巷: 77 Terms and Phrases

• 巷
• the public (esp. much-discussed, much-heard)
• the street (e.g. 'word on the street')
• district
• quarters
• location (of a battle, etc.)
• scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road)
• crossroads
• Kou
• Tsuji
• fork in road
• arena
• theater

• 巷説
• gossip
• talk about town

• 巷談
• rumour
• rumor
• gossip

• 巷間
• on the street
• around town
• the world
• the public

• 陋巷
• narrow, dirty backstreet

• 迂巷
• Ukou

• 竜巷
• Ryuukou

• 巷野
• Kouno

• 巷岡
• Tsujioka

• 巷庵
• Kouan

• 巷一
• Kouichi

• 悪の巷
• skid row
• underworld

• 暮雨巷
• Kureukou

• 八重巷
• Yaemaki

• 修羅の巷
• scene of carnage

• 街談巷説
• street gossips and idle rumors

• 柳巷花街
• red-light district
• pleasure quarter

• 街談巷語
• street gossips and idle rumors
• hearsay

• 巷説百物語シリーズ
• Requiem from the Darkness

• 京極夏彦 巷説百物語
• Requiem from the Darkness

• 巷奇『元興寺縁起帳』
• It was written as '巷奇' in 'The Origin of Gango-ji Temple.'

• その歌は巷で流行した。
• The song caught on with the public.

• - 『巷説百物語』など。
• His work includes 'Kosetsu Hyakumonogatari' (one hundred stories in our society).

• 巷には情報が溢れている。
• The streets are full of info.

• 大年社（大年社、巷社神）
• Otoshisha (Otoshi-no-kami, Chimatayashiro-no-kami)

• そして、巷間に広まったとされる。
• Then, the pickles became famous among the public.

• この後、伊勢国の漢詩人の山口凹巷に師事した。
• Afterward, he studied under Tenan YAMAGUCHI, a composer of Chinese poems in Ise Province.

• 号は杏庵のほか、杏隠・敬庵・蘇巷・茅山山人。
• Except Kyoan, he had other pseudonyms: 杏隠・敬庵・蘇巷・茅山山人

• 10ドルで売られる1パックの違法ドラッグの巷での名前
• street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars

• 巷説においては、おおむね以下のような物語が形成された。
• According to rumors, the story is basically as follows.

• 巷間に武蔵吉岡戦を引き分けとする逸話が伝承されている。
• Some people are still saying that the fight between Musashi and Yoshioka ended in a draw.

• この点からも巷説の「殺生関白」は実像だったか疑問がある。
• From this point, it is doubtful whether the gossip of 'Sessho Kanpaku' was his real image or not.

• その調理法は、基地で働いた日本人コックなどにより巷にもたらされた。
• Its cooking method was introduced into the Japanese market by Japanese cooks who worked at US military bases.

• 輪王寺宮がこれを美味とし「福神漬」と命名、巷間に広まったとされる。
• It is said that Rinnoji no miya (the leader of the Rinno-ji Temple) found its delicacy and named it as 'fukujinzuke,' then spread into ordinary people.

• その後、秀吉自らが酒肴持参で詫びに来た等という巷談も伝わっている。
• There is a rumor that, after that, Hideyoshi, himself came to him to apologize, bringing food and alcohol with him.

• 巷間旗本や大名と比較され、格式1万石、財力5万石などと伝えられた。
• The family was comparable with kokan (town) hatamoto (direct retainers of the bakufu) and daimyo (Japanese feudal lords) in their social status and financial assets; it is said that the family's social status was equivalent to that of a hatamoto or daimyo with a stipend of 10,000 koku (a measure of crop yield) while its financial assets were equivalent to 50,000 koku.

• よって巷間言われている薩摩藩の内輪もめという説は再考が必要なようである。
• This is why it seems necessary to rethink the widely held view that the incident was an internal feud of the Satsuma domain.

• 以下は『吾妻鏡』『平家物語』などを基にした巷間で知られる合戦の経過である。
• The section below is the progress of the battle which was known as the public consensus based on historical written records such as 'Azuma Kagami' (The Mirror of the East) and 'Heike Monogatari' (The Tale of the Heike).

• が、その煙がすっかりぬぐわれると、そこは恐ろしい修羅の巷（ちまた）と化していた。
• When it cleared again the place was a shambles.

• 岐（ちまた、巷とも書く）または辻（つじ）とは、道路が分岐・交叉する場所のことである。
• Chimata (岐, also written 巷) or tsuji is a place where the roads diverge or cross.

• それらは、策伝が直接引用したのか、巷間に伝わっていたものを採用したものか不明である。
• It is unknown whether Sakuden quoted those stories or just chose them from the ones widely known among the people.

• 」などと発言したことが巷間に広がり、名古屋市の名物料理であるかのような誤解が広がった。
• His remarks spread nationwide, leading to misunderstanding that 'ebi furya ' is a specialty of Nagoya City.

• 忠知の死により近江蒲生氏の系統は断絶したがこれはタタリが遠因となったという巷説がある。
• Tadatomo's death resulted in the end of the line of the Omi-Gamo clan, which is said to be caused by a curse.

• すくなくとも、鎌倉時代も半ばから後期には為朝の武勇譚などが巷間に広まっていたのであろう。
• At least, the tale of Tametomo's heroism would have been well known to everyone from the mid- to late-Kamakura period.

• 事件の背景には、西部講堂は巷にあるような貸しホールではない、という前提を理解する必要がある。
• We need to understand there is a condition behind this incident and that Seibu-Kodo Hall is different from an ordinary rental hall.

• 昭和10年頃からは小説（読物）や随筆は、散発的に『サンデー毎日』誌に書く巷談ぐらいになった。
• From around 1935 on, he did not write many novels or essays, mainly penning occasional gossip stories for the magazine 'Sunday Mainichi.'

• このうち行之行が「乱飾」「乱れ」、真之行が「奥儀」「真台子」と呼ばれて比較的巷間にも知られている。
• Of them, gyo no gyo are called 'random decoration' or 'midare' (unmatched), and shin no gyo are called 'secrets' or 'shin daisu,' but are relatively known to the public.

• それゆえ、禁武政策による空手発展説を「全く根拠のない巷間の浮説」（藤原稜三）と一刀両断する研究者もいる。
• The theory that karate developed due to the kinmu seisaku is therefore refuted by some researchers as 'completely groundless fiction invented in the streets' (Ryozo FUJIWARA).

• そのせいか、｢後年応挙に破門された｣というような悪評とも言うべき根拠不明な巷説や異常な行動を伝える逸話は多い。
• That is probably why there is a groundless gossip or a bad publicity that 'he was later expelled by Okyo' in addition to many anecdotes that recount his perverse behaviors.

• ただし、後述のようにこの三ヵ月後に朝倉軍は再度出兵を行っており、巷でいわれたほどの大損害を受けたとは考えにくい。
• However, since the Asakura army dispatched troops again three months later (as mentioned later), it's hard to believe that they suffered as much damage as rumored.

• 1656年（明暦3年）と1720年頃の享保中に、地蔵菩薩の祥瑞があったとされ、以後、巷間の信仰を集めるようになった。
• It is said that there was a good omen of Jizo Bosatsu (Jizo Bodhisattva) in 1656 and around 1720 during the Kyoho era, and since then, it has gained people's faith.

• 『平家物語』は「実盛最期」で、「昔の朱買臣は、錦の袂を会稽山に翻し、今の斉藤別当実盛は、その名を北国の巷に揚ぐとかや。
• 'The Tale of the Heike' mentions in the chapter on 'Sanemori's Death' that 'Just as Shubaishin used to flap his sleeves of golden brocade in the wind at Mt. Huiji, So Betto Sanemori SAITO is renowned in the towns of the northern provinces.

• なお、カレーの材料で醤油、味醂等で味付けした料理が今の肉じゃがであるとの説が巷間に広まり、海軍発祥の料理と言われている。
• There is a widely spread theory that curry ingredients seasoned with soy sauce, mirin (sweet cooking rice wine), and other seasonings are current Nikujaga (simmered meat and potatoes); thus, the origin of Nikujaga is said to be the Navy.

• 朝鮮出兵時に政宗が伊達家の部隊にあつらえさせた戦装束は非常に絢爛豪華なもので、上洛の道中において盛んに巷間の噂となった。
• The armored costumes, which Masamune prepared for the troops of the Date clan were extremely gorgeous and splendid that their costume gave people a lot to talk about on the way to Kyoto.

• ところが、計画を知らない忠継が毒饅頭を食べて死んでしまい、さらに悲観した督姫も毒をあおって後追い自殺した、との巷説がある。
• There is a rumor that Tadatsugu ate the poisoned manju and died without knowing the attempt and Tokuhime killed herself in grief.

• 井月の少年期から30代半ばまでの行状は全く不明であるが、巷説によると天保10年（1839年）には一旦江戸に出ているという。
• It remains unknown what he was doing from his boyhood to his mid-thirties, but rumor has it that he once went to Edo in 1839.

• そのため、本節では史料的な信頼性には欠けるが『甲陽軍鑑』など江戸時代の軍記物語を元に巷間知られる合戦の経過を述べることになる。
• Therefore, popularly known details of the battle are described in this section based on war tales written in the Edo period, such as 'Koyo Gunkan,' although they lack credibility as historical documents.

• そのため信憑性には難があるものの『平家物語』『源平盛衰記』などの軍記物語を基に巷間で信じられている合戦の経過を述べることになる。
• Hence, there is no choice but to describe the progress of the battle relying on hearsay, and based on war chronicles like the 'Heike monogatari' (Tale of the Taira) or 'Gempei monogatari' (Chronicle of the Rising and Falling fates of the Minamoto and Taira clans), despite the fact that such chronicles are plagued with credibility issues.

• 俳優・佐野史郎はドラマ『巷説百物語京極夏彦「怪」』の撮影中、撮影所の空に舞う一反木綿を目撃し、その姿は長く白い布状だったという。
• The actor Shiro SANO saw Ittan-momen floating in the sky over a studio where the drama based on the novel of 'Kai' (Mystery) in the series of 'Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari' (A Hundred Street-corner Gossips) by Kyogoku NATSUHIKO was being shot, and it was a cloth-like long and white object, he said.

• だが、いまや酒類も食糧も巷間にあふれ返っているにもかかわらず、上記のような背景から人は思い入れを以って味を選択しなくなってきていた。
• However, although markets are flooded with many liquors and food, people do not choose their favorite tastes with special feeling because of the above reasons.

• これらは家光死後に成立した巷説（こうせつ）であるが、同時代史料の検討から、家光の世継決定は元和 (日本)年間であると考えられている。
• These stories are based on gossip after the death of Iemitsu, and from an examination of historical materials from that era, it is thought that the decision for Iemitsu to be the heir was completed in 1615.

• しかし、西行が讃岐へくだったのは仁安 (日本)3年（1168年）のことで、崇徳院の怨霊が巷間で騒がれるのはもっと後になってからである。
• However, it was in 1168 that Saigyo went down to Sanuki, and it was later that the vengeful ghost of Sutoku-in began to receive great attention.

• 当時将軍家に献上される茶壺を護衛する役人の空威張りは巷では笑いの種だったが、権十郎はその役人よりもなお空威張りに見えたことに対する揶揄である。
• It mocked Gonjuro, because the snobbishness of the officials who were guarding the tea urns to the Shogunate family was laughed at on the street at that time, and he looked more snobbish than those officials.

• 巷間では、千利休を自庵へ招待した際、庵の前に落とし穴を設けて利休を陥れ、沐浴させて新しい着物を供したなどとの逸話も伝えられているが、伝説の域を出ない。
• Some people believe that when he invited SEN no Rikyu to his home, he made a pitfall in front of his house in order to force him to take a bath and offered him new clothes, but anecdotes like this are mostly unsubstantiated rumors.

• そして神託を下すアポロンの神官たちは実は、デルポイに集まる群衆から各地の情報や巷の噂などを収集し、それらを総合して独自に世界情勢を把握していた、という。
• Priests who gave oracles, in effect, collected information on regions and rumors on the street from people coming to Delphi and independently comprehended the world situation by piecing the collected information together.

• 柏崎永以が1740年代に編纂した『古老茶話』も巷間の伝承を記録したものであるが、宮本武蔵と吉岡兼房の対戦が記されており、結果はやはり引き分けと記されている。
• 'Koro Sawa' (Old Man's Tea Talk), which was written by Ei KASHIWAZAKI in the 1740's, lists folklore including a version of the drawn game between Musashi and 'Kanefusa YOSHIOKA.'

• 当時紫禁城東南にある東交民巷というエリアに設けられていた公使館区域には、およそ外国人925名、中国人クリスチャンが3000名ほどの老若男女が逃げ込んでいた。
• There were about 925 foreigners and three thousand Chinese Christians of various age and gender who escaped to the legation area southeast of the Forbidden City called Beijing Legation Quarter at that time.

• 日夏繁高が享保元年（1716年）に著した『本朝武芸小伝』には、巷間に伝わる武芸者の逸話が収録されているが、ここに武蔵と吉岡が引き分けた二つの話が記されている。
• 'Honcho Bugei Shoden' (Short Stories of Japanese Masters of Martial Arts), written by Shigetaka HINATSU in 1716, lists many anecdotes of swordsmen including two versions of drawn games between Musashi and the Yoshioka.

• これは議会政治とは全く関係なく、「栄華の巷低く見て」という第一高等学校 (旧制)寮歌「嗚呼玉杯」の一節に代表されるように、超然主義の本来の意味に近いものである。
• Schools being transcendentalist had no relation to the parliamentary politics; their transcendentalism was close to what it originally meant, as represented in the phrase 'Eiga no Chimata Hikku Mite (looking down on the flourishing lower world)' of a dorm song of Dai Ichi (First) High School (of the old-education-system) called 'Aa Gyokuhai.'

• 『武公伝』の話に従えば、晩年の武蔵は弟子等に盛んに吉岡に勝利したことを語っていたが、武蔵の生前に巷間に「吉岡が勝利した」という異説があったと考えることができる。
• 'Buko-den' explains that in his later years, Musashi often told his disciples that he had beaten the Yoshioka; however, when he was alive, some people might have been already saying that the Yoshioka had beaten Musashi.

• 江戸時代の浄瑠璃の一節や柳樽（やなぎだると読み、柳多留とも表記する）という雑俳（巷から集めた俳句）の書籍のなかに「祭り」を男女の性行為の例えとして用いている表現がある。
• There was expressions likening a sexual activity between a man and woman to 'matsuri' in a phrase of Joruri (dramatic narrative chanted to a shamisen accompaniment) and in a book of zappai (playful literature originating from haiku [a Japanese poem in seventeen syllables having a 5-7-5 syllabic form and traditionally containing a reference to the seasons]) (haiku collected in the streets) called yanagidaru (box-shaped, lacquered liquor cask) (written as 柳樽 and also as 柳多留 in Chinese characters) in the Edo period.

• 他に「刀で斬るな！体で斬れ！」と教えていた等の言い伝えもあり、その他の記録などを見ても記録にある素顔の沖田は巷に広がる優しく大人しいといったイメージとはずいぶん異なる。
• The image of Okita gained from anecdotes such as his telling his trainees, 'Don't kill people with your sword! Kill them with your body!' and other records differs greatly from the gentle and calm image that is widely known in public.

• しかし、三遊亭円朝が明治時代にグリム童話の『死神』か、イタリアのオペラ（歌劇）の『靴直クリピスノ』の翻訳本を参考にした創作落語の『死神 (落語)』で、巷に広まったことが知られている。
• However, it is known to have spread among the people through creative rakugo 'Shinigami (rakugo)' (Death (rakugo)) by Encho SANYUTEI during the Meiji period, which was composed using the translated book of either 'Godfather Death' in the fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or the Italian opera (musical) 'Crispino'.

• 人形浄瑠璃、歌舞伎の仮名手本忠臣蔵では、赤穂浪士事件を直接描けず、舞台を室町時代に変えてこの事件を描いているが、巷間に流布した塩冶高貞とその妻顔世御前、そして高師直にまつわる物語を芝居の発端として取り入れている。
• 'Kanadehon chushingura'(Revenge of the Forty-Seven Ronin) of Ningyojoruri (Japanese puppet show) and Kabuki (Japanese classical drama) could not directly portray the incident of Forty-Seven Ronin, Ako Roshi that the setting was changed to the Muromachi period to portray this incident, but incorporated the story of KO no Moronao by introducing Takasada ENYA and his wife, Kaoyo Gozen (Lady Kaoyo), who wandered in streets, at the beginning of the play.

• 半七ものは綺堂脚色によって1926年に尾上菊五郎 (6代目)が演じたのを始め、これらの昔話の巷談は、戦後の話芸においても落語の林屋正蔵、三遊亭圓生 (6代目)、講談の悟道軒園玉、物語の高橋博、倉田金昇などの高座で使われた。
• The Hanshichi series was adapted into a play by Kido and performed in 1926 starring Kikugoro ONOE the Sixth, and the old gossip stories which appeared in it were also used for the stages of narrative artists in the post-war period, such as Shozo HAYASHIYA and Ensho SANYUTEI the Sixth for Rakugo (comic story telling), Engyoku GODOKEN for Kodan (dramatic story telling), and Hiroshi TAKAHASHI and Kinsho KURATA for Monogatari (story telling).

• 主な会員は、東京朝日新聞の右田寅彦、栗島狭衣、二六新聞の岡鬼太郎、岡村柿紅、時事新報の伊坂梅雪、報知新聞の鹿島桜巷、演芸通信の小出緑水、東京毎日の杉贋阿弥、人民新聞の松本当四郎などであり、毎日新聞の岡本綺堂が作者として参加している。
• Its leading members were as follows: Nobuhiko MIGITA, Kigoromo KURISHIMA in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, Onitaro OKA, Shiko OKAMURA in the Niroku Shimbun, Baisetsu ISAKA in the Jiji Shimpo, Oko KASHIMA in the Hocchi Shimbun, Ryokusui KOIDE in the Jiji Tsushin, Ganami SUGI in the Tokyo Mainich, Toshiro MATSUMOTO in the Jinmin Shimbun and so on, and Kido OKAMOTO in the Mainichi Shimbun as a writer.

• …抑モ東京ハ帝国ノ首都ニシテ政治経済ノ枢軸トナリ国民文化ノ源泉トナリテ民衆一般ノ瞻仰スル所ナリ一朝不慮ノ災害ニ罹リテ今ヤ其ノ旧形ヲ留メスト雖依然トシテ我国都タル地位ヲ失ハス是ヲ以テ其ノ善後策ハ独リ旧態ヲ回復スルニ止マラス進ンテ将来ノ発展ヲ図リ以テ巷衢ノ面目ヲ新ニセサルヘカラス…
• 'Tokyo is the capital of the empire and the political and economic center, and the source of Japan's culture. Tokyo suffered an enormous disaster this time and can not cling to its old situation, but still holds status as capital of the empire, therefore, it is necessary not only to restore it to what it used to be but also have it undergo a complete new transformation.'