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English: Since the noise and vibration pollution that arose in the downtown area could hinder the preservation of cultural properties and religious activities in this place, Ensho-ji Temple was relocated to the current location in Ikoma City from 1984 to 1985.
Japanese: この地は繁華街の騒音、振動等のため文化財の護持や宗教活動に支障があるとして、1984年から1985年にかけて圓證寺は現在地の生駒市に移転した。
English: The main hall built in the Muromachi period and the stone 'gorinto' tower (a gravestone composed of five pieces piled up one upon another) as a memorial tower for Junsho TSUTSUI (both of which are Important Cultural Properties), too, were relocated from Hayashikoji to Ikoma City and reconstructed there.
Japanese: 室町時代建立の本堂と筒井順昭の供養塔である石造五輪塔（ともに重要文化財）も林小路から生駒市へ移建されている。
English: It is relatively uncommon for the buildings designated cultural properties by the Japanese government to be relocated and reconstructed due to the relocation of the temple to which they belong.
Japanese: 国指定文化財の建造物が寺自体の移転にともなって移築された例は比較的珍しい。
English: Although these statues are enshrined as the attendant figures of the principal image, Shaka Nyorai-zazo (sitting statue of Shakyamuni) (Kamakura period), they were produced earlier than the principal image during the Heian period.
Japanese: 本尊の釈迦如来坐像（鎌倉時代）の脇侍として安置されているが、本尊像より古い平安時代の作である。
English: The Monju statue and the Fugen statue may not be a complete set of statues, either, since the Fugen statue seems to be from the slightly earlier age.
Japanese: 文殊像と普賢像も必ずしも一具の像でなく、普賢像の方が時代的にやや古いようである。
English: Shorin-ji Temple is a temple of the Muro-ji school of Shingon sect located in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 聖林寺（しょうりんじ）は奈良県桜井市にある真言宗室生寺派の寺院である。
English: Its sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to a Buddhist temple, is Ryoon-zan, its honzon (the principle image of Buddha) is Jizo Bosatsu, and the founder is known as Joe.
Japanese: 山号は霊園山（りょうおんざん）、本尊は地蔵菩薩、開基（創立者）は定恵（じょうえ）とされる。
English: Shorin-ji Temple is located in the slightly higher area in the south part of Sakurai City which commands a view of the Nara basin to the north and the south.
Japanese: 聖林寺は桜井市街地の南方、北方に奈良盆地を見下ろす小高い位置にある。
English: Tradition says that Joe, the first son of FUJIWARA no Kamatari, founded this temple as a branch temple of Myoraku-ji Temple (present Tanzan-jinja Shrine) in 712.
Japanese: 伝承では和銅5年（712年）に妙楽寺(現在の談山神社)の別院として藤原鎌足の長子・定慧（じょうえ）が創建したという。
English: A great part of the history of Shorin-ji Temple up until the modern times remains unclear, but it is thought that it had close relations with Omiwa-jinja Shirine along with Myoraku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 聖林寺の近世までの歴史は不明の部分が多いが、妙楽寺とともに、大神神社（おおみわじんじゃ）とも関連が深い寺院であったと思われる。
English: It is said that Shoryo Genshin transferred the Henjo-in Temple of Mt. Miwa to this place and restored it in the Edo period.
Japanese: 江戸時代には性亮玄心（しょうりょうげんしん）が三輪山の遍照院を移して再興したという。
English: In the middle of Edo period, the current honzon, the statue of Koyasu Enmei Jizo Bosatsu, was made and the temple flourished as a prayer temple for pregnancy and smooth delivery.
Japanese: 江戸中期には現在の本尊・子安延命地蔵菩薩像が造像され，安産・子授けの祈祷寺としても栄える。
English: This statue of Jizo was made at the solicitation of a priest called Bunshun Teigen from the people in various areas in the Genroku era (1688 to 1703) to promote the safe delivery of babies for women.
Japanese: この地蔵像は元禄期（1688年-1703年）に、文春諦玄という僧が、女性の安産を願って各地に勧進し造立したものである。
English: Before the Edict of Separation of Shinto and Buddhism in 1868 in the Meiji period, the standing statue of eleven-faced Kannon Bosatsu was transferred from Daigorin-ji Temple, which was a jingu-ji temple (a temple associated with a shrine) of Omiwa-jinja shrine, to Shorin-ji-Temple.
Japanese: 明治の神仏分離令を前に慶応4年（1868年）に大神神社の神宮寺であった大御輪寺（だいごりんじ/おおみわでら）より十一面観音菩薩立像が移された。
English: Kannon-do Hall (a temple dedicated to Kannon) (Daihiden) — the standing statue of eleven-faced Kannon is enshrined and a tablet written by Ryokei ONISHI, the former chief abbot of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, is placed.
Japanese: 観音堂（大悲殿）－十一面観音立像を安置、元清水寺管長・大西良慶筆の扁額がかかる。
English: It is a statue made in the end of the Nara period, using a technique called Mokushin-kanshitsu, in which first the base shape is carved on wood and then the base is coated with kokuso-urusnhi (Japanese lacquer mixed with wood chips, etc.).
Japanese: 木彫りで像の概形を作り、その上に木屑漆（こくそうるし、漆に木粉等を混ぜたもの）を盛り上げて造像する木心乾漆像で、奈良時代末期の作である。
English: As mentioned above, it is the statue transferred from Daigorin-ji Temple, a jingu-ji temple of Omiwa-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 前述のとおり、大神神社の神宮寺であった大御輪寺から移された客仏である。
English: Ernest FENOLLOSA, a philosopher and art researcher, highly praised this statue when he came to Japan in the Meiji period.
Japanese: 明治時代に来日した哲学者、美術研究家のアーネスト・フェノロサがこの像を激賞したことで知られるようになった。
English: Tetsuro WATSUJI also praised this statue in "Koji Junrei (Pilgrimages to Ancient Temples)" (published in 1919) as the best work of the Tempyo sculptures (sculptures made around the Tempyo era).
Japanese: 和辻哲郎も『古寺巡礼』（大正8年・1919年刊）でこの像を天平彫刻の最高傑作とほめたたえている。
English: However, there are pros and cons on this statue; for instance, Koichi MACHIDA, an art historian, said that this statue is a conventional work of the end of the Tempyo period and not such a masterpiece as FENOLLOSA and WATSUJI extolled.
Japanese: ただし、この像については賛否両論があり、美術史家の町田甲一のように、この像は天平時代末期の形式化した作で、フェノロサや和辻の激賞したほどの傑作ではないとする意見もある。
English: The halo of this statue fragmented, so it was taken away and deposited in the Nara National Museum.
Japanese: なお、本像の光背は断片化しているため、取り外して奈良国立博物館に寄託されている。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu bus (bound for Tonomine, Tanzan-jinja Shrine) at 'Sakurai Station' (Nara Prefecture) on West Japan Railway Company Sakurai Line or Kintetsu Osaka Line, get off at 'Shorin-ji mae,' and walk for 5 minutes.
Japanese: 西日本旅客鉄道桜井線・近鉄大阪線「桜井駅(奈良県)」より奈良交通バス（多武峰、談山神社行）「聖林寺前」下車徒歩5分
English: Cultural properties: Wooden seated statue of Aizenmyoo, wooden seated statue of Amidanyorai, Sangatsukyo Mandala-zu with color painting on silk (important cultural properties)
Japanese: 文化財木造愛染明王坐像、木造阿弥陀如来坐像、絹本着色三月経曼荼羅図（重要文化財）
English: An ancient temple which has been said to have been founded by Kukai (Kobo Daishi (a posthumous title of the priest Kukai)) in 814, the early Heian period.
Japanese: 平安時代初期の弘仁5年（814年）、空海（弘法大師）を開基として創建したと伝わる古刹。
English: Jigo (the name of a Buddhist temple) is Shinhojo-ji Temple, and its sango, Shogun-san, was given by Emperor Gosanjo in the era of restoration (the late 11th century) by MINAMOTO no Yoriie who served as Bettoshiki (the office of head administrator) of Gakuto (head student).
Japanese: 寺号は新放生寺といい、山号の勝軍山は学頭別当職に就いた源義家による中興の時代（11世紀後半）に後三条天皇より賜ったものである。
English: The temple building was burned down in frequent fires caused by war in the late 16th century, but was reconstructed by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
Japanese: 16世紀後半の度重なる兵火を受けて堂宇を焼失したが、豊臣秀吉によって再興された。
English: Since Heian period, Shinhojo-ji Temple was the Gakushuin School Corporation of Nagahama Hachimangu Shrine and served as bettoji (a temple attached to a shrine), but the branch temples, Shana-in Temple, was eliminated due to the Edict of Separation of Shinto and Buddhism in early Meiji period.
Japanese: 新放生寺は平安時代より長浜八幡宮の学習院であり別当寺を務ていたが、明治時代初期の神仏分離令により子院の一つである舎那院以外は廃された。
English: Though the temple had a tea room 'Bosen' built by Enshu KOBORI, a businessman in Hokkaido, Kinya MOCHIDA, obtained it and moved it to Sapporo City in 1919, and it came to be called 'Hassoan Tea House.'
Japanese: 当寺には小堀遠州作の茶室「忘筌」があったが、大正8年（1919年）、北海道在住の実業家持田勤也が入手し、札幌市へ移築されて「八窓庵」と呼ばれるようになった。
English: The owner of the tea room changed, and was moved to Nakajima park in Chuo Ward, Sapporo City (Sapporo City) in 1971.
Japanese: この茶室はその後所有者が変わり、昭和46年（1971年）、札幌市中央区(札幌市)の中島公園に移築された。
English: It was designated as a national important cultural property under the name of 'Hassoan Tea House (old Shana-in Temple Bosen)' in 1936.
Japanese: 「八窓庵（旧舎那院忘筌）」の名で昭和11年（1936年）に国の重要文化財に指定されている。
English: The shrine has been reportedly constructed by kanjo (ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location) from Iwashimizu Hachimangu under the imperial decree of Emperor Gosanjo based on the desire of MINAMOTO no Yoshiie in the late Heian period (1069).
Japanese: 平安時代後期（1069年）に源義家からの発願をうけた後三条天皇の勅により、石清水八幡宮を勧請して創建したと伝わる。
English: In the Sengoku period (period of warring states) it decayed in the war flames but was revived by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, the lord of the Nagahama-jo Castle (Omi Province).
Japanese: 戦国時代_(日本)には兵火を受けて衰退したが、長浜城(近江国)城主となった豊臣秀吉により復興された。
English: Since the Heian period, the Shinhojyo-ji Temple, the bettoji (a temple attached to a shrine), had been stood in the precincts of a shrine, however, it was abandoned by the Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism in the early Meiji period.
Japanese: 平安時代より境内には別当寺である新放生寺が存在していたが明治時代初期の神仏分離令により廃された。
English: Ono-dera Temple is a temple of the Murou-ji school of the Shingon sect in Muro-mura, Uda City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 大野寺（おおのでら）は奈良県宇陀市室生村にある真言宗室生寺派の寺院である。
English: Its sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to the name of a Buddhist temple, is Yoryu-san, the honzon (the principle image of Buddha) is Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva), and the founder is said to be EN no Ozunu.
Japanese: 山号は楊柳山、本尊は弥勒菩薩、開山は役小角（えんのおづぬ）と伝える。
English: It is known to have Miroku Magaibutsu (images of Buddha carved on a cliff or natural rock face) carved on the natural rock on the riverbank of Uda-gawa River, and is also famous for beautiful weeping cherry trees.
Japanese: 宇陀川岸の自然岩に刻まれた弥勒磨崖仏があることで知られ、枝垂桜の名所としても知られる。
English: Ono-dera Temple is located at the place of scenic beauty along Uda-gawa River and at the entrance of the way from Muroguchi Ono Station on Kintetsu Line to Muro-ji Temple.
Japanese: 宇陀川沿いの景勝の地にあり、近鉄室生口大野駅方面から室生寺へ向かう際の入口に位置する。
English: Tradition says that it was founded by EN no Ozunu (EN no Gyoja) in 681 and that Kukai (Kobo Daishi) erected the main hall in 824 and named it 'Jisonin Miroku-ji Temple.'
Japanese: 伝承では白鳳9年（681年）、役小角（役行者）によって草創され、天長元年（824年）に空海（弘法大師）が堂を建立して「慈尊院弥勒寺」と称したという。
English: However, EN no Ozunu was a semi-legendary person who is thought to be the founder of Shugendo (Japanese ascetic and shamanistic practice in mountainous sites), and the story that Kukai erected the hall is also thought to be a legendary story created in order to establish that Kukai, the sect founder, founded the building, so it should be said that what really happened with regard to the foundation of this temple is, in fact, unknown.
Japanese: 役小角は修験道の開祖とされる伝説的要素の多い人物であり、空海が堂を建立との話も創建を宗祖に仮託した伝承と思われ、創建の正確な経緯は不明というべきであろう。
English: Muro-ji Temple, located in its neighborhood, was founded and has been maintained by priests connected with Kofuku-ji Temple and the foundation of Miroku magaibutsu in Ono-dera Temple also involved the priests of Kofuku-ji Temple; these facts suggest that it had close relations with Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 近くにある室生寺は興福寺系の僧によって創建・整備されており、大野寺の磨崖仏造立にも興福寺の僧が関係していることから見て、興福寺と関係の深い寺院であったと思われる。
English: According to 'Sekibutsu Engi (the history of stone Buddha statues)' (1659) and 'Kofuku-ji Betto Shidai', the construction of Miroku Magaibutsu, which stands at the opposite riverbank across Uda-gawa River, started in 1207 under the direction of Gaen, a priest of Kofuku-ji Temple, and in 1208 kaigen-kuyo (a ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist image) was held in the presence of Emperor Gotoba.
Japanese: 宇陀川をはさんだ対岸にある弥勒磨崖仏は、「石仏縁起」（万治2年・1659年）や「興福寺別当次第」によれば、興福寺の僧・雅縁の発願により、承元元年（1207年）から制作が開始され、同3年に後鳥羽天皇臨席のもと開眼供養が行われたものである。
English: On the occasion the honzon and other statues of Buddha were rescued and still remain, while all the buildings that exist now were constructed again after the fire.
Japanese: その際、本尊をはじめとする仏像などは持ち出されたが、現存する建物はすべて火災以後のものである。
English: Wooden standing statue of Jizo Bosatsu (an important cultural property) — a statue made with yosegi-zukuri (a method of constructing a statue by assembling pieces of wood) in the Kamakura period, called 'Scapegoat Jizo' due to the legend that it saved an innocent girl from being burnt at the stake.
Japanese: 木造地蔵菩薩立像（重要文化財）－鎌倉時代の寄木造の像で、無実の娘を火あぶりの刑から救ったという伝説にちなみ「身代わり地蔵」と呼ばれている。
English: The rock face was carved in the shape of a halo, which is 13.8m in height with the inner surface made flat and smooth, on which the 11.5-meter-tall standing statue of Miroku-butsu (Miroku Buddha) is depicted by engraving lines.
Japanese: 岩壁を高さ13.8ｍにわたって光背形に掘り窪め、その中を平滑に仕上げた上で、像高11.5メートルの弥勒仏立像を線刻で表す。
English: As mentioned above, the construction began under the direction of Gaen, a priest of Kofuku-ji Temple, in 1207 and kaigen-kuyo (a ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist image) was held in 1208 in the presence of Emperor Gotoba.
Japanese: 前述のように、興福寺の僧・雅縁の発願により、承元元年（1207年）から制作が開始され、同3年に後鳥羽上皇臨席のもと開眼供養が行われたものである。
English: It is said to have been made by a group of stone masons headed by Igyomatsu, or also called I no Yukisue, who was from Sung.
Japanese: 作者は宋から来日した石工・伊行末（いぎょうまつ/いのゆきすえ）の一派と考えられている。
English: It was modeled after the Great Stone Buddhist Image of Miroku (of which currently only the halo is left), which was in Kasagi-yama, Yamashiro Province (Kyoto Prefecture).
Japanese: 山城国笠置山(京都府)にあった弥勒の大石仏（現在は光背のみが残る）を模したものである。
English: There was a possibility of the exfoliation caused by the seepage of groundwater from the rock and etc., so the construction for repair and maintenance was conducted from 1993 to 1999.
Japanese: 岩盤からの地下水の滲出等で剥落の危険があったため、1993年から1999年にかけて保存修理工事を実施。
English: Abemonju-in Temple is a temple of the Kegon sect in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 安倍文殊院(あべもんじゅいん)は奈良県桜井市にある華厳宗の寺院である。
English: Along with Chion-ji Temple (Miyatsu City, Kyoto Prefecture) and Daisho-ji Temple (Takahata-machi, Yamagata Prefecture), it composes the Three Monju in Japan.
Japanese: 智恩寺(宮津市)（京都府宮津市）・大聖寺(高畠町)（山形県高畠町）とともに日本三文殊に数えられる。
English: It was constructed as an uji-dera temple (a temple built to pray for clan's glory) for ABE no Kurahashimaro who was assigned as Minister of the left in the Taika Reformation.
Japanese: 大化の改新の時に左大臣として登用された安倍倉梯麻呂（あべのくらはしまろ）の氏寺として建立されたという。
English: At the time of its construction, the temple was located 300 meters southwest of present Monju-in Temple, but it was relocated in the current place in the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 創建当時の寺地は現在の文殊院の西南300メートルほどのところであり、鎌倉時代に現在地に移された。
English: The old location (1-chome Abemokuzaidanchi, Sakurai City) is designated as a national historic site, called 'Abe-dera Ato (the site of Abe-dera Temple),' and kept as a historic park.
Japanese: 旧寺地（桜井市安倍木材団地1丁目）は「安倍寺跡」として国の史跡に指定され、史跡公園として整備されている。
English: As a result of the excavation, it was discovered that Abe-dera Temple used to have a Buddhist monastery in the Horyu-ji Temple style in which a tower was built in the west (the left) and a golden hall in the east (the right), and on analysis of the style used in the old tiles excavated at the site, it is considered to have been founded in the 7th century.
Japanese: 発掘調査の結果、安倍寺は東（右）に金堂、西（左）に塔が建つ法隆寺式伽藍日本の伽藍をもっていたことがわかり、出土した古瓦の様式年代からも創建が7世紀にさかのぼる寺院跡であると見られる。
English: In the 6th volume of 'Todai-ji Yoroku (the Digest Records of Todai-ji Temple),' it is mentioned that '崇敬寺 Temple,' a branch temple of Todai-ji Temple, was founded by ABE no Kurahashimaro and that it was also known as 'Abe-dera Temple.'
Japanese: 「東大寺要録」巻6には、東大寺の末寺の1つである「崇敬寺」が安倍倉梯麻呂の建立であることと、「崇敬寺」の別名が「安倍寺」であったことが記載されている。
English: It is said that Onmyoji (the master of Yin Yang) ABE no Seimei trained himself in the way of Yin and Yang (the occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements) in this temple, and in 2000 ABE no Seimei Hall was erected.
Japanese: 当院では陰陽師・安倍晴明が陰陽道の修行をしたともいわれ、2000年（平成12年）には安倍晴明堂が建立されている。
English: It was constructed in 1665 and here the wooden statues of Kishi Monju Bosatsu and attendants, created by Kaikei, are enshrined.
Japanese: 寛文5年（1665年）に建立された建物で、快慶作の木造騎獅文殊菩薩及び脇侍像が安置されている。
English: It is the golden Rokkakudo (a hexagonal hall) erected in the Monju pond in 1985, where the statues of ABE no Nakamaro and ABE no Seimei are enshrined.
Japanese: 昭和60年（1985年）に建立された文殊池の中に建つ金色の六角堂で、安倍仲麻呂像、安倍晴明像などを祀る。
English: It is a shingle-roofed building in the Nagare-zukuri style constructed in the late Muromachi period and known to enshrine the god of marriage.
Japanese: 室町時代後期の建立された流造柿葺の建物で、縁結びの神として知られる。
English: This is an ancient burial mound from the 7th century located near the hondo, and it was almost verified that it is the tomb which belonged to the Abe clan, a local ruling family, and some opinions hold that it is the tomb of ABE no Kurahashimaro.
Japanese: 本堂近くにある7世紀中頃の古墳で、豪族安倍（阿倍）氏一族の墓であることはほぼ確実視され、安倍倉梯麻呂の墓であるともいわれる。
English: It is an ancient burial mound considered to have been constructed in the early 7th century; it has been called Akai-kutsu and worshipped since ancient times.
Japanese: 7世紀前半に築造されたといわれる古墳で、古来から閼伽井窟（あかいくつ）と呼ばれ、信仰の対象とされてきた。
English: It is an artwork created by Kaikei, a renowned Buddhist image maker in the Kamakura period, and well-known to people by its common name, 'Chie no Monju (Wise Monju Bosatsu Buddha).'
Japanese: 鎌倉時代を代表する仏師快慶の作で「知恵の文殊」として親しまれている。
English: It is Monju Gosonzo (the Monju quintet) composed of the 7-meter-high statue of Monju Bosatsu riding on a gigantic lion and the statues of four flanking attendants.
Japanese: 巨大な獅子にまたがる総高約７ｍもある文殊菩薩像を4体の脇侍像が取り囲む文殊五尊像である。
English: Usually, four attendants in the Monju quintet are called Zenzai-doji (Sudhana), Udayana, Saisho-rojin and Butsudahari-sanzo; however, in Monju-in Temple, the statue equivalent to 'Saisho-rojin' is called 'Yuima-koji (Vimalakirti Sutra)' and the one equivalent to Butsudahari-sanzo is called 'Subodai (Subhuti).'
Japanese: 文殊五尊像の脇侍は普通、善財童子、ウダヤナ、最勝老人、仏陀波利三蔵と呼ばれるが、文殊院では「最勝老人」にあたる像を「維摩居士」、仏陀波利三蔵にあたる像を「須菩提」と称している。
English: In April 2007, Abemonju-in Temple introduced electronic payment systems such as Edy, iD, PiTaPa and QUICPay, makint it the first of its kind in Japan.
Japanese: 2007年（平成19年）4月、全国の寺社仏閣では初めて電子マネーのEdy、iD、PiTaPa及びQUICPayを導入した。
English: The payment for the admission fee, Ema (a pictorial offering) dedication, amulets, the prayer fee, etc. can be made not only by cash but by electronic money cards or the Osaifu-Ketai system of mobile phones (the de facto standard mobile payment system in Japan) through the read sensor set in the hondo.
Japanese: 拝観料、絵馬奉納、お守り、祈祷料などの支払いを、本堂に設置された読み取り端末に電子マネーカードや携帯電話（おサイフケータイ）をかざすことで現金を使わず行うことができる。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu bus or Sakurai Community bus of Asuka Line (available on Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays in March-June and August-November) at Sakurai Station (Nara Prefecture) on West Japan Railway Company Sakurai Line and Kintetsu Osaka Line, and get off at 'Abemonjuin Mae'
Japanese: 西日本旅客鉄道桜井線・近鉄大阪線桜井駅(奈良県)より奈良交通バスまたは桜井市コミュニティバス飛鳥線（3〜6月および8〜11月の土日祝日のみ運行）で「安倍文殊院前」下車
English: Okura-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Ryumon Shingon sect situated in Ouda-cho, Uda City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 大蔵寺（おおくらじ）は奈良県宇陀市大宇陀町にある龍門真言宗の寺院である。
English: The place of Okura-ji Temple, Ouda-ku, Ouda City, was called Akino in the ancient times, and was used as an imperial hunting ground.
Japanese: 大蔵寺のある宇陀市大宇陀区は、古代には阿騎野と呼ばれ、皇室の狩猟地であった。
English: Matsuyama District, the center of Ouda-ku, was the Uda-Matsuyama Domain in the early modern times, and Matsuyama (Uda City) has been chosen as Preservation District for Groups of Important Historic Buildings.
Japanese: 大宇陀区の中心の松山地区は近世初期には宇陀松山藩が置かれたところで、松山(宇陀市)は国の重要伝統的建造物群保存地区に選定されている。
English: Okura-ji Temple is located on the mountains in Kurino District, along National Route 370, which connects Matsuyama District and Yoshino, and it is about a one-kilometer walk on a steep slope from the national route.
Japanese: 大蔵寺は松山地区と吉野方面を結ぶ国道370号沿いの山中の栗野地区にあり、国道から急な坂道を1kmほど登ったところに位置する。
English: It is believed that in the early Heian period, thirty-seven-year-old Kukai (Kobo Daishi or Great Priest Kobo) entered the temple to live there, and designated it as the first temple of the Shingon sect.
Japanese: 平安時代初期には37歳の空海（弘法大師）が入山し、真言宗最初の道場と定めたとされる。
English: As Kobo Daishi decided that it was the temple of the Shingon sect before he opened Koyasan Mountain (the holy place of the Shingon sect), Okura-ji Temple has also been called 'Moto Koya' (original Koya), and has been regarded as a religious site of the sect.
Japanese: 弘法大師が高野山を開く前に道場としたとされることから「元高野」とも呼ばれ、信仰されてきた。
English: The construction is Hogyo-zukuri (pyramidal roof) style with Kokerabuki (shingles), and is considered to be the oldest Daishi-do in Japan dedicated to Kobo Daishi.
Japanese: 宝形造、杮葺きの建物で、弘法大師を祀る大師堂としては日本最古とされる。
English: Enshrined in it is the seated statue of thirty-seven-year-old Kukai, sometimes called 'the Statue of Yakuyoke-kaiun (warding off evil and bringing in good fortune).'
Japanese: 堂内には「厄除開運の御影」とも呼ばれる空海37歳の坐像が安置される。
English: Tenshin had the friendship of one of the chief priests of the temple, Kancho MARUYAMA, who engaged in the Buddhism restoration movement during the time of the anti-Buddhism movement in the Meiji period.
Japanese: この寺の住職をしていた丸山貫長（明治の廃仏毀釈の時代に仏教復興運動に取り組んだ人物）は天心と親交があった。
English: Take a Nara Kotsu bus (for Ouda) from Haibara Station on the Kintetsu Osaka Line, get off at the last stop, 'Ouda,' and walk about five kilometers.
Japanese: 近鉄大阪線榛原駅より奈良交通バス（大宇陀行）終点「大宇陀」下車徒歩（約5㎞）
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English: It is famous for Ryokai mandara (mandala of the Two Realms) or Kojima mandala which was created in the middle of the Heian period and has been designated a national treasure.
Japanese: 平安時代中期作の国宝・両界曼荼羅図（子島曼荼羅）を伝えることで知られる。
English: Kiyomizu-dera Temple known as 'Kyomizu no butai (the stage of Kiyomizu) was reportedly founded by the monk of Kojima-dera Temple, Enchin.
Japanese: 「清水の舞台」で知られる京都東山の清水寺は子嶋寺の僧・延鎮によって開かれたとされている。
English: Historically, Kojima-dera Temple played an important role having a training hall for Kojima school of the Shingon sect since the middle of the Heian period.
Japanese: 平安時代中期以降は真言宗子嶋流の道場として栄えるなど、歴史的に重要な寺院である。
English: It is one of Yamato Shichifukujin or the Seven Deities of Good Fortune in Yamato (Shinkisan Chogo Sonshi-ji Temple, Kume-dera Temple, Kojima-dera Temple, Ofusa Kannon-ji Temple, Tanzan-jinja Shrine, Taima-dera Temple Nakanobo and Abe Monjuin).
Japanese: 大和七福神（信貴山朝護孫子寺、久米寺、子嶋寺、小房観音寺、談山神社、當麻寺中之坊、安倍文殊院）のひとつ。
English: Although it is said it was founded before the Nara period, there are several views about the time of foundation and circumstances behind it.
Japanese: 奈良時代以前の創建を伝えるが、草創の時期や経緯については複数の説がある。
English: However, as some historical materials suggested the name, 'Kojimasan-dera', its original location seems to have been between mountains.
Japanese: しかし、各種史料に「子嶋山寺」と見えるところからも、創建当時は山間部に位置していたと思われる。
English: It fell into a decline in the middle of the Heian period, but a monk, Shingo, who served in Kofuku-ji Temple, revitalized it.
Japanese: 平安時代中期には一時衰退し、興福寺の僧・真興（しんごう）によって中興された。
English: Its jigo (literally, 'temple name'), which is the title given to a Buddhist temple, was Kojima-dera or Kojimayama-dera Temple in early times, but after its revitalization by Shingo, it was changed to 'Kankaku-ji Temple.'
Japanese: 寺号は古くは子嶋寺または子嶋山寺、真興による中興以降は「観覚寺」となった。
English: In modern times, it was changed to 'Senju-in' and then it became 'Kojima-dera' again.
Japanese: そして、近世には「千寿院」と称されたが、近代に入って「子嶋寺」に復称した。
English: The prevailing view about circumstances behind its foundation was written in some materials such as Yoshinosan Hoon den (the record of Hoon Daishi of the Yoshino-san Temple) of "Genko Shakusho" (History of Buddhism of the Genko era) and Hoon den of "Honcho Kosoden" (biography of high ranking monks).
Japanese: 創建の事情についてもっとも流布している説は『元亨釈書』の吉野山報恩伝、『本朝高僧伝』の報恩伝などに見える説である。
English: These materials described that in 760, a monk, Hoon, founded Kojimasan-dera Temple 'near Kojima Shrine' in Takaichi-gun Yamoto no kuni (Yamato Province) by order from the Emperor Koken.
Japanese: これは、天平宝字4年（760年）、孝謙天皇の勅願により、僧報恩が大和国高市郡の「子嶋神祠のほとり」に子嶋山寺を建てたとするものである。
English: This 'Kojima Shrine' seems to indicate present-day Kojima Shrine located in Shimokojima, Takatori-cho (the south of Kojima-dera).
Japanese: この「子嶋神祠」は現在、高取町下子島（子嶋寺の南方）にある小島神社を指すものと思われる。
English: On the other hand, the article of November, 644 (this was the year before the Taika Reforms) of "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) suggested that SOGA no Emishi founded Hokonoki-dera Temple on Mt. Oniho.
Japanese: 一方、『日本書紀』の皇極天皇3年（644年、大化の改新の前年）11月条には「蘇我蝦夷が大丹穂山（おおにほやま）に桙削寺（ほこのきでら）を建てた」との記事がある。