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English: The Hon-do Hall, which is now designated as a National Treasure, had been so ruined with broken floorboards and torn thatched roofs until around 1950 that it was ridiculed by saying, 'The temple is haunted.'
Japanese: 現在国宝に指定されている本堂も1950年ころまでは床は落ち、屋根は破れて「化け物が出る」と言われたほどの荒れ方であった。
English: Taizen TSUJIMURA, who became the chief priest of Gokuraku-in Temple in 1943 during the World War II, encouraged the maintenance of the precincts and the repair of the building, while devoting himself to the social welfare work for war orphans.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦中の1943年に極楽院の住職となった辻村泰圓は戦災孤児のための社会福祉事業に尽力するかたわら、境内の整備や建物の修理を進めた。
English: The precincts were gradually maintained: for example, TSUJIMURA established "The Foundation of Gango-ji Temple Research Center for Buddhism and Race Resources (財団法人元興寺仏教民俗資料研究所)" within the precincts in 1962 (the center has been renamed "Gangoji Cultural Property Research Center" in 1978), and a repository was established in 1965 for storing and exhibiting the temple's treasures.
Japanese: 1962年には辻村により境内に財団法人元興寺仏教民俗資料研究所が設立され（1978年に元興寺文化財研究所と改称）、1965年には寺宝を収蔵展示する収蔵庫が完成するなど、徐々に整備が進んだ。
English: "The Foundation of Gango-ji Temple Research Center for Buddhism and Race Resources (財団法人元興寺仏教民俗資料研究所)" was established with the initial aim of studying the tens of thousands resources related to the popular faith (board stupa, etc.) that had been found from a loft during the demolition and repair work of the Hon-do Hall.
Japanese: 元興寺仏教民俗資料研究所は、本堂解体修理中に屋根裏から発見された数万点の庶民信仰資料（板塔婆など）を研究することを当初の目的として設立された。
English: Gokuraku-in Temple was renamed 'Gango-ji Temple Gokuraku-bo' in 1955 and again renamed 'Gango-ji Temple' in 1977.
Japanese: 極楽院は1955年に「元興寺極楽坊」と改称、さらに1977年に「元興寺」と改称されている。
English: As for the temple buildings of Gango-ji Temple in the Nara period, the Nandai-mon gate (literally, Great South Gate), Chu-mon gate (literally, Inner Gate), Kon-do Hall (Miroku Buddha is enshrined as Honzon), Ko-do Hall (lecture hall), Sho-do Hall (hall preserving the temple bell) and Jiki-do Hall (dining hall) were arranged on the straight from south to north.
Japanese: 奈良時代の元興寺伽藍は、南大門、中門、金堂（本尊は弥勒仏）、講堂、鐘堂、食堂（じきどう）が南北に一直線に並んだ。
English: There was To-to-in Temple spreading around the Five-Storied Pagoda in the east of the outside cloisters, while there was Shoto-in Temple in the west of the outside cloisters (It is believed that a small pagoda was enshrined inside of the Shoto-in Temple).
Japanese: 回廊の外側、東には五重塔を中心とする東塔院、西には小塔院があった（小塔院には、小型の塔が屋内に安置されていたものと思われる）。
English: On the right and left sides behind the Ko-do Hall, there were several priests' living quarters.
Japanese: なお、講堂の背後左右には、数棟ずつの僧房（僧の居住する建物）があった。
English: Of them, the priests' living quarters located at the fore part in the east were remodeled in the Kamakura period to be the existing Hon-do Hall and Zen-shitsu Room.
Japanese: このうち東側手前にあった僧房を鎌倉時代に改造したものが、現存する本堂と禅室である。
English: This hall style is classified into the Yosemune-Zukuri style (a square or rectangular building, covered with a hipped roof) with a tiled roof, whose facade looks east (the design of the facade looking east is a distinctive feature in constructing Amida-do Hall [temple hall having an enshrined image of Amitabha]).
Japanese: 寄棟造、瓦葺で、東を正面として建つ（東を正面とするのは阿弥陀堂建築の特色）。
English: This hall has several unusual designs as follows: the facade of the hall is the short side of the Yosemune-Zukuri style building (the side that the roof shape looks triangular, not trapezoid), and its facade has even-numbered six-bay pillars with a pillar in the center (the common facade of Buddhism temple buildings has uneven-numbered-bay pillars like three or five without a pillar in the center).
Japanese: この建物は寄棟造の妻側（屋根の形が台形でなく三角形に見える側）を正面とする点、正面柱間を偶数の6間とし、中央に柱が来ている点が珍しい（仏教の堂塔は正面柱間を3間、5間などの奇数とし、正面中央に柱が来ないようにするのが普通）。
English: This design is suitable for 'Gyodo'--the ascetic practices of walking around the Naijin with praying to Amida Buddha.
Japanese: 内陣の周囲を念仏を唱えながら歩き回る「行道」に適した構造になっている。
English: This hall was originally the east end of the old priests' living quarters, which was remodeled in 1244 during the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の寛元2年（1244年）、旧僧房の東端部分を改造したものである。
English: The old roof-tile reused has the peculiar shape of wide lower edge and tapered off upper edge.
Japanese: ここに使われている古瓦は上部が細くすぼまり、下部が幅広い独特の形をしている。
English: The room was originally a series of the old priests' living quarters long extending east and west, including a part of the present Hon-do Hall, which was reconstructed in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 元は現・本堂も含んで東西に長いひと続きの僧房であったものを鎌倉時代に改築したものである。
English: Boarding doors fixed in four places of the facade shows that the existing parts consist of four living quarters.
Japanese: 正面の4箇所に板扉があることからわかるように、現存部分は4区画分である。
English: In addition, according to the report issued by Gangoji Cultural Property Research Center in 2000, an examination into the components of the Zen-shitsu Room with the dendrochronological technique shows that those components included trees cut down in 582.
Japanese: なお、2000年の元興寺文化財研究所の発表によれば、禅室の部材を年輪年代測定法で調査したところ、西暦582年伐採の樹木が使用されているとのことである。
English: This means, if it is true, that part of this structure used older lumber than that used for constructing the temple buildings of Horyu-ji Temple Sai-in.
Japanese: 事実とすれば、本建物の一部には法隆寺西院伽藍よりも古い材木が使用されていることになる。
English: With an extra-large scale of 9.65m on a side and 72.7m in total height, the pagoda was larger than the Five-Storied Pagoda of To-ji Temple, which was burned down in 1859 along with Kannon-do Hall and others.
Japanese: 一辺9,65m総高72,7mの東寺五重塔より大きい超大型塔があったが、1859年（安政6）に、観音堂などとともに焼失。
English: At present, a small pagoda, which was rebuilt around 1935, stands beside the remains of the Five-Storied Pagoda and no other buildings older than the small pagoda remain.
Japanese: 現在、かたわらに1935年頃再建された小堂が建つのみで、それより古い建物は残っていない。
English: Despite its small size of about 5.5m high, it is designated as a National Treasure in the category of 'architecture,' not in the category of 'handicraft.'
Japanese: 高さ5.5メートルほどの小塔だが、「工芸品」ではなく「建造物」として国宝に指定されている。
English: They say that Zenshu who was a priest of Hososhu (one of Nanto Rokushu (the six sects of Buddhism which flourished in ancient Nara)) founded Akishino-dera Temple in the Nara period or that the Akishino clan, a local powerful family, founded it, but its exact founding date and circumstances are not clear.
Japanese: 奈良時代の法相宗（南都六宗の1つ）の僧・善珠が創建したとされ、地元の豪族秋篠氏の氏寺とも言われているが、創建の具体的な時期や事情については、たしかなことはわかっていない。
English: In an article that Emperor Konin donated one hundred jikifu to Akishino-dera Temple in 780 in "Shoku Nihongi" (Chronicle of Japan Continued), Akishino-dera Temple appears first in the literature (Jikifu was a salary or a maintaining allowance for temples, and one jikifu was worth taxes levied on one household).
Japanese: 『続日本紀』に宝亀11年（780年）、光仁天皇が秋篠寺に食封（じきふ）一百戸を施入したとあるのが文献上の初見である（食封とは、一定地域の戸（世帯）から上がる租庸調を給与や寺院の維持費等として支給するもの）。
English: "Nihon Koki" (Later Chronicle of Japan) says the Buddhist service of the thirty fifth days after death for Emperor Kanmu was held at Akishino-dera Temple and it was apparently deeply related with the imperial family.
Japanese: また、『日本後紀』には大同(日本)元年（806年）、桓武天皇の五七忌が秋篠寺で行われたことが見え、天皇家とも関連の深い寺院であったと思われる。
English: Main cathedrals except for a lecture hall of Akishino-dera Temple was burned down in 1135.
Japanese: 秋篠寺は保延元年（1135年）の火災により講堂以外の主要伽藍を焼失した。
English: The existing main hall which is located on a place where an old lecture hall was placed was rebuilt in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 現存する本堂（国宝）は、旧講堂の位置に建つが、創建当時のものではなく、鎌倉時代の再建である。
English: It originally belonged to Hosso sect, Shingon sect and Jodo sect, but now is independent.
Japanese: 宗派は当初の法相宗から真言宗、浄土宗に代わり、現在は単立となっている。
English: There still remain foundation stones, the ruins of the golden hall and the east and west towers, in the wooded area between the south gate and the main hall.
Japanese: 南門と本堂の間には、雑木林の中に金堂、東西両塔の跡があり、それぞれ礎石が残っている。
English: Its structure is simple and the building looks architecture in the Nara period although it was rebuilt in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 全体に簡素な構成で、鎌倉時代の再建でありながら奈良時代建築を思わせる様式を示す建物である。
English: Placed are the principal Buddhist image, Yakushi Sanzon-zo (Triad Image of Yakushi Buddha) (an important cultural property), Junishinsho-zo (statue of Twelve Heavenly Generals), standing statue of Jizo Bodhisattva (an important cultural property), standing statue of Taishakuten (an important cultural property), and standing statue of Gigeiten (an important cultural property).
Japanese: 内部には本尊薬師三尊像（重要文化財）を中心に、十二神将像、地蔵菩薩立像（重文）、帝釈天立像（重文）、伎芸天立像（重文）などを安置する。
English: Its head was made with the dry lacquer method in the Nara period while its body was remade of wood in the Kamakura period, but the statue is well-balanced without any feeling of strangeness.
Japanese: 頭部のみが奈良時代の乾漆造、体部は鎌倉時代の木造による補作だが、像全体としては違和感なく調和している。
English: This statue is almost only one example of old sculpture of "Gigeiten" in Japan and it is not clear whether Gigeiten is a real name of the statue.
Japanese: 「伎芸天」の彫像の古例は日本では本像以外にほとんどなく、本来の尊名であるかどうかは不明である。
English: Akishino-dera Temple has three more statues whose heads were made with the dry lacquer method in the Nara period and whose bodies were made of wood in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: なお、秋篠寺にはこの像と同様に、頭部は奈良時代の乾漆造、体部は鎌倉時代の木造の像があと3体ある。
English: Yakushi Nyorai in the center is a statue made of natural timber while Nikko and Gakko bodhisattvas in both sides are colored statues, and they are not apparently a set of three Buddhist statues as their styles are different, but they all were made in the Heian period (Some says the Buddhist statue in the center was made in the Kamakura period or later).
Japanese: 中尊の薬師如来が素木仕上げであるのに対し、脇侍の日光・月光（がっこう）菩薩像は彩色仕上げで作風も異なり、本来の一具ではないと思われるがいずれも平安時代の作とされる（中尊像については鎌倉時代以降の作とする見方もある）。
English: It is a Funnu-zo (the statue of Terrible Countenance) which has six arms and around which snakes are wrapped, and it was made in the time when Akishino-dera Temple belonged to the Shingon sect of esoteric Buddhism.
Japanese: 6本の手をもち、体じゅうに蛇が巻き付いた忿怒像で、秋篠寺が真言密教寺院であった時代の作である。
English: Chugu-ji Temple, next to Horyu-ji Temple in Ikaruga-cho, Ikoma County, Nara Prefecture, is noted in connection with Prince Shotoku.
Japanese: 中宮寺（ちゅうぐうじ）は、奈良県生駒郡斑鳩町の法隆寺に隣接する、聖徳太子ゆかりの寺院である。
English: It is said that Prince Shotoku have remade the gosho (Imperial Palace) of his mother, Anahobe no hashihitohime, into a temple in 621.
Japanese: 推古天皇29年（621年）、聖徳太子が母・穴穂部間人皇女（あなほべのはしひとこうごう）の御所を寺としたと伝える。
English: Chugu-ji Temple is now next to Toin (East Precinct) of Horyu-ji Temple, but it was located 500 meter east when it was originally set up.
Japanese: 中宮寺は、現在は法隆寺東院に隣接しているが、創建当初は500メートルほど東にあった。
English: What has been found out is that the temple, like Shitenno-ji Temple in Osaka, was built with the Shitenno-ji-style temple layout, in which the Kon-do Hall (main hall of a Buddhist temple) and the pagoda are arranged ahead and behind (north and south).
Japanese: 大阪の四天王寺と同様に、金堂と塔を前後（南北方向）に並べる四天王寺式伽藍に似た配置であったことがわかっている。
English: Chugu-ji Temple fell into a decline after the Heian Period but it has remained as a monzeki temple up to today since Jikakuin no miya assumed the first monzeki (chief nun) in the early Edo period (1602).
Japanese: 中宮寺は平安時代以降衰微したが、江戸時代初期の慶長7年（1602年）、慈覚院宮を初代門跡に迎え、以後門跡尼寺として今日に至っている。
English: Hondo (main hall) is a modern Japanese style architecture built in 1968 on the request of Princess Kikuko, the wife of Imperial Prince Nobuhito.
Japanese: 本堂は宣仁親王妃喜久子の発願で1968年（昭和43年）に建立した和風の現代建築である。
English: The former Garan, located 550 meter east from the current Garan, is designated as a historic site.
Japanese: 旧伽藍は、現伽藍から東へ550ｍほどの所にあり、史跡に指定されている。
English: Its temple legend says it is Nyoirin Kannon (the Bodhisattva of Compassion), but it has been named so after the Heian Period and considered to have originally been built as Maitreya Bodhisattva in manas in a semi-lotus position.
Japanese: 寺伝では如意輪観音だが、これは平安時代以降の名称で、当初は弥勒菩薩半跏思惟像として造立されたものと思われる。
English: Tenjukoku Shucho Zanketsu(Mandala): Dyed fabric is more difficult to preserve than pottery and metal products.
Japanese: 天寿国繍帳残闕（てんじゅこくしゅうちょうざんけつ）-染織品は、陶磁器、金属製品などに比べて保存がむずかしい。
English: It is Mandala (or a diagram that depicts Buddhist deities according to certain geometric formats and illustrates the Buddhist world view) embroidered by Princess Tachibana no Ooiratsume with many uneme (maids-in-waiting at the court) in mourning for the Anahobe no hashihitohime, Prince Shotoku's mother and the prince.
Japanese: 聖徳太子の母、穴穂部間人皇女と聖徳太子の死去を悼んで王妃橘大女郎が多くの采女らとともに造った刺繍、曼荼羅である。
English: It is a papier mache statue of Buddha and the only paper-made sculpture in important cultural properties of Japan.
Japanese: 紙張子で造像した珍しい仏像で、日本の重要文化財指定の彫刻のうち「紙製」はこの像のみである。
English: Fudasho (temples where amulets are collected) etc: the eleventh of the new thirty-three temples that are visited during the Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage, the twenty-first of the twenty-five Sacred Sites of floral temples in Kansai area (Seinanin Temple), the eighth of the eighteen Historical Temples with Pagodas (Holy Places of Butto-koji) (Seinanin Temple), the sixth of the Yamato thirteen sacred places (Nakanobo Hall), a tour of Yamato seven fortunes and eight treasures (Nakanobo Hall), the ninth of Honen Shonin Nijugo Reiseki (twenty-five places where relate to Honen Shonin) (Okunoin) and the thirty-second of Shinbutsu Reijo Junpai no Michi (the road for pilgrimage to the sacred places of Gods or Buddha)
Japanese: 札所等新西国三十三箇所11番関西花の寺二十五霊場21番（西南院）仏塔古寺十八尊第8番（西南院）大和十三仏霊場6番（中之坊）大和七福八宝めぐり（中之坊）法然上人二十五霊跡第9番（奥院）神仏霊場巡拝の道第32番
English: Cultural properties: the east pagoda, the west pagoda, Mandala Hall, Sozo Miroku-butsu zazo (the earthen image of seated statue of Miroku Buddha) and so on (national treasures), Kon-do Hall (main hall of a Buddhist temple), Kanshitsu Shitenno ryuzo (standing dry lacquer statues of Four Devas), the wooden seated statue of Amida Nyoai and so on (important cultural properties)
Japanese: 文化財東塔、西塔、曼荼羅堂、塑造弥勒仏坐像ほか（国宝）金堂、乾漆四天王立像、木造阿弥陀如来坐像ほか（重要文化財）
English: The Taima-dera Temple is a temple founded during the Asuka period and located in Katsuragi City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 當麻寺（当麻寺、たいまでら）は、奈良県葛城市にある飛鳥時代創建の寺院。
English: Honzon at the time of its foundation was Miroku-butsu (Miroku Buddha) (Kon-do Hall), but Taima Mandala (Hondo [main hall]) is mainly worshipped at present.
Japanese: 創建時の本尊は弥勒仏（金堂）であるが、現在信仰の中心となっているのは当麻曼荼羅（本堂）である。
English: Kaiki (the founder) is said to be Prince Maroko, a half younger brother of the Prince Shotoku, but there are many questions about its first stage.
Japanese: 開基（創立者）は聖徳太子の異母弟・麻呂古王とされるが、草創については不明な点が多い。
English: It is an old temple known by the faith for 'the Taima Mandala' which shows Saiho Gokuraku Jodo (The West Pure Land [of Amida Buddha]) and a legend of Chujo Hime (Princess Chujo) who was related to Mandala.
Japanese: 西方極楽浄土の様子を表わした「当麻曼荼羅」の信仰と、曼荼羅にまつわる中将姫伝説で知られる古寺である。
English: Many people visit Nerikuyo eshiki (memorial marching ceremony for the dead) which is held on May 14 every year, and this event is also related with the Taima Mandala and Chujo Hime.
Japanese: 毎年5月14日に行われる練供養会式（ねりくようえしき）には多くの見物人が集まるが、この行事も当麻曼荼羅と中将姫にかかわるものである。
English: The Taima-dera Temple, famous for the legend of Hasuito Mandala (the Taima Mandala) of Chujo Hime, is located on the foot of the Mt.Nijo (or Mt.Futakami) (in Nara prefecture and Osaka prefecture).
Japanese: 中将姫の蓮糸曼荼羅（当麻曼荼羅）の伝説で名高い當麻寺は、二上山(奈良県・大阪府)（にじょうざん、ふたかみやま）の麓に位置する。
English: The Taima district, Katsuragi City, Nara Prefecture (former Taima Town, Kita-katsuragi County) where the Taima-dera Temple is located, is the west end of the Nara Basin and has a border with the Osaka Prefecture.
Japanese: 當麻寺がある奈良県葛城市当麻地区（旧・北葛城郡當麻町）は、奈良盆地の西端、大阪府に接する位置にある。
English: Mt.Nijo in this place has two tops (named Odake [literally, 'male top'] and Medake [literally, 'female top']) as its name shows and faces Mt.Miwa (Sakurai City) which is Shintaizan (a mountain where the spirit of deity is traditionally believed to dwell) in the east of the Nara Basin.
Japanese: この地にある二上山は、その名のとおり、ラクダのこぶのような2つの頂上（雄岳、雌岳という）をもつ山で、奈良盆地東部の神体山・三輪山（桜井市）と相対する位置にある。
English: Mt.Nijo was a special mountain which was regarded as an entrance of Saiho Gokuraku Jodo and the destination of dead souls because it was located in the west of the Yamato Province and the sun set in the middle of the two tops.
Japanese: 二上山は、大和の国の西に位置し、夕陽が2つの峰の中間に沈むことから、西方極楽浄土の入口、死者の魂がおもむく先であると考えられた特別な山であった。
English: The Takenouchi Street in the south of Mt. Nijo was a major traffic route between the Kawachi Province and the Yamato Province.
Japanese: 二上山の南を通る竹内（たけのうち）街道は、河内と大和を結ぶ主要な交通路である。
English: In ancient times, it was a route by which foreign goods of the Chinese continent and Korean peninsula from the port of Naniwa (Osaka) to the capital.
Japanese: 古代には中国大陸や朝鮮半島から渡来の文物が難波（大阪）の港から都へと運ばれるルートでもあった。
English: Eshin Sozu, who was a priest of the Jodo-kyo in the Heian period and the writer of "Ojoyoshu" (The Essentials of Salvation), was born in this district.
Japanese: 平安時代の浄土教僧で『往生要集』の著者である恵心僧都源信_(僧侶)はこの地方の出身である。
English: In addition, Taima district is known as a set of a fantasy fiction, "Book of the Dead," written by Nobuo ORIGUCHI (Choku SHAKU).
Japanese: また、当麻の地は折口信夫（釈迢空）の幻想的な小説『死者の書』の舞台としても知られる。
English: It is commonly said that Taima was named because mountain roads are 'tagitagishii' (hard).
Japanese: 当麻は、山道が「たぎたぎしい（険しい）」ことから付けられた名であるとの通説がある。
English: However, judging from the family trees of the maternal ancestor of the Empress Jingu (descendant of Amenohiboko), the Owari clan and the Amabe clan, it can be guessed that it had have a deep relationship with Tajima Province and Taima or Katsuragi.
Japanese: が、神功皇后の母方の先祖（アメノヒボコの子孫）、尾張氏、海部氏の系図を見ても頻繁に但馬と当麻あるいは葛城との深い関係が類推される。
English: The Taima-dera Temple was built as a family temple of the 'Taima clan,' Gozoku (local ruling family) who had power in this place.
Japanese: 當麻寺はこの地に勢力をもっていた豪族「当麻氏」の氏寺として建てられたものである。
English: There are ruins that go back to the early part of the Nara period - the latter part of the seventh century) such as Buddha statue, bonsho (large temple bell) and stone lantern, so that the foundation of the temple can be guessed around this time.
Japanese: 寺には仏像、梵鐘、石灯籠など、いずれも奈良時代前期（7世紀後半）にさかのぼる遺物があり、寺の草創はこのころと推定される。
English: However, the accurate period and situation at the time of the foundation are not seen in official history and are not so clear.
Japanese: が、創建の正確な時期や事情については正史に記録が見えず、今ひとつ明らかでない。
English: The history of its foundation can be seen in various books and documents written in the Kamakura period when the faith for Taima Mandala began to, at last, spread.
Japanese: 当麻曼荼羅への信仰が広がり始めた鎌倉時代になって、ようやく各種書物や記録に草創縁起が見られるようになる。
English: The early example is a book "Kenkyugojunreiki" (a record of pilgrimage during the Kenkyu era) which was written in the end of the twelfth century (in 1191).
Japanese: その早い例は、12世紀末、鎌倉時代初期の建久2年（1191年）に成立した『建久御巡礼記』という書物である。
English: According to that book, the Taima-dera Temple was founded by the Prince Maroko, a half younger brother of the Prince Shotoku, as 'the Zenrin-ji Temple' which honzon was Miroku-butsu, and his grandson Taima no Mahito Kunimi moved it to the present place which was related with EN no Ozunu (A semi-legendary holy man noted for his practice of mountain asceticism during the second half of the seventh century) in 681.
Japanese: 當麻寺について同書には、聖徳太子の異母弟である麻呂古王が弥勒仏を本尊とする「禅林寺」として草創したものであり、その孫の当麻国見（たいまのまひとくにみ）が天武天皇10年（681年）に役小角（えんのぎょうじゃ）ゆかりの地である現在地に移したものだ、とある。
English: On the other hand, according to "Taima-dera Temple Engi" (The History of Taima-dera Temple) in "Jogu-taishi Shui-ki" (a collection of the stories about Prince Shotoku) (1237), the Taima-dera Temple was founded by the Prince Maroko as the Manhozo-in Temple which honzon was Kuze Kannon in 612 and it was originally located in the place named Misoji (味曽路) in the south of present Taima-dera Temple and moved to the present place in 692.
Japanese: 一方、『上宮太子拾遺記』（嘉禎3年・1237年）所引の『当麻寺縁起』によれば、當麻寺は推古天皇20年（612年）、麻呂古王が救世観音を本尊とする万宝蔵院として創建したもので、当初は今の當麻寺の南方の味曽路という場所にあり、692年に現在地に移築されたとする。
English: In addition, in other historical material, the former place of the Manhozo-in Temple is described as Yamada-go in the Kawachi Province (around the Katano City, Osaka Prefecture).
Japanese: なお、万宝蔵院の旧所在地については河内国山田郷（大阪府交野市あたり）とする史料もある。
English: At the end of the Heian period, in accordance with the spread of Mappo-shiso (the "end of the world" belief), a faith in the rebirth at Saiho Gokuraku Jodo of Amida Nyorai (Amitabha Tathagata) after life and Amida-do Hall (temple hall having an enshrined image of Amitabha) was actively built.
Japanese: 平安時代末期、いわゆる末法思想の普及に伴って、来世に阿弥陀如来の西方極楽浄土に生まれ変わろうとする信仰が広がり、阿弥陀堂が盛んに建立された。
English: Since around this time, the Taima-dera Temple had been worshipped as the temple of 'Taima Mandala' that drew the Pure Land of Amida Nyorai.
Japanese: この頃から當麻寺は阿弥陀如来の浄土を描いた「当麻曼荼羅」を安置する寺として信仰を集めるようになる。
English: Especially, Shoku, the founder of the Nishiyama school of the Jodo sect, wrote "the Commentary on Taima Mandala" in 1223, made more than a dozen copies of Taima Mandala and enshrined them in various countries, which contributed the spread of Taima Mandala.
Japanese: 中でも浄土宗西山派の祖・証空は、貞応2年（1223年）に『当麻曼荼羅註』を著し、当麻曼荼羅の写しを十数本制作し諸国に安置して、当麻曼荼羅の普及に貢献した。
English: The Taima-dera Temple founded as a family temple of the Taima clan had been known as a temple of the legend of Chujo Hime and Taima Mandala from the middle ages.
Japanese: 当麻氏の氏寺として始まった當麻寺は、中世以降は中将姫伝説と当麻曼荼羅の寺として知られるようになる。
English: Taima Mandala' is called 'Amida Jodo henso zu' in academic parlance (the word 'henso' means visualization of Pure Land as pictures and sculptures).
Japanese: 「当麻曼荼羅」は、学術的には「阿弥陀浄土変相図」と称するものである（「変相」とは浄土のありさまを絵画や彫刻として視覚化したもの）。
English: It drew the situation of Saiho Gokuraku Jodo where Amida Nyorai lived and was regarded as being made based on "Kangyo shijosho," a commentary on "Kanmuryojyukyo" written by Zendo, a high priest in Tang.
Japanese: 阿弥陀如来の住する西方極楽浄土のありさまを描いたものであり、唐の高僧・善導による『観無量寿経』の解釈書『観経四帖疏』に基づいて作画されたものとされている。
English: There is a legend that the original Taima Mandala was woven by a woman named Chujo Hime with using lotus threads in one night.
Japanese: 当麻曼荼羅の原本については、中将姫という女性が蓮の糸を用い、一夜で織り上げたという伝説がある。
English: Chujo Hime is regarded as a daughter of FUJIWARA no Toyonari, but there are some women who are assumed to be her model.
Japanese: 中将姫については、藤原豊成の娘とされているが、モデルとなった女性の存在は複数想定されている。
English: The existing Zushi (a cupboard-like case with double doors in which an image of (the) Buddha, a sutra, or some other revered object is kept at a temple) for Mandala at Hondo of the Taima-dera Temple (Mandala Hall) was made from the end of the Nara period to the beginning of the Heian period.
Japanese: 當麻寺本堂（曼荼羅堂）に現存する、曼荼羅を掛けるための厨子は奈良時代末期から平安時代初期の制作である。
English: For this reason, it is guessed that the original of Taima Mandala was enshrined during this period at the latest.
Japanese: このため、当麻曼荼羅の原本は遅くともこの時代には當麻寺に安置されていたとみられる。
English: However, there are no materials on the transmission and the origin of Mandala among the records from the Heian period, and the 'history' of Mandala was formed during the Kamakura period.
Japanese: しかしながら、曼荼羅の伝来や由緒にかかわる資料は平安時代の記録には見当たらず、曼荼羅の「縁起」が形づくられていくのは鎌倉時代に入ってからである。
English: According to the above "Kenkyugojunreiki," Taima Mandala was woven by kenin (it might be an avatar of Kannon Bosatsu [Kannon Buddhisattva]) because of a wish of a daughter of Yokohagi Dainagon (Major Counselor) one night in 763.
Japanese: 先述の『建久御巡礼記』によれば、当麻曼荼羅はヨコハギ（横佩）大納言という人物の娘の願により化人（けにん、観音菩薩の化身か）が一夜で織り上げたものであり、それは天平宝字7年（763年）のことであったという。
English: According to "Kokon chomon ju" (A collection of Tales Heard, Past and Present) in the middle of the thirteenth century, Yokohagi Dainagon was described as FUJIWARA no Toyonari and after that, the father's name had been established as Udaijin (minister of the right) FUJIWARA no Toyonari and the daughter's name had been as Chujo Hime.
Japanese: 13世紀半ばの『古今著聞集』（ここんちょもんじゅう）ではヨコハギ大納言の名は藤原豊成とされており、以降、父の名は右大臣藤原豊成、娘の名は中将姫として定着していく。
English: The legend of Chujo-Hime had been adopted by Noh (traditional masked dance-drama), Joruri (dramatic narrative chanted to a samisen accompaniment) and Kabuki (traditional drama performed by male actors) with variously embroidered from medieval times to recent times, and gradually modified into a story of 'stepchild abuse.'
Japanese: 中将姫の伝承は中世から近世にかけてさまざまに脚色されて、能、浄瑠璃、歌舞伎などにも取り上げられるようになり、しだいに「継子いじめ」の話に変質していく。