
English: INBE no Hironari (year of birth and death unknown) was a government official (esp. one of low to medium rank) at the beginning of the Heian period (from the eighth to ninth century).
Japanese: 斎部広成（いんべのひろなり、生没年不詳）は、平安時代初期（8世紀から9世紀頃）の官人。
English: In 807 he wrote 'Kogo-shui' (History of the Inbe clan) by the order of Emperor Heijo.
Japanese: 大同(日本)2年（807年）平城天皇の召問に応じ、「古語拾遺」を著した。
English: The Inbe (written as 斎部 or 忌部) clan had been in charge of religious services in the Imperial Court with the Nakatomi clan, but when the Fujiwara clan which originated from the Nakatomi clan came to power, the Nakatomi clan strengthened its influence on religious services, thereby pressuring the status of the Inbe clan.
Japanese: これは、斎部氏（＝忌部氏）は中臣氏とともに朝廷における祭祀をあずかってきたが、中臣氏から藤原氏が出て権力を持つようになると、中臣氏は祭祀に関して力を持つようになり、斎部氏（忌部氏）はその圧迫を受けるようになった。
English: Therefore, he pressed the rights of the Inbe clan by writing 'Kogo-shui' (History of the Inbe clan).
Japanese: そのことから「古語拾遺」を著して斎部氏（忌部氏）の権利を主張したものである。
English: FUJIWARA no Akihira (c.989-November 8, 1066) was a Confucian scholar and a man of literature in the mid-Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原明衡（ふじわらのあきひら、永祚(日本)元年（989年）?-治暦2年10月18日(旧暦)（1066年11月8日））は平安時代中期の儒学者・文人。
English: Since he did not come from a Confucian family in the first place, it took him a long time to pass Taisaku (an exam to be Monjo tokugosho (Distinguished Scholars of Letters)).
Japanese: 元々儒家の出身でないことから対策（文章得業生となるための試験）に合格するのに歳月を要した。
English: He finally passed in 1032 and was assigned to Saemon no jo (third-ranked officer of the Left Division of Outer Palace Guards), but was punished for revealing the answer for Taisaku to his junior fellow secretly.
Japanese: 1032年（長元5年）にようやく合格し左衛門尉に任命されたが、後輩に対策の答えをひそかに教え罰せられたこともある。
English: Later, he successively held various positions such as Shikibu shoyu (Junior Assistant of the Ministry of Ceremonial), Monjo hakase (professor of literature), Togu gakushi (Teacher of the Classics of the Crown Prince) and Daigaku no kami (Director of the Bureau of Education) in the reign of Emperor Goreizei and reached Jushiinoge (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade).
Japanese: その後、後冷泉天皇朝の下で式部少輔・文章博士・東宮学士・大学頭などを歴任し、従四位下に至った。
English: He excelled in prose and poetry, edited 'Honcho monzui' (Anthology of waka poems and prose written in classical Chinese) and 'Honcho shuku' (Exemplary Lines by Japanese Poets) and wrote 'Shinsarugoki' (a kind of textbook about manners and cultures of Kyoto in the Heian period), 'Meigo Orai' (Meigo's Correspondence) and so on.
Japanese: 詩文に秀で「本朝文粋（ほんちょうもんずい）」「本朝秀句」を編修し、「新猿楽記」「明衡往来」などを著している。
English: MINAMOTO no Takakuni (1004 – August 6, 1077) was a courtier during the later Heian period.
Japanese: 源隆国（みなもとのたかくに、寛弘元年（1004年）-承保4年7月9日(旧暦)（1077年7月31日））は、平安時代後期の公卿。
English: In 1014, he became Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) and later was Jiju (Chamberlain), Assistant Governor of Iyo Province, Ukone no Gon no chujo (Provisional Middle Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), Kurodo no to (Head Chamberlain), and in 1034 reached Jusanmi Sangi (councillor in the Junior Third Rank).
Japanese: 長和4年（1014年）に従五位下となり、以後侍従・伊予国介・右近衛権中将・蔵人頭などを歴任し、長元7年（1034年）、従三位参議に至る。
English: In 1061, he quit Gon Chunagon and had his child MINAMOTO no Toshiaki as Governor of Kaga Province.
Japanese: 康平4年（1061年）、権中納言を辞し、子の源俊明を加賀国守に申任。
English: In 1067, he was appointed Shonii (Senior Second Rank) Dainagon, but in 1074 he quit Gon Dainagon (provisional chief councilor of state) and had his grandchild through his daughter, FUJIWARA no Morokane appointed to the position.
Japanese: 1067年（治暦3年）正二位権大納言に任じられるが、承保元年（1074年）権大納言を辞し、外孫である藤原師兼を申任している。
English: He was considered as the author of "Konjaku Monogatari (Shu)" (The Tale of Times Now Past) by Nagahide IZAWA (clansman of the Higo Domain, scholar of Japanese classical literature, and the third head of Sekiguchi style battojutsu - the technique of drawing a sword) in "Kotei Konjaku Monogatari," but currently there is strong evidence to negate this theory.
Japanese: 井澤長秀（肥後藩士、国学者、関口流抜刀術第三代）によって、『今昔物語』の作者とされたが（『考訂今昔物語』）、現在では否定説が有力である。
English: He was appointed to positions such as Sakone no gen and Saemon no gon no suke (provisional captain and assistant captain of the Left Division of Outer Palace Guards), and in 935 he was appointed provincial governor in Kawachi Province.
Japanese: 左近衛監・左衛門権佐を歴任し、承平(日本)5年（935年）に河内守に任官。
English: In 936, pirates of Hiburi Island in Iyo Province were making threatening moves, and in order to contain the menace, he was appointed Iyo no kami (the governer of Iyo Province) and Nankaido Tsuibushi (job title which has rights of government, military affair and police authority in Nankaido) and was sent down to Setouchi region.
Japanese: 承平6年（936年）伊予国日振島（ひぶりしま）の海賊が不穏な動きをしていたことから、これを封じるため、伊予守兼南海道追捕使に任じられ、瀬戸内へ下向した。
English: Yoshito welcomed under his control FUJIWARA no Sumitomo, who was a member of the family of his predecessor Iyo no kami (Governor of Iyo Province) Motona FUJIWARA and was well settled locally, and they instigated a policy of giving the pirates fields and making them surrender and work at farming.
Japanese: 淑人は前任の伊予守藤原元名の一族で現地に土着化していた藤原純友を配下に迎えて海賊に田畑を与え農業に従事させる投降策をとった。
English: However, Sumitomo schemed with the pirates and organized a rebellion in 939.
Japanese: しかし、純友は海賊と謀って、天慶2年（939年）に反乱を起している。
English: FUJIWARA no Yasusuke (year of birth unknown -August 7, 988) was a government official (esp. one of low to medium rank) and also regarded as a ringleader of robbers in the mid-Heian period.
Japanese: 藤原保輔（ふじわらのやすすけ、?-永延2年6月17日(旧暦)（988年8月7日））は、平安時代中期の官人であり盗賊の首領とされる。
English: According to the "Sonpi Bunmyaku" (Lineage Sects of Noble and Humble), he was 'a ringleader of robberies and the most excellent military strategist in Japan and an imperial decree of dispatching punitive force against him was issued 15 times.'
Japanese: 『尊卑分脈』によれば、「強盗の張本、本朝第一の武略、追討の宣旨を蒙ること十五度」とある。
English: In 985 he inflicted bodily injury on FUJIWARA no Suetaka at the grand banquet held at the Tsuchimikado-dono Palace of MINAMOTO no Masanobu.
Japanese: 985年（寛和元年）、源雅信の土御門殿で開かれた大饗において、藤原季孝に対する傷害事件を起こす。
English: In addition, he committed various other crimes such as shooting an arrow at kebiishi (a police and judicial chief) MINAMOTO no Tadayoshi who had once captured Yasusuke's older brother FUJIWARA no Tadaakira, and robbing the residences of FUJIWARA no Kagenari and Koreshige AKANE in June 988.
Japanese: さらに、以前兄藤原斉明を追捕した検非違使源忠良を射たり、988年（永延2年）閏5月には藤原景斉・茜是茂の屋敷への強盗を行うなどの罪を重ねた。
English: The pursuit of Yasusuke was continued on charges of these crimes and the Imperial Court announced that the person who captured Yasusuke would be given a reward; furthermore, Yasusuke's father FUJIWARA no Munetada was arrested and placed in confinement by kebiishi.
Japanese: これらの罪状により、保輔に対する捜索は続けられ、朝廷より保輔を追捕した者には恩賞を与えると発表され、さらには保輔の父藤原致忠が検非違使に連行・監禁された。
English: Yasusuke, driven by a sense of impending crisis under such circumstances, took the tonsure at the North Keon-ji Temple on August 4 in the same year, but was soon captured by his former subordinate ASHIHA no Tadanobu.
Japanese: この状況に危機感を持った保輔は同年6月14日に北花園寺で剃髪出家したが、まもなく以前の手下であった足羽忠信によって捕らえられた。
English: It is said that he attempted to disembowel himself at the time of arrest and died of the wound the next day in jail ("Zoku kojidan"(Ancient Matters)).
Japanese: なお、逮捕の際、保輔は自らの腹部を刀で傷つけて自害を図り、翌日その傷がもとで獄中で没したという（『続古事談』）。
English: The "Uji Shui Monogatari" (a collection of Tales from Uji) contained a story in which Yasusuke made a hole under the floor of the storehouse in his residence, called merchants there one after another, bought goods and killed them by pushing them down the hole.
Japanese: 『宇治拾遺物語』には、保輔が自分の屋敷の蔵の床下に穴を掘り、商人を蔵に呼びつけて物を買ったそばからこの穴に突き落として殺していた、という説話が語られている。
English: In later times, he was regarded identical with Hakamadare, a robber described in the tales such as "Konjaku monogatari shu" (Tales of Times Now and Then collection) and became a legend Yasusuke HAKAMADARE.
Japanese: 後世『今昔物語集』などに見える盗賊の袴垂（はかまだれ）と同一視され、袴垂保輔という伝説的人物となった。
English: Soa (year of birth and death unknown) was a priest in the Muromachi period and the seishi (senior envoy) headed the first Envoy Ships Dispatched to Ming China by the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 祖阿（そあ、生没年不詳）は、室町時代の僧侶で、室町幕府の第1回遣明船の正使。
English: At the beginning of the period from1394 to 1428, Koitomi (also known as Koitsumi, Koizumi), a merchant of Hakata, came back to Japan from Ming and convinced Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA, the third shogun of the Muromachi bakufu of the interests of the Japan-Ming trade.
Japanese: 応永年間（1394年～1428年）の初め、博多の商人肥富（こいとみ、こいつみ・こいずみとも）が明から帰国し、室町幕府3代将軍足利義満に日明貿易の利について説得した。
English: The bakufu floundering in financial difficulties accepted Koitomi's advice and sent Soa as seishi and Koitomi as fukushi (vice envoy) to Ming, which had implemented isolationism, in 1401 to begin establishing relations with Ming.
Japanese: 財政難に苦しんでいた幕府は肥富の意見を取り入れ、1401年（応永8年）に祖阿を正使に、肥富を副使として鎖国中の明に遣わせ、日明の関係を開く糸口を作らせた。
English: In the next year, Soa returned to Japan, accompanying Doi TENRIN and Ichijo ICHIAN who were the envoys of Ming.
Japanese: その翌年、祖阿は明使である天倫道彝（てんりんどうい）・一庵一如を伴って帰国した。
English: After that, the seishi and fukushi to head the Envoy Ships Dispatched to Ming China were selected from the priests of gozan (Zen temples highly ranked by the government) of the Rinzai sect.
Japanese: これ以後、遣明船の正使・副使は臨済宗の五山関係の僧から選任されるようになった。
English: Ike no Zenni (c.1104 - c.1164) was a woman who lived around the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 池禅尼（いけのぜんに、長治元年（1104年）?-長寛2年（1164年）?）は、平安時代末期の女性。
English: She married Tadamori and gave birth to TAIRA no Iemori and TAIRA no Yorimori, who were TAIRA no Kiyomori's paternal half-brothers.
Japanese: 忠盛と結婚し、その間に平家盛、平頼盛という清盛とは腹違いの男児を産んでいる。
English: She was from the family of a trusted vassal of FUJIWARA no Shoshi and was also related to FUJIWARA no Tokushi (also known as Nariko) through her cousin FUJIWARA no Ienari who was the most favorite retainer of the Cloistered Emperor Toba.
Japanese: 藤原璋子近臣家の出身だったが、従兄弟には鳥羽法皇第一の寵臣・藤原家成がいたことから藤原得子ともつながりがあった。
English: Because of her wide personal connections, she was called 'a great lady, who even supports her husband Tadamori,' ("Gukansho" (Jottings of a Fool)) and respected most highly among his wives.
Japanese: その幅広い人脈により「夫ノ忠盛ヲモモタヘタル者（夫の忠盛をも支えるほどの者）」（『愚管抄』）と呼ばれ、忠盛の妻たちの中で最も重んじられていた。
English: When her husband died in 1153, she became a priestess, and was called Ike no Zenni because she lived at Ikedono (Hall of the Pond) in Rokuhara.
Japanese: 仁平3年（1153年）、夫が死去すると出家し、六波羅の池殿で暮らしたことから池禅尼と呼ばれた。
English: When the Hogen War broke out in 1156 after the death of the Cloistered Emperor Toba, the Taira clan was put in a difficult situation because Tadamori and Zenni were guardians of the Imperial Prince Shigehito.
Japanese: 保元元年（1156年）、鳥羽法皇崩御により保元の乱が勃発すると、忠盛・禅尼が重仁親王を後見する立場にあったことから平氏一門は難しい立場に立たされた。