Kiritsubo 1.4c

I checked a 古典 dictionary for あぢきなし; their etymology said it's from あづきなし, which is あ (sound variation of the わ in 分ける or 分かれる) + 付き + 無し, meaning unable to tell the difference or not distinguishing, which led to the other meanings by association.

This post has the 余釈 for the sentence.  I put in links to Wikipedia articles for the Chinese history figures mentioned.

もろこしにもかかる事の起りに
細　殷の紂が妲己を愛し、周の幽王褒姒を寵せしより世の乱れたる事などを引きていふなり。

Sairyusho (1510): This is drawing from examples of the government falling into chaos from the love of King Zhou of Shang for Daji, or King You of Zhou for Bao Si.

楊貴妃のためし
湖師　玄宗の寵愛ゆゑに安禄山が乱出来たるためしなるべし。

Kogetsusho shisho (1673): This is the example of Xuanzong's love allowing for the An Lushan rebellion to occur.

花　桐壺の帝の更衣をおくれ給へることを、唐の玄宗の楊貴妃に離れ給ひて嘆き給へるにたとへて、長恨歌の言葉を借りて一巻の始終を書き侍れば、そのことをいはんとて「楊貴妃のためしも引き出でつべく」とまづ言出だせり。作者の意趣すぐれて聞こえ侍り。

Kacho yosei (1472): The Kiritsubo Emperor survives the Kiritsubo Intimate; this is similar to Xuanzong being separated from Yang Guifei. This whole chapter is written based on the Song of Neverending Sorrow, and so first the text says that the "example of Yang Guifei should be brought out." The author's craft is excellent.

岷　云々　前の「もろこしにもかかる事」といへるとは別段と見るべし。花鳥には一つの心に注せらるるか云々

Mingo nisso (1598): (first part omitted) The "In China too, these things" sentence is talking about other examples, although the Kacho yosei seems to say they are the same.

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The (somewhat trivial) issue is whether the "In China too" included Yang Guifei or not, something that divided the early commentaries.

釈　「かかる事の起こり」とある中に楊貴妃の例もこもるべし。さて、この巻は長恨歌によりて書かれたることは論なきを、かの歌の全文を知らざればこの文のいみじきことどもの知られがたき故に、わづらはしけれど白氏文集のままをここに挙げつ。引き合はせて見るべし。

You should view the "In China too" line as including the Yang Guifei example. Now then, it doesn't even need to be said that this chapter is based on the Song of Neverending Sorrow. Therefore if you don't know the entire text of that poem, it's hard to understand the excellence of this chapter. So even though it's troublesome, I will give the entire text from Bai Juyi's works here.

この次に陳鴻が選べる長恨歌の伝といふ物一篇あり。玄宗と楊貴妃との始終を記したれど、長ければここには省きて、ただその要とある所のみをいささか抜き出でて、注しつけぬ。詳しくは本書を見るべし。

Next, there is a Legend of the Song of Neverending Sorrow by Chin Ko. This records the story of Xuanzhong and Yang Guifei from start to finish. It is long, so I will include only an excerpt showing the main point here, and without annotations. You should see the main text for details.

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Hagiwara does indeed include the entire Song as well as excerpts making up about a fourth of the Legend (a prose version included in the complete works of Bai Juyi).  Initially I thought I would skip over this but I have to read these for my dissertation anyway, and it better represents Hagiwara's intentions to include it.  There's already a good annotated translation on Wikisource, although the Legend doesn't seem to be translated anywhere.  So it might be useless duplication to do it here too, but I suppose that's OK.

Also, I'm leaving Japan at the end of March and I'm presenting at a conference in a month so my free time will be a bit more limited until April.  I'll still try to get a post out every 7-10 days or so but things could be a bit slower during that period.  Thanks for reading!