植木: 119 Terms and Phrases
- 植木
- garden shrubs
- trees
- potted plant
- Ueki
- Uegi
- Umeki
- 植木等
- Ueki Hitoshi (1927.2-)
- Hitoshi Ueki
- 植木町
- Uekimachi
- Ueki, Kumamoto
- 植木組
- Ueki Corporation
- Uekigumi
- 植木鉢
- flowerpot
- plant pot
- Flower pot
- 植木豪
- Ueki Gou (h) (1975.12.15-)
- 植木繁晴
- Ueki Shigeharu (h) (1954.9.13-)
- Shigeharu Ueki
- 植木通彦
- Ueki Michihiko (h) (1968.4.26-)
- 植木安弘
- Ueki Yasuhiro (1954-)
- 植木正威
- Ueki Masatake (1942-)
- 植木枝盛
- Ueki Emori (h) (1857.2.14-1892.1.23)
- 植木圭一
- Ueki Keiichi (h) (1963.12.13-)
- 植木光教
- Ueki Mitsunori (h) (1927.3.24-)
- 筑前植木駅
- Chikuzen'ueki Station (st)
- 植木昌一郎
- Ueki Shouichirou (h) (1922.2.6-1986.10.12)
- 植木庚子郎
- Ueki Koushirou (h) (1900.1.28-1980.3.11)
- 鳶職や植木職
- Scaffolders and Gardeners
- 鹿本郡植木町
- Kamotogun'uekimachi
- 植木・木留の戦い
- Battle of Ueki and Kitome
- 私は植木が好きだ。
- I like a garden tree.
- 中央隊（植木・木葉方面）
- Center troop (Ueki and Konoha areas)
- その中に植木枝盛がいた。
- Emori UEKI was one of them.
- 母は植木の世話をよくする人だ。
- My mother looks after the plants well.
- 東洋大日本国国憲按（植木枝盛）
- Toyo Dai-Nippon-koku Kokken-an (A draft of the National Constitution for Great Japan of the East) (Emori UEKI)
- 彼女は植木鉢に新しい土を入れた。
- She put new soil in the flower pot.
- 室内用の鉢植えのための装飾的な植木鉢
- a decorative pot for house plants
- 私の留守中、植木の世話をしてくれる？
- Would you care for my plants while I'm away?
- 植木鉢が歩道に落ちてガチャンと割れた。
- The flower pot crashed to the sidewalk.
- 植木屋さんに木を何本か植えてもらった。
- I had the gardener plant some trees.
- 庭園建築家は北西の角に小さな植木をすることを提言した
- the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner
- 現在の熊本県熊本市北部と北部町と植木町と合志市の一部。
- It covered the north part of modern-day Kumamoto City, Hokubu-machi Town of Kumamoto City, Ueki-machi Town of Kamoto-gun and part of Koshi City in Kumamoto Prefecture.
- 庭は十坪（とつぼ）ほどの平庭で、これという植木もない。
- The garden is about thirty feet square, with no particular plants worthy of name.
- 植木方面の敗走によって、田原坂の重厚な防衛線は破られた。
- When the Satsuma army fled to the Ueki area, their heavy line of defense at Tabaru Slope fell.
- 7月下旬：植木神社祇園祭、陽夫多神社祇園祭（三重県伊賀市）
- Late July: Gion Matsuri Festivals of Ueki-jinja Shrine and Yabuta-jinja Shrine (held in Iga City, Mie Prefecture)
- 特に木工仕事が専門で、大工・細工・畳・植木などを統括した。
- Specializing chiefly in woodworks, the sakuji bugyo administered carpenters and other craftsmen in the areas of detailed works, tatami mats and garden plants.
- ・其の日（三月十八日）正面軍の密使、福田丈平、植木より至る。
- On that day (March 18), Takehei FUKUDA, a secret messenger from the front troop, came from Ueki.
- 更に玉の美しさに見とれた植木職人を手討ちにしたという話もある。
- It is also said he had a gardener who was captivated by Tama's beauty put to death.
- 「どうしたの？」「あのね、植木の枝の剪定をして欲しかったのよ」
- 'What is it?' 'Well, you see, I wanted the shrubs pruned.'
- しかし、この小隊も植木で官軍と遭遇し、小倉電撃作戦は失敗した。
- However the platoon encountered the government army in Ueki and the Kokura blitz plan was failed.
- 隣人から休暇で留守の間植木の世話をしてくれるように頼まれました。
- Our next-door neighbor asked us to look after his plants while he was away on vacation.
- 小松山の上野右衛門尉も植木が一族若林二郎右衛門に討たれし」とある。
- Chugoku Taiheiki also mentioned 'Ueno Uemon no jo was defeated by Jirouemon WAKABAYASHI, a member of the Ueki family.'
- 3月23日に官軍は植木・木留を攻撃し、一進一退の陣地戦に突入した。
- On March 23, the government army attacked Ueki and Kitome, and entered a stationary position warfare.
- 『板垣政法論』板垣退助述、植木枝盛記、五古周二編、自由楼、1881年
- 'Itagaki Seihoron,' dictated by Taisuke ITAGAKI, written by Emori UEKI, compiled by Shuji GOKO, published by Jiyuro, 1881
- 植木は明六社の演説会と『明六雑誌』に触れて自由民権に目覚めていった。
- Ueki was awakened to the Freedom and People's Rights through Meirokusha's speech meetings and 'Meiroku Zasshi.'
- 植木五郎右衛門の次男として周防国吉敷郡御堀村（現在の山口県山口市）で生まれる。
- He was born as the second son of Goroemon UEKI in Mihori village in the Yoshiki County, Suo Province (currently Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture)
- 『通俗無上政法論』板垣退助立案、植木枝盛記、和田稲積編、絵入自由出版社、1883年
- 'Tsuzoku Mujo Seihoron,' planned by Taisuke ITAGAKI, written by Emori UEKI, compiled by Izumi WADA, published by Eiri Jiyu Publishing Co, 1883
- 文字通り植木を専門に売る的屋であり、元々は植木屋や現在でも植木屋と兼業する者も多い。
- As the name implies, these are tekiya that sell plants and remains a side business of many gardeners even to this day.
- 以後は幕臣の松本良順により千駄ヶ谷の植木屋に匿われたとされ、慶応4年（1868年）に死去。
- After that, it is thought that Ryojun MATSUMOTO, a retainer of the Shogun, made arrangements for him to hide in a plant shop in Sendagaya, where he died in 1868.
- 薩軍は防衛線を築いていながらも、突然の攻撃のため徐々に応戦できなくなり、植木方面に敗走した。
- The Satsuma army was gradually overwhelmed by the sudden attack so that it could not fight back in spite of the line of defense and fled to the Ueki area.
- 庄は当国の旗頭たるにより、植木下野守秀長、庄に力を合わせ横谷より攻め掛け、上野の勢を追い崩した。
- Because the Sho clan is ruling this province, Ueki Shimotsuke no kami Hidenaga and the clan attacked the Ueno force from the valley side and beat it.
- その人たちは、ほんとに気のきいた人で、植木鉢を三つ四つ、ちやんと壁の下へおいてくれてゐるのです。
- who have been so sensible as to place three or four flower-pots against the wall in the court-yard,
- 植木はその後も会議の準備を続けていたが、4月27日に大阪府知事と大阪府警は会議の禁止を通達した。
- Although Ueki continued to make preparations for the council, the governor of Osaka Prefecture and Osaka prefectural police issued a notification banning the council.
- その後、官軍は田原坂を下って植木方面までの侵攻を試みたが、途中で薩軍の攻撃にあって中止となった。
- Subsequently, the government army descended Tabaru Slope in an attempt to invade the Ueki area, but was intercepted by the Satsuma army on its way and gave up the invasion.
- 3月24日にも官軍は再び木留を攻撃し、3月25日には植木に柵塁を設け、攻撃の主力を木留に移した。
- On March 24, the government army attacked Kitome again, and on 25th, put up a fenced fort in Ueki and transferred its main force of the attacking army to Kitome.
- 元木 懸の四方に植えられたヤナギ（東南）、サクラ（東北）、マツ（西北）、カエデ（西南）などの植木。
- Motoki (Elementary trees): garden trees planted in the four directions of a Kakari: willow (southeast), cherry (northeast), pine (northwest), maple (southwest).
- 4月12日に薩軍は最後の反撃をしたが、4月15日、植木・木留・熊本方面より撤退し、城南方面へ退いた。
- On April 12, the Satsuma army made the last counterattack, but on April 15, it retreated toward the Jonan area from the areas of Ueki, Kitome, and Kumamoto.
- 3月1日から3月31日まで、現在の熊本県鹿本郡植木町大字豊岡で田原坂・吉次峠の激戦が繰り広げられた。
- From March 1 to 31, the fierce battles of Tabaru Slope and Kichiji Pass were fought in present Oaza Toyooka, Uekimachi town, Kamotogun County, Kumamoto Prefecture.
- 憲法を考えるグループも生まれ、植木枝盛、交詢社（慶應義塾関係者のクラブ）らによる憲法私案が作られた。
- Among other groups that prepared drafts for the constitution, Emori UEKI and the Kojunsha (a club founded by alumni of Keio university) developed the drafts.
- 正月のお飾り、門松の作成、販売も鳶職もしくは、植木屋、農家、が鳶職と兼業している者が行っていることが多い。
- In many cases, either tobishoku, or gardeners and farmers who work as tobishoku at the same time, make and sell New year's decorations and kadomatsu (a pine tree decoration for new year).
- シンボルツリーは木製の大型植木鉢に植えられていることが多いが、御室仁和寺駅と宇多野駅は地面に直植えされている。
- The symbol trees are often planted in large wooden plant pots, but those at Omuro Ninna-ji Station and Utano Station are planted directly in the ground.
- 田原坂の戦いでは薩軍は敗北に終わったが、21日には早くも有明海・吉次峠・植木・隈府を結ぶ線に防衛陣地を築きあげた。
- Although the Satsuma army was defeated in the battle of Tabaru Slope, it had established defensive positions along the line connecting the Ariake sea, Kichiji Pass, Ueki, and Waifu as early as on 21st.
- 植木は偶々自由党自由党 (日本 1881-1884)に参加した際に全国の酒造業者が同様の悩みを抱えていることを知った。
- When joining the Liberal Party, Ueki happened to find out that breweries across the country faced the same problem.
- 3月26日、植木方面で銃声を聞くが征討軍が現れないので、後方攪乱部隊を3隊に分け、京町口・井芹村・本妙寺に出撃させた。
- On March 26, the reconnaissance party heard gunfire echoes from the Ueki area but could not find the punitive army, then, it divided the rear guard harassing company into three units and send them out to Kyomachiguchi, Iseri Village, and Honmyo-ji Temple, respectively.
- 死の際には、植木屋の庭に現れる黒猫を斬ろうとして幾度となく失敗し、己の衰えを痛感した沖田は以下のようにと嘆いていたという。
- It is believed that just before his death, he tried several times to kill a black cat which often sneaked into the plant shop's yard but always missed and, realizing his own weakness, he said as follows.
- この植木屋の記録により1720～1735年ごろ、駒込の西福寺に墓の残る当地の伊藤伊兵衛政武が人工交配・育成したとの推定もある。
- Based on the gardener's record, there is an assumption that sometime in the period from 1720 from 1735, ITO Ihei Masatake, who had lived in Komagome and whose tomb is at Saifuku-ji Temple, artificially bred and grew Someiyoshino.
- 下役に京都大工頭、大工頭、作事下奉行、畳奉行、細工所頭、勘定役頭取、作事方被官、瓦奉行、植木奉行、作事方庭作などの役があった。
- Kyoto daikugashira, daikugashira (construction prefect), sakuji shita-bugyo, tatami bugyo (tatami magistrate), saikudokoro gashira (tooling office head), kanjoyaku todori (chief of accounts), sakujikata hikan (construction low-level bureaucrat), kawara bugyo (roof tile magistrate), ueki bugyo (garden magistrate) and sakujikata niwasaku were under the sakuji bugyo.
- 1877年（明治10年）に宝暦年間より続く植木屋治兵衛である小川植治の養子になり、1879年（明治12年）に七代目小川治兵衛を襲名。
- He was adopted by Ueharu OGAWA, who owned the Jihei gardening shop that continued from Horeki Era (1751-1764) in 1877, and he succeeded to the name of seventh generation Jihei OGAWA in 1879.
- 明治15年 (1882) 鴈治郎を自身の一座に加え、『植木屋』の弥七を勤めた時は「よう見ときや」と声をかけてまず自分が演じて見せた。
- In 1882, he added Ganjiro to his own troupe and when he performed Yashichi in 'Uekiya,' he performed first himself saying 'Please pay attention to what I do carefully.'
- とび職や植木屋などは現在でも既得権として、地元限定で酉の市や朝顔市や羽子板市などまたは、正月のお飾りや七夕の竹、笹などを販売している。
- Scaffolders and gardeners still have vested rights in local Tori no Ichi (open-air markets), Asagao Ichi (Morning-glory fairs), and Hagoita Ichi (battledore fairs), as well as in the selling of decorations for New Year and bamboo for Tanabata festival.
- 小供の時から、こんなに教育されるから、いやにひねっこびた、植木鉢（うえきばち）の楓（かえで）みたような小人（しょうじん）が出来るんだ。
- It is because they are raised in this fashion from their boyhood that there are many punies who, like the dwarf maple tree in the flower pot, mature gnarled and twisted.
- 例えば、1880年（明治13年）4月に植木枝盛が起草し片岡健吉・河野広中らが提出した「国会を開設するの允可を上願する書」が著名である。
- For example, 'petition to establish the Diet' drawn up by Emori UEKI in April 1880 and submitted by Kenkichi KATAOKA and Hironaka KONO is well-known.
- 政府は自由党を刺激するのを避けるために植木の容疑は不問として、檄文に署名した島根県の小原鉄臣ら酒造業者5名のみを不応為罪で禁錮刑とした。
- In an attempt to avoid stimulating the Liberal Party, the government sentenced only Tetsuomi KOHARA and four other brewers from Shimane Prefecture who signed the manifesto to imprisonment for fuoizai (a minor offense), without charging Ueki with anything.
- 大正時代になると自転車が普及し、自転車のハンドルに掛ける道具袋の需要が生まれ、薬屋、牛乳屋、大工、植木屋、酒屋などの職人用カバンの製造を行った。
- In the Taisho period, bicycles became widely used, which created demand for tool bags hung on the bicycle: the company thus manufactured bags for workers, including pharmacists, milkmen, carpenters, gardeners, and sake dealers.
- 1881年5月、高知県の酒造業者300名が政府に対して造酒税の引下げ嘆願を提出するとともに、地元出身の自由民権運動の指導者植木枝盛に助力を求めた。
- In May 1881, 300 brewers from Kochi Prefecture presented the government with a petition for the reduction of sake brewing tax and at the same time sought cooperation from Emori UEKI who was the leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement and was also from Kochi.
- 政府軍一部の植木進出を聞き、午後3時に村田三介・伊東直二の小隊が植木に派遣され、夕刻、伊東隊の岩切正九郎が乃木希典率いる第14連隊の軍旗を分捕った。
- He heard that part of the Governmental army had gone to Ueki, then the platoon of Sansuke MURATA and Naoji ITO was sent to Ueki, and they captured the army flag of the fourteenth regiment, which was lead by Shokuro IWAKIRI and Maresuke NOGI of the army of Ito.
- それ等の花や木は、あなた方の見てお出での、たゞの植木と同じかつこうをしてゐますが、たゞ、ちがふのは、『死』が植ゑてゐる花や木には心臓があつて、脈を打つてゐます。
- they look like other plants, but they have pulsations of the heart.
- 江戸末期から明治初期に、江戸の染井村（現在の東京都豊島区駒込）に集落を作っていた造園師や植木職人達によって育成され「吉野桜（ヤマザクラの意）」として売り出していた。
- In the time from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period, it was raised by gardeners and artisans of garden trees who had established a colony in Somei Village, in Edo (the present-day Komagome, Toshima Ward, Tokyo Prefecture), and was sold as 'Yoshinozakura' (meaning Yamazakura, or Prunus jamasakura).
- 同日午後、薩軍は官軍一部の植木進出を聞き、午後3時に村田三介・伊東直二の小隊が植木に派遣され、夕刻、伊東隊の岩切正九郎が第十四連隊（乃木希典少佐）の軍旗を分捕った。
- At three o'clock in the afternoon, upon learning that part of the government army marched into Ueki, the Satsuma army dispatched the platoons led by Sansuke MURATA and Naoji ITO to Ueki, and in the evening, Shokuro IWAKIRI of the ITO's platoon captured the battle flag of the 14th regiment ((Major Maresuke NOGI..)
- しかし上で見たように『明六雑誌』には自由民権運動についての論説がしばしば掲載され、各種新聞で多くの反響を呼び、植木枝盛のような熱狂的な支持者を生み出すきっかけともなっていた。
- However, as mentioned above, the articles on the Freedom and People's Rights Movement were often published on 'Meiroku Zasshi,' which evoked many responses on various newspapers and enthusiastic supporters such as Emori UEKI.
- 現在、江戸時代から発達した絢爛豪華な火鉢は、装飾植木鉢、プランターカバーとしての需要があり、また凡庸な火鉢もリサイクル用途として、庭先などで中に水を張り金魚などの大型の金魚鉢として、使われることも多い。
- Luxurious hibachi developed since the Edo period are now in demand as decorated flower pots or planter covers, and simple hibachi are often recycled for use as goldfish bowls in gardens.
- こうした重税化の動きに対し酒蔵側は、明治14年（1881年）に高知県の酒造業者が、同県出身の自由民権運動の指導者植木枝盛の助力を得て、酒造税引き下げの嘆願書を政府に提出したのを皮切りに、各地で抵抗に立ち上がった。
- Against this tendency for heavier taxes, the sake breweries protested in various places, triggered by the submission of petitions for a reduction of liquor tax by a sake brewery in the Kochi Prefecture in 1881 supported by Emori UEKI, a leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement from Kochi Prefecture.
- この軍議では一旦は篠原らの全軍攻城策に決したが、のちの再軍議で熊本城を長囲し、一部は小倉を電撃すべしと決し、翌23日に池上四郎が数箇小隊を率いて出発したが、南下してきた政府軍と田原・高瀬・植木などで衝突し、電撃作戦は失敗した。
- The plan of Shinohara that all army attack the castle was chosen at the military meeting at first, but they had been laying seige to Kumamoto Castle for a time by the next military meeting, and decided that the part of them should attack Okura suddenly, so Shiro IKEGAMI left with several platoons on the 23rd, but they encountered the Governmental army, which was moving south at Tahara, Takase and Ueki, and the blitz tactics failed.
- これを聞いた薩軍の野村忍介は植木にいた隊を引き連れて鳥巣に向かい、挽回しようと奮戦するが、結局、この日一日では決着はつかず、4月7日に官軍がこの地に一旦見切りをつけ、古閑を先に攻略しようとしたことにより、一時的に休戦状態になった。
- In response to the report, the Satsuma army's Oshisuke NOMURA in Ueki led his troop to Torisu to restore the area but the battle was not decided on the day; on April 7, the battle over the area was suspended once, since the government army temporarily gave up the area to capture Koga first.
- 池上率いる長囲軍は当初、21個小隊・1個砲隊、計4,700名近くもいたが、長囲策が採られると16個小隊・2個砲隊に減少し、3月になって高瀬・山鹿・田原・植木等の北部戦線が激戦化するにつれ、増援部隊を激戦地に派遣してさらに減少した。
- The besieging army led by IKEGAMI was as big as about 4700 strong with 21 platoons and one battery in the beginning, but reduced to 16 platoons and two batteries during the drawn-out siege, and further reduced in March when they sent reinforcements to the hard-fought battlefields at the north front including Takase, Yamaga, Tabaru, and Ueki as the battles became more violent.
- 薩軍諸隊が熊本城・植木から逐次撤退してきた4月17日、桐野らは本営木山を中心に、右翼は大津・長嶺・保田窪・健軍、左翼は御船に亘る20km余りの新たな防衛線を築き、ここで南下する官軍を迎え撃ち、官軍を全滅させる作戦をとることにした。
- On April 17 when troops of the Satsuma army retreated from Kumamoto Castle and Ueki one after another, KIRINO and others decided to establish a new 20-km plus line of defense from the right flank in Otsu, Nagamine, Hotakubo and Kengun to the left flank in Mifune with the headquarters in Kiyama at the center to make a stand against the government army that was coming towards the south and to annihilate the government army.
- これに対し、明治初年に樹齢100年に達するソメイヨシノが小石川植物園に植えられていたという記録や、染井村（現在の東京都豊島区駒込）の植木屋の記録にソメイヨシノを作出したという記録が発見されたことから、岩崎文雄らは染井村起源説を唱えている。
- Against this theory, given a record stating that Someiyoshino, reaching the age of 100, had been planted in Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, and the record of a gardener in Somei Village (the present-day Komagome, Toshima Ward, Tokyo Prefecture) stating that Someiyoshino was bred, Fumio IWASAKI and others advocate the theory that regards Somei Village as the place of origin.
- 赤穂浪士の討ち入りを題材とした歌舞伎の演目には、『仮名手本忠臣蔵』のほかにもいわゆる「義士外伝」としてこの『松浦の太鼓』をはじめ、『忠臣連理の鉢植』（植木屋）、『赤垣源蔵徳利の別れ』、『鳩の平右衛門』、『弥作の鎌腹』、『本蔵下屋敷』などがある。
- Apart from 'Kanadehon Chushingura' (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), plays so called `Gishi gaiden' (The biography and story about the person except Ako Roshi) that includes 'Matsu-ura no taiko,' 'Chushin Renri no Hachiue' (uekiya, gardener), 赤垣源蔵徳利の別れ,''Hato no Heiemon,' 'Yasaku no Kamabara,' and 'Honzo Simoyashiki,'are the plays of Kabuki dealing with the raid of Ako Roshi.
- 「守貞漫稿」には食品以外にもほうき、花、風鈴、銅の器、もぐさ、暦、筆墨、樽、おけ、たき付け用の木くず、ざる、蚊帳、草履、みのかさ、植木、小太鼓、シャボン玉、金魚、鈴虫・松虫などの昆虫、錦鯉など日用品や子供のおもちゃ、果てはペットを商う振売も紹介されている。
- In addition to the food peddlers, the 'Morisadamanko' introduces other furiuri dealing with daily necessities including brooms, flowers, wind bells, copper containers, moxa, calendars, ink, barrels, tubs, kindling woodchips, baskets, mosquito nets, sandals, straw raincoats and hats, garden trees, small drums, soap bubbles, gold fish, insects such as bell cricket and pine cricket, varicolored golden carps as well as children's toys, and on top of that, pet peddlers are introduced.
- 植木方面、木留・吉次方面、鳥巣方面、熊本方面では引き続き官軍と薩軍の攻防戦が繰り広げられ、2月20日～27日には熊本方面、3月1日～31日には田原・吉次方面、3月10日～4月15日には鳥巣方面、3月4日～4月15日には植木・木留方面で激しい戦闘が行われた。
- The government army and the Satsuma army kept engaged in battles of attack and defense in the areas of Ueki, Kitome and Kichiji, Torisu, and Kumamoto; from February 20 to 27, they fiercely fought in the Kumamoto area, from March 1 to 31, in the areas of Tabaru and Kichiji, from March 10 to April 15, in the area of Torisu, and from March 4 to April 15, in the areas of Ueki and Kitome.
- だが、植木は「会議は禁止されても代表に会う事までは禁じられていない」として、5月4日に淀川上の船上で大阪入りできた代表と会合を持ち、5月10日に京都祇園で改めて2府15県代表44名と会議を開催して先に禁錮刑を受けた小原鉄臣を代表者として「酒税軽減嘆願書」を起草して政府に提出した。
- Ueki, however, held a meeting with delegates who managed to arrive in Osaka on board on the Yodo-gawa River on May 4, saying 'the council is prohibited, but it is not prohibited to meet the delegates,' held the council with 44 delegates from 17 prefectures in Gion, Kyoto at another time on May 10, and made Tetsuomi KOHARA who had been imprisoned before represent participants to draft and submit 'The Petition for Liquor Tax Reduction' to the government.
- - 都市部においては、天下普請の施行により、鳶職や植木職などの建設に係わる者が、町場の相互関係の中で特別な義務と権限（町火消しなど）を持つようになり、特定の縁起物（熊手、朝顔）や売り上げが確実に見込める物（正月のお飾り）の販売を独占する傾向にあり、現在でもその不文律が継承されている。
- In the urban site, with the policy of tenka fushin (nation wide constructions carried out by Tokugawa shogunate), people connected to construction, such as scaffolders and gardeners, were given special duties and rights (such as acting as firefighters) in the town's correlation and tended to monopolize the market for special good luck charms (rakes or morning glories) or items that would definitely sell (for example, New Year decorations); this unwritten law continues even today.
- この人、東寺の門に雨宿りせられたりけるに、かたは者どもの集まりゐたるが、手も足もねぢゆがみ、うちかへりて、いづくも不具に異様なるを見て、とりどりにたぐひなき曲者なり、もつとも愛するに足れりと思ひて、まもり給ひけるほどに、やがてその興つきて、見にくく、いぶせく覚えければ、ただすなほに珍しからぬ物にはしかずと思ひて、帰りて後、この間、植木を好みて、異様に曲折あるを求めて目を喜ばしめつるは、かのかたはを愛するなりけりと、興なく覚えければ、鉢に植ゑられける木ども、皆掘り捨てられにけり。
- This is same man (Suketomo Kyo), who was once taking shelter from the rain in the gate of To-ji Temple, where there were gathered together many cripples with twisted arms and distorted legs bent backwards. Noting their various peculiar deformities he thought, 'These are all very strange freaks, and are certainly well worth preserving.' But, when he looked at them more closely, he soon lost all pleasure in them and, regarding them as ugly and vile, thought, 'Surely there can be nothing better than the unusual upright form.' So on his return home, his well-loved little trees, which he had collected and carefully trained into queer shapes to make his eyes glad, from that time forth no longer gave him any pleasure; for he felt that to love them was like loving those cripples. Accordingly, he dug up and threw away all his dwarf trees that he had cultivated in little pots.
