それは貨幣・商品流通の発展にともない、御家人の生活がぜいたくになったからであると、多くの歴史書には書かれているが、ぜいたくというよりも、旧式の所領―収益権―にあぐらをかいて、現実の村の掌握ができない、つまり社会の変化にうまく適応できない、というところに、彼らの窮乏の真の原因があった。"In much historical writing, it is said that this was because, going along with the development of money and commodity circulation, the lifestyles of the shogunate's vassals became increasingly extravagant, but more than their supposed luxury, the real cause of the poverty of [some of] the shogun's vassals lay in their tendency to rely on the old type of territorial lordship--i.e. rights to revenue [within the court-centered estate-ownership system]--with the consequence that they could not exert real control of the villages, which is to say that they could not adapt well to the social changes ongoing there."
Holy crap it is hard to translate Japanese as anything other than turgid. But other than splitting this point into multiple sentences, my only revision would be to emphasize competition among elites as what the losers among the shogunate's vassals were unable to adapt to.
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