「白川・坪井川大改修」以前は白川(熊本県)と坪井川(熊本県)は現在の熊本市役所付近で合流していたが、石塘を造り現在の流路に変更。

Before the 'Major improvement work for Shirakawa and Tsuboigawa,' Shira-kawa River (Kumamoto Prefecture) and Tsuboi-gawa River (Kumamoto Prefecture) used to merge at the area around the current City Hall of Kumamoto City; however, Kiyomasa changed the course of the rivers to the current one by building stone embankments. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

明治29年（1896年）、熊本県第五高等学校(旧制)（熊本大学の前身）の英語教師に赴任後、親族の勧めもあり貴族院書記官長中根重一の長女夏目鏡子と結婚をするが、3年目に鏡子は慣れない環境と流産のためヒステリー症が激しくなり白川(熊本県)井川淵に投身を図るなど順風満帆な夫婦生活とはいかなかった。

In 1896, after becoming an English teacher at Kumamoto prefectural daigo kotogakko (predecessor of Kumamoto University), he married Kyoko, the oldest daughter of Juichi NAKANE, the Chief Secretary of the House of Peers, as recommended by his relatives, but his married life was not favorable; in the third year of their marriage, Kyoko suffered from such serious hysteria due to the environment she could not become accustomed to accompanied by a miscarriage that she attempted to drown herself in Ikawabuchi of Shirakawa river in Kumamoto. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス