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English: Since there is no description about the temple's founding in the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) nor in the "Horyu-ji Garan Engi narabini Ruki Shizai Cho" (The origin of Horyu-ji Temple and record of construction materials), many details remain unclear.
Japanese: 当寺の創建については、『日本書紀』や『法隆寺伽藍縁起并流記資材帳』（ほうりゅうじがらんえんぎならびにるきしざいちょう）には記載がなく、不明な点が多い。
English: One theory is found in "Shotoku Taishi denshiki" (the Private Recollections on the Life of Prince Shotoku) (written by Kenshin in 1238), and according to it, Prince Yamashiro no oe, son of Prince Shotoku, built the temple in 622 to pray for his father's recovery from an illness.
Japanese: 1つの説は『聖徳太子伝私記』（嘉禎4年・1238年、顕真著）に見えるもので、聖徳太子の子である山背大兄王が太子の病気平癒を祈るため、622年（推古30年）に建てた、とする。
English: Another theory is found in "Jogu Shotoku Taishi Den Hoketsuki" (Revised Biography of Prince Shotoku) (from the early Heian period) and "Shotokutaishi Denryaku" (Biography of Prince Shotoku) (written by FUJIWARA no Kanesuke in 917), and according to it, the temple was built by three persons from the Paekche Kingdom, Kai hoshi (Buddhist priest), Enmyo hoshi, and Shimotsui no Niimono, after the original Horyu-ji Temple was burned down.
Japanese: 今一つの説は『上宮聖徳太子伝補闕記』（平安時代前期成立）および『聖徳太子伝暦』（延喜17年・917年、藤原兼輔著）に見えるもので、創建法隆寺の焼失後、百済の開法師・円明法師・下氷新物（しもつひのにいもの）の3人が建てたとするものである。
English: Although these names are also said to have been 'Mon shi, Enmyo shi, and Shimotsui no kimi kusamono,' there have not been any biographies found for these individuals.
Japanese: これらの人物の名前については「聞法師、円明師、下氷君雑物（しもつひのきみくさもの）とも伝えるが、いずれの人物も伝記は不明である。
English: As a result of excavations, roof tiles quite similar to those used for the reconstruction of Horyuji-Temple (existent architecture) and more aged ones have been found.
Japanese: 発掘調査の結果、法隆寺再建伽藍（現存）に近い瓦と、それより一段階古い瓦とが出土している。
English: It is believed that at the time of the foundation was back in the late Asuka period and the mid seventh century.
Japanese: 当時の創建は飛鳥時代末期、7世紀中頃までさかのぼると考えられている。
English: In 1645, struck by a typhoon, all buildings except for the three-storied pagoda were destroyed.
Japanese: 1645年（正保2年）、台風に罹災し、三重塔を除く建造物が倒壊する。
English: In 1903, the three-storied pagoda was dismantled and thoroughly restored.
Japanese: 1903年（明治36年）、国宝に指定されていた三重塔を解体修理する。
English: In 1950, Mosaku ISHIDA (1894-1977), who was a specialist in Buddhist archaeology, conducted the excavation and research in the complex of Horin-ji Temple.
Japanese: 昭和25年、仏教考古学が専門であった石田茂作（いしだもさく、1894年-1977年）が法輪寺を発掘・調査した。
English: He discovered that Horin-ji Temple originally had a Horyu-ji style layout with Kondo in the east and the pagoda in the west, and its dimensions were two thirds of that of Horyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 創建当時は東に金堂、西に塔が建つ、法隆寺式の伽藍配置で、平面規模は法隆寺の3分の2であったことがわかった。
English: Three-storied pagoda: in 1944, after it was burnt by lightning, a novelist Aya KODA and her colleagues called for donations to reconstruct the pagoda, and it was rebuilt by a master carpenter Tsunekazu NISHIOKA in 1975.
Japanese: 三重塔-1944年、雷火で焼失後、作家の幸田文らの尽力で寄金を集め、1975年に西岡常一棟梁により再建されたもの。
English: The burnt pagoda was counted among Ikaruga Santo (three pagodas in Ikaruga) along with the pagodas of neighboring Horyu-ji and Hokki-ji Temples, and it was highly valued as the structure that was supposed to be the architecture of the late seventh century.
Japanese: 焼失した塔は、近隣の法隆寺、法起寺の塔とともに斑鳩三塔と呼ばれ、7世紀末頃の建立と推定される貴重な建造物であった。
English: Wooden seated statue of Yakushi Nyorai (the Healing Buddha): it is the principal image of the former Kondo (main hall) and currently enshrined in the present Kodo which is also used as a repository.
Japanese: 木造薬師如来坐像-旧金堂本尊で、現在は収蔵庫を兼ねた講堂に安置される。
English: At a glance, its narrow face, costume and pedestal are similar to those of the principal image of Horyu-ji Temple's Kondo, the bronze statue of Shaka Nyorai.
Japanese: 面長な顔付き、服装、台座の形式など、一見法隆寺金堂本尊の釈迦如来像（銅造）と似る。
English: However, some of its elements indicate that it was created at a slightly later time; for example the eyes that are not simply almond-shaped but are depicted with complex lines.
Japanese: が、両目が単純なアーモンド形でなく複雑な線で表現されるなど、やや時代の降る要素も見られる。
English: Although it is called 'Kokuzo Bosatsu' at present, it is believed that the name was given by the people at a later time when they believed that Prince Shotoku was the incarnation of Kokuzo Bosatsu, and the statue's original name is unknown.
Japanese: 「虚空蔵菩薩」と称するが、これは聖徳太子の本地を虚空蔵菩薩とする後世の信仰によって名付けられたものと思われ、本来の像名は不明。
English: Then, Jinpan, a biological son of FUJIWARA no Morosane who was a chancellor, inherited this temple, resulting in Sekkan-ke (the families which produced regents), especially Kujo family, becoming especially powerful.
Japanese: その後、関白藤原師実の子・尋範が継承したことから摂関家特に九条家系の勢力が強かった。
English: It was regarded as a monzeki temple (a temple of high rank where members of imperial family and nobility enter the priesthood) in the time of the 4th Inju (the 4th chief of a temple), Shinen (a son of FUJIWARA no Tadamichi), and it was an influential tatchu along with Ichijo-in Temple in the Medieval period, with its chief priest having come from the sons of Sekkan-ke or the Shogun family.
Japanese: 第4代院主・信円（藤原忠通の子）の頃に門跡寺院とされ、中世には一乗院と並ぶ有力な塔頭で、門主は摂関家や将軍家の子弟から迎えていた。
English: During that time, it was burned because of the attack on Nara by the Taira family in 1180 and a peasants' uprising in 1451, but two able Inju, Kyogaku and Jinson appeared successively during the Muromachi period, who had trade guilds throughout Nara in control to flourish to a great extent.
Japanese: その間、治承4年（1180年）の平家による奈良攻撃、宝徳3年（1451年）の土一揆によって焼失したが、室町時代には経覚・尋尊という2人の実力のある院主が相次いで登場して奈良一帯の座を次々と支配下に収めて大いに栄えた。
English: However, in the Sengoku period (period of warring states in Japan) it continuously lost its shoryo (territory) until it was reduced to 950 koku (171. 3705 cubic meters) in the Edo period.
Japanese: だが、戦国時代_(日本)に入ると次々と所領を失って江戸時代にはわずか950石にまで縮小した。
English: After that, in accordance with Genzoku (return to secular life) of the last Inju, Ryuho, Monzeki (the chief priest) of Daijo-in Temple (a son of Hisatada KUJO) due to Haibutsu-kishaku (a movement to abolish Buddhism) in 1869, the temple was lost, and Ryuho who called himself 'Hisayoshi MATSUZONO' after Genzoku was given a viscount based on the Peerage Law.
Japanese: 更に明治2年（1869年）の廃仏毀釈により最後の院主・大乗院門跡隆芳（九条尚忠の子）は還俗して消滅、なお還俗後に「松園尚嘉」と名乗った隆芳は華族令によって子爵を授けられている。
English: Nara Hotel was founded at its remained site and a part of its garden was restored by the National Trust Japan project, allowing modern-day visitors to view it.
Japanese: 跡地は奈良ホテルとなり、一部の庭園はナショナルトラスト日本における展開により復元されて見学可能となっている。
English: The enshrined deities are Miketsukami, Uka no mitama and Otoshi no kami, and they are all gods related to food.
Japanese: 祭神は御食津神・ウカノミタマ・大年神で、いずれも食物に関係のある神である。
English: It is said to have been founded in B.C. 365, but it is not listed in Engishiki Jinmyocho (a list of shrines).
Japanese: 孝安天皇28年に創建されたとされているが、延喜式神名帳の記載はない。
English: The shrine tradition says that Emperor Keitai determined the holy precincts of the shrine by building Angu (temporary lodging to accommodate an Imperial visit) beside the shrine and rebuilding a main building of the shrine when he went to Kyoto from Echizen (present Fukui Prefecture).
Japanese: 社伝によれば、継体天皇が越前から上京する際に、当社のそばに行宮を設け、社殿を再建して神域を定めたとされている。
English: Chikuma, where the shrine is located, used to be the manor of Dairi Daizen-shiki (the Office of the Palace Table of the Court) in the year of Emperor Kanmu and it had been considered a guardian of the manor until it was abolished in 1070.
Japanese: 鎮座地の筑摩は桓武天皇の時代に内裏大膳職の御厨が置かれた地で、延久2年（1070年）に御厨が廃されるまで御厨の鎮守とされた。
English: Estates were also donated by the retired Emperor Gotoba and MINAMOTO no Yoritomo, and the rank of Shoichi (Senior First Rank) was conferred on the deities of the shrine in 1245.
Japanese: 後鳥羽天皇や源頼朝からも神領が寄進され、寛元3年には最高位の正一位の神階が授けられた。
English: In the major spring festival of May 3, a total of 200 people parade about one kilometer from Otabisho (a temporary accommodation for the portable shrine) to the shrine.
Japanese: 5月3日の春の大祭では、御旅所から神社までの約1kmを総勢200人がねり歩く。
English: In the parade are eight girls of around eight years of age wearing Kariginu (informal clothes for court nobles) and pots on their heads, so the festival is called 'the Nabekaburi matsuri' (the Pot-wearing Festival) and is often considered one of the three major strange festivals of Japan.
Japanese: その行列の中に狩衣姿の数え年8歳前後の少女8人が鍋を被って加わることから「鍋冠祭（なべかぶりまつり）」とも呼ばれ、日本三大奇祭の一つとされることがある。
English: The festival is thought to have started because the enshrined deities of this shrine are all related to food.
Japanese: 当社の祭神が全て食物に関係のある神であることから、このような祭が生まれたと考えられている。
English: Meta-jinja Shrine, written as 賣太神社 or 売太神社 in Japanese, is a shrine located at the end of Heida Village, a village surrounded by a moat in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 賣太神社（めたじんじゃ、売太神社）は奈良県大和郡山市の稗田環濠集落の端にある神社である。
English: HIEDA no Are, who participated in the compilation of Kojiki (The Records of Ancient Matters), is worshipped as the shusaijin (main enshrined deity), and Amenouzume (goddess of entertainment) and Sarutahiko (an earthly deity) are worshipped as fukusaishin (vice enshrined deities).
Japanese: 古事記編纂に携わった稗田阿礼を主斎神（主祭神）、アメノウズメ、サルタヒコを副斎神（配祀神）として祀る。
English: Hieda is the hometown of the Hieda clan of the Sarumenokimi clan, whose progenitor is Ame no Uzume, and Meta-jinja Shrine was built as a byoshi (small shrine) for their ancestors.
Japanese: 稗田は天鈿女命を祖とする猿女君稗田氏の本拠地であり、祖先の廟祠として創建されたものとみられる。
English: This shrine once existed near the Rajo-mon Gate of Heijo-kyo (the ancient capital of Japan in current Nara), and it is said that the shrine had a role as a doso-shin (travelers' guardian deity).
Japanese: かつてこの神社は平城京の羅城門付近に存在しており、道祖神としての役割もあったとされる。
English: The shrine is listed as 'Meta-jinja Shrine in Soekami County, Yamato Province' in the Engishiki Jinmyocho (the register of shrines in Japan), and it ranks among shosha (minor shrines).
Japanese: 延喜式神名帳に「大和国添上郡賣太神社」と記載され、小社に列している。
English: Up until the Edo period, it was called 'Sanja Myojin,' and then it became 'Jusanja Myojin' in 1874 followed by 'Meta-jinja Shrine' (written as 賣田神社 in Japanese) in 1891, and afterward, the name was changed to the currently-used name 'Meta-jinja Shrine' (written as賣太神社 in Japanese) in 1942.
Japanese: 江戸時代までは「三社明神」と呼ばれており、明治7年に「十三社明神」となり、明治24年に「賣田神社」、昭和17年に現在の「賣太神社」に改称した。
English: Are-sai is held every August 16, and this festival is held to remember the illustrious memory of HIEDA no Are.
Japanese: 毎年8月16日に行われる阿礼祭（あれいさい）は、稗田阿礼の遺徳を偲ぶ祭である。
English: Takehiko KUMESHIMA, a writer of children's stories, thought that HIEDA no Are deserved to be called a god of tales like Hans Christian Andersen, and he started the festival backed up by children's story writers throughout Japan in 1930.
Japanese: 児童文学者の久留島武彦が、ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセンに匹敵する「話の神様」は稗田阿礼が最もふさわしいと、全国各地の童話家の協力を得て昭和5年（1930年）に始めたものである。
English: After the dedication of Hieda-mai (dance of Hieda), local children dedicate their Are-sama Ondo (dance song for HIEDA no Are) and children's song for Are-sai.
Japanese: 稗田舞の奉納の後、地域の子供たちが阿礼様音頭、阿礼様祭子どもの歌を奉納する。
English: Iwazononiimasu-takumushitama-jinja Shrine is located in Katashio-cho, Yamatotakada City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 石園座多久虫玉神社（いわぞのにいますたくむしたまじんじゃ）は、奈良県大和高田市片塩町に鎮座する神社である。
English: In addition, it has been said that Omiwa-jinja Shrine is a head of a dragon, this shrine is its body, and Nagao-jinja Shrine in Taima-cho is its tail as these shrines line the Yokooji Road.
Japanese: 尚、横大路に沿うように、大神神社を龍の頭、当神社を龍の胴、當麻町の長尾神社を龍の尾とする伝承がある。
English: Taketamayorihiko no Mikoto and Taketamayoribime no Mikoto are shusaijin (main enshrined deities) and Toyotamahiko no Mikado and Toyotama-hime are enshrined as associate gods.
Japanese: 建玉依比古命・建玉依比賣命を主祭神とし、豊玉比古命・トヨタマヒメを配祀する。
English: Taketamayorihiko no Mikoto is said to be the same as Kamotamayorihiko no Mikoto, who is enshrined at Hajio-sha Shrine, a sessha (auxiliary shrine [dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine]) of Kamowakeikazuchi-jinja Shrine (also known as Kamigamo-jinja Shrine), and Kikanowakamiya Shrine, a sessha of Hiyoshi-taisha Shrine.
Japanese: 建玉依比古命とは、賀茂別雷神社（上賀茂神社）摂社・土師尾社や日吉大社摂社・樹下若宮に祀られる鴨玉依比古命のこととされる。
English: It is also said that the Chinese character '虫' (which literally means insects) in the name of the shrine was wrongly used instead of '豆' (which literally means beans), pronounced as zu in Japanese, and a book called "Yamato no Shinsaishi" (compiled by Shozo TANAKA) insists that the original enshrined deities of this shrine must be Takutsutama no Mikado and Shitateru-hime.
Japanese: 「虫」は「豆（づ）」の誤記という説もあり、『大和の神祭祀』（田中昭三編著）では、当社の本来の祭神は多久都玉命とシタテルヒメであろうと唱えられている。
English: It is unclear when it was built, but it is located at a traditional place called Katashio Ukiana no Miyaato (the ruins of the Katashio Ukiana Palace), which was the capital in the reign of the third Emperor, Annei.
Japanese: 創建年代は不明であるが、第三代安寧天皇の時代の都である片塩浮穴宮跡の伝承地に鎮座している。
English: As the Engishiki Jimmyocho (register of shrines in Japan) says, 'Iwazononiimasu-takumushitama-jinja Shrine with two seats for deities in Katsuraginoshimo County, Yamato Province,' this shrine is labeled as Taisha (grand shrines), and the shrine receives heihaku (Shinto offering of cloth) as a Tsukinami shrine (shrine which receives heihaku at a festival called Tsukinami-sai) and Niiname shrine (shrine which receives heihaku at an annual festival called Niiname-sai).
Japanese: 延喜式神名帳では「大和国葛下郡石園坐多久虫玉神社二座」と記載され、大社に列し、月次・新嘗の幣帛に預ると記されている。
English: It is famous for the Yakuyoke Festival (the festival for warding off evil) held for three days from February 17 to 19 annually.
Japanese: 毎年2月18日を中心とした3日間に執り行われる厄除大祭で有名である。
English: Yoshimizu-jinja Shrine is a shrine located in Yoshino-cho, Yoshino County, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 吉水神社（よしみずじんじゃ）は、奈良県吉野郡吉野町にある神社である。
English: Emperor Godaigo is its shusaijin (main enshrined deities), and Masashige KUSUNOKI and Yoshimizuin Soshin Hoin (the priest of the Southern Dynasty), who were loyal subjects of the Southern Court, are enshrined as associate gods.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇を主祭神とし、南朝(日本)方の忠臣であった楠木正成、吉水院宗信法印を配祀する。
English: When Emperor Godaigo visited Yoshino in secret during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan), he temporarily stayed in an angu (temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit) established in Kissuiin under protection of Soshin Hoin.
Japanese: 南北朝時代(日本)、後醍醐天皇が吉野に潜幸したとき、宗信法印の援護を受けて吉水院に行宮を設け，一時居所とした。
English: After the death of Emperor Godaigo, Emperor Gomurakami had a statue of Emperor Godaigo built and enshrined it in Kissuiin.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇の死去の後、後村上天皇が後醍醐天皇の像を作って吉水院に奉安した。
English: In 1875, it was succeeded as a shrine to enshrine Emperor Godaigo with a new name of Yoshimizu-jinja Shrine, and was listed as a sonsha.
Japanese: 明治8年（1875年）、その跡を後醍醐天皇を祀る神社として吉水神社に改称し、村社に列した。
English: The shrine is a place remembered in connection with Emperor Godaigo as well as MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, and it stores many cultural properties.
Japanese: 後醍醐天皇のほか、源義経や豊臣秀吉ゆかりの地でもあり、多くの文化財が所蔵されている。
English: Its adjacent shoin (reception room) has a room for Emperor Godaigo and a room in which MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune was hidden, and the shoin is designated as an important cultural property.
Japanese: 隣接する書院には、後醍醐天皇の玉間と源義経が潜居したと伝えられる間があり、重要文化財に指定されている。
English: Kairyuo-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon Ritsu sect located in Hokkejikita-machi, Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 海龍王寺（かいりゅうおうじ）は奈良県奈良市法華寺北町にある真言律宗の寺院。
English: This temple is also known as Sumi-dera Temple since it was built at the northeastern corner ("Sumi" means a corner) of FUJIWARA no Fuhito residence.
Japanese: 藤原不比等邸宅の北東隅に建てられたことから隅寺（すみでら）の別称がある。
English: Kairyuo-ji Temple is located to the east of the Heijo-kyu Palace Site and next to the northeastern side of Hokke-ji Temple also known as Sokokubun-ni-ji Temple.
Japanese: 海龍王寺は平城宮跡の東方、総国分尼寺として知られる法華寺の東北に隣接している。
English: In the past, the area of Hokke-ji Temple and Kairyuo-ji Temple belonged to the residence of FUJIWARA no Fuhito, who is an ancestor of the Fujiwara Clan.
Japanese: 法華寺と海龍王寺のある一画は、かつては藤原氏の先祖である藤原不比等の邸宅であった。
English: After Fuhito's death, his daughter Empress Komyo inherited the residence, which became Kogogu (an Empress's Palace), and then it became Miya-dera Temple (Hokke-ji Temple later) in 745.
Japanese: 不比等の死後、邸宅は娘の光明皇后が相続して皇后宮となり、天平17年（745年）にはこれが宮寺（のちの法華寺）となった。
English: Kairyuo-ji Temple is called 'Sumi-dera' or 'Sumi(no)-in' in the records of the Nara period including the "Shoku Nihongi" (Chronicle of Japan Continued) and the Shosoin Monjo (document collection of the Nara period kept in Shoso-in Temple).
Japanese: 海龍王寺は、『続日本紀』、正倉院文書（もんじょ）などの奈良時代の記録では「隅寺」・「隅院」などと呼ばれている。
English: The existence of 'Sumi-dera' Temple in 737 can be confirmed in the Shosoin Monjo.
Japanese: 正倉院文書によれば、天平9年（737年）には「隅寺」の存在が確認できる。
English: It is said that the temple was named 'Sumi-dera' as it was located at the northeastern corner of the FUJIWARA no Fuhito residence (there are many documents which explain that 'it was because the temple was located at the northeastern corner of Heijo-kyo [the ancient capital of Japan in current Nara],' but this explanation seems to be unreasonable due to their locations).
Japanese: 「隅寺」とは、藤原不比等邸の東北の隅にあったことから付けられた名称と言われている（「平城京の東北隅にあったため」と解説する資料が多いが、位置関係から見て妥当とは思われない）。
English: It is said that 'Sumi-dera' Temple was founded for a priest called Genbo in accordance with the wish of the Empress Komyo, but the exact timing of its foundation and its background are unclear since they are not written in historiography.
Japanese: 「隅寺」の創建について、伝承では天平7年（735年）、光明皇后の発願で僧・玄ボウのために建立したというが、このことは正史に記載がなく、創建時期や事情について正確なところはわかっていない。
English: In addition, old roof tiles used in the Asuka period through the first half of the Nara period were excavated from the Kaioryu-ji Temple precincts, which indicated that some preceding buildings might exist before the capital relocation to Heijo-kyo.
Japanese: なお、海龍王寺境内からは飛鳥時代から奈良時代前期の古瓦が出土しており、平城京遷都以前に何らかの前身建物が存在した可能性が指摘されている。
English: The site of Kairyuo-ji Temple is located outside Heijo-kyo's orderly Jobo (blocks with grid of streets and avenues), and Higashi-nibo-oji Road, which was one of streets running from the north to the south in Heijo-kyo, detours to the east to keep the precincts of Kairyuo-ji Temple (the current roads trace back to it).
Japanese: 海龍王寺の敷地は、平城京の整然とした条坊（碁盤目状の町割り）からずれて位置しており、平城京内を南北に貫通する道の一つである東二坊大路は、海龍王寺の境内を避けて、東方向に迂回している（現在の道路にもその名残りが見られる）。
English: The results of excavation and research show that there were three Kon-do Halls (main halls of a Buddhist temple), which are Chukon-do Hall, Higashi-Kondo Hall, and Saikon-do Hall, at Kairyuo-ji Temple in the Nara period, although they were small-sized.
Japanese: 発掘調査の結果により、奈良時代の海龍王寺には、小規模ながら、中金堂、東金堂、西金堂の3つの金堂があったことがわかっている。
English: Although the location and the size of the existing Saikon-do Hall are the same as those of the Nara period, most of the main components of the hall were replaced with new ones in the Kamakura period due to the repair, which could be also called reconstruction, in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 現存する西金堂は、位置、規模等は奈良時代のままであるが、鎌倉時代に再建に近い修理を受けており、主要な部材はおおむね鎌倉時代のものに代わっている。
English: The temple history in the Heian period is not so clear, but it seems that Kairyuo-ji Temple was under the control of Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 平安時代の寺史についてはあまりはっきりしていないが、興福寺の支配下にあったようである。
English: In the Kamakura period, Eison, the founder of the Shingon Ritsu sect, lived in the temple from 1236 to 1238 for its recovery.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代には、真言律宗の宗祖である叡尊が嘉禎2年（1236年）から暦仁元年（1238年）まで当寺に住し、復興を行った。
English: It is unkown when the temple name Kairyuo-ji came into use, but the first appearance of the name 'Kairyuo-ji' was in the document called "Shichidaiji Junrei Shiki" (The Private Journal of a Pilgrimage to the Seven Great Temples), which is the records of Chikamichi OE's pilgrimage to several temples in Nara in 1140.
Japanese: 海龍王寺という寺号がいつごろから使われるようになったのはわかっていないが、文献上は、大江親通が保延6年（1140年）に奈良の諸寺をめぐった記録である『七大寺巡礼私記』が「海龍王寺」という名称の初見である。
English: The Saikon-do Hall (an image hall situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds designated as an important cultural property) was built in the Nara period (largely repaired in the Kamakura period), and this enshrines a five-storied small pagoda.
Japanese: 西金堂（重要文化財）－奈良時代に建立（鎌倉時代に大修理）、五重小塔を安置。
English: The kyozo (sutra repository designated as an important cultural property) is said to have been built by Eison, a priest of Saidai-ji Temple (in Nara City) in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 経蔵（重要文化財）－鎌倉時代に建立、西大寺_(奈良市)の僧・叡尊（えいそん）により造立されたと伝わる。
English: Its style is similar to the three-storied pagoda of Yakushi-ji Temple, and this is an essential building in the study of the architectural style of the Nara period because there are few examples of buildings of the Nara period.
Japanese: 様式が薬師寺の三重塔に類似しており、遺例の少ない奈良時代建築の様式を知るうえで重要である。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu Bus (bound for Saidaiji Station and Koku-jieitai [Japan Air Self-Defense Force]) from Nara Station of JR Kansai Main Line or Nara Station of Kintetsu Line and get off at 'Hokke-ji' (Temple).
Japanese: JR関西本線奈良駅・近鉄奈良駅より奈良交通バス（西大寺駅・航空自衛隊行き）「法華寺」下車すぐ
English: Take a Nara Kotsu Bus (bound for JR Nara Station and Shiratsuchi-cho) from Yamato-Saidaiji Station of Kinki Nippon Railway and get off at 'Hokke-ji' (Temple).
Japanese: 近畿日本鉄道大和西大寺駅より奈良交通バス（JR奈良駅・白土町行き）「法華寺」下車すぐ
English: Hannya-ji Temple is the Shingo Risshu sect's temple located at Nara-zaka (also called Nara Kitamachi) in the northern part of Nara City.
Japanese: 般若寺（はんにゃじ）は、奈良市北部・奈良坂（奈良きたまち）に位置する真言律宗の寺院。
English: Hannya-ji Temple is located to the north of Daibutsu-den Hall (the Great Buddha hall) of Todai-ji Temple and Shosoin, at the very top of an upward slope called Narazaka slope.
Japanese: 般若寺は東大寺大仏殿や正倉院の北方、奈良坂と呼ばれる登り坂を登りきった地点に位置する。
English: The road in front of the gate of Hannya-ji Temple which runs north to south is called 'Kyo-Kaido Road,' and it was an important road that connected Yamato (Nara Prefecture) and Yamashiro (Kyoto Prefecture).
Japanese: 般若寺門前を南北に通る道は「京街道」と呼ばれ、大和（奈良県）と山城（京都府）を結ぶ、古代以来重要な道であった。
English: This road was also an extension of the street called Higashi Shichibo Oji (used as a border of Todai-ji Temple and Kofuku-ji Temple), which ran along the eastern end of Heijo-kyo from north to south.
Japanese: この道はまた、平城京の東端を南北に通っていた東七坊大路（東大寺と興福寺の境をなす）の延長でもある。
English: The background of the foundation of Hannya-ji Temple and the year of the establishment are not stated on any historiography, and the founder is also unknown as there are various opinions about it.
Japanese: 般若寺の創建事情や時期については正史に記載がなく、創立者についても諸説あって、正確なところは不明である。
English: However, this temple certainly existed in the Nara period, because old roof-tiles of the Nara period were excavated from the precincts of Hannya-ji Temple, and the name of Hannya-ji Temple appears in the Shosoin monjo (documents of Shosoin) of 742.
Japanese: ただし、般若寺の境内からは奈良時代の古瓦が出土しており、天平14年（742年）の正倉院文書に般若寺の名が見えることなどから、この寺が奈良時代に存在していたことは確かである。
English: According to a legend of this temple, the temple was founded by Ekan, a monk from Goguryeo, in 629, and in 735, Emperor Shomu erected a Buddhist temple and built a thirteen-storied stone pagoda to enshrine the Dai Hannyakyo sutra written by him, but there is no historical material to support this theory.
Japanese: 寺伝では舒明天皇元年（629年）、高句麗の僧・慧灌（えかん）の創建とされ、天平7年（735年）、聖武天皇が伽藍を建立し、十三重石塔を建てて天皇自筆の大般若経を安置したというが、これらを裏付ける確実な史料はない。
English: Another story has it that SOGA no Himuka no Omi founded this temple in 654 in order to cure Emperor Kotoku's illness ("Jogu Shotoku Hooteisetsu" [The Biography of Shotoku Taishi] book-end notes).
Japanese: 別の伝承では白雉5年（654年）、蘇我日向臣（そがのひむかのおみ）が孝徳天皇の病気平癒のため創建したともいう（『上宮聖徳法王帝説』裏書）。
English: It is said that Kangen (854-925), a disciple of Shobo (a monk of Shingon sect, the founder of Daigo-ji Temple) restored it at the beginning of the 10th century in the Heian period, but the history between this and the end of the Heian period remains unclear.
Japanese: 平安時代に入って、10世紀初め頃には聖宝（しょうぼう、真言宗の僧、醍醐寺の開山）の弟子の観賢（854年－925年）が中興したというが、その後平安時代末頃までの歴史はあまり明らかでない。
English: In 1180, Hannya-ji Temple was burned down together with some other temples such as Todai-ji Temple and Kofuku-ji Temple during the fire of the southern capital by TAIRA no Shigehira, and it is said that the temple remained abandoned for awhile after that.
Japanese: 治承4年（1180年）、平重衡による南都焼き討ちの際には、東大寺、興福寺などとともに般若寺も焼け落ち、その後しばらくは廃寺同然となっていたようである。