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English: Reputedly, this temple was founded by Kukai (Kobo Daishi) in 824 at the imperial order of Emperor Junna as a jingu-ji temple (a temple associated with a shrine) of Oyamato-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 天長元年（824年）に淳和天皇の勅願により空海（弘法大師）が大和神社（おおやまとじんじゃ）の神宮寺として創建したという。
English: The precincts are as large as approximately 40,000m2 in area, where a road called Hachijuhakkasho (eighty-eight)-michi (road) runs around and extends to Oku-no-in (an inner sanctuary) nestled halfway up Mt. Ryuo.
Japanese: 境内の面積は約40000m2と広く、八十八箇所道が竜王山中腹の奥の院まで巡らされている。
English: Hondo (main hall) – a building rebuilt in 1783, where the standing statues of Tamonten and Zochoten are enshrined.
Japanese: 本堂-天明3年（1783年）に再建された建物で、阿弥陀三尊像と多聞天・増長天立像を安置している。
English: It is a kind of gate called shoro-mon (a belfry gate) because a bell used to hang from the top of the upper story, and it is the oldest bell gate in Japan.
Japanese: かつては上層に鐘楼が吊られていたために鐘楼門と呼ばれる、日本最古の鐘門である。
English: According to the temple's legend, the tower has existed from the very beginning when Kukai founded the temple, but commonly it is thought that even the upper story does not date back to the time in which Kukai lived and that actually the tower was built around the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 寺伝では空海による創建当初から現存する建物というが、上層部分も空海の時代まではさかのぼらず、平安時代末期頃の建築とされる。
English: It was built in 1630 to 1631 but shows the mode of the Shoin style (a traditional Japanese style of residential architecture) which developed in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 1630年～1631年建築であるが室町時代の書院造の様式を伝えている。
English: Daishido – the building reputedly built in 1645, where the statue of Kukai, the founder of this temple, is enshrined.
Japanese: 大師堂-正保2年（1645年）に建立されたと伝わる建物で、開基である空海（弘法大師）像が安置されている。
English: Although Gochido (五智堂) is referred to as "do (堂)," a word used to mean a temple, shrine or hall, it is actually a very small, square-shaped building with all four sides of only 1 ken (approx. 1.8m) in length and has no fixtures and no walls, and it holds the images of Gochi Nyorai on the upper part of the central strut of the building.
Japanese: 「堂」といっても方一間、全面吹き放し（建具、壁等を設けない）の小規模な建造物で、中央の支柱の上部に五智如来を祀る。
English: It is also called "Kasa (umbrella)-do" because of its shape or "Mamen (the front)-do" because all four sides equally look like the front of the building.
Japanese: その形状から「傘堂」、四方どちらの面も正面に見えることから真面堂（まめんどう）の別称がある。
English: Wooden statues of Amida Nyorai (Amitabha Tathagata) and both-sides attendants - it was revealed from the inscription stored inside the statues that they were produced in 1151, at the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 木造阿弥陀如来両脇侍像-胎内銘から平安時代末期の仁平元年（1151年）の作と判明する。
English: At the time, the style called Jocho, in which mainly delicacy and elegance were expressed in Buddhist images, prevailed, yet these statues rather express massiveness and realism and do not seem to follow the Jocho style; therefore, it is said that they were indicative of an incoming mode that was becoming dominant during the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 本三尊像の堂々とした量感や写実的な表現は、この当時流行した定朝様（じょうちょうよう）の繊細優美な仏像とは異なった作風を示し、次の鎌倉時代の作風のさきがけをなすといわれる。
English: The design of the three statues, particularly of the both-sides attendants that sit in half-lotus position with one leg hanging down, is reminiscent of the statues made in the Nara period, and thus it can be an indication of the reestablishment of the ancient style from the Nara period.
Japanese: 両脇侍を片足を踏み下げた半跏像とする形式は奈良時代にその例が見られ、奈良時代の古典復興の意図があったとも見られる。
English: Also, these statues are known as the oldest example to use crystal inlays for eyes of a statue (the technique called 'gyokugan' in Japanese) among the statues whose production dates have been identified so far.
Japanese: 本三尊像は、玉眼（像の眼の部分に水晶を嵌め込む技法）を用いた像で制作年代の判明する最古例としても知られる。
English: It is a series of nine pictures of hell, drawn by Sanraku KANO approximately 400 years ago in the Azuchi-Momoyama period.
Japanese: 約400年前の安土桃山時代に狩野山楽が描いた9幅構成の地獄図である。
English: Jiko-in Temple is a temple of the Daitoku-ji school of the Rinzai sect located in Koizumi-cho, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 慈光院（じこういん）は奈良県大和郡山市小泉町にある臨済宗大徳寺派の寺院である。
English: In 1663, Sadamasa Iwaminokami KATAGIRI (Sekishu), the founder of tea ceremony of the Sekishu school, erected this temple as an ancestral temple of his father, Sadataka KATAGIRI, and had Priest Gyokushu (大徹明應禅師), the 185th head of Daitoku-ji Temple, as the head priest.
Japanese: 寛文3年（1663年）に石州流茶道の祖・片桐石見守貞昌（石州）が父・片桐貞隆の菩提寺として大徳寺185世・玉舟和尚（大徹明應禅師）を開山に迎え建立。
English: It has a type of roof called Irimoya Zukuri Kayabuki Yane (the thatched roof of the Irimoya style) surrounded by eaves made with pantiles, an 13-tatami-mat upper room, a middle room, and a lower room.
Japanese: 入母屋造茅葺屋根に桟瓦の庇をめぐらし、十三畳の上の間と、中の間、下の間からなる。
English: Although the floor and tsuke-shoin (a built-in table) are prepared in the upper room, it does not have a nageshi (a horizontal piece of timber) and presents a simple and light image.
Japanese: 上の間には床・付書院を備えているものの、長押は省かれ、簡素で軽やかな意匠である。
English: Also, the ceiling and kamoi (a generic term for a head jamb, which normally has tracks for sliding doors or partitions) are set low on average out of adequate consideration so that one can feel relaxed or calm when sitting down in this room.
Japanese: また全体に天井や鴨居の高さを低くしており、座ったときに安らぎや落ち着きが出るよう熟慮されている。
English: It was originally the romon (two-storied gate) of Ibaraki-jo Castle where Sekishu KATAGIRI was born and was received by him when the castle was taken down due to Ikkoku Ichijo Rei (Law of One Castle per Province) ordered by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA.
Japanese: 徳川家康の発した一国一城令により取り壊された片桐石州の出生地でもある茨木城の楼門をもらい受けたものである。
English: There are beautifully trimmed large shrubberies made of azalea or other shrubs and beyond that the Nara Basin spreads out.
Japanese: 白砂の中にツツジなどの大刈込があり、その向こうには奈良盆地が広がる。
English: Shoin attachments: 3 chozubachies (a basin for water to purify before entering shrine) (Dokuza no Chozubachi [a chozubachi which sits alone], Kakubarazu no Chozubachi [a chozubachi without corners], and Menoji no Chozubachi [a chozubachi shaped like the kanji for girl])
Japanese: 書院　附：手水鉢3箇（独坐の手水鉢、角ばらずの手水鉢、女（め）の字の手水鉢）
English: It is a statue of Sekishu made by Sekishu himself when he was 34, which was originally placed in 'Korin-an,' a hermitage Sekishu had built for himself in the Daitoku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 石州が自分のために大徳寺の中に建てた「高林庵」にまつった34歳の時の自作の像である。
English: Kinki Nippon Railway Kintetsu Kashihara line to Kintetsu Koriyama Station => Get off at Nara Kotsu 'Jiko-in'
Japanese: 近畿日本鉄道　近鉄橿原線　近鉄郡山駅　→　奈良交通　「慈光院」　下車
English: Nishi Meihan Jidosha-do Horyu-ji interchange => Nara Kendo 5 Yamato Takada Karuga-sen => Koku-do (Route) 25 => Nara Kendo 9
Japanese: 西名阪自動車道　法隆寺インターチェンジ　→　奈良県道5号大和高田斑鳩線　→　国道25号→　奈良県道9号
English: Shomyo-ji Temple is a temple of the Nishiyama school of the Jodo (Pure Land) sect located in Ayameike-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 称名寺（しょうみょうじ）は奈良県奈良市菖蒲池町にある浄土宗浄土宗西山派の寺院である。
English: It was founded by a scholar monk of Kofuku-ji Temple as a dojo (the place of Buddhist practice or meditation) of Jogyo Nenbutsu in 1265.
Japanese: 文永2年（1265年）に興福寺の学僧が常行念仏の道場として創建したものである。
English: It is also known as the temple where Juko MURATA, who is the founder of wabi-cha (tea taste for the simple and quiet), became a priest at the age of 11.
Japanese: また、侘び茶の祖として知られる村田珠光が11歳のときに出家したとされる。
English: It is a very unique room whose floor size is 3 tatami mats and has a temaeza (the seat for a host in a tea-ceremony room) made in the Daime-kamae style and, besides, can be made into a 4.5-tatami-mat room by taking out a door sill between the room and an adjoining 1.5-tatami-mat sayanoma (a narrow tatami-mat-floored passageway).
Japanese: 三畳敷であるが点前座の一畳を台目構えとし、また一畳半の鞘の間との敷居を外して四畳半の席にもすることのできる、大変珍しい席である。
English: The intention of producing an endearing impression for viewers can be felt through its whole body, and the characteristic of the Jocho style from the late Heian period is expressed very well.
Japanese: 親しみやすい印象を与えようとする心づかいが像のすみずみにまで行きわたっており、平安時代後期の定朝様の特色がよくあらわれている。
English: It looks like to be a statue made after an old style in consideration of its gentle and well-balanced features, but actually it is believed to have been sculpted in the Heian period (during the end of the 10th century through the beginning of the 11th century).
Japanese: 面貌も穏やかに整っている点などを考慮すると一見古様には見えるが、平安時代（10世紀末から11世紀初め頃）の制作と思われる。
English: It is the stone statues of Jizo used to build the castle wall when Hisahide MATSUNAGA, a Sengoku busho (a Japanese military commander in the Sengoku period), built Tamon-jo Castle in 1558; the number of the statues in total is as many as about 1900.
Japanese: 戦国武将・松永久秀が永禄元年（1558年）に多聞城を築城する際、その城壁に用いた地蔵石像で、その数は約1,900体に及ぶ。
English: Ama Gozan is a jikaku (statues of a Buddhist temple) of the Rinzai sect introduced to nunnery temples, and modeled after the Gozan system (the selection system of temples of the five highest ranks) in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 尼五山（あまござん）とは、室町時代に五山の制に倣って尼寺に導入された臨済宗の寺格。
English: The chief nuns were often produced by Imperial Family, Sekkan-ke (the families which produced regents), other Court nobles and Ashikaga Shogun family (in Kamakura, Kamakura kubo (shogunate) family instead of it).
Japanese: 住持には皇室や摂関家以下有力公家、足利将軍家（鎌倉では鎌倉公方家）などから輩出される事が多かった。
English: Although Gonen-ji Temple, Danrin-ji Temple and Tokei-ji Temple continued without nuns by chief priests (men) instead or by conversion due to their decline after Onin War, all the other temples were closed.
Japanese: 応仁の乱後に衰微して護念寺・檀林寺・東慶寺が男性住持あるいは改宗して存続して尼寺の姿を失った姿で存続しているのみで他はいずれも廃絶した。
English: The place name of 'Amida' is mentioned in "Manyo Shu" (the oldest anthology of tanka), and Adahime-Jinja Shrine, which is one of Shikinai-sha (shrines listed in "Engishiki Jinmyocho" [a shrine list written in Engishiki, an ancient book for codes and procedures on national rites and prayers]), lies in this area; these facts suggest that this area was civilized early.
Japanese: 「阿陀」の地名は『万葉集』にも見え、式内社（『延喜式神名帳』に記載された神社）の阿陀比売神社（あだひめじんじゃ）があるなど早くから開けた地域であったと思われる。
English: Eisan-ji Temple was previously known as Sakiyama-dera Temple, which is said to have been erected by Muchimaro, FUJIWARA no Huhito's eldest son, in 719.
Japanese: 栄山寺は古くは前山寺（さきやまでら）と呼ばれ、藤原不比等の長子である武智麻呂が養老3年（719年）に創建したと伝わる。
English: After that, it flourished as the Fujiwara Nanke family's family temple until the Kamakura period.
Japanese: その後、武智麻呂を祖とする藤原南家の菩提寺として鎌倉時代になるまで大いに栄えた。
English: In the period of the Northern and the Southern Courts (Japan), an Anzaisho (a temporary lodging built to accommodate an Imperial visit) for the emperors of the Southern Court, Emperor Gomurakami, Emperor Chokei and Emperor Gokameyama, was placed here.
Japanese: 南北朝時代には南朝の後村上天皇・長慶天皇・後亀山天皇の行在所が置かれていた。
English: It is said that the existing Hakkakudo is what FUJIWARA no Nakamaro built in memory of his father, FUJIWATA no Muchimaro.
Japanese: 現存する八角堂は、藤原武智麻呂の没後、子の藤原仲麻呂が父の菩提を弔うために建立したと伝える。
English: Muchimaro's tomb was on Mt. Saho (a hilly place in the north of the urban area of Nara City) at first but moved on the mountain to the north of Eisan-ji Temple in 760.
Japanese: 武智麻呂の墓は当初は佐保山（奈良市街地北部の丘陵地）にあったが、天平宝字4年（760年）、栄山寺北側の山上に改葬された。
English: Therefore, Hakkakudo should have been constructed within the five-year period from this year to the year Nakamaro died, 764.
Japanese: 八角堂の建立時期はこの年から仲麻呂の没した天平宝字8年（764年）までの5年間に絞られる。
English: There exists a document known as 'Zoendoshocho (造円堂所牒)' dated December 20, 763 in Shosoin Monjo (documents retained in Shosoin), and the word 'Endo (円堂)' in this document is considered to refer to Hakkakudo of Eisan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 正倉院文書（もんじょ）に天平宝字7年（763年）12月20日付けの「造円堂所牒」（ぞうえんどうしょちょう）という文書があり、この「円堂」は栄山寺八角堂を指すものと考証されている。
English: It is an octagonal building in the Honkawarabuki tile-roofing style and considered to have been erected by FUJIWARA no Nakamaro to pray to the Buddha for the repose of the soul of his father, Muchimaro.
Japanese: 藤原武智麻呂の菩提を弔うために子の藤原仲麻呂が建立したと伝えられる本瓦葺の八角形の建物。
English: It is a rare structure among the buildings built in the Nara period from the points that it was built in the place other than Heijo-kyo or Ikaruga and that the year of construction has been almost identified.
Japanese: 平城京および斑鳩以外の地区にある奈良時代建築として稀有のものであり、建立年次がほぼ特定できる点でも貴重な建築である。
English: It is octagonal-shaped on the exterior, but the moya (the central part of the building) is square and four octagonal pillars erected at the periphery of the naijin (the inner temple) are structural pivots.
Japanese: 外観は平面八角形であるが、内部の身舎（もや）は四角形であり、内陣周囲に立つ4本の八角柱が構造上の要となっている。
English: It used to have a thatched roof before the refurbishment in 1911, when the roof was restored with tiles.
Japanese: 屋根は明治44年（1911年）の解体修理以前には草葺きであったものを修理に際して瓦葺きに推定復元したものである。
English: The hoju (the uppermost spherical part of a pagoda finial) on the roof was restored then, but the remain of stone hoju, which is considered to be the original, is preserved separately.
Japanese: 屋根上の宝珠は修理の際に復元したものだが、当初のものとされる石造宝珠残欠が別に保存されている。
English: The colored paintings on the internal four pillars, hinuki (a neck penetrating tie beam which extends through a pillar) on the upper part of the pillars, and the ceiling are greatly damaged by peeling and falling, but nevertheless they are a valuable legacy from the Nara period painting and designated as important cultural properties as 'paintings' separately from the architecture.
Japanese: 内部の4本の柱と上部の飛貫（ひぬき）、天井の彩色絵画は剥落が甚だしいとはいえ、奈良時代絵画の遺品として貴重なもので、建物とは別個に「絵画」として重要文化財に指定されている。
English: Bodhisattva playing a musical instrument is painted on the pillars and Hiten (a flying, music-playing Buddhist angel) and birds with human's faces on hinuki.
Japanese: 柱には楽器を奏する菩薩像、飛貫には飛天や人面をもつ鳥などが描かれている。
English: Along with the bell in Jingo-ji Temple in Kyoto and the one in Byodo-in Temple in Uji, it is known as one of 'Heian Sanzetsu no Kane (Heian's Three Best Bells),' and on its four sides there are bulged inscriptions of the words chosen by SUGAWARA no Michizane and calligraphed by ONO no Michikaze.
Japanese: 京都の神護寺、宇治の平等院の鐘と共に「平安三絶の鐘」として知られているもので、四面に菅原道真撰で、小野道風の書と伝えられる陽鋳の銘文が施されている。
English: It was dedicated by FUJIWARA no Michiaki who was 5 generations after FUJIWARA no Muchimaro, and his uncle, TACHIBANA no Sumikiyo, and initially it was in Yamashiro Docho-ji Temple.
Japanese: 藤原武智麻呂の5世の孫である藤原道明と道明の伯父の橘澄清によって寄進されたもので、当初は山城道澄寺にあった。
English: Docho-ji Temple was named after FUJIWARA no Michiaki and TACHIBANA no Sumikiyo by taking one character from each of their names, and is located in Sujikai-bashi Bridge, Fukakusa, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 道澄寺は藤原道明と橘澄清の名の1字ずつを取って寺号としたもので、寺は京都市伏見区深草直違橋（すじかいばし）に現存する。
English: Wooden Seated Image of Yakushi Nyorai Buddha – the statue enshrined in a black-lacquered miniature shrine on the dais in the hondo (the main hall), which, based on the style of its make, is considered to have been created in the Muromachi period.
Japanese: 木造薬師如来坐像－本堂須弥壇上の黒漆塗厨子の中に安置されている像で、作風などから室町時代の作とされる。
English: This stone lantern has an inscription of 1284 and located in the main hall, it is called Eisan-ji style and it shows well its initial image.
Japanese: 本堂前に据えられている弘安7年（1284年）の銘がある石灯籠で、栄山寺型と呼ばれ、造立当初の姿をよく残している。
English: Three ancient manuscripts mentioned below (each of which is an important cultural property) were bought by the Agency for Cultural Affairs after World War II, and currently belong to the National Museum of Japanese History.
Japanese: 下記3件の古文書（各重要文化財）は、第二次大戦後に文化庁買上げとなり、現在は国立歴史民俗博物館の所蔵となっている。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu bus at Gojo Bus Center at JR Gojo Station (Nara Prefecture) and get off at 'Eisan-ji Temple'.
Japanese: JR五条駅(奈良県)・五條バスセンターより奈良交通バス「栄山寺前」下車。
English: According to "Chokyu-ji engi," in the Nara period, Emperor Shomu ordered Priest Gyoki to found the temple to pay a tribute to a local ruler, Mayumi Takeyumi, who had died by a stray arrow shot by his son.
Japanese: 『長弓寺縁起』によると奈良時代に息子の流れ矢に当たって死んだ豪族・真弓長弓（まゆみたけゆみ）を悼み、聖武天皇が僧・行基に開かせたと伝わる。
English: A legend says a person called ONO no Mayumi Takeyumi from 鳥見郷 accompanied Emperor Shomu for hunting in 728.
Japanese: 伝承によれば、神亀5年（728年）、鳥見郷の小野真弓長弓（おののまゆみたけゆみ）という人物が聖武天皇に随行して狩りに出た。
English: When Nagamaro, Takeyumi's son and one of the attendants, saw a strange bird take off and shot an arrow, the arrow hit Takeyumi by mistake and he died.
Japanese: 同行していた長弓の息子・長麻呂が不思議な鳥が飛び立つのを見て矢を放ったところ、矢は誤って長弓に当たり、彼は死んでしまった。
English: The image of eleven-faced Kannon has an additional head of Buddha on its head, which is said to have been carved out of Emperor Shomu's arrow.
Japanese: 十一面観音像の頭頂には仏面が乗っているが、これは聖武の弓を刻んだものだという。
English: Incidentally, the word "Tomi (鳥見 or 登美)," which is the old place name indicating the eastern mountain foot of Mt. Ikoma where Chokyu-ji Temple is located, appears in the myth of Jinmu tosei (Eastern expedition of Emperor Jinmu).
Japanese: なお「鳥見（登美）」は、長弓寺の位置する生駒山東麓を指す古い地名で、神武天皇東征神話にも登場する。
English: It is said later, FUJIWARA no Yoshitsugu (716 to 777) restored it in the reign of Kanmu Emperor (737 to 806), but it does not match the history because Kanmu's accession to the throne was in 781 after the death of Yoshitsugu.
Japanese: その後、桓武天皇（737年－806年）の時代に藤原良継（716年－777年）が再興したというが、桓武の即位は良継没後の781年であるので時代的に合わない。
English: Another legend says the temple was founded by FUJIWARA no Otsugu (774 to 843) in the early Heian period.
Japanese: 別の伝承では平安時代初期に藤原緒継（774年－843年）によって創建されたともいう。
English: Although the history of the temple since then until the Medieval period is not so clear, it is obvious that the existing main hall was founded in 1279, according to the signature on a ridgepole.
Japanese: 以後、中世までの沿革はあまりはっきりしていないが、現在の本堂は棟木銘から弘安2年（1279年）の建立であることが明らかである。
English: It was restored by Eison (1201 to 1290), who was the founder of the Shingon Ritsu sect.
Japanese: 真言律宗の祖・叡尊（1201-1290）によって再興されたものである。
English: Izanagi-jinja Shrine, located in the east side of Chokyu-ji precincts, was called Gozutenno-sha before the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism in Meiji.
Japanese: 長弓寺の境内東側にある伊弉諾（いざなぎ）神社は、明治の神仏分離以前は牛頭天王社（ごずてんのうしゃ）と呼ばれる。
English: As shown by a torii standing at the entrance of the gateway to Chokyu-ji Temple, syncretization of Shinto with Buddhism was practiced before the modern times.
Japanese: 長弓寺の参道入口に鳥居が立つことからもうかがえるように、近世以前は神仏混交の信仰が行われていた。
English: Izanagi-jinja Shrine (Ikoma City) and Yakushi-in lie on its right side (east), and Ensho-in, Hokke-in, and Hoko-in on its left side (west).
Japanese: 右側（東）には伊弉諾神社(生駒市)、薬師院、左側（西）には円生院、法華院、宝光院がある。
English: Yakushi-in, Ensho-in, and Hokke-in among the sub-temples run shukubo (visitors' or pilgrims' lodgings in a temple), offering a vegetarian dish.
Japanese: 塔頭のうち薬師院、円生院、法華院は宿坊を営業し、精進料理を提供している。
English: It is a typical new Japanese architectural style building in the Kamakura period, adopting Daibutsu-yo (Buddhist architectural style) for the designs, etc. of doors (sangarado, paneled entrance doors introduced from China) and kibana (the end of the beam penetrating a pole) of kashira-nuki (head rail) with decorative carving at the end of the timber, while using the Japanese architectural style as its base.
Japanese: 和様を基調にしつつ扉（桟唐戸）・頭貫（かしらぬき）の木鼻（用材の端部に装飾彫刻を施す）の意匠などには大仏様を採り入れるなど鎌倉時代の新和様の典型的な建築といえる。
English: It is characterized by a long and large koryo (moderately curved beam like a rainbow) fixed over the bay (space or distance between two pillars) of 3-ken (1 ken is 1.818 m) in length and a large gejin (the outer place of worship for public people).
Japanese: 内部は柱間3間にわたる長大な虹梁（こうりょう）を架け、礼拝空間である外陣（げじん）を広く取っているのが特色である。
English: After the pagoda was moved two times, presently only the first story portion remains in the garden of Takanawa Prince Hotel in Minato Ward, Tokyo.
Japanese: 再度の移転の末、現在は初層部分のみが東京都港区の高輪プリンスホテルに移築されている。
English: When Chokyu-ji Temple was heavily damaged by the Muroto typhoon in 1934, the roof of its main hall was destroyed.
Japanese: 1934年の室戸台風で長弓寺は本堂の屋根が大破するなどの大きな被害を受けた。
English: After the tower was once possessed by a certain businessman and moved to Kamakura City, it was moved to the garden of Takanawa Prince Hotel in 1954, and is now called "Kannon-do Hall."
Japanese: 塔はいったん、ある実業家の所有となって鎌倉市に移築された後、1954年高輪プリンスホテル庭園内に移築され、「観音堂」と称されている。
English: It is located one kilometer east from the temple, and said to be the tumulus of Mayumi Takeyumi, or the place where Emperor Shomu's arrow was buried (A legend says part of Emperor Shomu's arrow was used to carve the head of Buddha on the head of the principal image of eleven-faced Kannon).
Japanese: 寺の東方1kmほどのところにあり、真弓長弓の塚とも、聖武天皇の弓を埋めたところとも伝える（伝承では聖武天皇の弓の一部を使って、本尊十一面観音の頭上の仏面を刻んだとされている）。
English: It is a statue carved from a single tree trunk in the late Heian period, which is placed in the black lacquered 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) as the principal statue of the main hall.
Japanese: 本堂の本尊として黒漆厨子に安置されている平安後期の一木造の像である。
English: It is a statue carved from a single pine tree trunk in the Kamakura period, which is believed to have been carved by Koshun and his son, Kozei, who were belonging to the Keiha school of Buddhist sculpture.
Japanese: 松の一木から彫り出された鎌倉時代の像で、慶派仏師の流れをくむ康俊（こうしゅん）・康成（こうぜい）親子の作と考えられる。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu Bus Line bus (for Takayama) at Tomio Station of Kinki Nippon Railway, get off at "Ikoma Kamimachi", and walk ten minutes (Not so frequent bus services).
Japanese: 近鉄富雄駅より奈良交通バス（高山方面行き）「生駒上町」下車、徒歩10分（本数は少ない）
English: Take a Nara Kotsu Bus Line bus (for Gakken Kita-Ikoma Station) at Gakuen-mae Station (Nara Prefecture) of Kinki Nippon Railway, get off at "Mayumi 4-chome," and walk 15 minutes.
Japanese: 近鉄学園前駅(奈良県)より奈良交通バス（学研北生駒駅行き）「真弓4丁目」下車、徒歩15分
English: Although the temple is currently situated in a newly developed residential area in Kami-machi, Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, it was located in Hayashikoji-cho, Nara City, near Kintetsu Nara Station before its relocation to Kami-machi in 1985.
Japanese: 現在は奈良県生駒市上町の新興住宅街の中にあるが、1985年同地に移転するまでは、近鉄奈良駅近くの奈良市林小路町に所在した。
English: It is said that this temple was founded during the Kanpyo era (889-897) and originally located in Tsutsui, Sofunoshimo County, Yamato Province (today's Yamatokoriyama City), which was the Tsutsui clan's base, but the precise details of the foundation and its pre-medieval history have not been confirmed.
Japanese: 当寺は寛平年間（889–897）の創建と伝え、元は筒井氏の本拠地である大和国添下郡筒井（現・大和郡山市）に所在したというが、創建の正確な経緯や中世以前の歴史については定かでない。
English: The origin of the Tsutsui clan is not perfectly clear, but it is known that they were a local clan in Yamato Province and were the shuto (monk-soldiers) of Kofuku-ji Temple in the middle ages.
Japanese: 筒井氏の起源については必ずしも明らかではないが、大和国の土豪であり、中世には興福寺の衆徒（しゅと）であった。
English: Kofuku-ji Temple was a powerhouse holding sway over the entire province of Yamanto in medieval times, and the word 'shuto' refers to samurai warriors dressed like Buddhist priests who served Kofuku-ji Temple and is almost synonymous with 'sohei (priest soldiers)'.
Japanese: 興福寺は中世には大和一国を支配する大勢力であり、衆徒とは同寺に仕えた法体の武士で、「僧兵」とほぼ同義である。
English: The Tsutsui family also had a 'todate' (literally an outer mansion or suburban residence) in Hayashikoji (at present, Hayashikoji-cho, Nara City) near Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 筒井家は興福寺にほど近い林小路（現在の奈良市林小路町）にも外館（下屋敷）を構えていた。
English: It is said that after Junsho TSUTSUI (1523-1550), the father of a well-known Sengoku warlord, Junkei TSUTSUI (1549-1584), died in the mansion in Hayashikoji in 1550, Junsho's wife remodeled the mansion into a temple in order to pray for Buddha for the repose of her husband's soul.
Japanese: 戦国大名として著名な筒井順慶（1549-1584）の父である筒井順昭（1523–1550）が、天文19年（1550年）、林小路の館で死去した後、順昭の夫人が夫の菩提を弔うため、館を寺に改めたという。
English: It is considered that the records of Ensho-ji Temple in the temple register that had been registered in the aforementioned location, Tsutsui Village, Sofunoshimo County, was changed into Hayashikoji on this occasion.
Japanese: この際に前述の添下郡筒井庄の圓證寺の寺籍が林小路に移されたものと見られる。
English: When Junsho died prematurely at the age of 28, his heir, Junkei, was only two years old by the traditional Japanese system and therefore Junsho's death was kept secret and a blind monk called Mokuami, who resembled Junsho in appearance, served as his body double.
Japanese: 順昭が28歳の若さで没した際、跡取りの順慶は数え年2歳であったため、順昭の死は伏せられ、順昭と姿格好が似ていた木阿弥（黙阿弥）という盲目の僧が順昭の影武者となった。
English: Ensho-ji Temple was in Hayashikoji-cho, which is now the downtown area south of Kintetsu Nara Station, and the site where the temple used to be is in the vicinity of Nara VIVRE, a department store.
Japanese: 林小路町の圓證寺は、現在の近鉄奈良駅南方の繁華街に位置し、ファッションビルの奈良ビブレ付近がその跡地にあたる。