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惜: 433 Terms and Phrases

惜
Suminori
pity
be sparing of
frugal
stingy
regret

惜敗
regrettable defeat
defeat by a narrow margin

惜春
lamenting the passing of spring

惜気
regret
frugality

惜別
regret or reluctance to part
parting regrets

痛惜
deep regret

可惜
alas
regrettably

哀惜
grief
sorrow

愛惜
missing someone
loathing to part

惜し
regrettable
disappointing
precious

惜敗率
ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)

惜し気
regret
frugality

惜しむ
to be frugal
to be sparing
to value
to hold dear
to regret (e.g. a loss)
to feel sorry (for)
to be unwilling
to be reluctant
be sparing of ~

負惜み
poor loser
make excuses
unwilling to admit defeat
sour grapes

惜しげ
regret
frugality

惜しい
regrettable
disappointing
precious
dear
valuable
too good for
deserving better
almost but not quite

物惜しみ
stinginess

負惜しみ
poor loser
make excuses
unwilling to admit defeat
sour grapes

不惜身命
not sparing one's life for a worthy cause

負け惜み
poor loser
make excuses
unwilling to admit defeat
sour grapes

口惜しい
vexing
annoying
frustrating
regrettable
mortifying

可惜身命
valuing one's body and life
holding one's life dear

一文惜み
stinginess
miserliness

哀悼痛惜
condolence
mourning
sorrow
lamentation

骨惜しみ
sparing oneself
laziness

惜しがる
to appear to regret something

惜しくも
to one's regret (chagrin)
regrettably

春惜しむ
to lament the end of spring

売惜しみ
intervention

惜気もなく
freely
generously
liberally
ungrudgingly

惜し気無く
generously
unsparingly
lavishly

体を惜しむ
to be lazy

惜し気なく
generously
unsparingly
lavishly

名残惜しい
regret (at parting)
reluctance (to part)

売り惜しむ
to hold back on or restrict sales of
to be reluctant to sell

負け惜しみ
poor loser
make excuses
unwilling to admit defeat
sour grapes

惜しむべき
lamentable
regrettable

惜しみ無く
without stint
freely

骨を惜しむ
to spare oneself the trouble

残り惜しい
regrettable
reluctant

一文惜しみ
stinginess
miserliness

惜しみなく
without stint
freely

惜しまない
without sparing (effort, funds, etc.)

出し惜しみ
unwilling
stint

出し惜しむ
to grudge
to be stingy
to be unwilling to pay
scant
spare

命を惜しむ
to hold one's life dear
to be reluctant to die

売り惜しみ
withholding of goods
hoarding

名を惜しむ
value someone’s good name

惜しげなく
lavishly

惜しむらくは
I regret that
It's unfortunate but
It's too bad that

惜し気もなく
freely
generously
liberally
ungrudgingly

名残り惜しい
regret (at parting)
reluctance (to part)

別れを惜しむ
to loathe to part with

労を惜しまず
sparing no trouble
taking pains (to)
take the trouble (to)

時間を惜しむ
to value time

惜しげもなく
freely
generously
liberally
ungrudgingly

何も惜しむな
Spare nothing.

寸暇を惜しむ
spend all spare time

骨惜しみする
go easy on oneself

負け惜しみ。
The grapes are sour.

物惜しみをする
be stingy

物惜しみしない
lavish
liberal
profuse

もの惜しみして
niggardly

惜しみない称賛
ungrudging admiration
prodigal praise

寝る間も惜しんで
without sparing time for sleep

負け惜しみを言う
do not accept defeat gracefully

骨を惜しまず働く
work without sparing oneself

努力を惜しまない
spare no effort

惜し気もなく使う
prodigal

惜しげなく与える
prodigal

惜しみなく与える
munificent

惜しげのない賛辞
bountiful compliments

惜しみない寛大さ
unsparing generosity

実に惜しいことだ。
How regrettable.

骨身を惜しまず働く
work without sparing oneself

物惜しみしないこと
generosity

一文惜しみの百失い
penny-wise and pound-foolish

彼の惜しみない愛着
his unstinted devotion

命は誰でも惜しい。
Life is dear to everybody.

一文惜しみの百失いの
pound-foolish

惜しみなく与えること
munificence

惜しげなく、飾られる
lavishly decorated

一文惜しみの百失い。
Penny-wise and pound-foolish.

惜（お）しい事をした。
what a pity!

入念に、労を惜しまずに
in a fastidious and painstaking manner

出し惜しみしない様子で
in an unstinting manner

彼は惜しくも2位だった
he came in a close second

金を出し惜しみする性質
a disposition to be niggardly with money

一文惜しみの百知らず。
Penny wise, pound foolish.

私はとても命が惜しい。
Life is very dear to me.

ふぐは食いたし命は惜しし
honey is sweet, but the bee stings
I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life
hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences

河豚は食いたし命は惜しし
honey is sweet, but the bee stings
I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life
hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences

惜しげもなくふるまわれる
flow like water

賛美や称賛を惜しまない人
an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics

惜しげなく贈り物を配った
distributed gifts with a lavish hand

彼は金を惜しみなく使う。
He is lavish with his money.

フグは食いたし命は惜しし
honey is sweet, but the bee stings
I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life
hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences

贈り物を贈るのを出し惜しむ
stinting in bestowing gifts

出し惜しみするような態度で
in a stingy manner

河豚は食いたし命は惜しし。
There is no rose without a thorn.

彼は努力を惜しまなかった。
He spared no efforts.

批評家は賞賛を惜しまなかった
the critics were lavish in their praise

ロミオも別れを惜しんでいた。
and Romeo was as loath to part as she,

これはまだ捨てるには惜しい。
This is still too good to be thrown away.

英国に物惜しみない援助を求めた
called for unstinting aid to Britain

今や即ち亡し」と惜しんでいる。
They are no longer with us.'

骨惜しみをしてはなにも得ない。
Nothing can be gained without effort.

鞭を惜しむと子供は駄目になる。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.

人其能く職を守ってするを嘆惜す。
People regretted that he had fulfilled his duties well.

道理で負け惜しみが強いと思った」
No wonder I thought you a pretty stiff neck.'

通常惜しげなく、飲食物を供給する
provide with food and drink, usually lavishly

彼はいつも惜しげもなく金を使う。
He always spends his money freely.

やつは金を出し惜しんだりはしない。
He deals with no niggard hand.

容赦なく、また物惜しみしないさまの
in a scathing and unsparing manner

彼の死は惜しんでも余りあるものだ。
We cannot grieve over his death too deeply.

ただ智慧のないところが惜しいだけだ。
The only pity is that I am rather short of tact;

ある人にある物を出し惜しみする節約家
an economizer who stints someone with something

特に食物と飲み物の消費において惜しむ
sparing in consumption of especially food and drink

それに、道中お金を惜しまないのです。
And he doesn't spare the money on the way, either.

「ここに因りて衆人惜しまざるはなし」
It is certain that he will be missed by many.

この仕事に骨惜しみをしてはいけない。
Don't spare yourself in this work.

惜しみないで値しない好意または神の恩恵
the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God

これは失うにはあまりにも惜しい機会だ。
This is too good a chance to miss.

彼は自分の研究に時間を惜しまなかった。
He didn't spare time on his studies.

だが、天皇はあくまで幽斎の身を惜しんだ。
The Emperor, however, was seriously concerned for Yusai's life.

「我々は外様にされて口惜しいばかりだ。」
How regrettable we are to be degraded to tozama (outside feudal lord)!'

彼は、三塁の惜しいところでアウトになった
he was cut down on a close play at third

かわいそうなパリスは花嫁の死を惜しんだ。
Poor Paris lamenting his bride,

惜しまれて死後に右大臣を追贈されている。
He was raised to Udaijin (Minister of the Right) after he died and was sadly missed.

彼は成功のためには努力を惜しまなかった。
He spared no effort for success.

秋の終り、源氏は彼女を訪い、名残を惜しむ。
In the late autumn, Genji visits her and is reluctant to leave.

惜しんだ法皇は手許品の綿を下賜したという。
The Cloistered Emperor, who felt regret, bestowed cotton which he possessed.

惜（お）しいですね、このままにしておくのは
Seems a pity to leave it there,'

惜しみなく与えて、共有することを望んでいる
willing to give and share unstintingly

惜し気なく上演すること、または興奮を誘う娯楽
any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment

ほとんど弁当を食べるひまも惜しんで勉強した。
He studied hard, hardly taking time out for lunch.

彼女は労を惜しまず空港へ友人を迎えに行った。
She took the trouble to meet her friend at the airport.

「天有哉月日如吾思有君之日異老落惜文」
天有哉月日如吾思有君之日異老落惜文'

静は次にお会いできるまで命を惜しむと涙を流す。
Shizuka too sheds tears, saying that she will look after herself until she can meet Yoshitsune again.

骨身を惜しまぬ努力を経て、確立するか、作り出す
establish or create through painstaking effort

第23則　花は大切にすること、花は惜しまぬこと
Rule 23: Treasure flowers, spare not flowers.

社長は我々の給料を少しあげることすら惜しんだ。
Our boss begrudged us even a small raise in pay.

私は、五十時間もかかると、時間が惜しい気がする。
If I spend fifty hours, I feel like I wasted my time.

批評家たちはそれに惜しみなく最上級の言葉を与えた
the critics lavished superlatives on it

若過ぎる死にその才能を惜しむ声は今も少なくない。
Many regretted his early death and the loss of his talent.

「惜しいかな其方にも、尾があらば振るであろうに。」
You would wag your tail if you had one.'

勅使御馳走の予算を浅野家が出し惜しみした（諸書）。
The Asano family was stingy on the budget of Imperial envoy banquet (several documents).

惜しみなく衝動買いをほとんどしないことで軽減される
parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses

惜しむらくは、階級が余には不相応であったことか。」
Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?'

豪華なホールには、絵画が惜しげもなく飾られていた。
a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly framed paintings.

いかにせん都の春も惜しけれど、馴れし東の花や散るらん
What can I do; although the spring of Kyoto is also beautiful, the blossoms in the familiar East are falling

彼女の目からは、愛や惜別の気持ちは読みとれなかった。
Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell

代はらむと思ふ命は惜しからで　さても別れむほどぞ悲し
'Kawaramu to omou inochi wa oshikarade satemo wakaremu hodozo kanashi'

その死が伝わると哀惜しない者はなかったと伝えられる。
It is said that, when it became known, there was not one person who did not mourn over his death.

彼女は、ヒツジの毛は欲しいが毛を刈る費用が惜しかった。
At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense,

金持ちのおじは、むしろ出し惜しみするように彼らを扱った
their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily

惜しげなく飾り付けるまたは、覆う（宝石と共にのように）
decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)

その画家は、物惜しみをしない、度量の大きな人物でした。
and who was liberal of hand and of spirit.

とてもないて　眺めにあかし深雪山　帰るさ惜しき　花の面影
The cherry blossoms in full bloom are too beautiful to go back with you, I am looking at them musing about the future.

そしてその惜別の辞となったのが、本書『申楽談儀』である。
It was 'Sarugaku dangi' that he wrote as the words of leaving the civil world.

かわいい子には旅をさせろ鞭を惜しめば子供はだめになる。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.

一家が零落する以前には、物惜しみなどする必要はなかった。
But previously, it was with unstinted means.

将来の夢を実現するためには、努力を惜しんではなりません。
You mustn't spare your efforts so that you can realize your dream in the future.

彼があのように年若くして死んだのは、本当に惜しいと思う。
I think it's a great pity that he died so young.

私たちの賢く惜しまれる友人の痕跡‐A.E.スティーヴンソン
the imprint of our wise and lamented friend- A.E.Stevenson

その死に対して、「五百年来この才学無し」とまで惜しまれた。
His death was lamented even to the extent of somebody saying, 'there will be no one like him having such wisdom in five hundred years.'

『続日本紀』には「追慕し痛惜しない百姓はなかった」と記す。
It is said in the 'Shoku Nihongi' (Chronicle of Japan Continued) that 'there was no peasant who did not miss him or feel sad that he was gone.'

天皇ははなはだ惜しみ、榎井倭麻呂らを遣わし葬儀を護らせた。
The Emperor grieved and sent ENOI no Yamatomaro to protect Miyuki's funeral.

日本の市場が閉鎖的だという非難は、負け惜しみにすぎません。
Criticisms that Japan's market is closed are just sour grapes.

明石の御方や花散里も訪れ、紫の上はこれが最後と別れを惜しむ。
Akashi no Onkata (Lady Akashi) and Hanachirusato also visit Murasaki no ue, and she thinks that this is the final meeting with them, being unwilling to part from them.

彼女は労も費用も惜しまなかったのにこんなふうな報いを受けた。
She had spared neither trouble nor expense and this was how she was repaid.

春さめのふるは涙か桜花散るを惜しまぬ人しなければ（古今集88）
As for spring rainfalls, would the thoughts of people become the tears of sorrow? It is because nobody wants to see scattering of cherry blossoms (Kokin Wakashu 88).

この作法が主客の名残惜しさの表現、余情残心であると述べている。
This manner is the expression of the host's lingering farewell, or 'yojo-zan-shin', as taught by II.

大君の　ためにはなにか　惜しからむ　薩摩の瀬戸に　身は沈むとも
Okimi no tame ni ha nanika oshikaramuSatsuma no seto ni mi ha shizumu tomoEnglishOf what should I have regrets if it is for Thee?Even if I should sink in the narrow straits of Satsuma?

ロバはウマが惜しみなく心をこめて扱われることが羨ましかった。
AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for,

自分の利益ばかり考え、他の人を無視する結果としての、出し惜しみ
stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

惜哉、雄志を齎（もたら）して非命に斃れたることを」と評している。
Sadly enough, his valiant efforts brought him to an untimely death.'

学生が愚かな誤りを犯した時、彼は彼らを罵倒するのを惜しまなかった
when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse

とあり、源内の才能に玄白が驚嘆しその死を惜しんだことが伺われる。
It appears that Genpaku admired Gennai's talent and lamented his death.

家康は行広の器量を惜しんで仕官を呼びかけたが応じなかったという。
Ieyasu highly regarded the talent of Yukihiro and asked him to serve Ieyasu, but Yukihiro declined the offer.

光村は殊に別れを惜しみ、最期の別れにお互いの小袖を交換している。
Therefore, Mitsumura especially regretted the parting from his wife, and they exchanged each other's kosode (a kimono with short sleeves worn as underclothing by the upper classes) for their last moment.

「かねて身の　かかるべしとも　思はずば今の命の　惜しくもあるらむ」
Since I didn't expect my life to be as it is now, I don't fear losing my life.

頼朝と面会した宗盛は、命惜しさのために、頼朝に対し媚びへつらった。
When Munemori met Yoritomo, he attempted to flatter Yoritomo and begged for his life.

到るところで経費を出し惜しみして、キャラクター名もほとんど変えた。
they cut expenses wherever possible and changed most character names.

口惜（くや）しかったから、兄の横っ面を張って大変叱（しか）られた。
Mortified at this, I slapped his face, and thereupon received a sound scolding from father.

あなたほどの才能の持ち主が世間に知られずにいるのは惜しいことです。
It is a pity that a man of your ability should remain unknown to the world.

50番　君がため　惜しからざりし　命さえ　長くもがなと　思ひけるかな
No. 50: I thought little of my life until I met you; yet now that I have met you I long to live longer.

匂宮の元へ移る中の君がいまさらながら惜しく、薫は後悔の念に駆られた。
He deeply regretted that she had to stay with Nioumiya, missing her anew.

その時の運に対し、加賀の人々はその口惜しさを歌ったと伝えられている。
It has been said that the people of Kaga Provinces sang the frustration to the fortune of that time.

為朝は兄の義朝は必ず夜討をしかけてくるだろうと予見して口惜しがった。
Tametomo was greatly chagrined to hear this, as he predicted that his older brother Yoshitomo was certain to try a night attack.

重忠は罪を恥じて絶食してしまい、頼朝は重忠の武勇を惜しみこれを赦免。
Ashamed, Shigetada stopped eating, considering Shigetada's militaly prowess Yoritomo decided to pardoned him.

いやむしろ、彼はその弱点を白日の下にさらそうという努力を惜しみません。
nay, he takes every pains to bring it into the strongest light.

これらは、あなたの惜しみなく与えてくださる御手からいただいたものです。
which we receive from Your generous hand,

頑固で芸に厳しい性格であった壽輔は、芸のためには努力を惜しまなかった。
Jusuke, who was unyielding and strict about his accomplishments, spared no effort in realizing them.

その葬儀の際には「諸人これを惜しむこと父の如し」とまで言われたという。
Reportedly, on the occasion of his funeral, it was said 'Everybody lamented his death as if it were their own father which had died.'

が、この際も、その才能を惜しんだ人々の助命嘆願のおかげで、重刑を免れた。
However, even under these circumstances, he avoided being sentenced to a severe punishment thanks to the petitions of people who were reluctant to lose his talents.

人となり恭倹、いまだかつて奢侈の行いあらず、時人これを惜しむ」と評した。
However, he was a modest person and did not accept luxury. He is solely missed among us.'

しかし、当時の玄宗 (唐)皇帝が鑑真の才能を惜しんで渡日を許さなかった。
However, Emperor Hsuan Tsung (Tang Dynasty) of those days prohibited Ganjin from going to Japan because he thought it pity for China to lose Ganjin's brilliant brain.

「（中略）恩を知り名を惜しむ人は、早く不忠の讒臣を討ち恩に報いるべし。」
(snip) Those who know the obligation and lament his name, shall kill disloyal and false subjects (vassals) at once, to repay the kindness.'

その潔さに流石の水野も「殺すには惜しきものだなあ」と感心し、とどめを刺す。
Mizuno was impressed Chobei's brave attitude saying, 'I regret I have to kill him' and then, he puts an end to Chobei's life.

物惜しみしない者は富み、人を潤す者は自分も潤される。 (箴言 11:25)
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself. (Proverbs 11:25)

保則が任を終えて京都へ還るとき、人々が道を遮り泣いて別れを惜しんだという。
When Yasunori finished his term and was about to return to Kyoto, people walked across the street, cried and mourned his passing.

みきは、天理王命の神命に従い、例えば、近隣の貧民に惜しみなく財を分け与えた。
Miki followed the orders from Tenri O no Mikoto, and gave away her possessions to the poor around her.

天なるや日月のごとく我が思へる君が日に異に老ゆらく惜しも（3246）
天なるや日月のごとく我が思へる君が日に異に老ゆらく惜しも (3246)

自分の命を捧げても惜しくはないので、息子だけは助けてほしいという歌であった。
The poem expressed her desire to sacrifice her life only to save her son.

その時、御産に奉仕していた伊周は妹の亡骸を抱き、声も惜しまず慟哭したという。
It is said that Korechika, who was present during the delivery, gathered his younger sister's dead body and wailed without restraint.

これを惜しんで捨てることなく、口の中に含んでいても、 (ヨブ記 20:13)
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; (Job 20:13)

「これまで町奴で、男を売った長兵衛が命惜しむと言われては、末代までの名折れ。」
I have enjoyed a great reputation as a courageous machiyatsu, so I do not want to disappoint people by sticking to my life, which results in blemishing on our family's reputation.'

ああいふ學者を葬ることは頗る惜しいもんだ」と話している（『西園寺公と政局』）。
It's a shame to ride a scholar like him out on a rail.' ('Duke Saion-ji and Political Situation')

道真が大宰府に左遷されるとき、道真の愛した庭の梅の花に別れを惜しんで詠んだ歌。
This is a Japanese poem written when Michizane was demoted and transferred to Dazaifu (local government office in the Kyushu region), parting reluctantly from the beloved Japanese plum flowers in his garden.

世間では不審に思っており、自分にも思い当たることがあり口惜しい思いをしている。
People are doubting you, and I too feel vexed as things come to mind.

多くの実業家たちは政府の役人にとり入るために、進物や金を惜しげもなくあたえる。
Many businessmen, in order to curry favor with government officials, will shower them with gifts and money.

これを惜しんだ観世黒雪が弟服部栖元の子を五世福王盛親として福王家を再興せしめた。
Kokusetsu KANZE felt sorry about the discontinuance of the family and rebuilt the Fukuo family by making the child of Seigen HATTORI (服部栖元), who was his younger brother, as Morichika FUKUO the fifth.

キャスリーンはアイルランドのメロディーを選んで弾き、惜しみない拍手喝采を受けた。
Kathleen played a selection of Irish airs which was generously applauded.

片方の耳で２人の話を聞き取れたら、もう片方は人にやっても惜しくはなかっただろう。
He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was saying.

宮中で人手が足りない時に餅を丸める手間を惜しんで引きちぎったのが始まりと言われる。
It is said that hikichigiri was originally made in order to save the labor of having to roll mochi when staff were short at the Imperial palace

親愛なる同志アブ・アラア[38]よ、私はあらゆる助力を惜しまないことを約束します。
Dear brother Abu Ala'a, I assure you of my total support,

臆病（おくびょう）な男でもないが、惜（お）しい事に胆力（たんりょく）が欠けている。
only--it's a pity--I lack audacity.

彼女の声は、迅速でなおいっそう最後の言葉はなごり惜しそうに消えて行った−ロゼッティ
her voice was swift, yet ever the last words fell lingeringly-Rossetti

自分のために送別会を開いてくれたのは、自分の転任を惜（おし）んでくれるんじゃない。
The reason they have held this farewell dinner party was not in order to bid him a farewell,

嵯峨天皇はその死を非常に惜しみ、葬儀へ使者を遣わすとともに、左大臣正一位を贈った。
Emperor Saga regretted his death greatly and posthumously conferred to sadaijin (minister of the left) and Shoichii (Senior First Rank) as well as sending an emissary to his funeral.

噂を聞いて集まった若手工人達にその技術を惜しげもなく公開し、京焼の発展に貢献した。
He was generous enough to unveil these techniques to young craftsmen who happened to hear the news and call on him; he contributed to the development of Kyo yaki (Kyoto style ceramic art).

源氏帰京後、別れを惜しみつつ娘と生まれた明石の姫君を妻と共に都に送り、自分は残った。
After Genji returned to Kyoto, though reluctant, he sent his daughter and newborn baby, young lady Akashi, to the capital with his wife, and stayed in Akashi.

悪しき者はひねもす人の物をむさぼる、正しい者は与えて惜しまない。 (箴言 21:26)
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don't withhold. (Proverbs 21:26)

幕府は公慶に大仏殿を11間から9間に縮小する計画をのませたものの、協力は惜しまなかった。
Although the bakufu required Kokei to reduce the size of the Great Buddha Hall from eleven ken (approx. twenty m) to nine ken (approx. sixteen m), they were willingly to offer support.

彼らはまた、仲間同士の結束と信義を重んじ、命を惜しまない気概と生き方の美学を持っていた。
Also, they valued the trust and camaraderie that developed among them, and had their own set of beliefs which they prized even more than their own lives.

貧困救済や育英事業に惜しみなく寄付をしたが、とりわけ長崎市立浪平小学校の発展に尽力した。
He contributed generously to the relief of the poor and the educational work, particularly made an effort for the development of Naminohira elementary school.

道真との縁で忠臣との交際を持った紀長谷雄も「当代の詩匠」と評してその死を惜しんだという。
It is also said KI no Haseo, who knew Tadaomi through Michizane, mourned his death as well saying, 'he was a great poet of the day.'

しかしその豪勇を政元から惜しまれて助命され、永正2年（1505年）には罪を許されている。
Masamoto spared Tomotsune's life, however, because of his great bravery, he was eventually forgiven in 1505.

死を決意した十次郎が初菊と別れを惜しむ場面は、終戦後身内を戦争で失った観客の共感を呼んだ。
The scene of a farewell between Jujiro, who prepare for death and Hatsugiku raised a sympathy by the audience, who lost their family during WWII.

「尹（かれ）に業識性の在るが為なり」（大意：欲しい、惜しい、憎いなどの煩悩があるからだ。）
Because a dog has desires such as want, regret, and hate, a dog does not have the Buddha-nature.'

綱吉はいったんは切腹を命ずる決裁を下していたが、浪士の命を惜しむ気持ちを捨てきれなかった。
Though Tsunayoshi had already decided to order seppuku, he couldn't stop feeling that he wanted to save the lives of the Roshi.

しかし、真乗自身は「裁判より人を救う時間が惜しい」として上告せず、有罪判決が確定している。
However Shinjo himself did not made a final appeal and his conviction was decided and said, 'I want to spend more time to save people than keeping my mind on the trial.'

忠平はまた、寛大で慈愛が深かったので、その死を惜しまぬものはなかったという（『栄花物語』）。
It is also said that Tadahira was so generous and full of affection that there was no one who did not mourn his death ('Eiga monogatari (A Tale of Flowering Fortunes)').

尼となった若い宮を源氏は今さらのように惜しんだが、宮はもはや源氏に対して見向きもしなかった。
Things being as they were, Genji was reluctant to let the young princess become a Buddhist nun, but she did not pay the slightest attention to Genji anymore.

再度、出航を企てたが、鑑真の渡日を惜しむ者の密告により栄叡が逮捕され、3回目も失敗に終わる。
In his replanning of the departure, a betrayal of someone who grudged Ganjin's leaving for Japan resulted in Yoei's arrest and Ganjin also failed his third attempt.

しめたと思ったら、ぽちゃりと落としてしまったがこれは今考えても惜（お）しいと云（い）ったら、
--the carp, just as I was coaxing it out of the water, splashed back into it, and when I think of the incident I feel mortified at the loss even now.

信玄は軍配をもってこれを凌ぐが肩先を負傷し、信玄の供回りが駆けつけたため惜しくも討ちもらした。
Shingen held out against the attacks with his military fan but an edge of his shoulders were injured, and Masatora failed to kill him because Shingen's attendants came running to the site.

38番　忘らるる　身をば思はず　誓ひてし　人の命の　惜しくもあるかな（「拾遺和歌集」恋四870）
No. 38: I no longer care about my sorrow because I'm sunk into oblivion, but I hold only your life dear because of being afraid that you, who forgot me after such a solemn vow, might get your just deserts. ('Shui Wakashu' Love-4, 870)

なお、浜寺公園の入り口付近にこの時に詠んだ歌が、「惜松碑（せきしょうひ）」として顕彰されている。
Furthermore, the monument named 'Sekisho-hi' inscribed with this haiku composed by OKUBO stands at the entrance of Hamadera park now.

秀衡は惜しみながらも留める事をあきらめ、佐藤継信・佐藤忠信兄弟を義経に付けて奥州から送り出した。
Hidehira reluctantly gave up the idea of keeping him back and sent off Yoshitsune from Oshu, accompanied by the SATO brothers, Tsugunobu and Tadanobu.

紫の上と結婚した源氏も、さすがに御息所を哀れに思って秋深まる野の宮を訪れ、別れを惜しむのだった。
Although Genji got married to Lady Murasaki, he felt sorry for Rokujo no Miyasudokoro and visited her place in the deep autumn fields, being unwilling to see her depart.

西園寺は、篤麿とは政敵とも言える状況にあったが、文麿の聡明さは高く評価して援助を惜しまなかった。
Although it could be said that Saionji had been a political opponent of Atsumaro, he greatly admired Fumimaro's intelligence and willingly supported him. unsparingly.

俗に、和風の邸宅で費用を惜しまずに建てた立派な建物のことを「数寄屋造り」「数寄屋普請」とも言う。
A luxurious Japanese-style mansion built for a lavish amount of money is commonly called 'sukiya-zukuri' or 'sukiya-bushin.'

義光は、自らの戦死によって秘曲を伝える者が絶えることを惜しみ、ここで時秋に同曲を授け後事を託す。
Yoshimitsu regretted the termination of a successor to pass on the secret music from his own death in a battle and gave the music to Toshiaki, asking him to pass it on.

67番　春の夜の　夢ばかりなる　手枕に　かひなく立たむ　名こそ惜しけれ（「千載和歌集」雑上961）
No. 67: On a spring night, I laid my head on his arm, although it's just a one night dream, it's shame to hear, people whispering behind their fans (also No. 961 in the 'Miscellaneous' volume of 'The Senzai Wakashu' (The Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years).

歌の上手を召して多くの歌謡を知ったが、死後それらが伝わらなくなることを惜しみ、書き留めて本にした。
He invited good composers to learn many songs, but he regretted that those songs would not be handed down after his death, so he took notes and turned them into the book.

由良之助たちは「先祖代々、我々も代々、昼夜詰めたる館のうち」もう今日で終わりかと名残惜しげに去る。
Yuranosuke and others leave the scene reluctantly saying, 'This is the last time for us to see the castle where we, as well as our ancestors, worked around-the-clock.'

剛の者の伊賀国の住人山田伊行は矢一本で引き退くのは口惜しいと思い、進み出て名乗りをあげて射かけた。
Koreyuki YAMADA, a brave warrior from Iga Province, was also galled that they were retreating after shooting only a single arrow, so he stepped forward and announced his name before shooting at Tametomo.

和歌・典礼に精通した教養人であり、京都の公家衆からも「東方の遺老」と敬愛され、その死を惜しまれた。
Masamura was an educated person who was familiar with waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables), ceremonies and rituals; he was adored by court nobles in Kyoto, being called 'old retainer of the East,' and they grieved over his death.

物惜しみする人のパンを食べてはならない、そのごちそうをむさぼり願ってはならない。 (箴言 23:6)
Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: (Proverbs 23:6)

18歳の現妻の娘は惜しいので先妻の娘である23歳（『源平盛衰記』では28歳）の蕨姫を義経に娶らせた。
Instead of his 18-year-old daughter of the present wife, with whom he was unwilling to part, he made his 23-year-old (28-year-old according to 'Genpei Seisui ki' (Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and the Taira clans)) daughter called Warabihime, who was a daughter of his former wife, a wife of Yoshitsune.

百人一首に収められた、「恨みわびほさぬ袖だにあるものを恋にくちなん名こそ惜しけれ」は恋歌として名高い。
A poem collected in the Hyakunin Isshu (A Hundred Waka Poems) is well known as a love poem: 'The bitterness of your cold attitude makes me pain and cry; my sleeves, which are wet with tears and never dry themselves, remain without decaying as they are; but my reputation is down by superficial gossip about this romance; how frustrating!'

下冷泉家は播磨下向時代以来豊臣秀吉と親しい間柄だったため、秀吉は下冷泉家の再興に協力を惜しまなかった。
The Shimo Reizei family had maintained a close relationship with Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI from their time in Harima, and Hideyoshi actively cooperated in restoring their fortunes.

清盛は部署を変えて北門へ向かうが、嫡男の平重盛が口惜しいことだと挑もうとして清盛があわてて止めさせた。
Kiyomori changed his soldiers' formation and began heading for the north gate; however, his son and heir TAIRA no Shigemori was galled by the withdrawal and tried to challenge Tametomo again, but Kiyomori quickly forced him to stop.

京から紙の伝統は、手間暇を惜しまず、量産効果を望まず、ひたすらに伝統工芸の手作りの暖かみを保ち続けた。
The tradition of kyo karakami has maintained the warmth of handwork in traditional arts alive, going to any expense and not being concerned with mass-production.

ここのうちは、いか銀よりも鄭寧（ていねい）で、親切で、しかも上品だが、惜（お）しい事に食い物がまずい。
This new boarding house was more polite and considerate and refined than the Ikagins, but the grub was too poor stuff and that was one drawback.

花園上皇がその日の日記に「大きな損失である」と記すなど、大覚寺統・持明院統双方からその死を惜しまれた。
Both Daikakuji-to and Jimyoin-to regretted the death of Moronobu as exemplified by the Retired Emperor Hanazono who recorded in his diary the day of Moronobu's death 'We suffered a great loss.'

「心しらぬ人は何とも言はばいへ身をも惜まじ名をも惜まじ」真書太閤記六編巻之十五「明智光秀坂本へ帰る事」
'I don't mind what others say, if they cannot understand my intention. I don't want life nor honor,' from the 15th chapter of the sixth volume of Shinsho Taikoki,' Mitsuhide AKECHI returning to Sakamoto.'

ある程度の脱盟は予想していた内蔵助もさすがにこの三人の脱盟は予想できず、その脱盟を非常に惜しんだという。
Although Oishi expected a certain number of people to leave the group, he was very sad to see those three people go, as it was quite unexpected.

だが、九州の宮原検校がそれを惜しみ、箏の手付けの第一人者八重崎検校にたき付けて見事な箏の手を付けさせた。
However, kengyo MIYAHARA in Kyushu regretted it and encouraged kengyo YAEZAKI who was the best player of so (or koto) to play 'Yaegoromo' excellently.

伴右衛門が百両で小万を身請けする話をでっち上げ、小万を惜しむ源五兵衛から百両を引き出そうという算段である。
The trick is as follows: They fabricate a story that Banemon is going to buy out Koman for 100 ryo, and they are going to make Gengobe, who would not want to lose Koman, believe the story and make him pay 100 ryo.

君はよっぽど負け惜（お）しみの強い男だと云うから、君はよっぽど剛情張（ごうじょうっぱ）りだと答えてやった。
He said 'You're a deucedly unyielding sport,' and I answered 'You're obstinate.'

あなたは惜しみなく与えてくださる御手を開き、すべての生きるものの飢えを、望むもので満たしてくださいます。
You open Your generous hands and satisfy the hunger of all living things with what they desire.

（息子の命と代えようと言う私の命は惜しくないけれども、そうして息子と別れるならばやはり悲しいことであるよ）
(I would gladly give my life for my son, but then if I have to part from my son as a result, that would be sad, too.)

太平記では天皇の許しを得て義貞の妻となり、義貞は内侍との別れを惜しみ尊氏追討の機会を逃したと記されている。
According to Taiheiki, she became Yoshisada's wife with the Emperor's permission, and Yoshisada missed an opportunity to chase Takauji because he was unwilling to part from naishi.

大正8年に膳所焼の廃絶を惜しんだ地元の岩崎健三が、友人の画伯、山本春挙と手を組んで別邸に登り窯を築き、再興。
In 1919, a local man Kenzo IWASAKI, who felt sorry for the extinction of Zeze-yaki Pottery built a nobori-gama (a stepped kiln) in his second residence, together with his friend and master painter Shunkyo YAMAMOTO, and reestablished the pottery.

けれどもわたしは彼らを惜しみ見て、彼らを滅ぼさず、荒野で彼らを絶やさなかった。 (エゼキエル書 20:17)
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. (Ezekiel 20:17)

それを作者の自らの解釈を交えながら、乱による荒廃した都、その哀惜や悲嘆、乱の原因から戦闘場面に移る克明な描写。
It depicts in vivid detail the devastated capital and the grieves and laments of war, from the causes to the scenes of fighting, while mixing in the author's own interpretations.

女房は受領階級などの中級貴族の子女が多く、中級貴族たちは藤原氏に取り入るべく子女の教育に努力を惜しまなかった。
Female personal assistants were often the girls of middle-classed nobles such as local officers and these middle-classed nobles spared no effort in educating their girls to win the FUJIWARA clan's favor.

「秀政は傑出の人なり。秀吉深く之を愛し、小田原の役終わらば、関八州を与へんと思はれしが、惜しい哉、戦に死せり」
'Hidemasa was a talented person, Hideyoshi loved his talent and thought to give Kanhasshu (the Eight Provinces of the Kanto region) to him, but it is regrettable that Hidemasa died at the battle.'

建築家谷口吉郎は、鹿鳴館の滅失について、11月8日の東京日日新聞に「明治の哀惜」というタイトルで記事を寄せた。
An architect, Yoshiro TANIGUCHI, wrote an article on the disappearance of the Rokumei-kan Pavilion with a title, 'Lamentation of Meiji,' for the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun in November 8.

若いうちはよく腹の立つものじゃが、年をとってから考えると、も少しの我慢（がまん）じゃあったのに惜しい事をした。
One is apt to get grouchy when young, but will always repent when he is grown up and thinks that it was pity he hadn't been a little more patient.

彼らの弓は若い者を射殺し、腹の実をあわれむことなく、幼な子を見て、惜しむことがない。 (イザヤ書 13:18)
Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. (Isaiah 13:18)

米価格が高騰することにより、地主や商人は米を投機へまわすようになり、次第に売り惜しみや買い占めが発生しはじめた。
As the rice price soared, landlords and merchants started to speculate in rice and gradually withholding of rice and the buyout occurred.

彼女が内侍司として出仕する直前に髭黒の妻となったことを惜しんで、譲位後に玉鬘の娘を妃に迎え寵愛した（「竹河」）。
He regretted that she got married to Higekuro right before she served as Naishi no tsukasa (female palace attendants), so after his retirement, he took a daughter of Tamakazura as his wife and favored her. ('Takekawa' (Bamboo River))

畿内の飢えに苦しむ住民の救済にも尽力し、1度は集まった蔵経開版のための施財を、惜しげもなく飢民に給付し尽くした。
He endeavored to help residents of Kinai (the region in the vicinity of the capital) who were tormented by starvation and distributed, without stinting, the alms that were donated for the publication of Daizokyo (the Tripitaka).

施し散らして、なお富を増す人があり、与えるべきものを惜しんで、かえって貧しくなる者がある。 (箴言 11:24)
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. (Proverbs 11:24)

朱雀帝は、女三宮に譲った三条宮に彼女を移らせることを勧めるが、源氏はまだ若い妻を手放すのが惜しく首を縦に振らない。
Emperor Suzaku recommends her moving to the Sanjo no miya residence which he gave to her, but Genji, who is reluctant to lose his young wife, will not agree.

その名は宣教師の手によってヨーロッパにも知られており、ローマ教皇もその死を惜しんだという逸話がある（真偽は不明）。
His name was known in Europe by a missionary and there is an anecdote that Pope felt sorry for his death (whether it is true or not is unknown).

真備が長期間にわたって唐に留まることになったのは、玄宗 (唐)がその才を惜しんで帰国させなかったためともいわれる。
There is another interpretation of the legend that Makibi was kept to stay in Tang for a long period of time because he was so smart that Genso (the sixth Emperor of Tang) did not want him to leave Tang.

しかし義経は密かに館を逃れ出て旅立ったので、秀衡は惜しみながらも留める事を諦め、追って佐藤兄弟を義経の許に送った。
However, as Yoshitsune left the residence in secret, Hidehira reluctantly gave up trying to restrain him and later soon dispatched the Sato brothers to help Yoshitsune.

9月7日 (旧暦)に野宮に訪ねてきた源氏と最後の別れを惜しんだ後、斎宮と共に30歳で伊勢神宮に下った（「賢木」）。
She went down to Ise-jingu Shrine at the age of thirty with the itsukinomiya ('Sakaki') after a fond final farewell to Genji, who visited her in the nonomiya on September 7 (old calendar).

紬の名産地米沢の女性たちは丹念に織り上げた布を出荷する夜には別れを惜しみ「米沢の女は紬を抱いて寝る」とも言われた。
It was said that women in the Yonezawa region, famous for its pongee, slept with their pongee, meaning they were reluctant to bid farewell to their works the night before shipping.

また、良い行いをし、良いわざに富み、惜しみなく施し、人に分け与えることを喜び、 (テモテヘの第一の手紙 6:18)
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; (1 Timothy 6:18)

空家にしておくには本当に惜しいんで、小綺麗な二階があって、古風な入口で、周囲にはスイカツラがからみついていました。
and it was a pity, for it was a pretty two-storied place, with an old-fashioned porch and a honeysuckle about it.

宗円は自身が発明した製茶法を近隣にも惜しみなく伝えたため、「永谷式煎茶」「宇治製煎茶」は全国に広がることとなった。
As Soen did not hesitate to teach the method for producing tea that he invented to neighbors, 'Nagatanishiki sencha' (sencha by Nagatani method) and 'Ujisei sencha' (sencha made in Uji) spread nationwide.

絶望的な戦いに命が惜しくなって逃げ出してしまったという解釈もあるが、『陰徳太平記』によると、下記のように記している。
Certain views understood that he fled holding his life dear, but 'Intoku Taiheiki' understood as follows:

その名が示すように式には約30万人の一般市民が参列、会場だけでなく沿道にも多数の市民が並んで大隈との別れを惜しんだ。
As the word 'National' implies, about 300,000 general citizens attended the funeral, and many citizens not only at the site but also on the streets stood and regretted parting with Okuma.

しかし、この離脱理由が負け惜しみとならないほど、その後、橋本は日本を代表する脚本家の一人として名声を高める事となる。
Although this was not sour grapes on his part, since Hashimoto went on to become famous as one of Japan's principal screenwriters.

もし神が元木の枝を惜しまなかったとすれば、あなたを惜しむようなことはないであろう。 (ローマ人への手紙 11:21)
for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. (Romans 11:21)

この宣言は流通業者や商人などが戦争特需における物資高騰を狙い、売り惜しみをさらに加速させていくという状況を発生させた。
This announcement caused the situation which distributors and merchants sought steep price rise of goods by war-time special procurements and further accelerated the withholding.

宗家の斯波武衛家が滅亡していたので、斯波氏の流れを汲む最上氏は断絶を惜しまれ、近江国に1万石の知行を改めて与えられた。
Since the head family, the Shiba-Buei family, had fallen, the extinction of the Mogami clan following the Shiba clan was lamented and the Mogami clan was given again with a fief of 10,000 koku in Omi Province.

しかし彼自身は武士への憧れが人一倍強く、出世に努力を惜しまないかたわらで、影では立派な刀を購入する為の貯金をしていた。
However, he was longing to be a samurai more than others and making efforts to be successful, while he saved money to purchase a fine sword secretly.

そしてとても熱心に耳を傾けていたので、でかい頭二つがひざから消えたときにも、ちっとも名残惜しいなんて思いませんでした。
and she listened so eagerly that, when the two great heads vanished from her lap, she hardly missed them.

遺された作品からも非凡な才能を持っていたことが窺えるだけに、三十代半ばという「盛りの極み」に死去したことが惜しまれる。
Since the remaining works show that his talent was extraordinary, it is really regrettable that he died at his 'peak' in his mid thirties..

このまま朽ちるのを惜しんだ日本画家の橋本関雪が、大正3年（1914年）自らの別邸として購入し、後今のような寺院となる。
Kansetsu HASHIMOTO, a Japanese-style painter who did not want to allow the teahouse to fall into decay, bought it as his own second residence in 1914, and later it became the temple as we know it today.

調査を終えた後、もともと体が弱かった彼は劣悪な環境の中で腸を患いながらも、昼夜を惜しんで同地での研究・調査に打ち込んだ。
After finishing the survey, Sensho, who was born weak, had some intestinal troubles but devoted himself to the study and research there.

鳥がひなを守るように、万軍の主はエルサレムを守り、これを守って救い、これを惜しんで助けられる」。 (イザヤ書 31:5)
As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.' (Isaiah 31:5)

しかしわたしはイスラエルの家が、その行くところの諸国民の中で汚したわが聖なる名を惜しんだ。 (エゼキエル書 36:21)
But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went. (Ezekiel 36:21)

5代勝岑が2歳で夭折すると跡目を失い断絶となるが、名門の家柄が惜しまれ勝成の孫である勝長が跡目を継ぎ家名の存続が許された。
Five generations after Katsumine MIZUNO died young at the age of two, the family line was lost due to the absence of an heir; however, as many people missed them because the Mizuno clan was renowned, Katsunaga, a grandson of Katsunari, was allowed to succeed to the family and maintain their family name.

師直は「今、師直にかわって働いてくれようとする者に、なにを鎧一領ごときを惜しもうぞ」と言い、上山にその鎧を与えたのである。
Moronao said 'For the one going to fight instead of me, a suit of armour is nothing' and he gave Takamoto his armour.

主は言われた、「あなたは労せず、育てず、一夜に生じて、一夜に滅びたこのとうごまをさえ、惜しんでいる。 (ヨナ書 4:10)
Yahweh said, 'You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. (Jonah 4:10)

蘭学の開拓者である杉田玄白は、自分の死によって草創期のことを知るものがいなくなることを惜しみ、当時のことを書き残そうとする。
As a pioneer of Dutch studies, Genpaku Sugita was sorry that there would be no one who knew the beginning of this field of study if he died, so he decided to leave the record of those days.

そのわけは、それが不憫であるとか、名残が惜しい、あの人の事が気がかりなどと考え始めたら、思うだけでもきりがないであろうから。
The reason being that whether it be out of self pity, the sorrow of parting, or concern for the wellbeing of someone dear, once I allow myself to indulge such sentimental reminiscence, there will be no end to it.

これを旗印にすることは「不惜身命」（ふしゃくしんみょう：仏法のために身命をささげて惜しまないこと）を意味するといわれている。
It is said that using them as the emblem on a flag means 'fushakushinmyo' (to generously devote one's body and life to the Buddhist law).

それは、長屋王の持つ有力な皇位継承権者としての立場ともあいまって、わが子を強く哀惜する聖武天皇に長屋王への不信感を生じさせた。
Since Prince Nagaya was in a strong position as a successor to the Imperial Throne, the rumor made Emperor Shomu, who deeply mourned over his son's death, distrust Prince Nagaya.

地方の中小メーカーの存在は、地域の食文化に密接に関係するもののため、文化保全の意味も含めて、「残って欲しい」と惜しまれている。
Middle and small manufacturers in local regions are closely related to the food culture in the local regions, and they are missed and asked to keep on their businesses from the aspect of preservation of culture.

このため戦後、愛妻のガラシャを失った忠興から恨まれて殺されそうになったが、徳川家康にその砲術の腕と知識を惜しまれて助命された。
For this reason, after the battle Sukenao earned the hatred of Tadaoki, who had lost his beloved wife Gracia, and for a time it seemed certain Tadaoki would kill him, but Ieyasu TOKUGAWA greatly valued his skills and expertise at gunnery so his life was spared.

彼は惜しげなく施し、貧しい者に与えた。その義はとこしえに、うせることはない。その角は誉を得てあげられる。 (詩篇 112:9)
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor. (Psalms 112:9)

結局、皇位は後鳥羽の子孫（後嵯峨天皇）に伝えられ、後鳥羽の本意は達成されなかったわけではないが、朝廷が一旦没落したのは口惜しい。
Eventually, the imperial throne passed to Gotoba's descendant (Emperor Gosaga), so it cannot be said that Gotoba did not achieve his intentions, but it is most regrettable that the imperial Court was brought momentarily to the brink of collapse.

尊氏は傘下の武将たちへの恩賞を惜しむことがなく、そのことが苦境に立たされても常に武将たちの支持が得られた理由だとする見解もある。
Takauji was willing to allot lands to his military commanders, which is considered one of the reasons why he was always supported by them when he was in difficult situations.

尊皇攘夷思想が強く、慶応3年3月に結成された伊東甲子太郎らの御陵衛士に参加を希望していたが、近藤勇がその才を惜しがったため残留。
He had a strong thought of Sonno Joi (reverence for the Emperor and the expulsion of foreigners) and wanted to join Goryo-eji (guards of Imperial mausoleums) led by Kashitaro ITO and others formed in April 1867, but he remained because Isami KONDO did not want to lost his talent.

主よ、あなたのあわれみをわたしに惜しまず、あなたのいつくしみとまこととをもって常にわたしをお守りください。 (詩篇 40:11)
Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. (Psalms 40:11)

明治維新を機に荒廃し、200戸近い家々・禰宜の大半が離散し築地塀のみが虚しく残ったといい、堀辰雄らが哀惜の詩文を残したとされる。
It fell into ruin following the Meiji Restoration, and it is said that most of the nearly 200 families and priests departed, leaving behind nothing but mud walls, Tatsuo HORI and other writers expressed sorrows in their literary works.

私たちが自分自身を惜しめば惜しむほど、肉体を満足させればさせるほど、清算するのは困難になり、炎で燃やされるものが多くなるのです。
The more thou sparest thyself and followest the flesh, the more heavy shall thy punishment be, and the more fuel art thou heaping up for the burning.

それゆえ、わたしの目は彼らを惜しみ見ず、またあわれまない。彼らの行うところを、彼らのこうべに報いる」。 (エゼキエル書 9:10)
As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head. (Ezekiel 9:10)

特にミステリーやサスペンスでは、これから起こる出来事を暗示させるような、こうした描写は重要であり、そのためには手間を惜しまなかった。
Especially in mystery and suspense films, these descriptions that anticipate and set the mood for the future events were important, so he went to any expense to achieve them.

寂超作と推定されている『今鏡』では人間味溢れる教養人として好意的に描かれており、大臣になれずに出家してしまった事を非常に惜しんでいる。
In 'Imakagami' (literally, The Mirror of the Present) supposedly written by Jakucho, Narimichi is described favorably as a cultured person, full of kindness and it was extremely regretful that he failed to become a minister and entered the priesthood.

平家の総帥宗盛も嫡男の平清宗と入水するが、命を惜しんで浮かび上がり水練が達者なために泳ぎ回っていたところを義経軍に捕らえられてしまった。
Munemori, the supreme commander of the Taira clan, and his eldest son and heir Kiyomune both tried to drown themselves, but they held their lives too dear and floated back to the surface; being skilled swimmers, they survived to be captured by Yoshitsune's forces.

しかしながら、保津峡の優れた景観を惜しむ声も多かったため、それを活用するためにJR西日本の完全子会社の手により1991年から営業を開始。
However, as there were many calls from those who valued the superb scenery of the Hozukyo Gorge, a wholly-owned subsidiary of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) has run the line to make the best use of it since 1991.

万事、もう今から死んだと同じの身になったと心を決めたはずなのに、やはりともすれば以前の気持ちになってしまいそうなのが、とても口惜しい。」
Although I'd resolved to consider myself dead to the world from this point, I dread the moments when I allow myself to think of what might have been, and am on the verge of slipping into those feelings from the past.'

酒は金の杯で賜わり、その杯はそれぞれ違ったもので、王の大きな度量にふさわしく、王の用いる酒を惜しみなく賜わった。 (エステル記 1:7)
They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king. (Esther 1:7)

兄弟たちは、小羊の血と彼らのあかしの言葉とによって、彼にうち勝ち、死に至るまでもそのいのちを惜しまなかった。 (ヨハネの黙示録 12:11)
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. (Revelation 12:11)

日本の政財界の中にも、朝鮮の近代化は隣国として利益となる面も大きいと考え、積極的な支援を惜しまない人々が現れ、改革の土台が出来上がっていった。
Some people in the Japanese political and financial worlds found the modernization of Korea more valuable as a neighbor and came to provide positive support, and this formed the foundation of reform.

「大いに呼ばわって声を惜しむな。あなたの声をラッパのようにあげ、わが民にそのとがを告げ、ヤコブの家にその罪を告げ示せ。 (イザヤ書 58:1)
'Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1)

漱石の名は、唐代の『晋書』にある故事「漱石枕流」（石に漱〔くちすす〕ぎ流れに枕す）から取ったもので、負け惜しみの強いこと、変わり者の例えである。
The name 'Soseki' originated from 'Soseki Chinryu' (rinsing his mouth with a stone and resting his head on a pillow of flowing water), a phrase from a historical event written in 'Shinjo' in the Tang dynasty, which is a simile of 'bad loser' and 'perverse person.'

秀吉は、のちに甥を養子として迎えたときに同名の秀勝を名乗らせており（豊臣秀勝）、少なくとも秀勝の死を惜しみ、その名に執心していたことは間違いない。
There is no doubt that Hideyoshi lamented the death of Hidekatsu and had a particular feeling to the name, given that Hideyoshi gave the same name to his newly adopted nephew (Hidekatsu TOYOTOMI).

「あなたの天幕の場所を広くし、あなたのすまいの幕を張りひろげ、惜しむことなく、あなたの綱を長くし、あなたの杭を強固にせよ。 (イザヤ書 54:2)
'Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. (Isaiah 54:2)

その周囲の人々は皆、銀の器、金、貨財、家畜および宝物を与えて彼らを力づけ、そのほかにまた、もろもろの物を惜しげなくささげた。 (エズラ記 1:6)
All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. (Ezra 1:6)

また、『陸奥話記』は物語の最後に、頼義の功績を漢の高祖の中国平定や、坂上田村麻呂に譬えるなど賞賛の言を惜しまないが、『今昔』はこれもカットしている。
At the end of the story, 'Mutsuwa-ki' praises Yoriyoshi's achievements by likening them to both Gaozu's subjugation of Han Dynasty China and to SAKANOUE no Tamuramaro but these references are also omitted from 'Konjaku.'

ある日の事赤シャツがちょっと君に話があるから、僕のうちまで来てくれと云うから、惜（お）しいと思ったが温泉行きを欠勤して四時頃（ごろ）出掛けて行った。
One day Red Shirt asked me to come over to his house as he had something to tell me, and much as I missed the trip to the hot springs, I started for his house at about 4 o'clock.

ましてわたしは十二万あまりの、右左をわきまえない人々と、あまたの家畜とのいるこの大きな町ニネベを、惜しまないでいられようか」。 (ヨナ書 4:11)
Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?' (Jonah 4:11)

またわたしの聞いている所で他の者に言われた、「彼のあとに従い町をめぐって、撃て。あなたの目は惜しみ見るな。またあわれむな。 (エゼキエル書 9:5)
To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity; (Ezekiel 9:5)

言った、「主は言われた、『わたしは自分をさして誓う。あなたがこの事をし、あなたの子、あなたのひとり子をも惜しまなかったので、 (創世記 22:16)
and said, 'I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, (Genesis 22:16)

あなたがたのうちのやさしい、温和な男でさえも、自分の兄弟、自分のふところの妻、最後に残っている子供にも食物を惜しんで与えず、 (申命記 28:54)
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; (Deuteronomy 28:54)

土佐国へ護送中、肥後国の百姓等が夏井の肥後国外への移送を拒もうとしたり、讃岐国の百姓等は讃岐国内から土佐国の境まで夏井に付き随い別れを惜しんだという。
It is said that as Natsui was escorted to Tosa Province, some peasants and the other subjects of Higo Province, on one hand, attempted to prevent Natsui from being transferred out of the province, and on the other hand, peasants and the other subjects of Sanuki Province followed Natsui from inside Sanuki Province to the border of Tosa Province, regretting at parting.

時の大阪府知事渡辺昇に書いた書を見せたところ、渡辺はそのあまりの才能を惜しみ添田の硯と落款を庭に投げ捨て、書などではなく学業に専心し大成せよと諭した。
When he showed his calligraphy to Noboru WATANABE, the then governor of Osaka Prefecture, Watanabe praised Soeda for his talent and tossed away Soeda's ink stone and seal to the yard, and additionally, he told Soeda to devote his mind to study rather than calligraphy in order to achieve great things.

「もし珠をとってきたら、この子を世継ぎとしてくださるという約束に、海女は命を惜しまず海中に飛び入ったのです」という語りから能地謡にあわせての所作になる。
Moves and steps according to Noh-jiutai (Noh chorus) begin with the words, 'Given a promise that her son would be made a successor if the treasure was retrieved, she jumped into the ocean without a care for her own life.'

勧めをする者であれば勧め、寄附する者は惜しみなく寄附し、指導する者は熱心に指導し、慈善をする者は快く慈善をすべきである。 (ローマ人への手紙 12:8)
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. (Romans 12:8)

処刑前に具行は高氏の丁重な扱いに感謝の意を述べ、普段は「ばさら」と呼ばれて公家の事を軽侮していた高氏も、具行の態度には感服してその別れを惜しんだと言う。
Before execution, Tomoyuki expressed his gratitude for Takauji's courteous treatment, thus, Takauji admired him for his attitude so that he reluctantly executed Tomoyuki, even though Takauji disliked court nobles because they looked down on him and calling him 'Basara,' which referred to Japanese aesthetics associated with the challenge of traditional ideals.

人気のなかった「生類憐みの令」を廃止するなどして、幕政改革に熱心だったことから、歴代将軍の中でも名君と評されていて、在位3年で死去したのを惜しむ声が多い。
He is described as the wise ruler among the successive shoguns, as he came up with various measures to reform the bakufu, including discontinuing the unpopular law prohibiting cruelty to animals, and there are many voices that say it was such a loss that he died only three years after taking office.

鎌倉時代以降、家名が絶えた場合にその断絶を惜しみ、肉親以外のものが称す場合があり、さらには戦勝の記念として滅ぼした敵の家名を名乗るという事例もあるという。
From the Kamakura period onwards, when there was no heir to carry on a family's name, sometimes an unrelated person, who sympathized with the family's situation (discontinuation), assumed (`adopted`) the name, and moreover, there were cases where victors who destroyed a family in battle appropriated the vanquished family's name as a trophy.

この百丈が制定した清規は、『百丈清規』と言われているが、惜しくも散逸してしまい、現存していないが、『百丈古清規』として断片が再編集され、現在に伝わっている。
Regrettably, this Baizhang shingi, called 'Hyakujo Shingi' (The Regulations of Baizhang), was scattered and lost, but its fragments were compiled again into 'Hyakujo Koshingi' (Original Version of Baizhang's Pure Rules), which is handed down to us today.

主はこう言われる、命が惜しいならば気をつけるがよい。安息日に荷をたずさえ、またはそれを持ってエルサレムの門にはいってはならない。 (エレミヤ書 17:21)
Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; (Jeremiah 17:21)

あなたがたすべて弓を張る者よ、バビロンの周囲に勢ぞろいして、これを攻め、矢を惜しまずに、これを射よ、彼女が主に罪を犯したからだ。 (エレミヤ書 50:14)
Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh. (Jeremiah 50:14)

『平家物語』の「一門都落ち」では、嫡男平高清を都に残し、妻子との名残を惜しんで遅れた維盛とその弟たち重盛系一族の変心を、平宗盛や平知盛が疑うような場面がある。
The 'The Exile of the Taira clan' chapter of 'Heike Monogatari' depicts TAIRA no Takakiyo and TAIRA no Tomomori as suspecting Koremori and the other sons of Shigemori of having changed their minds since they saw Koremori, who had been reluctant to leave his heir, TAIRA no Takakiyo, in Kyoto and to part from his wife and his other children, late for departure.

「聖武天皇最愛の夫人が建立せられた盧遮那仏の霊場（東大寺のこと）が絶えようとしていることを惜しみ、俊乗坊重源が諸国を勧進（寄付をつのること）してまわっている。」
Feeling a regret that the sacred ground of Vairocana (which means Todai-ji Temple), which Emperor Shomu's beloved wife established, is to be ruined, Chogen SHUNJOBO visits various regions for kanjin (collecting contribution).'

その際、その武勇を惜しむ源範頼や源義経をはじめ、多くの人から助命嘆願があったが、これに公家達が猛反発を起こし、助命はかなわなかったと『平家物語』に載る（後述）。
Heike Monogatari stated that HIGUCHI was killed, even though quite a few people including MINAMOTO no Noriyori and MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, who were impressed by his heroism, begged for his life, becauase some court nobles were furiously opposed to saving his life (to be described later).

高虎の死後も、子の藤堂高次が引き続き奉公構の方針を維持したため仕官はかなわず、その才を惜しんだ細川忠興や徳川義直らの捨扶持を細々と受けながら、「睡庵」と称した。
Takatora's son Takatsugu TODO continued a policy of hokokamae that was imposed by his father after Takatora's death and as a result there was no chance for him to serve a master again, and he lived through the rest of his life as 'Suian' on meager alms from Tadaoki HOSOKAWA and Yoshinao TOKUGAWA who valued his talent.

雅信は妻の主張が本当に正しいのか確信が持ち得ないままに993年、多くの人に惜しまれながら死去（『権記』）し、祖父の宇多天皇や父の敦実親王ゆかりの仁和寺に葬られた。
In 993, Masanobu died being mourned by many persons and without having a firm belief that his wife's judgment was really correct ('Gonki' (the diary of FUJIWARA no Yukinari)), he was buried in Ninna-ji Temple that had a close connection to Emperor Uda (who was his grandfather) and Imperial Prince Atsuzane.

そして発見したことはいろいろあったけれど、星以外では光を発するものは炎しか知らないので、炎の性質に関わるものすべてを明らかにしようと、わたしは努力を惜しまなかった。
and, among other things in the discoveries alluded to inasmuch as besides the stars, I knew nothing except fire which produces light, I spared no pains to set forth all that pertains to its nature,

主に後陽成天皇（107代）・後水尾天皇（108代）の二代にわたり朝廷に仕えたが、清華家の三条家当主でありながら大臣になれず、惜しまれて死後に内大臣を追贈されている。
He mostly served the Imperial Court for two generations, Emperor Goyozei (the 107th) and Emperor Gomizunoo (the 108th), however, even though he was the head of the Sanjo family of the Seiga family (the second highest family status for court nobles), he could not become a minister, and after his death, he was sorely missed and conferred Naidaijin (minister of the center) posthumously.

1917年のロシア革命に端を発し、寺内正毅内閣により7月12日にシベリア出兵宣言が出されると需要拡大を見込んだ商人による米の買占め、売惜しみが発生し米価格が急騰した。
In 1917 when the Russian Revolution broke out, prompting the Masatake TERAUCHI cabinet to announce on July 12 the dispatch of troops to Siberia, rice merchants anticipated a sharp rise in demand and curbed rice sales, causing rice prices to skyrocket.

各自は惜しむ心からでなく、また、しいられてでもなく、自ら心で決めたとおりにすべきである。神は喜んで施す人を愛して下さるのである。 (コリント人への第二の手紙 9:7)
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7)

事態を重く見た仲小路廉農商務省 (日本)は1917年9月1日に「暴利取締令」を出し、米、鉄、石炭、綿、紙、染料、薬品の買い占め、売り惜しみを禁止したが、効果はなかった。
Ren NAKASHOJI, the minister of Agriculture and Commerce, who took the matter seriously, issued the 'Bori (Excessive profits) act' against cornering and speculative stocking of rice, iron, coal, cotton, paper, dye and medicines on September 1, 1917 but it was not successful.

『平家物語』『源平盛衰記』の「経正都落」条に、平経正が都落ちの際仁和寺に立ち寄り、先代覚性法親王より拝領の琵琶『青山』を返上した折、別れを惜しみ歌を交わした記事が残る。
In the chapter of 'Tsunemasa Miyakoochi' (the rustication of Taira no Tsunemasa) in 'Heike monogatari' (The Tale of the Heike) and 'Genpei Josui ki' (the history of flux and reflux of Genji and Heishi), there is a story that TAIRA no Tsunemasa dropped in at Ninna-ji Temple when he rusticated Kyoto and returned the biwa (Japanese lute) 'Aoyama' given by the precedent chief priest, priest Imperial Prince Kakusho, Tsunemasa and monk-Imperial Prince Shukaku exchanged waka poems feeling the sorrow of parting.

」とした上で、「無政府主義と、それと一しょに芽ざした社会主義との排斥をする為に、個人主義という漠然たる名を附けて、芸術に迫害を加えるのは、国家のために惜むべき事である。
Then, he concluded that 'For the sake of our nation, we must stop persecuting art and labelling it as 'individualistic' or 'egotistical' simply for the purpose of removing anarchism and socialism which grew up together

彼らを互に打ち当てて砕く。父と子をもそのようにすると、主は言われる。わたしは彼らをあわれまず、惜しまず、かわいそうとも思わずに滅ぼす』と」。 (エレミヤ書 13:14)
I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. (Jeremiah 13:14)

…（於焉惜舊辭之誤忤正先紀之謬錯以和銅四年九月十八日詔臣安萬侶撰録稗田阿禮所誦之勅語舊辭以獻上者謹隨詔旨子細採摭然、上古之時言意並朴敷文構句於字即難）
A well-known emperor was sorry about Kyuji (a record of stories currently at court) that were incorrect, and attempted to correct pre-existing documents. On September 18, 711, the emperor ordered his subject, Yasumaro to present the Kyuji that was selected and recorded immediately after the emperor settled in Omiya, Kiyohara in Asuka, to the extent that HIEDA no Are could recite, and Yasumaro happily followed the emperor's words, thoroughly picking up Kyuji. However, during the ancient period, the words and meanings were so unsophisticated that it was difficult to describe the content when organizing characters and forming a phrase by using characters from abroad.

通盛が妻を呼び寄せて別れを惜しもうとすると、教経は「ここはこの教経が差し向けられる程の最も危険な戦場ですぞ。そのような心がけでは、ものの役に立ちますまいに」と嗜めている。
When Michimori called his wife to his place with an intention to mourn over unwilling farewell, Noritsune admonished him, 'This place is the most dangerous battlefield, such that I am dispatched here. If you think in this way, you cannot be of service here.'

ご自身の御子をさえ惜しまないで、わたしたちすべての者のために死に渡されたかたが、どうして、御子のみならず万物をも賜わらないことがあろうか。 (ローマ人への手紙 8:32)
He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)

この小説は旅先で書かれた彼の絵葉書や日記をもとに執筆され、未知を求めて異郷の地で孤独な死を迎えた青年僧への哀惜の情が藤村の詩情と重なり、主人公への共感をより一層強めている。
This novel is based on Sensho's picture postcards and his diary written during his journey, and Toson's lamentation over the young Buddhist priest, who sought the unknown and died lonely in a foreign land, overlaps with Toson's own poetic sentiment, which makes readers' empathy with the main character even stronger.

軍記物の『太平記』では、九州へ落ちた尊氏を追討せよとの命を受けた義貞が、後醍醐天皇より下賜された女官である勾当内侍との別れを惜しみ時機を逸したとのエピソードが記されている。
In the war chronicle 'Taiheiki', there is an episode where Yoshisada, who was ordered to chase Takauji who fled to Kyushu, missed an opportunity because he was unwilling to part from Koto no naishi, a court lady granted by the Emperor Godaigo.

彼女はロミオが自分から離れるのがなごり惜しく、そのさまは若い娘が、飼っていた鳥が飛び去ってしまうのが惜しくて、ちょっと手から飛ばせてみては絹糸で引き戻しているみたいだった。
for she seemed as jealous of Romeo going from her as a young girl of her bird, which she will let hop a little from her hand and pluck it back with a silken thread;

こうして、あなたがたはすべてのことに豊かになって、惜しみなく施し、その施しはわたしたちの手によって行われ、神に感謝するに至るのである。 (コリント人への第二の手紙 9:11)
you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. (2 Corinthians 9:11)

また熊野古道潮見峠越えにある田辺市指定天然記念物の大木・捻木ノ杉は、清姫が安珍の逃走を見て口惜しんで身をよじった際、一緒にねじれてしまい、そのまま大木に成長したものといわれる。
Nejiki no sugi (twisted cedar tree), which was designated as a natural monument by Tanabe City, is located beyond the Shiomi Pass in Kumanokodo Road, and it is said that the tree was twisted with Kiyohime, who contorted her body vexatiously to see Anchin running away, then it grew up to be a big tree in the twisted condition.

その一方で義経の自害の後、景時と和田義盛ら郎従20騎がその首を検分した時、「観ル者ミナ双涙ヲ拭ヒ、両衫ヲ湿ホス（見る者皆涙を流した）」とあり、義経への批判と哀惜の両面が伺える。
After Yoshitsune's suicide, when Kagetoki and Yoshimori WADA accompanied by their 20 retainers examined his head, the book wrote, 'All the people who saw his head shed tears,' showing the ambivalence of criticism against and attachment for Yoshitsune.

星座の射手座（いてざ）は、弓矢を持ったケンタウロス（またはケンタウロス族の一人ケイロンのこと）であり、ヘラクレスの矢によって、死んだケイロンを神々が惜しみ天に象ったといわれる。
The Archer of asterism is Centaurs who has Yumiya (or Cehiron, one of the members of the Centaurs family) and it is said that he was imitated in heaven because the gods felt sorry for his death caused by Hercules.

群れと、打ち場と、酒ぶねのうちから取って、惜しみなく彼に与えなければならない。すなわちあなたの神、主があなたを恵まれたように、彼に与えなければならない。 (申命記 15:14)
you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. (Deuteronomy 15:14)

また、李氏朝鮮による独自の改革を諦め韓日合邦を目指そうとした進歩会は、鉄道敷設工事などに5万人ともいわれる大量の人員を派遣するなど、日露戦争において日本への協力を惜しまなかった。
Furthermore, Shinpo-kai, which gave up on the independent reform by Yi Dynasty Korea, and wanted to pursue the annexation of Korea and Japan, generously cooperated with Japan in the Russo-Japanese War by dispatching as many as 50,000 men for railway construction works, etc.

その破れることは陶器師の器を破るように惜しむことなく打ち砕き、その砕けのなかには、炉から火を取り、池から水をくめるほどの、ひとかけらさえ見いだされない」。 (イザヤ書 30:14)
He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.' (Isaiah 30:14)

頼朝は時忠の死去を聞いて「智臣の誉あるによりて、先帝の朝、平家在世の時、諸事を補佐す。当時と雖も朝廷の為に惜しむべきか」（『吾妻鏡』文治5年（1189年）3月5日条）と語っている。
When Yoritomo heard about Tokitada's death, he commented, 'As he was a clever vassal, he assisted in various matters in the era of the late emperor and in the Taira era. It is a pity for the imperial palace even today' (Article for March 30, 1189 in 'Azuma Kagami').

（そこの山で7日間も食べず、岩の上に着物を引いて命も惜しまず、自然に転げ落ちるまで座禅をしました。誰かが食べ物を持ってくるわけでもないので何日も何日も食事しないことが多かったのです）
(In the mountain there, I took off my clothes and practiced Zen meditation sitting cross-legged on a rock on which I put down all my clothes, not caring about losing my life, for seven days without eating until I fell spontaneously. Since someone did not necessarily bring any food, I often did not have a meal for days and days.)

あなたがたのうち、知恵に不足している者があれば、その人は、とがめもせずに惜しみなくすべての人に与える神に、願い求めるがよい。そうすれば、与えられるであろう。 (ヤコブの手紙 1:5)
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. (James 1:5)

しかし王はサウルの子ヨナタンの子であるメピボセテを惜しんだ。彼らの間、すなわちダビデとサウルの子ヨナタンとの間に、主をさして立てた誓いがあったからである。 (サムエル記下 21:7)
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. (2 Samuel 21:7)

「云ふ甲斐なき人の郎等に組み落とされて、討たれさせ給ひ候ひなば、さしも日本国に鬼神と聞こえさせ給ひつる木曾殿をば、某が郎等の手に懸けて、討ち奉ったりなんぞ申されん事、口惜しかるべし。」
It would be regrettable if you were defeated and killed by a nameless man and it became told that Kiso, who was renowned throughout Japan as a fierce god, was killed a mere retainer.'

既に戦後処理もひと段落しており、為朝は武勇を惜しまれて助命され、8月26日 (旧暦)（1156年9月12日）に肘を外し自慢の弓を射ることができないようにされてから伊豆大島に流刑となった。
Mop-up efforts after the war were already largely complete, so Tametomo's life was spared because of his great bravery during the war; on September 12, 1156, his elbow was dislocated so that he would no longer be able to use bows, the source of his pride, and he was exiled to Izu-oshima Island.

すなわち、彼らは、患難のために激しい試錬をうけたが、その満ちあふれる喜びは、極度の貧しさにもかかわらず、あふれ出て惜しみなく施す富となったのである。 (コリント人への第二の手紙 8:2)
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality. (2 Corinthians 8:2)

だけど、見てのとおりゴム紐が切れてしまっているのに、それを取り替える手間を惜しむあたり、明らかに以前ほど先見の明を持ち合わせておらず、さらにここで、天性の衰退がはっきりと証明されている。
But since we see that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature.

しかし、あなたはその人に従ってはならない。その人の言うことを聞いてはならない。その人をあわれんではならない。その人を惜しんではならない。その人をかばってはならない。 (申命記 13:8)
you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: (Deuteronomy 13:8)

言った、「主人アブラハムの神、主はほむべきかな。主はわたしの主人にいつくしみと、まこととを惜しまれなかった。そして主は旅にあるわたしを主人の兄弟の家に導かれた」。 (創世記 24:27)
He said, 'Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives.' (Genesis 24:27)

艶麗さと古雅な味いを共存させ、寂びた風情には捨てがたいものがあるが、惜しむらくは常磐津と清元のあいだにあって独自性が発揮できなかったために、歴史の流れに打ち克つことができなかったのである。
Although its elegant simplicity, arising from the combination of eroticism and antique flavor, has a charm all its own, it has failed to show its uniqueness against Tokiwazu and Kiyomoto and therefore cannot resist the tide of history.

「日本徴兵保険会社では最近のビル飢饉時代に建物に比較して広大な敷地を遊ばしておくのは土一升、金一升の場所から惜しいところでもあり、不経済であるとの理由で建物の取毀しを決定したともいはれる。」
It is said that Japan Conscription Insurance Company decided to destroy the building because it was a waste and bad economy to let a lot, which was large relative to the building, sit idle in the period, in which there is a dearth of buildings and a sho (a unit of volume that is equivalent to approximately 1.8 liters) of soil is worth a sho of gold.'

しかし、わたしは自分の行程を走り終え、主イエスから賜わった、神のめぐみの福音をあかしする任務を果し得さえしたら、このいのちは自分にとって、少しも惜しいとは思わない。 (使徒行伝 20:24)
But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God. (Acts 20:24)

それゆえ、わたしも憤って事を行う。わたしの目は彼らを惜しみ見ず、またあわれまない。たとい彼らがわたしの耳に大声で呼ばわっても、わたしは彼らの言うことを聞かない」。 (エゼキエル書 8:18)
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. (Ezekiel 8:18)

15歳の時に早世した兄に代わって河原家を嗣いでいたが、28歳の時に父の生家が断絶し、量平はこの名家が廃されるのを惜しみ、妹に婿養子を迎えて河原家を嗣がせたのち38歳で致仕し、菊池家を再興した。
He succeeded the Kawara family instead of his brother who had died early at the age of fifteen, but when his father's family lost their heir at the age of twenty-eight, he regretted the abolishment of this important family, made his sister take a husband, and made him succeed the Kawara family and restored the Kikuchi family at the age of thirty-eight after his retirement.

日本浄土宗の祖である法然（1133 - 1212）と親鸞（1173 - 1263）は、流罪（いわゆる承元の法難）になる前の承元元年（1207年）、月輪寺に兼実を訪ねて別離を惜しんだと伝えられる。
Legend has it that in 1207 before the exile of Honen (1133 - 1212), founders of Japan's Jodo (Pure Land) Sect, and Shinran (1173 - 1263) (the so-called Religious Persecution of the Shogen era), they visited Kanezane in Gatsurin-ji Temple and lamented their impending separation.

ヨラムはその位についた時三十二歳で、八年の間エルサレムで世を治め、ついに死んだ。ひとりも彼を惜しむ者がなかった。人々は彼をダビデの町に葬ったが、王たちの墓にではなかった。 (歴代志2 21:20)
Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. (2 Chronicles 21:20)

数々の武功を立てた土岐頼遠が、光厳上皇に狼藉を働いて捕らえられた際、頼遠の軍才や数々の武功を惜しんで助命を嘆願する声が上がり続けても、朝廷の権威を重んじる直義は断固として耳を貸さず、頼遠を斬首した。
When Yoritoo TOKI, a man who distinguished himself in numerous battles, was captured after treating Emperor Kogon violently, Tadayoshi, who respected the authority of the Imperial Court resolutely carried out his beheading even in the face of continued pleads for his life to be spared for his military genius and many meritous deeds.

あなたは心から彼に与えなければならない。彼に与える時は惜しんではならない。あなたの神、主はこの事のために、あなたをすべての事業と、手のすべての働きにおいて祝福されるからである。 (申命記 15:10)
You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. (Deuteronomy 15:10)

これらは将校准士官（軍刀初め軍服 (大日本帝国陸軍)は私物として自費購入であった）には安価で惜しげなく使える刀身として重宝され、下士官兵には官給軍刀（九五式軍刀等）として支給され、大量に実戦投入された。
These were appreciated by officers and under-officers of the Imperial Japanese Army (they had to buy the military sword and military uniform at their own expense as personal possessions) as blades they could get cheaply and use freely, and non-commissioned officers got them as government-furnished military swords (such as Type 95 Military Swords), and these swords were used in actual war.

その一例として、義貞が摂津豊島河原で尊氏を破り九州へ敗走させた後、勾当内侍との別れを惜しんで追撃を怠ったため、尊氏が勢力を盛り返し湊川で官軍を破って入京したという、義貞のだらしなさを強調する記述がある。
For example, there is a description, which emphasized Yoshimasa's lax character, stating that after Yoshisada defeated Takauji at Teshimagawara in Settsu and drove him to Kyushu, that he didn't chase him further since he was unwilling to part from Koto no naishi, and that he eventually allowed Takauji to recover power, defeating the Imperial army at Minatogawa and then returned to Kyoto.

『平家物語』によると決戦を前に沖合いの平氏の船団から妻を呼び寄せ最後の名残を惜しんでいたが、剛勇で知られる弟の教経から「そのような心がけでは、合戦の役には立ちませんよ」と嗜められてようやく船へ帰している。
According to the 'Tale of the Heike', before the decisive battle, Michimori called his wife to his place from the fleet of the Taira clan in the sea to mourn over their unwilling farewell, but sent her back to the boat after being reproved by his younger brother, Noritsune, known by his bravery, saying 'If you think this way, you cannot be of service in the war.'

同じく白州において、自刃もせずに捕らわれたことを徳川方の将兵が蔑むと「命は惜しい。命と右の手がありさえすれば、家康と秀忠をこのような姿にもできたのだ」と言い、「出家するから」とまで言って命乞いをしている。
In the same trial, when commanders and warriors of the Tokugawa side condemned him for not having committed suicide by the sword and instead being captured, he said 'I hold my life dear. If I can have my life and right hand, I can make Ieyasu and Hidetada into the same form as I am now.' and he begged for his life saying 'I will become a priest.'

ただあなたは自分の罪を認め、あなたの神、主にそむいてすべての青木の下で異なる神々にあなたの愛を惜しまず与えたこと、わたしの声に聞き従わなかったことを言いあらわせと、主は言われる。 (エレミヤ書 3:13)
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh.' (Jeremiah 3:13)

当初は柳生の裏を統べる最強の悪役の役回りで登場、主人公・松永誠一郎との闘いを経て『かくれさと苦界行』の後半にはその役回りは大きく変化してゆくが、惜しくも作者の急逝によりシリーズ全体としては未完に終わった。
At first, he appears as the strongest villain who controls the backstage of YAGYU, then after going through the fights with the hero, Seiichiro MATSUNAGA, in the latter half of 'Kakuresato Kugaiko,' the character of his role changes greatly; however, regretfully, the author's sudden death left the series as a whole incomplete.

ことごとく送別の辞を述べたが、三人共申し合せたようにうらなり君の、良教師で好人物な事を吹聴（ふいちょう）して、今回去られるのはまことに残念である、学校としてのみならず、個人として大いに惜しむところであるが、
These two made farewell addresses, and dwelt at length on Hubbard Squash being an ideal teacher and gentleman, expressing their regret, saying his departure was a great loss not only to the school but to them in person.

夕霧の生真面目な性格から父源氏のような過ちは起こらなかったものの、紫の上臨終後に再び垣間見た際には、その死に顔すら類なく美しいと絶賛し（「御法」）、源氏亡き後まで彼女が存命であればと惜しんでいる（「匂宮」）。
Due to Yugiri's very honest personality, he does not commit the same sin his father Genji did, but when he catches a glimpse of Murasaki no ue on her deathbed, he expresses great admiration for her beauty even in death ('Minori' (The Rites)), wishing that she would have lived longer after Genji died. ('Nioumiya')

さらに近衛前久は本能寺の変の当日または数日後に出家しており、これを細川幽斎の出家と同様、信長に殉じたと解釈するのが適切と見る見解や、後々まで信長の死を惜しんだ和歌を残している事などが反論として挙げられている。
It has been also pointed out as refutations that Sakihisa KONOE became a priest on the day of or several days after Honnoji Incident and it seems appropriate to understand his becoming a priest was to follow Nobunaga same as Yusai HOSOKAWA's becoming a priest and that Sakihisa KONOE made a waka (31-syllable Japanese poem) which mourned Nobunaga's death.

死去を惜しんだ弟子の忍基は鑑真の彫像（脱活乾漆彩色麻布を漆で張り合わせて骨格を作る手法両手先は木彫）を造り、現代まで唐招提寺に伝わっている（国宝唐招提寺鑑真像）が、これが日本最初の肖像彫刻とされている。
Ninki, one of Ganjin's disciples, who mourned his master's death, made the sculpture of Ganjin (Dakkatsu-kanshitsu [hollow dry lacquer: A method of making lacquer statues, popular in the Nara period], colored; a technique to form a framework of statue by layering of lacquered hemp cloth, and the both hands are carved in wood), which the Toshodai-ji Temple has preserved until today (Statue of Ganjin in Toshodai-ji Temple, national treasure) and is said the first portrait sculpture in Japan.

源範頼と義経は院に伺いをたてたところ、院中の公卿、局の女房、女童までも「木曾が法性寺を焼き滅ぼし、多くの高僧が亡くなったのは今井と樋口によるものであり、これを助けることは口惜しい」と述べたため死罪が決まった。
MINAMOTO no Noriyori and MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune asked the Retired Emperor Goshirakawa whether HIGUCHI could be saved, but the court nobles in the palace, even court ladies and girls that worked in palace room said, 'It is impossible to save HIGUCHI because IMAI and HIGUCHI burnt down Hossho-ji Temple and killed many high priests,' thus he was given the death sentence.

打ち破った敵にこんなふうに圧倒されるもしれない文明とは、まずなによりも、退廃しきっていて、任命された聖職者も教師も、それ以外のだれも、文明を擁護するための能力を欠いているか、その労を惜しんでいるような状態なのです。
A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy, must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it.

み使が言った、「わらべを手にかけてはならない。また何も彼にしてはならない。あなたの子、あなたのひとり子をさえ、わたしのために惜しまないので、あなたが神を恐れる者であることをわたしは今知った」。 (創世記 22:12)
He said, 'Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.' (Genesis 22:12)

『源平盛衰記』には、源義経に攻められている最中、義仲が五条内裏で伊子といつまでも別れを惜しんでいたので、越後中太能景（『平家物語』には家光とある）と加賀国住人の津波田三郎が切腹してこれを諌めたとする逸話が記されている。
'Genpei Seisui ki' (Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and the Taira clans) describes the following story: Yoshinaka remained unwilling to part from Ishi in Gojo Dairi (the Emperor's residential compound) in the middle of being attacked by MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, so Kazukage Echigo no chuta (referred to Iemitsu in 'Heike Monogatari' - The tale of the Heike) and Saburo TSUNADA who lived in Kaga Province committed Seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) to remonstrate that behavior.

箏の達人と評されながらもあまりに芸を出し惜しみ世間から批判されたこと、自分への進物を庭に並べて来客に見せびらかしたこと、知的障害のあった甥の永平親王に饗宴の接待をさせ大恥をかいたこと、、などといった逸話が語られている。
And the book presented several anecdotes as follows: although he had the fame to be a master of So (a long Japanese zither with thirteen strings), he was stingy about showing his accomplishments and was criticized by the public; to the visitors, he showed off the gifts he received, displaying them in his garden; he appointed his mentally disabled nephew, Imperial Prince Eihei, to entertain a feast and he made a fool of himself.

後に私塾の閉鎖について感想を求められた西園寺公は、「立命館の諸生が高談放論するのを、革命思想とでも勘ちがいして、ぬきうちに止めよと云ってきたらしく、塾はよほど盛んになっていて惜しかったけれど、廃校にした」と述べている。
Later, asked to give his comments on the closing of the private academy, Prince Saionji mentioned 'It seemed that they misunderstood that letting the students of Ritsumeikan speak freely was a revolutionary idea, but they asked that it be stopped, and while it was a shame, since the academy was quite active, I closed it.'

大韓帝国内でも李氏朝鮮による旧体制が維持されている状況では独自改革が難しいと判断した進歩会は日韓合邦を目指そうと鉄道敷設工事などに5万人ともいわれる大量の人員を派遣するなど、日露戦争において日本への協力を惜しまなかった。
The Shinpo-kai, which determined that the pursuit of reforms was difficult under systems of the former Yi Dynasty sought political union with Japan and voluntarily collaborated in support of Japan during the Russo-Japanese War; for instance, it reportedly deployed 50,000 people to construct railways.

エフライムはならされた若い雌牛であって、穀物を踏むことを好む。わたしはその麗しい首を惜しんだ。しかし、わたしはエフライムにくびきをかける。ユダは耕し、ヤコブは自分のために、まぐわをひかねばならない。 (ホセア書 10:11)
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods. (Hosea 10:11)

主なるわたしはこれを言った。そしてこれは必ず成る。わたしはこれをなす。わたしはやめない、惜しまない、悔いない。あなたのおこないにより、あなたのわざによって、あなたをさばくと、主なる神は言われる」。 (エゼキエル書 24:14)
I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh. (Ezekiel 24:14)

すなわち、この援助を行った結果として、あなたがたがキリストの福音の告白に対して従順であることや、彼らにも、すべての人にも、惜しみなく施しをしていることがわかってきて、彼らは神に栄光を帰し、 (コリント人への第二の手紙 9:13)
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; (2 Corinthians 9:13)

明治政府による富国強兵のもと、外貨獲得のために日本の近代化を支えたものは水の豊富な長野県諏訪地域における製糸業であり、みねを始め多くの女性労働者が家族との別れを惜しみつつ野麦峠を越え出稼ぎに出る，当時はそんな時代だったのである。
Under the policy of governments of the Meiji period 'Fukoku Kyohei' (fortifying the country, strengthening the military), the filature in Suwa area of Nagano Prefecture where richly endowed with water supported modernization of Japan to earn foreign currency, and many female workers like Mine reluctantly left their family home and went over the Nomugi Pass for work, that was quite usual in those days.

兄の友人だった人の名前を聞くことは、フレドリックにとっては不愉快なことであったが、まだ若者が見せた勇敢さを惜しむ気持ちは持っていたようで、フレドリックは出ていくときに、オーランドゥが誰か他の人の息子だったらよかったのに、と言った。
Hating to bear the very name of any of his brother's friends, and yet still admiring the valor of the youth, he said, as he went out, that he wished Orlando had jbeen the son of any other

あなたは心に邪念を起し、『第七年のゆるしの年が近づいた』と言って、貧しい兄弟に対し、物を惜しんで、何も与えないことのないように慎まなければならない。その人があなたを主に訴えるならば、あなたは罪を得るであろう。 (申命記 15:9)
Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand'; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. (Deuteronomy 15:9)

わたしの目はあなたを惜しみ見ず、またあなたをあわれまない。わたしはあなたの行いのためにあなたを罰する。あなたの憎むべき事があなたのうちにある。これによって、あなたがたはわたしが主であることを知るようになる。 (エゼキエル書 7:4)
My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (Ezekiel 7:4)

建武政権が足利尊氏追撃を行わなかった理由は幾つか考えられているが、『太平記』では新田義貞は京都において勾当内侍との別れを惜しみ、出兵する時期を逃したとし、勾当内侍が結果的に義貞の滅亡の遠因を作った女性であるとする描き方がされている。
Although several reasons were considered for why Yoshisada NITTA did not chase Takauji ASHIKAGA, 'Taiheiki' described the reason as follows: He was reluctant to leave Koto no naishi in Kyoto, losing the timing to dispatch troops, and therefore, she was the woman who generated the cause of Yoshisada's fall.

時に、ひとりの旅びとが、その富んでいる人のもとにきたが、自分の羊または牛のうちから一頭を取って、自分の所にきた旅びとのために調理することを惜しみ、その貧しい人の小羊を取って、これを自分の所にきた人のために調理した」。 (サムエル記下 12:4)
A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him.' (2 Samuel 12:4)

わたしの目はあなたを惜しみ見ず、またあなたをあわれまない。わたしはあなたの行いのためにあなたを罰する。あなたの憎むべき事があなたのうちにある。これによって、あなたがたは、主であるわたしがあなたを撃つことを知るようになる。 (エゼキエル書 7:9)
My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike. (Ezekiel 7:9)

…ここに、旧辞の誤りたがへるを惜しみ、先紀の謬り錯（まじ）れるを正さむとして、和銅四年九月十八日をもちて、臣安麻呂に詔りして、阿禮阿禮の誦む所の勅語の旧辞を撰録して献上せしむるといへれば、謹みて詔旨（おほみこと）の随（まにま）に、子細に採りひろひぬ。
A well-known emperor was sorry about Kyuji (a record of stories current at court) being incorrect, and attempted to correct pre-existing documents. On September 18, 711, the emperor ordered his subject, Yasumaro to present the Kyuji that was selected and recorded immediately after the emperor settled in Omiya, Kiyohara in Asuka, to the extent that HIEDA no Are could recite, and Yasumaro happily followed the emperor's words, thoroughly picking up Kyuji.

また、石川勾当の作品『八重衣』が三味線のあまりの難技巧のため、忘れ去られようとしているのを惜しんだ宮原検校が一計を案じ、「世間では箏の手付けの名人と讃えられているが、さすがに『八重衣』に箏の手が付けられないようでは八重崎も大したことはない」と吹聴した。
Also, the work 'Yaegoromo' (An Eight-Fold Garment) by koto ISHIKAWA, where the shamisen parts were extremely difficult to play, was being forgotten and kengyo MIYAHARA regretted this and contrived a plot, saying 'YAEZAKI is publicly honored for his koto virtuosity, but he's never played 'Yaegoromo' and is not a big deal.'

それゆえ、主なる神は言われる、わたしは生きている。あなたはその忌むべき物と、その憎むべき事とをもって、わたしの聖所を汚したので、わたしは必ずあなたの数を減らす。わたしの目はあなたを惜しみ見ず、またわたしはあなたをあわれまない。 (エゼキエル書 5:11)
Therefore as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. (Ezekiel 5:11)

明智光秀が福知山を統治するようになると、光秀は後に城下町ともなる城に連なる居住地造営と治水のため、長さ1kmにも及ぶ築堤により川筋を大幅に変更したことにより由良川の流れは大幅に改善されたが、それでも洪水は収まらずその後の為政者も治水に尽力を惜しまなかった。
When Mitsuhide AKECHI became the ruler of Fukuchiyama, he drastically changed the course of the river by building an embankment as long as one km for the purpose of developing the castle's residential area which later became a castle town, and improved the flow of the river; however, since floods still occurred, subsequent administrators spared no effort towards flood control.

日本海海戦でバルチック艦隊を破って後、山村で隠棲していた彼の遺族を私邸に招き、「日本海海戦で勝利を得たのは、（小栗上野介が生前に建造した）横須賀造船所で艦隊の十分な補給と整備を受けることができたからである」と故人の功績を称え、感謝の言葉を惜しまなかったという。
Destroying the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, Togo invited Oguri's bereaved family who lived in a remote village to his private residence to praise Oguri's distinguished service (Oguri had built the Yokosuka Dockyard for future Japan before his death) and to express his deep gratitude to them, saying, 'The Yokosuka Dockyard was able to provide enough supplies and maintenance for the Combined Fleet, which brought us victory in the Battle of Tsushima.'

どちらにせよ、折檻状は命を惜しんで隠棲するか命を懸けて功績を挙げ挽回するかという道を選ばせており、少なくとも追放されたのは信盛自身が選択したことで信長自身が問答無用で追放したのではないことを考慮する必要がある（ちなみに前田利家は功績を挙げて挽回したくちである）。
Anyway, the letter let Nobumori choose to either go into seclusion for the remainder of his life or regain his honor by making achievements at the risk of his life, and so the banishment was his choice and it should be taken into account that Nobunaga did not banish him without any choices (Toshiie MAEDA regained his honor by making an achievement).

大友義鎮は当初から陶隆房が晴英を傀儡として擁立するだけで、自分の政権が揺ぎ無いものとなれば、廃嫡されるに違いないと疑い反対したが、晴英自身が大内当主となるのを望み、「この要請を断り中傷を受ける事の方が悔しいので、命は惜しくない」と主張した為、義鎮もこれを認めた。
Yoshishige OTOMO was opposed in the beginning, as he suspected that if Takafusa SUE only supported Haruhide as his puppet, his own government would not survive and he would likely be disinherited, but as Haruhide himself wanted to become the head of the Ouchi clan and claimed that 'it is worse for me to be slandered by rejecting this request and I don't care for my life,' Yoshishige accepted.

そこである人は気前がよく、別のあるひとは、トスカナのことばを使えば(なぜトスカナのことばで言うのかといえば、私たちの言語で強欲な人というと、強奪してでも所有したがる人のことですが、しみったれな人というのは、自分のものを出し惜しみする人のことを言うからなのです)、しみったれだと評されます。
and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own);

しかし、「いずれの御時にか」で始まる『源氏物語』と違い、「少年の春は惜しめども留まらぬものなりければ、弥生の二十日余になりぬ」（有朋堂文庫）と始まる書き出しは、白居易の漢詩や『古今和歌集』の名歌を踏まえ、従妹源氏の宮への遂げられぬ恋に起因する狭衣の煩悶を描き、現実を意識したものとなっている。
However, unlike 'Genji Monogatari' which begins 'in a certain era,' 'Sagoromo Monogatari' begins with 'The springtime of youth does not stop, for it is already around the 20th day of the third month' (Yuhodo Bunko), which is based on a Chinese poem and a famous poem from 'Kokin Wakashu' (A Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry) and depicts Sagoromo's anguish caused by his unrequited love for his younger female cousin Genji no Miya while being true to reality.

水間沾徳（赤穂藩士大高源五・神崎与五郎・冨森助右衛門・萱野三平らの俳諧の師匠）の『沾徳随筆』の中にある「浅野氏滅亡之濫觴」によると「例年1200両かかる勅使饗応役の費用を浅野家は700両しか出さず、吉良がこれに異議を唱えたので両者が不和になり、刃傷の原因となった」とあり、浅野家の費用出し惜しみ説をとる。
'Asanoshi metsubou no ransho (story of the beginning of fall of the Asano family)' in 'Sentoku zuihitsu (essay)' written by Sentoku MIZUMA (the Haikai master of feudal retainers of Ako Domain Gengo OTAKA, Yogoro KANZAKI, Sukeemon TOMINOMORI and Sanpei KAYANO) adopted the theory the Asano family was stingy on the budget, saying as follows: 'The Asano family paid only 700 ryo for the expenses to entertain Imperial envoy, which cost 1200 ryo every year, and Kira protested against it, setting them in feud and ended up in Ninjo.'

主は言われる、この後、わたしはユダの王ゼデキヤとその家来たち、および疫病と、つるぎと、ききんを免れて、この町に残っている民を、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルの手と、その敵の手、およびその命を求める者の手に渡す。バビロンの王はつるぎの刃にかけて彼らを撃ち、彼らを惜しまず、顧みず、またあわれむこともしない』。 (エレミヤ書 21:7)
Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. (Jeremiah 21:7)

だが「現在この有様上方を捨てては、片岡家の先祖は言うに及ばず、何代かかって上方の芝居をここまで築き上げてきた先輩たちにこれほど申し訳ないことはないではないか。何としても上方の灯は守らなければ。」（片岡仁左衛門著「役者七十年」1976年朝日新聞社）とあるように、切実な関西歌舞伎の愛惜と先祖への思いとが「それでも駄目なら歌舞伎と心中しよう。」（同上）という悲壮な決心に向かったのである。
He also wrote, however, that 'If I gave up Kamigata in its present state, I would not have any excuse not only to the ancestors of the Kataoka family but also to my predecessors who had built up shibai (drama) in Kamigata up until now. By all means, I had to protect Kamigata Kabuki shibai.' ('Yakusha nanajunen (literally, seventy years as an actor)' by Nizaemon KATAOKA; published by The Asahi Shimbun Company), and his heart-felt sorrow for kabuki and his thoughts for his ancestors instilled in him the tragic but brave thought that 'If failed, I will die with kabuki.'(ibid.).

京都黒谷金戒光明寺の会津墓地にある柴司の墓碑銘には、上記の続柄や事件の経緯とともに「言い伝えによれば、死ぬことが難しいのではなく、立派な態度で死に臨むことが難しいという。柴司などは、本当に立派な態度で死を迎えた者だというべきだろう」、「もし柴司が6月12日に死ぬことなく、禁門の変に参戦していたなら、どれだけ活躍したであろうか。これはとても残念なことである」とその死を惜しまれている。
The passage in the epitaph of the grave of Tsukasa SHIBA in the graveyard for Aizu clan in Kinkaikomyo-ji Temple in Kurotani in Kyoto, regrets his death as saying, together with the record of his family and the details of the incidents as above, that 'according to a tradition, it is not difficult for one to die but it is difficult to face his/her own death with a resolute attitude. It should be said that each person including Tsukasa SHIBA faced his/her own death and died with a really resolute attitude' and that 'if Tsukasa SHIBA did not die on July 15 and participated in Kinmon Coup, what an important role he would play in it! This is very regrettable.'

家の中に潜んでいる反響も、天井裏の二十日鼠がちゅうちゅう鳴いて取組み合いをするのも、背後の小暗い庭にある半分氷の溶けた樋口の滴りも、元気のない白楊［＃「白楊」は底本では「柏楊」］の葉の落ち尽した枝の中に聞える溜息も、がら空きの倉庫の扉の時々忘れたようにばたばたするのも、いや、煖炉の中で火の撥ねる音も、一としてスクルージの胸に落ちて涙ぐませるような影響を与えないものはなかった、また彼の涙を一層惜し気もなく流させないものはなかった。
Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.

入門当初から鐡胤は薄々感じ取っていたが、父篤胤の幽冥・死後の世界の研究は、失われて埋没され、そして封印された古代信仰の雛形を元の姿に復元させる為の学問であり、其の為に古道の道に足を踏み入れて幽冥の存在を立証しようと試みていた事も知悉していたが、文政3年頃に知友屋代弘賢を通じ下谷長者町の博学の好事家山崎美成を介在して、後に父のもとを訪ねてきた異境を往来すると言う仙童寅吉の姿形を目の当たりに見て、父篤胤が唱える幽冥界の実在をしかと確認し、以後は自らも寸暇を惜しみ、不可解な奇譚の情報やその他の幽冥関連の資料類の蒐集に没頭する事になる。
Since entering the school, Kanetane knew that his teacher Atsutane studied mysterious things and the underworld to restore the ancient belief which had been lost or sealed up, besides Kanetane understood that Atsutane tried to prove the existence of mysterious things by Kodo; about 1820, by Yoshinari YAMAZAKI, a learned amateur living in Shitayachoja-machi and an acquaintance of Kanetane's friend Hirokata YASHIRO, Kanetane was introduced to Sendo Torakichi, who could come and go freely to the underworld, then Kanetane became convinced of the existence of the underworld, and began to put in serious efforts to collect information of mysterious stories and materials of such things.