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English: Many of the temple's treasures, including Buddha statues, were also lost and many of the existing ones were produced after this fire in the Kamakura reconstruction period.
Japanese: なお仏像をはじめとする寺宝類も多数が焼失したため、現存するものはこの火災以後の鎌倉復興期に制作されたものが多い。
English: Buddha statues created by Keiha School sculptors such as Unkei who were based in Kofuku-ji Temple were created in large numbers during this period.
Japanese: 興福寺を拠点とした運慶ら慶派仏師の手になる仏像もこの時期に数多く作られている。
English: After the fire of 1717 during the Edo Period large scale reconstruction was not done, partly due to the changing historical backdrop, and Saikon-do Hall, Kodo Hall, and Nandai-mon Gate (great south gate) that were destroyed at the time were never reconstructed.
Japanese: 江戸時代の享保2年（1717年）の火災の時は、時代背景の変化もあって大規模な復興はなされず、この時焼けた西金堂、講堂、南大門などはついに再建されずじまいであった。
English: The Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism issued in 1868 triggered a movement for the abolition of Buddhism, and Kofuku-ji Temple, whose beliefs were shared by Kasuga-sha Shrine, suffered a direct blow.
Japanese: 明治元年（1868年）に出された神仏分離令は、全国に廃仏毀釈の嵐を巻き起こし、春日社と一体の信仰が行われていた興福寺は直接打撃をこうむった。
English: As a result all branch temples were abolished, temple estates were confiscated, priests became Shinto priests of Kasuga-sha Shrine, the walls around the precincts were removed, trees were planted in the precincts, and the temple was integrated into Nara Park.
Japanese: 子院はすべて廃止、寺領は没収され、僧は春日社の神職となり、境内は塀が取り払われ、樹木が植えられて、奈良公園の一部となってしまった。
English: Prior to this, the chief priests of Ichijo-in Temple and Daijo-in Temple (both sub temples) who retained control over Kofuku-ji Temple were forced to return to secular life as members of the Nara peerage.
Japanese: それにさきがけ、興福寺別当だった一乗院および大乗院の門主は奈良華族として還俗させられていた。
English: In 1881, as people began to view the Buddhism abolition policy as excessive, the reconstruction of Kofuku-ji Temple was finally permitted.
Japanese: 行き過ぎた廃仏政策が反省されだした1881年（明治14年）、ようやく興福寺の再興が許可された。
English: In 1897, when the Law for Preserving Old Temples and Shrines, the predecessor of The Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, was issued, the temples and pagoda of Kofuku-ji Temple were renovated and the appearance of the temple has been continuously gradually improved.
Japanese: 1897年（明治30年）、文化財保護法の前身である「古社寺保存法」が公布されると、興福寺の諸堂塔も修理が行われ、徐々に寺観が整備されて現代に至っている。
English: However, the fact that Kofuku-ji Temple has no walls and is located in a park and that because of this there is no 'flow line of belief,' is one remaining scar from that time.
Japanese: しかし、興福寺に塀が無く公園の中に寺院がある状態、「信仰の動線」が欠落していると称される状態は、このとき残された傷跡である。
English: Ichijo-in, which is the head of several sub temples, was originally a sekke-monzeki (temple headed by members of the sekke, the line of regents and advisers) where members of the Konoe Clan (the Konoe family and the Takatsukasa family) worked, but in the early Edo Period it became a miya-monzeki, a temple headed by imperial princes (at the end of the Edo Period members of the Konoe family became monzeki again).
Japanese: 塔頭の筆頭である一乗院は、はじめ近衛家流（近衛家と鷹司家）の子弟が門主をつとめる摂家門跡であったが、江戸初期以降は皇族が門主をつとめる宮門跡となった（幕末には再び近衛家の子弟が門跡となる）。
English: There were keishi (household superintendents) exclusively for the Ichijo-innomiya family called shodaibu (part of the aristocracy lower than kugyo) which were effectively court nobles.
Japanese: 諸大夫とよばれる一乗院宮家専属の家司（家来）もおり、宮家とよんでも差し支えのないものであった。
English: As well as the residences in Nara there was a Kyoto residence called 'Nanto Ichijo-in no miya misatobo' between the Katsuranomiya mansion and the Imperial Palace in Imadegawa in Kyoto.
Japanese: また邸宅は奈良だけではなく、京都今出川の桂宮邸と御所の間に「南都一乗院宮御里房」とよばれる京屋敷を持っていた。
English: It was a custom that the chiefs of Ichijo-in and Daijo-in temples served alternately as Kofuku-ji betto, the highest ranking position at Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 興福寺の最高役職である興福寺別当は、一条院主と大乗院主が交互に就く習わしだった。
English: Once there were three Kon-do Halls (main halls): Chukon-do Hall (Middle Golden Hall), Tokon-do Hall (Eastern Golden Hall), and Saikon-do Hall (Western Golden Hall), and many Buddha statues were enshrined between them.
Japanese: かつての興福寺には中金堂（ちゅうこんどう）、東金堂（とうこんどう）、西金堂（さいこんどう）の3つの金堂があり、それぞれに多くの仏像が安置されていた。
English: In the central area of the temple compound Nandai-mon Gate, Chumon Gate (Inner Gate), Chukon-do Hall, and Kodo Hall were aligned from north to south, and on the eastern side of the precinct the five-storied pagoda, Tokon-do Hall, Jiki-do Hall (Dining Hall) were aligned from the south, and on the western side of the precinct Nanen-do Hall (Southern Round Hall), Seikon-do Hall, and Hokuen-do Hall (Northern Round Hall) were also aligned.
Japanese: 寺の中心部には南から北に南大門、中門、中金堂、講堂が一直線に並び、境内東側には南から五重塔、東金堂、食堂（じきどう）が、境内西側には南から南円堂、西金堂、北円堂が建っていた。
English: In addition to these, a three-storied pagoda was built on a sunken area at the southwestern corner of the precinct and the Oyuya (Bath House) was built in the southeastern area of the precinct.
Japanese: この他、境内南西隅の一段低い土地に三重塔が、境内南東部には大湯屋がそれぞれ建てられた。
English: There are many instances of fire within the temple grounds but any damaged buildings were reconstructed on every occasion.
Japanese: これらの堂宇は、創建以来たびたび火災に見舞われ、焼失と再建を繰り返してきた。
English: In the Meiji Period the precincts of Kofuku-ji Temple were integrated into Nara Park, and the walls and the Nandai-mon Gate which marked the boundary were lost, so it is hard to imagine the original location of temple buildings in the Tenpyo Period.
Japanese: 明治期以降、興福寺の境内は奈良公園の一部と化し、寺域を区切っていた塀や南大門もなくなり、天平時代の整然とした伽藍配置を想像することは困難になっている。
English: It is believed that the erection of Chukon-do Hall began right after the transfer of the capital to Heijo in 710, it being a central building of the temple which enshrined the Shaka Sanzon statues at the wish of Fujiwara no Kamatari.
Japanese: 中金堂は藤原鎌足発願の釈迦三尊像を安置するための、寺の中心的な堂として和銅3年（710年）の平城京遷都直後に造営が始められたと推定される。
English: The temple was repeatedly rebuilt following fires, but after its destruction by fire in 1717 it took more than a century to reconstruct the buildings, and it was only in 1819 (Bunsei era) when they were finally reconstructed thanks to contributions by benefactors.
Japanese: 創建以来たびたび焼失と再建を繰り返したが、江戸時代の享保2年（1717年）の火災による焼失後は1世紀以上再建されず、文政2年（1819年）、篤志家の寄付によってようやく再建された。
English: The temple built during the Bunsei reconstruction was a temporary one and slightly smaller than the previous temple, and many Buddha statues including a 5.2-meter high statue of Senju Kannon (Thousand Armed Avalokiteshwara) were enshrined there until the Kofuku-ji Temple Museum of National Treasures opened in 1959.
Japanese: この文政再建の堂は仮堂で、規模も従前の堂より一回り小さかったが、興福寺国宝館の開館（1959年）までは、高さ5.2メートルの千手観音像をはじめ、多くの仏像を堂内に安置していた。
English: Because it was built to be a temporary building, pine timber, which is cheap but not suitable for long-term use, was used, and rain damage due to aging became a serious issue, leading to the construction of a temporary Kon-do (Golden Hall) behind Chukon-do Hall in 1974, by rebuilding the former Kon-do Hall of Hakushi-ji Temple in Nara at the site.
Japanese: あくまで仮の堂として建てられたため、長年の使用に不向きであるものの安価なマツ材が使用されており、経年による雨漏りがひどくなり1974年に中金堂裏側に仮金堂（奈良・薬師寺の旧金堂を移築したもの）が建てられ、本尊などはそちらに移された。
English: Due to the effects of time it was determined that it would be impossible to reuse or reconstruct the Bunsei Chukon-do in a different location, so it was completely demolished in 2000 except for some timbers which were saved for future use.
Japanese: 文政再建の仮堂の中金堂は老朽化のため移築再利用も不可能と判断され、一部の再利用できる木材を残して2000年に解体されている。
English: The construction of a new Chukon-do Hall and improvements to the precinct are currently in progress to restore the buildings to their condition at the time of the original construction, and this is scheduled to be completed in 2010, 1300 years after it was originally built.
Japanese: なお、創建1,300年の2010年完成をめざし、創建当初の姿を再現した新・中金堂の建設と境内の整備が進められている。
English: Other than the wooden seated statue of Shaka Nyorai (reconstructed in the Edo Period) which is the principal image of Kofuku-ji Temple, the following Buddha statues are enshrined in the temporary Kon-do Hall.
Japanese: 仮金堂内には興福寺の本尊である釈迦如来坐像（江戸時代の再興）のほか、以下の諸仏を安置する。
English: They are currently enshrined on both sides of the principal image of Chukon-do Hall, the Shakyanyorai statue, but were originally constructed in 1202 in the Kamakura Period as attendant figures of the Shakyanyorai statue, the principal image of the Saikon-do Hall that was abolished.
Japanese: 現在は中金堂本尊釈迦如来像の両脇に安置されるが、本来は廃絶した西金堂本尊・釈迦如来像の脇侍として、鎌倉時代の建仁2年（1202年）造立されたもの。
English: Tokon-do Hall (National Treasure) was constructed in 726 as a hall to enshrine the Yakushi sanzon (Yakushi Triad) at the wish of Emperor Shomu in order to pray for a cure for Gensho Daijo-tenno (ex-Emperor Gensho).
Japanese: 東金堂（国宝）は神亀3年（726年）、聖武天皇が伯母にあたる元正太上天皇の病気平癒を祈願し、薬師三尊を安置する堂として創建した。
English: After it was damaged by fire caused by war in 1180, the armed priests of Kofuku-ji Temple snatched the statues of the Yakushi Sanzon, the principal image of the Kodo Hall of Yamada-dera Temple in Asuka (present-day Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture), and installed them as the principal image of Tokon-do Hall.
Japanese: 治承4年（1180年）の兵火による焼失後、文治3年（1187年）、興福寺の僧兵は飛鳥の山田寺（現・奈良県桜井市）講堂本尊の薬師三尊像を強奪してきて、東金堂本尊に据えた。
English: Tokon-do Hall and the five-storied pagoda were damaged by fire in 1411, and the current building was constructed in 1415.
Japanese: 東金堂はその後応永18年（1411年）に五重塔とともに焼け、現在の建物は応永22年（1415年）の再建である。
English: Bronze statue of Yakushi Sanzon (Important Cultural Property); the principal statue of the three was remade in the Muromachi Period after the fire in 1411.
Japanese: 銅造薬師三尊像（重文）－中尊は応永18年（1411年）の火災後の再興像で室町時代の作。
English: Attendant figures, Nikko and Gakko Bosatsu statues, constructed in the Nara Period and rescued from the fire in 1141.
Japanese: 脇侍の日光・月光（がっこう）菩薩像は応永の火災の際に救出されたもので、奈良時代の作である。
English: Wooden statue of a seated Yuimakoji (Vimalakirti) (National Treasure), enshrined to the left of the principal image of Yakushi Nyorai (the Healing Buddha).
Japanese: 木造維摩居士（ゆいまこじ）坐像（国宝）－本尊薬師如来の向かって左に安置。
English: Yuima is a legendary person who appears in Buddhist scriptures, but is expressed realistically as an old man.
Japanese: 維摩は仏教経典に登場する伝説上の人物であるが、実在の老人のようにリアルに表現されている。
English: Wooden statue of seated Manjusri Bodhisattva (National Treasure), enshrined to the right of the principal image of Yakushi Nyorai, and paired with the statue of Yuimakoji.
Japanese: 木造文殊菩薩坐像（国宝）－本尊薬師如来の向かって右に安置され、上記維摩居士像と対を成す。
English: A celebrated aspect is the dynamic posture of each statue and the varied expressions of the twelve statues.
Japanese: 各像のダイナミックな姿勢と12体の個性を彫り分けた群像表現が見所である。
English: It is 50.8 meters high and the second tallest wooden pagoda after the five-storied pagoda in To-ji Temple.
Japanese: 高さ50.8メートルで、木造塔としては東寺五重塔に次ぎ、日本で2番目に高い。
English: Hokuen-do Hall was reconstructed by Prince Nagaya at the order of two empresses, retired Empress Genmei and Empress Gensho, in 721, the first anniversary of the death of Fujiwara no Fuhito.
Japanese: 北円堂（国宝）は養老5年（721年）、藤原不比等の一周忌に際し、元明上皇、元正天皇の両女帝が長屋王に命じて創建させたもの。
English: The existing building was reconstructed around 1208, which makes it the oldest among the existing buildings in Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 現在の建物は承元2年（1208年）頃の再建で、興福寺に現存している建物の中では最も古い建物になる。
English: Seated wooden statue of Miroku Butsu (national treasure), completed around 1212 by Unkei in his later life, as head of his family of sculptors of Buddhist statues.
Japanese: 木造弥勒仏坐像（国宝）－晩年の運慶が一門の仏師を率いて建暦2年（1212年）頃に完成したもの。
English: Wooden statues of Hoonrin Bosatsu and Daimyoso Bosatsu in a semi-lotus position, attendant figures of Miroku Buddha, but constructed in the Muromachi Period.
Japanese: 木造法苑林菩薩・大妙相菩薩半跏像－弥勒仏の脇侍像だが、制作年代は室町時代に下る。
English: Wooden statue of Mujaku Bosatsu and Seshin Bosatsu (national treasure): the brothers Mujaku and Seshin were the founders of Yuishiki Kyogaku (studying the theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) who were active in India around the fifth century, are respected by the Hosso sect to which Kofuku-ji Temple belongs.
Japanese: 木造無著菩薩・世親菩薩立像（国宝）－無著・世親の兄弟は5世紀頃のインドで活動した唯識教学の祖で、興福寺が属する法相宗では尊ばれている。
English: This is a work that is regarded as being one of the best realist sculptures of the Kamakura Period and is highly valued as one of the masterpieces of Japanese sculpture.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代のリアリズム彫刻の頂点をなす作品、日本の肖像彫刻の最高傑作の1つとして高い評価を得ている。
English: Wood-core dry lacquer statues of the Shitenno (four guardian kings) in a standing position, older than the other Buddha statues and created in the very early Heian Period.
Japanese: 木心乾漆四天王立像（国宝）－他の諸仏より古く平安時代ごく初期の像である。
English: According to an inscription made during the repair of 1285, they originally belonged to Daian-ji Temple and were made in 791.
Japanese: 弘安8年（1285年）の修理銘によると、本来は大安寺のもので、延暦10年（791年）に造立されたという。
English: Nanen-do Hall was constructed by FUJIWARA no Fuyutsugu of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan as a memorial for his father Uchimaro.
Japanese: 南円堂（重文）は弘仁4年（813年）、藤原北家の藤原冬嗣が父・内麻呂追善のため創建した。
English: The principal image when it was first constructed was the statue of Fukukensaku Kannon that was originally enshrined in the Kodo Hall of Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 創建時の本尊は、もと興福寺講堂に安置されていた不空羂索観音像であった。
English: This statue was created in 748 as a memorial to FUJIWARA no Fusasaki, who died in the previous year, by his wife Muro no Okimi, his son FUJIWARA no Matate, and others.
Japanese: この像は天平18年（748年）、その前年に没した藤原房前の追善のため、夫人の牟漏女王、子息の藤原真楯らが造立したものであった。
English: Although there is a constant stream of worshipers in the hall as it is the ninth temple of the thirty-three temple Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage, the doors of the hall are always closed except on October 17, the day of an event called Daihannyakyo (Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra) tendokukai (the reading of the sutras), although there were special open days in the fall of 2002 and 2008.
Japanese: 堂は西国三十三箇所の九番札所として参詣人が絶えないが、堂の扉は常時閉ざされており、開扉は10月17日の大般若経転読会という行事の日のみである（2002年秋、2008年秋に特別開扉が行われた）。
English: Wooden statue of Fukukenjaku Kannon (Kannon of the Never Empty Lasso) in a sitting position (national treasure), constructed by the family of Kokei, Unkei's father, and completed in 1189.
Japanese: 木造不空羂索観音坐像（国宝）－運慶の父である康慶一門の作で、文治5年（1189年）に完成。
English: These statues of the Shitenno were for a long time believed to have been created by the family of Kokei, Unkei's father, like the wooden statue of Fukukenjaku Kannon, the principal image of Nanen-do Hall, but advances in research in the late twentieth century revealed that the Shitenno statues currently enshrined in Chukon-do (the temporary Kon-do) were created by Kokei and originally placed in Nanen-do Hall, and the Shitenno statues currently enshrined in Nanen-do Hall were brought there from another hall.
Japanese: この四天王像は南円堂本尊の不空羂索観音像と同様、運慶の父・康慶一門の作であると長らく信じられていたが、20世紀後半の研究の進展により、現在中金堂（仮金堂）に安置されている四天王像が、もと南円堂にあった康慶作の像であり、現・南円堂の四天王像は他の堂から移されたものであることが明らかになっている。
English: The existing pagoda was rebuilt shortly after the big fire in 1180 during the Kamakura Period.
Japanese: 現在の塔は治承4年（1180年）の大火後まもなく再建された鎌倉建築である。
English: Saikon-do Hall was constructed in 734 as a temple to enshrine Shaka Sanzon statues by Empress Komyo on the first anniversary of the death of her mother TACHIBANA no Michiyo.
Japanese: 天平6年（734年）、光明皇后が母・橘三千代の一周忌に際し、釈迦三尊を安置する堂として創建した。
English: After it was lost to the fire of 1717 it was never reconstructed.
Japanese: 江戸時代の享保2年（1717年）の火災による焼失後は現在まで再建されていない。
English: The existing hall was reconstructed in 1580 and enshrines the principal image, a seated statue of Amida Nyorai (Important Cultural Property).
Japanese: 現在の堂は天正8年（1580年）の再建で、本尊阿弥陀如来坐像（重文）などを安置する。
English: It is generally not on display to the public, but was shown in public for the first time during the exhibition of the national treasures of Kofuku-ji Temple held at Tokyo National Museum in 1997, and was put on display to the public in the temple from October 20 to November 25, 2007 for the first time.
Japanese: 一般には公開されていないが、1997年東京国立博物館で開催された「興福寺国宝展」で初めて公開されたほか、2007年10月20日-11月25日に寺内で初めて公開。
English: The temple history describes it as a statue of Sho Kannon, but it was originally made to be a statue of Miroku Bosatsu by the sculptor Kaien in 1253.
Japanese: 寺伝では聖観音像とされているが、像内納入文書によれば、本来は弥勒菩薩像として、建長5年（1253年）に仏師快円によって作られたものである。
English: The Museum of National Treasures is a storage and exhibition facility of cultural properties, constructed on the site of the former Jiki-do Hall and completed in 1959.
Japanese: 国宝館は旧・食堂（じきどう）の跡地に建てられた文化財収蔵・展示施設で、1959年に完成した。
English: Jiki-do Hall was abolished in 1874, when Kofuku-ji Temple suffered damage from the Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism.
Japanese: 食堂は1874年（明治7年）、廃仏毀釈のあおりで興福寺が荒廃していた時代に取り壊されている。
English: Inside the building, a huge statue with a height of 5.2 meters of Senju Kannon that was the principal image of Jiki-do Hall is enshrined at the center and many of the temple's treasures including Buddha statues are on display.
Japanese: 内部にはもと食堂本尊の千手観音の巨像（高さ5.2メートル）が中央に安置され、仏像をはじめとする多くの寺宝が展示されている。
English: The eight statues of Gobujo, Sakara (Shagara), Kuhanda, Kendatsuba, Ashura, Karura, Kinnara, and Hibakara all remain today, but the statue of Gobujo is severely damaged and the section below the chest is lost.
Japanese: 五部浄、沙羯羅（さから、しゃがら）、鳩槃荼（くはんだ）、乾闥婆、阿修羅、迦楼羅、緊那羅、畢婆迦羅（ひばから）の8体が揃って現存するが、五部浄像は大破して胸から下の体部が失われている。
English: Like the statues of the eight deities, they were originally one of the groups of statues enshrined around the principal image of Saikon-do Hall, the Shakyanyorai statue.
Japanese: 八部衆像とともに、西金堂本尊釈迦如来像の周囲に安置されていた群像の1つである。
English: Naturally there were ten statues when they were created, but four of them were lost and only six statues, those of Sharihotsu, Mokukenren, Subodai, Furuna, Kasenen and Ragora currently exist.
Japanese: 当然ながら制作当初は10体の群像であったが、4体は失われ、舎利弗（しゃりほつ）、目犍連（もくけんれん）、須菩提（すぼだい）、富楼那（ふるな）、迦旋延（かせんえん）、羅睺羅（らごら）の6体のみが現存する。
English: Bronze Buddha head (national treasure), created in the Nara Period, and although only the head section currently exists, it is a hallmark of Hakuho culture.
Japanese: 銅造仏頭（国宝）－奈良時代の作で、頭部のみ残っているが、白鳳文化を代表する作品。
English: It was originally the head section of the principal statue of Yakushi Sanzon, the principal image of Kodo Hall in Yamada-dera Temple in Asuka (present-day Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture), as stated above, and located in Tokon-do Hall, but the head section was the only part narrowly rescued from the fire in the Muromachi Period.
Japanese: 元来、飛鳥の山田寺（現・奈良県桜井市）講堂本尊薬師三尊像の中尊像の頭部で（前記）、東金堂にあったが、室町時代の火災で頭部だけがかろうじて焼け残った。
English: This head section was placed inside the pedestal of the newly constructed principal statue and remained hidden for a long time, before being rediscovered in 1937.
Japanese: この頭部は新しく作った本尊像の台座内に納められて長らく人目にふれず、1937年（昭和12年）に再発見された。
English: Other than the head section, both arms of the statue, a statue of Flying Apsara with a halo, and Kebutsu (a small Buddha statue) also still exist.
Japanese: 頭部のほかに両手の一部、光背を飾っていた飛天像と化仏（けぶつ、小型の仏像）も残っている。
English: Traditionally, they were supposed to have been created by Seicho, a senior apprentice of Unkei, but recently a theory suggesting it was created in January 1186 by Unkei has become widely accepted based on the description in the diary of Shinen, the head priest at Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 従来、運慶の兄弟子・成朝の作とされていたが、近年、興福寺別当（住職）信円の日記の記述から、文治2年（1186年）正月に運慶によって作られたとする説が有力となっている。
English: This sculpture is a masterpiece of the Kamakura Period, and expresses imaginary existence realistically and humorously.
Japanese: 架空の存在を写実的かつユーモラスに表現した、鎌倉期彫刻の傑作である。
English: The statue of Ryutoki was created by Koben, a son of Unkei, and that of Tentoki is assumed to have been created by the same person or a sculptor around him.
Japanese: 龍燈鬼像は運慶の子息である康弁の建保3年（1215年）の作で、天燈鬼も同人か周辺の仏師の作と思われる。
English: They are statues of the six high priests of the Hosso Sect: Genpin, Gyoga, Genbou, Shinei, Joto and Zenshu.
Japanese: 玄賓（げんぴん）、行賀、玄ボウ（げんぼう）、神叡、常騰、善珠という、法相宗の6名の高僧の肖像。
English: It is a huge 5.2-meter-high statue and is supposed to have been completed around 1229 based on inscriptions found on goods stored inside the statue.
Japanese: 高さ5.2メートルの巨像で、像内納入品の銘記から鎌倉時代、寛喜元年（1229年）頃の完成と推定される。
English: According to records, it took a quarter century from the beginning of the construction of this statue of Senju Kannon to completion.
Japanese: この千手観音像は記録によると造像開始から完成まで4半世紀の歳月を要した。
English: Seicho, who was in charge of construction of the statue at first, was a senior apprentice of Kokei, father of Unkei, and he was a more legitimate successor of the Keiha School than Kokei.
Japanese: 当初の造像担当者であった成朝は運慶の父康慶の兄弟子にあたり、康慶よりも正当な慶派の後継者であった。
English: It is supposed, however, that Seicho died before the completion of the statue of Senju Kannon because sources suggest he was sickly.
Japanese: しかし成朝は病弱であったため千手観音像の制作途中で亡くなったと推定されている。
English: After that, the statue was abandoned, but construction was started again for some reason and the statue was completed by different sculptor.
Japanese: その後放置されていたものが何らかの理由で制作が再開され、別の仏師の手により完成された。
English: It seems that the material of the statue was exposed to the elements while construction was discontinued, as the inside wood surface has been heavily damaged.
Japanese: 像の部材は制作が中止されている間風雨に晒されていたらしく、内部の木肌は酷く痛んだ状態であった。
English: It is a kind of Buddha statue in relief rare in Japan, and it was originally colored, but the color has peeled off.
Japanese: 日本では珍しい、板に浮き彫りにした仏像で、現在は剥落しているが、もとは彩色されていた。
English: Kondo-toro (national treasure), a bronze lantern that used to be located in front of Nanen-do Hall, and currently exhibited at the Museum of National Treasures.
Japanese: 金銅燈籠（国宝）－南円堂前に立っていた銅製の燈籠で、現在は国宝館に展示されている。
English: It has an inscription of the year 816, in the early Heian Period, which makes it the oldest lantern with a dated inscription in Japan.
Japanese: 平安時代初期の弘仁7年（816年）の銘があり、紀年銘のある燈籠としては日本最古のものである。
English: This is the second oldest temple bell after the bell in Myoshin-ji Temple where the year of construction is known.
Japanese: 制作年の分かる梵鐘としては、妙心寺鐘（698年）に次いで、日本で二番目に古い。
English: In addition to the current precinct the former part of the precinct extending to Nara Park is designated as a national historic site.
Japanese: 現在の境内と合わせて奈良公園の一部にまたがる旧境内が国の史跡に指定されている。
English: Shinyakushi-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple of Kegon sect in Fukui-cho, Takabatake, Nara City.
Japanese: 新薬師寺（しんやくしじ）は、奈良市高畑福井町にある華厳宗の寺院である。
English: Sango (the name of a group of Buddhist temples to which the temple belongs) is Nichirinzan (but ancient temples did not have sango and it was named later)
Japanese: 山号は日輪山（ただし、古代の寺院には山号はなく、後世に付したものである）。
English: During the Nara period, it was one of ten great temples in Nara, and though the scale was lower during the Heian period, the temple has preserved a number of cultural assets including the national treasure Hon-do (main hall) and Juni Shinsho-zo (the statue of twelve protective deities) in the Nara period.
Japanese: 奈良時代には南都十大寺の1つに数えられ、平安時代以降は規模縮小したが、国宝の本堂や奈良時代の十二神将像をはじめ、多くの文化財を伝えている。
English: At its peak, the temple owned about 440 square meters of land and the precincts extended over the current campus of the Nara University of Education.
Japanese: 最盛期には4町（約440メートル）四方の寺地を有し、現在の奈良教育大学のキャンパスあたりまでが新薬師寺の境内地であった。
English: It is said that the Chinese character 'shin,' which generally stands for 'new,' means "remarkably miraculous efficacy" in the temple's name.
Japanese: なお、寺名の「新」は「あたらしい」ではなく、「霊験あらたかな」の意味だという。
English: There is no doubt that Shinyakushi-ji Temple dates back to the Nara period, but there are various views on it's inauguration.
Japanese: 新薬師寺は奈良時代から存在する寺院であることは間違いないが、草創については諸説ある。
English: According to "Todaiji Yoroku" (The Digest Record of Todai-ji Temple), Empress Komyo built the temple and enshrined Shichibutsu yakushi-zo (statue of Seven Buddhas of healing) in 747 praying for the recovery of her husband, Emperor Shomu.
Japanese: 『東大寺要録』によれば、光明皇后が夫聖武天皇の病気平癒を祈願して天平19年（747）に建立し、七仏薬師像を安置したとされる。
English: However, Emperor Shomu's disease was apparently not serious at that time, there is a different view that the Empress Komyo vowed to save the emperor from a disease (written in the "Shoku Nihongi" or Chronicles of Japan Continued) in 745, two years earlier than the first theory.
Japanese: なお、この時の聖武天皇の病気は大したものではなかったようで、むしろその2年前の天平17年（745年）の天皇の病気（『続日本紀』に記事がある）平癒のために発願されたとする見方もある。
English: Also, in a different legend, Emperor Shomu built it in 745 to pray for the recovery of Empress Komyo from an eye disease.
Japanese: また、別の伝承では、聖武天皇が光明皇后の眼病平癒を祈願して天平17年（745）に建立したともいう。