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English: In Confucianism in the Korean Peninsula, it is required to cry loudly in an exaggerated way remembering the deceased and there are Naki onna (woman who cries at the funeral ceremony) who attend funerals and cry to get money.
Japanese: 朝鮮半島における儒教では葬儀の時に死者を慕って大げさに泣く事が求められ、葬儀に出席して泣く事でお金を貰う泣き女が存在する。
English: Regardless of their independence of religions, some funerals are conducted in a way where Tsuya, kokubetsushiki, and so on are observed as usual, only without the part of Dokyo (sutra-chanting) of a Buddhist funeral.
Japanese: 宗教に依存しないと言っても、仏式における読経の部分をなくし、通夜、告別式等は通常通りに行なわれるだけの場合もある。
English: Under certain circumstances, it is called 'Owakare no Kai' (farewell) rather than the term of funeral ceremony.
Japanese: 場合によっては、葬儀という名称でなく、「お別れの会」などと呼ばれることもある。
English: Generally, it proceeds in the order of Mokuto (a silent prayer), Okurukotoba (offering of words) (Choji (a memorial address)) and Kenka or Shoko.
Japanese: 一般的には、黙祷、送る言葉（弔辞）、献花もしくは焼香といった形で進行する
English: In some religions, Sanretsu (attendance) and Shoko for funerals conducted in other religions are prohibited, and so some funerals are conducted without religious ceremony considering the different religious background possibly existing among the surviving members of the family and those present.
Japanese: 宗教によっては、異なる宗旨で行なわれる葬儀への参列や焼香などを禁じているものも存在するため、遺族や参列者に異なる宗教的背景がある場合、それらに配慮して無宗教という方法で葬儀を行なう場合もある。
English: Since a funeral ceremony not only requires a large amount of clerical work to be done in a short period of time but also is not conducted frequently, there is a limit to what ordinary persons can do by themselves.
Japanese: しかし、葬儀は短期間で大量の事務処理をこなさねばならず、また、非常に頻度が低い行事のため、一般人のみで行なうのには限界がある。
English: Although anyone can start the business without a license, such wide-ranging knowledge as bodies, religions, related laws and regulations are required.
Japanese: 事業免許はなくだれでもはじめられるが、遺体、宗教、関連法規など多岐にわたる知識が要求される。
English: In order to examine the skill of those involved, an 'examination of the skill of a funeral director' has been held under the permission of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Japanese: 従事するものの技能を審査するべく、「葬祭ディレクター技能審査」が厚生労働省の認可の下で実施されている。
English: Some expertise is required to set up, preside over, and proceed with a funeral, and so if one's ability as an expert is displayed, a good funeral can be conducted.
Japanese: 設営、司会、進行には専門知識が必要であり、技能者としての技量が発揮されると、よい葬儀が行われることであろう。
English: Flashy wardrobe is not welcomed at a funeral due to the view that it is a ritual for parting from the deceased.
Japanese: 葬儀では、死者との別れの儀式との見解から、華美な服装は歓迎されない。
English: On the occasions where attendees other than the surviving members of the family get together like Tsuya, Kokubetsushiki and so on, if someone is dressed in a black-based color, it won't pose any problem.
Japanese: 通夜、告別式など、親族以外の者が集まる場合、各々の服装については黒を基本とした服装であれば、支障はない。
English: In some regions, there is a view that it is good manners to wear Mofuku at Tsuya, however, it is, generally speaking, impolite to attend a Tsuya dressed in Mofuku (It comes from a view that wearing Mofuku indicates that a funeral has been expected, which is thought to be impolite.)
Japanese: 地域により、通夜も喪服が礼儀であるとの見解もあるが、一般的に通夜へ喪服で参加することは失礼にあたる（喪服だと葬儀を予期してたようで失礼にあたるという考え）。
English: Moreover, since Tsuya are suddenly conducted in many cases, some consider it important to take a positive attitude to attend the Tsuya (for instance, where only a work uniform is available when on the way home from work).
Japanese: 特に通夜は急に執り行われることが多いため、参加する姿勢が大事と考える人もいる（仕事帰りなどで作業服しかない場合など）。
English: Besides being rarely conducted, a funeral is not discussed as it is suggestive of bad luck of the family member's death, and so ordinary persons are at a loss as to what to do when the time comes for a funeral.
Japanese: 通常葬儀は滅多に行われない上、親族が亡くなることを考えるのは縁起が悪いなどの理由もあって一般人はどうしていいのかよくわからないものである。
English: In recent years, the increasing number of funeral agencies, taking advantage of such a surviving family's ignorance, demand payment of an excessive sum for funeral costs, on which requests for consultation are given to local consumer centers and so on.
Japanese: 近年そうした親族の無知に付け入り、法外な金額の葬儀費用を請求する事例が増えており、消費者生活センターなどに相談が寄せられている。
English: It is necessary to guard against such cases where the amount claimed is not shown, as separate costs demanded even if the statement amount is small, as a high amount of the fee for a posthumous Buddhist name be demanded, and so on.
Japanese: 法外な金額を請求されたり、請求額が明示されていなかったり、一見安くても別途費用を請求されたり、高い戒名代を請求されたりすることなどに注意する必要がある。
English: It is necessary to gain knowledge of funerals on a day-to-day basis and, when the time comes for a funeral, to confirm with the funeral agency the total amount to be finally claimed.
Japanese: 日ごろから葬儀について知識を蓄えておくとともに、いざ葬儀になったら葬儀屋に最終的に必要となる総計を確認しておく必要がある。
English: Total funeral costs include the cost of a funeral itself and the actual costs of food/drink and return offerings separately claimed.
Japanese: 葬儀費用には、葬儀本体価格の他に、飲食や返礼品などの実費費用が別途必要になる。
English: As the number of attendees is not known beforehand, a total amount is, in many cases, not shown on the estimate sheet provided during advance arrangements for a funeral.
Japanese: 事前に参列者数が分からないため、葬儀打合せ時の見積りには合計金額が書かれていないことも多い。
English: It is necessary, in this case, to be careful that any trouble will not arise due to the addition of the actual costs when claimed.
Japanese: この場合、請求時に実費費用分が加算されてトラブルになりやすいため、注意が必要である。
English: Furthermore, at the time when an estimate sheet is signed (even if the space for the actual costs is blank) during advance arrangements with a funeral home, a 'contract in which additional payments for necessary costs has been agreed upon' has been established.
Japanese: なお、葬儀社との打合せ時に、（たとえ実費金額欄が空欄であっても）見積書にサインをした時点で「必要分追加を認めるとみなした契約」が成立する。
English: Even if one files an action later, it puts the consumer side at a disadvantage in many cases, and so it is necessary to check the contents of the contract before signing.
Japanese: 後日訴訟を起こした場合でも消費者側が不利になる事が多いので、契約する前に必ず内容確認をする事が必要である。
English: This is partly caused by excessive sales talks to obtain members by some salesmen to potential customers before joining a Gojokai.
Japanese: これは互助会加入時に、会員獲得のセールスマンが過剰なセールストークを展開してしまうことにも起因する。
English: At the time of cancellation, a certain amount of fee is charged (regardless of the amount of installments, approximately 30-50 thousand yen) and even if a funeral is conducted, the amount of installments accumulated works only as a discount equal to that amount.
Japanese: 解約時には一定の手数料を引かれること（掛け金にかかわりなく、おおよそ3～5万円）、当時の祭壇によるので、積立金分の割引にしかならない。
English: The fact that any interest not be yielded for the accumulated installments paid seems to cause troubles.
Japanese: 積み立てたお金には一切の金利などがつかないことがトラブルの原因のようである。
English: Many funeral referral centers actually act as brokers, who introduce a funeral home to a surviving family and collect 15-30% of net sales from the funeral home, and so a contract with a high-quality funeral home cannot be maintained, which causes troubles in many cases.
Japanese: 葬儀紹介センターも、内情は葬儀を取り次ぐブローカーのような会社が多く売上の15～30パーセントを葬儀屋から徴収してしまうため、品質のよい葬儀社との契約が維持できなくてトラブルになってしまうケースも多い。
English: Generally, the gross profit on the sales amount of a funeral home is approximately 40-60% and the net profit is in the single-digit percent, which makes the profit almost nothing if a middleman is involved.
Japanese: 一般に葬儀社の売上に対する粗利益は40％～60％ぐらい、純利益は一桁パーセント程度なので紹介業者を仲介するとほとんど利益が出ない。
English: Although there is a service in which a funeral counselor unaffiliated with any funeral home acts as a proxy in the advance arrangements, actual circumstances are such that the consumer public feel that the threshold is too high due to a high consulting fee.
Japanese: このようなトラブルを防止する目的で、葬儀社とは提携していない葬儀相談員が事前準備を代行するサービスもあるが、相談料がかかるため、一般消費者には敷居が高いのが現状である。
English: In this case, the body is to be transported home, but a special license is necessary to do so.
Japanese: その場合、遺体を自宅に搬送するわけだが遺体を運ぶには特殊免許が必要である。
English: For that reason, representatives of a funeral home always stand by in a hospital and they take care of the transportation home, but the funeral home sometimes settle in for the situation and move arrangements forward according to their own way.
Japanese: その為病院に葬儀屋が常に待機しており自宅に搬送して貰えるのだが、そのまま居座り葬儀屋の思うがまま話を進めてしまう場合がある。
English: The best way is to select a funeral home beforehand and to request the funeral home to come to the hospital when it becomes necessary.
Japanese: あらかじめ葬儀社を決めておけば病院で亡くなった時に決めていた葬儀社に連絡をして来て貰うのが一番である。
English: If other funeral homes, by some change, take care of the transportation home, then the best way is to give a reward and offer cordial thanks and an apology upon returning home.
Japanese: 万が一、他の葬儀社に搬送してもらった場合は自宅に戻った後にお礼金を渡して丁重にお礼とお断りをして帰って貰う事が一番である。
English: Many funeral homes, even on a national scale, make it a practice to offer standardized plans and subcontract 100 percent to a local funeral home in a region only to take a profit and the actual situation is that the business form is a proxy service using the internet and it falls far short of a nationwide development.
Japanese: 全国対応の葬儀社も、業務は決まったプランでその地域の業者に丸投げしマージンをとるだけの形式が多く、ネットを使用した営業代行で全国展開というには程遠いというのが実情である。
English: Additionally, a person who interferes with a funeral service shall be punished by imprisonment with or without work or a fine of not more than 100,000 yen according to the Penal Code, Article 188 (2) 'Crimes Related to Places of Worship and Graves.'
Japanese: また、葬儀を妨害した者は刑法188条第2項「礼拝所及び墳墓に関する罪」で懲役、禁固または、十万円以下の罰金刑が科される。
English: Cremation is a type of treating the dead by incinerating the body.
Japanese: 火葬（かそう）は、死体を葬るための処理の一つで、遺体を燃焼することである。
English: In Japan, after the cremation, the cremated remains, or 'bones left after cremation,' are collected and placed in a Kotsutsubo (a pot for cremated bones) and buried in the ground (legally it is defined as 'the burial of the cremated bones,') or stored in an ossuary (Act Concerning Graveyard, Burial, etc., Article 2).
Japanese: 日本では、火葬の後の「焼骨」は骨壷に収（拾）骨され、土中に土葬（法律的には「焼骨の埋蔵」）されるか、納骨堂等に収蔵されることになる（墓地、埋葬等に関する法律第2条）。
English: Thus, it is also considered as a process of the funeral rather than 'a type of funeral.'
Japanese: 従って、「葬儀の方法の一つ」というよりも、その、一過程であるという考え方もある。
English: In some cases, the ashes of the deceased are scattered, nowadays, there are some local public authorities which prohibit or control ash dispersal with regulations.
Japanese: 散骨される場合もあるが、現在では条例等により禁止・規制している地方公共団体も出現している。
English: At present the expression to 'practice Dabi' means 'to cremate.'
Japanese: 現代でも「火葬にする」の意味で用いられる言葉として「荼毘に付す」がある。
English: This 'Dabi' comes from a word of Sanskrit, jhpeta, which is a Buddhist term and means cremation.
Japanese: この荼毘（だびとも）は火葬を意味する梵語jhpetaに由来し、仏教用語である。
English: According to "Shoku Nihonshoki" Second Chronicles of Japan), the first person whose body was cremated is said to be Buddhist monk Dosho and this took place in 700.
Japanese: 『続日本紀』によると、日本で最初に火葬された人は僧道昭であり、文武天皇四年（700年）のことであるとされる。
English: However, the recent years' findings have gradually showed us the possibility that the cremation had been practiced prior to that.
Japanese: ただし、近年の知見によるとそれに先行して火葬がおこなわれていた可能性が強くなってきている。
English: One style of kofun (ancient Japanese burial mounds) is called 'Kamadozuka' (furnace mound) or 'Yokoanashiki mokushin nendoshitsu' (horizontal wood-core clay chamber) and some examples of this style show traces that cremation had been practiced there.
Japanese: 古墳の様式のひとつに「かまど塚」「横穴式木芯粘土室」などと呼ばれるスタイルのものがあり、そのなかには火葬がおこなわれた痕跡があるものが認められる。
English: These burial mounds appeared in the late 6th century, and if these findings are confirmed by more research, the history of Japanese cremation history may be more than 100 years older than previously thought.
Japanese: それらは6世紀後半から出現しており、研究が進めば日本における火葬史は100年以上遡ることになるものと思われる。
English: Up until the early modern ages, most people including Buddhists, were buried under the earth in a coffin, and in some cases, the bodies were left exposed to the vultures (sky burial) and other natural forces.
Japanese: 近世までは、仏教徒を含め、主流はむしろ棺桶を使った土葬であり、一部には鳥葬に代表される曝葬の習慣もあった。
English: As cremation requires not only a lot of fuel such as firewood, but also certain skills, it cannot be denied that it was a costly funeral method.
Japanese: 火葬は多くの薪などの燃料を必要とし、また技術も求められるため、費用がかかる葬儀様式であったことは否定できない。
English: During the modern era, the Meiji Government issued an ordinance that prohibited cremation in 1873 in relation with the Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism, which was formulated with the purpose of national unity.
Japanese: 近代に入ると、明治政府は明治6年に神道による挙国一致を目指した神仏分離令に関連して火葬禁止令を布告した。
English: However, in 1875, the government abolished this ordinance because of the backlash from the Buddhists and for hygienic reasons.
Japanese: 仏教徒からの反発や衛生面の理由から明治8年には禁止令を廃止している。
English: After that, along with the progress of cremation techniques, the practice of cremation became extensively widespread in modern and contemporary Japanese society,
Japanese: その後火葬技術が進歩したこともあり、近現代の日本では火葬が飛躍的に普及した。
English: In Japan nowadays, almost of all bodies are cremated, except for the residents in isolated islands and mountainous areas.
Japanese: 現代の日本では、離島や山間部の住民を除いてほとんど全ての遺体は火葬される。
English: In modern Japan, the percentage of cremation is almost 100% and is the standard form of funeral that is also socially accepted as the most uncontroversial.
Japanese: 火葬率がほぼ100%である現代の日本では、火葬がごく普遍的なものとなっており、世間体にも無難なものとして受け入れられる。
English: The population is concentrated in cities, and in these urban areas, it is difficult to secure burial sites.
Japanese: 都市に人口が集中しており、その都市部では土葬で埋葬するために必要な土地が確保することができない。
English: However, for various cultural reasons, the spread of cremation is not wholeheartedly supported.
Japanese: しかし多様な文化的理由から、火葬の普及は必ずしも諸手を挙げての賛同を得ているわけではない。
English: Some of the Shinto leaders consider cremation as a cruel method of funeral practiced by Buddhists and prohibit it.
Japanese: 神道家の一部には火葬を仏教徒の残虐な葬儀法として禁忌する思想がある。
English: In some cases, t is also considered as oppression toward local culture in regions such as Ryukyu, where burial by exposure of the body has been practiced.
Japanese: 琉球における洗骨葬のような地域的な文化への圧迫と受け止められる場合がある。
English: In the world, there are many cultures such as Islam, where cremation is prohibited by religious law (cremation throughout the world is mentioned later).
Japanese: 世界的にみて、イスラームなど、火葬を禁忌とする戒律を有する文化が少なくない（後述世界における火葬）。
English: In recent years, the percentage of Muslim population is increasing among Japanese and foreign people living in Japan, and thanks to the efforts of those who are strictly adhere to Muslim values, in some cases, funerals at burial sites are allowed without cremation.
Japanese: 近年では国内の日本人・外国人のなかでムスリムの人口が増加しており、彼らのうち戒律に厳格な者の努力により、土葬地を確保し火葬によらない葬儀を行う例もみられる。
English: In Japanese law, a dead body (or fetus of seven months or more) should not be cremated within 24 hours after death (or after stillbirth) (Article 3, Act of Burial, Cremation, etc.)
Japanese: 日本の法律上は、原則として、死体（もしくは妊娠7箇月以上の胎児）は死後（もしくは死産後）24時間以内は火葬してはならないとされている（墓地、埋葬等に関する法律第3条。
English: However, death caused by a designated communicable disease under the Infectious Diseases Prevention Law is not subject to this rule.
Japanese: 但し、伝染病予防法で定められていた法定伝染病による死亡の場合はこの限りでない）。
English: When cremation is undertaken, permission of the head of the municipality, who received the death notification for the deceased is required (Article 5, Act of Burial, Cremation, etc.), and in case cremation takes place without this permission, it not only constitutes an offense of the Act of Burial, Cremation, etc. (Article 21of the Act, 'Punitive' clause) but also can be considered as a violation of the Penal Code, Article 190, 'Abandonment of a Corpse.'
Japanese: また、火葬をおこなう場合には、当該死体に係る死亡届等を受理した市町村長の許可が必要であり（墓地、埋葬等に関する法律第5条）、この許可を受けずに火葬した場合には、墓地、埋葬等に関する法律違反となるほか（「罰則」規定同法第21条）、刑法190条「死体遺棄・死体損壊罪」に問われる可能性もある。
English: Burials other than cremation are not prohibited, but except for those residents living in areas in which the custom of such a burial still remains, undertaking other ways of burial is costly and not readily available.
Japanese: なお、土葬など火葬以外の方法が禁じられているわけではないが、その風習が残る場所の居住者がおこなう場合を除いて、高い費用がかかる敷居の高いものとなってしまっている。
English: Cremation takes place in a crematory or the burial ground, and it is practiced outside and the body is cremated using firewood (especially for cremation) in all cases.
Japanese: 火葬は火葬場か墓地でされるが、いずれにしても屋外で、薪（火葬用のもの）で焼かれる。
English: In Confucianism, cremation is an act of mutilation to the body, and in the codes of Chinese imperial dynasties, its prohibition is clearly stated (Sumio NAKA, 'A study on Jeo chon Sim Yuk's Thought of Hwayi and of So Junghwa' (A study on Centric vs. Barbarian concept and Small Sino centrism in Jeo chon Sim Yuk (literary remains of Jeo chon, edited by Sim Yuk)), 'Academic Report of Kyoto Prefectural University, Humanities and Social Science,' December 2003: ISSN13433946).
Japanese: 儒教では火葬は身体の毀損行為であり、中国の歴代王朝の法典においても禁止が明記されている（中純夫「樗村沈錥における華夷観念と小中華思想」「京都府立大学学術報告人文・社会」2003年12月ISSN13433946）。
English: Looking back to cremation in Japan, where cremation is widely practiced, it is very interesting that the Buddhist monk Dosho, who came to Japan from a Confucian country (Tang) played a pivotal role in the spread of cremation in Japan.
Japanese: これを踏まえて火葬日本の火葬に立ち戻るなら、その儒教の国（唐）から渡来した仏教の僧道昭が、日本における火葬の嚆矢となったことは非常に興味深い事実といえる。
English: Judaism, Christianity and Islam have teachings of resurrection with a great judgment where the original body is considered necessary and therefore they have a strong taboo regarding cremation, but recently, cremations are increasing in number.
Japanese: また、ユダヤ教およびこれに起源を持つキリスト教、イスラームでは、最後の審判における死者の復活の教義を持ち、この際もとの体が必要と考えられているため、火葬への禁忌が強いが最近では火葬も増えている。
English: In the United States the cremation rate only reaches a little more than 20%, because there is a strong taboo among the conservative Protestants, but on the other hand, in the United Kingdom, another Christian country, and many of the countries which were or have been under British influence, the rate is around 70% and therefore, looking to religious aspects for reasons against cremation may not necessarily be correct.
Japanese: アメリカ合衆国での火葬率は、プロテスタント保守派の間で禁忌が強いこともあり20%強にとどまるといわれるものの、一方で、同じキリスト教圏にあるともいえるイギリス、及び同国の影響下にある、あった国々の多くでは、いずれの70%強、ないしこれに準ずるの火葬率を示していることから、火葬と、これを禁忌とする素因を宗教的側面については、一定の留保をもって臨む姿勢が求められるであろう。
English: There are cases in which Muslims living in Japan, where cremation is predominant, secured burial sites for themselves in order to be able to directly bury the dead body under the earth.
Japanese: 火葬が主流の日本国内で暮らすイスラム教徒が、土葬が行い得る墓地を自力で確保した事例もある。
English: It is said that in this religious sphere in general, burning the dead body might be considered as an insult to the dead.
Japanese: 一般的には、これらの宗教圏では、遺体を焼くことは死者への侮辱と取られる場合すらあるといわれている。
English: However, among the Muslims, there is a difference depending on the sects, and it is said that the more secular and moderate sects show some signs of acceptance.
Japanese: しかし、このイスラームの場合も、宗派によって温度差はあり、世俗的、温和的宗派の場合には許容する姿勢を見せる場合もあるともいわれる。
English: It is also called "Enmei Jikku Kannongyo" (Kannon Sutra for Long Life in Ten Statements), and the person who added the two characters 'en mei' is Hakuin, who lived in the Edo Period and is considered to be chuko no so (father of restoration) of the Rinzaishu sect, as described below.
Japanese: 別名を『延命十句観音経』（えんめい―）とも言うが、「延命」の二字を付け加えたのは江戸時代の臨済宗中興の祖といわれる白隠である（後述）。
English: It is one of the Buddhist scriptures in the lines of the Kannon-gyo Sutra; it has only 42 words and is known as the shortest gikyo (apocryphal scripture), but because it has been said from ancient times that one can receive a blessing by merely repeating it, it is very popular.
Japanese: 大乗経典の観音経系経典に属し、わずか42文字の最も短い経典として知られる偽経だが、古来ただ何度も唱えるだけでご利益を得られるとされており、人気が高い。
English: The oldest literature relating to "Jikku Kannongyo" is "Bussotoki" which was compiled in 1269 by a shamon (priest) named Chi-p'an (Shiban) in Nantoko under the Southern Sung Dynasty and which is a record of the lives of the founders of the Chinese Tendaishu sect; the literature contains the following record of the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Japanese: 『十句観音経』に関する最古の文献は、中国天台宗の祖師列伝を記録した南宋咸淳四明東湖沙門志磐撰『仏祖統紀』（1269年）で、そこには次のような南北朝時代の記録が載せられている。
English: Under the Song (Southern Dynasty) in 450, Liu Yilong, the third-generation Emperor Wen, waged war on the Northern Wei Dynasty despite opposition from Liu Kangzu, Shen Qingzhi, and others.
Japanese: 宋(南朝)の元嘉27年（450年）、第三代皇帝文帝劉義隆は劉康祖・沈慶之らの反対を押し切って北魏へと攻め込んだ。
English: The main army consisting of Liu Yuanjing, Xne Andu, 龐法起, and others achieved a series of victories and took Tong Gate; however, Wang Xuanmo, who proceeded his army in Huaibei, took Qiao'ao and seized Huatai (geographical names) but was forced to take flight in the face of the imperial expeditionary force led by Taiwudi of the Northern Wei Dynasty crossing a ford in great number.
Japanese: 柳元景・薛安都・龐法起らの本軍は連戦連勝して潼関を陥れたが、一方、淮北に別軍を進めた王玄謨（おうげんぼ）は、碻磝を陥れ、滑台を包囲したにもかかわらず、北魏の太武帝の親征軍が大挙して渡河したため敗走に追い込まれた。
English: Although the above story is said to have taken place in 450, since there are no other surviving ancient documents mentioning the events, it can only be supposed that "Jikku Kannongyo" was popular during the period in which "Bussotoki" was compiled.
Japanese: この話は450年の事跡ということであるが、他に記載する古資料がないため信憑性は乏しく、『仏祖統紀』撰述の時代に『十句観音経』が普及していたということを示唆するのみである。
English: In addition to the above, there is also a legend describing a miracle which relates that when Sonkeitoku of the Northern Wei Dynasty was about to be executed and the executioner brought the axe down, Sonkeitoku uttered the aforementioned scripture and the axe was broken; however, another legend has it that the scripture uttered by Sonkeitoku was some other "Kookannonkyo" (another of the Buddhist scriptures), thus the story is not certain.
Japanese: このほかに、北魏の孫敬徳が処刑されそうになったときに、同一の経文を唱えたところ、死刑執行人が刀を振り下ろしても刀が折れてしまうという霊験があったという伝説もあるが、孫が唱えたのは別の『高王観音経』であるともいい、はっきりしない。
English: In Japan, there is a legend which relates that when Emperor Reigen had a high priest named Reiku search for the scripture having the most remarkably miraculous effects, Reiku selected Jikku Kannongyo.
Japanese: 日本では、霊元天皇が最も霊験あらたかな経典を霊空和尚に探させた結果、これに行き着いたという伝説がある。
English: However, there is no evidence to support this legend other than that it was mentioned by Hakuin in "Enmei Jikku Kannongyo Reigenki" (The Wondrous Power of the Kannon Sutra for Long Life in Ten Statements).
Japanese: しかしこの伝説は江戸時代に白隠が『延命十句観音経霊験記』に述べている以外に裏づけがないようである。
English: Other than the above, Hakuin also examined several other legends and recommended people to utter this scripture saying that although the scripture is gikyo, it has significant miraculous effects, and as such, with Hakuin's "Enmei Jikku Kannongyo Reigenki" the scripture became popular.
Japanese: 白隠は上記の他いくつかの伝説を採り上げ、偽経といえどもこれだけ霊験があるのだからと、人々に唱えることを推奨し、『延命十句観音経霊験記』をあらわしたため普及した。
English: Even today, Jikku Kannongyo is still used in the daily recitation of sutras and copying of sutras and the like, mainly in the Rinzaishu sect which was reinvigorated by Hakuin.
Japanese: 現在も白隠の再興した臨済宗を中心に、日常の読経や写経などに用いられている。
English: Also, the original 'Kannon-gyo Sutra (Myohorengekyo Kanzeon Bosatsu Fumombon, Chapter 25)' is quite long, in which even the shortest part of the gebun, or the sesonge recitation of verses, exceeds 500 words; accordingly, sometimes Jikku Kannongyo is read as a replacement sutra, as was recommended by Zen monks such as Shigeo KAMATA.
Japanese: また、本来の「観音経（妙法蓮華経観世音菩薩普門品第二十五）」は、短い偈文（世尊偈）部分のみでも500字を越える長大な経典であり日常の読経としては長すぎるため、代用として十句観音経を読むことも行われており、鎌田茂雄などの禅僧がそれを薦めている。
English: In 1966, Hideo BO, the Minister of Health and Welfare in the third reshuffled cabinet of the first Sato government, was intently copying Jikku Kannongyo in his notebook for a calming effect during his impeachment speech at the Diet.
Japanese: 1966年、第1次佐藤第3次改造内閣の坊秀男厚生大臣は、国会において自身の弾劾演説を受けている最中、精神を落ち着かせるために手帳に懸命に十句観音経を写経していた。
English: This was seen by a Zen monk named Taido MATSUBARA, and he later mentioned it in his book.
Japanese: このことが禅僧の松原泰道の眼に留まり、松原は後にこれを著書で取り上げた。
English: Hocho is to let a bird which has been captured or reared by humans free from human stewardship by releasing it out of doors.
Japanese: 放鳥（ほうちょう）とは、人間によって捕獲あるいは飼育されていた鳥類を野外に放し、人間の管理下から離脱させること。
English: In Japan, ryoyukai (hunting associations) across Japan continue to release pheasants and copper pheasants which were reared as game for hunting.
Japanese: 日本では狩猟用の獲物として飼育していたキジやヤマドリを放すことが、日本各地の猟友会により続けられている。
English: The stork in Japan is bred through artificial rearing because it has become extinct in the wild.
Japanese: 日本のコウノトリは野生での絶滅状態を受け、人工飼育によって繁殖が行われている。