HIDEYOSHI'S CHA-NO-YU IN THE FIELD
戦場での秀吉の茶の湯
In the twelfth year of Tensho, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was repulsed in the battle of Nagakute in Owari and lost three of his generals, but he paid no attention to this loss but besieged and took all the enemy strongholds in those parts and then started back to the Capital.
天正十二年、豊臣秀吉は尾張長久手で戦に負け三人の家臣を失いました。かまわず進みましたが逆に包囲され戦況は悪化、本拠地を城に移す事態となります。
When about half-way he called Rikyu and said : “Now let us have a Tea-ceremony to liven up our spirits after the strain of this long campaign.
半分まで来た時に、秀吉は利休を呼び言いました。「茶会をしよう、苦しい戦いの時こそ陽気に士気を上げなければならない。」
”So they made tea and the session was just finishing when a messenger came in hurriedly from the front to say that the enemy leader Tokugawa Ieyasu had gone back again to his castle in Owari.
皆で茶を点て飲み会合が終わりに近づいた頃、一人の伝令がやって来て、徳川家康が尾張城へ戻った旨を伝えました。
“Did you see this yourself ?” enquired Hideyoshi. “I did, with my own eyes,” replied the messenger.
「お前がその目で見たのか？」と秀吉が尋ねると、「はい、この目で見ました」と伝令が答えました。
Hideyoshi turned to Rikyu. “We will have another cup of tea and then we will hurry back to the front,” he observed, and in a short time issued orders for the march.
秀吉は利休に振り返り「もう一服飲むことにしよう、そして前線に戻る」、彼は指示するとすぐに進軍を始めました。
He was soon in Ise where he forestalled Ieyasu and came to terms with his ally Oda Nobuo.
秀吉は家康に先んじる為に伊勢へ向かいました、そして、家康の同盟者織田信夫との和睦交渉に入りました。
This was just like Hideyoshi.
これが秀吉です。
In the midst of war he never forgot the graces of life, but amid his esthetic diversions he never neglected military necessities.
戦争の最中にあっても彼は優雅を忘れません、気分転換は軍人にとってけして無視は出来ないのです。