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English: As the main activities, the museum has been conducting promotional activities through lecture presentations and publications, etc., as well as collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting cultural properties centered on Buddhist art.
Japanese: 仏教美術を中心とした文化財の収集、保管、研究、展示を行うとともに、講演会や出版活動などを通じた普及活動を行うことを主たる活動内容としている。
English: Of the facilities, the Original Museum Building was completed in 1894 after the design of a court architect, Tokuma KATAYAMA who had designed Akasaka Rikyu (the Guest House in Akasaka), etc., and has been designated an important cultural property as a representative example of western-style architecture of the Meiji period.
Japanese: このうち本館は、赤坂離宮（迎賓館）などを手がけた宮廷建築家・片山東熊の設計により1894年（明治27年）竣工したもので、明治期の洋風建築の代表例として国の重要文化財に指定されている。
English: The exhibits include many articles deposited with the museum by Shinto shrines, temples and people centered in Nara Prefecture, as well as those possessed by the museum.
Japanese: 展示品は館蔵品のほか、奈良県下を中心とした社寺や個人からの寄託品も多い。
English: Buddhist Art Library and Research Center newly built in 1980 has been preparing, collecting, organizing and preserving materials related to Buddhist art, which are opened to the public only on every Wednesday and Friday.
Japanese: 1980年に新設された仏教美術資料研究センターでは、仏教美術に関連する資料の作成・収集・整理・保管を行っており、毎週水・金曜日に限定して一般に公開される。
English: It is the former Nara Prefecture Products Display Center (important cultural property) completed in 1902 after the design of Tadashi SEKINO that has belonged to Nara National Museum since 1983.
Japanese: 1983年から奈良国立博物館の所属になった建物（国の重要文化財）は、1902年（明治35年）に竣工した関野貞設計の旧奈良県物産陳列所である。
English: In 1874, Nara Exhibition Company, which was operated jointly by public and private sectors, was established by the Kenrei (governor) of Nara Prefecture at that time, Chihiro FUJII and the people around him.
Japanese: 1874年（明治7年）、当時の奈良県令・藤井千尋が中心となり、官民合同の奈良博覧会社が設立された。
English: The first Nara Exhibition held in the next year, 1875 exhibited calligraphic works and paintings, antique wears, specimens of animals and plants and machinery, etc. displayed by Shinto shrines, temples and people, including Shosoin treasures, using Daibutsu-den Hall (the Great Buddha hall) of Todai-ji Temple and corridors around the hall as the site.
Japanese: 翌1875年（明治8年）開催された第1回奈良博覧会は、東大寺大仏殿と周囲の回廊を会場として、正倉院宝物をはじめ、社寺や個人から出品された書画、古器物、動植物標本、機械類などを陳列した。
English: It is understood from the records those days that the exhibition was enthusiastically received with totally 170,000 visitors during a period of 80 days of the exhibition.
Japanese: 80日間の会期中にのべ17万人が訪れる大盛況であったことが当時の記録からわかる。
English: Thereafter, the Nara Exhibition was held every year, excluding 1877, and was held as much as 15 times in total by 1890.
Japanese: その後奈良博覧会は1877年（明治10年）を除いて毎年開催され、1890年（明治23年）までに計15回を数えた。
English: Those days, there already was a museum under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Household Ministry (the predecessor of the Tokyo National Museum) in Ueno in Tokyo, however, in 1889, it was determined by the notification of the Imperial Household Minister that the name of the museum in Tokyo would be renamed to the 'Imperial Museum,' and that an imperial museum would also be established in Kyoto and Nara respectively.
Japanese: 当時、東京上野にはすでに宮内省所管の博物館（東京国立博物館の前身）があったが、1889年（明治22年）、宮内大臣通達により東京の博物館の名称を「帝国博物館」に改めるとともに、京都と奈良にもそれぞれ帝国博物館を設置することが決まった。
English: In this way, the construction of the museum started at the current location in the former premises of Kofuku-ji Temple from 1892, and the Original Museum Building was completed in 1894 and opened in the next year, 1895.
Japanese: こうして、興福寺旧境内である現在地で1892年（明治25年）より建設工事が始まり、1894年に本館が竣工、翌1895年に開館した。
English: In 1947, along with the promulgation of the new constitution, the museum came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, and became Nara Branch Museum of the National Museum.
Japanese: 1947年、新憲法の公布とともに博物館は文部省に移管され、国立博物館奈良分館となった。
English: It is in 1952 when the name of the museum was renamed to Nara National Museum
Japanese: 奈良国立博物館という名称に変わったのは1952年（昭和27年）からである。
English: The jurisdiction was transferred to the Commission for Protection of Cultural Properties in 1950, and to the Agency for cultural affairs in 1968, and the museum became an Independent Administrative Institution National Museum in 2001, and in 2007, became a museum to be established by an Independent Administrative Institution, National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
Japanese: 所管は1950年（昭和25年）文化財保護委員会、1968年（昭和43年）文化庁に変更し、2001年（平成13年）からは独立行政法人国立博物館、2007年（平成19年）からは独立行政法人国立文化財機構の設置する博物館となっている。
English: During that period, New Wing was completed in 1972 after the design of Junzo YOSHIMURA, and the Shosoin ten came to be held in the New Wing.
Japanese: その間、1972年には吉村順三の設計による新館が完成し、正倉院展は新館で開催されるようになる。
English: In 1997, East Wing was completed also after the design of Junzo YOSHIMURA, and the existing New Wing was renamed to West Wing.
Japanese: 1997年には、やはり吉村順三の設計による東新館が完成し、従来の新館は西新館と改称する。
English: Along with this, the entrance of the Wings' side was changed to the entrance hall newly constructed between the Wings, and the underground passage connecting with the Original Museum Building was also changed to newly constructed 'Lower Level Passageway,' which has become a free zone equipped with a museum shop, cafe lounge, toilets, brief exhibition panels and exhibitions such as, structure of Buddha statues and commentary of mudras, etc.
Japanese: これに伴い新館側の入口が両新館の間に新設されたエントランスホールに変更され、本館を結ぶ地下道も新たに作られた「地下回廊」に変更され、ミュージアムショップや軽食ラウンジ、トイレや簡単な展示パネル、仏像の構造や印相の解説の展示などを備えた無料ゾーンとなっている。
English: In 2002, a space for exhibiting a large amount of Chinese ancient bronze wares donated by Goro SAKAMOTO, the founder of an antique art shop 'Fugendo,' was established in the Annex attached to the Original Museum Building (originally a repository).
Japanese: 2002年には古美術商店「不言堂」創業者坂本五郎から寄贈された大量の中国古代青銅器の展示スペースが本館付属棟（元は収蔵庫）に開設されている。
English: The Imperial Household Museum of Nara those days also appears in "Koji Junrei" (A Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples) written by Tetsuro WATSUJI (published in 1919).
Japanese: 和辻哲郎の『古寺巡礼』（1919年刊）にも当時の奈良帝室博物館が登場する。
English: Those days, many famous works of art in art history, including the statue of Kudara Kannon of Horyu-ji Temple, statue of Asura (fighting demon) of Kofuku-ji Temple, etc. were deposited and exhibited in the museum.
Japanese: 当時の博物館には法隆寺の百済観音像、興福寺の阿修羅像などの、美術史上著名な作品が数多く寄託・展示されていた。
English: After World War II, reinforced concrete treasure houses and depositories were newly established one after another in Shinto shrines and temples in each region, and there have been an increasing number of cases where the Buddha statues, etc. which had been deposited in the museum would be returned to the original temples.
Japanese: 第二次大戦後、各地の社寺において鉄筋コンクリートの宝物館・収蔵庫の新設が相次ぎ、博物館に寄託されていた仏像等は元の寺院に返還されるケースが多くなっている。
English: On December 18, 1922, Albert EINSTEIN visited the museum.
Japanese: 1922年12月18日、来日していたアルベルト・アインシュタインが来館している。
English: Concerning a list of all national treasures and important cultural properties, refer to another item, 'List of cultural properties possessed by Nara National Museum.'
Japanese: 国宝・重要文化財全件の一覧は別項「奈良国立博物館所蔵文化財一覧」を参照。
English: The national treasures possessed by an Independent Administrative Institution, National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, and preserved in Nara National Museum are as follows.
Japanese: 独立行政法人国立文化財機構所有、奈良国立博物館保管の国宝は以下のとおりである。
English: Akishino-dera Temple, wooden (head, lacquered) standing statue of Bonten, standing statue of Gudatsu Bosatsu (important cultural properties), heads in Nara period, bodies in Kamakura period
Japanese: 秋篠寺木造（頭部乾漆造）梵天立像・救脱菩薩立像（重文）頭部奈良時代、体部鎌倉時代
English: East Wing (designed by Junzo YOSHIMURA, completed in 1997) – Ranked among the Top 100 Public Buildings (1998)
Japanese: 東新館（吉村順三設計、1997年竣工）―公共建築100選（1998年）
English: Buddhist Art Library and Research Center (former Nara Prefecture Products Display Center) (designed by Tadashi SEKINO, completed in 1902, important cultural property)
Japanese: 仏教美術資料研究センター　（旧奈良県物産陳列所）（関野貞設計、1902年竣工、重要文化財）
English: It places a seat of yonjo daime (four and three-quarters tatami mats size of room in teahouse) as the main room, and has an appearance like a country house, built in a Irimoya-zukuri (building with a half-hipped roof) style, having a thatched roof and kakerabuki (shingling) eaves hung in the front.
Japanese: 四畳台目の席を主室とし、入母屋造り茅葺、前面に杮葺の庇をおろした田舎家風の外観である。
English: Tsukida no oka is the imperial mausoleum of the Emperor Suizei located in Aza Tanotsubo, Shijo Town, Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 衝田岡（つきだのおか）は奈良県橿原市四条町字田ノ坪に所在する綏靖天皇の陵墓。
English: In Engishiki (an ancient book for codes and procedures on national rites and prayers), it is called Tsukida no Okanoe no Misasagi (also called Tsukayama-kofun Tumulus) located in Takaichi County, Yamato Province.
Japanese: 延喜式では、大和国高市郡に所在する桃花鳥田丘上陵（塚山古墳ともいう。）とする。
English: As the location had been unknown since Heian period, it was likened to be the Mausoleum of Emperor Jinmu at the organization of imperial mausoleums at the end of Edo period, or from Genroku era, however, over Meiji period, it was revised and authorized to be the Mausoleum of Emperor Suizei, and repaired in 1878.
Japanese: 平安以降、所在が不明になり、幕末の天皇陵整理で、あるいは元禄以降、神武天皇陵と擬せられるが、明治にはいり明治11年、綏靖天皇陵に訂正治定され、改修された。
English: Ikaruganomiya Palace was the palace where Prince Shotoku lived in present-day Ikaruga Town, Ikoma County, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 斑鳩宮（いかるがのみや）は、聖徳太子が現在の奈良県生駒郡斑鳩町に営んだ宮。
English: Prince Shotoku built Ikaruganomiya Palace in 601, and moved to the palace in 605.
Japanese: 聖徳太子は、推古天皇9年（601年）に斑鳩宮を造営し、推古天皇13年（605年）に移り住んだ。
English: After the death of Prince Shotoku, his prince, Prince Yamashiro no oe lived in the palace, however, the palace was burnt away by SOGA no Iruka's soldiers in 643, and Prince Yamashiro no oe and other people in Jogu Oke (Prince Shotoku's family) were forced to kill themselves in Horyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 太子の薨去後、太子の王子山背大兄王が住んだが、皇極天皇2年（643年）に蘇我入鹿の兵によって宮は焼き払われ、山背大兄王以下、上宮王家の人々は法隆寺で自殺に追い込まれた。
English: Ishibutai-kofun Tumulus is a tumulus in the late Kofun period located in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 石舞台古墳（いしぶたいこふん）は、奈良県明日香村にある古墳時代後期の古墳。
English: It has been called Ishibutai (Stone Stage) due to the shape of its megalithic (granite) burial chamber which has been exposed from ancient times.
Japanese: 古くから、巨石（花崗岩）で作られた玄室が露出しており、その形状から石舞台と呼ばれていた。
English: The burial chamber is approximately 7.7-meter long, 3.5-meter wide and 4.7-meter high and the passageway to the burial chamber is approximately 11-meter long and 2.5-meter wide.
Japanese: 玄室は、長さ約7.7m、幅約3.5m、高さ約4.7m、羨道は長さ約11m、幅2.5m。
English: It is constructed by approximately 30 rocks, the total weight of which is estimated to be as heavy as 2,300 tons.
Japanese: 約30の石が積まれ、その総重量は2,300tに達すると推定されている。
English: The rocks were carried from the foot of Mt. Tonomine approximately three kilometers further up the Fuyuno-gawa River which flows by the side of the Kofun (tumulus).
Japanese: 石は古墳のかたわらを流れる冬野川の上流約3キロ、多武峰のふもとから運ばれた。
English: Since the upper part of Hodo (covering soil) has been taken out, the shape of Kofun is presumed to have been a two-layer square, a dome-shaped mound on a square base or an octagonal base mound.
Japanese: 封土（盛り土）の上部が剥がされているため、その形状は、2段積の方墳とも上円下方墳とも下方八角墳とも推測されている。
English: Furthermore, it is said to have been a huge square tumulus with 51 meters square stylobate surrounded by a dry moat with stuck stones and additionally with an outer bank (approximately 83 meters from north to south and 81 meters from east to west).
Japanese: また、一辺51mの方形基壇の周囲に貼石された空濠をめぐらし、さらに外提（南北約83m、東西81m）をめぐらした壮大な方形墳であるという。
English: There is a horizontal stone chamber depositing a kurinuki-sekkan (literally, a coffin hollowed out a stone) on the outside of the northwest corner of the outer bank and when it was discovered, it was presumed to be a Baicho (smaller mounds by a Kofun).
Japanese: 外提の北西隅の外には刳坂（くりぬき）石棺を納めた横穴式石室があり、発見当初は陪塚（ばいちょう）であろうと推測されていた。
English: In the ensuing researches, seven horizontal stone chambers were discovered also on the west side and their ground had been leveled.
Japanese: しかしその後の調査で西側にも7基の横穴式石室が見つかりいずれも石室内が整地されていた。
English: From the above and others, it is considered that for construction of the Ishibutai-kofun, Kofun located around it were scraped away and moved.
Japanese: このことなどから、石舞台古墳の築造にあたってはその周辺にあった古墳を削平し移行したと考えられている。
English: In 1933 and 1935, excavations and researches were conducted with Kosaku HAMADA of Kyoto University (at that time) and others taking the lead.
Japanese: 1933年（昭和8）と1935年（昭和10）に京都大学（当時）の浜田耕作らが中心となり、発掘調査が行われた。
English: However, almost all of the burial accessories had been stolen by grave robbers and only broken pieces of stone coffins were discovered.
Japanese: しかし、すでにほとんどの埋葬品が盗掘にあった後であり、石棺の欠片等が発見されるに留まった。
English: From 1954 to 1959, Kofun restoration and maintenance project was carried out.
Japanese: 1954年（昭和29）から1959年（昭和33）にかけて古墳の復元整備事業が行われた。
English: About this project, there is an anecdote that, for the excavation of the outer moat, the course of a Prefectural road running above it was changed.
Japanese: この時には外側の堀を掘るために上を通っていた県道が曲げられたという逸話がある。
English: The June 626 Section of "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) describes as follows.
Japanese: 『日本書紀』の推古天皇三十四年（626年）五月の条に次のようにある。
English: Some say that it was a punishment on the Soga clan that Hodo (covering soil) was taken out and the grave was opened.
Japanese: 封土が剥がされ、墓が暴かれたのは、蘇我氏に対する懲罰とする説もある。
English: Masayoshi MIZUNO, a professor emeritus at Nara University preaches a theory that the Ishibutai-kofun Tumulus was the tomb of SOGA no Iname from the facts such as the kind of rocks, the era of construction.
Japanese: 水野正好奈良大学名誉教授は石の種類、築造年代などから蘇我稲目説を唱える。
English: Other than Ishibutai, it used to be locally called 'Ishifutoya' (a large stone), 'Ishibuta' (a stone lid) and so on.
Japanese: 石舞台という以外に地元では「石太屋」（いしふとや）、「石蓋」（いしぶた）などの名前で呼ばれていた。
English: Regarding a legend that 'It came to be called Ishibutai (a stone stage) for the fact that a fox in the shape of woman danced on the Kofun,' Yoshinori ABOSHI who was born and brought up near the Kofun said he had never heard such a story and understood it was written in recent years.
Japanese: 「狐が女の姿に化けて古墳の上で踊ったことから石舞台と名付けられた」という伝説については、古墳のすぐそばで生まれ育った網干善教は、そのような話を自分は聞いたことがなく近年に創作された話であろう、としている。
English: In February 642, Empress Kogyoku ascended the throne succeeding her husband, Emperor Jomei who had died and on October 20, in the same year, she ordered Oomi (a highest officer in national politics of the Yamato dynasty) SOGA no Emishi to construct a new Palace by December.
Japanese: 642年1月、皇極天皇は夫である舒明天皇の崩御（死）により即位し、同年9月19日、大臣である蘇我蝦夷（そがのえみし）へ新宮殿を12月までに建設するよう命じた。
English: Itabuki no Miya Palace became the setting for a coup (Isshi Incident [the Murder in the Year of Isshi]) which occurred on July 13, 645.
Japanese: 板蓋宮は、645年6月12日(旧暦)に発生したクーデター（乙巳の変）の舞台となった。
English: On this day, an act of violence to stab to death SOGA no Iruka, the inheritor to the Oomi was committed in front of Empress Kogyoku.
Japanese: この日、皇極天皇の眼前で大臣の次期後継者である蘇我入鹿が刺殺されるという凶行がなされた。
English: Due to this, Empress Kogyoku abdicated the throne on the 15 of the same month and it was decided that Prince Karu who was regarded as the real leader of the coups ascend the throne (Emperor Kotoku).
Japanese: これにより皇極天皇は同月14日に退位し、事件の真の首謀者と目される軽皇子（かるのみこ）が即位することとなった（孝徳天皇）。
English: After Emperor Kotoku died at Naniwa no Miya in November 654, the retired Empress Kogyoku ascended the throne again (Choso [a second accession to the imperial throne]) at Itabuki no Miya Palace early in the following year, becoming Empress Saimei.
Japanese: 654年（白雉5）10月孝徳天皇が難波宮で没すると翌年の初めに皇極上皇は板蓋宮において再度即位（重祚）し、斉明天皇となった。
English: Furthermore, the name, 'Itabuki no Miya' (shingle roofed palace) is said to derive from the fact that the palace was actually roofed with shingle (thick and luxurious shingle).
Japanese: なお、名称「板蓋宮」は、文字どおり屋根に板（豪華な厚い板）を葺いていたことに由来すると言われている。
English: By the above fact, it becomes clear that most of the houses at that time were thatched with grass, kaya-grass or straw and houses with shingle-covered roof were rare.
Japanese: このことにより、当時の屋根のほとんどは草葺き・茅葺き・藁葺きであり、板葺きの屋根の珍しかったことが判る。
English: As of today, what considered to be a part of the center of the Palace remains in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 現在、奈良県明日香村に中心の一部と思われるものが史跡として残っている。
English: It was reportedly located at the place of Gufuku-ji Temple (also known as Kawahara-dera Temple) now existing in Kawahara, Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 奈良県明日香村川原に現存する弘福寺（川原寺）の地にあったと伝えられている。
English: Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan) describes that since Itabuki no Miya Palace was destroyed by fire in winter in 655, Empress Saimei moved into Kawahara no Miya Palace.
Japanese: 日本書紀によると、655年の冬、板蓋宮が火災に遭ったため、斉明天皇は川原宮へ遷ったとある。
English: In the following year (656), she built Okamoto no Miya Palace to move in, so Kawahara no Miya Palace is considered to have been her temporary Palace.
Japanese: その翌年（656年）には新たに岡本宮を建てて遷宮しているので、一時的な仮住まいの宮殿だったと考えられる。
English: After the death of Empress Saimei, Kawahara no Miya Palace is deemed to have been changed to Kawara-dera Temple in the era of Emperor Tenchi, a child of Empress Saimei.
Japanese: 斉明天皇の没後、斉明天皇の子である天智天皇のときに川原宮は川原寺（かわらでら）へ改められたとされている。
English: Okamoto no Miya was an Imperial Palace in which Emperor Jomei and Empress Saimei lived in the seventh century.
Japanese: 岡本宮（おかもとのみや）は、7世紀の舒明天皇及び斉明天皇が営んだ宮。
English: Okamoto no Miya Palace is called by different names; the Palace of Emperor Jomei is called Asuka no Okamoto no Miya and that of Empress Saimei Nochi no Asuka no Okamoto no Miya.
Japanese: 舒明天皇の岡本宮は飛鳥岡本宮（あすかのおかもとのみや）、斉明天皇の岡本宮は後飛鳥岡本宮（のちのあすかのおかもとのみや）と区別して呼称される。
English: Emperor Jomei ascended the throne in February 629 and moved the Palace to the foot of Asuka no oka Hill (also known as Ikazuchi no oka [The Thunder's Hill]) naming it Okamoto no Miya in November in the following year (630).
Japanese: 629年1月に舒明天皇は即位し、翌年（630年）10月、飛鳥岡（雷丘）のふもとに遷宮し、岡本宮と称した。
English: Six years later in July 636, Okamoto no Miya was destroyed by fire and so Emperor Jomei decided to move into Tanaka no Miya Palace (the present Tanaka Town, Kashihara City).
Japanese: その6年後の636年6月、岡本宮は火災で焼失し、舒明天皇は田中宮（たなかのみや、現在の橿原市田中町）へ遷ることとなった。
English: At the same time, a new Palace site was selected, and in the following year (656), a new Palace was built in Okamoto.
Japanese: 並行して新たな宮殿建設地の選定も行っており、翌年（656年）には岡本に新宮殿が建てられた。
English: As Empress Saimei was the widow of Emperor Jomei, she consequently selected the site of the old Palace of her late husband.
Japanese: 斉明天皇は舒明天皇の未亡人であり、亡き夫の旧宮地を選んだということになる。
English: In those days, Empress Saimei carried on many construction projects such as building stone mounds and a Takadono (a building placed on the high place) near the top of Mt. Tonomine and digging a waterway through the Nara Basin, but these constructions were received unfavorably by the people who were mobilized.
Japanese: 当時、斉明天皇は多武峰の山頂付近に石塁や高殿を築いたり、奈良盆地に運河を掘るなど、多くの土木事業を営んだが、動員される民衆には非常に不評であった。
English: (In view of the fact that many of the palaces in the Asuka period were destroyed by fire, there is an opinion that when the people were strongly dissatisfied with the government, they expressed their wishes by setting fire to the imperial palaces.)
Japanese: （飛鳥時代の宮の多くが火災に遭っていることから、民衆の中に統治への大きな不満がある時は、天皇の宮へ放火することで意思表明していたのではないか、とする説がある。）
English: The name, 'Okamoto no Miya' derives from the fact that it was literally located at the foot of the Oka (a hill) (Ikazuchi no oka Hill).
Japanese: 名称「岡本宮」は、文字どおり岡（雷丘）のふもとに立地していたことに由来する。
English: Ono-jo (also known as Ononoki) Castle was an ancient mountaintop castle (Korean-style mountain castle) constructed in the Asuka period, which was located on Mt. Shioji in Chikuzen Province.
Japanese: 大野城（おおのじょう又はおおののき）は、飛鳥時代に築城された筑前国四王寺山にある古代山城（朝鮮式山城）である。
English: The construction site of the Ono-jo Castle is analogically considered the Shioji mountain range with the highest peak of approximately 410 meters above the sea at the north of Dazaifu.
Japanese: 大野城の築城箇所は大宰府北方、太宰府の真北標高約410メートルを最高峰とする四王寺山一帯に比定されている。
English: On Mt. Shioji, over 5200-meter long earthwork are casted up from the ridge through the hillside to the valley where the stone walls are built.
Japanese: 四王寺山には、尾根をつたって延々5200メートル以上に及ぶ土塁が山腹をめぐり、土塁が谷にかかるところでは、石垣が築かれている。
English: The castle has some gates; one in the north, one in the southwest, and two in the south, and at the six of higher and flat places in the castle, at 36 places in total, the foundation stones are remained.
Japanese: 北方に1ヵ所、西南に1ヵ所、南部に2ヵ所城門を開き、城内の高く平たいところには6ヵ所ほどに、都合三36ヵ所ほど礎石群が残っている。
English: These are the remains of warehouses, in which not only weapons of war but grains and so on were stored judging from the fact that carbonized grains of rice and so on were detected.
Japanese: これらは倉庫であり、武具の他、炭化した米粒などが検出されている事から穀物なども貯蔵していたことが分かる。
English: It is considered to have been a castle for the defense of Tazaifu in view of the location to the north of Dazaifu.
Japanese: 大宰府北方という立地から、大宰府防衛を目的とした城であると考えられている。
English: The ridge extending westward is called Hinoozaki, where a fire beacon platform site, Koho, the site which is deemed to have been what is now called army post and the ruins of Bishamonten (Vaisravana) are located.
Japanese: 山頂の西に張り出した尾根を火ノ尾崎といい、烽火台跡、鼓峰は今で言う軍団駐屯地跡とされ、毘沙門天の遺構がある。
English: This mountain is also called Mt. Shioji, which derives from the fact that Shio-in Temple on Mt. Enman was built on the mountaintop in 774 praying for repulsing the foreign enemy.
Japanese: 山名を四王寺山とも呼ぶが、これは光仁天皇宝亀5年（774年）に、外敵駆逐を祈願して山頂に円満山四王院が建立された経緯からと云う。
English: In the Battle of Hakusukinoe in 663, Wakoku (later known as Japan) aiming at a revival of Paekche was defeated by Silla-Tang allied forces.
Japanese: 663年の白村江の戦いにおいて、百済復興を目指す倭国（後の日本）は新羅・唐連合軍に敗れた。
English: "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) describes that Wakoku had constructed various defense facilities to strengthen the defenses.
Japanese: そこで倭国は防備を固めるため、様々な防衛施設を建設したことが『日本書紀』に記されている。
English: In 664, Sakimori (soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times) were garrisoned and fire beacon platforms were set up in Tsushima, Iki, and Tsukushi Provinces, and Mizuki (Water Fortress) was built to the west of Dazaifu.
Japanese: 664年、対馬国・壱岐国・筑紫国に防人とのろし台を設置、大宰府の西方に水城を築造した。
English: In the same month in the same year, Fukuru OKURAI and Fukufu SHIHI, exiled from the Paekche were dispatched to Tsukushi Province and made to build a castle in Ono and Ki respectively.
Japanese: 同年同月、亡命百済人の憶礼福留（おくらいふくる）と四比福夫（しひふくふ）を筑紫国へ派遣し、大野と椽（き）に城を築かせた。
English: On April 6, 2006, the Ono-jo Castle was selected as one of the Japan's 100 Finest Castles (the 86th) and from June 2007, the Japan's 100 Finest Castles stamp rally started.
Japanese: 2006年（平成18年）4月6日、日本100名城（86番）に選定され、2007年（平成19年）6月から全国規模の日本100名城スタンプラリーが開始された。
English: In recent years, mural paintings were discovered in this tumulus, for which a preservation project has been carried on as in the case of Takamatsuzuka-kofun Tumulus.
Japanese: 近年では壁画が発見されており、高松塚古墳と共に保存事業が進められている。
English: On November 7, 1983, Genbu (god of water who protects the northern direction) was discovered on color mural paintings in the rock chamber.
Japanese: 1983年11月7日、石室内の彩色壁画に玄武が発見され、注目を集めた。
English: On July 31, 2000, it was designated as a historical site by the Government and on November 24 in the same year, as a special historical site.
Japanese: 2000年7月31日、国指定史跡に指定され、同年11月24日には特別史跡に指定された。
English: It is sometimes called a 'brother' of Takamatsuzuka-kofun Tumulus due to the similarity between the two in that they are round tumuli and have mural paintings of Shijin (four gods said to rule over the four directions) and so on.
Japanese: 円墳であり、四神を描いた壁画があるなどの類似点から、高松塚古墳の「兄弟」といわれることがある。
English: The influence of Tang culture shown on mural paintings and so on appears not so noticeably in it as in Takamatsuzuka-kofun Tumulus, therefore, it is considered to have been constructed from around the end of seventh century to the early eighth century before Kento-shi (Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty China) returned to Japan (704).
Japanese: 壁画などにみられる唐の文化的影響が高松塚古墳ほどには色濃くないことから、遣唐使が日本に帰国（704年）する以前の7世紀末から8世紀初め頃に作られた古墳であると見られている。
English: It is considered to be highly probable due to the era and so on that it was a Prince or a closely associated high officer of Emperor Tenmu.
Japanese: 年代などから、天武天皇の皇子、もしくは側近の高官の可能性が高いと見られている。