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English: Fujitaka had retired at Miyazu-jo Castle but now judged that the castle was too fragile to defend against a Sei-Gun attack and therefore set it ablaze, and his army entered Tanabe-jo Castle to counter the armies of Sei-Gun, which were advancing like a fog to encircle the castle.
Japanese: 隠居していた藤孝は自分の居城である宮津城では西軍の攻勢を防げないと考え、宮津城を焼き払い、田辺城に入城、雲霞のごとく取り囲む西軍を迎え撃った。
English: The battle continued for as long as 50 days after Tanabe-jo Castle was quickly besieged by a force of 15,000 soldiers of Sei-Gun, whose leaders included Shigekatsu ONOGI, a relative of Kiyoki SHIMA, Mitsunari ISHIDA's chief retainer, and Shigekatsu MAEDA, who was the son of Geni MAEDA, an important retainer of the Toyotomi family.
Japanese: 田辺城はすぐさま、石田三成の家老島清興の親族にあたる小野木重勝や豊臣家の重臣前田玄以の子前田茂勝が率いる西軍・1万5千人もの大軍で包囲されると、50日にも及ぶ長期戦となった。
English: Fujitaka, running out of ammunition after a fierce battle, worried that his "Kokindenju no Sho" might be damaged and lost in the war, so he offered it to Emperor Goyozei.
Japanese: 激闘の末、弾薬が尽きた藤孝は自身のもつ「古今伝授の書」が戦火で忘却されるのを恐れ、それを後陽成天皇に献上した。
English: Fujitaka survived because Sei-Gun eventually stopped its attack thanks to the intervention of Emperor Goyozei, who worried about Fujitaka's imminent death in the battle.
Japanese: 藤孝の戦死を憂いた後陽成天皇の仲介で西軍は攻撃をするのをやめ、命を助けられた。
English: After this, Tadaoki HOSOKAWA was transferred to Kokura, in Kyushu, and Takatomo KYOGOKU temporarily entered Tanabe-jo Castle with 123,000 koku to govern Tango Province, but later he rebuilt Miyazu-jo Castle in order to establish a base there.
Japanese: こののち細川忠興は九州小倉に転封され、京極高知が丹後一国12万3千石を与えられ仮に田辺城に入城したが、宮津城を再築し宮津城へ本拠地を移した。
English: Reportedly, on this occasion all the buildings of Tanabe-jo Castle were destroyed (Ikkoku Ichijyo Rei).
Japanese: このとき田辺城の建造物は、ことごとく破壊されたと伝えられている（一国一城令）。
English: According to Takatomo KYOGOKU's will, among the Kyogoku family members his eldest son Takahiro inherited the Miyazu domain with 70,000 koku, the second son Takamitsu inherited the Tango-Tanabe domain (Maizuru domain) with 35,000 koku, and the adopted son Takanobu inherited the Mineyama domain with 13,000 koku.
Japanese: 京極高知の遺言によって京極家は嫡男・高広が宮津藩7万5千石、次男・高三が丹後田辺藩（舞鶴藩）3万5千石、養子・高信が峰山藩1万3千石を相続した。
English: Takamitsu KYOGOKU, the first lord of the Maizuru domain, reconstructed Tanabe-jo Castle from the devastation, renovating its stone walls and rebuilding the watchtowers.
Japanese: 初代舞鶴藩主となった京極高三により石垣の修復や櫓の再建が図られ、荒廃していた田辺城は再興された。
English: The Kyogoku clan, having been transferred to the Toyooka domain after three generations, was in 1668 replaced by the Makino clan with 35,000 koku; the clan rebuilt the main gate, other gates and stone walls of Tanabe-jo Castle, and as part of its heritage continued the engineering work and prosperity for generations till the Meiji period.
Japanese: 京極氏は3代続いた後、豊岡藩へ転封となり、代わって牧野氏が1668年（寛文8年）3万5千石で入封すると、田辺城の大手門その他の城門・石垣などが改築され、それを代々世襲し明治の時代まで繁栄した。
English: The compound of former Tanabe-jo Castle is now a garden surrounding the Shouko Kan (two-level tower), which was rebuilt in 1940, Tanabe-jo Castle Museum in the castle gate (rebuilt in 1997) and the stone mound foundation for tenshu (main keep).
Japanese: 現在、田辺城跡は公園になっており、1940年（昭和15年）に復興された二層櫓の彰古館、1997年(平成4年)に復興された城門には田辺城資料館、天守台石塁などがある。
English: Take the Limited Express Maizuru train, and you will arrive at Nishimaizuru Station in approximately 90 minutes.
Japanese: 京都駅より特別急行列車まいづる(列車)に乗り、約1時間30分で西舞鶴駅着
English: In 1589, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI started a yukaku, "Yanagimachi," in Yanaginobanba Nijo, and the first Tokuemon launched the Sumiya business.
Japanese: 天正17年（1589年）、豊臣秀吉によって柳馬場二条に遊郭「柳町」が開かれ、初代徳右衛門が角屋の営業を始める。
English: In 1602, Yanagimachi was abruptly forced to move out, so Sumiya had no choice but to move to Rokujo Misuji machi.
Japanese: 慶長7年（1602年）、柳町は突然の移転を強いられ、角屋も六条三筋町へ移動を余儀なくされた。
English: Furthermore, in 1641 Yanagimachi was forced to move again, and the second Tokuemon moved Sumiya to Shimabara, where it is currently located.
Japanese: 更に寛永18年（1641年）、再度柳町は移転となり、角屋は二代目徳右衛門によって現在地の嶋原へ移された。
English: In 1952, Sumiya's building was designated as a national important cultural property by the government, based on the fact that it was the only surviving ageya structure that was built when Sumiya moved to Shimabara (except for the Matsuno-ma room, which was destroyed by fire at the end of the Taisho period).
Japanese: 昭和27年（1952年）、嶋原が開かれて以来現存する唯一の揚屋の遺構として国の重要文化財に指定された（ただし「松の間」のみは大正末期、火事により焼失してしまい指定されていない）。
English: It had been open to the public since 1989, receiving up to 30 visitors a day, and in April 1998 it was opened as SUMIYA, a cultural art museum.
Japanese: 平成元年（1989年）より1日30人限定で内部を公開していたが、更に平成10年（1998年）4月より「角屋もてなしの文化美術館」として開館された。
English: As of 2007, the fourteenth family head has succeeded to the family name, and he serves as the museum's head curator.
Japanese: 平成19年（2007年）現在家名は十四代目に継承されており、当代が館長を勤めている。
English: In the mid-Edo period, haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) became popular in Shimabara, and the head of Sumiya (the seventh head, Haimyo Tokuya) invited Buson YOSA as a teacher of haikai.
Japanese: 江戸時代中期には島原でも俳諧が盛んになり当時の角屋当主（七代目、俳名徳屋）は与謝蕪村を師として招いている。
English: This museum exhibits "Kohaku Bai Zu" (Red and White Plum Blossoms), which was drawn and left here by Buson, as a national important cultural property.
Japanese: その蕪村がここに残した「紅白梅図」は国の重要文化財として当美術館に展示されている。
English: The collection also includes decorated fusuma doors drawn by Okyo MARUYAMA and Yutei ISHIDA in the Tnmei period.
Japanese: 他、天明年間前後に制作された円山応挙、石田幽汀などの襖絵も残っている。
English: In Bakumatsu, Genzui KUSAKA, Takamori SAIGO and other royalist political reformers called "Kino no Shishi" used Sumiya to hold secret meetings or entertain wealthy merchants for the purpose of fundraising.
Japanese: 幕末には久坂玄瑞、西郷隆盛などの勤王の志士が密議を交わしたり、豪商からの資金調達のために接待に使用されていた。
English: Particularly, Kamo SERIZAWA's involvement in Sumiya was serious, and his violent behavior here at Sumiya in June 1863 resulted in some sword cuts on the furniture, which can still be seen today.
Japanese: 特に芹沢鴨との関わり合いは深く、文久3年（1863年）6月ここで角屋での暴挙をはたらき、その際に出来た刀傷が今でも残っている。
English: A famous long pine tree reminiscent of a reclining dragon, called "Gayumatsu," was once in its compound, but it died and was replaced by another pine, which still exists today.
Japanese: 中には名物の「臥龍松」という枝の長い松が生えていたが枯れてしまい、現在は2代目にあたる。
English: The Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum is a facility for preservation of historical artifacts and tradition in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture
Japanese: 舞鶴引揚記念館（まいづるひきあげきねんかん、英語：MaizuruRepartriationMemorialMuseum）は、京都府舞鶴市にある歴史伝承施設である。
English: The Port of Kyoto-Maizuru functioned as a military base for the Imperial Navy, and after the war the port was designated as one of the ports of entry for repatriated soldiers and people from mainland China as well as the departure point for Chinese and Koreans who had been expatriates in Japan.
Japanese: 舞鶴港は、戦中は旧海軍の軍事的拠点として使用されていたが、戦後は大陸に進駐していた軍人軍属や一般人の日本本土への引揚、および日本に在留していた中国・朝鮮人の送還のための指定港のひとつとなった。
English: Also, former soldiers who had been illegally detained in Siberia by Soviet army, which unilaterally breached Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and invaded, returned to Japan through this port.
Japanese: さらに、日ソ中立条約を一方的に破棄し侵攻したソビエト連邦軍によってシベリアに不法抑留されていた旧軍人についても、舞鶴へと帰還した。
English: Because other ports had been removed from the designation for repatriations at an early stage, nearly all these repatriated people arrived at the Port of Kyoto-Maizuru.
Japanese: 他港が早々に引揚港から除かれたため、これら引揚の人々のほとんどが、舞鶴港を入港先・帰還港とした。
English: For this reason, many people who had anxiously longed for the return of their husbands, fathers, sons and relatives came to this port from all over Japan to welcome them.
Japanese: これに伴い、日本各地から夫や親族の帰還を待ち望む多くの人々が、舞鶴港へと出迎えに訪れた。
English: Many concerned people helped to establish the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum in 1988 as Japan's only facility for the exhibition of materials concerning the repatriation.
Japanese: 1988年(昭和63年)、多くの関係者の努力により、引揚に関わる一連の資料を展示する日本唯一の施設として設立されたのが、この舞鶴引揚記念館である。
English: Repatriation Memorial Park was created on a hill overlooking the Taira district, where landing bridges for repatriates had been placed, and the Memorial Museum was built in a corner of the park.
Japanese: 引揚者用の桟橋が設置されていた平地区を見下ろす丘に引揚記念公園が開設され、その一角に記念館が建設された。
English: In 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the repatriation, several memorial events were held on and around November 7, which was the date the first repatriation ship arrived at the port.
Japanese: なお、2005年(平成17年)は海外引揚60周年に当たる年であり、当地では海外引揚第1船の入港した11月7日とその周辺に記念行事が開催された。
English: From Higashi Maizuru Station (West Japan Railway), take the bus of Mihama Route or Tai Nohara Route (Kyoto Kotsu Maizuru) and get off at the Hikiage Kinen Koen Mae bus stop (time required: approximately 15 minutes).
Japanese: 西日本旅客鉄道東舞鶴駅より、京都交通(舞鶴)の路線バス三浜線もしくは田井・野原線で約15分、「引揚記念公園前バス停」下車。
English: From the Maizuru Higashi interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway, take Kyoto Prefectural Road 28, Kokura Nishi Maizuru Route (Kyoto Prefectural Road 51, Maizuru Wachi Route), National Route 27, and head toward the Oura Peninsula via the Kyoto Prefectural Road and Fukui Prefectural Route 21, Maizuru Noharako Takahama Route (time required: approximately 20 minutes).
Japanese: 舞鶴若狭自動車道・舞鶴東インターチェンジより、京都府道28号小倉西舞鶴線、(京都府道51号舞鶴和知線)、国道27号を経て京都府道・福井県道21号舞鶴野原港高浜線を大浦半島方面へ約20分。
English: The Kyoto National Museum is run by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
Japanese: 京都国立博物館（きょうとこくりつはくぶつかん）は、独立行政法人国立文化財機構が運営する博物館。
English: It is an institution for the collection, preservation and exhibition of cultural properties, mainly those of the Kyoto culture from the Heian through Edo periods.
Japanese: 主に平安時代から江戸時代にかけての京都の文化を中心とした文化財を、収集・保管・展示している。
English: Among its exhibition halls, the main hall (Special Exhibition Hall) was designed by Tokuma KATAYAMA, a leading architect for the Imperial Household, and the new hall (the Collections Hall) was designed by Keichi MORITA, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
Japanese: 展示館は宮内省内匠寮技師片山東熊（かたやまとうくま）設計の本館（特別展示館）と京都大学名誉教授森田慶一設計の新館（平常展示館）がある。
English: Its collection includes 27 items designated as national treasures and 181 items designated as important cultural properties (as of March 2006).
Japanese: 所蔵品には国宝27件、重要文化財181件（2006年3月現在）が含まれる。
English: For its buildings, the main hall, the front gate (main gate), the ticket office and sodebei (outside wall) were designated as important cultural properties in 1969 as "the Former Imperial Museum of Kyoto," and the Technical Materials Center (Kyu Onshi Kyoto Hakubutsukan Chinretsuhin Shunoyo Soko) was designated as a national cultural facility in 2008.
Japanese: また建物自体も、本館、表門（正門）、同札売場及び袖塀が1969年（昭和44年）、「旧帝国京都博物館」として国の重要文化財に指定されており、技術資料参考館（旧恩賜京都博物館陳列品収納用倉庫）が2008年（平成20年）、国の登録有形文化財に登録されている。
English: The following projects are under way: dismantlement of the Collections Hall (December 2008); the plan for construction of Centennial Hall for regular exhibitions (tentative name; designed by Yoshio TANIGUCHI, with construction work from January 31, 2009 and completion scheduled for March 31, 2013); the plan to build the South Gate Museum Shop (tentative name; designed by Yoshio TANIGUCHI, with construction work from July 1, 2008 and completion scheduled for January 31, 2009).
Japanese: 現在の平常展示館の解体（平成20年12月予定）と、平常展示機能を持つ百年記念館（仮称、谷口吉生設計、着工予定平成21年1月31日、竣工予定平成25年3月31日）および南門ミュージアムショップ（仮称、谷口吉生設計、着工予定平成20年7月1日、竣工予定平成21年1月31日）の建設計画が進行中である。
English: Along with the dismantlement of the Collections Hall and the construction of Centennial Hall (tentative name), the regular exhibition was halted on December 7, 2008, and the museum will be closed except for periods of special exhibitions at the main hall (Special Exhibition Hall) (although special exhibitions will be given as usual).
Japanese: また、平常展示館の解体と百年記念館（仮称）の建設工事に関連し、平常展示を平成20年12月7日をもって中止し、以後、本館（特別展示館）での特別展の開催期間を除き休館する事が決定している（特別展は従来同様に継続される）。
English: Special Exhibition Hall (the former main hall): designed by Tokuma KATAYAMA, completed in 1895, an important cultural property
Japanese: 特別展示館（旧・本館）-（片山東熊設計、1895年竣工、重要文化財）
English: The following are among the national treasures stored at the Kyoto National Museum and owned by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage:
Japanese: 独立行政法人国立文化財機構所有、京都国立博物館保管の国宝は以下のとおりである。
English: Take any of the City Bus routes 100, 206, 208 (at gates D1, D2, Karasumaguchi) and get off at "Museum, Sanjusangendo Mae"; the site is just a short walk away.
Japanese: （烏丸口D1、D2のりばから）市バス100，206，208号系統「博物館・三十三間堂前」下車、徒歩すぐ
English: The Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 京都府立堂本印象美術館（きょうとふりつどうもといんしょうびじゅつかん）は、京都府京都市北区にある美術館。
English: In 1966, Insho DOMOTO, a Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) painter, founded the museum to exhibit his works, and he also designed its unconventional exterior.
Japanese: 1966年（昭和41年）、日本画家堂本印象が自らの作品を展示するために設立した美術館で、その斬新な外観は堂本印象自らのデザインによる。
English: It is located in front of the main gate of the Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus on Kinukake-no-michi Road, an area blessed with a rich environment of nature and famous temples.
Japanese: きぬかけの路沿道の立命館大学衣笠キャンパス正門前に位置し、豊かな自然と多くの名刹に囲まれている。
English: The museum and its collections were presented to Kyoto Prefecture in 1991 and were then opened as the Kyoto Prefectural Insho-domoto Museum of Fine Arts.
Japanese: 美術館と所蔵作品は1991年（平成3年）に京都府に寄贈され、京都府立堂本印象美術館となった。
English: In accordance with the Designated Manager System, the Ritsumeikan Academy has been designated to perform the administrative operation of this museum since June 2006.
Japanese: 指定管理者制度の導入により、2006年6月から学校法人立命館が指定管理者として美術館の管理・運営を行っている。
English: The Yurinkan Museum, located in Okazaki, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, is a private facility that is mainly dedicated to ancient Chinese art works.
Japanese: 藤井斉成会有鄰館（ふじいさいせいかいゆうりんかん）は、京都府京都市左京区岡崎にある、中国の古美術が中心の私立美術館。
English: The Fujii Saiseikai Foundation was founded in 1926 to store and exhibit the Oriental art collections of Zensuke FUJII (1873-1943) from Shiga Prefecture, who was the founder of Fujii Boseki (later, Fujii, a textile company).
Japanese: 財団法人藤井斉成会は、滋賀県出身の実業家藤井善助（1873－1943、藤井紡績（後の藤井(繊維会社)となる）創業者）の東洋美術コレクションを保存展示するための機関として大正15年（1926）に設立された。
English: Its three-story building is registered with Kyoto City as a cultural property; its Oriental exhibition hall topped with a red-lacquered octagonal tower has been there since its establishment, while the interior retains the atmosphere of the early Showa period.
Japanese: 京都市登録文化財の建物は地上3階建てで、屋上に朱塗りの八角堂を乗せた東洋風の展示館は設立当初からのもので、展示室内部も昭和初期の雰囲気をとどめている。
English: The collection has many different kinds of art works, including one national treasure, nine national important cultural properties, bronze pieces, Buddha statues, paintings, calligraphy, porcelains and ceramics.
Japanese: 国宝1件、国の重要文化財9件を含む所蔵品は、中国の殷（商）から清まで各時代の青銅器、仏像、書画、陶磁器など多彩である。
English: A well-known rare item in the collection is an undergarment that was allegedly used to cheat at the Kakyo Examination.
Japanese: 珍しい収蔵品として人口に膾炙しているものは、科挙試の際に使用されたとされる、カンニング用の下着である。
English: It is open to the public just two days per month (first and third Sundays) from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m., and is closed in January, August and December.
Japanese: 一般公開は原則として、2～7月、9～11月毎月2回（第1・第3日曜）1200-1500のみ。
English: Fragment of Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, Volume II (Transcription during China's Tang Dynasty)
Japanese: 春秋経伝集解（しゅんじゅうけいでんしっかい）巻第二残巻－中国唐代の写本
English: Sekizo Bosatsu and Ryouwaki Samurai Ryuzo (Three Standing Bodhisattva Made of Stone), or Sanzon Bosatsu Ryuzo (Three Standing Bodhisattva), one set, the base frame of which was signed in the third year of Seika (564, Northern Qi of China)
Japanese: 石造菩薩及両脇侍立像（三尊菩薩立像）1基台座框に河清三年の銘がある（北斉時代、564年）
English: Sekizo Miroku Bosatsu oyobi Ryokyojiryu Zo (Three Standing Maitreya Bodhisattva Made of Stone), with the front surface of the base signed in the second year of Gi-Tenpyou) (535, Eastern Wei of China)
Japanese: 石造弥勒仏及両脇侍立像1基　台座正面に□魏天平二年の銘がある（東魏時代、535年）
English: Materials related to Chosentsushinshi (Joseon Korea Diplomatic Mission to Tokugawa, Japan): two letters of Joseon sovereign's message; six replies from Tokugawa Shogun (gold- and silver-leaf paper); one shokei (note) from the Joseon Toraifu mission; three notes by Joseon Reiso Sangi
Japanese: 朝鮮通信使関係資料（朝鮮国書2通、徳川将軍返書控（金銀箔料紙）6通、朝鮮国東莱府使書契　1通、附朝鮮国礼曹参議書契3通）
English: Located in Okazaki-koen Park, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK), is an art museum operated by the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art.
Japanese: 京都国立近代美術館（きょうとこくりつきんだいびじゅつかん英表記TheNationalMuseumofModernArt,Kyoto　略称MOMAK）は、京都市左京区岡崎公園内にある、独立行政法人国立美術館が運営する美術館である。
English: The building was designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, Fumihiko MAKI (and Kiyohide SAWAOKA, a chief architect of Maki and Associates).
Japanese: プリツカー賞建築家槇文彦（当時の槇総合計画事務所主任所員：澤岡清秀）による設計である。
English: While containing an overview of the whole of modern art in Japan, MOMAK places particular emphasis on collections and art exhibitions in the western regions of Japan especially in Kyoto, such as Japanese-style paintings of the Kyoto School and Western-style paintings, and also it has a large collection of art works, such as the ceramics of Kanjiro KAWAI and dyed textiles.
Japanese: 日本の近代美術史全体に配慮しながら、京都を中心に関西・西日本の美術に比重を置き、京都画壇の日本画、洋画などを積極的に収集、展示し、河井寛次郎の陶芸、染織など工芸作品のコレクションも充実している。
English: 1963: The auxiliary building of The Kyoto Municipal Exhibition Hall for Industrial Affairs was refurbished and reopened as 'The Annex Museum of The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.'
Japanese: 1963年　京都市勧業館別館を改装し、「国立近代美術館京都分館」として開館
English: Kitamura Museum is a private art museum mainly devoted to antiquities and tea utensils, located in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 北村美術館（きたむらびじゅつかん）は、京都市上京区にある、古美術・茶道具を中心とした私立美術館である。
English: In 1975, Kitamura Culture Foundation was established to store the collections of Kitamura Kinjiro (1904-1991), a businessman and tea ceremony lover, and Kitamura Museum was opened in 1977.
Japanese: 実業家で茶人でもあった北村謹次郎（1904－1991）の収集品を保存するために昭和50年(1975)に財団法人北村文華財団が設立され、美術館は昭和52年(1977)開館した。
English: Their collection includes many fine tea utensils, such as tea bowls, because they loved the tools of the tea ceremony.
Japanese: 茶人のコレクションという性格から、茶碗をはじめとする茶器の名品が多い。
English: The collection also includes many famous paintings and pieces of calligraphy selected by Kinjiro KITAMURA, himself an outstanding master of the tea ceremony.
Japanese: また、傑出した茶人であった北村の眼で選ばれた絵画、古筆などにも名品が揃っている。
English: Hanging scrolls form part of the collection, because they were probably considered tea utensils in a broad sense, to be hung in the alcove during a ceremony.
Japanese: これら掛軸類も茶席の床（とこ）に掛けることを意識して選ばれた、広い意味の「茶道具」の範疇に入るものであろう。
English: The garden next to his house has a view of the woods of the Higashiyama area as its background, and it has two stone lanterns and a stone pagoda, which are designated National Important Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 隣接する北村邸の庭園は東山の緑を借景にしたもので、庭内には国の重要文化財指定の石灯篭2点、石塔1点がある。
English: Hosomi Museum is a private art museum mainly devoted to Japanese antiquities, located in Okazaki, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 細見美術館(ほそみびじゅつかん)は、京都市左京区岡崎にある、日本の古美術を中心とした私立美術館である。
English: Hosomi Museum was established to exhibit collections of Oriental antiquities collected by the wealthy businessman, Ryoichi HOSOMI (1901-1978: also known by the name of Ryo HOSOMI and the pseudonym Kokoan), who amassed his fortune through the trade of woollen textiles, and his eldest son, Minoru HOSOMI (1922-2006).
Japanese: 毛織物で財を成した実業家・細見亮市（通称：細見良、号：古香庵、1901－1978）とその長男・細見實（1922－2006）の2代が収集した東洋古美術品を展示するために開設された美術館である。
English: In 1994, the Hosomi Art Foundation was established, and the museum was opened in 1998.
Japanese: 1994年（平成6年）に財団法人細見美術財団として認可され、美術館の開館は1998年（平成10年）であった。
English: The Hosomi collection includes almost all areas of Japanese art: paintings by Rinpa (a school of Japanese painting originated by KORIN Ogata early in Edo Period), Jakuchu ITO and other painters of the Edo Period; Buddhist paintings, Buddha images and Buddhist altar fittings from the Heian Period; artifacts unearthed from ancient tumuli; and it also includes around two dozen Important Cultural Properties, plus many items certified as important art works.
Japanese: 細見家の収集品は、琳派や伊藤若冲らなど江戸時代の絵画や平安時代の仏画をはじめ、仏像、仏具などから古墳出土品に至るまで、日本美術のほとんどの分野にわたり、重要文化財20数件、重要美術品認定物件を多数含む。
English: It is said that Ryoichi HOSOMI claimed that 'Buddhist paintings of Fujiwara Period Japan are the greatest in the world,' and 'Because I learned about metal crafts before collecting works of art, I can tell superior from things of inferior design,' and certainly those Buddhist paintings, and metal works, such as Buddhist altar fittings and Dokyo (bronze mirrors), within his collection are outstanding.
Japanese: 細見亮市は「世界最高の美術品は日本の藤原時代の仏画だ」「自分は金属工芸からこの道に入ったのでものの形の厳しさと甘さがわかる」と主張していたといい、事実、コレクションのなかでも仏教絵画や仏具、銅鏡などの金工品は傑出している。
English: The museum is located next to Okazaki-koen Park, and the area boasts many cultural facilities, such as Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Japanese: 美術館は、岡崎公園に隣接し、京都市美術館や京都国立近代美術館などにも近い、文化施設の集まる地域にある。
English: The building, designed by Tadasu OE, is in a modern style of architecture using a motif of the traditional Kyoto machiya, and its internal atmosphere is very comfortable with a courtyard surrounded by buildings with two stories below and three above ground, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a tearoom, and a rooftop garden.
Japanese: 大江匡（おおえただす）設計の建物は、京都の町家のモチーフをとりいれた現代建築で、地下2階から地上3階まで吹き抜けとなった中庭、カフェ・レストラン、屋上庭園、茶室などが憩いの空間を形成している。
English: The Koraimon gate of Zeze-jo Castle, which is owned by the foundation, has been moved and reconstructed at Matsunohama, Izumiotsu City, Osaka Prefecture.
Japanese: なお、大阪府泉大津市松ノ浜には、財団が所有する膳所城の高麗門が移築されている。
English: An ote-mon gate is a gate constructed at the most important entrance of a Japanese castle that leads to kuruwa (walls of a castle) such as a ninomaru (second bailey) and a sannomaru (outer part of the castle).
Japanese: 大手門（おおてもん）とは、日本の城郭における内部二の丸または、三の丸などの曲輪へ通じる虎口に設けられた門。
English: An ote-mon gate is often constructed for heavy security, constructed as a yagura-mon gate (literally, turret gate), and is square-shaped built on a stone mound.
Japanese: 防御のために厳重な築造がされ、大規模な櫓門を開いたり石塁等により枡形をしている事が多い。
English: Its ote-mon gate as well as Tamon yagura (hall turrets), Senkan yagura, and the Three walls that surround the ote-mon gate are designated as important cultural properties.
Japanese: ・大手門を取り囲む多聞櫓、千貫櫓、塀三棟を含め重要文化財指定となっている
English: It was a castle for accommodating shoguns when they visited the capital (Kyoto) and it is now designated as an important cultural property.
Japanese: ・将軍上洛の際の宿泊などするための城郭、国の重要文化財指定となっている。
English: Registered Tangible Cultural Properties are the tangible cultural properties that are registered in the book of registration at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, in accordance with the registration system for cultural properties established under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties amended in 1996.
Japanese: 登録有形文化財（とうろくゆうけいぶんかざい）は、1996年の文化財保護法改正により創設された文化財登録制度に基づき、文化財登録原簿に登録された有形文化財のことである。
English: Although only buildings were registered initially, the amendment of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 2004 expanded the system to include tangible cultural properties other than architectural structures.
Japanese: 登録対象は当初は建造物に限られていたが、2004年の文化財保護法改正により建造物以外の有形文化財も登録対象となっている。
English: Cultural properties of the Edo Period can be candidates for registration, however most items registered were built or made in modern times (in or after the Meiji Period).
Japanese: 登録物件は近代（明治以降）に建造・製作されたものが主であるが、江戸時代のものも登録対象になっている。
English: In addition to the conventional 'designation' system for cultural properties, the 'registration' system was established under the 1996 amendment to Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 1996年の文化財保護法改正により、従来の文化財「指定」制度に加えて、文化財「登録」制度が創設された。
English: In Japan after the Second World War, one effect of rapid urbanization was that a variety of architectural structures built in and after the end of the Edo Period were pulled down one after another, without regard to their historical and cultural value.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦以降の日本においては、急激な都市化の進展などにより、近世末期や近代以降の多種多様な建造物が、その建築史的・文化的意義や価値を十分認識されないまま破壊される事例が相次いだ。