nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Sora KAWAI, a pupil of Basho MATSUO, traveled various parts of Kinki region for about four months from March to the end of July of 1691, and during the travel, he walked Kohechi from Mt. Koya to visit Hongu-taisha Shrine.
Japanese: 松尾芭蕉の門人である河合曾良は元禄4年（1691年）の3月から7月下旬まで4ヶ月近くにわたって近畿各地を巡遊した際に、小辺路を通行して高野山から本宮へ参詣を果たしている。
English: According to the Sora's diary written during traveling Kinki region "Kinki Junyu Nikki," he visited Mt. Koya on April 9, lodged in Omata and in Nagai, and arrived at Hongu-taisha Shrine on April 11, only two days after visiting Koya.
Japanese: 曾良の旅行記『近畿巡遊日記』によれば4月9日に高野山に上り、大又（大股）・長井（永井）に宿をとり、翌々日の4月11日には本宮に到達している。
English: As for the diaries about visiting Kumano written after the 18the century, there remain "Kumano Meguri" (hereinafter quote it as "Meguri") written in 1738 by a merchant with an unknown name who lived near Korai-bashi Bridge of Osaka and "San-Kumano Sankei Dochu Nikki" (hereinafter quote it as "Dochu Nikki") written in 1747 by a retainer of Yazaemon YAO, a brewer of Itami.
Japanese: 18世紀以降には、大坂高麗橋付近に住む氏名不詳の商人による元文3年（1738年）の『熊野めぐり』（以下、『めぐり』と略記）、伊丹の酒造家、八尾八佐衛門の家人による延享4年（1747年）の『三熊野参詣道中日記』（以下、『道中日記』と略記）などが見られる。
English: According to "Meguri," the merchants including the writer left Osaka on May 14, walked Kohechi from Mt. Koya to Kumano to visit Hongu-taisha Shrine, Shingu Shrine and Nachi-taisha Shrine, and used Nakahechi to return to Osaka.
Japanese: 『めぐり』の商人たちは5月14日に大坂を出立し、高野山から小辺路をへて熊野に入り、本宮・新宮・那智を巡拝し、中辺路を通って大坂へ帰着している。
English: The writer of "Meguri" described the details of various things that he saw during his journey, and gives us vivid descriptions of the roads.
Japanese: 『めぐり』の著者は道中の風物について詳しく行き届いた記述を残しており、沿道の事物の有り様をあざやかに浮かび上がらせている。
English: The writer of "Dochu Nikki" with two of his friends and two palanquin carriers left Itami on March 29, and followed the same route as "Meguri".
Japanese: 『道中日記』の著者は3月29日に友人2人、駕籠屋2人の一行で伊丹を発ち、『めぐり』と同じルートをたどっている。
English: They arrived at Koyasan on April 3, and four days later, on April 7 visited Hongu-taisha Shrine, Shingu Shrine and Nachi-taisha Shrine, and after visited again Hongu Shrine on April 11, they went to Tanabe City on April 13, and went back to Itami on April 19.
Japanese: 4月3日に高野山に着き、4日後の7日に本宮、次いで新宮・那智に立ち寄った後、11日に再び本宮、13日に田辺市、19日に伊丹へ戻っている。
English: "Dochu Nikki" is an outstanding diary in 'variety of the records, uniqueness and a lot of information about the folks,' and it has an interesting anthropological aspect as well.
Japanese: 『道中日記』は、「内容豊富で、異色に富み、とくに民俗関係資料に見るべきものが少なくない」点で際立ったもので、その人類学的な視線の向けようが興味深い。
English: As for the pilgrimage records by the pilgrims from Togoku (the eastern provinces), there remains "Ise Sangu Dochu-ki" (Travel Journal of Ise Pilgrimage) recorded a pilgrimage of the members of Yamato-ya, a shop of kiji-ya (wood-turners) of Aizunanzan Hogamigoya (Tateiwa Village, Minami-aizu County, Fukushima Prefecture).
Japanese: 東国からの参詣者による参詣記の例として、会津南山保上小屋（福島県南会津郡舘岩村）の木地屋、大和屋一行による『伊勢参宮道中記』がある。
English: The members of Yamato-ya departed from Aizu on New Year's Day of 1850 to visit Ise-jingu Shrine; on February 9 they visited Shingu Shrine and Kumano Hayatama-taisha Shrine, and immediately after visiting Kumano Nachi-taisha Shrine on February 10, they went across Kumotori-goe Pass and Okumotori-goe Pass, and lodged at Koguchi; and on February 11 they visited Hongu-taisha Shrine.
Japanese: 大和屋一行は嘉永3年（1850年）正月に会津を発ち、伊勢参宮を経て2月9日に新宮に着いて熊野速玉大社に参詣し、翌10日には熊野那智大社へ参詣してすぐに雲取越え大雲取越えを越えて小口に宿をとり、11日に本宮に着いている。
English: The next day they visited Kumano Hongu-taisha Shrine and crossed Hatenashi Pass, lodged in Yakura and in Omata, and arrived at Mt. Koya in the morning of February 14.
Japanese: 翌日に熊野本宮大社に参詣したのち果無峠を越え、矢倉・大股に宿をとって、14日の午前中に高野山に着いている。
English: Since the pilgrims from Togoku were characterized by their dialect and clothing, they were called 'kanto-be' or 'oshu-be' in Kinan region including Kumano.
Japanese: 東国からの参詣者はその言葉遣いや服装に特色があることから、熊野を含む紀南地方では「関東ベエ」「奥州ベエ」と呼ばれた。
English: Since for the most of them it was only a one-time trip in their lives, they traveled north along Kohechi to shorten the traveling route to visit historical sites in Osaka, Kyoto and Nara.
Japanese: 彼らのほとんどにとっては一生に一度の旅であり、大阪・京都・奈良などを訪ねて各地の名所旧蹟を巡るため、しばしば小辺路を北上して旅程の短縮を図ったのである。
English: Such kanto-be and oshu-be began their trips after finishing harvests in Autumn, therefore they had to walk Kohechi in midwinter, however, 'most of them crossed passes on which snow lay about 90.9 centimeters high without any difficulties and stayed at inns in Kayagoya, Omata or Mizugamine'.
Japanese: 関東ベエ・奥州ベエたちは、秋の収穫を済ませてから旅立ったため小辺路を通行する頃にはすっかり厳冬期にはいっており、しばしば「雪が三尺も積もった峠を平気で越えて、萱小屋や大股や水ヶ峯の宿屋に泊まった」。
English: And the record of pilgrimage by Yamato-ya says that they obtained Kumano Goo-fu (talismans of Kumano shrines) in Shingu Shrine and in Nachi-taisha Shrine, and pounded Kumano-ko mochi (rice cake of the religious association of Kumano shrines), which was a characteristic custom of the kanto-be and oshu-be.
Japanese: また、大和屋の参詣記に、新宮・那智で熊野牛王符を授かり、本宮で熊野講もちをついたとあるように、こうした参詣風俗も関東ベエ・奥州ベエに特徴的なものだった。
English: They called Kumano Goo-fu talismans 'Ofuda Mojiban' and highly valued them as gofu (talismans), which were indispensable during the pilgrimage to Kumano.
Japanese: 彼らは牛王宝印を「御札もじばん」と呼び、護符として珍重したため、熊野参詣の際には欠かせないものであった。
English: Kumano-ko mochi was a custom of pounding mochi (rice cake) with an oak pounder at an inn or lodging, and presumably it was a custom which had been developed in the provinces of kanto-be and oshu-be by the members of Kumano-ko (religious associations of Kumano shrines) and later brought by them to Kumano, the home of Kumano-ko.
Japanese: 熊野講もちとは宿や宿坊で樫杵を使って数人でもちをつく習俗をいい、関東ベエ・奥州ベエが故郷で組織していた熊野講の習慣が持ち込まれたものであると考えられている。
English: In the disturbances at the end of the Edo period, Tenchu-gumi (royalist party to inflict punishment), a party of Sonno Joi-ha (supporters of the doctrine of restoring the emperor and expelling the barbarians), rose to action in 1863, assembled in Gojo City, together with goshi (country samurai) of Totsukawa River who were associated with the Imperial Court, however goshi withdrew and returned to their home due to the sudden change of the situation, and Tenchu-gumi collapsed in Higashiyoshino Village.
Japanese: 幕末期の動乱の中、尊皇攘夷派の一党、天誅組が決起（文久3年〈1863年〉）し、宮廷と関係の深い十津川の郷士らも呼応して五條市に結集するが、情勢の急変により郷士たちは離脱・帰村、天誅組も東吉野村で壊滅する。
English: Totsukawa Village suffered a sever damage from a great flood in August, 1889.
Japanese: 1889年（明治22年）8月の大水害により十津川村は甚大な打撃を受けた。
English: Since the then highway (present National Highway 168) along the main stream of Totsu-kawa River which was at the center of the disaster collapsed drastically, the runners used Kohechi to report the disaster promptly to the county office which was located in Gojo City at that time, and people used the road as a rescue route as well.
Japanese: この際、災害の中心地であった十津川本流沿いの幹線道路（今日の国道168号に相当する）の崩壊が著しかったため、当時五條市にあった郡役所への急報が小辺路伝いに届けられただけでなく、救援ルートとしても用いられた。
English: Some residents gave up restoring the village because of the financial troubles from the flood, and moved to Hokkaido (the settlement became 'Shin-totsukawa-cho').
Japanese: 水害により生活基盤が損なわれたため、住人の一部は再建を断念して北海道に入植した（のちの新十津川町）。
English: At that time, those people walked Kohechi from Mt. Koya to go down to Kobe City, and from Kobe they went to Hokkaido by ship.
Japanese: その際、入植者たちは、小辺路を経て高野山から神戸市へ向かい、北海道へ海路をたどった。
English: Since in modern times after the Meiji Restoration, the custom of the pilgrimage to Kumano became obsolete, Kohechi was no longer used as a pilgrimage route, however it continued to be used as a community road for trade and transportation of goods by local residents until the early Showa era.
Japanese: 明治維新以降の近代に入ってからは熊野詣の風習も殆どなくなってしまったため、参詣道としての利用はほとんど絶えたものの、周囲の住人が交易・物資移送を行う生活道路として昭和初期までは使用されつづけた。
English: The locals of villages in the mountains of Yoshino along Kohechi depended on human power to carry goods, however, after the middle of the Meiji era, they used horses.
Japanese: 小辺路沿道の吉野の山村では物資移送をもっぱら人力に頼っていたが、明治中期以降は馬を使うようになった。
English: Two or three horses were bred in each district of Nosegawa Village and they traveled to Mt. Koya by horses.
Japanese: 野迫川村では集落ごとに2、3頭の馬を飼うようになり、高野山との間で往来があった。
English: They received rice, salt, soy sauce, bean paste, liquor, fish and other convenience goods from Mt. Koya, and they sent charcoal, lumber, chopsticks, wood shavings, paper mulberry, dried stems of the taro, and freeze-dried tofu to it.
Japanese: 高野山からは米、塩、醤油、味噌、酒、魚、その他日用雑貨品が、山中からは木炭、木材、箸、経木、コウゾ、割菜、高野豆腐がもたらされた。
English: As explained above, Hatenashi Pass at the boundary of Kiwa continued to be used as a community road connecting Ryujin, Kumano, Koya and Omine.
Japanese: また、紀和国境の果無峠は、前述の通り、龍神・熊野・高野および大峯の各地を結ぶ交通路として利用され続けていた。
English: As explained above, Kohechi was a community road in modern times, and continued to be used until National Highway 168 was constructed at the whole sections between Gojo and Shingu.
Japanese: 以上のように近代における小辺路は生活道路としての性格を持つ道であり、国道168号が五條・新宮間を全通するまで利用され続けた。
English: By building a tunnel from Gojo City at the north to Tentsuji Pass (800 meters above sea level), in 1922, a motor road was constructed for the first time at Kumano-gawa River Basin through which Kohechi went, however the construction was deferred again and again, and in 1936 the road to Kawatsu Village was finally completed.
Japanese: 小辺路を含む熊野川流域に自動車道が初めて通じたのは1922年（大正11年）、北の五條市から天辻峠（標高800メートル）にトンネルを開削してのことであったが工事は遅々として進まず、川津集落まで開通したのはようやく1936年（昭和11年）のことであった。
English: At almost the same time, the motor road was extended to Nosegawa Village, then, the role of Kohechi as a community road ended.
Japanese: 前後して野迫川村内にも自動車道が通じると、生活道路としての役目はほぼ失われた。
English: In addition, at some sections, the old sceneries disappeared as national roads and forestry roads were built.
Japanese: 加えて、いくつかの区間では国道や林道の建設によって古くからの姿が失われた。
English: Otaki Village (Koya-cho) - Mizugamine (Nosegawa Village) - Koya Ryujin Skyline (National Highway 371)
Japanese: 大滝集落（高野町）―水ヶ峯（野迫川村）―高野龍神スカイライン（国道371号線）
English: The evaluation report for the project did not mention that the sites for the construction contained Kumano-kodo (old Kumano road).
Japanese: この事業評価報告では、整備地が熊野古道であることにはまったく触れられていない。
English: As explained above, people gradually did not use Kohechi, and in the 30's of the Showa era the road ended its role as the main road in the Kii Mountains.
Japanese: こうして歩かれなくなっていった小辺路は、昭和30年代に至って、紀伊山地山中の主要交通路としての役割を終えた。
English: In addition, since Nakahechi was well known as a Kumano pilgrimage road and Kohechi did not draw much attention from the beginning, in the Showa era, Kohechi gradually became almost 'an unknown Kumano pilgrimage road'.
Japanese: 加えて、熊野参詣道といえば中辺路がまず想起される存在であることも手伝い、注目を浴びることの無かった小辺路は、やがて半ば「埋もれた熊野参詣路」となっていった。
English: Besides, historical sceneries were lost by the constructions of motor roads and forestry roads, and the things about Kohechi was approaching a serious crisis as people forgot not only various relics along the road but also the road itself.
Japanese: のみならず、自動車道や林道の建設により、歴史的な景観は失われ、各種の遺跡のみならず道それ自体も忘れ去られる危機にさらされるようになっていった。
English: However, after Yoshiharu TAMAKI pointed out the importance of Kohechi in his pioneering works, several reports were published in the 1980's or later.
Japanese: しかし、玉置善春の先駆的な業績における小辺路の重要性の指摘をさきがけとして1980年代以降、いくつかの報告が相次いで刊行された。
English: Tamaki tried to travel across only Hatenashi Pass, however a group including a mountaineer Masaichiro NAKANISHI, a local history researcher Koichiro SUGINAKA and a writer/forester Toshikatsu UE walked the whole route and reported on relics, folk customs and legends along the road (1982).
Japanese: 玉置は果無峠越えを試みたのみだったが、登山家の仲西政一郎、郷土史家の杉中浩一郎、作家・林業家の宇江敏勝らによる踏査（1982年）は全ルートを通して歩いただけでなく、沿道の遺跡・民俗・伝承についても報告している。
English: The team of the Kumano Kinenkan Museum investigated the whole route in Autumn and Winter from 1985 to 1986, and this was the first academic investigation of Kohechi.
Japanese: 熊野記念館は、1985年（昭和60年）から翌1986年（昭和61年）3月までの秋冬季に全ルートを調査しており、これが小辺路の初の学術調査である。
English: The investigation by the Kumano Kinenkan Museum confirmed many relics such as guideposts, stupa-shaped stones for indicating distances and ruins of inns, and pointed out that it had been a road for the common people.
Japanese: 熊野記念館の調査では、小辺路沿いに道標・町石・宿屋跡など多くの交通遺跡が確認され、庶民の道としての性格が指摘された。
English: However, Kohechi was already ruined at that time as it blocked by striped bamboos and windfalls and some sections were collapsed.
Japanese: しかしながら、この時期の小辺路にはクマザサや風倒木に道が妨げられたり崩落地があったりと、荒廃の様子が見られた。
English: Around 2000, as the campaign for registering 'holy places and pilgrimage routes in the Kii Mountains' as a World Heritage site was broaden; in 1999 re-investigation into the road was conducted with the opening of Japan Expo Nanki Kumano, and in 2001 and 2002, immediately before the registration, the projects for maintenance, restoration and reconstruction were energetically carried.
Japanese: 「紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道」の世界遺産登録への動きが本格化する2000年（平成12年）前後には、1999年（平成11年）の南紀熊野体験博の開催と呼応するかたちで再調査が行われ、登録に先立つ2001年から2002年にかけての時期には、整備と復元・復旧を目的とする事業が特に積極的に行われた。
English: By the projects, not only old road before the early-modern period was restored and reconstructed, but also facilities for users, such as public restrooms, were built.
Japanese: それら整備と復元には、近世以前の古道の復元・復旧だけでなく、公衆トイレの設置といった利用者のための施設の設置も含まれている。
English: Murakami Sanin 2001' is a report of one of the investigations which were conducted at that time, and it repositioned the pilgrimage roads in the Kii Mountains including Kohechi by their connections with the belief in Mt. Koya (temple), and introduced new historical materials.
Japanese: この時期の調査・研究には高野山信仰との関連から小辺路を含む紀伊山地山中の参詣道を捉えなおした村上・山陰2001があり、これには新史料の紹介がある。
English: Oyama 2000' that provides an overview of Kumano-kodo including Kohechi includes a brief record of the exploration in 1995.
Japanese: 小辺路を含め熊野古道を概説した小山2000は、1995年（平成7年）の踏査の簡単な記録を含んでいる。
English: Ue 2004b' was a result of the second exploration by Ue which was conducted in 2002, and it is a very interesting report as well as the report of the first exploration which was conducted twenty years ago, since they give the information of the changes of Kohechi of the twenty years.
Japanese: 宇江の2度目の踏査録宇江2004bは、2002年（平成14年）の踏査の記録で、1度目の踏査とあわせて読むと小辺路の20年を経ての変容をうかがい知ることが出来る点でも興味深い。
English: Nara Prefectural Board of Education 2002=>2005b,' an investigation conducted by Nara Prefectural Board of Education, was carried out to inscribe the Kumano Road as a World Heritage site.
Japanese: 奈良県教育委員会による調査奈良県教育委員会2002→2005bは、世界遺産登録を念頭に行われたものである。
English: It was a systematic investigation following the study by the Kumano Kinenkan Museum, and developed many studies by the Kumano Kinenkan Museum.
Japanese: 系統的な学術調査としては熊野記念館の調査報告に次ぐもので、内容上は熊野記念館の業績を大きく増補するものになっている。
English: The reports by Nara Prefectural Board of Education listed the older routes before the early-modern period and reported the information linked to the conservation of cultural scenery including the information of natural history, archaeology, history and sceneries, in addition, it gave the results of the important investigations and studies such as summaries of the history of the investigations and studies, and bibliographies of the old documents and historical materials.
Japanese: 奈良県教育委員会による調査報告には、近世以前のルートの指摘や、文化的景観の観点からの自然誌・考古・歴史・景観に関する報告、民俗・文化財、さらに調査・研究史の概観や古文書・史料の解題といった、重要な調査・研究の成果を含んでいる。
English: In July, 2004, Kohechi was inscribed as a part of a World Heritage site 'holy places and pilgrimage routes in the Kii Mountains.'
Japanese: 2004年（平成16年）7月、小辺路は世界遺産「紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道」の一部として登録された。
English: As explained above, the section from Otaki Village to Mizugamine was lost by the construction of Koya Ryujin Skyline, and the old road on the ridge from Mizugamine to Omata was destroyed and lost completely by the construction of the Forestry Road Tainohara Route.
Japanese: 前述のように大滝集落から水ヶ峯にかけての区間が高野龍神スカイラインの建設で失われたことに加え、水ヶ峯から大股にかけての尾根道に林道タイノ原線が建設されたことで、尾根上の古道は無残にも破壊され、古道は完全に損なわれた。
English: Tainohara Route was built in 1988 to 1997 before the re-investigations and the maintenances for the inscription of World Heritage site, and the intellects who knew Kohechi bitterly opposed the construction.
Japanese: タイノ原線の建設は、世界遺産登録へ向けての再調査・整備に先立つ1988年から1997年にかけてのことであったが、小辺路を知る識者からは批判が集まった。
English: However, at last most of old road from Mt. Koya to Omata was lost permanently and only the name remains in the investigation report of 1987 by the Kumano Kinenkan Museum.
Japanese: このことにより高野山から大股にかけての古道は大半が永久に失われ、熊野記念館の踏査報告1987の中に伝えられるだけの、記録上のものとなってしまった。
English: In some sections, the old roads are not found yet because people have not used it for a long time or people used another routes in some periods; and for those sections, further investigations, studies and additional application for World Heritage site are required.
Japanese: また、廃絶期間が長いためにルートが不明になっている箇所や、時代によって異なるルートが使用された区間の調査、さらにそうした箇所・区間の世界遺産への追加登録など、今後のさらなる調査・研究が待たれている。
English: One of the pressing matters is that some sections are just about to be lost, including the section in the Hatenashi Mountain Range which was chosen as the development site for wind power generation by Kansai Electric Power.
Japanese: また、果無山脈関西電力の風力発電計画のように、危機にさらされている箇所があることも課題のひとつである。
English: The followings are the route of Kohechi and three main passes, famous places, historic spots and relics along Kohechi and its neighboring areas.
Japanese: 小辺路のルートと主要な3つの峠、その周囲の名所・旧蹟・遺跡等について記述する。
English: When walking Kohechi from Mt. Koya, the starting point is a slope at the right of the entrance of Kongosanmaiin Temple.
Japanese: 高野山内から小辺路へのとりかかりは金剛三昧院の入り口右手にある坂道である。
English: From Rokuro Pass which was one of Koya Nana-kuchi (seven gates of Mt. Koya), a flat forestry road extends along the ridge, and it descends from a dug way before Susuki Pass to Odo-gawa River.
Japanese: 高野七口のひとつでもあったろくろ峠からは平坦な尾根沿いの林道を進み、薄峠（すすきとうげ）手前の切り通しから御殿川（おどがわ）へと下る。
English: In this section to the ridge of Mizugamine (about 1 kilometer), the old road had been lost by the construction of the Koya Ryujin Skyline, and the traces of it can be found only in the Torii (shrine gate) of the shrine of Mt. Kojin-dake.
Japanese: 1キロメートルほど歩いて水ヶ峯の尾根道に達するまでは、高野龍神スカイラインの整備により古道は失われており、荒神岳遥拝所の鳥居がわずかに古道の痕をとどめるに過ぎない。
English: After passing through Mizugamine, a broadleaf forest continues for a while, and the road meets Forestry Road Tainohara Route which extends on the ridge.
Japanese: 水ヶ峯を過ぎ広葉樹林がしばらく続いたあと、尾根上の林道タイノ原線に合流する。
English: As explained above, the old road on the ridge was lost almost completely by the construction of the Forestry Road Tainohara Route.
Japanese: 前述のようにタイノ原線の建設により尾根上の古道はほぼ完全に失われている。
English: That is, the section from Mt. Koya to Omata was 'mostly destroyed by the Koya Ryujin Skyline and by the Forestry Road Tainohara Route between Mizugamine and Omata.'
Japanese: 高野山から大股までの区間は、「大半が高野龍神スカイラインと水ケ峰―大股間の林道タイノ原線によって破壊されている」のである。
English: The road of the ridge (present Tainohara Route) leads to the old crossroads to the villages at the foot of the mountain including Hinokimata-tsuji crossroads, Imanishi-tsuji crossroads, and Taira-tsuji crossroads.
Japanese: タイノ原林道が通る尾根道には、麓の集落への分岐点であった檜股辻・今西辻・平辻が続く。
English: In this section, Kohechi goes across the ridge, and at some points it branches and leads to villages at the foot of the mountain.
Japanese: この辺りの小辺路は尾根道を通り、所々でふもとの集落への枝道を分岐させている。
English: Kohechi was important for villages at the foot of the mountain as a main road to Mt. Koya which was a market of the commodities.
Japanese: ふもとの集落にとっての小辺路は、物資集散地であった高野山への幹線道路として重要なものであった。
English: From Taira-tsuji crossroads, an unpaved road goes into a forest of Japanese cedars, descends to Prefectural Road Kawatsu-Koya Line, and reachs Omata Village near Kawarabi-gawa River.
Japanese: 平辻からはスギ植林地の中の地道を進んで県道川津高野線に降り立ち、川原樋川（かわらびがわ）のほとりの大股集落に至る。
English: Since Omata Village was mentioned in "Seiryoki," it is considered to have been formed as a village along a major road in the early Muromachi period, and "Meguri" described the village as an inn town for travelers who crossed Obako Pass and recorded the names of such inns including Tsuda-ya Inn and Sakaguchi-ya Inn.
Japanese: 大股集落は『清良記』にも名があることから室町時代初期には街道集落として成立していたものと見られ、『めぐり』にも伯母子峠越えを控えた宿場として機能していたようすが記されており、津田屋・坂口屋等の旅籠の名が伝えられている。
English: Omata was also a station town for the transportation of merchandise connecting Mt. Koya and Jinno-gawa River of Totsukawa Village, and among the bosses of the horse stations, Umanosuke IKEO is known.
Japanese: 大股は、高野山と十津川村神納川などとの間の物流中継地でもあり、馬方の親方として活躍した池尾馬之介という人物の名が今日に伝えられている。
English: As explained above, in the mountains of Yoshino and Kumano, many kiji-shi (wood-turners) were doing their business until about the Taisho era, therefore, presumably its name 'Rokuro' originated from a tool of kiji-shi 'rokuro' (potter's wheel).
Japanese: 前述のように、大正ごろまで吉野・熊野の山中で木地師の活発な活動があったことから、木地師の道具の轆轤に由来する地名と見られる。
English: It is said that there was a Nyonin-do for women to pray to Mt. Koya from the distant place, since women had been prohibited from entering Mt. Koya until 1872.
Japanese: 1872年（明治5年）まで女人禁制であった高野山に参詣を望む女性が遥拝するための女人堂があったと伝えられている。
English: It is a monument of a rectangular column with a round head erecting on a slope which extends from Susuki Pass to Odo-gawa River; in the front of it, a seated figure of Priest Kobo-daishi was carved by han-niku-bori (mezzo-rilievo); on the right side, the distances to Mt. Koya and to Kumano Hongu-taisha Shrine were engraved; on the left side, the distances to Osaka, to Nara and to Wakayama were engraved; according to it, the distance to Kumano Hongu-taisha Shrine was seventeen-ri (about 67 kilometers).
Japanese: 薄峠から御殿川への下り坂にある円頭形角柱の碑で、正面には円相の中に半肉彫り弘法大師坐像があり、右側には、かうや山（高野山）・くまの本宮（熊野本宮）、左側には、大坂（大阪）・奈良・若山（和歌山）への距離がそれぞれ記され、くまの本宮までは17里（約67キロメートル）とある。
English: Mizugamine is a trace of a village on a ridge road from Otaki Village to Omata Village.
Japanese: 水ヶ峯（みずがみね、または「水ヶ峰」）は大滝集落から大股集落への尾根道上の集落跡。
English: Some travel journals recorded that there was one house in Mizugamine (refer to "Kumano Annaiki" and "Meguri").
Japanese: いくつかの近世の旅行記には、水ヶ峯に一軒家があったと記されている（『熊野案内記』および『めぐり』）。
English: There were four houses at the end of the Edo period, and there were eight houses in 1899, however it was the golden age of Mizugamine; after that, the number of travelers decreased and the number of residents decreased as well, and in about 1950 there was no longer residents.
Japanese: さらに江戸時代終わりには4件、1899年（明治32年）頃には8軒をかぞえて最盛期を迎えたが、通行人の減少につれて住人は減り、1950年（昭和25年）頃には無住となった。
English: In this section, from Omata Village the road ascends a steep slope, passes through a ruin of an old house called 'Kaya-goya-ato,' and goes to the ridge.
Japanese: 大股集落から急坂を登り、萱小屋（かやごや）跡と呼ばれる廃屋跡を通り過ぎて、尾根を目指す。
English: According to "Annaiki," there were two houses, however, according to "Nosegawa-mura-shi" (History of Nosegawa Village) published in 1974, there was only one house which was an inn managed by the Kasuya family.
Japanese: 『案内記』が伝えるところによれば2件の民家があったようだが、1974年（昭和49年）刊行の『野迫川村史』は柏谷家という一軒家が宿屋を営んでいたとのみ記している。
English: After that, the team of the Kumano Kinenkan Museum reported that there had been no resident in the house, and in 2002 when Ue visited it, there was only the remains of the house.
Japanese: この後、熊野記念館の調査報告には遂に無住の廃屋となったことが報告されたが、2002年に宇江が訪れたときには廃屋すらなくなり、残骸のみになってしまった。
English: After passing Kaya-goya-ato, the road joins a road going across the ridge at Hinoki Pass which has a legend that a hinoki grew from the chopsticks thrown away by Priest Kobo-daishi (refer to "Annaiki" and "Meguri").
Japanese: 萱小屋跡を過ぎ、弘法大師が捨てたヒノキの箸からヒノキが生えたとの伝承がある（『案内記』および『めぐり』）檜峠で尾根道に合流する。
English: The road goes around the side of Mt. Natsumushi to a guidepost, one of Myogo Honzon Monument, on which engraved as "Kumano Road from Koya."
Japanese: 夏虫山の側面を巻きつつ進むと、「かうやよりくま乃みち」と刻まれた名号本尊碑の道標に出会う。
English: This guidepost was located at a crossroads to Mt. Gomadan, to Obako Pass and to the summit of Mt. Obako-dake, and the old road went through the east side of the summit.
Japanese: この道標のある場所は、護摩壇山・伯母子峠・伯母子岳山頂への分岐点となっており、古道は山頂東側の峠を通る。
English: From the crossroads, one road (called 'kyudo' literally 'former road') goes down the side of the mountain to the foot, and the other road (called 'kodo' literally 'old road') goes across near the ridge.
Japanese: 分岐からは山腹を巻きながらふもとへ下る旧道と、尾根近くを通る古道に分かれる。
English: Kyudo' is said to have been built in the early-modern period or in the Meiji era, and 'kodo' could not be even walked until the re-opening in 2003.
Japanese: 旧道は近世ないし明治以降に作られたと言われているもので、古道は2003年（平成15年）に復旧されるまで通行不能だった。