Furthermore, he obtained a stipend from the lord of the Himeji domain Sakai Uta no kami (the Sakai clan, Director of Music), had as many as 100 followers at a time, and made Mingaku widely known by people of the nobility and the samurai class. |
また姫路藩主の酒井雅楽頭の扶持も受け、一時は百人もの弟子を抱えまでになり、広く明楽を貴族階級、武士階級に広めた。 |