近松甚三郎ゆかりの比留田村/Hiruta Village, associated with Chikamatsu Jinzaburō

世間的には近松行重の名跡で知られた村ですが家督を継いだには百姓甚三郎でした。
近松宗家が切腹しちゃったのでこりゃもう家を百姓の下僕でも継がざるを得ないわけで義僕と呼ばれた甚三郎が近松宗家の当主になったという事らしいです。
Though the village was known to the world by the name of Chikamatsu Yukishige, it was Jinzaburō, a farmer, who inherited the family headship.
This is the tale of how, after the head of the Chikamatsu main family, Yukishige, committed ritual suicide in the manner of samurai, the family could only be inherited even by a farmer's retainer; thus Jinzaburō, known as the loyal retainer, became the head of the Chikamatsu main family.