nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: In the Muromachi period, Gien - later known as Yoshinori ASHIKAGA, sixth Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Muromachi Shogunate, served as head priest, Hongan-ji Temple became a branch during the temple's decline and Rennyo who put great efforts into the revival of Hongan-ji Temple later became a priest here.
Japanese: 室町時代には後に室町幕府第6代征夷大将軍足利義教となる義円が門主を務め、また衰微期の本願寺が末寺として属し、後に本願寺の興隆に尽くした蓮如もここで得度を受けている。
English: During the Edo period in 1788, Shoren-in Temple served as the temporary palace of Emperor Gosakuramachi at the time of the Dairi Castle Fires.
Japanese: 江戸時代の天明8年（1788年）、内裏炎上の際、青蓮院は後桜町天皇の仮御所となった。
English: In the modern era, most part of the buildings were lost to fire in 1893.
Japanese: 近代に入り、明治26年（1893年）の火災で大部分の建物が失われた。
English: Buildings including the Hon-do (main hall), Shin-den (Emperor's residence), Kogosho (head priest's living room), Kacho-den (drawing room), Soka-den and Kobun-tei (tea room) lie within the temple precinct but they are all relatively modern.
Japanese: 本堂、宸殿、小御所、華頂殿（書院）、叢華殿、好文亭（茶室）などがあるが、いずれも古いものではない。
English: The temple grounds includes a garden featuring artificial hills and springs that is said to have been created by Soami during the Muromachi period, and the Garden of Kirishima said to have been created by Enshu KOBORI during the Edo period.
Japanese: 庭園は室町時代の相阿弥作と伝える築山泉水庭、江戸時代の小堀遠州作と伝える霧島の庭などがある。
English: At Shoren-in Temple, special night visits are held every year in spring and autumn when the gardens are illuminated.
Japanese: 青蓮院では、例年春と秋に期日を区切って夜間拝観を実施し、庭園のライトアップを行っている。
English: The miniature shrine within the hall houses the statue of Shoren-in Temple's principal image, the Shijoko Nyorai Mandala, but this is not ordinarily on public view (in 2005 it was exhibited from September 28 to December 28 to commemorate the 1,200th anniversary of the founding of the Tendai sect).
Japanese: 堂内の厨子には青蓮院の本尊である熾盛光如来の曼荼羅を安置するが、通常は公開していない（天台宗開宗1,200年を記念し、2005年9月28日より同年12月28日に公開された）。
English: Shijoko Nyorai is a Butchouson who is the principal image of a method of prayer known as Sijokoho - said to be the Tendai sect's greatest secret (used when praying for the protection of the nation and the security of the Emperor), but this is the only temple in Japan dedicated to this deity.
Japanese: 熾盛光如来とは仏頂尊の一尊で、天台宗最大の秘法といわれる熾盛光法（国家鎮護、皇室の安泰などを祈る修法）の本尊であるが、この如来を寺院の本尊とするのは珍しい。
English: According to temple's lore, Shijoko Nyorai is represented at the center of the hanging scroll (made in 1596) by the siddham seed-syllable 'bhruuM' and surrounded by representations of the eight great bodhisattvas.
Japanese: 寺伝では文禄5年（1596年）作の掛軸で、中央に種子(密教)「ボロン」(bhruuM)で表わした熾盛光如来、周囲に八大菩薩を表わしたものという。
English: This building temporarily served as the Emperor's palace and was reconstructed after being destroyed by fire in 1893.
Japanese: 天皇の仮御所として使用された建物を明治26年（1893年）の焼失後に復興したものである。
English: The garden centered on the pond to the east of Kogosho is said to have been created by Soami during the Muromachi period and the 'Garden of Kirishima' (where Kirishima azaleas grow) to the north is said to have been created by Enshu KOBORI.
Japanese: 小御所東側の池を中心とした庭園は室町時代、相阿弥の作と伝え、その北方の「霧島の庭」（霧島つつじを植える）は小堀遠州の作と伝える。
English: This sangawarabuki hip-and-gable roof building was reconstructed after being destroyed by the fire of 1893.
Japanese: 入母屋造、桟瓦葺きで、明治26年（1893年）の焼失後の復興である。
English: The Hama Matsu zu (images of seashores and pine trees) partition paintings (12 opaque sliding screens, 4 wooden door covered with Fusuma paper, 17 images on 3 walls) have been designated Important Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 障壁画浜松図（襖12面、戸襖4面、壁3面の17面）が重要文化財に指定されている。
English: However, one of the opaque sliding screen images is still missing after being stolen by a thoughtless visitor in 1962.
Japanese: なお、1962年に襖のうち1枚が心ない拝観者により切り取られ行方不明となっている。
English: To the west of the Shin-den stands the four-legged Shikyaku-mon gate (for imperial visits) which was relocated from the old palace of Empress Meisho's Chukamonin and managed to avoid the fire of 1893.
Japanese: 宸殿西方の四脚門（御幸門）は、明正天皇の中和門院の旧殿の門を移築したもので、明治26年の火災をまぬがれている。
English: Kobun-tei (tea room): This tea room was used as a place of study by retired Emperor Gosakuramachi after Shoren-in Temple became a temporary palace.
Japanese: 好文亭-青蓮院を仮御所としていた後桜町上皇が学問所として使用した茶室。
English: Nagaya-mon gate: Stands just to the front right of the visitor entrance and, as with the Shikyaku-mon gate to the west of the Shin-den, was relocated from the old palace of Empress Meisho's Chukamonin.
Japanese: 長屋門-拝観入口の手前右手に建つ門で、宸殿西方の四脚門と同様、明正天皇の中和門院の旧殿の門を移築したもの。
English: Shogun-zuka Dainichi-do: This detached area of the temple precinct is located southeast of the temple on the peak of Mt. Higashiyama.
Japanese: 将軍塚大日堂－寺の南東、東山の山頂に位置し、青蓮院の飛び地境内となっている。
English: This site offers an amazing view of the city of Kyoto and is said to be the location where a statue of a Shogun was installed to defend the Emperor's palace when Emperor Kanmu relocated the capital city to Heijokyo.
Japanese: 桓武天皇が平城京遷都にあたり、王城鎮護のため将軍の像を埋めたところと伝え、京都市街の見晴らしがよい。
English: It is one of the Three Great Acalas of Japan along with the Yellow Acala of Onjo-ji Temple (Mi-dera) and the Red Acala of Koyasan Myo-in Temple.
Japanese: 園城寺（三井寺）の黄不動、高野山明王院の赤不動とともに三不動と言われている。
English: The following Important Cultural Properties were removed from Shoren-in Temple during World War II due to various circumstances.
Japanese: 以下は諸般の事情により、第二次大戦後に青蓮院の所有を離れた重要文化財である。
English: Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple is a temple of the Chisan branch of the Shingon Sect located in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 六波羅蜜寺(ろくはらみつじ)は、京都市東山区にある真言宗智山派の寺院である。
English: The temple originated from a training hall dedicated to the eleven-face Kannon founded in the year 951 (in the mid-Heian period) by monk Kuya ICHIHIJIRI who was known for chanting the name of Buddha while beating a bell and dancing, and was called Saiko-ji Temple at first.
Japanese: 踊り念仏で知られる市聖（いちひじり）空也（くうや）が平安時代中期の天暦5年（951年）に造立した十一面観音を本尊とする道場に由来し、当初西光寺と称した。
English: As the plague spread throughout Kyoto, it is said that Kuya put the Kannon statue on a wagon which he pulled as he walked around helping people, chanting the name of Buddha and distributing tea to the sick.
Japanese: 空也は疫病の蔓延（まんえん）する当時の京都で、この観音像を車に乗せて引きながら歩き、念仏を唱え、病人に茶をふるまって多くの人を救ったという。
English: In the year 963, Kuya assembled 600 monks on the bank of the Kamo-gawa River (Yodo-gawa water system) and held a large-scale commemoration ceremony of Daihannya sutras, which some theories consider the establishment of Saiko-ji Temple.
Japanese: 空也は応和3年（963年）に鴨川(淀川水系)岸に僧600名を集めて大規模な大般若経供養会を行ったが、この時をもって西光寺の創建とする説もある。
English: After the death of Kuya, a monk from Mt. Hiei named Chusin renovated the temple as a Tendai branch temple and renamed it Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple in the year 977.
Japanese: 空也の死後、977年に比叡山の僧・中信(僧)が中興して天台別院とし、六波羅蜜寺と改称した。
English: At the end of the Heian period, TAIRA no Kiyomori of the Taira family built a mansion named Rokuhara-kan in the area.
Japanese: 平安末にはこの付近に、六波羅館と呼ばれた平清盛ら平家一門の屋敷が営まれた。
English: The name is based on the Buddhist Rokuharamitsu (the Six Perfections), but there are those who believe the origin to lie in the ancient name of the area 'Rokuhara.'
Japanese: 名称は仏教の教義「六波羅蜜」という語に由来するが、この地を古来「六原」と称したことに由来するとも考えられている。
English: Until the Edo period, the temple included a monastery but the precinct was greatly reduced due to the Haibutsu kishaku (anti-Buddhist movement) of the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 江戸時代までは伽藍を連ねたが、明治維新の廃仏毀釈を受けて大幅に寺域を縮小した。
English: The now narrow precinct is surrounded by houses and its only main buildings are the Hon-do (main hall - an Important Cultural Property dating from the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan)) and the treasure hall.
Japanese: 現在、寺の周囲は民家に囲まれて境内は狭く、主な建物は本堂（南北朝時代(日本)、重文）と宝物収蔵庫のみである。
English: The main hall is a Tendai Sect style building rebuilt in 1363 with the Gejin (outer place of worship for public people), which has a wooden-floor, separated from the Naijin (inner sanctum), which has Shihanjiki Doma (squared masonry jointed dirt floor) on the lower level, by wooden lattice shutters.
Japanese: 本堂は、外陣を板敷きとし、蔀戸で仕切られた内陣を一段低い四半敷き土間とする天台式建築で貞治2年（1363年）の再建である。
English: The temple's National Treasures include portraits and statues that are highly regarded within the world of Japanese sculpture such as the statue of the principal image, the statue of Kuya Jonin, the statue of TAIRA no Kiyomori and a sitting statue of the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha considered to be an original piece by Unkei.
Japanese: 国宝の本尊像以外にも、空也上人像、伝・平清盛像、運慶の真作と見なされる地蔵菩薩坐像など日本彫刻史上著名な仏像、肖像を有する。
English: This 10th century style piece is believed to have been, as the legend tells, the principal image of Saiko-ji Temple built by Kuya in the year 951.
Japanese: 10世紀頃の作風を示し、伝承のとおり、951年に空也が創建した西光寺の本尊像であると思われる。
English: It is housed within a miniature shrine in the center of the main hall and is only unveiled once in the year of the dragon every 12 years.
Japanese: 本堂中央の厨子に安置され、12年に一度辰年にのみ開帳される秘仏である。
English: Despite its height of 258 cm, the head, body and limbs are all carved from a single piece of wood.
Japanese: 像高258cmの巨像でありながら、頭・体の根幹部を一材から彫り出す一木造とする。
English: It has a gentle expression and is highly representative of the transitional period of Japanese style carving that took place from before the beginning of to just after the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 表情は温和であり、平安前期彫刻から平安後期の和様彫刻に至る過渡期を代表する作例である。
English: There are many statues of that depict monks sitting down, but this statue shows Kuya walking in straw sandals.
Japanese: 僧侶の肖像彫刻は坐像に表すものが多いが、本像はわらじ履きで歩く空也の姿を表している。
English: It vividly depicts Kuya walking through the plague-ridden streets of Kyoto sounding a bell and chanting the name of Buddha while praying for an end to the epidemic.
Japanese: 疫病が蔓延していた京の街中を、空也が鉦（かね）を鳴らし、念仏を唱えながら悪疫退散を祈りつつ歩くさまを迫真の描写力で表現している。
English: Kuya is shown wearing the bell around his neck, holding the wooden bell hammer with which to hit it in his right hand, and clutching a staff with a deer horn on the top in his left hand.
Japanese: 空也は首から鉦を下げ、右手には鉦を叩くための撞木（しゅもく）、左手には鹿の角のついた杖をもっている。
English: The six Amida Buddhas symbolize the six words of the 'Na Mu A Mi Da Butsu' chant and serve to visually represent his chanting of the Buddha's name.
Japanese: 6体の阿弥陀仏は「南無阿弥陀仏」の6字を象徴し、念仏を唱えるさまを視覚的に表現している。
English: Believed to be an Unkei piece due to its intellectual graceful expression and the sharp craftsmanship of the clothing.
Japanese: 理知的でさわやかな表情、切れ味するどい衣文などと評される作風が運慶作とされる理由である。
English: Each statue displays its own personality with the determined young Tankei and the old master Unkei who looks hale and hearty despite his age.
Japanese: 精悍な伝・湛慶像と、老いてまだまだ盛んな巨匠といった風貌の伝・運慶像とそれぞれの個性が表現されている。
English: Of the four statues, those of Dhrtarastra and Virudhaka are housed in the treasure hall, while those of Virupaksa and Vaisravana are deposited at Kyoto National Museum.
Japanese: 宝物収蔵庫には4体のうちの持国天像と増長天像が安置され、残りの広目天像と多聞天像は京都国立博物館に寄託されている。
English: It has been renowned since ancient times, even being referred to in "Konjaku Monogatarishu" (Anthology of Tales from the Past).
Japanese: 『今昔物語集』にもこの像に関する説話が取り上げられるなど、古来著名な像である。
English: In addition, the temple is in possession of Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties which include a mud pagoda, Obuku-chawan (tea ceremony bowl for New Year's Shugicha), wooden printing blocks and over 2100 materials related to the Mando-e (Buddhist lantern festival).
Japanese: その他、重要有形民俗文化財として、泥塔、皇服茶碗、版木、萬燈会関係用具二千百余点などがある
English: Rokuro-cho, Gojo-dori Yamato-oji-agaru, Higashi-iru, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture (also written 'Rokuro-cho, 2 chome, Matsubara-dori Yamato-oji Higashi-iru')
Japanese: 京都府京都市東山区五条通大和大路上ル東入ル轆轤町（ろくろちょう）（「松原通り大和大路東入ル2丁目轆轤町」とも表記する）
English: Zenrin-ji Temple, located in Eikando-cho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, is the headquarters of the Seizan-Zenrin-ji branch of the Pure Land Sect.
Japanese: 禅林寺（ぜんりんじ）は、京都市左京区永観堂町にある浄土宗西山禅林寺派総本山の寺院。
English: The honorific mountain prefix is Shoju-raigosan and its title is Muryojuin.
Japanese: 山号を聖衆来迎山（しょうじゅらいごうさん）、院号を無量寿院と称する。
English: It is famous for its Momiji (red autumn maple leaves) and has long been called 'Autumn maple leaf Eikan-do.'
Japanese: 当寺は紅葉の名所として知られ、古くより「秋はもみじの永観堂」といわれる。
English: Additionally, it is one of Kyoto's three Kangakuin (educational institutions) and has been a prominent center of learning since ancient times.
Japanese: また、京都に3箇所あった勧学院（学問研究所）の一つでもあり、古くから学問（論義）が盛んである。
English: The temple's origin lies in the temple dedicated to the Five Wisdom Buddhas founded by Kukai's (Kobo-daishi) leading disciple Shinjo Sozu after aspiring to establish a practical training site in the capital.
Japanese: 空海（弘法大師）の高弟である僧都・真紹が、都における実践道場の建立を志し、五智如来を本尊とする寺院を建立したのが起源である。
English: In the year 853, Shinjo purchased the mansion of the deceased poet and author FUJIWARA no Sekio and converted it to a temple.
Japanese: 真紹は仁寿3年（853年）、歌人・文人であった故・藤原関雄の邸宅跡を買い取り、ここを寺院とすることにした。
English: The construction of private temples was forbidden in Kyoto at the time, however, and so it was not until ten years later in 863, when formal Imperial approval as Jogaku-ji Temple was granted by Emperor Seiwa, that Zenrin-ji Temple became officially recognized.
Japanese: 当時の京都ではみだりに私寺を建立することは禁じられており、10年後の貞観(日本)5年（863年）、当時の清和天皇より定額寺としての勅許と「禅林寺」の寺号を賜わって公認の寺院となった。
English: Though originally devoted to the Shingon Sect, the temple began a shift towards the Pure Land Sect under seventh chief priest and restoration patriarch Yokan (1033 - 1111).
Japanese: 当初真言宗寺院として出発した禅林寺は、中興の祖とされる7世住持の律師・永観(僧)（ようかん、1033年-1111年）の頃から浄土教色を強めていく。
English: Yokan was the son of Monjo-hakase MINAMOTO no Kunitsune and entered Zenrin-ji Temple aged 11 as the disciple of Jinkan.
Japanese: 永観は文章博士（もんじょうはかせ）源国経の子として生まれ、11歳で禅林寺の深観に弟子入りする。
English: At that time, he studied under the Sanron Sect and Hosso Sect of the Nanto rokushu (six sects of Nanto) but eventually became a passionate devotee of the Amida Buddha and would not fail to recite the Nembutsu (Buddhist invocation) ten thousand times every day.
Japanese: 当初、南都六宗のうちの三論宗、法相宗を学ぶが、やがて熱烈な阿弥陀信者となり、日課一万遍の念仏を欠かさぬようになる。
English: In 1072 he took over the role of his master and entered Zenrin-ji Temple.
Japanese: 師深観の跡を受けて禅林寺に入るのは延久4年（1072年）のことである。
English: Yokan encouraged people to recite the Nembutsu and established a Yakuo-in on the temple grounds, which took care of the sick and organized charitable work.
Japanese: 永観は人々に念仏を勧め、また、禅林寺内に薬王院を設けて、病人救済などの慈善事業も盛んに行なった。
English: The temple name is usually read 'Eikan-do' (永観堂) but it is considered correct to read the monk's name 'Yokan (永観).'
Japanese: なお、「永観堂」は普通「えいかんどう」と読むが、「永観」という僧の名は「ようかん」と読むのが正しいとされている。
English: The principal image standing statue of Amida Nyorai is unusual in that it is looking over its left shoulder (right when looking face on).
Japanese: 禅林寺の本尊阿弥陀如来立像は、顔を左（向かって右）に曲げた特異な姿の像である。
English: It says that 1082 when Yokan, aged 50, was reciting the daily Nembutsu as he walked around the statue, Amida Nyorai came to life, stepped down from its dais and began to walk round with Yokan.
Japanese: 永保2年（1082年）、当時50歳の永観が日課の念仏を唱えつつ、阿弥陀如来の周囲を行道していたところ、阿弥陀如来が須弥壇から下り、永観と一緒に行道を始めた。
English: It is said that when the surprised Yokan stopped walking, Amida Nyorai looked over its shoulder and said to him 'Yokan, you are too slow.'
Japanese: 驚いた永観が歩みを止めると、阿弥陀如来は振り返って一言、「永観遅し」と言ったという。
English: The story goes that, ever since then, the posture of the statue of the temple has remained in that position.
Japanese: 本寺の阿弥陀如来像はそれ以来首の向きが元に戻らず、そのままの姿で安置されているのだという。
English: The twelfth chief priest Johen (1166 - 1224) was originally a Shingon Sect monk but became a disciple of Honen and entered Nembutsu-mon (Pure Land School).
Japanese: 禅林寺12世の僧都・静遍（じょうへん、1166年-1224年）は、当初真言宗の僧であったが、後に法然に帰依し、念仏門に入った。
English: It is said that Honen's leading disciple Shoku (Seizan) succeeded Johen to become the temple's chief priest.
Japanese: 法然の高弟の證空（西山）も、静遍の後を嗣いで当寺に住持したと伝えられている。
English: Under Shoku's disciple, Jo-on, Zenrin-ji Temple went from being devoted to the Shingon Sect to the Seizan branch (Kosaka group) of the Pure Land Sect and became a firm Nembutsu meditation center.
Japanese: 證空の門弟の浄音の時代に、禅林寺は真言宗から浄土宗西山派（小坂流）の寺院となり、揺るぎのない念仏道場とされた。
English: The different elevations within the Zenrin-ji Temple precinct have been utilized to construct many buildings which are connected by covered walkways.
Japanese: 境内には地形の高低差を生かして多くの建物が建ち、それらの間は渡り廊下でつながれている。
English: Both Koraimon and Yakuimon gates are seen far more often at castles and the mansions of Daimyo than temples.
Japanese: 「高麗門」「薬医門」ともに、寺院建築よりは城郭、大名屋敷などに多く見られる形式である。
English: Hojo (Abbot's Quarters): Hojo are particular to Zen temples and rarely seen in those of other sects but Zenrin-ji Temple's hojo is just like that of a Zen temple in both plan view and elevation view.
Japanese: 方丈－「方丈」は禅宗寺院特有の建物で、他宗ではあまり見かけないものだが、禅林寺の方丈は、平面、立面ともに禅宗寺院の方丈と同形式の建物である。
English: Its construction is said to have been ordered by Emperor Go-Kashiwabara during the Eisho era (1504 - 1521), but was in fact not built until the Edo period.
Japanese: 寺伝では永正年間（1504－1521）、後柏原天皇によって建てられたというが、実際の建築は江戸時代に降るものとみられる。
English: Wooden standing of Amida Nyorai (Mikaeri Amida): This unique statue commonly known as 'Mikaeri Amida' is looking over its left shoulder (right when looking face on).
Japanese: 木造阿弥陀如来立像（みかえり阿弥陀）－「みかえり阿弥陀」の通称で知られる、頭部を左（向かって右）に向けた特異な姿の像。
English: It used to be believed to date from the Kamakura period but characteristics such as its style and composition make it now thought to have been carved somewhat earlier in the 12th century in the late Heian period.
Japanese: かつては鎌倉時代の作とされたこともあったが、作風、構造等の特色から、平安時代末期、12世紀頃の作と見るのが妥当である。
English: A few examples of post Kamakura period 'Mikaeri Amida' statues similar to this are known in China (Sichuan's 16th cave of Enkakuto, Song Dynasty) and in Japan's Zenko-ji Temple, Yamagata Prefecture.
Japanese: この種の「みかえり阿弥陀」の作例は中国にもあり（四川省安岳円覚洞16号窟、宋時代）、日本では山形県善光寺像など、鎌倉時代以降の作例が若干知られている。
English: Nanzen-ji Temple, located in Nanzen-ji-fukuchi-cho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, is the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of the Rinzai Sect of Zen Buddhism.
Japanese: 南禅寺（なんぜんじ）は、京都市左京区南禅寺福地町にある、臨済宗南禅寺派大本山の寺院である。
English: The honorific mountain prefix is Zuiryusan and it goes under the formal title of Taiheikokoku-Nanzen-Zenji.
Japanese: 山号は瑞龍山、寺号は詳しくは太平興国南禅禅寺（たいへいこうこくなんぜんぜんじ）と称する。
English: The temple was founded by kaiki (founding patron) Emperor Kameyama and kaisan (first chief priest) Mukan Fumon (Daimyo-kokushi), and its principal image is Shakyamuni (Buddha).
Japanese: 本尊は釈迦如来、開基（創立者）は亀山天皇、開山（初代住職）は無関普門（大明国師）。
English: It is not itself one of the Kyoto Gozan (Five Great Zen Temples of Kyoto) but presides over them all and holds the highest rank of all Japan's Zen temples.
Japanese: 京都五山の上におかれる別格扱いの寺院で、日本の禅寺のなかで最も高い格式を誇る。
English: Before Nanzen-ji Temple was founded, the site was the location of Emperor Gosaga's detached palace Zenrin-ji-dono Palace, which was built in 1264.
Japanese: 南禅寺の建立以前、この地には、後嵯峨天皇が文永元年（1264年）に造営した離宮の禅林寺殿（ぜんりんじどの）があった。
English: The palace was named 'Zenrin-ji-dono' after Zenrin-ji Temple (Kyoto City) (Eikan-do), the headquarters of the Seizan-Zenrin-ji branch of the Pure Land Sect that still stands to the north of Nanzen-ji Temple.
Japanese: 「禅林寺殿」の名は、南禅寺の北に現存する浄土宗西山禅林寺派総本山の禅林寺(京都市)（永観堂）に由来する。
English: This detached palace was divided into an upper palace and lower palace and the Jibutsu-do (private Buddhist worship area) of the upper palace was named 'Nanzen-in.'
Japanese: この離宮は「上の御所」と「下の御所」に分かれ、うち「上の御所」に建設された持仏堂を「南禅院」と称した。
English: In 1289 at age 40, Emperor Kameyama abdicated, shaved his head and became a monk.
Japanese: 亀山上皇は正応2年（1289年）、40歳の時に落飾（剃髪して仏門に入る）して法皇となった。
English: Two years later in 1291, he converted Zenrin-ji-dono Palace into a temple and invited the 80 year old Mukan Fumon to serve as chief priest of the temple which was named 'Ryoansan-Zenrin-Zen-ji Temple.'
Japanese: 2年後の正応4年（1291年）、法皇は禅林寺殿を寺にあらため、当時80歳の無関普門を開山として、これを龍安山禅林禅寺と名づけた。
English: According to legend, ghosts would appear at Zenrin-ji-dono night after night and trouble the Cloistered Emperor Kameyama and his staff, but Mukan Fumon brought his disciples and simply sat and meditated (zazen) until the ghosts left, which so impressed the Cloistered Emperor that he invited Mukan to serve as chief priest.
Japanese: 伝承によれば、この頃禅林寺殿に夜な夜な妖怪変化が出没して亀山法皇やお付きの官人たちを悩ませたが、無関普門が弟子を引き連れて禅林寺殿に入り、静かに座禅をしただけで妖怪変化は退散したので、亀山法皇は無関を開山に請じたという。
English: After studying under Enni, first chief priest of Tofuku-ji Temple, he left to study in Northern Song period China at the age of 40 and returned to Japan over 10 years later in 1262.
Japanese: 東福寺開山の円爾（えんに）に師事した後、40歳で北宋に留学、10年以上も修行した後、弘長2年（1262年）帰国。
English: Until the age of 70, he never had his own temple and remained devoted to asceticism but assumed the post of chief priest at Tofuku-ji Temple in 1281 after the death of his teacher Enni.
Japanese: 70歳になるまで自分の寺を持たず修行に専念していたが、師の円爾の死にをうけて弘安4年（1281年）に東福寺の住持となった。
English: He was invited to serve as head priest at Nanzen-ji Temple ten years later in 1291 but passed away soon after.
Japanese: その10年後の正応4年（1291年）に南禅寺の開山として招かれるが、間もなく死去する。
English: After the death of the founding priest Mukan, the majority of the temple's construction was conducted under the second chief priest Kian Soen (Nanin Kokushi, 1261 - 1313) and completed around 1299.
Japanese: 開山の無関の死去に伴い、南禅寺伽藍の建設は実質的には二世住職の規庵祖円（南院国師、1261-1313）が指揮し、永仁7年（1299年）頃に寺観が整った。
English: It is said that the original name 'Ryoansan-Zenrin-Zen-ji' was changed to 'Taiheikokoku-Nanzen-Zen-ji' during the Shoan era (1299 - 1302).
Japanese: 当初の「龍安山禅林禅寺」を「太平興国南禅禅寺」という寺号に改めたのは正安年間（1299-1302年）のことという。
English: In 1334, Emperor Godaigo placed Nanzen-ji Temple as number one of the Kyoto Gozan but in 1385 Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA placed his own Shokoku-ji Temple at number one so Nanzen-ji Temple was treated as a special case and ranked higher than all the Gozan temples.
Japanese: 建武(日本)元年（1334年）、後醍醐天皇は南禅寺を京都五山の第一としたが、至徳(日本)3年（1385年）に足利義満は自らの建立した相国寺を五山の第一とするために南禅寺を「別格」として五山のさらに上に位置づけた。
English: During the Muromachi period the temple became embroiled in political problems with the traditional temples Enryaku-ji Temple and Onjo-ji Temple and the Kanre Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA stepped in to mediate.
Japanese: 室町時代には旧仏教勢力の延暦寺や園城寺と対立して政治問題に発展、管領の細川頼之が調停に乗り出している。
English: The monastery was devastated by fire in 1393 and again in 1447 but was soon rebuilt on both occasions.
Japanese: 明徳4年（1393年）と文安4年（1447年）に火災に見舞われ、主要伽藍を焼失してたがほどなく再建。
English: However, the temple was completely destroyed by fire in the street fighting during the first year of the Onin War (1467), and the reconstruction did not go well.
Japanese: しかし応仁元年（1467年）、応仁の乱の市街戦で伽藍をことごとく焼失してからは再建も思うにまかせなかった。
English: The revival of Nanzen-ji Temple was continued during the Edo period by Ishin Suden who entered the temple in 1605.
Japanese: 南禅寺の復興が進んだのは、江戸時代になって慶長10年（1605年）以心崇伝が入寺してからである。
English: As a close associate of Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, Suden was also a politician known as 'Kokui-no-Saisho' who was involved in diplomacy and the administration of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.
Japanese: 崇伝は徳川家康の側近として外交や寺社政策に携わり、「黒衣の宰相」と呼ばれた政治家でもあった。
English: Nanzen-ji Temple precinct was nationally designated a historic site in 2005.
Japanese: なお南禅寺境内は平成17年（2005年）に国の史跡に指定されている。
English: In the second act of the kabuki drama "Sanmon Gosan-no-Kiri," Goemon ISHIKAWA's famous words 'What an amazing view' are in reference to the Sanmon Gate of Nanzen-ji Temple.
Japanese: 歌舞伎の『楼門五三桐』（さんもんごさんのきり）の二幕返しで石川五右衛門が「絶景かな絶景かな」という名台詞を吐く「南禅寺山門」がこれである。
English: However, this only occurs in the story as the actual Sam-mon Gate was constructed in 1628, more than 30 years after the death of Goemon ISHIKAWA.
Japanese: ただしそれは創作上の話で、実際の三門は五右衛門の死後30年以上経った寛永5年（1628年）の建築。
English: It is two-storey gate with five bays and three entrances (of the five front bays, the middle three serve as entrances).
Japanese: 五間三戸（正面柱間が5間で、うち中央3間が出入口）の二重門（2階建ての門）。
English: It was dedicated by Takatora TODO as a memorial to the soldiers who died during the Siege of Osaka.
Japanese: 藤堂高虎が大坂の役で戦死した一門の武士たちの冥福を祈るため寄進したものである。
English: The upper level is known as 'Gohoro' and houses a statue of Shaka Nyorai, statues of arhats, memorial tablets of member's of the benefactor TODO family and memorial tablets of those who died in the Siege of Osaka and others.
Japanese: 上層は「五鳳楼」といい、釈迦如来と阿羅漢のほか、寄進者の藤堂家歴代の位牌、大坂の陣の戦死者の位牌などを安置する。