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English: It was from here that he exerted cloistered rule and famously constructed an enormous Buddha hall (Rengeo-in Temple = Sanjusangen-do Hall) housing 1,000 statues of the thousand-armed Kannon (the celebration of Sanjusangen-do Hall's completion took place in 1164).
Japanese: ここで院政が行われ、また御所の西側に千体千手観音像を安置する巨大な仏堂（蓮華王院＝三十三間堂）が建てられたことは史上名高い（三十三間堂の落慶は長寛2年/1164年）。
English: In 1160, the Retired Emperor Goshirakawa had the divided tutelary deity of Mt. Hiei's guardian god Hie-sha Shrine transferred to his temple and established Ima Hie-sha Shrine (Ima Hie-sha Shrine survives today as "Ima Hie-jingu Shrine").
Japanese: 後白河上皇は永暦元年（1160年）、御所の鎮守社として比叡山の鎮守社である日吉社を勧請し、新日吉社（いまひえしゃ）とした（新日吉社は「新日吉神宮」として現代まで存続している）。
English: The first Betto (representative, person responsible) to be assigned to Ima Hie-sha Shrine was a monk from Myoho-in Temple named Shoun.
Japanese: この新日吉社の初代別当（代表者、責任者）に任命されたのが妙法院の昌雲という僧であった。
English: Shoun was the son of FUJIWARA no Tadanari of the Miko Hidari family and the nephew of Kaishu who held the position of Tendai Zasu (the highest post of Tendai sect).
Japanese: 昌雲は御子左家（みこひだりけ）の藤原忠成の子であり、天台座主（天台宗最高の地位）を務めた快修の甥にあたる。
English: Saicho was the 1st in the line of Myoho-in chief priests, the 13th was Kaishu, the 15th was Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa (under the Buddhist priest name 'Gyoshin'), and the 16th was Shoun.
Japanese: 妙法院の門主系譜では最澄を初代として、13代が快修、15代が後白河法皇（法名は行真）、16代が昌雲となっている。
English: The 17th chief priest Jitsuzen (the disciple and nephew of Shoun) went on to become Tendai Zasu.
Japanese: 続く17代門主の実全（昌雲の弟子で甥でもある）も後に天台座主になっている。
English: The temple was established as a Monzeki Temple when Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonsho (a prince of Gotakakurain) served at the temple as the 18th chief priest, and the majority of the successive chief priests until the end of the early modern period were Cloistered Imperial Prince (an individual awarded the rank of 'Imperial Prince' after leaving the Imperial family to enter the Buddhist priesthood).
Japanese: 18代門主として尊性法親王（後高倉院皇子）が入寺してからは門跡寺院としての地位が確立し、近世末期に至るまで歴代門主の大部分が法親王（皇族で出家後に親王宣下を受けた者を指す）である。
English: It is known from records that Myoho-in Temple was known by a number of names including 'Ayanokoji-bo', 'Ayanokoji Gosho' (Ayanokoji Imperial Palace) and 'Ayanokoji-gu' during the Kamakura period, and it is believed that the main temple quarters existed in Gionmachi-Minamigawa, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City but it is not known exactly when the temple was relocated to its current site adjacent to Great Buddha of Hoko-ji Temple.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の妙法院は「綾小路房」「綾小路御所」「綾小路宮」などと呼ばれたことが記録からわかり、現在の京都市東山区祇園町南側あたりに主要な房舎が存在したと思われるが、方広寺大仏に隣接する現在地への移転の時期などは正確にはわかっていない。
English: The Great Buddha Hall constructed by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI at Hoko-ji Temple was completed in 1595.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉が造営していた方広寺の大仏殿が完成したのは文禄4年（1595年）のことであった。
English: Following this year, Hideyoshi assembled monks from the eight Buddhist sects of Japan (Tendai, Shingon, Ritsu, Zen, Pure Land, Niciren, Ji, Ikko) to hold a 'Senso Kuyo' (a memorial service attended by 1,000 monks) at the 'Daibutsu Kyodo' (Great Buddha Sutra Hall) to pray for the happiness of his deceased parents and ancestors in the afterlife.
Japanese: この年以降、秀吉は亡父母や先祖の菩提を弔うため、当時の日本仏教の八宗（天台、真言、律、禅、浄土、日蓮、時、一向）の僧を集めた「千僧供養」を「大仏経堂」で行った。
English: This Great Buddha Sutra Hall was associated with Myoho-in Temple and the kitchen used to prepare the food for the 1,000 monks who attended the Senso Kuyo is thought to be the kuri (kitchen and living quarters) at Myoho-in Temple.
Japanese: この「大仏経堂」は妙法院に所属し、千僧供養に出仕する千人もの僧の食事を準備した台所が、現存する妙法院庫裏（国宝）だとされている。
English: The precise date of the construction of the kuri is unclear but it is clear from diaries and books of the time that Myoho-in Temple was involved in Hideyoshi's Senso Kuyo, allowing the latest date of the relocation of the temple to its current site to be placed at the end of the 16th century.
Japanese: 庫裏自体の正確な建立年代は不明だが、秀吉の千僧供養に妙法院が関与していたことは当時の日記や文書から明らかであり、妙法院は遅くとも16世紀末には現在地へ移転していたことがわかる。
English: Myoho-in Temple in the early modern period existed as a large temple complex with Hoko-ji Temple, Rengeo-in Temple (Sanjusangen-do Hall) and Ima Hie-sha Shrine.
Japanese: 近世の妙法院は、方広寺、蓮華王院（三十三間堂）、新日吉社を兼帯する大寺院であった。
English: It was 1615 when the chief priest of Myoho-in Temple also came to serve as the chief priest of Hoko-ji Temple.
Japanese: 妙法院門主が方広寺住職を兼務するようになったのは元和(日本)元年（1615年）からである。
English: This resulted from the destruction of the Toyotomi family by the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) in the Siege of Osaka.
Japanese: これは大坂の陣で豊臣宗家が江戸幕府に滅ぼされたことを受けての沙汰である。
English: After the battle, Join, the then chief priest of Myoho-in Temple, actively cooperated with the bakufu in their destruction of Toyokuni-jinja Shrine (Kyoto City) and was successful in embezzling Jingu-ji Temple (residential office of Toyokuni-jinja Shrine's steward Shinryu-in Bonshun) and the possessions of the deceased Hideyoshi that were kept in Toyokuni-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 戦後幕府によって進められた豊国神社(京都市)破却の流れのなかで、当時の妙法院門主であった常胤は積極的に幕府に協力、豊国神社に保管された秀吉の遺品や神宮寺（豊国神社別当神龍院梵舜の役宅）を横領することに成功している。
English: Myoho-in Temple had been involved with Sanjusangen-do Hall from early on due to the relationship with the founder, Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa.
Japanese: 三十三間堂については、創立者である後白河法皇との関係から、早くから妙法院が関与していた。
English: The ninety-ninth anniversary memorial service of Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa's death in 1291 was conducted at Sanjusangen-do Hall by Sonkyo, the chief priest of Myoho-in Temple, following which it became customary to hold each 50-yearly memorial service on the site.
Japanese: 正応4年（1291年）の後白河法皇百回忌供養は、妙法院門主の尊教が三十三間堂において行っており、以後、50年ごとの聖忌供養は妙法院門主が三十三間堂にて行うことが慣例となっている。
English: In modern times, Hoko-ji Temple and Ima Hie-sha Shrine became independent but Sanjusangen-do Hall remains part of Myoho-in Temple.
Japanese: 近代に入って方広寺と新日吉社は独立したが、三十三間堂は現代に至るまで妙法院の所属となっている。
English: Myoho-in Temple was where seven Kugyo (court nobles) of Sanetomi SANJO's "Sonno joi" (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) movement were expelled from Kyoto at the end of the Edo period in an incident known as 'The Seven Nobles of Decline.'
Japanese: 妙法院は、幕末には、三条実美ら尊皇攘夷派の公卿7人が京都から追放された「七卿落ち」の舞台ともなっている。
English: The entrance is on the western side of the precincts; the Kuri (the priest's living quarters or the kitchen of a temple) stands to its left; the Shinden (Emperor's residence) stands to its right; and in the east of the grounds are the Daishoin (Great Study), the Shiroshoin (White Study Room), the Goma-do Hall (hall for making burnt offerings) and the Seiten-do Hall.
Japanese: 境内は西側正面に玄関、その左手に庫裏、右手に宸殿が建ち、東側の境内奥には大書院、白書院、護摩堂、聖天堂などが建つ。
English: The main hall housing the principal image statue of Fugen Bosatsu (Fugen-do Hall) stands slightly distant in the southeast of the temple precincts.
Japanese: 本尊普賢菩薩を安置する本堂（普賢堂）は、やや離れた境内東南方に建つ。
English: The kuri of Myoho-in Temple is a grand building that is said to have been used as the kitchen during the 'Senso Kuyo' ceremony held by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI for his ancestors.
Japanese: 妙法院庫裏は、豊臣秀吉が先祖のための「千僧供養」を行った際の台所として使用されたと伝える豪壮な建物である。
English: The interior is divided into an unfloored room, a wooden-floored room and a tatami-mat room, of which the unfloored and wooden-floored rooms do not have ceilings but allow the nuki (penetrating tie beams) and hari (beams) to be seen.
Japanese: 内部は土間、板間、座敷の3部分に分かれ、土間・板間部分は天井板を張らず、貫・梁などの構造材をそのまま見せた豪快な造りになる。
English: Letter written by the Viceroy of Portuguese India: In 1588, a sheepskin-paper letter from the Viceroy of the Portuguese-ruled state of Goa on the western coast of the Indian peninsula addressed to Hidetoshi TOYOTOMI requesting the relaxation of the oppressive policy towards Christianity in Japan.
Japanese: ポルトガル国印度副王親書－1588年（日本の天正16年）、インド半島西岸に位置するポルトガル領ゴア州の副王から豊臣秀吉に宛てた羊皮紙の書簡で、内容は当時の日本が行っていたキリスト教弾圧政策の緩和を求めたものである。
English: It is one of the items that were transferred to Myoho-in Temple when the Toyokuni Tomb enshrining Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI was destroyed.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉を祀る豊国廟が破却された際、妙法院に移管された品の1つである。
English: Daishoin (Great study): The great study and entry hall are said to be the relocated Nyogo Gosho (court lady's palace) that was built when the imperial bridal party entered Tofukumon-in Temple in 1619, and stylistically is thought to date from around that time.
Japanese: 大書院－大書院と玄関は、元和5年（1619年）、東福門院入内の際に建築された女御御所の建物を移築したものと伝え、様式的にもその頃のものと考えられている。
English: Myoho-in Temple wall and sliding door paintings, 58 pieces (including 14 walls and one screen): Consist of the wall and sliding screen paintings in the entry hall, Ichi no ma (room one) and Ni no ma (room two), and are thought to be the works of early modern Kano School artists.
Japanese: 妙法院障壁画　58面（附14面、1基）－玄関、大書院一之間・二之間の障壁画で、近世初期の狩野派の作と思われる。
English: The 14 pieces in the Ura no ma (back room) of the great study and the screen in the entry hall are also included in the designation.
Japanese: 大書院裏之間の障壁画14面と玄関所在の衝立1基は附（つけたり）指定となっている。
English: Shinsho Gokuraku-ji Temple, also known as Shinnyo-do Hall, is a Tendai Sect Buddhist temple located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 真正極楽寺（しんしょうごくらくじ）は、京都市左京区にある天台宗の寺院で通称真如堂（しんにょどう）と呼ばれる。
English: The temple originated in the year 984 when Kaisan, a monk from Mt. Hiei, enshrined the Amida Nyorai statue of Jogyo-do Hall on Mt. Hiei in the villa of FUJIWARA no Senshi (mother of Empeor Ichijo).
Japanese: 永観2年（984年）比叡山の僧である戒算が比叡山常行堂の本尊阿弥陀如来を藤原詮子（一条天皇生母）の離宮に安置したのが始まりである。
English: The temple was later relocated to numerous sites within Kyoto City by Ashikaga Shogunate family and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI before being reconstructed on its current site in 1693.
Japanese: その後足利将軍家や豊臣秀吉により京都市内の何カ所かを転々としたのち、元禄6年（1693年）現在の場所に再建された。
English: Some of the eight volumes of transcribed Lotus Sutras resulting that Buddhist sculptor Unkei vowed to have made (volume one has been lost, volume eight is in privately owned).
Japanese: 仏師・運慶の発願によって書写された法華経8巻のうちの一部（巻一は亡失、巻八は個人蔵）。
English: The events that led to the transcription of this sutra are detailed in the postscript at the end of volume eight, which is kept elsewhere.
Japanese: 現在他所に所蔵される巻八の巻末奥書に、本経書写に至る経緯が詳細に記されている。
English: According to this same postscript, Unkei vowed to have the Lotus Sutra transcribed between 1175 and 1177 (while in his 20s) and the task was begun several years later in 1183 after receiving the assistance of Akomaru.
Japanese: 同奥書によると、運慶は安元年間（1175-1177年、運慶20歳代）に法華経書写を発願、数年後の寿永2年（1183年）に至って、阿古丸なる女性の援助を得て書写が行われることになった。
English: It is known from the writing on the scroll roller that the centers of the scrolls are made from the wood that remained after Todai-ji Temple was destroyed by fire during a conflict in 1180, three years before the transcription was begun.
Japanese: また、巻軸には書写の3年前の治承4年（1180年）に兵火で焼失した東大寺の焼け残りの木を用いたことが軸木の墨書からわかる。
English: Hogon-in Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Tenryu-ji school of the Rinzai Sect located in Arashiyama, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 宝厳院（ほうごんいん）は京都府京都市右京区嵐山にある臨済宗天龍寺派の寺院で天龍寺の塔頭。
English: Kari-Hondo (temporary main hall): Serves as the temporary main hall until the original building is able to resume the role.
Japanese: 仮本堂-　もともとあった建物を本堂ができるまでの間、仮本堂としている。
English: (Only open to the public on specific days in spring and autumn. Also opened when illuminated at night.)
Japanese: （春・秋の特別拝観日のみ一般公開。また、夜間にはライトアップされて公開される時もある）
English: Daihoon-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Chizan school of the Shingon Sect located in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 大報恩寺（だいほうおんじ）は京都市上京区にある真言宗智山派の寺院で山号は瑞応山。
English: A legend is told regarding 'Okame,' the wife of a carpenter who worked on the construction of the main hall (described below).
Japanese: 本堂の建立に関して大工の妻の「おかめ」に関する伝説が伝えられている（後述）。
English: The original main hall dating from the time of the temple's founding was not burnt during the Onin War and has been designated a National Treasure as the oldest building in central Kyoto.
Japanese: この本堂は応仁文明の乱にも焼けることはなく創建当時のもので洛中最古の建造物で国宝となっている。
English: The remains of 'Kitano Kyoo-do Hall' that once stood in front of the gate of Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine), neighboring Daihoon-ji Temple, have also been preserved.
Japanese: 大報恩寺には近隣の北野天神（北野天満宮）門前にあった「北野経王堂」の遺物も保管されている。
English: Kitano Kyoo-do Hall was constructed by Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA in 1401 in memory of those who died in the Meitoku War (the War of Ujikiyo YAMANA) but was demolished as part of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism that took place in the early part of the Meiji period.
Japanese: 北野経王堂は、足利義満が明徳の乱（山名氏清の乱）の戦没者を悼んで応永8年（1401年）に建立したものであったが、明治初年の神仏分離によって破却された。
English: During the construction of the main hall, master carpenter Takatsugi cut an irreplaceable pillar to the wrong size.
Japanese: 本堂を造営する際、大工の棟梁であった高次が代りのない柱の寸法を切り誤ってしまい困っていた。
English: On seeing this, his wife Okame advised him that he could correct the problem using a bracket complex, and the building was completed on time.
Japanese: それを見た妻のおかめが枡組を用いたらどうかとひと言アドバイスし結果無事に竣工させることができた。
English: Okame then committed suicide before the ridgepole-raising ceremony to prevent it from becoming known that it was the suggestion of a woman that allowed this important task to be accomplished.
Japanese: おかめは女の提案で大任を果たしたことが知れてはと上棟式を待たずに自害してしまった。
English: The Hogyoin-to (Okame-zuka) was built to pray for the soul of Takatsugi's wife and it is believed that Okame gohei (wooden stands with paper streamers and an Okame face) were derived from her legend.
Japanese: 高次は妻の冥福を祈り宝篋印塔（おかめ塚）を建て、おかめの名にちなんだ福面を付けた扇御幣を飾ったとされる。
English: Okame later became worshipped by carpenters and even today gohei with Otafuku (Okame) masks are used as decoration at ridgepole-raising ceremonies.
Japanese: その後、大工の信仰を得るようになり今日でも上棟式にはお多福の面を着けた御幣が飾られている。
English: These are related to the main hall as it has survived numerous conflicts and is connected to the belief that Okame wards off evil and invites good luck.
Japanese: 度重なる戦乱にも残った本堂とも結びつき厄除、招福のおかめ信仰につながっている。
English: Setsubun-e: This February festival is also known as 'Okame Setsubun' in which a bean-throwing ceremony and Okame Ondo (folk music) takes place at Okame-zuka.
Japanese: 節分会-おかめ節分ともいわれ2月の節分におかめ塚で豆まきがおかめ音頭などが行われる。
English: Originated during the Kamakura period when Jizen, a monk at Daihoon-ji Temple, would write Sanskrit characters on the cut end of daikon radishes and pray for good health, and today it is believed that eating these daikon radishes can cure ailments such as paralysis.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代に、当寺の僧・慈禅が、法要の際に大根の切り口に梵字を書いて息災祈願を行なったのが起源とされ、今日では、この大根を食べると中風など諸病除けになるとされている。
English: Wooden standing statues of the 10 great disciples, 10 statues (including sutras within the statues): The items within the statues and inscriptions have confirmed that they were created by Kaikei in 1218.
Japanese: 木造十大弟子立像　10躯（附　像内納入経）－納入品や銘記から建保6年（1218年）快慶の作と判明する。
English: These six statues depict Sho Kannon, Eleven-faced Kannon, Thousand-armed Kannon, Nyoirin Kannon, Horse-headed Kannon and Juntei Kannon.
Japanese: 聖観音、十一面観音、千手観音、如意輪観音、馬頭観音、准胝観音の6体。
English: There were other Buddhist sculptors by the name of 'Jokei' during the Kamakura period, but these statues were created by 'Higo Betto Jokei'.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代には「定慶」という名の仏師が他にもいるが、本群像の作者は「肥後別当定慶」である。
English: The statues have a striking Chinese Song Dynasty style, and feature realistic facial expressions and picturesque elaborate clothing.
Japanese: 作風には宋風が顕著で、写実的な表情と絵画的で複雑な衣文が特色である。
English: The complete Buddhist scriptures housed within the Kitano Kyoo-do Hall as 5,048 quires (including 232 quires of hand transcribed scriptures): These complete Buddhist scriptures were transcribed (not printed using wood blocks) by the vow of a monk named Gakuzobo Zohan in 1412 and are said to be the last in Japanese history to have been produced by hand.
Japanese: 北野経王堂一切経　5,048帖（うち補写経232帖）－応永19年（1412年）、覚蔵坊増範という僧の発願で書写された一切経で、書写（版本でない）一切経としては日本史上最後のものと言われている。
English: The statue is housed within the main hall and numerous Okame dolls and masks donated by believers are also displayed.
Japanese: 像は本堂内にもあり、信者から寄進されたおかめ人形や面も多数展示されている。
English: Ryotoku-ji Temple on Mt. Horin is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Otani school of Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) located in Narutaki, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 法輪山了徳寺（ほうりんざんりょうとくじ）は、京都市右京区鳴滝(京都市右京区)にある真宗大谷派の寺。
English: This tradition originated in 1252 during the Kamakura period when Shinran held a sermon in Narutaki on the way back from Gatsurin-ji Temple on Mt. Atago, and the deeply impressed locals presented him with a meal of boiled daikon radish with salt as it was all they had to offer.
Japanese: その由縁は、鎌倉時代の建長4年（1252年）、親鸞が愛宕山中の月輪寺よりの帰途、鳴滝で説法をし、それに感銘を受けた里人が、他に何ももてなすものがないので、塩炊きの大根を馳走した。
English: To show his gratitude, Shinran fashioned a brush from bunched zebra grass tips and wrote the ten-character name for the Buddha Amitabha Tathagata; 'Kimyo Jinjippo Mugeko Nyorai' (I take refuge in the Tathagata of unhindered light filling the ten quarters).
Japanese: それに応えて、親鸞はススキの穂を束にして筆代わりとし、「歸命盡十方無礙光如來」の十字名号を書いて、その礼とした。
English: Sai-ji Temple is believed to have stood in present-day Karahashi, Minami Ward, Kyoto City, and was one of the two first governmental temples permitted to be constructed within the city of Heian-kyo by the order of Emperor Kanmu in 796.
Japanese: 西寺（さいじ）は、平安時代、現在の京都市南区(京都市)唐橋にあったとされる寺で、796年桓武天皇の勅願により平安京内で最初に建造が許された2つの官寺の一つ。
English: At this time, Suzaku Oji Avenue extended from Rajo-mon gate, with To-ji Temple (lit. East Temple) sting on the east side and Sai-ji Temple (lit. West Temple) standing on the west side.
Japanese: 当時は、羅城門を入ってすぐ、朱雀大路を挟んで東側に東寺があり、西側に西寺があった。
English: Sai-ji Temple and To-ji Temple are thought to have been of approximately the same size and believed to have contained a Sogosho (office of the Buddhist ecclesiastical authority).
Japanese: 西寺は東寺とほぼ同規模の大きさの寺院だとされ、僧綱所などが置かれたとされる。
English: After almost all of the buildings were destroyed by fire in the year 990, another fire struck in 1233 and the temple fell into ruin.
Japanese: 990年（正暦元年）に伽藍がほぼ焼失した後、1233年（天福(日本)元年）にも焼失し、荒廃していった。
English: Excavations that started in 1959 uncovered the remains of structures including the main hall, corridors, the priests' living quarters, the dining hall and Nandai-mon gate, with those that were not included in the original historic site designation being added in 1966.
Japanese: 1959年からの発掘調査により、金堂・廻廊・僧坊・食堂院・南大門等の遺構が確認され、当初の未指定部分が1966年に追加指定された。
English: All that remains is part of the main hall's foundation stone that was unearthed in excavations, and the area is now the site of an elementary school and the Karahashi Saiji Municipal Park that is the remains of the lecture hall.
Japanese: 現在は発掘時出土した金堂礎石の一部が残るのみで、小学校の敷地や講堂跡の都市公園・唐橋西寺公園になっている。
English: Near to Karahashi Saiji Park, in Karahashi Hiragaki-cho, Minami Ward stands a small temple that has inherited the name 'Sai-ji Temple'.
Japanese: なお、唐橋西寺公園近くの南区唐橋平垣町には「西寺」の寺号のみを継いだ小寺院がある。
English: The principal image statue of Kokuzo Bosatsu is affectionately known as 'Sagano no Kokuzo-san.'
Japanese: 本尊の虚空蔵菩薩が、「嵯峨野の虚空蔵（こくぞう）さん」として親しまれている。
English: It is considered to be one of 'Japan's Three Great Kokuzo Statues' together with those of Yanaizu Enzo-ji Temple in Aizu, Oshu Province and Kongo sho-ji Temple in Asayama, Ise.
Japanese: 奥州会津の柳津円蔵寺、伊勢の朝熊山（あさまやま）の金剛證寺とともに「日本三大虚空蔵」と称される。
English: In ancient times, the statue's name appeared in works including "Konjaku Monogatarishu" (lit. Anthology of Tales from the Past), "Makurano-soshi" (The Pillow Book) and "Heike Monogatari"(the Tale of the Heike), and it drew many worshippers as a guardian deity of those born in the years of Ox and Tiger (of the Chinese zodiac).
Japanese: 古くは、『今昔物語集』・『枕草子』・『平家物語』などにその名が見え、知恵、芸事の上達、また丑寅年生まれの守り本尊として信仰を集める。
English: The temple precincts also contain the Denden-gu Shrine that enshrines the guardian deity of electricity and radio waves.
Japanese: さらに、境内には、電気・電波を守護する鎮守社である電電宮が祀られている。
English: According to temple legend, Gyoki constructed Kadonoi-dera Temple in the year 713 by the order of Emperor Genmei to pray for industrial prosperity.
Japanese: 寺伝によれば、713年（和銅6年）、行基が元明天皇の勅願により、五穀豊穣、産業の興隆を祈願する葛井寺（かどのいでら）として建立したとされる。
English: In 829, Dosho, a disciple of Kukai, enshrined the statue of Kokuzo Bosatsu and renamed the temple Horin-ji.
Japanese: その後、829年（天長6年）、空海の弟子にあたる道昌が、虚空蔵菩薩像を安置して、法輪寺と称したという。
English: In the Muromachi period, Horin-ji Temple was ravaged by fire during the Onin War and was rebuilt by Emperor Goyozei in the Edo period but was once again damaged by fire during the Hamaguri Rebellion at the end of the Edo period.
Japanese: 室町時代、応仁の乱により罹災し、江戸時代、後陽成天皇により再建されるが、幕末、蛤御門の変により、再度罹災している。
English: Large needles with various colors of threat attached are stuck into konnyaku jelly and participants pray for improved needlework skills.
Japanese: 大きな蒟蒻に、諸々の色糸をつけた大針を刺して供養し、針仕事の技術上達を祈願する。
English: The ceremony is believed to have originated during the Heian period when Emperor Seiwa had a Hari-kuyo hall constructed.
Japanese: 平安時代、清和天皇によって針供養の堂が当寺に建立されたことが由緒とされる。
English: It is also said that, as they leave after having made their prayers, the wisdom will return to the main hall if they look back before crossing the Togetsu-kyo Bridge.
Japanese: また、お詣りが済んだ後の帰路、渡月橋を渡るまで、後ろを振り返ると知恵が本堂に帰ってしまうという言い伝えがある。
English: During this 'Kiku no Kisewata' (lit. chrysanthemum covering cloth) celebration, people drink sake laced with chrysanthemum petals, exorcise misfortune and pray for longevity, and it is said that one can live a long life by wiping oneself with a cloth that has been placed on a chrysanthemum plant and become covered in dew during the previous night.
Japanese: 菊酒を飲み、厄を祓い長寿を願って、「菊の被綿（きせわた）」という、前夜に菊に被せた綿に降りた露で、身体を拭くと、長寿になると伝えられる。
English: Also, it is said that the fragrance of chrysanthemums picked on the Double Ninth Day and placed inside a pillow known as a 'Kiku-makura' (lit. chrysanthemum pillow) can grant longevity.
Japanese: また、重陽の日に摘んだ菊の花を乾燥させ枕に詰めた「菊枕」は、菊の香りで長寿になると伝えられている。
English: Nison-in (lit. Two Images Temple) derives its name from the fact that there are two principal image statues; Hokke no Shaka and Raigei no Amida.
Japanese: 二尊院の名は、本尊の「発遣の釈迦」と「来迎の阿弥陀」の二如来像による。
English: The path known as 'Momiji no Baba' (lit. Autumn Leaf Horse-Riding Ground) that extends from the main gate is famous for its beautiful autumn leaves.
Japanese: 総門を入った「紅葉の馬場｣と呼ばれる参道は、紅葉の名所として知られる。
English: Within the temple grounds is a place believed to be the remains of the Shigure-tei Teahouse of FUJIWARA no Sadaie (or Teika) who compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu anthology of poetry.
Japanese: また、奥には、百人一首ゆかりの、藤原定家の時雨亭跡とされる場所がある。
English: Nison-in Temple is said to have been constructed in the early Heian period between 834 and 847 by Ennin (Jikaku Daishi) under the order of Emperor Saga.
Japanese: 平安時代初期の承和(日本)年中（834年-847年）、嵯峨天皇の勅により円仁（慈覚大師）が建立したと伝える。
English: It later fell into ruin but was revived in the early Kamakura period by Tanku, a high-ranking disciple of Honen.
Japanese: 以後、荒廃するが、鎌倉時代初期、法然の高弟である湛空らにより再興される。
English: The temple buildings were completely destroyed by fire during the Onin War but the main hall and kara-mon gate (Chinese-style gate) were rebuilt approximately 30 years later in 1521.
Japanese: 応仁の乱により堂塔伽藍が全焼するが、本堂と唐門が約30年後の永正18年（1521年）に再建された。
English: The temple grounds contain the graves of many court nobles including the Nijo family, the Sanjo family, the Shijo family, the Sanjonishi family, the Takatsukasa family, Jinsai ITO, Togai ITO, Ryoi SUMINOKURA and Soan SUMINOKURA.
Japanese: 境内には公家の二条家、三条家、四条家、三条西家、鷹司家の墓地のほか、伊藤仁斎・伊藤東涯父子、角倉了以・角倉素庵父子の墓などがある。
English: Within the inner area of the temple precincts also stands a Santeiryo (lit. Three Emperor Tomb) which contains some of the ashes of Emperor Tsuchimikado, Emperor Gosaga and Emperor Kameyama.
Japanese: また境内奥には土御門天皇、後嵯峨天皇、亀山天皇の分骨を安置する三帝陵がある。
English: On the right stands Hokken no Shaka Nyorai ("Hokken" refers to the sending of people from this world to the next) and on the left stands Raigei no Amida Nyorai (who welcomes souls into the Western Pure Land Paradise).
Japanese: 向かって右に発遣（ほっけん、現世から来世へと送り出す）の釈迦如来、左に来迎（西方極楽浄土へ迎え入れる）の阿弥陀如来が並び立つ。
English: Statues of Amida Nyorai ordinarily depict him forming a circular mudra (Buddhist hand gesture) with the thumb and index finger (or middle finger and ring finger) but the Amida Statue of Nison-in Temple is unique as all five fingers on its lowered right hand are straight.
Japanese: 通常の阿弥陀如来像は親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくる印相を結ぶが、当寺の阿弥陀如来像は下げた右手の指を5本とも真っ直ぐ伸ばしている点が珍しい。