Tamayura No Fu (Futami Jidai Shosetsu Bunko a 1-18 Mucha No Kambe Jitsugetsu Roku 17)

[Machine Translation] On his return to Japan, Matsudaira Naoyoshi, lord of the Echizen Ono domain, fell ill at the age of seventy-four and was delayed in returning to his home province. In November of 1677, Naora was granted an audience with the Shogun after recovering from his illness. Kanpei Ochiai, a feudal lord's official in charge of listening, was told by Yozaemon Matsuda, an official in charge of the Edo shogunate, about the current state of the clan's straitened finances. He was told that the main reasons for the tight finances were the injustice of the exclave and the investment in the development of a new copper mine. Soon, a new crisis of the clan's downfall...

越前大野藩主松平直良は、国帰りの折、高齢(七十四歳)から病いに伏し、帰府が遅れていた。延宝五年(一六七七)十一月、病い癒えた直良の将軍拝謁の日。藩御耳役の落合勘兵衛は、江戸留守居役の松田与左衛門から、逼迫した藩財政の現状を聞かされた。飛び領地の不正と、新銅山開発投資が主因―と。やがて藩滅亡の新たな危機が...