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English: Butsu-den (Buddha hall) (Important Cultural Property) - Constructed in 1665 using a donation from wealthy Kyoto merchant Joyu NAWA.
Japanese: 仏殿（重要文化財）-寛文5年（1665年）、京の豪商・那波常有（なわじょうゆう）の寄進で建てられた。
English: Hatto (lecture hall) (Important Cultural Property) - Constructed in 1636 by Masanori INABA in order to fulfill the dying wish of his father Odawara Castle lord Masakatsu INABA.
Japanese: 法堂（はっとう、重要文化財）-寛永13年（1636年）、小田原城主稲葉正勝の遺志により、子の稲葉正則が建立した。
English: Hojo and entranceway (Abbot's quarters) (National treasure) - Constructed in 1635 using funds donated by wealthy merchant Masukatsu GOTO in order to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of founder Daito-kokushi (Shuho Myocho), with the entranceway being built in the following year.
Japanese: 方丈および玄関（国宝）-方丈は寛永12年（1635年）、玄関はその翌年、豪商・後藤益勝の寄進で建てられたもので開祖大燈国師（宗峰妙超）300年遠忌を記念して新築されたものである。
English: The word 'hojo' originally referred to the main priest's living quarters but in Japanese Zen Buddhist temples, hojo have more of a significance as spaces for receiving visitors or holding rituals.
Japanese: 「方丈」は元来は住職の居室を指したが、日本の禅寺の方丈は接客・儀式空間の意味合いが強い。
English: Conventional hojo architecture often consists of a total of 6 rooms arranged in a 2x3 arrangement but that of Daitoku-ji Temple is different in that consists of a 2x4 arrangement of 8 rooms with two rooms of the second row on the right serving as the tassho (burial place) of founder Daito-kokushi (Shuho Myocho), Unmonan.
Japanese: 通常の方丈建築は、前後2列、左右3列の計6室を並べる平面形式が多いが、大徳寺方丈は前後2列、左右4列の計8室をもつ特異な形式で、向かって右から2列目の2室は、開祖大燈国師（宗峰妙超）の塔所（墓所）である雲門庵となっている。
English: This is because Shuho stated in his will, 'After I pass away, I am not worthy of having another temple built simply to serve as my burial place.'
Japanese: 宗峰は、「自分の死後に、墓所として別の寺院を建てるには及ばぬ」と遺言していたため、このような形式になっている。
English: Visitors must take care as some of the sub-temples can be visited and some can not.
Japanese: 塔頭寺院においては拝観を認めているところと認めていないところが混在するため、訪問者においては注意が必要である。
English: Currently, the majority of the sub-temples do not allow general worship and those which are open to visitors are Ryogen-in Temple, Zuiho-in Temple, Daisen-in Temple and Koto-in Temple (as of 2007).
Japanese: 現在、大部分の塔頭で一般参詣を認めておらず、常時拝観可能な塔頭は龍源院、瑞峰院、大仙院、高桐院の4ヶ院である（2007年現在）。
English: Ryogen-in Temple - The oldest of all Daitoku-ji Temple's sub-temples was founded by Bukkei Daien-kokushi and established by Yoshimoto HATAKEYAMA of Noto Province, Yoshioki OUCHI of Suo Province and Yoshichika OTOMO of Bungo Province.
Japanese: 龍源院（りょうげんいん）-大徳寺の塔頭の中で一番古く、仏恵大円国師を開祖として能登国の畠山義元、周防国の大内義興、豊後国の大友義親の三氏が創建。
English: Shinju-an Temple - This temple connected to Ikkyu Shojun is known for its garden (Special Historic Site/Special Place of Scenic Beauty) believed to have been created by Juko MURATA and partition paintings by Jasoku [Dasoku] SOGA and Tohaku HASEGAWA.
Japanese: 真珠庵（しんじゅあん）-一休宗純ゆかりの寺院で、村田珠光作とされる庭園（史跡・名勝）と、曾我蛇足、長谷川等伯の障壁画で知られる。
English: Daisen-in Temple - Known for its main hall that has been designated a national treasure and the dry landscape garden which is both a Special Historic Site and a Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
Japanese: 大仙院（だいせんいん）-国宝の本堂と特別名勝・史跡の枯山水庭園で知られる。
English: Koto-in Temple - Connected to the Hosokawa Clan and contains the tombs of individuals including Tadaoki HOSOKAWA and his wife Gracia HOSOKAWA.
Japanese: 高桐院（こうとういん）-細川氏にゆかりがあり、細川忠興やその室・細川ガラシャなどの墓がある。
English: Color on silk portrait of Daito-kokushi inscribed with the first year of the Kemmu era (1334).
Japanese: 絹本著色大燈国師像　建武元年の自賛がある-建武(日本)元年は1334年にあたる。
English: Shinkan Will and Testament of Emperor Go-Daigo dated the 24th day of the 8th month of the 3rd year of the Genko era (1333).
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇宸翰御置文元弘三年八月廿四日-元弘3年は1333年にあたる。
English: Zen Buddhism originally recruited widely under the Jippo-Jujisei system of succession to the abbacy in Zen temples, but Daitoku-ji Temple was not involved in the system and this letter recognizes that only those monks who were followers of Shuho Myocho could be installed into the role of abbot.
Japanese: 禅宗では本来、広く人材を募る「十方住持制」をとっているが、大徳寺はこの制度によらず、開祖宗峰妙超の法系の僧のみを住職とすることを認めた文書である。
English: Daitoku-ji Temple's main temple building is not open to the public (holds a Bakuryoten on a Sunday in early October each year to display fusuma paintings etc.)
Japanese: 大徳寺本坊は非公開（例年10月上旬の日曜日に襖絵等を公開する曝涼展が行われる）。
English: Among the sub-temples, those that are generally open to the public are Ryogen-in Temple, Zuiho-in Temple, Daisen-in Temple and Koto-in Temple.
Japanese: 塔頭のうち常時拝観可能なのは龍源院、瑞峰院、大仙院、高桐院の4か院。
English: Obai-in Temple, Shinju-an Temple, Juko-in Temple, Soken-in Temple, Hoshun-in Temple, Korin-in Temple, Koho-an Temple and others may open specially for a limited time during the autumn.
Japanese: 黄梅院、真珠庵、聚光院、総見院、芳春院、興臨院、孤篷庵などは秋などに期日を限って特別公開される場合がある。
English: Sennyu-ji Temple is the head temple of the Shingon sect Sennyu-ji School located in Sennyuji Yamanouchi-cho, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 泉涌寺（せんにゅうじ）は、京都市東山区泉涌寺山内（やまのうち）町にある真言宗泉涌寺派総本山の寺院。
English: It is said to have been built during the Heian period but the actual kaiki (founding priest) was Kamakura period priest Gachirin-daishi Shunjo.
Japanese: 平安時代の草創と伝えるが、実質的な開基（創立者）は鎌倉時代の月輪大師俊芿（がちりんだいししゅんじょう）である。
English: The temple precinct at the foot of Mt. Tsukinowa in the southern tip of Higashiyama (Kyoto Prefecture) houses the imperial tombs of Kamakura period Emperors Go-Horikawa and Shijo, Edo period Emperor Go-Mizunoo and many other successive emperors leading up to the end of the Edo period, which has led to it also becoming known as the imperial family temple Mitera Sennyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 東山(京都府)の南端にあたる月輪山の山麓に広がる寺域内には、鎌倉時代の後堀河天皇、四条天皇、江戸時代の後水尾天皇以下幕末に至る歴代天皇の陵墓があり、皇室の菩提寺として「御寺（みてら）泉涌寺」と呼ばれている。
English: Along with other temples such as Ninna-ji Temple and Daikaku-ji Temple, it is known for its relationship to the imperial household, but the time and circumstances of its construction remain unclear.
Japanese: 仁和寺、大覚寺などとともに皇室ゆかりの寺院として知られるが、草創の時期や事情についてはあまり明らかではない。
English: According to legend, it was founded in the year 856 after the Ceremonial House of the Fujiwara clan Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) FUJIWARA no Otsugu requested that Shinshu Shonin serve as kaisan (the founder of a temple) of his mountain villa.
Japanese: 伝承によれば、斉衡3年（856年）、藤原式家の流れをくむ左大臣藤原緒嗣（おつぐ）が、自らの山荘に神修上人を開山として草創。
English: According to the historical text "Shoku-Nihongi," FUJIWARA no Otsugu passed away in the year 843 so, if the above legend were to be believed, the temple would have to have been built in accordance with instructions left before his death.
Japanese: なお、『続日本後紀』によれば藤原緒嗣は承和(日本)10年（843年）に没しているので、上述の伝承を信じるとすれば、藤原緒嗣の遺志に基づき、菩提寺として建立されたということになる。
English: It goes that Kukai founded Horin-ji Temple on the site between the years 824 and 834 and that it was later restored by FUJIWARA no Otsugu and renamed Senyu-ji Temple in the year 855.
Japanese: すなわち、空海が天長年間（824年－834年）、この地に草創した法輪寺が起源であり、斉衡2年（855年）藤原緒嗣によって再興され、仙遊寺と改めたとするものである。
English: An alternative legend puts the time of the temple's founding by Kukai at the year 807 and states that it subsequently became known as Imakumano Kannon-ji Temple (within the Sennyu-ji Temple precinct, stamp office for temple number 15 of the Saigoku Sanjusankasho (the 33 temples that are visited during the Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage)).
Japanese: 空海による草創年代を大同(日本)2年（807年）とする伝承もあり、この寺院が後の今熊野観音寺（泉涌寺境内にあり、西国三十三箇所観音霊場の第15番札所）となったともいう。
English: Combining the above legends leads one to believe that original temple founded during the early Heian period fell into ruin later in the Heian period and was then restored at some point in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 以上の伝承を総合すると、平安時代初期に草創された前身寺院が平安時代後期には荒廃していたのを、鎌倉時代に再興したものと思われる。
English: In 1218, during the Kamakura period, Nobufusa UTSUNOMIYA donated the dilapidated Sen'yu-ji Temple to Shunjo who received further donations from numerous parties and constructed a large monastery on the site, which is said to have been given the name Sennyu-ji (Gushing Spring Temple) due to the sudden appearance of a spring (the old temple name was 'Senyu-ji,' which has similar pronunciation to Sennyu-ji).
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の建保6年（1218年）、宇都宮信房が、荒廃していた仙遊寺を俊じょう（しゅんじょう）に寄進、俊じょうは多くの人々の寄付を得てこの地に大伽藍を造営し、霊泉が湧いたので、寺号を泉涌寺としたという（旧寺号の「仙遊寺」と音が通ずる点に注意）。
English: As MINAMOTO no Yoritomo's retainer, Nobufusa UTSUNOMIYA was charged with the protection of Buzen Province and was devoted to Shunjo.
Japanese: 宇都宮信房は源頼朝の家臣で、豊前国守護に任じられた人物であり、俊じょうに帰依していた。
English: Shunjo (1166-1277) was a priest and scholar from Higo Province (Kumamoto Prefecture) who left for China in 1199 during the Song Dynasty where he stayed for 13 years and studied the ways of the Tendai and Ritsu sects before returning to Japan in 1211.
Japanese: 俊じょう（1166－1227）は肥後国（熊本県）出身の学僧で、正治元年（1199年）宋(王朝)に渡り、足かけ13年の滞在で天台と律を学び、建暦元年（1211年）日本へ帰国した。
English: He was strongly influenced by the Song culture and constructed the entire Sennyu-ji Temple monastery in the contemporary style of the Chinese Song Dynasty.
Japanese: 彼は宋から多くの文物をもたらし、泉涌寺の伽藍はすべて宋風につくられた。
English: Sennyu-ji Temple centered around the Ritsu sect but flourished as a four sect (five including Ritsu) place of enlightenment combining the Tendai sect, To-mitsu-sect (Shingon sect), Zen sect and Pure Land sect.
Japanese: 泉涌寺は律宗を中心として天台、東密（真言）、禅、浄土の四宗兼学（または律を含めて五宗兼学とも）の道場として栄えた。
English: In 1224, the temple was made an imperial supplication hall by Emperor Go-Horikawa.
Japanese: 貞応3年（1224年）には後堀河天皇により皇室の祈願寺と定められた。
English: The imperial tombs of Emperor Go-Horikawa and the following Emperor Shijo were constructed within Sennyu-ji Temple and it was this time when its relationship with the imperial household was strengthened.
Japanese: 後堀河天皇と次代の四条天皇の陵墓は泉涌寺内に築かれ、この頃から皇室との結びつきが強まった。
English: The temple also entombs the remains of successive Edo period emperors from Emperor Go-Mizunoo to Emperor Komei who reigned at the end of the period.
Japanese: 江戸時代には後水尾天皇以下、幕末の孝明天皇に至る歴代天皇が山内に葬られている。
English: This led to it becoming an imperial family temple and honorifically referred to as 'Mitera.'
Japanese: このため、皇室の香華院（こうげいん）となり、「御寺（みてら）」と尊称されている。
English: (A family temple is one where ancestors rest and offerings of incense and flowers are made).
Japanese: （「香華院」とは、香をたき、花を供える場所、すなわち、先祖が眠る寺の意。）
English: The various halls of the temple complex have been repeatedly destroyed by fire, including during the Onin War, and those that remain today were rebuilt after the early modern times.
Japanese: 応仁の乱による焼失をはじめ、諸堂はたびたびの火災で焼失しており、現存の堂宇は近世以降の再建である。
English: Entering through Somon Gate, there are several sub-temples on both sides of the sando (approach/entrance path).
Japanese: 総門を入ると、参道の左右にいくつかの塔頭（たっちゅう、山内寺院）がある。
English: As you pass under Daimon Gate (Important Cultural Property) at the end of the long sando, on the left is the Yokihi-Kannon-do (Empress Yang-Avalokitesvara Hall), straight ahead is the Butsu-den (Buddha hall) (Important Cultural Property) around which the monastery is centered, the Shari-den (reliquary hall), and behind these is the Reimei-den, Goza-sho (the Imperial Chamber) and other buildings connected to the imperial household.
Japanese: 長い参道の先にある大門（重文）をくぐると、左手に楊貴妃観音堂があり、正面には伽藍の中心をなす仏殿（重文）、舎利殿が建ち、これらの背後に霊明殿、御座所など皇室ゆかりの建築がある。
English: Daimon Gate (Important Cultural Property) - Constructed in the early Edo period for the imperial palace and relocated to the temple.
Japanese: 大門（重文）－慶長年間（江戸時代初頭）造営の御所の門を移築したもの。
English: Shinsho-den - A museum adjoining the Yokihi-Kannon-do (Empress Yang-Avalokitesvara Hall) that sequentially displays the cultural properties possessed by Sennyu-ji Temple and its sub-temples.
Japanese: 心照殿－楊貴妃観音堂に接して建つ宝物館で、泉涌寺および塔頭寺院所蔵の文化財を順次公開している。
English: Butsu-den (Buddha hall) (Important Cultural Property) - Reconstructed with the assistance of Ietsuna TOKUGAWA in 1668.
Japanese: 仏殿（重文）－寛文8年（1668年）、徳川家綱の援助で再建したもの。
English: The central hall of an esoteric Buddhist temple is often known as a 'hon-do' or 'kon-do' but in this temple it has the Chinese Song Dynasty style name of 'butsu-den.'
Japanese: 密教寺院の中心堂宇は「本堂」「金堂」と称することが多いが、当寺では宋風の「仏殿」の呼称を用いる。
English: The architecture of the interior features such as the Zen temple style doma (an earthen-floored room), pillars, windows, square framing and ceiling beams are typical of Zen-sect-style architecture.
Japanese: 内部は禅寺風の土間とし、柱、窓、組物、天井構架等の建築様式も典型的な禅宗様になる。
English: It houses statues of the principal images Shaka Nyorai, Amida Nyorai and Miroku Nyorai (Maitreya) which represent past, present and future.
Japanese: 本尊は過去・現在・来世を表わす釈迦・阿弥陀・弥勒の3体の如来像を安置する。
English: The image of a dragon on the roof and that White-robed Kannon behind the principal mages are the works of Tanyu KANO.
Japanese: 天井の竜の図と本尊背後の白衣（びゃくえ）観音図は狩野探幽の筆になる。
English: Houses the teeth obtained after the cremation of Shaka Nyorai that are said to have been brought from the Bailian Temple in the Qingyuan Prefecture of Southern Song Dynasty China by Shunjo's student Tankai.
Japanese: 俊じょうの弟子湛海が南宋慶元府の白蓮寺から請来したという仏牙舎利（釈尊の歯）を安置する。
English: Reimei-den - Houses the Buddhist mortuary tablets of successive emperors from Emperor Tenchi and Emperor Konin to Emperor Showa (including emperors of both northern and southern imperial courts) and their wives.
Japanese: 霊明殿－天智天皇と光仁天皇から昭和天皇（南北両朝の天皇も含む）に至る歴代天皇皇后の尊牌（位牌）を安置する。
English: This was built during the Ansei era (late Edo period) and before being relocated to the temple in 1884, was originally the dwelling used by Emperor Meiji in the old imperial palace.
Japanese: 安政年間（江戸時代末期）に建立され、明治天皇が使用していた旧御所の御里御殿を1884年に移築したもの。
English: Includes rooms such as the court lady room, head priest room, imperial family room, chamberlain's room, imperial messenger's room and the throne room.
Japanese: 女官の間、門跡の間、皇族の間、侍従の間、勅使の間、玉座の間などがある。
English: Even in the current Heisei era (1989-present), this room is used when the present emperor visits Sennyu-ji Temple for occasions such as his coronation report (1990), the 1,200th anniversary of the establishment of the capital in the city of Heian (1994), and his report on the 10th year of his reign (1999).
Japanese: 平成期（1989年－）に入ってからは、即位報告（1990年）、平安建都1,200年記念（1994年）、在位10年の報告（1999年）などの際に今上天皇が泉涌寺を訪れ、この部屋を使用している。
English: The Butsu-do called 'Kurodo' originally sat within the imperial palace but the 1868 Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism was used as an opportunity to relocate it to Sennyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: もとは宮中にあり、「黒戸」と呼ばれていた仏堂を明治元年（1868年）の神仏分離令発布を機に泉涌寺に移築したものである。
English: It houses 20 of the small Buddhist images (guardian deities) that were kept by the emperor, empress and imperial princes.
Japanese: かつての天皇、皇后、親王らの念持仏（守り本尊）20数体が安置されている。
English: Of the sub-temples, Kannon-ji Temple (Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City), stamp office for temple number 15 of the Saigoku Sanjusankasho, is well-known.
Japanese: 塔頭寺院のうち、西国三十三箇所観音霊場第15番札所の観音寺（観音寺(京都市東山区)）が名高い。
English: There is also Sokujo-in Temple, which houses the Important Cultural Property of the wooden Amida Buddha and twenty-five bodhisattvas, and Kaiko-ji Temple, which houses the 10 meter tall (including the pedestal and halo) wooden standing statue of Shaka Nyorai.
Japanese: 他に、重要文化財の木造阿弥陀二十五菩薩像を安置する即成院（そくじょういん）、高さ10メートル（台座・光背含む）の木造釈迦如来立像を安置する戒光寺などがある。
English: Shunjo created this prospectus in order to solicit the donations required to restore the dilapidated original temple and rename it Sennyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 俊じょうが、荒廃した前身寺院を「泉涌寺」と改名して再興するため、人々の喜捨（寄付）を募るための趣意書。
English: Not only is it a valuable document relating to the history of the establishment of Sennyu-ji Temple, but it is also an amazing work of calligraphy.
Japanese: 泉涌寺建立の起源にかかわる歴史上重要な文書であるとともに、書道作品としても優れている。
English: Fuhojo - Written by Shunjo in the last month before his death as proof that he passed his teachings onto his student Shinkai.
Japanese: 附法状－俊じょうが死の前月、弟子の心海に自らの法を嗣いだ証明として書き与えたもの。
English: Wooden sitting statue of Kannon (Yokihi Kannon) including the wooden standing statue of Idaten and the wooden standing statue of Somachattra - Housed within Yokihi-Kannon-do (Empress Yang-Avalokitesvara Hall).
Japanese: 木造観音菩薩坐像（楊貴妃観音）　附　木造韋駄天立像、木造伝・月蓋長者立像－楊貴妃観音堂に安置される。
English: Believed to have been brought from China by Shunjo's student Tankai in 1255 along with the Buddhist ashes.
Japanese: 建長7年（1255年）俊じょうの弟子湛海が仏舎利とともに中国・南宋から請来したものとされる。
English: For a long time, it was withheld from public view and only displayed once every 100 years, but finally went on general display in 1955 - 700 years after it was brought to Japan.
Japanese: 長らく100年に一度だけ公開する秘仏であったが、請来から700年目の1955年（昭和30年）から一般公開されている。
English: The workmanship and materials are visibly different from those of Japanese Buddhist statues and it is believed to have been brought from Southern Song Dynasty China as the Temple's legend tells.
Japanese: 作風、材質など、明らかに日本の仏像とは異質で、寺伝どおり中国・南宋時代の作と考えられている。
English: The wooden standing statue of Idaten and wooden standing statue of Somachattra housed within the Shari-den were also made in Southern Song Dynasty China and designated Important Cultural Properties in 1997 along with the Yokihi Kannon statue.
Japanese: なお、舎利殿に安置される木造韋駄天立像と木造伝・月蓋長者（がつがいちょうじゃ）立像も南宋時代の作であり、楊貴妃観音像とともに1997年、重要文化財に指定されている。
English: Take the Kyoto City Bus, alight at Sennyuji-michi Stop and walk for about 5 minutes to Somon Gate or about 10 minutes to Daimon Gate.
Japanese: 京都市営バス泉涌寺道バス停下車、総門まで徒歩約5分、大門まで徒歩約10分。
English: Tofuku-ji Temple, situated in Hommachi, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, is the head temple of the Rinzai sect Tofuku-ji School of Zen Buddhism.
Japanese: 東福寺（とうふくじ）は、京都市東山区本町にある臨済宗東福寺派本山の寺院。
English: Its principal image is the Buddha Shakamuni, its kaiki (patron of a temple in its founding) was Michiie KUJO and the role of kaisan (first chief priest) was fulfilled by Shoichi-kokushi Enni.
Japanese: 本尊は釈迦如来、開基（創立者）は、九条道家、開山（初代住職）は聖一国師円爾（しょういちこくしえんに）である。
English: Despite the fact that its former scale had been diminished during the anti-Buddhist movement of the Meiji period, even now it is an extremely large temple with 25 tatchu (sub-temples).
Japanese: 明治の廃仏毀釈で規模が縮小されたとはいえ、今なお25か寺の仏塔（たっちゅう、山内寺院）を有する大寺院である。
English: The temple precinct features a large number of maple trees including three-pointed leaf maples known as 'Tsuten Momiji' which were brought to Japan from Sung Dynasty China.
Japanese: 境内には宋(王朝)から伝わった「通天モミジ」と呼ばれる三葉楓（葉先が3つにわかれている）などカエデの木が多い。
English: Originally, sakura cherry trees were planted but these were cut down and replaced by maple trees due to fears that the temple grounds would become merely a pleasure spot.
Japanese: もとはサクラの木が植わっていたが「後世に遊興の場になる」という理由で伐採され、楓の木が植えられたものである。
English: During the Russo-Japanese War of the Meiji Period, the temple precinct was confiscated and used as a detention camp for Russian prisoners of war.
Japanese: また、明治時代の日露戦争の際には寺域が接収され、ロシア兵捕虜の収容施設となっていた。
English: A giant monastery belonging to the Hossho-ji Temple once stood on the site and was built as a Fujiwara clan temple in the year 924 by FUJIWARA no Tadahira (Hossho-ji Temple continues to exist as a small temple near the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Keihan Electric Railway Tofukuji Station).
Japanese: この地には延長(元号)2年（924年）に藤原忠平によって建てられた藤原氏の氏寺・法性寺（ほっしょうじ）の巨大な伽藍があった（法性寺は、西日本旅客鉄道・京阪電気鉄道東福寺駅近くに小寺院として存続している）。
English: In 1236, Michiie KUJO (father of regent and Kamakura Shogun FUJIWARA no Yoritsune) vowed to build a large temple housing an approximately 15 meter tall statue of the Buddha Shakamuni on the site and the first character of the names of each of Nara's great temples, Todai-ji Temple and Kofuku-ji Temple, were combined to create the name 'Tofuku-ji Temple.'
Japanese: 嘉禎2年（1236年）、九条道家（摂政・鎌倉将軍藤原頼経の父）は、この地に高さ5丈（約15メートル）の釈迦像を安置する大寺院を建立することを発願、寺名は奈良の東大寺、興福寺の二大寺から1字ずつ取って「東福寺」とした。
English: Construction work on the Butsuden (Buddha hall) housing the 15 meter tall statue of the Buddha Shakamuni began in 1239 and was completed in 1255.
Japanese: 5丈（約15メートル）の釈迦像を安置する仏殿の建設工事は延応元年（1239年）から始めて、完成したのは建長7年（1255年）であった。
English: The statue itself was destroyed by fire in 1319 and rebuilt during the latter half of the 14th century before once again being destroyed by fire in 1881.
Japanese: 高さ5丈の本尊釈迦像は元応元年（1319年）の火災で焼失、14世紀半ば頃に再興されるが、明治14年（1881年）の火災で再び焼失している。
English: Tofuku-ji Temple is in possession of a giant Buddha's hand (the remaining 2 meters) and this is assumed to be the left hand that was saved from the Meiji period fire that destroyed the former statue of the principal image.
Japanese: なお、東福寺には巨大な「仏手」（現存部分の長さ2メートル）が保管されており、旧本尊像の左手部分のみが明治の火災の際に救い出されたものと推定されている。
English: This is a remnant of the principal image statue rebuilt in the 14th century, not that of the temples founding, but it is clear that the given height of 15 meters is no exaggeration.
Japanese: これは創建時の本尊ではなく、14世紀に再興された本尊像の遺物であるが、本尊の「高さ5丈」（約15メートル）というのはあながち誇張ではなかったことがわかる。
English: Michiie KUJO served as kaisan (first chief priest) and received Zen monk Enni (1202-1280) on his return to Japan from studying in Song Dynasty China.
Japanese: 九条道家は開山（初代住職）として、当時宋での修行を終えて帰国していた禅僧・円爾（えんに、1202－1280）を迎えた。
English: Enni was from Suruga Province (present day Shizuoka Prefecture) and departed for China in 1235 to study under eminent master Wuzhun Shifan (1178-1249) of the Xingshen Wanshou Zen temple on Mt. Jingshan.
Japanese: 円爾は駿河国（現在の静岡県）の人で、嘉禎元年（1235年）、宋に渡って径山（きんざん）興聖万寿禅寺の高僧・無準師範（ぶしゅんしばん、1178－1249）に入門。
English: In 1241, he received inka (certification as a Zen Master) and returned to Japan.
Japanese: 印可（師匠の法を受け継いだというお墨付き）を得て仁治2年（1241年）、日本へ帰国した。
English: Enni first resided at Joten-ji Temple in Hakata, Kyushu but this temple was persecuted by Tendai sect followers and set on fire, which led him to travel to Kyoto with the support of Michiie KUJO, and he was received as kaisan of Tofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 円爾ははじめ九州博多の承天寺に住したが、同寺が天台宗徒の迫害を受けて焼き討ちされたため、九条道家の援助で上洛、東福寺の開山に迎えられた。
English: Construction work on Tofuku-ji Temple spanned over 30 years and its Hatto (lecture hall of an exoteric Buddhist temple) was completed in 1273.
Japanese: 東福寺の建設工事は30年以上に亘って続き、法堂（はっとう、顕教寺院の「講堂」にあたる）が完成したのは文永10年（1273年）であった。
English: Starting with the blaze of 1319, the structure was repeatedly destroyed by fire but each time was rebuilt with the support of the Kujo family, the Ashikaga family and the Tokugawa family among others.
Japanese: その後、元応元年（1319年）の火災をはじめたびたび焼失するが、九条家、足利家、徳川家などの援助で再建されてきた。
English: More recently, the great fire of 1881 destroyed structures which included the Butsuden, Hatto, Hojo (head priest's living quarters) and Kuri (priest's living quarters or kitchen).
Japanese: 近代に入って1881年にも大火があり、仏殿、法堂、方丈、庫裏などがこの時焼失した。
English: The current Hondo (main hall), Hojo, Kuri etc. were rebuilt after the Meiji period but other mediaeval structures including the Sammon Gate, Tosu (lavatory), Yokushitsu (bathing room) and Zendo (meditation hall) escaped the fire to remain to this day and become designated National Treasures.
Japanese: 現在の本堂、方丈、庫裏などは明治以降の再建だが、国宝の三門をはじめ、東司（便所）、浴室、禅堂などは焼け残り、中世の建物が現存している。
English: Tofuku-ji Temple has produced a succession of many eminent monks, with the most noteworthy among these being "Genko-Shakusho" author Kokan Shiren and the artist Kitsuzan Mincho who was active during Muromachi Period and greatly influenced later Buddhist painting and India-ink painting.
Japanese: 東福寺からは歴代多くの名僧が出ているが、中で特筆すべきは、『元亨釈書』の著者である虎関師錬（こかんしれん）と、室町時代に画僧として活躍し、その後の仏画や水墨画に多大な影響を及ぼした吉山明兆（きつざんみんちょう）であろう。
English: The main monastery comprises of, among other structures, the Sammon Gate, Butsudo, Hojo, and Kuri, and is accompanied by a total of 25 sub-temples that are situated to its north, south and west.
Japanese: 三門、仏堂、方丈、庫裏などからなる主要伽藍の北・南・西に計25か寺の塔頭寺院がある。
English: To the north of the main monastery lies a valley named Sengyokukan, which is spanned by, from west to east, the three bridges Gaun-kyo Bridge, Tsuten-kyo Bridge and Engetsu-kyo Bridge (Important Cultural Property).
Japanese: 主要伽藍の北には洗玉澗（せんぎょくかん）という渓谷があり、西から東へ臥雲橋、通天橋、偃月橋（えんげつきょう、重要文化財）という3本の橋が架かる。
English: Tsuten-kyo Bridge is a continuation of the roofed hallway that leads away from the Hondo and this area is particularly well-known for its Japanese maple trees.
Japanese: 通天橋は、本堂から通じる廊下がそのまま屋根付きの橋となったもので、この付近は特に紅葉の名所として知られる。
English: Five bays and three entrances means that, of the five front bays, the middle three are entrances and, although it is two-storied gate, it is different from a romon gate in that it has an extension eave at the border between the lower and upper storeys.
Japanese: 「五間三戸」とは正面の柱間が5つ、うち中央3間が通路になっているという意味、「二重門」は2階建ての門だが、「楼門」と違い、1階と2階の境目にも軒の出をつくるものを言う。
English: It was rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century and is the oldest surviving Zen Buddhist temple Sammon Gate in Japan.
Japanese: 応永年間（15世紀初頭）の再建で、現存する禅寺の三門としては日本最古のものである。