隣近所の変わりようにはつきあわず、孤立から生じた数種の奇癖が発現されていた。 It plainly would not associate with the contiguous elements of its altered environment, and appeared to have developed some of the eccentricities which come of isolation.
- Ambrose Bierce『男と蛇』
奇癖として有功の家臣に蒲生姓を乱発し、家中に稀少なるべき同名衆を大量生産することがあり、前田利家にたしなめられている。 He also had the habit of assigning the Gamo surname to meritorious vassals; it was best to have fewer family members with the same name, but he mass produced them, earning the rebuke of Toshiie MAEDA.
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