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皮肉: 225 Terms and Phrases

皮肉
cynicism
sarcasm
irony
satire
mordacity
quip
sarcastic
wisecrack
ironically

皮肉の
sarcastic
tongue-in-cheek
wry

皮肉に
ironically
sardonically
in a satirical manner
with cynicism

皮肉な
cynical
ironic
ironical
mordant
sarcastic
sardonic

皮肉屋
cynic
satirist
wise guy

皮肉る
to speak cynically or with sarcasm
be cynical
satirize

皮肉った
tongue-in-cheek

皮肉屋の
ironical

皮肉にも
cynically

類上皮肉腫
epithelioid sarcoma

皮肉をいう
wisecrack

運命の皮肉
irony of fate

皮肉を言う
ironic

皮肉好きな
ironical

歴史の皮肉
Ironical history

皮肉のない
not sarcastic

皮肉な微笑
an ironical smile

皮肉なことに
cynically

皮肉の好きな
ironic

皮肉な態度で
in a cynical manner

皮肉な方法で
in a sarcastic manner

軽い皮肉気味
a vein of gentle irony

皮肉な態度の
in an ironic manner

皮肉たっぷりに
sarcastically

皮肉のつもりの
would-be ironical

皮肉たっぷりな
wry

皮肉たっぷりの
corrosive

皮肉で嘲笑する
ridicule with satire

意地悪く皮肉な
spitefully sarcastic

皮肉のアドバイス
tongue-in-cheek advice

皮肉:極めて明白で
plain as the nose in one's face

皮肉:全くあいまいで
clear as blue mud

皮肉:ひどくきたない
clean as a pig-sty

皮肉っぽくあいまいな
ironically ambiguous

皮肉の発見できる態度
a detectable note of sarcasm

と彼は皮肉に尋ねた。
he asked ironically.

良く考えた皮肉をこめて
with measured irony

パパはひどく皮肉っぽく
He became dangerously sarcastic.

とデイジーが皮肉った。
said Daisy cynically.

皮肉は愚か者には通じない
irony is wasted on the stupid

幕府の狼狽ぶりを皮肉った。
The kyoka was a satire on the dismay of bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).

彼の辛辣な皮肉は明白だった
the pointedness of his sarcasm was unmistakable

彼はいつも私に皮肉を言う。
He always makes cynical remarks to me.

と、彼は皮肉っぽく訊ねた。
he asked sarcastically.

荒々しく皮肉かあるいは不吉な
harshly ironic or sinister

私はこの説法を皮肉ととらえる
I read this address as a satire

彼女は少し皮肉っぽく話した。
She spoke with a suggestion of sarcasm in her voice.

僕は皮肉っぽく言ってやった。
I said ironically.

コメントを製作する、通常皮肉な
make a comment, usually ironic

驚き、懐疑または皮肉などの表現
an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.

彼女は彼の皮肉がわかるだろう。
She will perceive his irony.

彼女は、皮肉に彼のまねをし始めた
she began to mimic him ironically

ユーモラスに皮肉であるか嘲笑的な
humorously sarcastic or mocking

彼女は皮肉のある鋭い言葉を投げた
she threw shafts of sarcasm

彼は少しばかり皮肉っぽく話した。
He spoke with a suggestion of sarcasm in his voice.

嘲笑と皮肉と風刺を使うユーモア作家
a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

彼の皮肉はあなたに向けてではない。
His ironical remarks are not directed at you.

彼は私を見て皮肉な微笑を浮かべた。
He smiled a cynical smile at me.

さらに事に気付いた源氏に皮肉られる。
Furthermore, Genji, who realized what had been going on, became sarcastic toward her.

善が悪に勝った結果（たいてい皮肉で）
an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

彼は、彼の皮肉な発言で彼女をいじめた
He needled her with his sarcastic remarks

彼は私を見て皮肉な微笑みをうかべた。
He smiled a cynical smile at me.

一方、源氏の皮肉を聞いた内大臣も激怒。
Meanwhile, the Minister of the Interior, was enraged when he heard the cynical remark that Genji had made.

彼の皮肉は君に向けられたものではない。
His ironical remarks aren't directed at you.

声の調子は怒りや皮肉を示すことがある。
Tone of voice can indicate anger and irony.

彼の皮肉意見はあなたに向けてではない。
His ironical remarks are not directed at you.

皮肉な笑いを浮かべて彼は私を見つめた。
He stared at me with a satirical smile.

その男は皮肉な笑いを浮べながら答えた。
said the fellow with a sinister smile,

とハインズ氏は皮肉っぽく老人に言った。
said Mr. Hynes satirically to the old man.

貧困に値する（しばしば皮肉に使用される）
the deserving poor(often used ironically)

皮肉にも秀家は父に先立って病没している。
Ironically, Hideie died from disease before his father.

当時主流の自然主義文学への皮肉が見られる。
Sarcasm towards literary naturalism which was a dominant trend of the time is detected in this story.

『わかった』と、彼が皮肉っぽくコメントした
`I see,' he commented wryly

彼の本には、皮肉と悲しみが混じり合っている
His book commingles sarcasm and sadness

彼の演説には少し皮肉っぽいところがあった。
There was a touch of irony in his speech.

軽蔑するように、または、皮肉にユーモラスな
disdainfully or ironically humorous

とソーピーは、皮肉抜きで、愛想よく言った。
said Soapy, not without sarcasm, but friendly,

とゲイブリエルは依然、皮肉をこめて言った。
asked Gabriel, still ironically.

そこには飽くなき権力欲への皮肉も垣間見える。
There is also a touch of cynicism about the insatiable desire for power.

彼の口調にはちょっとした皮肉が込められていた
there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone

狂気、そのような頭の良い思想家には皮肉な運命
madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker

と、スクルージは例の通り皮肉に冷淡に云った。
said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever.

面白く、または皮肉に、物まねあるいは模倣をする
mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner

彼は、彼の相手を狼狽させるために、皮肉を使った
he used sarcasm to upset his opponent

特に皮肉な効果のために、模倣する（人または方法）
imitate (a person or manner) , especially for satirical effect

私はあなたの皮肉な言葉は聞き捨てにはできません。
I resent your cynical remarks.

通常の意味と反対の意味での言葉の使用（特に皮肉で）
the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

彼は彼女の声に皮肉のちらつきを察知して、たじろいだ
he winced at the detected flicker of irony in her voice

ラーセンの霜で黒くなっている唇が皮肉っぽく曲がった
Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically

きつい皮肉と意図的な侮辱の書きおき?VLパリントン
a note of biting irony and studied insult- V.L.Parrington

皮肉なことに戦争が数多くの有用な発明を生み出した。
Ironically it is war that has brought a great many useful inventions into being.

述べられることの反対を示すために皮肉的に使用される
used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated

しかし、その当の徳松が夭折したのは何とも皮肉である。
However, ironically enough, Tokumatsu himself died young.

皮肉にも、彼は結局、彼自身の計画の結果、お金を失った
ironically, he ended up losing money under his own plan

その国を模倣するアイルランドの皮肉を彼女は最も嫌った
the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated

皮肉な意見は、間接的にしばしば意図された意味を伝える
an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely

皮肉にもこの年の12月に為家は蔵人頭に任じられている。
Ironically, Tameie was assigned to Kurodo no to (Head Chamberlain) in December (old calendar) of the same year).

染みとおるような皮肉を用意した…彼は気取りに傷をつける
armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations

このひどく皮肉な言葉は、みんなの居心地を悪くしました。
The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression,

このことは、アスカムの皮肉より、グラニスにはこたえた。
The fact hurt more than Ascham's irony.

よく計画された計画があまりに完全に失敗したのは、皮肉だった
it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely

無邪気なのか不可解な皮肉なのか、フィッシャーはそう言った。
said Fisher, either with simplicity or with a baffling irony.

皮肉にも自らが暗殺されたことにより、将軍の権威は地に堕ちた。
Ironically, Yoshiteru's assassination led to the fall of the shogun's authority.

米国の詩人で、皮肉と分別で知られる（1887年−1872年）
United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)

ちょっとした皮肉のこもったユーモアセンスを持ったおどけた小男
a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor

その情報源からの攻撃は、かれの誠実に対する皮肉なお世辞に等しい
attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity

隔週発行の皮肉で満ちた雑誌によるしつこいあざけりのキャンペーン
a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine

彼の説法は思いがけない機智があり、雄弁であると同時に皮肉がある
his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent

その賞賛は皮肉の変装したものであることに彼は気がつかなかった。
He was not aware that the praise was a satire in disguise.

皮肉にも頼朝挙兵後に平家方についた波多野氏は滅ぼされる事になる。
Ironically, the Hatano clan serving the Taira family after Yoritomo took up arms was destroyed.

皮肉であるが、この大火で消防の指揮をとっていたのは浅野であった。
Ironically, it was Asano who was in charge of firefighting in that catastrophic event.

源氏は、夕霧と雲居の雁の仲を許さない不快も手伝って痛烈に皮肉った。
Genji also knew that To no Chujo had forbidden Kumoi no Kari from seeing Yugiri, so he made a cynical remark about his conduct.

米国のユーモア作家で皮肉な短編小説の筆者（1885年−1933年）
United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933)

なら、見守ってだれかが傷つく皮肉のひとつでもいうことにしましょう。
So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

社会態度の皮肉喜劇で有名なアイルランドの劇作家（1751-1816）
Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)

と、同時に、ホームズは揶揄半分に皮肉半分のいつもの態度に逆戻りした。
He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him.

だが、皮肉にも直後から同族の昇進が相次ぎ、大臣任命が相次ぐ事になった。
Ironically enough, however, almost immediately afterwards, members of his family began to be promoted, becoming ministers one after another.

皮肉にも摂関政治を終焉に導いた院政が「摂関家」という概念を生み出した。
Ironically, it was the cloistered government that ended the regency that produced the concept of the 'regent's house.'

だがその翌日、皮肉にも、時計は二等航海士のカラー入れから発見されたんだ。
The next day, with a delightful irony, the watch was found among the second officer's collars.

相手もするどい皮肉でもってそれに答え、観衆はわらいながら評決を下します。
The defendant replied with satire as keen, while the audience laughed, and gave their verdict.

皮肉にも友禅の発明により、藍染め主体で地味な茶屋染は流行から外れていった。
Ironically, the invention of Yuzen caused the indigo-based, simple Chayazome to go out of fashion.

『ああ、現在、我々は真実に手が届いている』と、彼が皮肉をこめて口出しをした
`Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically

だが皮肉なことにこのことが結果的に西郷を政治的な隠遁に追い込む遠因となった。
But, as a result this thing was an ironical indirect cause that forced Saigo into retired from politics.

状況の意味が劇の登場人物によってでなく観衆によって理解されるときに起こる皮肉
irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

事実を知った源氏に宴席で皮肉を言われた柏木は恐怖のあまり自失、死の床についた。
Genji, who had found the truth, talked cynically to Kashiwagi, and he was petrified and was on his deathbed.

スペインの画家で、肖像と皮肉のためによく知られている（1746年−1828年）
Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828 )

他の中から女性のファッションに対して皮肉のあてこすりで面白おかしく本題をそれる
amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things

とぼけたユーモア、ニコリともせずに言うユーモア、平然と皮肉を込めて言うユーモア
dry humor

しかし、皮肉にも明治維新後の文明開化により茶道が衰退、奥村家は大ダメージを受ける。
Ironically, tea ceremony declined due to civilization and enlightenment which came after the Meiji Restoration, and the Okumura family was badly damaged.

彼の反乱はすべての偉大な風刺作家の苦しく皮肉な笑いである−フランク・シェーンベルナー
his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists- Frank Schoenberner

ドン・ルーイが彼のエピグラムで組み立てた特に皮肉で気取ったスタイル−ハービー・アレン
the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams- Hervey Allen

皮肉にも、驕慢な貴公子であった源氏にとって、空蝉の拒絶が彼女を忘れられない存在にした。
Ironically, it is her rejection that makes her an unforgettable figure for Genji, who is a proud-hearted noble.

数日後、皮肉にも頼家が病から回復、舅の比企一族の滅亡と一幡、若狭局の死を知り激怒した。
Ironically Yoriie recovered from illness a few days later and became furious to know the fall of his father-in-law's clan as well as the death of Ichiman and Wakasa no Tsubone.

皮肉にも、2006年度に出荷されたみかんは平年より甘く美味なものが多かったようである。
Ironically, it seems that mikan shipped in fiscal year 2006 were sweeter and more tasty than those of an average year.

松竹首脳、組合幹部等をユーモアに包んで皮肉り好評を得るが、会社から圧力をうけ四号で終了。
The magazine that portrayed the top management figures and union leaders of Shochiku with a wry sense of humor gained a high reputation, however it had to be discontinued after its forth volume due to pressure from the company.

紙の需要が高まるにつれ、皮肉なことに律令制度に緩みがでて、紙の原料の供給が細ってしまった。
With the increasing demand of paper, ironically the system of centralized administration which was established under the ritsuryo legal codes loosened and the supply of paper materials became scarce.

息子の長政の活躍により、関ヶ原の合戦が短期に終結したのは皮肉な巡り合わせと言えるかも知れない。
There is irony in that his son Nagamasa's successful performance contributed to ending the Battle of Sekigahara in a short period of time.

（しかし前者は物語作者の主観でしかなく、後者は諸国人への皮肉と誹謗が多く見られる書物である。）
(However, the above-mentioned description in the former work was only based on the subjectivity of the author, while the latter work was a book filled with sarcasm and slander regarding people living in various areas.)

ふたたび同じ敬礼をすると、それは僕の目にはいくぶん皮肉に思えたが、たいまつを借りますよと断った。
and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch.

同座した中村宗十郎からはこてんぱんに叩かれ、作家の仮名垣魯文には「活歴」（かつれき）と皮肉られた。
Danjuro was torn to pieces by co-star Sojuro NAKAMURA while author Robun KANAGAKI sarcastically labeled Danjuro's performances as 'Katsureki'.

フランスの画家で、ブルジョア社会の皮肉のこもったリトグラフでよく知られる（1808年−1879年）
French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879)

多くの国宝級美術品が中国国外に流出したが、それは皮肉にも中国美術品の価値を世界に広めることになった。
Many national treasure works of art flowed out of China, and ironically the value of Chinese art came to be known across the world from this.

まさに歴史の皮肉としか言えないが、幕府が容堂を藩主にまで押し上げた事実を考えれば、当然の事でもあった。
This was truly an irony of history, but it was also very logical, considering the fact that Bakufu had placed Yodo in a position as daimyo.

これを皮肉を込めて「山階道理」（山階寺は平安遷都よりも遥か以前に山科区にあった興福寺の前身）と呼ばれた。
These unreasonable demands were sarcastically called 'Yamashina dori' (Yamashina arguments), and this Yamashina came from Yamashina-dera Temple (the predecessor of Kofuku-ji Temple), which was located in today's Yamashina Ward of Kyoto long before the national capital was transferred to Heian-kyo (today's Kyoto).

比較的高額の紙幣に採用されたにしては皮肉なことに、一葉の短い生涯は、金策に常に不便するという生涯だった。
Ironically, although she was adopted for rather expensive banknote, Ichiyo was continually pressed for money throughout her short life.

皮肉にも豊成・永手らは反仲麻呂派であると同時に奈良麻呂らの標的とされた孝謙天皇の側近であった人々であった。
Ironically, people such as Toyonari and Nagate were members of the anti-Nakamaro party as well as close advisors to Empress Koken, a target of Naramaro.

皮肉なことに、天保の復古様式の「再興」により伝統的な取り付け方が絶えて、現行の縫い付け式になったのである。
Ironically, the traditional way to attach kogoshi disappeared with the 'Revival' of restoration style of Tenpo (a name of an era during the Edo period), and became today's stitched type.

柏木もそのことを知らされ罪におののき、さらに六条院で行われた試楽の際、源氏に痛烈な皮肉を言われて病に臥した。
Kashiwagi also notices this, and terrified of his sin, he falls ill to hear Genji's bitter sarcasm at a rehearsal of court dances and music held in Rokujo-in Palace.

ゲイブリエルは皮肉の失敗と、死者たちの中からこの人物を、ガス工場の少年を呼び起こしたことを恥ずかしく思った。
Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.

しかし、そのために膨大な軍資金を支配下の国人衆に課すことになり、皮肉にも却って国人衆の造反を招く結果となった。
However, he had to levy war funds on Kokujin-shu (local samurais) under him for that purpose, and ironically it ended up in touching off a rebellion.

皮肉なことにこの政策は敵である鎌倉幕府に僧兵を擁しない禅宗や念仏宗の保護といった穏健化した形で受け継がれていく。
It is ironic that Kiyomori's policy was adopted by his enemy, the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), in a milder form, such as protection of the Zen and Nenbutsu sects that did not hold any priest soldiers.

ある組織の従業員の数はやるべき仕事の量に関係なく直線的に増加するというC.ノースコート・パーキンソンの皮肉な観測
C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done

私たちみんなが目指しているこのことが、完全には達成されない方が良いというのは、人生の些細とはいえない皮肉である。
It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

眼瞼（まぶた）の皮肉に垂れ下がった、狂暴な青い目、鋭い圧倒的に突き出た鼻、威嚇するような太い線の刻まれた額、――
But one could not look upon his cruel blue eyes, with their drooping, cynical lids, or upon the fierce, aggressive nose and the threatening, deep-lined brow,

狂歌（きょうか）とは、社会風刺や皮肉、滑稽を盛り込み、五・七・五・七・七の音で構成した短歌（和歌）のパロディ形式。
Kyoka is a parody of tanka (Japanese poem) that contains social satire, irony, and humor in 31 (5-7-5-7-7) syllables.

かつて柱谷元監督は、退任時に地元はじめ周囲の冷淡さを皮肉って「京都人は一流を好む」という談話を残して去っていった。
Once, when the former manager HASHIRATANI resigned his position, he delivered a comment that 'people in Kyoto prefer the first class' to make sarcastic remarks about the cold-heartedness of all around him including the local people, and left Kyoto.

皮肉にもこの路線は彼らを倒した称徳天皇・弓削道鏡政権によって強化され、神護景雲元年（767年）に内豎省に昇格した。
Ironically, this policy was further strengthened by the Emperor Shotoku and YUGE no Dokyo who overthrew the former administration and Naijudokoro was upgraded to Naijusho (Ministry of Imperial Pages) in 767.

そのような源五兵衛が元の数右衛門に戻って、晴れて討ち入りする結末に、南北の武士社会への皮肉が表現されているとされる。
In the last scene, Kazuemon takes off his disguise as Gengobe and avenged his master without shame with fellow ex-retainers, and it is said that especially in the scene the writer Nanboku described the then samurai society with a bitter irony.

この一枚一枚には時々文章がしるされ、皮肉のつもりで、バイル・ビーンズの見出し広告が最初の一枚の上に貼り付けてあった。
In these sheets a sentence was inscribed from time to time and, in an ironical moment, the headline of an advertisement for Bile Beans had been pasted on to the first sheet.

藤原伊通はこの除目について「人を多く殺した者が官位を得るなら、なぜ三条殿の井戸に官位をやらないのか」と皮肉ったという。
FUJIWARA no Koremichi had the following cynical comment on this promotion session: 'If killing many people is the key to winning promotions in rank, why then was the well at Sanjo Palace not promoted?'

だが、皮肉にも宗輔の大臣昇進という頼長の希望は保元の乱で左大臣であった頼長が討ち死にした事で初めて実現される事になった。
Ironically enough, however, Yorinaga's wish to promote Munesuke to Daijin was realized only by the death of Yorinaga, who was Sadaijin (minister of the left) and died in battle in the Hogen War.

義経が討たれた後、薄緑（膝丸）はその兄、源頼朝のもとに渡り、皮肉にもそこでかつての兄弟刀がひとつの場所に戻ったのである。
After Yoshitsune was defeated, Usumidori (or Hizamaru) was handed over to his older brother MINAMOTO no Yoritomo, by which ironically the two swords Hizamaru and Higekiri (made by the same person) got together again.

皮肉にもこれを維持できたのは大学寮からの給料を必要としない大学別曹保有氏族出身の学生の増大による大学寮支出の減少であった。
Ironically, the reason why Daigaku-ryo could be maintained was that the spending of Daigaku-ryo was reduced due to an increase in students from clans that possess Daigaku-besso, who did not need a salary from Daigaku-ryo.

しかし、慶篤は藩内の混乱による心労で早世、皮肉にも慶喜は最後の将軍となり、実家の有栖川宮熾仁親王に追討される身の上となる。
Nevertheless, while Yoshiatsu died young due to worries over political chaos inside the domain, ironically Yoshinobu became the last Shogun; However, Yoshinobu ended up being hunted down by Imperial Prince Arisugawanomiya Orihito who was a member of his own family.

同様な路線として、阪神電気鉄道が1908年に開業させた阪神本線があり、どちらも「株式会社」をもじり「カーブ式会社」と皮肉られた。
The Hanshin Main Line, which was inaugurated by Hanshin Electric Railway in 1908, suffered similar conditions, and both of them were sarcastically called 'Curve-gaisha' (company curved) as a parody of 'Kabushiki-gaisha' (company limited).

764年、皮肉にもかつて塩焼王の皇位継承を阻んだその藤原仲麻呂（恵美押勝）に擁立されて天皇となるべく反乱（藤原仲麻呂の乱）を起こす。
In 764, he raised a rebellion (Rebellion of Fujiwara no Nakamaro) to succeed to the throne being helped, ironically, by FUJIWARA no Nakamaro (EMI no Oshikatsu) who had once obstructed a possible succession of Prince Shioyaki to the Imperial Throne.

宗広は南朝に最後まで忠実な武将であったが、その息子・結城親朝が北朝 (日本)に通じて親房を攻めるという皮肉な事態が発生する事になった。
Although Munehiro was a military commander loyal to the Southern Court throughout his life, it was ironic that his son Chikatomo YUKI became an ally of the Northern Dynasty and attacked Chikafusa.

しかしキリシタンになったことが大友家臣団の対立にも結びつき、これが宗麟の晩年に国人の蜂起という形で表面化することとなったのは皮肉である。
However, that Sorin became a Christian led to the conflict of vassals of the Otomo family, which ironically would come to the surface in the form of an uprising of local lords in Sorin's later years.

皮肉なことに、昭和48年以降は消費の減退というかたちで日本酒業界の衰退が誰の目にも明らかとなったために、かえって以前の少数派に光が当たった。
Ironically, the decrease of consumption of sake after 1973 revealed the decline of the sake industry, which gathered attention to the former minority.

このため、第4代藩主として嘉高の母の縁戚に当たる備中松山藩から分部信政（池田長信の三男で、皮肉にも池田長重の甥に当たる）を養嗣子として迎えた。
Therefore, for the fourth lord of the domain, Nobumasa WAKEBE (third son of Naganobu IKEDA, and ironically a nephew of Nagashige IKEDA) was adopted to be the heir from the Bitchu-Matsuyama clan which was a relative of Yoshitake's mother.

就任直後に大蔵大輔大隈重信の弾劾を行って否決されたものの、皮肉にもこれが政府分裂の危機感を高めて、廃藩置県による政府内再結集への動きにつながった。
Immediately after his assumption, he presented the impeachment of Okura no taifu (Senior Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Treasury) Shigenobu OKUMA only to be rejected, but ironically, this increased the sense of danger about the split in the government, and led to gathering again in the government by Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures).

この治安維持法はのちに戦前の悪法のひとつとされるようになるが、その悪法が護憲運動をもとに組閣された内閣のもとで成立したというのは、皮肉なものである。
The Peace Preservation Law later became known to be one of bad laws enacted in the prewar period, however, it is rather ironic that such a bad law was made during the term of a cabinet established through campaign for protecting constitutionalism.

だが、皮肉にも稙宗が築いた巨大な洞は自己が引き起こした天文の乱によって解体して稙宗が取り込んだ多くの洞は自立して独自に戦国大名化の道を歩む事になる。
Ironically, however, the extensive Utsuro built by Tanemune was dissolved due to the Tenbun War which had been caused by Tanemune himself, and many Utsuro that Tanemune had subjected to his rule followed the path to become independent Sengoku daimyo.

米軍の軍人が、日本の基地に駐留することで軍としての公的な任務につきつつ、逆文化帝国主義を支援してその一部として活動していたというのは何とも皮肉である。
We note the irony that US military personnel, who were still functioning in some official capacity by virtue of being on base in Japan, aided and abetted a reverse cultural imperialism.

その皇子で又従兄弟でもあった敦仁親王（醍醐天皇）よりも長生きし、更に朱雀天皇、村上天皇と、大叔父の光孝系の皇統継承を見届けたのもまた、皮肉な事であった。
It is ironic that the Retired Emperor Yozei lived longer than Emperor Uda's prince and cousin, Prince Atsugimi (Atsuhito) (Emperor Daigo); moreover, he had to experience the imperial succession of Emperor Suzaku, Emperor Murakami and his great uncle on Emperor Koko's side.

大きな地車を擁する北河内（皮肉なことに「ヒガシ」よりも東方）に、この流派の囃子を継承し、さらにそれをもとに独自の囃子をまじえて演奏しているところが多い。
In Kitakawachi (ironically, it is placed further east than the 'Higashi' region) which possesses a big danjiri, many groups inherit the danjiri-bayashi of this style, and moreover, perform combining original hayashi based on it.

しかしこの法令に嫌悪感を抱いた徳川御三家で水戸藩主の徳川光圀は、綱吉に上質な犬の皮を20枚（一説に50枚）送りつけるという皮肉を実行したという逸話が残る。
There is also a tale that Mitsukuni TOKUGAWA (from one of the three privileged branches of the Tokugawa family) who hated the law sent Tsunayoshi 20 pedigree dog skins as an ironic symbol.

だが皮肉なことに、この朱子学の台頭によって天皇を中心とした国づくりをするべきという尊皇論と尊王運動が起こり、後の倒幕運動と明治維新へ繋がっていくのである。
Ironically, however, the rise of Neo-Confucianism triggered the sonnoron (the thought respecting the Emperors) and the movement to show reverence for the emperor for establishing an Emperor-centered nation, which led to the movement to overthrow the Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration.

徳川家康による江戸幕府創設を決定付けた1600年の関ヶ原の戦いは、皮肉にも200年以上の時を超え各大名に多くの教訓を残し、それは倒幕運動へとつながっていく。
It is ironic that the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, which was decisive in the establishment of Edo Bakufu by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, left many lessons to various daimyos over a period of more than 200 years, which led to the Tobaku movement..

皮肉な事に慶長8年（1603年）に秀家が父に先立って病死し、翌年に秀政が死去すると、吉政は父の遺領である岸和田に移り、出石は息子の小出吉英が領することとなった。
Ironically, when Hideie died of an illness in 1603 and then followed by his father in the next year, Yoshimasa moved to Kishiwada, which was his late father's property inheritance, and Izushi was governed by his son, Yoshifusa KOIDE.

その後傍系であった仁賢天皇は、父親の仇である雄略天皇の皇女の春日大娘皇女を皇后に迎え入れ、皮肉な事に奇しくも祖父同士の代から二つに分かれていた皇統が一つになった。
Later, Emperor Ninken who had collateral lineage, received Kasuga no Oiratsume no Himemiko who was the Imperial princess of his enemy Emperor Yuryaku, as his empress, and ironically, the imperial lines that have been split into two since the times of his grandfathers were, unexpectedly, unified.

辛辣な皮肉ばかり言っているしつこい大学生で、遅かれ早かれジョーダンが自分に屈し、多かれ少なかれ自分を頼みとするようになると思っているのが態度にはっきり表れていた。
a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo, and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.

遵子はその後もついに皇子を産むことはなく、一条天皇の即位で詮子が皇太后になった際、公任は逆に詮子の女房から「姉君の素腹の后はどちらにおいでで？」と皮肉られたという。
However, Junshi and Emperor Enyu had no sons, and when Emperor Ichijo ascended the throne and Senshi became Empress Dowager, one of Senshi's female attendants ironically asked Kinto, 'Where is your sister, an empress with no child?'

また、芥川は｢咲いたのは動いているや蓮の花｣を井月の最高傑作と称揚しているが、皮肉にもこの俳句は井月の俳友であった橋爪山洲の作品であることが、芥川の没後に判明した。
He also praised him for his haiku, 'Saitanowa ugoiteiruya hasunohana' as his best haiku, but ironically, after AKUTAGAWA died, it turned out that this haiku was created by Sanshu HASHIZUME, who was a poet and a friend of Seigetsu.

皮肉にも勘合貿易の復活や義政から実権を奪った守護大名や側近の幕府官僚の財政再建策が功を奏して、義政の治世前半は義満の時代と並んで幕府財政は安定期であったとされている。
Ironically, the revival of tally trade and the rebuilding plan of financial circumstances by the Shogunate's officials, who were his aides, and Shugo daimyo who robbed the administrative power from Yoshimasa, were successful and therefore the Shogunate's financial situation was very stable during the first half of Yoshimasa's rule, just as it had been during Yoshimitsu's era.

伏見天皇の政治は皮肉にも政敵である亀山上皇の政策を踏襲したものであり、朝廷における訴訟機構の刷新や記録荘園券契所の充実などにより政治的権威の回復に積極的に取り組んだ。
Emperor Fushimi's politic ironically followed his opposition, the retired Emperor Kameyama; he worked actively to restore the authority of the Imperial Palace by reforming the court institution of the palace or establishing Kiroku Shoen Ken kei sho (an office established in the Heian period to prevent having municipa manor)

歌舞伎作者の河竹黙阿弥はこうした動きに嫌気して引退を宣言、「もう自分は黙る」という皮肉を込めて「河竹黙阿弥」と改名した（1881年、ただしその後も創作活動は続けた）。
Shinshichi KAWATAKE, a Kabuki writer, who became sick of the movement, declared his retirement from the Kabuki arena and changed his name to 'Mokuami KAWATAKE' (The word 'Moku' means 'quiet' in English) in 1881, with the satirical connotation of 'I will live in dumb silence' (However, he continued his creative activities afterwards).

この論戦は相反する目的で議論されており、一般に(しばしば辛辣な皮肉を混ぜこんだ)見かけ倒しの考察であり、あらゆる陣営からの参戦者でますます盛んになっているようなんだ。
arguing at cross purposes, and generally shoddy thinking (often laced with vitriol) which they seem to encourage from participants in all camps.

（皮肉にも徳川家康も征夷大将軍位の徳川氏世襲と秀吉の遺児・秀頼への政権返上の意思が無い事を示すために息子徳川秀忠に将軍を継がせて自らは大御所として政権を運営している。）
(Ironically, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA transferred the position of 'Seii taishogun' to his son, Hidetada TOKUGAWA and was in charge of politics as 'Ogosho' (a leading figure) in order to show that the Tokugawa clan would inherit the position of 'Seii taishogun' and he would not return the political administration to Hideyori, Hideyoshi's bereaved son.)

外記方の敗訴が決まるかというその時に、もう一人の裁き手である細川勝元（板倉内膳正に相当）が登場し、宗全を立てながらも弾正側の不忠を責め、虎の威を借る狐のたとえで一味を皮肉る。
When everyone thinks that Gekizaemon's side will lose, another judge Katsumoto HOSOKAWA (corresponds to Itakura Naizen no Kami [Head of Imperial Table Office]) appears and while paying his respect to Sozen, accuses Danjo's side of their disloyalty, ironically comparing them to a fox borrowing the tiger's might (that means a person acting arrogantly taking advantage of his powerful connections).

また「村重に反意あり」としていた細川藤孝は、「君に引く荒木ぞ弓の筈ちがい、居るにいられぬ有岡の城」という歌を詠んで、突然城と家族を捨て茶道具と共に夜逃げした荒木村重を皮肉った。
Fujitaka HOSOKAWA, who had believed that 'Murashige had an intention to raise rebellion,' criticized Murashige ARAKI, who suddenly abandoned the castle and family and did a moonlight flit with tea utensils, by composing a tanka meaning 'Although Araki drew a bow against his lord, but a nock was out of order, he could not stay in Arioka-jo Castle.'

皮肉にも幕府の正統性を守ろうとした直義は、それ故に当の幕府将軍である尊氏との外交戦争に敗れることになり、諸国の武士からは勿論、大高重成のような側近からも離反される結果を招いた。
It is ironic that Tadayoshi who attempted to preserve the legitimacy of the bakufu was defeated in a diplomatic battle with Takauji, the Muromachi shogun, for this very reason and ended up being alienated from not only the samurai of the provinces but also from close associates such as Shigenari Otaka.

自分の仕事のプロセスにびくびくゲロゲロ状態で関わり合う（それがつきはなした皮肉なやりかただったとしても）というのは、それ自体が、そのプロセスの失敗を告げるものととらえるべきだ。
Relating to your own work process with fear and loathing (even in the displaced, ironic way suggested by hanging up Dilbert cartoons) should therefore be regarded in itself as a sign that the process has failed.

秀吉が猿と呼ばれたのは、関白就任後の落書などの中で「どこの馬の骨とも分からない身分の低い生まれ」という意味の皮肉として使われた「さる関白」という表現に由来するものという説もある。
There is an another view that his nickname Saru originated from a graffiti after installation of Kanpaku, which said 'Saru (that) Kanpaku' used as an irony to mean 'he was born from lowly class which nobody knows'.

明治10年（1877年）の西南戦争では鹿児島県逆徒征討総督に就任し、維新に際して共に国事を語らい、東征に際して共に官軍を指揮した西郷隆盛と、敵将として対峙する皮肉な立場に立った。
He became the Governor-General in charge of suppressing the opposition at Kagoshima Prefecture in the Seinan War during 1877, ironically he opposed Takamori SAIGO who he used to discuss national affairs with during the Meiji Restoration, or command the national army together at the expedition to the east.

このときの様子は「太平の眠りをさます上喜撰　たった四はいで夜も寝られず」（蒸気船と茶の上喜撰、4隻を4杯、茶で眠れなくなる様子を、黒船の騒ぎとかけた皮肉）という狂歌に詠まれている。
The state of Edo's residents at the time is rendered in the following satirical poem, in which the four steam ships are symbolized by high-grade jokisen tea: 'Taihei no nemuri o samasu jokisen, tatta yonhai de yoru mo nerarezu' ('The Jokisen tea that awakens one from a peaceful sleep/With only four cups, the night is sleepless').

そして皮肉なことに越後の青苧が江戸時代元禄年間に没落した最大の理由は上杉氏の移封とともに青苧栽培技術が伝来された会津藩・米沢藩両藩産の青苧との競争に敗北した影響が大きかったという。
And ironically, the aoso in Echigo Province is said to have gotten the finishing stroke during the Genroku era (A.D. 1688 - 1704) of the Edo period in the loss of the competition over aoso with the Aizu domain and the Yonezawa domain, into which the cultivation techniques of aoso were introduced when the Uesugi clan had its territory changed.

そして皮肉な事に荘園整理事務の中心的役割を果たしていた院（上皇・法皇）に対する開発領主からの寄進が相次ぐようになり、この自己矛盾によって荘園整理政策は破綻へ向かう事になるのである。
And ironically, kaihatsu-ryoshus donated to the cloister (Retired Emperor and Cloistered Emperor) which played a central role of the office work for arranging shoens and this self-contradiction led to the breakdown of the policy for arranging shoens.

皮肉にも本能寺の変の際、近衛家家人が逃げ出したこの屋敷を占拠した明智軍がここから二条新御所を攻撃したという話があり、やがてそれに尾ひれが付いて前久が光秀に加担したとの風説が流された。
Ironically, at the time of the Incident at Honno-ji Temple, it was said that after the KONOE family fled from this mansion the Akechi army occupied it and attacked Nijo Shin-gosho from there; before long there was a rumor that Sakihisa had given his support to Mitsuhide.

皮肉にも、最も「創造的」でない活動――独自性ある著作物の創造と定義した場合だが――が改宗コモンズの拡大につながり、関係者すべてにとってきわめて創造的で収益性の高い状態をもたらしたわけだ。
Ironically, the least 'creative' of activities-as defined by creation of original works of authorship-spawned a proselytization commons that proved enormously creative and profitable for all involved.

この時のことを、京都の民衆たちには「織田の源五は人ではないよお腹召せ召せ召させておいてわれは安土へ逃げるは源五むつき二日に大水出ておた（織田）の原なる名を流す」と皮肉られている。
The people of Kyoto made fun of this episode, saying, 'Gengo ODA is not a man. He just fills his belly and runs to Azuchi. On the 2nd of January there came a flood, and washed away the name of Oda.'

天皇の訪問が同様に予定されていた京都市役所前の「組合掲示板」ではそうした事態を皮肉り、（天皇の巡幸が社会問題の存在を掃き出し隠蔽するという意味で）「天皇はほうきである」という大書がなされた。
On the 'union signboard' placed in front of the Kyoto Municipal Office, which was also the destination of the Emperor's visit, a phrase saying 'the Emperor is a broom' was written in large letters with sarcasm (in the sense that the Emperor's tour was intended to sweep out and conceal social problems).

この当時は実力で処断権を有する者を広く「武士」と称する用法があった事に加えて、承久の変後、武士に対して卑屈に成り下がった（定通自身も含めた）公家社会に対する痛烈な皮肉であると考えられている。
The term 'Bushi' was sometimes used to refer to someone who had the right to punish with power, and this also was a sarcastic comment towards the aristocracy (including Sadamichi) who had become ubiquitous to the bushi class.

敬語や婉曲表現を多用し、柔らかく丁寧な口調でなるべく会話に角が立たない言い回しをするが、それが皮肉となるケースも多く、京言葉を解せない人々がコミュニケーションをとりにくい、と感じることもある。
In Kyo language, honorific language and euphemistic expressions are frequently used in order to make the tone of conversation euphonic and polite avoiding any offending expression as much as possible, but it often happens to induce ironic effects or cynicism and make people who do not correctly understand Kyo language feel some difficulty in communication.

もっとも退位後は在位時のプレッシャーがなくなったのか、61歳まで生きたが、師貞親王(花山天皇)をはじめとする皇子女や弟円融天皇、その皇子の一条天皇等多くの親族に先立たれたのは皮肉な事であった。
However, after the abdication the Retired Emperor Reizei lived to the age of 61, presumably due to not having too much stress that he had when in power; it was ironic that his relatives like Prince Morosada (the Emperor Kazan) or other princes and princesses, his brother Emperor Enyu and his Prince (Emperor) Ichijo, passed away before him.

2005年シーズン前には、規制をしたので今シーズンの都民の症状は軽いはずだとのコメントを知事が述べているが、そのシーズンに当の知事が花粉症を発症しているのは日本花粉症史に残るおおいなる皮肉である。
Prior to the start of the 2005 season, the governor stated the symptoms suffered by citizens this season should be milder because regulations had been implemented but the fact that this governor developed pollinosis in that very season remains a great irony in the history of pollinosis in Japan.

元和 (日本)3年（1617年）に定制化されたが、皮肉にもその後島原の乱以外に大規模な戦乱は発生せず、目付とともに遠国奉行や代官などの遠方において職務を行う幕府官吏に対する監察業務を担当する事となる。
The post was made official in 1617, but except during the Shimabara Rebellion, never took part in major warfare and began to focus on surveillance of shogunate administrators such as ongoku-bugyo (the collective name of the magistrates placed at important areas directly controlled by the government in the Edo period) and daikan (governors) who executed shogunate policy in remote locations along with metsuke (inspectors).

一般に度を越した議論と言われるもの、つまり、侮辱や皮肉、個人攻撃、およびその同類のものに関しては、双方に等しくこういう武器の禁止が提案されていれば、この武器への弾劾はもっと同意されるに値するでしょう。
With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides;

皮肉にも観応の擾乱によって尊氏と直義が対立して直義とこれを支持する幕府官僚の多くが離反した時、室町幕府の機構の多くが機能停止に陥ったが、恩賞方のみは尊氏派の官僚がそのまま残留したためにこれを免れたのである。
When a confrontation between Takauji and Tadayoshi in the Kanno Disturbance forced Tadayoshi and many bureaucrats supporting Tadayoshi to break away, many organizations in the Muromachi bakufu stopped functioning, but ironically, only the Onshogata was able to maintain its function because bureaucrats supporting Takauji had occupied the posts in the Onshogata.

同年、文部省と内務省 (日本)が文芸作品の顕彰と称し、諮問機関・文芸委員会を作ったことに対し、晶子は「小松原英太郎　平田東助といふ　大臣は　文学をしらず　あはれなるかな」と皮肉に満ちて批判的な歌を作っている。
In the same year, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Home Affairs established a consultative body called the Literature Committee in the name of honoring literary works, but on this event Akiko wrote a critical poem filled with irony 'Eitaro KOMATSUBARA and Tosuke HIRATA; these ministers know nothing about literature; poor things.'

このため、水戸徳川家を除く御三家・御三卿には家斉の弟、もしくは実子が養子入りしている（ただし肝心の一橋家の系統は徳川昌丸で断絶し、水戸徳川家から徳川慶喜が養子入りして後に将軍になるという皮肉な結果となった）。
As a result, Ienari's brothers and biological children were adopted out to the Gosanke (the Owari-Tokugawa, Kishu-Tokugawa, and Mito-Tokugawa families) and Gosangyo (the Tayasu-Tokugawa, Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa, and Shimizu-Tokugawa families), though not to the Mito-Tokugawa family (The radical expansion of the Hitotsubashi family line ended with Masamaru TOKUGAWA upon an ironic adoption of Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA--who later became Shogun--out of the Mito-Tokugawa family).

だが、皮肉にも887年宇多天皇が橘広相に命じて書かせた藤原基経への関白任命の詔勅にあった「阿衡」という言葉の意味合いを巡って、基経が天皇と対立して政務への参加を一時拒否するという事件が起こっている（阿衡事件）。
However, ironically in 887, in the imperial edict that Emperor Uta ordered TACHIBANA no Hiromi to write in a Kampaku appointment to FUJIWARA no Mototsune, Mototsune disagreed with the emperor regarding the meaning of the word 'Ako' and refused to participate in government for a while (the Ako Incident).

皮肉にも承和の変の背後にいたとされる仁明天皇と藤原良房の信任を受けるようになり、承和14年5月11日 (旧暦)（847年6月27日）には、清涼殿において『荘子 (書物)』の講義を行い、仁明天皇から束脩の礼を受ける。
Ironically, he won the trust of Emperor Ninmyo and FUJIWARA no Yoshifusa, who were behind the Jowa Incident, and on June 27, 847, he gave a lecture on 'Soshi' at Seiryoden (literally the 'Limpid Cool Hall,' or the imperial summer palace) and received Sokushu no rei (a school entrance fee) from Emperor Ninmyo.

信忠が自害したのに対し、長益は自害せずに逃げ出したため、そのことを京の民衆に「織田の源五は人ではないよ　お腹召させておいて　われは安土へ逃げる源五　6月2日に大水出て　織田の源なる名を流す」と皮肉られたと言われている。
As Nagamasu did not commit suicide and fled while Nobutada committed suicide, it is told that people in Kyoto ironically commented 'Gengo ODA is not a human being. He let Nobutada commit hara-kiri and he himself fled to Azuchi. On June 2, the flooding and the name of the origin of Oda was washed out.'

皮肉なことに、奈良麻呂の死後に生まれた息子・橘清友の娘・橘嘉智子が嵯峨天皇の妃となって後の仁明天皇を生んだことから、承和 (日本)14年（847年）に政敵・仲麻呂が後に謀反を起こして失うこととなった太政大臣の位を贈られている。
It is an irony that since TACHIBANA no Kachiko, a daughter of TACHIBANA no Kiyotomo who was a son of Naramaro, was born after Naramaro's death and became the empress of Emperor Saga and delivered Emperor Ninmyo later, he was posthumously conferred the position of Daijo-daijin (Grand minister of state) which his political enemy Nakamaro lost by rising a betrayal in 847.

これを見た藤原伊通は、かつて吉備真備が右大臣の任にあったことを引き合いに、「黍（吉備）の大臣に続いて粟（阿波）の大臣が現れたのだから、いずれは稗の大臣も現れるだろう」と皮肉を飛ばして、大いに人々を笑わせたという（『平治物語』）。
Seeing this, FUJIWARA no Koremichi made a sarcastic comment, based on the fact that KIBI no Makibi was Udaijin, 'Following Kibi no Otodo, we now have Awa no Otodo, and soon or later, we will also have Hie no Otodo (Kibi, Awa and Hie are Japanese names of cereals included in the gokoku - five representative cereals in Japan)' and made people laugh ('Heiji Monogatari').

1943年、朝鮮を舞台に日本の武装警官隊と抗日ゲリラとの戦いを描いたプロバガンダ映画『望楼の決死隊』が、西部劇さながらのアクション・シーンを取り入れ、はじめて今井の名が注目を集めたのは皮肉なことに植民地支配を正当化した軍国主義映画だった。
The propaganda film 'Boro no kesshitai' (Suicide Troops of the Watchtower) that depicted the battle between Japanese armed police and anti-Japanese guerrillas set in Korea in 1943 included action scenes only seen in western films and spotlighted Imai for the first time; ironically, it was a militaristic film that justified colonialism.

その後、称徳天皇が崩御し、道鏡兄弟が追放される（皮肉にも、その中心人物は内豎大輔藤原雄田麻呂であった）と組織の存在意義は失われ、宝亀3年2月16日 (旧暦)（772年3月24日）に廃止され、内豎は近衛府・中衛府・左右兵衛府に分割編入された。
Later, when Empress Shotoku demised and priest Dokyo and his younger brother were exiled (ironically, Naijutaifu FUJIWARA no Odamaro headed the exile), the organization became meaningless and abolished on March 28, 772, and Naiju was divided and incorporated into Konoefu (Inner Palace Guard), Chuefu (Middle Inner Palace Guard), Sayuhyoefu (Left and Right Division of Middle Palace Guards).

『古今著聞集』によると、年若い胤綱が将軍御所の侍の間で、当時権勢を振るっていた重鎮の三浦義村の上座に座り、義村が「下総の犬めは寝場所を知らぬな」と皮肉ると、胤綱は「三浦の犬は友を食らうぞ」と切り返し、和田合戦での義村の裏切りを批判したという。
According to 'Kokon chomon ju' (A collection of Tales Heard, Past and Present), when Yoshimura MIURA, who was dominating as an authority at that time, saw Tanetsuna, as a young man, take a seat for more valuable person than the one Yoshimura took in the room for samurais in the Shogun's palace and said sarcastictically, 'that dog from Shimousa Province would not know where to find a bed,' then Tanetsuna is said to have fought back saying 'that dog of the Miura family would eat a friend,' and criticized Yoshimura's betrayal at the Battle of Wada.

深川の無頼者たちを仲間にする三五郎が、父の旧主の困窮のために人を騙すのに対して、結局のところ痴情によって多数の人を斬り殺す源五兵衛が、最終的には数右衛門に戻って晴れて義士の列に加わる点において、不条理な身分の違いを、暗に、しかし強烈に、南北は皮肉っているとされている。
It is said that Nanboku satirized the unreasonable hierarchical society indirectly and severely by depicting the outcomes of main two characters' lives; although Sangoro is just a ruffian of the common people's town Fukagawa, he cheats a person to save his father's ex-master who has been in difficulties; however, although Gengobe murders many people by passions, at last he sheds his disguise and as real himself Kazuemon, joins the group of the loyal samurai with no shame.

皮肉にも7月になって大久保利通と木戸孝允・大隈重信の対立を原因とする政争の結果、大蔵省首脳が民部省の同じ役職を兼務していたことで統合されていた民部省に新たに東京府知事であった大木喬任が大隈の後任の民部大輔に就任し、吉井友実（少輔）・松方正義（大丞）ら大久保派が就任した。
Ironically in July, Takato OKI who was the Governor of Tokyo prefecture was inaugurated as Minbu no taifu (a senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Popular Affairs) of Minbusho that was in effect unified with Okurasho because the heads of Okurasho doubled as the corresponding posts of Minbusho, succeeding OKUMA, together with Tomozane YOSHII and Masayoshi MATSUKATA (who was Taijo, Senior Secretary) also assuming office, as a result of the political strife caused by the confrontation between Toshimitsu OKUBO against Takayoshi KIDO and Shigenobu OKUMA.

花園院の日記である『花園院宸記』には、正中2年正月13日条の記事として花園院が属する持明院統のライバルである大覚寺統の後醍醐天皇と皇太子邦良親王が皇位継承の正当性を巡って鎌倉幕府からの有利な裁定を求めて互いに鎌倉に使者を相次いで派遣した有様を「世に競馬と号す」と皮肉っている。
According to 'Hanazonoin Shinki' (The Diary of the Emperor Hanazono), the emperor made ironical remarks on January 13, 1325 about the incident that both Jimyoin party that the emperor belonged to and Daikakujito party, the rival of Jimyointo, sent emissaries to Kamakura in order to obtain the favorable judgment over the validity of the succession to the Imperial Throne between the Imperial Prince Kuniyoshi and the Emperor Godaigo from the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) one after another, saying 'It looks like a horse racing.'

その後、総理となった犬養毅が軍縮をしようとしたところ、五・一五事件で決起将校に殺害され政党政治が終結を迎え、戦時中には軍の圧力により逼塞状態にあった鳩山一郎が、戦後に総理就任を目前で連合国軍最高司令官総司令部からこの時の事を追及されて、軍部の台頭に協力した軍国主義者として公職追放となるなど皮肉な歴史を辿る事となった。
Later, ironic histories were repeated, which means that Tshuyoshi INUKAI, who became Prime Minister tried to do disarmament, was killed by an officer who rose in revolt at the May 15th Incident, then the party government came to an end, and Ichiro HATOYAMA who was confined during the war by the military pressure was accused by the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers and purged as a militarist cooperated the rise of the military just before the assumption of the Prime Minister after the war.

また、皮肉にもこれまで将軍の権威をないがしろにしてきた諸大名も将軍の権威が本当に失われてしまった事でそこに由来していた守護としての統治権そのものの権威までが失われてしまい、配下であった守護代や国人衆による下克上、更には加賀一向一揆や山城国一揆に代表される民衆の一揆からもその領国支配を脅かされるようになっていくのである。
Moreover, somewhat ironically, the very daimyo that had begun by making light of the Shogun's authority found that when that shogunal authority was truly lost, their own authority and sovereignty as shugo (governors) vanished, and many were overthrown by their deputies or by commoners from their provinces in the phenomenon known as gekokujo (the lower overthrowing the higher); worse yet, peasant uprisings and religious leagues, of which the Kaga Ikko Ikki (a religious league of commoners in Kaga) and a similar Ikki in Yamashiro Province are representative examples, began to threaten the lords' control over their lands.

平治元年（1159年）の平治の乱の際には、藤原信頼が勝手に行った論功行賞で武士を厚遇するのを見て、「人を多く殺した者が恩賞に与るのであれば、どうして三条殿の井戸に官位が与えられないのか」と発言、乱の首謀者である信頼を痛烈に皮肉ったと伝えられる（信頼方の軍勢が三条殿を焼き討ちした際に、多くの女官らが井戸に飛び込んで死亡したことを揶揄したもの）。
After the Heiji War in 1159, reportedly, Koremichi watched FUJIWARA no Nobuyori make awards at his own sweet will and treat samurai (warriors) favorably, saying 'If those who killed many persons get prizes, why no official rank is given to the well in Sanjo-dono,' and thus severely criticized Nobuyori who was the leader of the War (His words were to ridicule the fact that many court ladies killed themselves by jumping into the well when Nobuyori-side's army surrounded the Sanjo-dono).