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English: Retains signs of its use as a mixed terakoya (Edo period temple elementary school) until 1872.
Japanese: 1872年（明治4年）の学制まで、男女共学の寺子屋の教場として使われていた形跡が残されている。
English: From the visitor reception desk in the kuri, visitors first pass through a small room housing Amida triad statues before entering the shoin.
Japanese: 庫裏内に設けられた拝観受付から書院に入るには、まず阿弥陀三尊が安置された小部屋を通る。
English: This garden is thought to have been restored during 1661 and 1673, and this is supported by the records of Jitsuzobo as well as the style of the garden but the garden's designer is unknown.
Japanese: この庭園は再建期の寛文年間の作と考えられており、実蔵坊文書の記録や作庭様式から裏付けられるが、庭園の造営者の名は不明である。
English: It has been proposed that the garden was created by Jozan ISHIKAWA or Enshu KOBORI but they had both already passed away before the period in which the garden has been dated.
Japanese: 石川丈山もしくは小堀遠州の名が挙げられることもあるが、造営の年代には両人とも故人である。
English: There is a possibility that the garden was created by somebody related to Enshu KOBORI as he had connections to the Kaga clan cultural policy and his disciples did create gardens for the clan, but there are differences in the style of the garden.
Japanese: 遠州は加賀藩の文化政策に関係があり、弟子筋の人物が加賀藩のために造園を行っていることから、遠州に所縁のある人物の作庭という可能性はあるが、作風が相違している。
English: Jodo Sect gardens such as this are referred to as chisen kaiyushiki teien (lit. pond stroll style gardens) as they were designed to allow people to walk around the pond but the small garden at Renge-ji Temple is a chisen kanshoshiki teien designed to be appreciated from the shoin.
Japanese: こうした浄土宗的な庭園は池の周囲を巡り歩くことを想定して作庭されることから池泉回遊式と呼ばれるが、蓮華寺の庭園は規模も小さく、書院からの鑑賞を旨とした池泉鑑賞式の庭園である。
English: An abundantly flowing spring is located within the garden's inner area and this creates the pond around which the garden is centered.
Japanese: 庭園の奥には水量の豊かな湧水があり、それを導いた池が庭園の中心にある。
English: Gardens in which funaishi are placed are rare but the funaishi at Renge-ji Temple is especially so as it is shaped like an incoming ship.
Japanese: 舟石を置く庭園は稀少であるが、とりわけ蓮華寺の舟石は入舟の形をしている点でさらに珍しいものとなっている。
English: An outgoing ship heads toward the paradise (Pure Land) on the opposite shore to causes one to contemplate Nirvana.
Japanese: 出舟とは、向こう岸に理想郷（浄土）を見出し、彼岸を想念させるものである。
English: A stone lantern called Tojinbo Marugata (lit. Round Shape of a Chinese Hat) stands atop the kame-shima island which is composed of large rocks and connected to the shore via a stone bridge.
Japanese: 大ぶりな岩石で組まれた亀島には、唐人帽丸形と呼ばれる石灯籠が据えられ、石橋で岸と繋げられている。
English: To the side of this is a standing tsuru-ishi stone in the shape of a crane.
Japanese: その側面によりそうように立てられた立石によって鶴の姿があらわすのが、鶴石である。
English: On this Mt. Penglai, stands a stone monument in which is engraved a biography of Shigenao IMAEDA, a composition by Junan KINOSHITA and writing by Jozan in characters used on seals.
Japanese: この蓬莱山には今枝重直の一代記が刻まれた石碑が建てられており、木下順庵の撰文、丈山の篆額を伝える刻銘がある。
English: According to ancient Chinese thinking, the turtle dominated the land and the qilin dominated the sky, with a combination of the two representing the entire universe.
Japanese: 古代中国の思想によれば、亀は地上の支配を、麒麟は天空の支配をそれぞれ意味するものとされ、両者の合体した姿は宇宙全体の姿となる。
English: It is therefore interpreted that the works surrounding the stone monument serve to pray for its eternal existence.
Japanese: そうした点から、この石碑の周囲の造作は、石碑の未来永劫の存続を願うものと解される。
English: To the rear right of the Mt. Penglai stone arrangement is a round lantern of the same shape but half the size of that on the kame-shima island that gives the impression of depth.
Japanese: 蓬莱山の右側奥手には、亀島にあるのと同型で半分ほどの大きさの丸型灯籠が置かれ、奥行きを感じさせるための工夫がなされている。
English: Two stone lanterns known as rengejigata toro (lit. Renge-ji Temple shape lanterns) stand in a location at the front of the main hall and at the rear as seen from the shoin.
Japanese: 本堂の正面は、書院から見て裏側にあたり、蓮華寺形灯籠として知られる2基の灯籠が佇んでいる。
English: Rengeji toro lanterns are defined as 'A unique shape characterized by a hexagonal base with lotus petals and a column that is circular with an expanded center section.
Japanese: 蓮華寺形灯籠は、「基礎は六角で蓮弁がつき、竿は丸竿で中央部が膨らむ。
English: The fire box is also hexagonal with square holes in the front and rear, and the hood is a long steep slope like a dome roof with nine sections on which an orb is mounted' and are said to have been popular with tea ceremony masters.
Japanese: 火袋も六角で前後に四角の穴を穿ち、笠は急勾配の長めで九段の葺地を表し、頂上に宝珠が乗る独特の形をして」おり、茶人たちに好まれたという。
English: Renge-ji Temple belongs to the Tendai Sect but Obaku Sect monks were also involved in its construction and the main hall is of a completely Obaku Sect style.
Japanese: 本寺は天台宗の寺院であるが、造営に黄檗宗僧が関わったこともあり、本堂の様式は全く黄檗宗のそれである。
English: On shumidan (An altar made of fine timber, generally with paneling, hame) at the center of the hall is the principal image Shaka Nyorai statue housed within a raden zushi (a miniature temple with mother-of-pearl inlay work).
Japanese: 堂内中央の須弥壇には螺鈿厨子に収められた本尊、釈迦如来像が安置されている。
English: This early Ming dynasty Chinese raden zushi predates the temple and is assumed to have been imported by the Kaga clan.
Japanese: 螺鈿厨子の来歴は寺よりも古く、明朝初期の中国製のものであり、加賀藩が輸入したものであると推定される。
English: The statue itself dates from the Kamakura period but the pedestal and halo were created during the Edo period.
Japanese: 像本体は鎌倉時代の作であるが、台座と光背は江戸時代に作られたものである。
English: The ceiling was once decorated with a painting of a dragon believed to have been painted by Tanyu KANO but this was lost during the Meiji period before being restored by the Buddhist artist Kocho NISHIMURA in 1978.
Japanese: 天井には、かつて狩野探幽が描いたとされる龍の図があったが、明治期に失われ、1978年（昭和53年）に仏師の西村公朝（にしむらこうちょう）によって復元された。
English: The temple once possess 2 Important Cultural Property designated color on paper Sanno Reigenki (Miracles of Sanno-jinja Shrine, created during the Muromachi period, donated by Chikayoshi IMAEDA) but these came to be owned by the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi after the Second World War.
Japanese: 他に重要文化財の紙本著色山王霊験記2巻（室町時代、今枝近義寄進）があったが、第二次大戦後に寺の所蔵を離れ、現在は和泉市久保惣記念美術館の所蔵となっている。
English: From Kyoto Station: Take Kyoto Bus number 17 or 18 (only runs on Saturdays and holidays) for 46 minutes
Japanese: 京都駅より京都バス17系統または18系統（土曜休日のみ運行）乗車46分
English: Myosei-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Nichiren Sho Sect located in Kita-ku Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 妙清寺（みょうせいじ）は、京都市北区(京都市)に所在する日蓮正宗の寺院。
English: The 49 Temples of Kansai Yakushi Pilgrimage consists of 49 sacred places enshrining images of Yakushi Nyorai (the Healing Buddha) in Osaka Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, and Mie Prefecture.
Japanese: 西国薬師四十九霊場（さいごくやくししじゅうくれいじょう）は、薬師如来をまつる大阪府、兵庫県、京都府、滋賀県、奈良県、和歌山県、三重県の七府県四十九ヶ寺の西国薬師霊場。
English: Kankiko-ji Temple's founding priest Shokai was a leading disciple of the sect founder Ippen who accompanied him on his pilgrimage throughout various provinces and is also said to have been Ippen's biological younger brother.
Japanese: 歓喜光寺の開山である聖戒は、宗祖一遍の高弟で、一遍の諸国巡礼に随伴した僧であり、一遍の実弟ともいわれている。
English: According to sources such as "Mia Shonin Gyojo"(Documents about Mia Shonin ('Mia Shonin' being Shokai)), Kankiko-ji Temple was founded under the name Zendo-ji Temple at Yawata, Tsuzuki-gun County (present-day Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture) in 1291.
Japanese: 『弥阿上人行状』等によると（「弥阿上人」は聖戒のこと）、歓喜光寺は正応4年（1291年）、綴喜郡八幡（現・京都府八幡市）に善導寺として創建されたという。
English: This temple site close to Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu Shrine was selected due to the belief that Amida Nyorai is the Buddhist form of the Shinto deity Hachiman.
Japanese: 石清水八幡宮に近いこの地が寺地として選ばれたのは、八幡神の本地を阿弥陀如来とする信仰による。
English: Ippen was a devout believer in Hachiman and it is recorded in "Ippen Shonin Eden" (Pictorial biography of the monk Ippen) that he visited Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu Shrine in 1286.
Japanese: 一遍が八幡神に帰依し、弘安9年（1286年）石清水八幡宮に参詣したことは『一遍上人絵伝』巻九にも見える。
English: Several years later in 1299, the temple was relocated to the site of Minister of the Left MINAMOTO no Toru's residence (Rokujo Kawarain) in Rokujo Higashinotoin (present-day Shimogyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City) due to the patronage of Kanpaku (chief advisor to the emperor) Tadanori KUJO, and merged with the Tenman-gu Shrine and Kanki-ji Temple of the jingu-ji Temple (temples associated with shrines) at the former residence (in present-day Horimatsu-cho, Kamigyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City) of SUGAWARA no Koreyoshi (the father of SUGAWARA no Michizane).
Japanese: それから数年後の正安元年（1299年）、寺は関白九条忠教の庇護のもと、六条東洞院（現・京都市下京区）の源融（みなもとのとおる）左大臣の旧跡（六条河原院）へ寺地を移すとともに、菅原是善（菅原道真の父）の旧邸（現・京都市上京区堀松町）の天満宮とその神宮寺である歓喜寺を合併した。
English: It was during this time that the name of the temple was changed to Kankiko-ji Temple and also became known as 'Rokujo Sanctuary' after the area in which it was located.
Japanese: この際、寺号を歓喜光寺に改め、所在地から「六条道場」とも称するようになった。
English: After the Onin War, the temple was moved to Takatsuji Karasuma (present-day Shimogyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City) before being relocated again between 1573 and 1592 by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI to Shijo Kyogoku where it stood throughout the early modern period.
Japanese: 応仁の乱の後、寺は高辻烏丸（現・京都市下京区）に移転し、さらに天正年間（1573-1592）に豊臣秀吉によって四条京極へ移転させられて、近世を通じて同地にあった。
English: This area is now Nakano-cho, Nakagyo-ku Ward, Kyoto City (Shijo agaru, Shin Kyogoku-dori Street) but only the Tenman-gu Shrine that stood within the precinct remains in downtown Kyoto with the name Nishiki Tenman-gu Shrine.
Japanese: この地は現在の京都市中京区中之町（新京極通り四条上る）であり、境内にあった天幡宮だけが繁華街の中に残されて、錦天満宮と称している。
English: In 1907, the temple later merged with Hokoku-ji Temple that stood in Higashiyama, and was relocated to the nearby Yugyomae-cho, Higashiyama-ku Ward (Higashi-Oji agaru, Gojo-dori Street).
Japanese: 寺はその後、明治40年（1907年）、東山にあった法国寺と合併し、法国寺の所在地である東山区遊行前町（五条通東大路上る）に移転した。
English: Hokoku-ji Temple was constructed by the Emperor Goyozei's mother Haruko KAJUJI as a memorial to his father Haremigi KAJUJI and its name was originally written using a different character for the word "ho" (豊) but given its current name after the death of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI (豊臣) so as not to give the Tokugawa family a bad impression.
Japanese: 法国寺は後陽成天皇の母・勧修寺晴子が、父・勧修寺晴秀（かじゅうじはれみぎ）の追善のために建てた寺で、当初「豊国寺」と称したが、豊臣秀吉の没後、徳川家をはばかって「法国寺」に改称したという。
English: In 1975, the temple was relocated once again, this time to the suburban Yamashina-ku Ward, when the plans were made to build a car park on the Higashiyama-ku Ward site.
Japanese: 移転はさらに続き、昭和50年（1975年）には駐車場建設のため東山区の旧地を立ち退き、郊外の山科区に移転した。
English: The National Treasure designated 12 picture scroll "Ippen Shonin E-den" was originally kept at Kankiko-ji Temple but has been in the possession of Shojoko-ji Temple (Ji Sect head temple in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture) since the late 20th century.
Japanese: なお、国宝の絵巻『一遍上人絵伝』（12巻）は、もと歓喜光寺に伝来したものであるが、20世紀末頃に清浄光寺（時宗本山、神奈川県藤沢市）の所有になっている。
English: The temple began as a Tendai Sect temple founded in the year 992 but the head priest in 1307 converted to the Nichiren Sect and changed the name of the temple to Myosen-ji Temple.
Japanese: この寺は、992年（正暦3年）に天台宗の寺院として創建されたのに始まり、1307年（徳治3年）当時の住職が日蓮宗に改宗して妙泉寺と号した。
English: It was damaged in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance that broke out during the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States) but was restored during the Tensho era (1573-1592).
Japanese: 戦国時代の天文法華の乱で被害を受けたが、天正年間（1573年～1592年）に再興された。
English: Meanwhile, the Nichiren Sect Danrin school (Matsugasaki Danrin) founded by Nissho during the Tensho era became Honyu-ji Temple and served as one of the places of study and training for the Nichiren Sect monks of Kyoto.
Japanese: 一方、天正年間に日生によって開かれた日蓮宗の檀林（松ヶ崎檀林）が本涌寺となり、京都における日蓮宗の僧侶の養成・学問所のひとつとなった。
English: Myosen-ji Temple and Honyu-ji Temple merged in 1918 to become the current Yusen-ji Temple.
Japanese: その後、1918年（大正7年）妙泉寺と本涌寺が統合されて現在の涌泉寺となった。
English: Joshoko-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Tenryuji School of the Rinzai Sect located in Ukyo-ku Ward (formerly Keihoku-cho), Kyoto City.
Japanese: 常照皇寺（じょうしょうこうじ）は、京都市右京区（旧京北町）にある臨済宗天竜寺派の寺院。
English: Joshoko-ji Temple began as a small hut built in 1362 by Retired Emperor Kogen, the first emperor of the Northern Court during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts, when he visited the area after entering the Buddhist priesthood.
Japanese: この寺は、南北朝時代(日本)に北朝(日本)初代の天皇となった光厳上皇が出家した後、1362年（貞治3年）この地を訪れて庵を結んだのに始まるとされる。
English: The temple entered a period of decline during the Sengoku period (period of warring states) but was later restored and in the Edo period received a license to trade from the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) as well as possessing many branch temples.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)には一時衰退したが、その後復興され江戸時代には江戸幕府から朱印状を与えられるとともに、多くに末寺を有していた。
English: The principal image is Jizo Bosatsu (Jizo Bodhisattva), which is also known as Meyami Jizo as it is worshipped for its ability to treat eye diseases.
Japanese: 本尊は地蔵菩薩で、目疾（めやみ）地蔵とも称されて眼病に霊験があるとして信仰されている。
English: According to legend, Chugen-ji Temple is said to have been founded by the Buddhist sculptor Jocho (unknown - 1057) in the middle Heian period and originally located to the northeast of Shijo-bashi Bridge.
Japanese: 言い伝えによれば、この寺は平安時代中期の仏師定朝（?～1057年）が開山となって開かれたとも伝えられ、当初は四条橋の東北にあったとされる。
English: In 1228 during the Kamakura period, the Kamo-gawa River flooded due to heavy rain, but the rain stopped and the floodwater subsided when the Nakahara (中原) clan who served as Bokashi (administration of the Kamo-gawa River) prayed to the Jizo statue for the rain to stop, and the temple was granted the name 'Chugen-ji Temple' (仲源寺, which are expressed in 'naka' (中) and 'hara' (原) added right-hand radical of each Chinese character, meaning 'human' (人) and 'water' (水) respectively) by the imperial court.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の1228年（安貞2年）鴨川が大雨で洪水となり、防鴨河使となった中原氏がこの地蔵尊に止雨を祈ったところ雨がやんで洪水も治まったことから、朝廷から「仲源寺」の寺号を下賜されたという。
English: Saion-ji Temple originated with a villa built in Kitayama (present-day around Rokuon-ji Temple) by Kintsune SAIONJI in 1224.
Japanese: この寺は、1224年（元仁元年）西園寺公経が北山の山荘（現在の鹿苑寺のあたり）に創建したのに始まる。
English: The Saionji family of court nobles prospered during the Kamakura period due to Kintsune's close connections to the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) but went into decline after the collapse of the Kamakura bakufu and, in the Muromachi period, the third shogun, Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA, constructed Kitayamadai (now Rokuon-ji Temple) on this site, with the temple being relocated to Muromachi in 1352.
Japanese: 公家である西園寺家は公経が鎌倉幕府と関係があったことから鎌倉時代には隆盛したが、鎌倉幕府が滅亡するにおよび衰退し、室町時代に入ると3代将軍足利義満がこの地に北山第（現在の鹿苑寺）の造営に伴い1352年（文和元年）室町に移った。
English: The temple originally belonged to the Shingon Sect but converted to Jodo Sect and was moved to its current site in 1554.
Japanese: はじめは真言宗の寺院であったが、その後浄土宗に改められ、1554年（天文(日本)23年）現在の寺地に移された。
English: Shinno-ji Temple is said to have been founded 859 and 877, and was granted a trade license from the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) during the Edo period.
Japanese: この寺は、貞観(日本)年間（859年～877年）行教によって創建されたと伝えられ、江戸時代には江戸幕府から朱印状を与えられていた。
English: The 33 Temples of Rakuyo Kannon Pilgrimage in Kyoto consists of 33 sacred places enshrining Kannon Bosatsu in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 洛陽三十三所観音霊場（らくようさんじゅうさんしょかんのんれいじょう）は、観音菩薩をまつる京都府京都市の三十三ヶ寺の観音霊場。
English: It is thought to have been determined by Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa during the Heian period and revived in 2005 after being briefly discontinued.
Japanese: 平安期に後白河法皇が定めたとされ、一時中断した後2005年に復活した。
English: There is evidence that the term jisha was in use since the Heian period, but became widely used since the Meiji era based on a preference for shrines.
Japanese: 社寺は平安時代頃から使われた形跡があるが、主に神社優先の考えに基づいた明治期以降に多く使われた。
English: Until the Meiji edict ordering the separation of Buddhism and Shinto, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines (Buddhist deities and Shinto Kami) were worshipped as single entities and treated in the same manner unless there was a need to make a distinction.
Japanese: 寺院も神社も（神も仏も）信仰の対象としては変わりなく、明治の神仏分離令以前は、特に区別する必要が無ければ両方含めて扱われることも多かった。
English: This occurred as a result of the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism in which the Japanese indigenous Shinto beliefs became mixed with the imported Buddhism (particularly Esoteric Buddhism) to create various religious belief such as Shugendo (Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts).
Japanese: 背景には神仏習合の歴史があり、土着の神道と渡来して普及した仏教（特に密教）が混淆して修験道などの多様な信仰を生み出してきた。
English: There are also circumstances for when the distinction between Buddhism and Shinto is unclear such as the name 'Gongen' (avatar), which arose from the manifestation theory (holding that Shinto Kami are manifestations of Buddhist deities) that attempted to consolidate the coexistence of the two beliefs.
Japanese: それを理論づけようとした本地垂迹説の「権現」名のようにどちらともつきがたい場合もある。
English: State Shinto which was based on Meiji era nationalism forced combined shrines and temples to become separated, sometimes resulting in one of the other becoming closed.
Japanese: 多くは明治期の国粋主義に基づく国家神道の流れにより、既に一体化した存在であったものも強制的に神社・寺院に分離させられ一方が廃されることも起きた。
English: However, except for the war years, there was not a major change in the attitude of the populace who continued to practice local traditions such as folk religions and festivals outside the scope of State Shinto.
Japanese: しかしながら民衆レベルでは戦中の一時期を除いて、そう大きな意識の変化は起こっておらず国家神道の枠に収まりきらない民間信仰・祭りなど各地の伝承はそのまま伝えられてきた。
English: It is now said that Japanese have little religious belief and, with the exception of special occasions such as funerals, have little concept of the difference between Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, of which many are considered places of business or tourist attractions.
Japanese: 現代では、「日本人は信仰心が薄い」とよく言われるように葬式など特別の時以外は寺社の違いはあまり意識されておらず、現世利益的・または観光対象として同列に述べられている例が多い。
English: Provincial temples (kokubunji) and provincial nunneries (kokubunniji) are temples and nunneries that were established in each province of Japan in the year 741 by Emperor Shomu in order to pacify national unrest.
Japanese: 国分寺（こくぶんじ）、国分尼寺（こくぶんにじ）は、741年（天平13年）、聖武天皇が国情不安を鎮撫するため、各令制国に建立を命じた寺院。
English: The more formal name for the 'kokubunji' was 'konkomyo-shitenno-gokoku no tera' (meaning 'temples for the protection of the country by the four guardian deities of the golden light') and the more formal name for the 'kokubunniji' was 'hokke-metsuzai no tera' (meaning 'nunneries for eliminating sin by means of the Lotus Sutra').
Japanese: 正式名称は、国分寺が金光明四天王護国之寺（こんこうみょうしてんのうごこくのてら）、国分尼寺が法華滅罪之寺（ほっけめつざいのてら）である。
English: Todai-ji Temple in Yamato Province served as the head of all provincial temples and Hokke-ji Temple served as the head of all provincial nunneries.
Japanese: 大和国の東大寺、法華寺は総国分寺、総国分尼寺とされ、全国の国分寺、国分尼寺の総本山と位置づけられた。
English: With the relaxing of the ritsuryo system (a system of centralized government based on the ritsuryo code) and the loss of financial support provided by the government, many provincial temples were closed.
Japanese: 律令体制が弛緩し、官による財政支持がなくなると、国分寺・国分尼寺の多くは廃れた。
English: However, many have survived until today and it is clear that following the middle ages a large number of provincial temples continued to operate in different forms or belonging to different sects from the time of their founding, whereas others were later restored.
Japanese: ただし、中世以後もかなりの数の国分寺は、当初の国分寺とは異なる宗派あるいは性格を持った寺院として存置し続けたことが明らかになっており、あるいは後世において再興されるなどして、現在まで維持しているところもある。
English: In addition, the articles of provincial temples remain at temples near to where a provincial temple once stood.
Japanese: また、かつての国分寺近くの寺で国分寺の遺品を保存していることがある。
English: Meigetsu-in Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Kencho-ji School of the Rinzai Sect located in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japanese: 明月院(めいげついん)は、神奈川県鎌倉市にある臨済宗建長寺派の寺院。
English: The principal image is Sho Kannon, the kaiki (founding patron) was Norikata UESUGI and the kaizan (first chief priest) was Misshitsu Shugon.
Japanese: 本尊は聖観音、開基（創立者）は上杉憲方、開山（初代住職）は密室守厳（みっしつしゅごん）である。
English: Meigetsu-in Temple was founded by Yamanouchi Uesugi family progenitor and Kanto Kanrei (Shogun's deputy in the Kanto region) Norikata UESUGI, who invited Misshitsu Shugo to serve as head priest.
Japanese: 山ノ内上杉家の祖、関東管領上杉憲方は密室守厳を開山として、明月院を開創した。
English: According to temple legend, Meigetsu-in Temple began as a hut named 'Meigetsu-an' that was built in 1160 by Tsunetoshi SHUDO to pray for the soul of his father, Toshimichi, who died in the Heiji War and that this was later restored by Norikata UESUGI but the prevailing theory claims that he was the actual founding patron.
Japanese: なお、寺伝では、平治の乱で没した首藤俊通（しゅどうとしみち）の菩提の為、永暦元年（1160年）、その子の経俊が「明月庵」を建立したのが草創とされ、上杉憲方は中興者とされているが、実際の開基は上杉憲方とみるのが通説である。
English: Meigetsu-in Temple was a sub-temple of the larger Zenko-ji Temple which was closed at the beginning of the Meiji period so that Meigetsu-in Temple is now all that remains.
Japanese: 明月院は、禅興寺という寺の塔頭（たっちゅう、子院）であったが、本体の禅興寺は明治初年頃に廃絶し、明月院のみが残っている。
English: Tokiyori constructed a private Buddha hall at his residence and named it Saimyo-ji Temple but this closed after his death.
Japanese: 時頼は別邸に持仏堂を造営し、最明寺と名付けたが、時頼の死後は廃絶していた。
English: His son, Tokimune HOJO, invited Lanxi Daolong to serve as head priest and restored this temple which he renamed Zenko-ji Temple.
Japanese: 時頼の息子の北条時宗は蘭渓道隆（らんけいどうりゅう）を開山としてこれを再興し、禅興寺と改名した。
English: Meigetsu-in Temple is now famous as 'The Temple of Hydrangeas' and becomes extremely busy during the flower season.
Japanese: 現在は、「あじさい寺」として有名で、花のシーズンにはたいへんな混雑をみせる。
English: It was not long ago that hydrangeas were planted at the temple and were planted for the reason that 'it makes maintenance easier' but they gradually became a well-known attraction.
Japanese: この寺でアジサイを植えたのはさほど古い事ではなく、「手入れが比較的楽だから」という理由で植えたものが次第に有名になったという。
English: The temple precincts contain one of the Ten Wells of Kamakura, 'Kame no I,' and a cave named 'Meigetsu-in Yagura' dug in the side of a large rock (the small pagoda within is thought to mark the grave of Norikata UESUGI).
Japanese: 境内には鎌倉十井の1つである「瓶（かめ）の井」、「明月院やぐら」と称される、岩を掘りぬいた墓室（上杉憲方墓とされる宝篋印塔を安置）などがある。
English: On February 9, 1984, the entire precincts were designated National Historic Site as 'Meigetsu-in Keidai.'
Japanese: 1984年（昭和59年）2月9日、「明月院境内」として国の史跡に指定された。
English: It enshrines Uji no Waki no Iratsuko no Mikoto, Emperor Ojin and Emperor Nintoku.
Japanese: 菟道稚郎子命（うじのわきのいらつこのみこと）・応神天皇・仁徳天皇を祀る。
English: It stands close to Uji-jinja Shrine and before the Meiji Restoration both formed Uji Rikyu Myojin Shrine known as Hachiman-sha Shrine of which Uji-jinja Shrine comprised the lower sub-shrine while Ujigami-jinja Shrine was known as the upper main shrine.
Japanese: すぐ近くに宇治神社があり、明治維新前は両方を合わせて宇治離宮明神、八幡社と呼ばれ、宇治神社を下社・若宮とするのに対して、宇治上神社は上社・本宮と呼ばれている。
English: The 'Jinmyocho (list of deities and shrines) of the Engishiki' (book or regulations of the Engi era) refers to Uji-jinja Shrine and Ujigami-jinja Shrine as 'the two Uji-jinja Shrines in Uji County, Yamashiro Province.'
Japanese: 「延喜式神名帳」には「山城国宇治郡宇治神社二座」とあり、それぞれ宇治神社・宇治上神社を指している。
English: In February 2004, dendrochronological studies conducted by the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties and Uji City dated the main sanctuary to around 1060, making it the oldest surviving piece of Shinto shrine architecture, and leading to the belief that it has a deep connection to Byodo-in Temple which was founded in 1052.
Japanese: 2004年2月、奈良文化財研究所・宇治市などの年輪年代測定調査によれば、本殿は1060年ごろのものとされ、現存最古の神社建築であることが裏付けられるとともに、1052年創建の平等院との深い関連性が考えられる。
English: The main sanctuary dating from the latter part of the Heian period is believed to be the oldest surviving example of such a building (a cover building can be seen from outside and inside stand three sanctuary buildings).
Japanese: 現存最古とされる平安時代後期の本殿が残っている（外から見えるのは覆屋で、中に本殿が3つ並んでいる）。
English: The worship hall which dates from the first part of the Kamakura period and is said to have been relocated from Uji Rikyu (Uji Imperial Villa) retains a shinden-zukuri style.
Japanese: 拝殿は鎌倉時代前期の宇治離宮を移築したものといわれ、寝殿造の趣きを伝えている。
English: Jinguji are Buddhist temples that operated as Shinto shrines under the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism that occurred in Japan.
Japanese: 神宮寺（じんぐうじ）とは、日本において神仏習合思想に基づいて神社を実質的に運営していた仏教寺院。
English: During the Asuka period in which Buddhism was first transmitted to Japan, Shinto and Buddhism had not yet integrated with one another, but in the Heian period when Buddhism began to diffuse throughout the nation, a certain degree of friction arose between the new beliefs and the ancient Japanese Shinto religion and out of this rose a syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism in which Shinto kami were considered to be the temporary forms of Buddhist deities.
Japanese: 日本に仏教が伝来した飛鳥時代には、神道と仏教はまだ統合される事はなかったが、平安時代になり、仏教が一般にも浸透し始めると、日本古来の宗教である神道との軋轢が生じ、そこから神は仏の仮の姿であるとする神仏習合思想が生まれた。