nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: The formal name as a municipal park is 'Nara Kenritsu Toshi koen Nara Koen' (Nara Prefectural Park, Nara Park, and its total size is 502 hectares.
Japanese: 都市公園としての正式名称は「奈良県立都市公園　奈良公園」といい、総面積は502ha。
English: The total area including the grounds of nearby Kofuku-ji Temple, Todai-ji Temple, Kasuga-taisha Shrine, Nara National Museum, and so on, reaches around 660 hectares (about 4 kilometers east and west and about 2 kilometers north and south).
Japanese: 周辺の興福寺、東大寺、春日大社、奈良国立博物館、なども含めると総面積はおよそ660ha（東西約4km、南北約2km）に及ぶ。
English: The park is dotted with a lot of objects that have been designated the National Treasures or registered the World Heritages, and it is one of the tourist areas representing Japan, which a number of tourists visit from not only the domestic regions of Japan but also foreign countries all the year around.
Japanese: 公園内には多くの国宝指定・世界遺産登録物件が点在し、年間を通じて日本国内のみならず外国からも多くの観光客が訪れ、日本を代表する観光地の一つとなっている。
English: The Great Buddha of Nara and deer are famous internationally, too, and are main objects of sightseeing in Nara, so a lot of students are seen to come here on a school trip.
Japanese: 奈良の大仏や鹿は国際的にも有名で、奈良観光のメインとなっており、修学旅行生の姿も多く見られる。
English: A lot of events are held which are worth seeing as those suitable to an ancient capital like Nara, such as Shunie (Omizu-tori or Sacred Water-drawing Festival) at Todai-ji Temple, Nara Tokae (Candle festival), Exhibition of Shosoin Treasures, Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri Festival, and so on.
Japanese: 東大寺修二会やなら燈花会、正倉院展、春日若宮おん祭など古都ならではの見ごたえのある行事も数多い。
English: There are no walls, fences, nor gates, etc., and admission is free, so you can take a walk from anywhere and anytime (24 hours, 365 days).
Japanese: 塀・柵・門などがなく入園料も不要なのでどこからでも、いつでも（365日・24時間）散策することができる。
English: Additionally, the name under the former 'Law for the Historic Site, Places of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monuments' is 'Meisho Nara Koen' (Place of Scenic Beauty Nara Park).
Japanese: なお、旧「史蹟名勝天然紀念物保存法」に基づく名称は「名勝奈良公園」である。
English: They are amiable to tourists, and they are gaining popularity by shaking their heads vertically to press tourists for Shika Senbei (baked snack for deer).
Japanese: 彼らは観光客に愛嬌を振りまき、首を縦に振って鹿せんべいをねだる姿が人気を集めている。
English: By the way, the original reason why the deer are in this park is as follows:
Japanese: なお、この公園に鹿が放し飼いされていることには以下のような由来がある。
English: That is to say, it has been handed down to us that a deer is a Shinshi (Divine Servant) of Kasuga-taisha Shrine, and that, when Kasuga-taisha Shrine was founded, Takemikazuchi no Mikoto who was the enshrined god of Kashima-jingu Shrine in Ibaraki Prefecture had come here riding a divine deer (Kasuga-taisha Shrine is one of the branch shrines for three shrines including Kashima).
Japanese: すなわち、鹿は春日大社の神使であり、春日大社創建の際、茨城県にある鹿島神宮の祭神・武甕槌命が神鹿に乗ってやってきたと伝えられる（春日大社は鹿島含め3社の分霊）。
English: Therefore, the deer in Nara Park have been protected very carefully since ancient times, and, including unexpected accidents, when someone killed one of them, he or she received a severe punishment.
Japanese: それゆえ、奈良公園の鹿は古くから手厚く保護されてきており、不慮の事故も含め、殺めると厳しい刑罰を受けた。
English: Legend says that a child who killed a deer with a paperweight by accident was buried alive with a body of the deer, and that the grave still remains around Nara Park.
Japanese: 伝説によると誤って文鎮で鹿を殺してしまった子供が鹿の死骸とともに生き埋めとなり、その墓が奈良公園周辺に残っている。
English: Besides, because they had been deified, they were protected carefully, and they increased in the number of individuals.
Japanese: その上神格化していたために手厚い保護の下で、個体数を増やしていった。
English: But because an antipathy toward careful protection arose after Meiji Restoration, and because it was necessary to secure the food during and for a while after World War II, they were hunted, and as a result the number of the deer decreased markedly to double digits.
Japanese: しかし、明治維新からは手厚い保護への反発から、戦中から戦後しばらくの間は食糧確保のため狩られ、その結果頭数が二桁まで激減した。
English: After that, Nara City established 'Foundation for the Protection of Deer in Nara Park' and has made an effort to protect them, so that they have recovered to the present-day popularity.
Japanese: その後は奈良市が「財団法人奈良の鹿愛護会」を作り、保護に努め、その結果今日の生息数に至っている。
English: These deer are designated a Precious Natural Treasure of the State as wild deer, and anyone that hurt them or did them a mischief on purpose will be punished for the violation of the Law of the Protection of Cultural Properties.
Japanese: この鹿は野生鹿として国の天然記念物に定められており、故意に傷を付けたり悪戯したりした場合は文化財保護法違反の罪で罰せられる。
English: But on the other hand, a lot of collision or contact accidents happen between the cars which the tourists drive and the deer in recent years (this is also the top cause of death of the deer), and so, when driving in the neighborhood of Nara Park, drivers must always take care of the deer's leaping out to the road.
Japanese: その一方で、近年は観光客が運転する乗用車と鹿の衝突、接触事故が多発しており（鹿の死因のトップにもなっている）、奈良公園界隈の道路では、常に鹿の飛び出しに注意を払う必要がある。
English: In 2003, a case in which a deer was shot with an air gun happened, and on August 8, 2008, a deer was found to be stabbed with a fishing spear.
Japanese: 2003年には、鹿がエアガンで打たれる事件があり、また、2008年8月8日には、鹿が漁具の銛で刺されているのが見つかっている。
English: Moreover, in Nara Park, the deer are often seen to cross the road and hinder the traffic, or to get into the houses or premises in the neighborhood.
Japanese: また奈良公園では、鹿が道路を横断して交通を妨げたり、付近の家や敷地に入り込む光景がしばしば見られる。
English: They seem to go out fairly far at midnight, and sometimes appear even around JR Nara Station.
Japanese: 深夜にはかなり遠出もしているようで、JR奈良駅周辺にも出没することがある。
English: The situations of the deer in Nara are investigated every year by their conservation group, 'Foundation for the Protection of Deer in Nara Park,' and according to the investigation published in 2008, there are 1128 deer in total (33 fewer than the previous year), and 262 of them are bucks, 695 does, and 171 fawns (provisional).
Japanese: 奈良の鹿については保護団体である「奈良の鹿愛護会」が毎年調査しており、2008年発表の調査によれば、全1128頭（前年比33頭減）、内オス262頭、メス695頭、仔鹿171頭である（暫定）。
English: Recently, the shortage of the financial resources of 'Foundation for the Protection of Deer in Nara Park' has become serious, and so, that group takes some actions like actively urging tourists to buy Shika Senbei, but as the present situation it has never reached to a drastic solution.
Japanese: 最近では、「奈良の鹿愛護会」の財源不足が深刻であり、観光客に鹿せんべいの購入を積極的に勧めるなどの活動をしているが、根本的な解決には至っていないのが現状となっている。
English: Particularly, there are many cases in which tourists give deer a lot of cookies that they had bought at the stores in the other places, which have become problems.
Japanese: 特に観光客が他所の店で買ってきた菓子などを大量に与える例も多く、問題化している。
English: Or, take the City Loop Bus Sotomawari (outer loop) at JR or Kintetsu Nara Station and get off the bus stops at 'Himuro-jinja, Kokuritsu-Hakubutsukan,' 'Daibutsu-den Kasuga-taisha mae,' or 'Kasuga-taisha Honden.'
Japanese: 又はJR・近鉄の各奈良駅から市内循環バス外回り「氷室神社・国立博物館」・「大仏殿春日大社前」・「春日大社本殿」下車。
English: Drive 10 kilometers through National Route 24 (for Nara) to National Route 369 from Kizu Interchange of Keinawa Expressway.
Japanese: 京奈和自動車道木津インターチェンジ(京都府)から国道24号（奈良方面）～国道369号で10km。
English: A French composer Olivier MESSIAEN composed 'Seven Haikai' (literally, seven 17-syllable verses, in 1962) of which the second number is titled 'Nara Park and Lanterns of Stone.'
Japanese: フランスの作曲家オリヴィエ・メシアンの作品「7つの俳諧」（1962年）の第2曲には「奈良公園と石灯籠」というタイトルが付けられている。
English: When MESSIAEN came to Japan in 1962, he visited various places in the country including Kyoto, and composed this 'Seven Haikai' by combining the impressions of those trips into one work.
Japanese: この「7つの俳諧」は、メシアンが1962年に来日し奈良をはじめとする日本各地を訪れた折の印象を作品としてまとめたものである。
English: One theory has it that Joan was named after 'Joan' or 'Johan,' which was the Christian name of Urakusai ODA, who was the owner of the tea house.
Japanese: この如庵という名称は、一説によれば庵主織田有楽斎のクリスチャンネーム「Joan」または「Johan」から付けられたという。
English: Urakusai had built another tea house named Joan before on the site of his house in Osaka Temma, which was reconstructed as 'Genan' in the Urakuen Garden.
Japanese: なお、有楽斎はこれより前に如庵の名を持つ茶室を大坂天満屋敷にも好んで（造って）おり、同じ有楽苑内に「元庵」の名で復元されている。
English: The tea house was built in 1618, when Shoden-in, which was a subtemple of Kennin-ji Temple in Kyoto City, was reconstructed by Nagamasu ODA, who was Nobunaga ODA's own younger brother.
Japanese: 元和(日本)4年（1618年）に、織田信長の実弟織田長益によって、京都市の建仁寺の塔頭である正伝院が再興された際、建造された茶室である。
English: In 1873, Shoden-in was merged with Eigen-in, on which occasion it was disposed of to supporters in Gion-cho.
Japanese: 明治6年（1873年）、正伝院は永源院に合併されるが、その際、祇園町の有志に払い下げられた。
English: (Trivia: it is said that the whole house in its original form was transported to Tokyo along the Tokaido road without being disassembled.)
Japanese: （余談：この際、解体せず原型のまま車両に積んで東海道を東京まで運搬したと伝えられる）。
English: Later, in 1938, it was transferred into the site of a villa in Oiso-machi, Naka County, Kanagawa Prefecture by Takamine MITSUI, and in 1972, it was transferred again to the present site by Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.
Japanese: その後昭和13年（1938年）に、三井高棟によって神奈川県中郡大磯町の別荘に移築され、さらに、昭和47年（1972年）には名古屋鉄道によって現在地に移築されている。
English: It was designated as a national treasure pursuant to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 1951.
Japanese: 文化財保護法による国宝に指定されたのは昭和26年（1951年）である。
English: With a facade being tsuma (the gable end of a structure normally at right angle to the main ridge) provided with a kokerabuki (shingled) irimoya-style (hipped) roof, Joan has a distinctive stylishness different from that of Taian built by SEN no Rikyu.
Japanese: 杮（こけら）葺き入母屋風の妻を正面に向け千利休の待庵とも違った瀟洒な構え。
English: It has an eaved doma (a floor of hard-packed earth) with a wing wall on its front left, which leads to the nijiriguchi (crawling entrance) on its right and the hika (or kosho, attendant of a noble person) no ma on its far end.
Japanese: 正面左側に袖壁を持つ土間庇を設け、右躙り口、正面控えの間（扈従の間）へのアプローチとする。
English: From the katteguchi, which serves as both sadoguchi (entrance for making tea) and kyujiguchi (apprentice's doorway), a wall extends obliquely along the traffic line of the service, and a triangle board called 'urokoita' is placed on the doorway.
Japanese: 茶道口と給仕口を兼ねるこの勝手口からは給仕の動線に沿って斜行する壁を立て足元には三角形の板畳「鱗板（うろこいた）」を敷く。
English: The tokobashira with naguri (rough-hewn post) carved with an adz manifests the rigid taste of samurai, yet it is not the least rough.
Japanese: ナグリの床柱はそのチョウナの目痕に武家らしい剛直さを感じさせるが決して粗野ではない。
English: Although tokonoma is located to the right behind the host, it is close enough to the host because it is a dedoko.
Japanese: 床の間は亭主の右手後方に位置することになるが、出床にしたため距離的には離れない。
English: While the nakabashira and itakabe partition the hanjo (a half sized tatami mat) used as shobanseki (seat for an accompanying guest) located beyond furosaki from teishudatami (tatami used as teishuza), by providing an arched aperture in the lower part of the wall, they also meticulously take into account how the accompanying guest will look at it.
Japanese: 中柱と板壁で風炉先にある相伴席の半畳を亭主畳と区切るとともに下部は丸く切り欠いて吹き通しにして相伴者の視線への配慮もぬかりない。
English: Although such structure is unusual, along with the urokoita, the structure doesn't show an irrationality; rather, it manifests extraordinary skills of Urakusai, who is said to have been 'a special tea practitioner other than the seven disciples of Rikyu.'
Japanese: 鱗板とともに異例の構成であるが不合理性は感じられず、「利休七哲とは別格」といわれる有楽斎の並々ならぬ技量を示す。
English: The room, more spacious than a koma (smaller tearoom) of two tatami mats, yet retaining a sense of tension must be credited to Joan Urakusai, who explicitly said 'a room of two and a half or one and a half tatami mats is like a torture to the guest(s).'
Japanese: 二畳の小間と違ってゆとりがありかつ緊張感を失わない室内空間は、「二畳半、一畳半は客を苦しめるに似たり」と言い切った如庵・有楽斎の面目躍如と言うべきだろう。
English: The ceiling under the front eave has a kakekomi tenjo (ceiling consisting of different planes) structure that takes advantage of the gradient, with kesho-nokiura (rear eave with exposed balks and roofboards) style surface, on the center of which a tsukiage mado (top-hinged swinging window) is provided.
Japanese: 前庇下の室内は勾配そのままに化粧軒裏の掛け込み天井になっていて中央には突き上げ窓が穿たれている。
English: Although there are total of five windows provided on the walls, i.e., one facing the eaved doma with a wing wall, two on the south wall that usually take in subdued light to avoid direct sunlight, two on the east wall which are urakumado with tightly arranged bamboo slats, the light amount is not sufficient.
Japanese: 壁面にはつごう５カ所の窓が設けられているが、ひとつは袖壁のある土間庇に向けられているし、南側の二箇所は通常直射日光を嫌って光量は押さえられるし、さらに東壁の二箇所は竹を詰め打ちにした有楽窓であるから、光量としては十分とは言えない。
English: However, the light from the tsukiage mado almost at the center of the room well supplements the quantity of light.
Japanese: しかし室のほぼ中央に設けられた突き上げ窓からの光がこれを補って余りある。
English: Rather, the subdued light coming through the windows on the walls accentuates the top light dramatically.
Japanese: むしろ周囲の窓からの光量を絞り込むことにより天窓からの光の効果をより劇的なものにしている。
English: When looking at the tea house from a modern point of view, the rationality found in every aspect of the tea house is nearly perfect.
Japanese: 現代的な視点からこの茶室を眺めてみても、そこに貫かれている合理性はほとんど完璧なものと言っていい。
English: The structure of musomado (a window made of narrow boards or slats, wider than ordinary muntins, taterenji, set vertically in a line with approximately the same size spaces between them) is rigid, showing the taste of Urakusai who was a samurai.
Japanese: 無双窓はしっかりとした造作でここにも有楽斎の武人らしい好みが反映されている。
English: On the whole, the decorous style quite different from that of Soan tea house by Rikyu reflects the 'temperance of samurai,' making it a masterpiece tea house.
Japanese: 総じて端正で利休の草庵茶室とは一線を画しており「武家の節度」を感じさせる名席中の名席。
English: Tago hi is an ancient stone monument in Aza Gomon, Ike, Yoshii Town, Tano County, Gunma Prefecture and designated as a special national historic site.
Japanese: 多胡碑（たごひ）は、群馬県多野郡吉井町池字御門にある古碑であり、国の特別史跡に指定されている。
English: In the history of Japanese calligraphy, it is one of the Japan's Three Ancient Monuments along with Nasu no Kuni no Miyatsuko no Hi (an old monument of local ruling families in Nasu Province) and Tagajo hi (an old monument in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture).
Japanese: また、日本の書道史の上から、那須国造碑、多賀城碑と並ぶ日本三大古碑の一つとされる。
English: The monument consists of the body, capping stone and stone pedestal, and the body is a prismatic column 125 cm in height and 60 cm in width, on which 80 kanji (Chinese characters) of 6 lines are engraved in yagen-bori style (a carving method in which each line is cut or carved so that its section is V-shaped).
Japanese: 碑身、笠石、台石からなり、材質は安山岩、碑身は高さ125センチメートル、幅60センチメートルの角柱で6行80文字の漢字が薬研彫りで刻まれている。
English: The pyramidal capping stone is 25 cm in height, having an eave 88 cm in width.
Japanese: 笠石は高さ25センチメートル、軒幅88センチメートルの方形造りである。
English: A character '國' (country) is said to be engraved on the pedestal stone, but it is impossible to confirm it because of concrete repair.
Japanese: 台石には｢國｣の字が刻まれていると言われるが、コンクリートにより補修されているため、現在確認できない。
English: The material is Ushibuse sandstone produced in the vicinity, locally called Amabiki stone or Tako stone.
Japanese: 材質は近隣で産出される牛伏砂岩であり、地元では天引石、多胡石と呼ばれている。
English: The epigraph reads that it was built on April 5, 711 in commemoration of the establishment of Tago County, but there are different opinions on the interpretation.
Japanese: その碑文は、和銅4年3月9日(旧暦)（711年）に多胡郡が設置されたことを記念した内容となっているが、その解釈については、未だに意見が分かれている。
English: Particular attention has been paid to the two-letter kanji '給羊' through the ages, and there has been a long-term controversy as to whether the kanji '羊' (a sheep) means a direction or a personal name.
Japanese: 特に｢給羊｣の字は古くから注目され、その「羊」の字は方角説、人名説など長い間論争されてきた。
English: In addition, a lot of personal-name theory supporters take the kanji '羊' as people from Korea, and there are opinions that Tago may mean many 'Ko' (here, read as 'Go;' savage from Northern China in ancient times).
Japanese: さらに、人名説の中でも「羊」氏を朝鮮と関係する渡来人であるする見解が多く、多胡も多くの胡人を意味するものではないかとの見解もある。
English: The fact that a lot of roof tiles with the written character '羊' and Koma-jinja Shrine exists in the neighborhood strengthens this theory.
Japanese: 付近の遺跡からは｢羊｣の文字の入った文字瓦が発見されており、近隣には高麗神社も存在することから、この説を有力たらしめている。
English: Two of the Kozuke Sanpi have a different character in the content and form from that of Tago hi.
Japanese: 上野三碑のうち2碑は、多胡碑と内容、形態において性格を異にしている。
English: However, because these three stone monuments exist in a relatively small area in the same county and might have been built at about the same time, the relationship between the three monuments and the political situation at that time can be pointed out.
Japanese: しかし、3碑が同一郡内の比較的近い範囲に存在することや建碑時期が近いと考えられることから、当時の政治的状況と3碑の関連性が指摘されることもある。
English: In a calligraphic aspect, since Dosai TAKAHASHI, a Japanese classical scholar in the Edo period introduced its value, many writers and artists have visited Tago hi.
Japanese: 書道の面から見ると、江戸時代に国学者高橋道斎によってその価値を全国に紹介され、その後多くの文人、墨客が多胡碑を訪れている。
English: They are said to have been influenced by Rikucho (Six Dynasties) Culture or akin to the writing style of Northern Wei in China.
Japanese: 六朝文化の影響を受けているとも、中国北魏の書風に通ずるとも言われる。
English: For local people it was a tomb of 'Hitsuji Tayu' (a sheep officer) and they respected and worshiped it as a god, calling it 'Hitsuji-sama' (a god of sheep).
Japanese: 地元では、昔から｢羊太夫｣の墓とされ、｢羊さま｣と呼んで尊崇、信仰の対象としてきた。
English: This is why this stone monument, which is relatively easy to be damaged, has been preserved in very good condition.
Japanese: 比較的損傷しやすい石碑が、非常に良い状態で保存されてきたのはこのためだと言われる。
English: A town-managed memorial hall has been established as an annex, so if you request your visit in advance, you are allowed to enter it.
Japanese: 町営の記念館が併設されており、多胡碑の開扉願いを事前に申請すれば、堂宇に入って多胡碑を見ることができる。
English: The Kuriyama Family Residence, which is located in 1-chome, Gojo, Gojo city, Nara Prefecture, is the Japan's oldest private residence of all the residences whose dates of building are known.
Japanese: 栗山家住宅（くりやまけじゅうたく）とは、奈良県五條市五條1丁目にある建築年代の判明している民家として日本最古の建物。
English: It is an important cultural property, but closed to the public since it is still used as a residence.
Japanese: 重要文化財だが、現在も住居として使用している為に非公開となっている。
English: Kanaizawa no hi is an ancient stone monument located in Yamana Town, Takasaki City and designated as a historic site.
Japanese: 金井沢碑（かないざわのひ）は、群馬県高崎市山名町にある古碑であり、国の史跡に指定されている。
English: 112 characters of 9 lines are engraved on the pyroxene andesite 110 cm in height, 70 cm in width and 65 cm in thickness.
Japanese: 高さ110センチメートル、幅70センチメートル、厚さ65センチメートルの輝石安山岩に9行112文字が刻まれている。
English: It was unearthed in the middle of the Edo period and is said to have once been used as a washing board at the bank of a small river by farmers in the neighborhood.
Japanese: 江戸時代の中ごろに出土し、かつては小川のほとりで付近の農家の洗濯板として使用されていたという。
English: The content shows that the descendants of the ruling family of the Miyake (Imperial-controlled territory) in Takada no sato, Shimosanu-go (also known as Shimosano-go), Gunma County, Kozuke Province would build the monument to pray to Buddha for the salvation of their ancestors and safety of their parents by pledging to the heaven and earth, for the parents of the seventh generation, those of the time, and so on.
Japanese: その内容は、上野国群馬郡下賛（下佐野）郷高田里の三家（ミヤケ、屯倉）の子孫が、七世父母、現在の父母等のために天地に誓願して作る旨が記され、祖先の菩提と父母の安穏を仏に祈願している。
English: These things tell us about the enforcement of Gori-sei (Township-neighborhood system) and how Buddhism belief prevailed in people in the Nara period.
Japanese: ここから、郷里制の施行と奈良時代における民間への仏教信仰の浸透を知ることができる。
English: Miyake' engraved on Kanaizawa no hi has been thought to be 'Sano no Miyake' (ruling family of Miyake in Sano), but with recent excavation research ensuring the existence of Miyake not found in historical records, 'Miyake' can be a different Miyake from 'Sano no Miyake.'
Japanese: 金井沢碑に刻まれる「三家」は山ノ上碑に刻まれる「佐野三家」であると考えられてきたが、最近の発掘調査により史料上知られていないミヤケの存在が確実視されているため、「三家」が「佐野三家」とは別のミヤケである可能性もある。
English: On March 3, 1921 it was designated as a national historic site, and in 1954 a special national historic site.
Japanese: 1921年（大正10年）3月3日には国の史跡、1954年（昭和29年）には国の特別史跡に指定された。
English: The Inarizuka-kofun Tumulus, located in Mogusa, Tama City, Tokyo Prefecture, is a burial mound built in the late Kofun period (the period of ancient burial mounds) (the first half of the seventh century).
Japanese: 稲荷塚古墳（いなりづかこふん）は、東京都多摩市百草にある、古墳時代後期(7世紀前半)の古墳。
English: In the Edo period, there was a temple called Shifuku-in on the east side of the Inarizuka-kofun Tumulus; however, due to the Haibutsu-kishaku (a movement to abolish Buddhism) such as the Shinbutsu-bunri-rei (a law to forbidden the fusion of Shinto and Buddhism) in the early years of the Meiji period, Koiji-inari Shrine was built on the hilltop.
Japanese: 江戸時代、稲荷塚古墳の東側に資福院という寺院があったが、明治初年に神仏分離令などの廃仏毀釈により墳丘上に恋路稲荷神社が建てられた。
English: When the shrine was built, the topsoil of the burial mound was scraped away to level the mound and most of the stones used for the ceiling were also removed, which caused changes in the circumfrence.
Japanese: その際に古墳上部が著しく削平され天井石もほとんど取り去られ周囲はかなり変形した。
English: In November 1952, an archaeological excavation was conducted, initiated by the teachers at Tama Junior High School with the help of the engineering officials of the Tokyo National Museum and the students of Tama Junior High School.
Japanese: 昭和27年(1952年)11月に多摩中学校の教諭が中心となり東京国立博物館の技官と共に多摩中学校の生徒も参加し発掘調査が行われた。
English: The following year (1953), it was designated as an important cultural property of Tokyo because although the stones used for the ceiling of the stone chamber were exposed at the time, the burial mound and the stone chamber remained and it was proved that the stone chamber has a structure called Dohari-fukushitsu-kozo (multiple rooms with a womb-like structure).
Japanese: 当時、石室の天井石は露出していたが、墳丘、石室が残っている事や石室が胴張複室構造である事が判明したため、翌年(1953年)、東京都指定文化財となった。
English: However, through the research conducted from the 1980's to the early 1990's, it was proved that it was an octagonal burial mound which had never been discovered in Eastern Japan.
Japanese: しかし1980年代から1990年代前期に調査が行われた結果、東日本では発見の無かった八角墳という事が判明した。
English: Although the stone chamber used to be open to the public, it is currently backfilled to protect the chamber.
Japanese: 以前、石室は公開されていたが、現在は石室の保護のため埋め戻されている。
English: Blocks of different colors are put on the topsoil so that the location, the shape, and the size of the chamber can be recognized.
Japanese: 色違いのブロックなどで石室の位置や形、大きさが分かるようにしてある。
English: Among the seventh-century burial mounds found in Tokyo, it is the next largest burial mound after the Kitaoya-kofun Tumulus located in Hachioji City.
Japanese: 都内の7世紀代の古墳としては八王子市にある北大谷古墳に次ぐ大きさである。
English: The relationship between the Kitaoya-kofun Tumulus and the group of tombs located around the Inarizuka-kofun Tumulus is not clear because there is some distance between them.
Japanese: 北大谷古墳は稲荷塚古墳周辺の古墳群とは距離が離れており関連性は不明ではある。
English: In a history museum in Parthenon Tama located near Tama-center Station, a model stone chamber of the Inarizuka-kofun Tumulus and a part of the floor taken from the stone chamber, etc are displayed, in addition to the panels that introduce the Inarizuka-kofun Tumulus.
Japanese: 多摩センター駅にあるパルテノン多摩の歴史ミュージアムではパネルでの稲荷塚古墳の紹介以外に、稲荷塚古墳の石室の復元模型や切り取った石室の床の一部などを展示している。
English: It is thought that the height was approximately four meters; however, the height is reduced by about half because the the top part of the mound was scraped away to construct Koiji-inari Shrine.
Japanese: 高さは4mほどあったと思われるが、恋路稲荷神社を建てる際に2段目が削られ、現在は半分ほどになっている。
English: It is Yokoana-shiki sekishitsu (a stone chamber with a laterally attached entrance corridor) with three rooms: Sendo-bu (a passageway leading to the "zenshitsu") (about 1.6 meters in length and 1.2 meters in width), zenshitsu (a small room adjoining the "genshitsu") (about 2.3 meters in length and 1.7 meters in width), and genshitsu (a room where coffins and the dead were laid) (about 3.8 meters in length and 3 meters in width).
Japanese: 羨道部（長さ約1.6m、幅1.2m）・前室（長さ約2.3m、幅1.7m）・玄室（長さ約3.8m、幅3m）の三室からなっている横穴式石室である。
English: Between the genshitsu and the zenshitsu rooms, enormous stones, such as a stone gate post of 1.7 meters tall, are used.
Japanese: 玄室と前室の間には高さ1.7mの門柱石など巨大な石が使用されている。
English: On the floor of the stone chamber, red powders called Bengal (iron oxide) were spread and the fist-size stones called Enreki (conglomerate) were scattered about.
Japanese: 石室の床にはベンガラ（酸化鉄）と呼ばれる赤色の粉が撒かれており、その上に円礫と呼ばれる握りこぶし程の石が敷石として散りばめてある。
English: It used to be considered that the octagonal burial mound was built as the mausoleum of the Emperor (such as the Emperor Tenchi, the Emperor Tenmu, and the Empress Jito) constructed after the mid-seventh century.
Japanese: 以前、八角墳は7世紀中頃以降の天皇陵の古墳（天智天皇、天武天皇、持統天皇など）として考えられていた。