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English: Ojo Gokuraku-in Hall (Important Cultural Property): Topped by a kirizuma-zukuri (the front of the roofs has a triangular space shape made by the incline of the two sides of the roof) hip-and-gable shingled roof.
Japanese: 往生極楽院（重文）-入母屋造、杮（こけら）葺き、切妻造（屋根側面が三角形に見える側を正面とする）。
English: The funazoko tenjo (wooden ceiling shaped like the bottom of a boat with high center) allows enough space for the 2.3 meter central statue of Amitabha flanked by two attendants.
Japanese: 内部は船底天井（船底のような形状に板を貼り、中央部を高くした天井）として、中尊の像高2.3メートルの阿弥陀三尊像を堂内の空間一杯に安置する。
English: It was constructed at the end of the Heian period in the 12th century but underwent extensive repairs in 1616 during the Edo period so that the exterior of the building essentially dates from the Edo period.
Japanese: 平安時代末期、12世紀の創建だが、江戸時代の1616年（元和(日本)2年）に大幅な修理を受けており、建物の外回りはほとんど江戸時代のものに変わってしまっている。
English: The inscription within the Mahasthamaprapta attendant statue allows the piece to be dated at 1148 during the late Heian period.
Japanese: 脇侍の勢至菩薩像像内の銘文から平安時代末期の1148年（久安4年）の作とわかる。
English: The statues of Amitabha, Kannon and Mahasthamaprapta are depicted coming to earth to escort the deceased to the Western Pure Land Paradise and are characteristic in that the two attendants are sitting in a Japanese formal manner.
Japanese: 阿弥陀如来、観音菩薩、勢至菩薩の三尊が西方極楽浄土から亡者を迎えに来る（来迎）形式の像で、両脇侍が日本式の正座をしている点が特色である。
English: 10 minutes walk from Kyoto Bus Ohara bus stop (approximately 60 minutes from Kyoto eki mae, approximately 40 minutes from Sanjo Keihan, approximately 25 minutes from Kokusai Kaikan mae eki).
Japanese: 京都バス大原バス停より徒歩10分（京都駅前から約60分、三条京阪から約40分、国際会館前駅から約25分）
English: Hokai-ji Temple, located in Hino, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, is a special head temple of the Daigo branch of the Shingon Sect.
Japanese: 法界寺(ほうかいじ)は、京都市伏見区日野にある真言宗醍醐派別格本山。
English: It is known as being the Bhaisajyaguru-dedicated family temple of the Hino family of the Fujiwara clan under the alternate names 'Hino Yakushi' and 'Chichi Yakushi' as well as renowned for its National Treasures of the Amitabha hall and statue of Amitabha.
Japanese: 藤原氏の一族である日野家の氏寺で、「日野薬師」あるいは「乳薬師」の別名で知られる薬師信仰の寺であるとともに、国宝の阿弥陀堂と阿弥陀如来像を有することでも知られる。
English: Hokai-ji Temple is situated in Hino, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, to the south of Daigo-ji Temple and near to the Uji City boundary.
Japanese: 法界寺は、醍醐寺の南方、宇治市との境界に近い、京都市伏見区日野に所在する。
English: "Hojoki" author, KAMO no Chomei lived in Hino and it is also the birthplace of Shinran.
Japanese: 日野は、『方丈記』の著者である鴨長明の住んだ地であり、親鸞の生誕地としても知られる。
English: The origin of Hokai-ji Temple is believed to lie in the Buddha hall enshrining Bhaisajyaguru that was built during the latter part of the Heian Period in 1051 by the former doctors of letters (monjo hakase) Sukenari HINO after entering the priesthood.
Japanese: 平安時代後期の永承6年（1051年）、もと文章博士（もんじょうはかせ）で後に出家した日野資業（すけなり）が、薬師如来を安置する堂を建てたのが法界寺の始まりとされている。
English: The inside of the Amitabha statue contains approximately 10cm long statues of Bhaisajyaguru that were created by Dengyo Daishi Saicho and handed down through the Hino family.
Japanese: 薬師如来像の胎内には、日野家に代々伝わる、伝教大師最澄自作の三寸の薬師像を納入したという。
English: It tells that the temple was constructed in 822 by FUJIWARA no Iemune, who came four generations before Sukenari HINO, as a family temple dedicated to a statue of Bhaisajyaguru carved by Saicho and with Saicho acting as founding patron.
Japanese: すなわち、日野資業の4代前の藤原家宗が弘仁13年（822年）、最澄自作の薬師像を本尊とし、最澄を開基として一族の氏寺を建てたとするものである。
English: The later increase in devotion to Amitabha and the spread of pessimism due to decadent-age theory during the latter part of the Heian period led to the construction of an Amitabha hall at Hokai-ji Temple.
Japanese: その後、平安後期の阿弥陀信仰の高まりや末法思想の普及にともない、法界寺にも阿弥陀堂が建てられた。
English: It is known from diaries and records of the time that at least five sixteen-shaku (shaku = about 30.3cm) Amitabha statues existed at Hokai-ji Temple during the latter part of the Heian period.
Japanese: 平安時代後期の法界寺には、当時の日記等の記録で判明するだけで少なくとも5体の丈六の阿弥陀如来像が存在したことがわかっている。
English: However, it is not known which of these is currently housed within the Amitabha hall.
Japanese: 現在、阿弥陀堂に安置される像がそのうちのどれに当たるかは判明していない。
English: It is said that Jodo Shinshu sect founder, Shinran was born at Hokai-ji Temple in 1173 as the son of Arinori HINO (Hino Tanjo-in Temple, constructed during the Edo-period and connected to the birthplace of Shinran, stands near Hokai-ji Temple).
Japanese: なお、浄土真宗の開祖である親鸞は、承安(日本)3年(1173年)に日野有範の子として、法界寺にて生まれたとされている（法界寺の近くには親鸞の生誕地にちなんで江戸時代に創建された日野誕生院がある）。
English: Bhaisajyaguru hall (main hall, Important Cultural Property): Originally the main hall of Dendo-ji Temple in Tatsuta, Ikaruga Cho, Nara Prefecture that was relocated in 1904.
Japanese: 薬師堂（本堂、重文）－1904年（明治37年）、奈良県斑鳩町竜田にあった伝燈寺の本堂を移築したもの。
English: Dendo-ji Temple was thought to have stood in the vicinity of Tatsuta-jinja Shrine in Ikaruga Cho but few details are known.
Japanese: 「伝燈寺」については、斑鳩町の竜田神社付近にあったと思われるが詳しいことはわかっていない。
English: The principal image wooden standing statue of Bhaisajyaguru (Important Cultural Property) was created during the latter part of the Heian period and has come to be worshipped as 'Chichi Bhaisajyaguru' (healthy breast-feeding Bhaisajyaguru) as it is believed that praying to the statue will improve the flow of breast milk.
Japanese: 本尊薬師如来立像（重文）は平安時代後期の作で、この像に祈願すると女性の乳の出がよくなるとされ、「乳薬師」として信仰を集めている。
English: It is presumed to have been rebuilt soon after being destroyed by a fire resulting from a conflict in 1221.
Japanese: 承久3年（1221年）の兵火で焼失後、まもない頃の建立と推定される。
English: The Ho-Goken (length between pillars at the front, back, right and left sides are all 5-ken) (ken= about 1.8m) hall is surrounded by a 1 ken deep pent roof enclosure and topped by a pyramidal cypress bark roof.
Japanese: 方五間（正面、背面、両側面の柱間の数がいずれも5間）の堂の周囲に1間の裳階（もこし）をめぐらした形で、屋根は宝形造（ピラミッド形）で檜皮葺きである。
English: The statue is large at 2.8 meters tall and is a typical of the style of Buddhist sculptor Jocho.
Japanese: 像高2.8メートルの巨像で、仏師定朝の様式を受けた定朝様（よう）の阿弥陀像の典型的な作品。
English: 47 paintings: 23 of these adorn the long, narrow, horizontal wall above the upper non-penetrating tie beams of the inner sanctum (10 sky paintings, 5 paintings of instruments and Buddhist alter fittings, 8 paintings of Amitabha) and the other 24 are painted on the wall above this and depict Hoso Gemon)
Japanese: 壁画47面-内陣長押上の小壁に描かれた23面（飛天図10面、楽器・仏具図5面、阿弥陀如来像8面）と、その上部の壁に描かれた宝相華文（ほうそうげもん）24面からなる。
English: They are a rare example in Japan of images painted, not on wooden walls, but on mud walls.
Japanese: 板壁でなく土壁に描かれた壁画として日本における稀少な例の1つである。
English: 4 shitenbashira (the four pillars placed around the Buddhist altar): Paintings depicting images such as Buddhist deities of the Vajradhatu mandala, the twelve celestials and Kalavinka remain on the shitenbashira but have undergone severe peeling and fading.
Japanese: 四天柱4本－四天柱（仏壇周囲に立つ4本の柱を指す）にも、金剛界曼荼羅の諸仏や、十二天、迦陵頻伽などの絵画が残っているが、剥落・褪色が甚だしい。
English: Manpuku-ji Temple, located in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture, is the grand head temple of the Obaku Sect of Buddhism.
Japanese: 萬福寺（まんぷくじ）は、京都府宇治市にある黄檗宗（おうばくしゅう）大本山の寺院。
English: It was founded by Yinyuan Longqi, has the honorific mountain prefix 'Obakusan' and is dedicated to the principal image Shakamuni.
Japanese: 山号は黄檗山、開山は隠元隆き（いんげんりゅうき）、本尊は釈迦如来である。
English: It is the central temple of the Obaku Sect, the latest of the pre-modern Buddhist sects to be established in Japan, and was built after the Ming Dynasty Chinese monk, Yinyuan was invited to serve as Kaisan (first head priest).
Japanese: 日本の近世以前の仏教各派の中では最も遅れて開宗した、黄檗宗の中心寺院で、中国・明出身の僧隠元を開山に請じて建てられた。
English: The temple is unique among Japan's Buddhist temples as it maintains a Chinese style from its buildings and Buddhist imagery to its ceremonies and vegetarian food.
Japanese: 建物や仏像の様式、儀式作法から精進料理に至るまで中国風で、日本の一般的な仏教寺院とは異なった景観を有する。
English: The 'Man' character of the temple's name 'Manpuki-ji' is sometimes written using the simplified kanji (万), but the temple's legal name uses the traditional kanji character (萬).
Japanese: 「万福寺」と表記されることもあるが、宗教法人としての名称は「萬福寺」であるため、本項でも「萬福寺」と表記する。
English: The Obaku Sect's head temple, Manpuku-ji Temple houses Buddhist statues that are Chinese in style (the style that was prevalent around the end of the Ming dynasty) and the temple precinct is arranged differently to other Buddhist temples in Japan.
Japanese: 黄檗宗大本山である萬福寺の建築、仏像などは中国様式（明時代末期頃の様式）でつくられ、境内は日本の他の寺院とは異なった空間を形成している。
English: The temple's Buddhist vegetarian food is a Chinese style cuisine known as Fucha, which is characterized by the use of large amounts of vegetable oil and being served on a large dish from which individual helpings are taken.
Japanese: 本寺の精進料理は普茶料理と呼ばれる中国風のもので、植物油を多く使い、大皿に盛って取り分けて食べるのが特色である。
English: Manpuku-ji Temple is known for being closely related to green tea ceremony originator, Baisao.
Japanese: 萬福寺は煎茶道の祖・売茶翁（ばいさおう）ゆかりの寺としても知られる。
English: Yinyuan and his disciples Muyan Xingtao and Jifei Ruyi were all masters of calligraphy, and the three men are collectively referred to as 'Obaku no Sanpitsu' (The Three Master Calligraphers of the Obaku sect).
Japanese: 隠元と弟子の木庵性トウ（もくあんしょうとう）、即非如一（そくひにょいつ）はいずれも書道の達人で、これら3名を「黄檗の三筆」と称する。
English: Therefore, Yinyuan's arrival in Japan and the founding of Manpuku-ji Temple brought not only new Zen Buddhism, but also various aspects of Chinese culture.
Japanese: このように、隠元の来日と萬福寺の開創によって、新しい禅がもたらされただけでなく、さまざまな中国文化が日本にもたらされた。
English: In addition to kidney beans ('ingenmame' in Japanese), which became named after Yinyuan, moso bamboo, watermelon and lotus root are also said to have been brought to Japan by Yinyuan.
Japanese: 隠元の名に由来するインゲンマメのほか、孟宗竹（もうそうちく）、スイカ、レンコンなどをもたらしたのも隠元だといわれている。
English: The temple's founding priest, Yinyuan Longqi was born in Ming Dynasty China's Fuzhou City, Fujian Province in 1592.
Japanese: 開山・隠元隆琦は中国明時代の万暦20年（1592年）、福建省福州市に生まれた。
English: It was 1654 when Yinyuan was invited to Japan, aged 63.
Japanese: 隠元が招かれて来日するのは1654年（順治11年、承応3年）、63歳の時である。
English: At the time, Japan had adopted a policy of isolationism when travel into and out of Japan was highly restricted and only the port of Nagasaki was open, so those Ming Dynasty Chinese subjects in Japan constructed Chinese style temples such as Sofuku-ji Temple (Nagasaki City) and Kofuku-ji Temple (Nagasaki City).
Japanese: 当時の日本は鎖国政策を取り、海外との行き来は非常に限られていたが、長崎の港のみは開かれ、明人が居住し、崇福寺(長崎市)（そうふくじ）、興福寺(長崎市)のような唐寺（中国式の寺院）が建てられていた。
English: Yinyuan came to Japan after being invited by Monk Itsunen Shoyu of Kofuku-ji Temple in Nagasaki.
Japanese: 隠元は長崎・興福寺の僧・逸然性融（いつねんしょうゆう）らの招きに応じて来日したものである。
English: Itsunen originally invited Yinyuan's disciple, a monk named Yelan Xinggui, but he lost his life when the vessel on which he was traveling became lost at sea.
Japanese: はじめ、逸然が招いた僧は、隠元の弟子である也嬾性圭（やらんしょうけい）という僧であったが、也嬾の乗った船は遭難し、彼は帰らぬ人となってしまった。
English: This led Itsunen to invite Yelan's master, Yinyuan, who was also famous in Japan.
Japanese: そこで逸然は也嬾の師であり、日本でも名の知られていた隠元を招くこととした。
English: Yinyuan initially declined to travel to Japan due to his age, but finally decided to make the trip after frequent invitations and the desire to fulfill the dying wish of his disciple Yelan Xinggui who passed away without realizing his ambition.
Japanese: 隠元は高齢を理由に最初は渡日を辞退したが、日本側からたびたび招請があり、また、志半ばで亡くなった弟子・也嬾性圭の遺志を果たしたいとの思いもあり、ついに渡日を決意する。
English: In 1654, Yinyuan traveled to Japan with 30 disciples, first residing at Nagasaki's Kofuku-ji Temple and then Fumon-ji Temple in Settsutonda (present day Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture).
Japanese: 承応3年（1654年）、30名の弟子とともに来日した隠元は、はじめ長崎の興福寺、次いで摂津富田（せっつとんだ、現・大阪府高槻市）の普門寺（ふもんじ）に住した。
English: Yinyuan promised the disciples left in China that he would return in 3 years.
Japanese: 隠元は中国に残してきた弟子たちには「3年後には帰国する」という約束をしていた。
English: When the three years were up, he received numerous letters from his disciples and supporters in China requesting his return and he also wanted to return but many of his devotees in Japan, including former chief priest of Myosin-ji Temple, Ryokei Shosen, firmly hoped that he remain in Japan and appealed to the Shogunate.
Japanese: 来日3年目になると、中国の弟子や支援者たちから隠元の帰国を要請する手紙が多数届き、隠元本人も帰国を希望したが、元妙心寺住持の龍渓性潜（りょうけいしょうせん）をはじめとする日本側の信奉者たちは、隠元が日本に留まることを強く希望し、その旨を幕府にも働きかけている。
English: In 1658, Yinyuan headed to Edo for an audience with Shogun Ietsuna TOKUGAWA.
Japanese: 万治元年（1658年）、隠元は江戸へおもむき、将軍徳川家綱に拝謁している。
English: Ietsuna also became devoted to Yinyuan and, in the following year in 1660, the Shogunate granted him land in Uji, Yamashiro Province on which a new temple for was built for him.
Japanese: 家綱も隠元に帰依し、翌万治3年（1660年）には幕府によって山城国宇治に土地が与えられ、隠元のために新しい寺が建てられることになった。
English: Yinyuan had now decided to remain in Japan and, although he was originally to return to China after only three years, he ended up being buried in Japan.
Japanese: ここに至って隠元も日本に留まることを決意し、当初3年間の滞在で帰国するはずであったのが、結局日本に骨を埋めることとなった。
English: The temple, founded in 1661, was given the same name as the one in his home in Fuzhou, which, in Japanese is pronounced Obakusan Manfuku-ji and construction proceeded with the support of the Shogun and several Daimyo so that the temple was essentially complete by 1679.
Japanese: 寺は故郷福州の寺と同名の黄檗山萬福寺と名付けられ、寛文元年（1661年）に開創され、造営工事は将軍や諸大名の援助を受けて延宝7年（1679年）頃にほぼ完成した。
English: Entering through the main gate and walking in a straight line from west to east, Hojo-ike pond is to the right, the Sammon gate stands further on, directly through this is the Tenno-den hall, further along is the Daio Ho-den hall, and past this is the Hatto.
Japanese: 総門をくぐると右手に放生池、その先に三門があり、三門の正面には天王殿、その奥に大雄宝殿（だいおうほうでん）、さらに奥に法堂（はっとう）が西から東へ一直線に並ぶ。
English: The square walkway connecting the Tenno-den and Daio Ho-den hall is lined on the right side (southern side) by the Belfry, Garan-do hall and Sai-do hall, and on the left side (northern side) lined by the Drum tower, Soshi-do hall and Zen-do hall in symmetrical positions.
Japanese: 天王殿と大雄宝殿の間をロの字状に結ぶ回廊に沿って右側（南側）には鐘楼、伽藍堂、斎堂があり、左側（北側）には対称的な位置に鼓楼、祖師堂、禅堂が建つ。
English: These buildings differ from usual Japanese temple architecture in that they have been built in a late Ming Dynasty Chinese style and constructed from southern teakwood.
Japanese: これらの建物は日本の一般的な寺院建築とは異なり、中国の明時代末期頃の様式でつくられ、材料も南方産のチーク材が使われている。
English: Numerous designs and techniques rarely seen in Japan have been incorporated, including balustrades with 'Manji-Kuzushi,' decorative swastika' patterns, arched ceilings named 'Obaku ceilings', circular windows and a decorative peach shape named 'To-fu' engraved on the doors.
Japanese: 「卍字くずし」のデザインによる高欄、「黄檗天井」と呼ばれるアーチ形の天井、円形の窓、扉に彫られた「桃符」と呼ばれる桃の実形の飾りなど、日本の他の寺院ではあまり見かけないデザインや技法が多用されている。
English: In addition, taking a left (north) from the path between the Sammon gate and Tenno-den leads to an area named Shoin-do hall that is dedicated to the temple founder, in which buildings including the Kaisan-do hall and reliquary hall stand.
Japanese: これらのほか、三門-天王殿間の参道を左（北）に折れたところに開山の塔所である松隠堂と呼ばれる一画があり、開山堂、舎利殿などが建つ。
English: This multilevel design Chinese style gate with a tiled roof that is high in the middle but low on the left and right sides has a form that is not generally seen in Japanese shrine and temple architecture.
Japanese: 瓦屋根の中央部分を高く、左右の部分を低く、段差を設けているのは中国風で、日本の一般的な社寺建築には見かけない形式である。
English: The fish on the left and right of the roof are not orcas but fictional creatures called Makara that have legs instead of fins.
Japanese: 屋根上左右に乗る魚のようなものは鯱ではなく、摩伽羅という想像上の生物でヒレの代わりに足が生えている。
English: The word 'Makara' means crocodile in the Sanskrit and Pali languages and is used on the entrances of Buddhist temples in southeast Asia.
Japanese: マカラはサンスクリット及びパーリ語でワニを表す言葉で、東南アジアでは仏教寺院の入口などに用いられている。
English: Three bays and three entrances' means that all three of the front bays serve as entrances (Japanese Zen Buddhist temples usually have a Sammon gate with 'five bays and three entrances').
Japanese: 「三間三戸」は門の正面柱間が3間で、3間すべてが通路になっているものを指す（日本の禅宗寺院の三門は一般的には「五間三戸」である）。
English: The placement of a hall such as this directly in front of the main hall is a feature of the Chinese style temple layout that is rarely found in Japan.
Japanese: 本堂の手前にこのような堂を置くのは中国式の伽藍配置で、日本では珍しい。
English: This statue is completely different from the statue of Maitreya sitting contemplatively in the half-lotus position that is well-known in Japan and instead presents the form of a potbellied Hotei.
Japanese: この像は日本で著名な半跏思惟形の弥勒菩薩像とは全く異なり、太鼓腹の布袋像として表わされている。
English: These are all Chinese style statues that were created by the Ming Dynasty Chinese Buddhist sculptor Daosheng FAN who traveled to Japan.
Japanese: これらの像は来日していた明の仏師・范道生の作で、いずれも中国風の様式でつくられている。
English: A large wooden fish named 'Kaipan' hangs from the front of Sai-do hall.
Japanese: 斎堂前には開梆（かいぱん、「ぱん」は木偏に邦）という巨大な木製の魚が吊り下げられている。
English: It is struck to signal when it is time for meals or services and is said to be where fish-shaped wooden temple drums originated.
Japanese: これは叩いて食事や法要の時間を知らせるためのものであり、木魚の原型と言われている。
English: Soshi-do hall: Stands on a site symmetrical to the Garan-do hall and houses the memorial tablets of the father of Chinese Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma as well as successive head priests.
Japanese: 祖師堂-伽藍堂と対称位置に建ち、中国禅宗の祖である達磨の像と歴代住職の位牌を安置する。
English: In addition, the Tohojo, Seihojo, Oryokaku (Okuri) and Jikodo (Shido) have all been designated Important Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 他に、東方丈、西方丈、黄龍閣（大庫裏）、慈光堂（祀堂）が重要文化財に指定されている。
English: It is where Yinyuan lived during his retirement after passing on the position of head priest to Muyan.
Japanese: 隠元が2世の木庵に住職を譲った後の隠居所として居住したところである。
English: An estate was donated in 1663 by a nobleman's wife who was devoted to Yinuyan and renamed 'Shoin-do' after being relocated to Manpuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 寛文3年（1663年）、隠元に帰依するある夫人から屋敷を寄付され、萬福寺に移築して「松隠堂」と称したことに始まる。
English: Shoin-do hall was originally an independent religious corporation but merged with the Manpuku-ji Temple religious corporation in 1959.
Japanese: 松隠堂は元は萬福寺とは独立した宗教法人であったが、昭和34年（1959年）に宗教法人萬福寺と合併した。
English: The building was constructed in 1972 on the 300th anniversary of the death of the sect's founder and serves as an exhibition room as well as an Obaku Cultural Research Institute.
Japanese: 宗祖三百回忌を機に昭和47年（1972年）に建てられたもので、展示室のほか、黄檗文化研究所を設置する。
English: 16 buildings of Manpuku-ji Temple (main gate, Sammon gate, Tenno-den hall, Daio Ho-den hall, Hatto, Belfry, Drum tower, Garan-do hall, Soshi-do hall, Sai-do hall, Zen-do hall, Tohojo, Seihojo, Shi-do hall, Okuri, Itoku-den hall) (including 8 corridors, Tutelary shrine, Ro Munefuda, 5 paintings of the temple, 7 books relating to the temple's construction).
Japanese: 「萬福寺」16棟（総門、三門、天王殿、大雄宝殿、法堂、鐘楼、鼓楼、伽藍堂、祖師堂、斎堂、禅堂、東方丈、西方丈、祠堂、大庫裏、威徳殿）（附廊8棟、鎮守社、廊棟札、伽藍絵図5点、作事関係文書7冊）
English: 7 buildings of Manpuku-ji Temple Shoin-do (Tsugen-mon gate, Kaisan-do hall, reliquary hall, Juzo, Kyaku-den, Kuri, Jishinryo (including the rear gate, Hozo, Belfry, 2 corridors, Sekihi-tei)
Japanese: 「萬福寺松隠堂」7棟（通玄門、開山堂、舎利殿、寿蔵、客殿、庫裏、侍真寮）（附裏門、宝蔵、鐘楼、廊2棟、石碑亭）
English: 4 Shihon-Tansai Saiko-zu, 4 Saiko-zu, 8 Kokeisansho-zu, 8 Gohyakurakan-zu, 4 Bakufu-zu and 1 Hato-zu all painted by IKE no Taiga.
Japanese: 紙本淡彩西湖図4幅、西湖図4幅、虎渓三笑図8幅、五百羅漢図8幅、瀑布図4枚、波涛図1面池大雅筆
English: Book of light color on shiny silk images of Kannon (18 images) painted by Xian CHEN dated 1636 with the title and inscription of Yinyuan
Japanese: 絖本淡彩観音図1帖（18図）陳賢筆崇禎九年の款記、隠元の題字及び賛がある
English: Obakuzan wooden frame/pillar couplet/board (40 frames, 44 couplets, 13 boards, 14 manuscripts)
Japanese: 黄檗山木額・柱聯（ちゅうれん）・榜牌（ぼうはい）（額40面、聯44対、榜牌13面、下書14幅）
English: It is unique in that it is used as a penalty (special instruction training) for professional cyclists who have repeatedly violated the rules during races.
Japanese: ユニークなのがレース中に違反行為を重ねた競輪選手のペナルティ（「特別指導訓練」と称する）として使われること。
English: The athletes fear 'going to the temple' as the 5 days of rigorous training leaves them unable to practice cycling.
Japanese: 5日程度過酷な修行をし、自転車の練習も出来ないことから選手からは「お寺ゆき」として恐れられている。
English: The architecture, Buddhist imagery, paintings and gardens date from the latter part of the Heian period in the 11th century and the temple has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the 'Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto.'
Japanese: 平安時代後期・11世紀の建築、仏像、絵画、庭園などを今日に伝え、「古都京都の文化財」の一部として世界遺産に登録されている。
English: It had been devoted to both Jodo Sect and Tendai Sect since the 17th century but is now independent and not affiliated with any particular Buddhist sect.
Japanese: 宗派は17世紀以来浄土宗と天台宗を兼ね、現在は特定の宗派に属さない単立の仏教寺院となっている。
English: The Uji area to the south of Kyoto is the setting for the 'Uji Jujo' (10 Uji chapters) of the "The Tale of Genji" and had been a place where nobility constructed their villas since the early Heian period.
Japanese: 京都南郊の宇治の地は、『源氏物語』の「宇治十帖」の舞台であり、平安時代初期から貴族の別荘が営まれていた。
English: The current location of Byodo-in Temple is where the Sadaijin (Minister of the Left), MINAMOTO no Toru of Saga Genji, who is said to have been the model for Hikaru Genji, built his villa at the end of the 9th century, which was then passed on to Emperor Uda who gave it to his grandson MINAMOTO no Shigenobu before it became the Uji-den villa of Regent FUJIWARA no Michinaga in 998.
Japanese: 現在の平等院の地は、9世紀末頃、光源氏のモデルとも言われる左大臣である嵯峨源氏の源融（みなもとのとおる）が営んだ別荘だったものが宇多天皇に渡り、天皇の孫である源重信を経て長徳4年（998年）、摂政藤原道長の別荘「宇治殿」となったものである。
English: Michinaga passed away in 1027 and his son, Chancellor FUJIWARA no Yorimichi converted Uji-den into a Buddhist temple in 1052.
Japanese: 道長は万寿4年（1027年）没し、その子の関白藤原頼通は永承7年（1052年）、宇治殿を寺に改めた。
English: The Kaisan (first priest) was Myoson, grandson of ONO no Tofu and Chori (chief priest) of Onjo-ji Temple.
Japanese: 開山（初代執印）は小野道風の孫にあたり、園城寺長吏を務めた明尊である。
English: At the time of its founding, the main hall stood near the bank of the Uji-gawa River, north of the Ho-o-do hall, and housed the principal image of Vairocana, but in 1053 the Amitabha hall (present Ho-o-do hall) was constructed as an earthly representation of the Western Pure Land Paradise.
Japanese: 創建時の本堂は、鳳凰堂の北方、宇治川の岸辺近くにあり大日如来を本尊としていたが、翌天喜元年（1053）には、西方極楽浄土をこの世に出現させたような阿弥陀堂（現・鳳凰堂）が建立された。
English: This is the theory that Buddhism would decline, natural and man-made disasters would continue and the world would be plunged into chaos 2,000 years after Sakyamuni Buddha's passing into Nirvana (death).
Japanese: 釈尊の入滅（一般で言う「死去」）から2,000年目以降は、仏法がすたれ、天災人災が続き、世の中は乱れるとする思想である。
English: The thinking at the time of Byodo-in Temple's founding in 1052 coincided with the first year of the 'Third Age of Buddhism' and members of the noble classes prayed to be reborn in paradise and built numerous Buddha halls devoted to Western Pure Land Paradise overseer, Amitabha.
Japanese: 平等院が創建された永承7年（1052年）は、当時の思想ではまさに「末法」の元年に当たっており、当時の貴族は極楽往生を願い、西方極楽浄土の教主とされる阿弥陀如来を祀る仏堂を盛んに造営した。
English: In addition to Byodo-in Temple, the Imperial family and nobility successively built many large temples in Kyoto during the latter part of the Heian period.
Japanese: 平安時代後期の京都では、平等院以外にも皇族・貴族による大規模寺院の建設が相次いでいた。
English: In 1020, FUJIWARA no Michinaga constructed Muryoju-in Temple (later Hojo-ji Temple) and, from the second half of the 11th to the 12th century, first Hossho-ji was built at Emperor Shirakawa's order, and the so-called 'Six Superiority Temples' Sonsho-ji Temple, Saisho-ji Temple, Ensho-ji Temple, Seisho-ji Temple and Ensho-ji Temple were successively built in the area now known as Okazaki, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 藤原道長は寛仁4年（1020年）、無量寿院（のちの法成寺）を建立、また11世紀後半から12世紀にかけては白河天皇勅願の法勝寺を筆頭に、尊勝寺、最勝寺、円勝寺、成勝寺、延勝寺のいわゆる「六勝寺」が今の京都市左京区岡崎あたりに相次いで建立された。
English: However, not a trace remains of these once great temple complexes - a fact that makes Byodo-in Temple, established by Heian period nobles and with its surviving architecture, Buddhist imagery, wall paintings and gardens irreplaceable.
Japanese: しかし、歴史書に名をとどめるこれらの大伽藍も今は跡形もなく、平安時代の貴族が建立した寺院が建物、仏像、壁画、庭園まで含めて残存するという点で、平等院はかけがえのない存在となっている。
English: Two-storey pagoda: Constructed in 1061 by Yorimichi's daughter, FUJIWARA no Kanshi.
Japanese: 多宝塔－康平4年（1061年）、頼通の娘の藤原寛子（かんし）によって建立。
English: Godai-do hall: Constructed in 1066 by the Udaijin (Minister of the Right), FUJIWARA no Morozane (third son of Yorimichi).
Japanese: 五大堂－治暦2年（1066年）、右大臣藤原師実（頼通三男）によって建立。
English: Fudo-do hall: Constructed in 1073 by the Udaijin (Minister of the Right), MINAMOTO no Morofusa (Yorimichi's adopted son).
Japanese: 不動堂－延久5年（1073年）、右大臣源師房（頼通養子）によって建立。
English: Beginning with a fire arising from the 1336 conflict between Masashige KUSUNOKI and the Ashikaga army, the above-mentioned buildings were all completely destroyed by numerous fires but the Ho-o-do hall has miraculously managed to avoid destruction.
Japanese: 建武(日本)3年（1336年）の楠木正成と足利氏の軍勢の戦いの兵火をはじめ、度重なる災害により上記の堂塔は廃絶し、鳳凰堂のみが奇跡的に災害をまぬがれて存続している。