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English: Lakeshore in Kosei and Kohoku areas including Makino-cho, Takashima City is famous as a scenic spot and shore reef of Kaizu-osaki glories in top scenery among them.
Japanese: 高島市マキノ町を含む湖西、湖北一帯の湖岸は、景勝の地として有名であるが、海津大崎の岩礁は、その中でも随一の景観を誇っている。
English: The view of deep green mountain mass with Mt. Higashiyama as a principal peak on the blue, clear and gentle surface of the lake gives quite unique scenery in Lake Biwa where comparatively flat landscape is common and creates mysterious and ferocious atmosphere.
Japanese: 青く澄んだ静かな湖面に東山を主峰とする緑濃き山塊がどっしりとそびえる様は、比較的平坦な地形の多い琵琶湖において、稀な景観を呈し、神秘的かつ猛々しい雰囲気をかもし出している。
English: With respect to Lake Biwa, there is Omi Hakkei (Eight Views of Omi) which is said to have been selected by Masaie KONOE in the Muromachi Period in 1500 following Shosho Hakkei (Eight views of the Xiao and the Xiang in China) and they were expressed in Ukiyoe by Hiroshige UTAGAWA and became famous in early-modern times.
Japanese: 琵琶湖には室町時代の明応9年（1500年）近衛政家が中国の瀟湘八景にならって選んだとされる近江八景があり、歌川広重の浮世絵に美しく表現され、近世において有名となった。
English: While Omi Hakkei was selected mainly from Konan (literally, south of lake), Biwako Hakkei, which was selected on the occasion of designation of Lake Biwa and surrounding areas to Lake Biwa Quasi-National Park, were selected mainly from scenery representing vastness and wide variety of Lake Biwa based on the modern sense.
Japanese: 近江八景が主として湖南を中心として選ばれているのに対し、昭和25年（1950年）琵琶湖とその周辺が琵琶湖国定公園に指定されたの契機に選定された琵琶湖八景は、近代感覚をもとに琵琶湖の広大さと変化ある景観を主として選ばれている。
English: Sakuranamiki (row of cherry trees) of Kaizu-osaki was planted by Kaizu-mura (present Makino-cho Takashima City) to commemorate the completion of Osaki Tunnel in June 1936.
Japanese: 海津大崎の桜並木は、昭和11年(1936年)6月に大崎トンネルが完成したのを記念して海津村（現・高島市マキノ町）が植樹したものである。
English: Scenery in which pretty pink flowers extend like a belt between blue of Lake Biwa with full of water and green of Higashiyama mountains is a typical seasonal feature to announce the advent of spring in Okubiwako (northern part of Lake Biwa).
Japanese: 満々と水をたたえる琵琶湖の青と東山連峰の緑の間を可憐なピンクの花びらが帯状に延びる景観は、奥琵琶湖に春の訪れを告げる代表的な風物詩である。
English: In the middle of April, every year, approximately 600 Someiyoshino (Prunus yedoensis) cherry trees that extends for approximately four kilometers are covered by full blossoms and beautiful flower tunnel is crowded with many sightseers.
Japanese: 例年4月中旬には、延長約4kmにわたって約600本のソメイヨシノ桜が咲き誇り、美しい花のトンネルを散策する多くの観光客でにぎわう。
English: The birth of this sakura-namiki (row of cherry trees) was begun five years before the planting by Kaizu-mura by Seishichi MUNETO (37 years old at that time; living in Momose-mura [present Makino-cho, Takashima City]) who was working for Takashima regional office of Shiga Prefecture at that time as a worker for repairing roads and planted young trees, which he bought at his cost, during intervals of his work.
Japanese: この桜並木の誕生は、海津村による植樹に先立つこと5年前、当時滋賀県高島地方事務所に道路補修をする修路作業員として勤めていた宗戸清七（当時37歳・百瀬村（現高島市マキノ町）在住）が作業の合間に自費で購入した若木を植えたことに端を発する。
English: Muneto was engaged in daily work of improvement and repair of prefectural roads which were not paved at that time and carried out his works with two assistants by patrolling every day with a cart loaded with sand and filling sinkholes with sand and flatten mounds by scraping.
Japanese: 宗戸は当時未舗装の県道の改良や補修を日常業務とし、助手2人とリヤカーに土砂を積んで毎日巡回し、くぼみに土砂を埋め、盛り上がっている場所を削って平らにするという作業に携わっていた。
English: What shaked off his tiredness from exhausting labor was clear Lake Biwa and Chikubu-jima Islands off the coast which he could see from the road.
Japanese: 重労働の疲れを癒してくれたのが、道から見える澄み切った琵琶湖と沖に浮かぶ竹生島の姿であった。
English: He wanted to leave something for roads to which he was strongly attached and commenced to plant cherry trees by himself believing that sakura-namiki would make the scenery brilliant.
Japanese: 愛着のある道に何か残したいと思った彼は、桜の並木があれば景色が華やかになると考え、まったくの自力で桜を植え始めた。
English: Under his instruction, members of the association carried water and soil with carts and plant young trees carefully so that the trees could take root reliably.
Japanese: 彼の指示で団員がリヤカーに水や土を運び、若木がしっかりと根付くよう丹精こめて植樹したのである。
English: Thus, the fact that cherry trees which Muneto and young people planted took root became a trigger for creation of the present sakura-namiki.
Japanese: こうして、宗戸と村の若者たちが植えた桜がしっかりと根を下ろしたことが、現在の桜並木をつくる大きなきっかけとなったのである。
English: After that, local people and people engaged in tourism fostered this sakura-namiki carefully and, when it was damaged by repeated heavy snowfall and mud and rock slide, they planted to supplement silently and continued to protect the sakura-namiki.
Japanese: その後も、地元の人々や観光関係者たちがこの桜並木を大切に育て、たび重なる豪雪やがけ崩れによる被害のさいにも黙々と補植し、守り続けた。
English: Cherry trees of Kaizu-osaki exceeded the age of kanreki (60 years old) and they lost their strength to some extent, but sakura-namiki which is proud of by inhabitants of Makino district are protected and fostered with care and is being inherited to the following generations.
Japanese: 海津大崎の桜も還暦を過ぎ、樹勢もかつてのような勢いはなくなってきたが、マキノ地区住民の誇りとも言うべき桜並木は大切に守り育てられ、後世に引き継がれようとしている。
English: In March 1990, the sakura-namiki was chosen as one of '100 best sakura viewing points in Japan' by Nihon Sakura no Kai Foundation (literally, association for cherry blossoms in Japan) and it arouse attention from various places in Japan.
Japanese: 平成2年（1990年）3月、桜並木は財団法人日本さくらの会から「日本さくら名所100選」に選ばれ、日本各地から注目されるに至っている。
English: One hour and 35 to 40 minutes from Osaka Station by Shin Kaisoku (new rapid service) (It can be shortened by 20 to 25 minutes by taking Limited Express 'Raicho' and changing train at Omi Imazu Station.)
Japanese: 大阪駅から新快速で約1時間35～40分（特急列車「雷鳥(列車)」を利用して近江今津駅で乗り換えた場合は約20～25分短縮される）
English: In the late Muromachi period, the town evolved into a jinai-cho (a town within the precincts of a temple) around Shonen-ji Temple (Kashihara City) of Jodo Shinshu sect (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism), and six districts of East, West, South, North, Shinmachi, and Imamachi were established within the town.
Japanese: 室町時代後期に、浄土真宗称念寺(橿原市)を中心とする寺内町となり、東西南北の他、新町・今町の6町が成立した。
English: The town stood on the side of Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple in Ishiyama War to fight against Nobunaga ODA, and developed into a fortified city with a moat, earthworks, diagonally crossed roads to hinder the view, etc.
Japanese: 石山合戦の際には、石山本願寺について織田信長に反抗、環濠や土塁、見通しを妨げる筋違いの道路等を築いて城塞都市となった。
English: After surrendering to Nobunaga ODA in 1575, the town flourished as an autonomous city, ranking with Sakai City which faces Osaka Bay.
Japanese: 1575年、織田信長に降伏してからは大阪湾に面する堺市と並び称される自治都市として栄えた。
English: In the Edo period, the town was referred to by such sayings as 'you could find 70 percent of all Yamato Province's money in Imai' and 'they air the money even at the entrance.'
Japanese: 江戸時代には「大和の金は今井に七分」「金の虫干し玄関まで」と称されるまでになった。
English: In the late Edo period, the town started to decline due to the oppressive tax, and as it opposed the construction of a railway station proposed in its neighborhood in the Meiji period, it could avoid being urbanized (the station was opened as Unebi Station.)
Japanese: 江戸後期に重税により町は衰退に向かい、明治期には近隣に持ち上がった鉄道駅建設計画に反対したことから都市化を免れることができた（畝傍駅として開業）。
English: Therefore, much of the town still remains as it was in the Edo period, and most of the houses are being used for actual dwelling.
Japanese: それゆえ現在も、町の大半が江戸時代の姿を残しており、大部分は実際に住居としても使用されている。
English: Some buildings, however, were abandoned and left untouched, and measures for such empty houses are needed.
Japanese: ただし中には廃屋同然に放置された建物も存在し、空家対策が必要である。
English: Tokatsu TOCHI defected to Imai to escape from suppression by Junkei TSUTSUI in 1566, followed by Sukeemonnojo Masaharu KAWAI moving to the town with his family and retainers.
Japanese: 永禄9年（1566）に十市遠勝が筒井順慶に圧迫されて今井に亡命した後を追って川井助衛門尉正治が一族郎党をひきつれて当地に移住した。
English: As the family settled in the western ("nishi" in Japanese) end of Imai Town, it followed the advice of Tadaakira MATSUDAIRA, the lord of Koriyama Castle and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA's grandson, and used "Imanishi" as a family name.
Japanese: 今井町の西口にあることから郡山城主徳川家康の孫松平忠明にすすめられて以後今西姓を名乗った。
English: Inside the house, there remains a court of law and a room for locking up criminals (ibushiro jail).
Japanese: 内部には、お白洲があり裁判が行われ、罪人を閉じこめた部屋（いぶし牢）も残っている。
English: Toyoda Residence (Important Cultural Property): Once owned by the Makimura family which ran a lumber business, it was called 'Nishinokiya.'
Japanese: 豊田家住宅（重要文化財）-古くは材木商の牧村家の所有で「西の木屋」と呼ばれた。
English: This merchant family was very wealthy, made loans to daimyo (Japanese territorial lord), and took charge of accounts in clan's warehouse, but after the Meiji Restoration, the family was forced to leave Imai because Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures) caused the freezing of loans.
Japanese: 大名に貸し付けを行い藩の蔵元を務めていたほどの豪商だったが、明治維新後の廃藩置県により貸付金が凍結し今井を離れざるを得なかった。
English: Obaian, a teahouse in Daisen-koen Park in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, is associated with Sokyu IMAI, and before being moved to the current location, it was owned by the Makimura family.
Japanese: なお大阪府堺市の大仙公園にある今井宗久ゆかりの茶室「黄梅庵」は、もと牧村家所有の茶室を移築したものである。
English: Shonen-ji Temple (Kashihara City): The temple belongs to Jodo Shinshu sect Hongan-ji school and is a branch of Hongan-ji Temple (Imaisan).
Japanese: 称念寺(橿原市)-浄土真宗本願寺派の寺であり、御坊（今井山）である。
English: Imai Town had developed as a jinai-cho around the Shonen-ji Temple, but after Nobunaga ODA disarmed the town, it enjoyed prosperity as an autonomous city, along with Sakai, until the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 今井町は称念寺を中心に発展した寺内町であったが、織田信長に武装解除されてから後は、堺と共に自治都市として幕末まで栄えた。
English: When the Emperor Meiji took 'Yamato gyoko' (imperial trip to the Yamato Province), the temple was used as Imai anzaisho (provisional palace for Emperor's going out) on February 10 and 11, 1877.
Japanese: また明治10年（1877）2月10日～11日、明治天皇の「大和行幸」の際の今井行在所（あんざいしょ）であった。
English: The main hall of the temple was rebuilt in the early modern period and designated as a national Important Cultural Property on May 23, 2002.
Japanese: 本堂は近世初頭に再建されたもので、平成14年5月23日国の重要文化財に指定された。
English: It is not known when the residence was built, but given the fact that it appears on a pictorial map drawn in 1748, it had already been established around that time.
Japanese: 建築年は分からないものの、寛廷元年（1748）の絵図に描かれていることから、当時すでに住居を構えていたことがわかる。
English: Ueda Residence (Important Cultural Property): The Ueda family traded under the name of 'Tsuboya,' and worked as sodoshiyori along with the Imanishi and Ozaki families.
Japanese: 上田家住宅（重要文化財）-屋号を「壺屋」といい、今西家・尾崎家と並び惣年寄を勤めていた。
English: Otomura Residence (Important Cultural Property): The Otomura family once acted as a hardware wholesale merchant under the trade name of 'Hosoku.'
Japanese: 音村家住宅（重要文化財）-屋号を「細九」といい、かつては金物問屋を営んでいた。
English: Former Kometani Residence (Important Cultural Property): The Kometani family was a fittings and fertilizer merchant for generations, with the trade name of 'Yonetada.'
Japanese: 旧米谷家（こめたにけ）住宅（重要文化財）-屋号を「米忠」といい、代々金具商、肥料商を営んでいた。
English: Kawai Residence (Important Cultural Property): The Kawai family bore the trade name 'Jobonjiya' and moved from Jobonji village (Jobonji-cho, Kashihara City) in the Kanei era.
Japanese: 河合家住宅（重要文化財）-屋号を「上品寺屋」といい、寛永年間に上品寺村（橿原市上品寺町）から移住した。
English: Documents owned by the family suggest that the family had already been brewing sake in 1772, and it is still engaged in sake brewing business.
Japanese: 家蔵文書によると明和9年（1772）には既に酒を造っており、今なお酒造業を営んでいる。
English: Takagi Residence (Important Cultural Property): The Takagi family was involved in sake brewing business under the trade name of 'Daito no Shijoya.'
Japanese: 高木家住宅（重要文化財）-屋号を「大東の四条屋」といい、酒造業を営んでいた。
English: Yoshimura Residence (prefectural cultural property): This residence was formerly owned by the Ueda family which acted as a fertilizer merchant under the trade name of 'Tsuboya.'
Japanese: 吉村家（県指定文化財）－旧は上田家で、屋号を「壺八」といい、肥料商を営んでいた。
English: The main building is believed to have been rebuilt in 1805, and other buildings are thought to be about 50 years older than the main building.
Japanese: 主家は文化二年（1805）の再建とみられるが、他の建物は、主家より約50年程さかのぼるとみられている。
English: Yamao Residence (prefectural cultural property): The Yamao family moved from Shindo village, Toichi County, thus bearing the trade name 'Shindoya,' and served as machi-doshiyori (ward head) in the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 山尾家（県指定文化財）-山尾家は、十市郡新堂村より移住したので「新堂屋」の屋号で、幕末には、町年寄を務めた。
English: Imai Machinami Exchange Center 'Hanairaka' (prefectural cultural property): Materials on Imai town are exhibited.
Japanese: 今井まちなみ交流センター「華甍（はないらか）」（県指定文化財）-今井町に関する資料を展示する。
English: Kasuga-jinja Shrine: There still remains chozubachi (a water basin used to rinse the hands or as a decorative element in gardens) donated by a powerful merchant in Sakai.
Japanese: 春日神社-堺の有力商人から寄贈された手水鉢（ちょうずばち）が今も残る。
English: town=>Town
Japanese: 今井児童公園-織田信長公本陣跡があったが第二次大戦の空襲による火事を回避するため取り壊したとの事。
English: Masuda-ike Pond is a reservoir which once existed in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture but does not now exist.
Japanese: 益田池（ますだいけ）とは、奈良県橿原市に存在したため池で、現在は消滅している。
English: This very big pond was created as an irrigation reservoir in the early Heian period by stemming the flow of the Takatori-gawa River through the embankment.
Japanese: 平安時代初期に、高取川に堤防を築いて水の流れをせき止めて作られた巨大な灌漑用の貯水池。
English: With the embankment extending approximately 200 meters from north of present-day Toriya-bashi Bridge to Torisaka-jinja Shrine and measuring almost 10 meters in height, the reservoir is estimated to have been able to store up to 1.4 to 1.8 million tons of water.
Japanese: 堤防は現在の鳥屋橋北から鳥坂神社まで長さ約200メートル、高さは10メートル近くあり、満水時の貯水量は140万トンから180万トンと推測されている。
English: Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture preserves and exhibits wooden gutters which were excavated during renovation of the river bed and are designated as cultural property "Gutter Pipes for the Bank of Masuda-ike Pond"by Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 奈良県立橿原考古学研究所には、川底改修の際に出土した木製の樋が保存展示されており、「益田池の堤附樋管」として奈良県の指定文化財として史跡に指定されている。
English: A hotel named 'Ryotei Koyo,' the big appeal of which is the Japanese interior design, has opened for business since October 1993.
Japanese: 和式の内装を誇る「旅亭紅葉」（1993年10月開業）が営業している。
English: It is run by 'Biwako Resort Hotel K. K.,' a subsidiary company of Japan Leisure Service Group Co., Ltd. based in Kyoto City.
Japanese: 京都市に本部を置くジャパンレジャーサービスグループの子会社「琵琶湖リゾートホテル株式会社」が経営している。
English: Two restaurants named "Kosai" (literally, "lake's coloration") and "Kocho" (literally, "lake view") that face toward Lake Biwa opened on September 14, 2007.
Japanese: 2007年9月14日にびわ湖に面したレストラン『湖彩・湖眺』がオープン。
English: Courtesy cars modeled after ox-drawn carriages,' a microbus with a painting of the head of an ox on the front part, is used to pick up guests.
Japanese: 宿泊客の送迎には「牛車タイプの送迎車」（前部に牛頭をあしらったマイクロバス）を使用している。
English: Biwako-onsen Hot Spring was formerly famous as a leisure complex in which Hotel Koyo (year of opening: 1964) played a central role.
Japanese: びわ湖温泉はかつて、ホテル紅葉（1964年開業）を中心とするレジャーランドとして有名であった。
English: Generations that resided in Kinki region at that time still talk about the TV commercial of Hotel Koyo with an enka (Japanese ballad) style theme song sung by a singer Kyoko TAMAI.
Japanese: ホテル紅葉の演歌調テレビCM（歌手：玉井京子）は、近畿地方に当時在住していた世代の間では今なお語り草となっている。
English: (Especially, it was always broadcast by the affiliates of TV Asahi Corporation on Saturday evening when they televised a big sport.)
Japanese: (特にテレビ朝日系列の土曜日夕方〔ビッグスポーツの時〕は必ず放送されていた）。
English: In 1978, Koyo Paradise adjacent to Hotel Koyo opened 'Hotel Orient Express,' which was a nine-car train consisting of a steam locomotive made in Germany and eight sleeping railroad cars made by International Sleeping-Car Company, on its property.
Japanese: 併設の紅葉パラダイスは1978年、ドイツ製蒸気機関車と国際寝台車会社製寝台車(鉄道)8両を連ねた「ホテル・オリエント急行」を敷地内に開業した。
English: But these sleeping cars were dismantled due to the closing down (also refer to the section on Steam Locomotive Hotel).
Japanese: だが、廃業に伴いこれら客車も解体されてしまった（SLホテルも参照）。
English: Marutama Kanko in Kyoto City, the former operating company of the above-mentioned Koyo Paradise and Ryotei Koyo, was in debt due to the renovation of the hotel, the business depression of the amusement park, etc.
Japanese: 上記の紅葉パラダイス、旅亭紅葉のかつての運営主体の丸玉観光株式会社（京都市）はホテル改装と遊園地の不振などによる負債を抱えていた。
English: Ryotei Koyo had been sold to Japan Leisure Service Group Co., Ltd. in Kyoto City, which is abbreviated to JLS, before the bankruptcy.
Japanese: 旅亭紅葉は倒産に先立って、ジャパンレジャーサービスグループ（略称：JLS／京都市）へ売却した。
English: Pieces such as sculpture from Greece and Rome, Japanese-style paintings and western paintings collected by Yasaburo KINOSHITA, the founder of Hotel Koyo and Marutama Kanko, were on display at Kinoshita Museum of Art adjacent to Ryotei Koyo.
Japanese: なお、旅亭紅葉に隣接して、ホテル紅葉と丸玉観光の創業者の木下彌三郎が収集したギリシャ・ローマ彫刻、日本画、洋画などを展示している木下美術館がある。
English: After its decline because of improvement of the railway network, it has been used for departure and arrival of sightseeing ships as well as bases for various ships operated by governmental agencies.
Japanese: 鉄道網の整備に伴い斜陽となった後は、遊覧船の発着拠点となっているほか、官公庁などが運航する各船の拠点にもなっている。
English: It is also provided with an annexed marine and a green space developed as a park and used for a wide variety of leisure activities
Japanese: また、併設のマリーナや公園として整備された緑地など、多用途のレジャーに利用されている。
English: Facilities are managed by Shiga Prefecture, but the designated manager for port facilities and so on is Biwako Kisen and, for the marina, Kansai Maintenance Shiga.
Japanese: 施設は滋賀県が管理しているが、港湾施設などは琵琶湖汽船が、マリーナは関西メンテナンス滋賀が指定管理者となっている。
English: Next year, Nagayoshi ASANO of Otsu domain collected ships of domains along the shore of the lake to Otsu in accordance with Hideyoshi's order.
Japanese: 翌年、秀吉の意向を受けた大津藩の浅野長吉が、湖岸諸藩の船を大津に集めた。
English: This became Otsu Hyakusosen (literally, 100 ships of Otsu) later, and it was given privileges concerning cargo handling at Otsu Port and so on from rulers in each age.
Japanese: これが後に大津百艘船となり、大津港の荷役などに関する特権を代々の支配者から受けていた。
English: After 'Ichibanmaru' went into service, steamships of various operators went into service and the number of water routes was also increased.
Japanese: 「一番丸」就航以降は様々な運営主体による汽船が就航し、大津百艘船も増加した。
English: One of the world's largest fountains provided on the breakwater (quadruple, 450-meter wide) in front of Symbol green space
Japanese: シンボル緑地から向かって正面の防波堤（4連、幅450m）に設けられている世界最大級の噴水。
English: Connecting service to other water routes (Otsu Prince Hotel Port - Otsu Port - Ogoto Onsen Port, Kusatsu Karasuma Hanto Port and so on)
Japanese: 他の航路への接続便（大津プリンスホテル港-大津港-おごと温泉港・草津烏丸半島港など）
English: Ano is a valley along the lower Nyu-gawa River and is located in Gojo-shi City (former Nishi-yoshino Village in Yoshino District), Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 賀名生（あのう）は、奈良県五條市（旧吉野郡西吉野村）にある丹生川の下流沿いの谷である。
English: It was a part of the area which became the capital of Japan under the Southern Court (Yoshino Court) during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Yoshino-cho period).
Japanese: 南北朝時代_(日本)（吉野朝時代）、南朝_(日本)（吉野朝廷）の日本の首都となった地域の一つ。
English: Originally it was written as '穴太' (read as "Anafu"); however, when the Emperor Gomurakami moved the Imperial Palace from Yoshino to this place, he changed the characters to 名生 (read as "Kanau", which in Japanese means "wish coming true") with the hope for unification by the Southern Court, and once the unification was realized in 1351 (Shohei Itto [temporal unification of the Northern and Southern Courts]), he changed the name to '賀名生' (read as "Kanau").
Japanese: もと「穴太」（あなふ）と書いたが、後村上天皇が皇居を吉野からこの地に移した際に、南朝による統一を願って叶名生（かなう）と改め、さらに1351年（正平(日本)6年、北朝_(日本)の観応2年）、いったん統一が叶うと（正平一統）「賀名生」に改めたという。
English: In December of 1336, which was earlier than the departure of the Emperor Gomurakami from the capital in 1336, the Emperor Godaigo escaped from Kazan-in in Kyoto and reached Anafu, but since there was no place suitable for the Imperial Palace, he went to Yoshino.
Japanese: 後村上天皇の遷幸より前の1336年（延元元年、北朝の建武(日本)3年）12月、後醍醐天皇は京都の花山院から逃れ出てまず穴太に至ったが、皇居とすべきところがなかったので吉野に至った。
English: In the New Year in 1347, after the death of Masatsura KUSUNOKI in the Battle of Shijonawate, the Southern Court, realizing that it could not keep off the attack by the Northern Court side (Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), the Ashikaga army), moved to Anafu (the Imperial Palace is said to be Sofuku-ji Temple) by giving up Yoshio.
Japanese: 1347年（正平2年、北朝の貞和3年）正月に楠木正行が四條畷で戦死したのち、南朝では北朝方（室町幕府、足利軍）の来襲を防ぎ得ないのを知り、吉野を引き払い穴太に移った（皇居は総福寺であろうという）。
English: In 1348, the Ashikaga army led by KO no Moronao attacked Yoshino and burned down the Imperial Palace and temples and shrines, etc. before leaving.
Japanese: 1348年（正平3年、北朝の貞和4年）、高師直率いる足利軍が吉野に来襲し、皇居、社寺などを焼き払い帰った。
English: In 1351, due to an internal conflict of Muromachi bakufu (Kanno Disturbance), Takauji ASHIKAGA temporarily surrendered to the Southern Court and the two courts were once unified by the Southern Court (Shohei Itto).
Japanese: 1351年（正平6年、北朝の観応2年）、室町幕府の内紛（観応の擾乱）により、足利尊氏が一時的に南朝に降伏し、一旦南朝に統一された（正平一統）。
English: In 1352, the Emperor Gomurakami established Hokusei-gun (an army heading north), and once moved from Sumiyoshi to Otoko-yama Mountain in Yamashiro Province (Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture).
Japanese: 1352年（正平7年、北朝の観応3年）に後村上天皇は北征軍を興し、一度は住吉から山城の男山（京都府八幡市）に移った。
English: Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA, who was a son of Takauji and the second shogun of Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), revoked Shohei Itto and backed up the Northern Court again.
Japanese: 尊氏の子である室町幕府第2代将軍足利義詮は正平一統を破棄し、再び北朝を擁立した。
English: In May, Hokusei-gun which failed to recover Kyoto returned to Ano; at this time, they abducted some royalties of the Northern Court side (the Emperor Kogen, Emperor Suko, and Imperial Prince Naohito) and furthermore confiscated the Three Sacred Treasures of the Imperial Family of the Northern Court (which the Southern Court claimed were fake).
Japanese: 5月、北征軍は京都を回復することができずに賀名生に帰ったが、この時北朝方の皇族（光厳天皇、崇光天皇、直仁親王）を拉致し、さらに北朝の三種の神器（南朝は偽器と主張）を押収した。
English: The Northern Court side made Imperial Prince Iyahito, who was planning to become a priest, to ascend the throne as the Emperor Gokogon.
Japanese: 北朝方は、出家を予定していた弥仁親王を）を後光厳天皇として即位させた。
English: In October of 1354, the Emperor Gomurakami moved to Amano-san Kongo-ji Temple in Kawachi (Kawachinagano City) (Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture), and six years later in 1359, to Kanshin-ji Temple in Kawachi (Kawachinagano City), and furthermore in the following year he moved to Sumiyoshi to make the residence of the Hokoramiya (Shinto priest) Tsumori clan, known as the Sumiyoshi-angu (temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit in Sumiyoshi), the Imperial Palace, where he died in 1368.
Japanese: 1354年（正平9年、北朝の文和3年）10月に河内天野山金剛寺(河内長野市)（大阪府河内長野市）に、6年後の1359年（正平14年、北朝の延文4年/応安元年）には河内観心寺（河内長野市）に移り、さらに翌年住吉に移って住吉行宮の祠宮津守氏の館を皇居とし1368年（正平23年、北朝の貞治7年）ここで死去した。
English: Later, the Emperor Gokameyama ascended the throne after the Emperor Chokei, and in August of 1373 the Imperial Palace was once again situated in Ano; for twenty years until returning to Kyoto in 1392 and the Three Sacred Treasures of the Imperial Family were given to Emperor Gokomatsu, Ano was the place where the Imperial Palace of the Southern Court was located.
Japanese: のち長慶天皇を経て後亀山天皇が践祚するに及び、1373年（文中2年、北朝の応安6年）8月よりまた賀名生を皇居とし以後1392年（元中9年、北朝の明徳3年）京都に帰って三種の神器を後小松天皇に伝えるまで20年間、賀名生は南朝の皇居の所在地であった。
English: During the Edo period, Ano was originally the land of Yamato Gojo Domain of the Matsukura clan, and later became the shogunal demesne (land directly controlled by Edo bakufu).
Japanese: 江戸時代は、当初は松倉氏の大和五条藩領地、後に天領（江戸幕府直轄領）。
English: At the end of the Edo period, Torataro YOSHIMURA of Tenchu-gumi (Heavenly Avenging Force) visited this place and wrote a tablet of 'Ano Imperial Palace' at the Ano Imperial Palace remains.
Japanese: 幕末には天誅組の吉村虎太郎がこの地を訪れ、皇居跡で「賀名生皇居」の扁額を書いた。
English: There was a plan according to which Goshin Line of Japan National Railways was to run through Ano, and the construction was underway up to a place called Sakamoto; however, the plan was cancelled and a part of the site was used for a bus lane instead.
Japanese: 日本国有鉄道五新線が通る予定で、途中の阪本まで建設が進められていたが中止され、用地の一部はバス(交通機関)専用道路に転用された。
English: On September 25, 2005, Ano became a part of Gojo City as the result of a municipal merger.
Japanese: 2005年（平成17年）9月25日、市町村合併で五條市の一部になった。
English: Since the residence was provided by Nobumasu HORI (and still owned by his descendants today), it is called 'Residence of the Hori clan Ano Imperial Palace remains.'
Japanese: 堀信増が提供した住居であるため（現在でも子孫が所有）、「堀家住宅　賀名生皇居跡」と呼ばれる。