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English: However, there are temples such as Shin-Yakushi-ji Temple and Saidai-ji Temple (Nara City) that were built during the Nara Period but now call their main halls 'hondo.'
Japanese: なお、奈良時代創建の寺院でも、新薬師寺、西大寺(奈良市)のように現在は「本堂」という名称を使用しているところもある。
English: There are also temples, such as Muro-ji Temple and Taima-dera Temple, which contain both a 'hondo' and a 'kondo.'
Japanese: また、室生寺、当麻寺のように「金堂」と「本堂」が別個に存在する寺院もある。
English: The name 'butsuden' (also meaning 'Buddha hall') is recorded in "Nihon Shoki" (The Chronicles of Japan) and is used as an alternative name for 'butsudo,' but in Japan is mainly used in the context of the halls that enshrine the principal object of Zen sect temples (often Buddha Shakyamuni).
Japanese: 「仏殿」という名称は、『日本書紀』にも見え、仏堂一般を指す語として用いられる場合もあるが、日本では主に禅宗寺院の本尊（多くは釈迦如来）を安置する堂の名称として使われている。
English: However, some non-Zen sect temples such as Sennyu-ji Temple also use the word 'butsuden.'
Japanese: ただし、泉涌寺のように禅宗以外の寺院でも「仏殿」を称するところもある。
English: Similarly, there are also some Zen sect temples that refer to their main hall as 'hondo,' especially those buildings resembling an abbot's chamber.
Japanese: また、禅宗寺院においても中心堂宇を「本堂」と称する例があり、特に方丈形式の建築を指して「本堂」ということが多い。
English: In addition, temples of the Obaku school of Zen Buddhism like Mampuku-ji Temple and others such as Nagasaki City's To-dera Temple give their main halls the Chinese style name 'Daiyu Hoden.'
Japanese: 他に萬福寺のような黄檗宗寺院や長崎市の唐寺などでは、大陸風の「大雄宝殿」（だいゆうほうでん）という名称を用いる場合もある。
English: Kamomioya-jinja Shrine is located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 賀茂御祖神社（かもみおやじんじゃ）は、京都市左京区にある神社である。
English: Along with Kamo-wakeikazuchi-jinja Shrine (Kamigamo-jinja Shrine, or 'Upper Kamo Shrine') it enshrines ancient ujigami of the Kamo clan, and the pair generally being referred to as Kamo-jinja Shrine (Kamo-sha) and treated as paired shrines.
Japanese: 賀茂別雷神社（上賀茂神社）とともに古代の賀茂氏の氏神を祀る神社であり、賀茂神社（賀茂社）と総称され、両社をもって一社のような扱いをされてきた。
English: It is called 'Kamomioya-jinja Shrine' from the fact that enshrines the deity of Kamigamo-jinja Shrine, Kamowakeikazuchi-no-mikoto's mother Tamayorihime-no-mikoto, and her father Kamotaketsunumi-no-mikoto within.
Japanese: 上賀茂神社の祭神である賀茂別雷命の母のタマヨリビメと玉依姫命の父の賀茂建角身命を祀ることから「賀茂御祖神社」と呼ばれる。
English: There are records of the fence surrounding the honden (main hall) being repaired in BC 90 and some theories claim that the shrine may have been established around this time.
Japanese: また、崇神天皇7年（紀元前90年）に神社の瑞垣の修造が行われたとの記録があり、この頃の創建ではないかとの説がある。
English: After the capital was relocated to Heian, the shrine became even more highly revered by the Imperial Court and was granted the highest possible status, Shoichii (Senior First Rank), in 807 with the Kamo Festival being held by royal order.
Japanese: 平安遷都の後はより一層の崇敬を受けるようになり、大同2年（807年）には最高位である正一位の神階を受け、賀茂祭は勅祭とされた。
English: The Jimmyocho (the list of deities) of the Engishiki law ranks it as a Myojin Taisha (a grand shrine that enshrines a high-ranked deity) and states that received offerings at each festival such as the Myojin-sai festival, Tsukinami-sai festival, Ainame-sai festival and Niname-sai festival.
Japanese: 延喜式神名帳では名神大社に列し、名神・月次・相嘗・新嘗の各祭の幣帛に預ると記載されている。
English: For approximately 400 years from 810, unmarried imperial princesses served as Saiin and Saio (priestesses) at the Kamo-sha shrine.
Japanese: 弘仁元年（810年）以降約400年にわたり、斎院が置かれ皇女が斎王として賀茂社に奉仕した。
English: Kawai-jinja Shrine (Shikinaisha listed in Engishiki, Myojin Taisha, by its formal name 'Kamonokawaai ni imasu okosoyakeno jinja.' Connected to KAMO no Chomei).
Japanese: 河合神社（式内社（名神大）「鴨川合坐小社宅神社」。鴨長明ゆかりの社）
English: Kamo-wakeikazuchi-jinja Shrine is located in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 賀茂別雷神社（かもわけいかづちじんじゃ）は、京都市北区(京都市)にある神社である。
English: Along with Kamomioya-jinja Shrine (Shimogamo-jinja Shrine, or 'Lower Kamo Shrine') it enshrines ancient ujigami of the Kamo clan, and the pair generally being referred to as Kamo-jinja Shrine (Kamo-sha) and treated as paired shrines.
Japanese: 賀茂御祖神社（下鴨神社）とともに古代の賀茂氏の氏神を祀る神社であり、賀茂神社（賀茂社）と総称される。
English: Wakeikazuchi' means 'young thunder' and signifies the god of thunder full youthful energy.
Japanese: 「別雷」は「若雷」の意味で、若々しい力に満ちた雷（神鳴り）の神という意味である。
English: According to legend, Kamowakeikazuchi-no-mikoto descended to the Miaresho at the foot of Mt. Kamo-san during the reign of Emperor Jimmu.
Japanese: 社伝では、神武天皇の御代に賀茂山の麓の御阿礼所に賀茂別雷命が降臨したと伝える。
English: The ancient text "Yamashiro no Kuni Fudoki" tells that Tamayorihime became pregnant after placing on her bed a vermilion-lacquered arrow that flowed down from the upper reaches of Kamo-gawa River, and that when she gave birth to Kamowakeikazuchi-no-mikoto, he was enshrined by the Kamo territorial ruling family of Anitamayorihiko's descendants.
Japanese: 『山城国風土記』逸文では、タマヨリビメ（たまよりひめ）が加茂川の川上から流れてきた丹塗矢を床に置いたところ懐妊し、それで生まれたのが賀茂別雷命で、兄玉依日古（あにたまよりひこ）の子孫である賀茂県主の一族がこれを奉斎したと伝える。
English: The first mention in Japan's Six National Histories from March 21, 698 (Emperor Mommu's reign) states that horseback archery had been banned on the day of the Kamo Festival and we also know that the shrine was revered by the Imperial Court with an approximately 2.5 acre field being donated by the Emperor in 750.
Japanese: 六国史では、文武天皇2年（698年）3月21日、賀茂祭の日の騎射を禁じたという記事が初出で、他にも天平勝宝2年（750年）に御戸代田一町が寄進されるなど、朝廷からの崇敬を受けてきたことがわかる。
English: After the capital was relocated to the city of Heian-Kyo in 794, the shrine became even more highly revered by the Imperial Court as a shrine for protection of the Imperial Palace and was granted the highest possible status, Shoichii (Senior First Rank) in 807, with the Kamo Festival being held by royal order.
Japanese: 794年の平安京遷都の後は王城鎮護の神社としてより一層の崇敬を受け、大同2年（807年）には最高位である正一位の神階を受け、賀茂祭は勅祭とされた。
English: The Jimmyocho (register of deities) of the Engishiki law ranks it as a Myojin Taisha (a grand shrine that enshrines a high-ranked deity) and states that received offerings at each festival such as the Myojin-sai festival, Tsukinami-sai festival, Ainame-sai festival and Niname-sai festival.
Japanese: 延喜式神名帳では名神大社に列し、名神祭・月次祭・相嘗祭・新嘗祭の各祭の幣帛に預ると記載されている。
English: For approximately 400 years from 810, after the model of Saigu of Ise-jingu Shrine, Saiin was placed and unmarried imperial princesses served as Saio (priestesses) at the shrine.
Japanese: 弘仁元年（810年）以降約400年にわたって、伊勢神宮の斎宮にならった斎院が置かれ、皇女が斎王として奉仕した。
English: The shrine was the first of the Kampei Taisha (Great Imperial Shrines) under the Meiji period integrated system of shrine ranks and second only to Ise-jingu Shrine, with it becoming a Chokusaisha (shrine attended by imperial envoy) in 1883.
Japanese: 明治の近代社格制度でも、官幣大社の筆頭という、伊勢神宮の次位の神社とされ、明治16年には勅祭社に定められた。
English: Tatezuna: The two cone-shaped sand mounds in front of the hosodono worship hall represent Mt. Ko-yama in which the deity resides.
Japanese: 立砂-細殿前の円錐状の二つの砂の山は御神体である神山を模したものであり立砂（たてずな）という。
English: Kyoto City Bus: Kamigamo-Misonobashi Stop (opposite side of the Kamo-gawa River), Kamigamo-jinja Mae Stop (within the grounds of the shrine in the same location as the City Bus terminal)
Japanese: 京都市営バス：上賀茂御園橋（賀茂川対岸）、上賀茂神社前（神社敷地内、同地には市バスの操車場が有る）
English: Kamo-jinja Shrine is the collective name for Kamo Wakeikazuchi-jinja Shrine (Upper Kamo-jinja Shrine) and Kamo Mioya-jinja Shrine (Lower Kamo-jinja Shrine) in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 賀茂神社（かもじんじゃ）とは、京都府京都市にある賀茂別雷神社（上賀茂神社）と賀茂御祖神社（下鴨神社）の2つの神社の総称である。
English: There are approximately 300 shrines around Japan with the same name that enshrine the divided deity from these original Kamo-jinja Shrines.
Japanese: また、この賀茂神社から勧請を受けた、「加茂神社」・「賀茂神社」・「鴨神社」などといった神社が日本各地に約300社ある。
English: Ryozen-ji Temple (Shimonita-machi) - A Tendai sect temple located in Shimonita-machi, Kanra-gun, Gumma Prefecture with the honorific mountain name prefix 'Shorozan.'
Japanese: 霊山寺(下仁田町)（りょうぜんじ）-群馬県甘楽郡下仁田町にある天台宗の寺院で山号は松露山。
English: Reizan-ji Temple (Sumida Ward, Tokyo Prefecture) - A Pure Land sect temple located in Sumida Ward, Tokyo Prefecture.
Japanese: 霊山寺(東京都墨田区)（れいざんじ）-東京都墨田区にある浄土宗の寺院。
English: Reizan-ji Temple (Shizuoka City) - A Shingon sect old/new interpretation school temple located in Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japanese: 霊山寺(静岡市)（れいざんじ）-静岡県静岡市清水区にある真言宗古義派・新義派の寺院。
English: Ryosen-ji Temple (Nara City) - The Ryosen-ji Shingon sect head temple located in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 霊山寺(奈良市)（りょうせんじ）-奈良県奈良市にある霊山寺真言宗の大本山。
English: Ryozen-ji Temple (Naruto City) - A Shingon sect temple with the honorific mountain suffix Jikuwazan located in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture.
Japanese: 霊山寺(鳴門市)（りょうぜんじ）-徳島県鳴門市にある真言宗の寺院で山号は竺和山。
English: Ryozen-ji Temple (Oita City) - A Tendai sect temple with the honorific mountain prefix 'Hiraisan' located halfway up Mt. Ryo-zen in Oita City, Oita Prefecture.
Japanese: 霊山寺(大分市)（りょうぜんじ）-大分県大分市の霊山(大分県)中腹にある天台宗の寺院で山号は飛来山。
English: In Nihon Shoki, only Ise-jingu Shrine and Isonokami-jingu Shrine are recorded as having the title 'jingu.'
Japanese: 日本書紀においては、伊勢神宮と石上神宮のみが「神宮」と記載されていた。
English: Following this, Kashima-jingu Shrine and Katori-jingu Shrine were listed in place of Isonokami-jingu Shrine in the Jimmyocho (register of deities) of Engishiki law during the Heian period and, until the Edo period, there were only three shrines with the title 'jingu' (Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine was also treated as a jingu as it was under direct royal control like Ise-jingu Shrine and regularly conducted the construction of a new shrine and the transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new).
Japanese: その後、平安時代に成立した延喜式神名帳においては、石上神宮に代わり鹿島神宮と香取神宮が「神宮」と記載され、江戸時代まで「神宮」を社号とする神社は、この3社のみであった（神宮待遇としては、伊勢神宮と同じく王権直属であり、式年遷宮を行っている住吉大社があった）。
English: After the end of the Meiji period, some shrines enshrining the ancestral gods of the imperial household, emperors or specific gods that conducted great deeds during the conquer of Yamato changed their titles from 'jinja' to 'jingu.'
Japanese: 明治以降、皇室の祖先神・天皇や大和平定に功績のある特定の神が祭神である神社のいくつかについて、社号の「神社」を「神宮」に改めた。
English: Until the end of the Second World War, a shrine required imperial permission in order to use the title 'jingu.'
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦終戦までは、「神宮」の社号を名乗るためには勅許が必要であった。
English: The national administration of shrines was abolished after the war but even now shrines with the title 'jingu' are limited only to those with especially distinguished histories.
Japanese: 戦後は神社の国家管理は廃止されたが、今なお「神宮」を名乗る神社は特別の由緒を持つものに限られている。
English: Only 3 shrines changed their titles to 'jingu' after the war and all of these did so with the special permission of Association of Shinto Shrines (Hokkaido-jingu Shrine (formerly Sapporo-jinja Shrine), Izanagi-jingu Shrine (Hyogo Prefecture), Hikosan-jingu Shrine (Fukuoka Prefecture).
Japanese: 戦後に「神宮」に改称したのは3社のみで、いずれも神社本庁の特別な承認を受けて改称したものである。（北海道神宮(旧札幌神社・北海道)、伊弉諾神宮(兵庫県)、英彦山神宮(福岡県)の3社）
English: The deity Amaterasu Omikami enshrined within Ise-jingu Shrine (Kotai-jingu Shrine) has been divided and shared with numerous shrines around the country carrying the titles of 'Daijingu' and 'Kotaijingu,' but these titles are accepted as being different from that of 'Jingu.'
Japanese: なお、伊勢神宮（皇大神宮）の祭神天照大神を分霊し「大神宮」「皇大神宮」と名乗る神社は全国各地にあるが、これらは「神宮」の社号とは異なるものと解されている。
English: The three most representative jingu shrines of those listed above are referred to as the san dai jingu or san jingu.
Japanese: 上記の神宮のうち代表的な3つをもって三大神宮または三神宮と呼ぶことがある。
English: As one of Shrine Shinto's most important sites, Ise-jingu Shrine is always included, whereas the other two are differently considered to be the following combinations.
Japanese: ただし、神社神道の本宗である伊勢神宮は確定しているが、残りの2つについては以下の3つの説がある。
English: The first of these is Ise-jingu Shrine, Kashima-jingu Shrine and Katori-jingu Shrine as the three shrines to have held the title of 'jingu' since before the Edo period.
Japanese: 1つ目は、江戸時代以前から「神宮」を名乗っていた伊勢神宮・鹿島神宮・香取神宮とするものである。
English: The second is Ise-Jingu Shrine and Atsuta Jingu-shrine, chosen for their deep relationship with the imperial household and possession of the three sacred treasures in which deities reside, and the third is Heian-jingu Shrine or Meiji-jingu Shrine despite the lack of history.
Japanese: 2つ目・3つ目は、天皇家に縁の深い神宮を選んだもので、三種の神器を神体とする伊勢神宮と熱田神宮と、後は歴史はないが平安神宮か明治神宮。
English: The name Jingu always refers to Ise-jingu shrine and can not be used to compare other shrines to Ise-jingu shrine.
Japanese: ただ、神宮はそもそも伊勢神宮のことであり、伊勢神宮と他のものを並列にすることはできない。
English: Taisha are large jinja (Shinto shrines), or one of the 492 jinja categorized as Shikinai Taisha in the early Heian period text Jimmyocho (the list of deities) of Engishiki (codes and procedures on national rites and prayers), or those jinja that have adopted the suffix taisha.
Japanese: 大社（たいしゃ）とは大きな神社、または平安時代初期の延喜式神名帳に式内大社として列格される492の神社、または～大社と名乗る神社のこと。
English: It was once the case that the characters of the word 'Taisha,' pronounced 'Oyashiro,' referred specifically to Izumo Taisha Shrine (Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture).
Japanese: かつては単に大社（おおやしろ）といえば一般的には出雲大社（島根県出雲市）のことを指す。
English: After the second world war, a large number of old Kampei Taisha (Great Imperial Shrines) and Kokuhei Taisha (Great National Shrines) changed their titles to simply Taisha.
Japanese: 戦後、旧官幣大社や旧国幣大社など大社格の神社で大社を名乗ったところが多い。
English: Hirano-jinja Shrine (Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture): The sign on the torii previously read 'Hirano Taisha.'
Japanese: 平野神社-（京都府京都市北区(京都市)）　かつて鳥居の扁額に平野大社の表記があった
English: Shokoku-ji temple in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City is the head temple of the Rinzai sect Shokoku-ji School of Zen Buddhism.
Japanese: 相国寺（しょうこくじ）は、京都市上京区にある臨済宗相国寺派大本山の寺院。
English: It is connected to the Ashikaga Shogun family and the Fushimi-no-Miya family, and was the second of the Kyoto-Gozan.
Japanese: 足利将軍家や伏見宮家ゆかりの禅寺であり、京都五山の第2位に列せられている。
English: Shokoku-ji temple was at the center of Gozan Literature and was home to the artist monks Shubun and Sesshu.
Japanese: 相国寺は五山文学の中心地であり、画僧周文や雪舟は相国寺の出身である。
English: In addition, Kyoto's famous sites Kinkaku-ji Temple (Rokuon-ji Temple) and Ginkaku-ji Temple (Jisho-ji Temple) are external sub-temples of Shokoku-ji Temple.
Japanese: また、京都の観光名所として著名な金閣寺（鹿苑寺）、銀閣寺（慈照寺）は、相国寺の境外塔頭（けいがいたっちゅう）である。
English: In 1382 Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA, third Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate, vowed to establish the largest Buddhist cathedral on land adjacent to the Hana no Gosho (Flower Palace).
Japanese: 室町幕府3代将軍足利義満は、いわゆる「花の御所」の隣接地に一大禅宗伽藍を建立することを永徳2年（1382年）に発願。
English: Yoshimitsu requested that Tenryu-ji Temple Zen master Shunoku Myoha (1311-1388) serve as kaisan (founding priest) but Shunoku Myoha declined.
Japanese: 義満は、禅の師であった天龍寺の春屋妙葩（しゅんおくみょうは、1311－1388）に開山（初代住職）となることを要請したが、春屋はこれを固辞。
English: Shunoku assumed the post of second chief priest on the condition that his uncle, and also his teacher, High Priest Muso Soseki (1275-1351), be posthumously named kaisan.
Japanese: 春屋の伯父であり師である高僧・夢窓疎石（1275－1351）を開山とするなら、自分は喜んで第2世住職になる、という条件でようやく引き受けた。
English: This is how Muso Soseki came to be named as kaisan despite the fact that he died 30 years before Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA even vowed to establish the cathedral.
Japanese: 足利義満が伽藍建立を発願する30年以上前に死去している夢窓疎石が開山とされているのは、このような事情による。
English: Shunoku Myoha also died in 1388 without seeing the completion of Shokoku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 春屋妙葩も相国寺伽藍の完成を見ずに嘉慶(日本)2年（1388年）没している。
English: Shokoku-ji Temple was one of Kyoto's largest Zen Buddhist temples and was a central location of Gozan Literature but has also been completely destroyed by fire on numerous occasions.
Japanese: 相国寺は京都最大の禅宗寺院のひとつとして、また五山文学の中心地として栄えたが、たびたび火災に見舞われた。
English: Yoshimitsu's Shichiju Daito tower was destroyed by fire several years after its completion but at over 106 m its record as the tallest building in Japan remained unbroken for approximately 530 years until the completion of the steel tower of the Yosami radio transmitting station (250 m) in 1929.
Japanese: 義満による七重大塔も数年で焼失したが七重大塔は高さ106mを誇り､1929年の依佐美送信所鉄塔(250m)竣工まで約530年間高さ歴代日本一の記録は破られなかった。
English: In 1467, Shokoku-ji temple became the camp for the Hosokawa clan during the Onin War and was burnt down.
Japanese: 応仁元年（1467年）には相国寺が応仁の乱の細川方の陣地となったあおりで焼失。
English: In 1551, the site was once again ravaged by fire when it became embroiled in a dispute between the Kanrei (Shogun's Deputy) Hosokawa family and Miyoshi family.
Japanese: 天文(元号)20年（1551年）にも管領細川家と三好家の争いに巻き込まれて焼失。
English: In 1584, the individual regarded as the father of Shokoku-ji Temple's restoration, Seisho Jotai, assumed the position of chief priest and began renovations.
Japanese: 天正12年（1584年）、相国寺の中興の祖とされる西笑承兌（せいしょうじょうたい）が住職となり、復興を進めた。
English: Another fire broke out in 1620 and almost all structures with the exception of the lecture hall were completely destroyed in the Great Fire of Temmei in 1788.
Japanese: その後も元和(日本)6年（1620年）に火災があり、天明8年（1788年）の「天明の大火」で法堂以外のほとんどの堂宇を焼失した。
English: In its heyday, the grounds of Shokoku-ji Temple extended to Teramachi-dori Street in the east, Omiya-dori Street in the west, Ichijo-dori Street in the south and Kami-goryo-jinja Shrine in the north.
Japanese: 最盛期には東は寺町通り、西は大宮通り、南は一条通り、北は上御霊神社との境までが相国寺の寺域であった。
English: After being destroyed by fire during the Onin War, Sam-mon gate and the butsu-den (Buddha hall) were not rebuilt, with the Hatto (lecture hall) serving as the butsu-den (hall in which the object of worship is enshrined).
Japanese: 応仁の乱による焼失後、三門と仏殿は再建されることなく、近世以降は法堂（はっとう）が仏殿（本尊を安置する堂）を兼ねている。
English: Hatto (important cultural property) - Also known as 'Muido' and rebuilt in 1605 using funds donated by Hideyori TOYOTOMI.
Japanese: 法堂（はっとう、重文）－「無畏堂」ともいい慶長10年（1605年）、豊臣秀頼の寄進により再建された。
English: Kaisanto (Kaisando) - A hall houses an image of kaisan (founding priest) Muso Soseki that was relocated a palace of Emperor Momozono's wife, Kyoraimonin, and reconstructed in 1807.
Japanese: 開山塔（開山堂）－開山夢窓疎石の像を祀る堂で、桃園天皇の皇后・恭礼門院の御殿を文化4年（1807年）に移築したもの。
English: Jotenkaku Museum - This institution was opened in 1984 and exhibits the cultural properties of Shokoku-ji Temple and affiliated temples (such as Kinkaku-ji Temple).
Japanese: 承天閣美術館－相国寺と関連寺院（金閣寺など）の文化財を収蔵展示する施設で、1984年に開館した。
English: Semmyo (bathing house) - First built around 1400, the current structure was rebuilt in 1596.
Japanese: 宣明（浴室）-1400年頃創建、現在のものは慶長4年（1596年）の再建。
English: Daitoku-ji Temple is the head temple of the Rinzai sect's Daitokuji school of Japanese Zen Buddhism and is located in Daitokuji-cho Murasakino, Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 大徳寺（だいとくじ）は、京都府京都市北区(京都市)紫野大徳寺町にある禅宗寺院で、臨済宗大徳寺派大本山である。
English: The temple was formally founded in 1325 with the principal image Shaka Nyorai and Daito-kokushi Shuho Myocho serving as kaiki (patron of a temple in its founding).
Japanese: 本尊は釈迦如来、開基（創立者）は大燈国師宗峰妙超（しゅうほうみょうちょう）で、正中(元号)2年（1325年）に正式に創立されている。
English: The Zen temple contains within its precinct many structures that are of prominence within Kyoto such as a central monastery, including Butsu-den (Buddha hall), Hatto (lecture hall), and also over 20 Tatchu (sub-temples), and remains the atmosphere of the early-modern times.
Japanese: 京都でも有数の規模を有する禅宗寺院で、境内には仏殿、法堂（はっとう）をはじめとする中心伽藍のほか、20ヶ寺を超える塔頭（たっちゅう、本山寺院の境内周辺にある関連寺院）が立ち並び、近世の雰囲気を残している。
English: Daitoku-ji Temple has played a great part in Japanese culture; having produced many eminent monks and becoming closely linked to the Japanese tea ceremony.
Japanese: 大徳寺は歴代多くの名僧を輩出し、茶の湯文化とも縁が深く、日本の文化に多大な影響を与え続けてきた寺院である。
English: The main temple and sub-temples represent a wealth of cultural property such as architecture, gardens, partition paintings, tea utensils, and Chinese influenced works of calligraphy.
Japanese: 本坊および塔頭寺院には、建造物、庭園、障壁画、茶道具、中国伝来の書画など、多くの文化財を伝えている。
English: Daitoku-ji Temple's founder Zen priest Shuho Myocho was born in Harima Province (present day Hyogo Prefecture) in 1282 into the Uranoe clan which served as retainers to the Shugo Akamatsu clan.
Japanese: 大徳寺の開祖である禅僧・宗峰妙超は、弘安5年（1282年）、播磨国（兵庫県）に、同国守護・赤松氏の家臣・浦上（うらのえ）氏の子として生まれた。
English: At age 11, he entered the local large Shoshazan Engyo-ji Temple and began to study the ways of the Tendai sect, but after awakening to Zen Buddhism, he travelled to consult with Koho Kennichi of Kamakura and Nampo Jomin of Kyoto.
Japanese: 11歳の時、地元の大寺院である書写山円教寺に入り、天台宗を学ぶが、のち禅宗にめざめ、鎌倉の高峰顕日（こうほうけんにち）、京の南浦紹明（なんぽじょうみん）に参禅。
English: When Nampo Jomin was transferred to Kencho-ji Temple in Kamakura, Shuho also entered Kamakura and received formal confirmation of his awakening (dharma transmission) from his master in 1307.
Japanese: 南浦紹明が鎌倉の建長寺に移るにしたがって宗峰も鎌倉入りし、徳治2年（1307年）に師から印可を得た。
English: After serving at Kyoto's Higashiyama for several years, Shuho Myocho earned the devotion of Norimura AKAMATSU (Enshin) in 1315 and established a small temple in the Murasakino area of Rakuhoku.
Japanese: その後数年、京都東山で修行を続けていた宗峰妙超は、正和4年（1315年）（元応元年＝1319年とも）、同郷の赤松則村（円心）の帰依を受け、洛北紫野の地に小堂を建立した。
English: Emperor Hanazono became devoted to Shuho and, in 1325, decreed that Daitoku-ji Temple be converted to a supplication hall.
Japanese: 花園天皇は宗峰に帰依し、正中(元号)2年（1325年）、大徳寺を祈願所とする院宣を発している。
English: Emperor Go-Daigo also patronized Daitoku-ji Temple and commanded that it be further elevated to the top of the Kyoto-Gozan in 1334.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇も当寺を保護し、建武(日本)元年（1334年）には大徳寺を京都五山のさらに上位に位置づけるとする綸旨を発した。
English: However, when the Kemmu Restoration ended and the Ashikaga clan gained control of the nation, temples that held a deep relationship with Emperor Go-Daigo were looked down upon by the Ashikaga clan and this led to Daitoku-ji Temple being excluded from the Gozan-Jissetsu.
Japanese: しかし、建武の新政が終わって足利氏が天下を取ると、後醍醐天皇と関係の深い大徳寺は足利氏から軽んぜられ、五山十刹から除かれてしまった。
English: In 1386, the temple was reinstated near the very bottom of the Gozan-Jissetsu as number 9.
Japanese: 至徳(日本)3年（1386年）には、五山十刹の最下位に近い、十刹の第9位とされている。
English: For this reason, Daitoku-ji Temple withdrew from the government patronage, control and increasing secularization of the Gozan-Jissetsu and pursued its own path by engaging in ascetic practices through Zen meditation.
Japanese: このため大徳寺は、政府の庇護と統制下にあり世俗化しつつあった五山十刹から離脱し、座禅修行に専心する独自の道をとった。
English: Temples, including those of the Rinzai sect, outside the system such as Daitoku-ji Temple and Myoshin-ji Temple are known as 'Rinka' in contrast to Gozan-Jissetsu temples which are called 'Sorin.'
Japanese: 五山十刹の寺院を「叢林」（そうりん）と称するのに対し、同じ臨済宗寺院でも、大徳寺、妙心寺のような在野的立場にある寺院を「林下」（りんか）という。
English: Following this, Daitoku-ji Temple enjoyed the patronage and support of a wide range of people including aristocrats, Daimyo, business people and cultural figures and, from the Muromachi period, produced a string of eminent monks including Ikkyu Shojun.
Japanese: その後の大徳寺は、貴族、大名、商人、文化人など、幅広い層の保護や支持を受けて栄え、室町時代以降は一休宗純をはじめとする名僧を輩出した。
English: After Higashiyama culture proponents such as wabi-cha tea ceremony creator Juko MURATA began consulting with Ikkyu, Daitoku-ji Temple came to be closely linked with the world of the tea ceremony and tea ceremony masters such as Joo TAKENO and Rikyu SEN.
Japanese: 侘び茶を創始した村田珠光などの東山文化を担う人びとが一休に参禅して以来、大徳寺は茶道の世界とも縁が深く、武野紹鴎、千利休をはじめ多くの茶人が大徳寺と関係をもっている。
English: The first monastery was completely destroyed by the fire of 1453 and the Onin War (1467-1477) but Ikkyu Shojun reconstructed it with the cooperation of wealthy merchants from the city of Sakai.
Japanese: 享徳2年（1453年）の火災と応仁の乱（1467年-1477年）で当初の伽藍を焼失したが、一休宗純が堺の豪商らの協力をえて復興。
English: In the early Edo period, the temple fell under the control of the Shogunate and the former chief priest Takuan Soho was forced into exile in what is known as The Purple Robe Incident, but relations with the Shoganate subsequently recovered.
Japanese: 江戸時代初期に幕府の統制を受け、紫衣事件と呼ばれる元住持・沢庵宗彭が流罪となる圧迫を受けたが、幕府との関係ものちに回復した。
English: Chokushi-mon gate (the Gate for the Imperial Envoys), Sam-mon gate, Butsu-den and Hatto (lecture hall) are arranged in almost a straight line and the monastery around which these are centered is surrounded by over 20 sub-temples.
Japanese: 勅使門、三門、仏殿、法堂（はっとう）がほぼ一直線に並び、これら中心伽藍の北・南・西に20ヶ寺以上の塔頭寺院が並ぶ。
English: Chokushi-mon gate (Important Cultural Property) - The imperial palace gate constructed between 1596 and 1614 was bestowed to the temple where it was relocated in 1640.
Japanese: 勅使門（重要文化財）-慶長年間（1596年-1614年）建立の御所の門を下賜され、寛永17年（1640年）に移築されたもの。
English: The lower storey alone was completed in 1529 using funds donated by renga poet Shocho and the upper storey was completed in 1589 by Rikyu SEN.
Japanese: 連歌師・宗長の寄進で享禄2年（1529年）にまず下層のみが竣工し、天正17年（1589年）、千利休が上層（2階）を完成させたという。
English: Rikyu installed a wooden statue of himself in the upper storey (so that those who pass through the gate must pass below Rikyu), but this enraged Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI who used this as a pretext for pressuring Rikyu to commit suicide.
Japanese: 利休は上層に自身の木像を安置した（つまり、門をくぐる者は利休の下を通ることになる）が、これが豊臣秀吉の怒りを買い、秀吉はこのことを楯に利休に自決を迫ったという。