However, the political situation at that time often tended to be a factional struggle, and Itagaki fought something like a proxywar for his Tosa Domain that was a minority in the cabinet.
しかし、当時の政局は派閥争いの側面を持っており、少数派としての土佐藩の代理戦争的な側面もあった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
Actually it was a war by proxy between Tokugawa and Toyotomi, but because of this the confrontation plot of "Iga vs. Koga" often appears in novels or ninja cartoons even today.
実際には徳川と豊臣との代理戦争だったわけであるが、今日でもよく、「伊賀対甲賀」という構図が小説や忍者漫画に出てくるのもこのためと言えよう。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
When the Jokyu War occurred in 1221, Kagemori participated in the decision of most important policy as a member of leadership team of bakufu; and read the speech by proxy in which the ama shogun (nun warlord) Masako HOJO pled with gokenin for taking favorable actions as in the time of Yoritomo and ordered to subdue kyogata (the Kyoto side or supporters of the Imperial court in Kyoto).
承久3年(1221年)の承久の乱に際しては幕府首脳部一員として最高方針の決定に加わり、尼将軍北条政子が御家人たちに頼朝以来の恩顧を訴え、京方を討伐するよう命じた演説文を景盛が代読した。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス