nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: The Uta-e is believed to have originated from the 'Ashide-e' decorating Japanese poem collections, which were meticulous pictures of landscapes relating to the poems, drawn with Indian ink.
Japanese: 和歌集の装飾としてそれぞれの歌に関係する情景を墨で繊細に描いた「葦手絵」がその起源とされる。
English: During the middle of the Edo period, as the publication of the uta-e gained momentum, an increasing number of people, including the common people, came to enjoy reading literary works like "Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)" and "Ise Monogatari (The Tales of Ise)" and also enjoy light and refreshing works.
Japanese: 江戸時代も中期に入ると出版が盛んになり、町人にも源氏物語や伊勢物語などの文学作品に親しむものが増えたため、軽妙洒脱なものが喜ばれた。
English: For instance, the uta-e depicting a torikabuto (a traditional hat worn when playing gagaku (ancient Japanese court dance and music)), a kaendaiko (a large drum decorated with flames), and Japanese maple leaves suggests the scene where the hero of "Genji Monogatari" performed an elegant dance "Seigaiha" (Blue Ocean Wave) donning a torikabuto under Japanese maple trees, which appears in the chapter of 'Koyo-no-ga' (An Autumn Excursion).
Japanese: 例えば、雅楽に用いる鳥兜と火炎太鼓に紅葉を添えたものは、源氏物語「紅葉の賀」で主人公が紅葉の下で鳥兜をかぶる優美な舞青海波を舞った場面を表す。
English: The uta-e depicting branching bridges, and a river bank blooming with irises suggests the scene where the hero of "Ise Monogatari" is composing a poem at a place famous for its iris blossoms, which appears in the chapter of 'Higashi kudari no dan' (the Chapter of Going down to the Eastern Provinces).
Japanese: 杜若の咲く川辺にいくつも分岐した橋がかかっているものは、伊勢物語「東下りの段」で主人公が杜若の名所で和歌も詠む場面を表現している。
English: In ukiyo-e, there is a category called "mitate-e" (a picture that appears to describe the mode of life in fashion, but actually describes Japanese classics and historical events), which was recognized as an advanced puzzle, covering famous historical events and stories.
Japanese: 浮世絵などには更に高度な謎解きとして見立て絵というジャンルもあり、同じく有名な故事や物語を扱う。
English: In "mitate-e," strong busho's (Japanese military commander) and ancient wise men were often replaced with bewitching beauties, and scenes from "Genji Monogatari' were replaced with scenes showing ordinary life during the Edo period.
Japanese: こちらは屈強な武将や古代の賢人を艶やかな美女に置き換えたり、源氏物語の一場面を江戸時代の風俗に置き換えるなどしている。
English: Shirozaemon Michinaga TOKI, a kinju (attendant) of Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, became a priest during the Muromachi period and called himself Koami.
Japanese: 室町時代に土岐四郎左衛門道長が足利義政の近習になり、出家して幸阿弥を名のった。
English: The style that dumplings wrapped with plant leaves like Sakuramochi (rice cake with bean jam wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf) is uncommon and there is an opinion that Tsubaki-mochi is unique to Japan, but this is not certain.
Japanese: 桜餅のように団子を植物の葉で挟む形式などが珍しく、この椿餅は日本独自のものでないかと言う見解もあるが定かではない。
English: According to the description in Kakai-sho Commentary, Tsubaki-mochi was something like a dumpling made from mochi-ko (rice cake flour, present-day domyojiko [dried and granulated glutinous rice flour]) that was made by grinding dried glutinous rice with a mill-stone, kneaded with amazura (traditional sweetener commonly used in the past), and wrapped with camellia leaves.
Japanese: 河海抄の記述によれば、もち米を乾燥させて臼でひいて作った餅粉（現在の道明寺粉）を甘葛の汁で練って団子のようにし、椿の葉で包んだもの。
English: Tsubaki-mochi was not eaten as a light meal like present-day sweets, but it was distributed to participants to big events such as kemari (a game played by aristocrats in the Heian period) at noblemen's residences.
Japanese: 現代の菓子のように日常的な間食に用いる物ではなく、貴族の館で大規模な蹴鞠の会が催されたときに参加者に配られていた。
English: Young people are eating confectionery like a Tsubai-mochi, a pear and a mandarin orange mixed on the lid of a bamboo basket, frolicking.' (Wakana [Young green] chapter of The Tale of Genji) vol.1.
Japanese: 「椿い餅、ナシ、柑子やうのものども、様々に筥の蓋どもにとりまぜつつあるを、若きひとびと、そぼれとり食ふ」（源氏物語若菜(源氏物語)上）
English: It is made of sweet or salty-sweet boiled aburaage, which is opened into the shape of a bag and stuffed with sushi rice (vinegared rice) or sushi rice mixed with ingredients like carrots and mushrooms.
Japanese: 甘くあるいは甘辛く煮付けた油揚げを袋状に開き、寿司飯（酢飯）をそのまま、あるいはニンジンやシイタケなどの具材を混ぜ込んで詰める。
English: This is not seen very much in high-class sushi shops, but is a popular sushi in common shops and takeout sushi shops.
Japanese: いわゆる高級な寿司屋ではあまり見られないが、庶民的な店やテイクアウト専門の寿司屋では人気の寿司。
English: This name is taken from the hero's name in a Kabuki 'juhachiban' play, 'Sukeroku yukarino Edozakura' (Sukeroku, Flower of Edo), and because the name of Sukeroku's mistress is Agemaki, the sushi of a combination of aburaage (age) and norimaki (maki) was so named as a pun.
Japanese: 歌舞伎十八番「助六由縁江戸桜」の主人公、助六の愛人の名が揚巻であることから、油揚げとのり巻きの洒落から名付けられている。
English: The inarizushi called 'Shoten-zushi' of Kanki-in Temple (Kumagaya City), which is a specialty of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture (former Menuma-machi, Osato-gun), has almost a double diameter of the ordinary one.
Japanese: 埼玉県熊谷市（旧・大里郡妻沼町）名物の稲荷寿司（歓喜院(熊谷市)聖天寿司）は通常の倍ほどの長径がある。
English: In western Japan, it is usual to call it 'oinari-san', and it is called 'age-zushi' in some cases.
Japanese: 西日本ではお稲荷さん（おいなりさん）という呼び方も一般的で「揚寿司（あげずし）」と呼ばれることもある。
English: Some elderly people in the Kinki region call it 'shinoda-zushi.'
Japanese: 近畿地方の年配者には「しのだ寿司」、「信太鮨」、「信田鮨」、「信田寿司」と呼ばれることもある。
English: In western Japan, inarizushi with ingredients like sesame (also called 'gomoku-inari') are prevalent.
Japanese: 西日本ではごまなどの具材の入った稲荷寿司（五目稲荷ともいう）が多いとされる。
English: The oldest historical document concerning inarizushi is "Morisada manko" (a kind of encyclopedia of folkways and other affairs in the Edo Period written by Morisada KITAGAWA) written in the late Edo period, and it describes it as the following:
Japanese: 稲荷寿司に関する最古の史料として江戸時代末期に書かれた『守貞謾稿』があり、下記のようにと記載されている。
English: In the late Tenpo era (1830 - 1844), a kind of sushi was peddled in Edo (old Tokyo), aburaage opened from one side into the shape of a bag, and stuffed with rice mixed with minced mushrooms and kanpyo.
Japanese: 「天保（1830年～1844年）末年、江戸にて油揚げ豆腐の一方をさきて袋形にし、キノコかんぴょうを刻み交へたる飯を納て鮨として売巡る。」
English: (abbreviation)...it is called inarizushi or shinoda-zushi, both of which are the names relating to a fox, as yakan (another name of fox) is fond of aburaage.
Japanese: 「（中略）なづけて稲荷鮨、或は篠田鮨といい、ともに狐に因ある名にて、野干（狐の異称）は油揚げを好む者故に名とす。」
English: "Tengen-hikki" (a document written in the Meiji period) describes it as being stuffed with rice and tofugara (the material left after making tofu) etc., and eaten with soy sauce and Japanese horseradish, and there is also a comment 'very cheap.'
Japanese: 『天言筆記』（明治成立）には飯や豆腐ガラ（オカラ）などを詰めてワサビ醤油で食べるとあり、「はなはだ下直」ともある。
English: One of the pictures in "Kinsei-shobaizukushi-kyoka-awase" (collection of comic tanka [kyoka] about all modern businesses) of 1852 portrayed the state of a sushi stall which was selling long inarizushi by the slice that is rarely seen today.
Japanese: 『近世商売尽狂歌合』（1852年）の挿絵には、今日ではみられない細長い稲荷ずしを、切り売りする屋台の様子が描かれている。
English: Originally, Inari-shin (the god of the harvest) had not been a fox, but there was a tendency to identify it by a folk belief in the Edo period.
Japanese: 本来、稲荷神は狐ではないが、江戸時代には俗信により同化とみなす向きがあった。
English: It is thought that in this way, it took its name from the traditional belief that the fox who was the messenger of Inari-shin favored aburaage, and it was eaten as the cheapest sushi in Edo and Nagoya in the late Tenpo Era.
Japanese: これにより、稲荷神の神使である狐の好物が油揚げであるという言い伝えからその名がつき、最も安い寿司として天保の末期には江戸や名古屋で食べられていたと考えられている。
English: The term "monko" implies tasting the scent within your mind, and not simply sniffing the scent.
Japanese: 嗅ぐのとは異なり、心の中でその香りをゆっくり味わうという意味がこめられる。
English: Games were also employed, in which people guessed the type of the incense being burnt.
Japanese: これには香をたいて、種類を当て鑑賞するという遊びがともなうことがあった。
English: Monko-fuda's were excavated from the ruins of Kusado-sengen City (presently, Fukuyama City) and the castle ruins of Motoharu KIKKAWA Yakata (Kita-hiroshima-cho) both in the Hiroshima Prefecture, and from the site of Akahori-jo Castle (Yokkaichi City) in the Mie Prefecture.
Japanese: 広島県の草戸千軒町（福山市）、吉川元春館跡（北広島町）、三重県の赤堀城跡（四日市市）からは聞香札が出土している。
English: Enatsubo is a container or pot in which the placenta of human beings are placed when being buried.
Japanese: 胞衣壺（えなつぼ）は、胞衣（人間の胎盤）を埋納する際に納める容器（壺）。
English: This pot was traditionally used by people to bury placenta in the ground near the entrance to the house or under the doma (dirt floor room within the house) to pray for their children's sound growth and social success.
Japanese: 生まれた子供の健やかな成長や立身出世を祈い家の間口や土間に埋納する習俗において用いられた。
English: Enatsubo has been excavated at Akita-jo Castle in Akita City, Akita Prefecture and Nagaoka-kyo (the ancient capital of Nagaoka) in Muko City and Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 秋田城（秋田県秋田市）や長岡京（京都府向日市・長岡京市）などで出土している。
English: Internet Sanpai is the act of visiting and praying at websites provided by Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.
Japanese: インターネット参拝（インターネットさんぱい）とは、神社や寺院がホームページを作成して、パソコンの前で参拝を行うことである。
English: More precisely, it generally refers to the act of Shinto priests and Buddhist priests directly praying in front of the altar of shrines or temples on behalf of people who send in their wishes and prayers via email.
Japanese: 具体的には、メールで願い事を送信し、それを神職・住職が直接神前・仏前へ祈願する形式が一般的である。
English: Some websites employ Java programs to allow worshippers to virtually see yourself ring a bell and make money offerings.
Japanese: 中にはJavaを用いて鈴を振ったり、賽銭を入れたり出来るなど本格的なものもある。
English: It is similar to 'Yohai' where worshippers offer prayers to a shrine from a remote location and to 'Daihai' where prayers are offered through an agent.
Japanese: 離れた箇所から神社を拝む「遙拝」、代理人に頼む「代拝」と同じである。
English: The Association of Shinto Shrines has unprecedentedly notified Shinto shrines nationwide that every shrine should refrain from providing Internet Sanpai services.
Japanese: 全国の神社を管理する神社本庁は、インターネット参拝を自粛するように全国の神社に通知をするという異例の行為を行っている。
English: Kamigamo Mingei Kyodan (Kamigamo Folk Craft Association) was a craft center for the Mingei (National Art) Movement, which was located in Kamigamo, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 上賀茂民芸協団（かみがもみんげいきょうだん）は、京都市上賀茂にあった民芸運動の実験工房。
English: This group was organized in 1927 by the late Living National Treasure Tatsuaki KURODA and others.
Japanese: のちに人間国宝となった黒田辰秋らによって1927年（昭和2年）に設立された。
English: They were greatly influenced by the Mingei Movement started by Muneyoshi YANAGI in 1926.
Japanese: 柳宗悦が1926年（大正15年）にはじめた民芸運動に大きな影響を受けている。
English: It was customary in the samurai society during the medieval ages to have someone special become a nominal father to perform the role of placing an eboshi on a boy's head at the family's request when the boy celebrates the genpuku ceremony.
Japanese: 中世武家社会においては、男子が成人に達して元服を行う際に特定の人物に依頼して仮親に為って貰い、当人の頭に烏帽子を被せる役を務めることが通例とされていた。
English: At that time, the young man abandons his childhood name and a new name, called "eboshi-na," is given to him by the eboshi-oya.
Japanese: また、この際に童名を廃して、烏帽子親が新たな諱を命名する場合があったその諱を烏帽子名という。
English: There is mentioning in "Azuma Kagami" (Mirror of the East) that MINAMOTO no Yoritomo served as an eboshi-oya of Tomomitsu OYAMA, a son of SAMUKAWA-no-Ama, who was Yoritomo's wet nurse, on October 29, 1180.
Japanese: 『吾妻鏡』によれば、治承4年10月2日(旧暦)（1180年10月22日）、源頼朝が乳母である寒河尼の息子（小山朝光）の烏帽子親を務めている。
English: Likewise, lords, toryo (head of the clan), and trustworthy influential person were frequently asked to serve as eboshi-oya.
Japanese: このように、烏帽子親には主君や一門の棟梁、信頼の置ける地域の有力者などに委嘱する例が多かった。
English: The Kamakura bakufu defined that the relationship between eboshi-oya and eboshi-go is equal to that between real parent and child, even if the former has no blood relation.
Japanese: 鎌倉幕府においては、烏帽子親と烏帽子子は実際の血縁関係が無くてもこれに准じるものとされた。
English: There were even laws passed in 1235, which prohibited not only relatives but also eboshi-go from attending council.
Japanese: 文暦2年（1235年）の追加法における評定の際の退座分限（参加禁止者）として親族と並んで烏帽子子が含まれている。
English: In genpuku ceremonies held after the Muromachi period, young men more frequently had their forelocks shaved instead of having an eboshi placed on their head.
Japanese: 室町時代以後の元服の儀では烏帽子を被せる代わりに前髪をそり落とす事例が増えた。
English: In addition to the samurai society, the court noble society during the Nara and Heian periods also had coming-of-age ceremonies where nominal parents, similar to the eboshi-oya, assumed the role of "hiki-ire" (a person who sets a young man's hair into a crown) during a Kanrei (a ceremony where a man is given a crown for his attainment of manhood) and "koshi-yui" (a person who ties a band around a young woman's waist for her coming-of-age ceremony) during a Mogi (coming-of-age ceremony for girls).
Japanese: また、武家社会以外でも王朝時代から続く公家社会での冠礼における引入及び裳着における腰結も仮親による成人儀式であった。
English: The early-modern times also saw similar ceremonies in which nominal parents played the role of "master" in the "Oyakata-kogata-sei" (system of a master and disciples) and "kaneoya" (also called "fudeoya," a women who cares the first black-painting of teeth ceremony of a girl).
Japanese: 近世民間における親方・子方制や女子の鉄漿親（筆親・歯黒親）なども烏帽子親の類似した仮親による成人儀式であった。
English: These coming-of-age ceremonies managed by nominal parents still remain in some regions of Japan.
Japanese: こうした仮親による成人儀式は現在でも日本の一部地域にて残されている。
English: Besides being set up on the internal side of bamboo screens (to in effect from a double barrier), the Kicho screen was employed in large rooms as a moveable room divider and to obscure things from view etc.
Japanese: 簾の内側に立てて二重の障壁とするほか、可動式の間仕切り・目隠しとして大きな部屋の仕切りに使った。
English: The screens were also used in a wide range of applications such as to block public view on noble women when visiting shrines and to obscure unsightly baggage/stored items from view.
Japanese: 参拝の折など高貴の婦人の身を衆目から隠す障壁、荷物などを見苦しくないよう隠しておく目隠しなどとしてわりに広い用途に用いられた。
English: Unorthodox uses of the Kicho screens included; use of smaller sized divider screens ('sashi kicho') which were carried by a pair of female attendants and used to obscure the faces of noble women when walking along open roads.
Japanese: 変わった用途としては、女房が街道を歩くときに傍仕えの女の童二人に小型の几帳を持たせて顔を隠す「差几帳（さしきちょう）」がある。
English: The diaphanous silk used in Kicho screens is called 'Katabira,' the upper sections off either side of the upper part of the 'T' are called 'arms,' the vertical uprights are called 'legs' and, the base is called the 'Tsuchii' (lit. 'on the ground').
Japanese: 几帳に用いる薄絹を「帷（かたびら）」、Ｔの上の部分に当たる横木を「手」、Ｔの縦棒に当たる柱を「足」、根元の台を「土居（つちい）」と呼ぶ。
English: When set on the inner side of bamboo blinds, large sized types of Kicho blinds were 4 shaku (1 shaku = 30.3 cm) high and 8 shaku wide or, width and length of 6 shaku in 5 widths that used 5 sheets of thin silk.
Japanese: 簾の内側に立てる高さ四尺幅八尺・帷が長さ六尺幅五幅（薄絹五枚使用）の大型タイプ（四尺の几帳）がある。
English: Mid-sized Kicho screens used indoors were 3 shaku wide by 6 shaku high in 4 widths, that used 4 sheets of thin silk.
Japanese: 室内用の高さ三尺幅六尺・帷が長さ五尺幅四幅（薄絹四枚使用）の中型タイプ（三尺の几帳）がある。
English: Small types of Kicho screen (2 shaku wide x 1.5 shaku high) were used by royal womenfolk in their living chambers (next to their pillows).
Japanese: 皇族女子などが帳台の中に使う高さ二尺幅一尺五寸の小型タイプ（枕几帳）、の三種類がある。
English: Plain silk was normally used for both layers of the curtain and cords, but sometimes twill was used only for the outer materials.
Japanese: 帷には普通は紐や表裏ともに平絹を使うが表地にのみ綾を使ったこともある。
English: The upper part was stitched together to make a cylinder through which the cross bar was passed and, excess cord was tied in a ninamusubi knot.
Japanese: 上部を筒型に縫って横木を通し縫った上刺しの紐の余りは蜷結びにして長々と垂らす。
English: A red and later on a red and black silk cord ('nosuji' decorative string) was hung from the center of each piece of silk cloth.
Japanese: 絹布一枚ごとに紐で吊るして中央に「野筋（のすじ）」という紅（後には黒と紅の分割）の飾り紐を垂らす。
English: Nirakuso was the second house of Kozui OTANI, the 22nd chief priest of West Hongan-ji Temple, which he built in Mt. Rokko.
Japanese: 二楽荘（にらくそう）は、西本願寺二十二世門主・大谷光瑞が六甲山に建設した別邸である。
English: It is said that Niraku (two enjoyments) means "Enjoying mountains, enjoying water" and "Enjoying natural landscapes, enjoying education."
Japanese: 「二楽」とは「山を楽しみ、水を楽しむ」「山水を楽しみ、育英を楽しむ」の意味だという。
English: In 1907, OTANI bought a village-owned mountain commonly called "Mt. Okamoto" in Motoyama Village, Muko County, Hyogo Prefecture (present-day Higashinada Ward, Kobe City) for 150,000 yen (the price at that time).
Japanese: 明治40年（1907年）、兵庫県武庫郡本山村（現・神戸市東灘区）の村有であった通称「岡本山」を15万円（当時価格）で買い上げた。
English: The construction of the main building of Nirakuso began on March 17, 1908 and was completed on September 20 of the following year, one and a half years later.
Japanese: その地に、明治41年3月17日に二楽荘本館を起工し、1年半後の翌年9月20日に竣工。
English: The construction of the main building was magnificent and gorgeous; four people - including Kozui, the chief priest, in the central role, Chozaburo UKAI as the supervising construction and design engineer, and others - worked on the design, construction and interior decorations, and spent about 170,000 yen on it.
Japanese: 本館の建設は、壮大かつ華麗なもので、門主・光瑞を中心に、工事設計監督技師・鵜飼長三郎ほか4名が建設施工、内部装飾を担当し、建築費に約17万円を費やした。
English: Chuta ITO, a professor at the University of Tokyo who would later design Dendo-in Mission and Tsukiji Hongan-ji Temple, gave advice from the beginning of construction.
Japanese: 後に伝道院や築地本願寺を設計した東京大学教授伊東忠太が、当初から助言を行った。
English: It was described as "a building like no other, unique to this county", and The Osaka Mainichi Daily News at the time headlined it as "Tenno-dai's (heavenly king's hill) spectacular view" in the running story titled "Buddhist Leader Kozui and Nirakuso."
Japanese: 「本邦無二の珍建物」と評され、当時の大阪毎日新聞の連載記事「光瑞法王と二楽荘」には「天王台の大観」と題する見出しがつけられているほどであった。
English: Each building of the vast mansion, whose total area was 811,800 sq.m, was constructed on the flat portions of steps excavated from the foot of the mountain.
Japanese: 総面積24万6000坪を数える広大な邸宅は、山麓を階段状に削りだし、その平坦部に各施設が建てられた。
English: A western-style building for office use and a school building and auxiliary buildings for Muko Middle School (a private school opened in 1911) were built on the step lowest on the foot of the mountain; Nirakuso's main building was built on the middle step, while the highest step, at the mountain's top, held Hakuaden (Ganshui), known as "the white room", a weather station, and Sukakuro, a library and dormitory building.
Japanese: 山麓の下段には、事務所の洋館と学生の教育をおこなう私塾・武庫中学（明治44年1911年）開校の校舎と付属館、中段には二楽荘本館、上段の山頂には純白の窮屋と称せられる白亜殿（含秀居・がんしゅうい）、測候所、図書館兼宿舎の巣鶴楼（すかくろう）などが配置された。
English: The main building was a two-story wooden house with a basement; it had a dome on the western corner of its red straight roof and it is said that, in appearance, it imitated the architecture of the times of India's Emperor Akbar and the Taj Mahal, which is considered a masterpiece of modern construction.
Japanese: その本館の外見は、インドのアクバル皇帝時代の建物やインド近代建築の傑作といわれたタージマハルを模したとされ、赤いストレート屋根の西隅にはドームがそびえ、木造二階建て、地下一階となっている。
English: Surprisingly the waste materials of an English trade ship that had sunk off the Kobe coast were used for all of the foundation of the building.
Japanese: 驚くのは、この建物の基礎部分がすべて神戸沖で沈没した英商船の廃船部材を利用していることである。
English: This ingenious method of use surprised engineers and reflects Kozui's efforts in design and his intent to cut costs.
Japanese: その巧妙な利用の仕方は、技師たちを驚かすとともに、光瑞の意匠を凝らした思いと経費節減の意図がうかがえる。
English: The internal construction was gorgeous and each room created each country's atmosphere with the architectural style, furniture and fixtures: British room, Chinese room, Arabian room, British large room of the feudal period style, western style bathroom and toilet, and office on the first floor and Indian room, book room with corridor, Egyptian room, western guest room, bed room of the chief priest on the second floor and kitchen and others on the basement.
Japanese: 本館内部の構造は豪華で、一階には、英国室、支那室、アラビア室、英国封建時代式の大室、純洋式の浴室と便所、事務室、二階にはインド室、廻廊式書庫、エジプト室、洋式客室、門主寝室、地下には調理室などがあり、建築様式や家具、調度類で各国の雰囲気を醸し出している。
English: The Arabian room, which was modeled after the magnificent king's room in Alhambra Palace, was located at the east corner of the main building; the floor had a checkerboard pattern of black and white marble, there was a fountain in the central square pond, and there were pots of begonias and moss varieties.
Japanese: アラビア室は、本館東端に位置し、スペインのアルハンブラ宮殿内の王室の壮観を模したものといわれ、床は白と黒の大理石で基盤に敷かれ、中央の四角い池には噴水があり、周囲にはペゴニアやコケ類の鉢が置かれていた。
English: At the next, in the British room there were large beams painted with white clay on the ceiling, strong and simple all British style furniture including tables and chairs and also decorated with horns and skulls of deer and the other animals on the whole wall.
Japanese: その隣の英国室は、白土で塗られた大きな梁が天井を走り、テーブルや椅子すべてが、頑丈で素朴な英国風の調度類がおかれて、しかも壁一面に鹿などの角や頭蓋骨が飾られていた。
English: The Indian room coordinated with the appearance of the main building was the room of his wife, Shigeko where was imitated minister's rooms of the times of Emperor Akbar in India and decorated with Indian art, a large elaborate frame of black marble decorated with jewels and a large picture of the Himalayas taken by her.
Japanese: 本館の外見と調和したインド室は、妻の重子夫人の部屋で、インドのアクバル時代の大臣室を模し、インド美術や黒色大理石に宝石を飾った精巧な大額、妻の撮ったヒマラヤ山脈大写真などが飾られていた。
English: And going through the Egyptian room decorated with Egyptian art and large wall painting s of the Nile and the Pyramids to the south, it was seen the Drosera garden of the south garden from the balcony outside.
Japanese: そして、エジプト美術、ナイル河畔の大壁画とピラミッドの大壁画を巡らしたエジプト室を南に抜けると、屋外のベランダから南庭の毛先庭が見下ろされた。
English: The drosera garden held flowers cleverly arranged by pattern and color, and the central garden ponds were placed linearly, in traditional Indian style.
Japanese: 毛先庭には、花の文様や色彩が巧みに配合され、その中央には方線式の泉水が純インド風に配置されていた。
English: While there were a lot of problems that the debts of Otani family came into surface because of the large expenses of the temple's projects like the 3rd Otani Expedition and in 1914 Hongan-ji Templea had a corruption scandal suddenly, Nirakuso and Muko Middle School were closed and Kozui OTANI finally resigned as the chief priest of West Hongan-ji Temple and leader of Hongan-ji Temple school in March of the same year
Japanese: 第三次大谷探検隊をはじめとする教団事業の出費がかさみ、大谷家の負債が表面化するとともに、大正3年（1914年）には本願寺に関する疑獄事件が突発するなど多くの問題を抱える中で、同年3月、二楽荘そして武庫中学も閉鎖され、大谷光瑞は西本願寺住職・本願寺派管長を辞任するにいたった。
English: After that, while Kozui OTANI was travelling in China Nirakuso was sold to Fusanosuke KUHARA, a rich man from Osaka living in a luxury house in Sumiyoshi Village (Hyogo Prefecture) whom Kozui had known.
Japanese: 以後、二楽荘は、大谷光瑞が中国の旅に出る中、住吉村(兵庫県)に豪邸を構える大阪の富豪で旧知の久原房之助に売却された。
English: It is said that the price was 160,000 yen or 210,000 yen including all the buildings, lands and art objects.
Japanese: その額は、二楽荘の建築、地所、美術品一切を含んで16万円とも21万円ともいわれている。
English: Without the owner, Nirakuso went to ruin and the main building got water leakages remarkably and the cable cars was stopped and it was seen landslides everywhere and the rails became very rusty.
Japanese: 主がいなくなった二楽荘は荒廃し、本殿の漏水が著しく、ケーブルカーも停止し各所に崖崩れが起こり、レールの錆びが目立っていた。
English: It was also said that all the decorations of Kozui's study in the Hakuaden was dismantled and it looked very sad.
Japanese: 光瑞の白亜殿の書斎のすべての装飾も取り外され、見る影もなく哀れな状態であったという。
English: In 1918, a concrete plan to establish Konan Gakuen Middle School on the land of Tarouemon MASUDA (the Head of Motoyama Village) at the foot of the mountain of Nirakuso was formed.
Japanese: 大正7年（1918年）、二楽荘山裾の増田太郎右衛門（本山村長）の所有地に甲南学園私立甲南中学校の設立計画が具体化された。
English: The school took the permission from Fusanosuke KUHARA to reuse the materials of the building belonging to Muko Middle School for a part of the temporary school building and to relocate it.
Japanese: 学園は、中学の仮校舎の一部として、武庫中学の付属施設の部材を転用し、移築する承諾を久原房之助から取り付けた。
English: Also the school got the auditorium of Muko Middle School from KUHARA and it was reused as the principal's room, office, and meeting room after repaired temporally.
Japanese: また、武庫中学の講堂も久原から譲り受け、応急修理の後、校長室、事務室、会議室などに利用された。
English: In April 1919the first entrance ceremony of the school was held in the auditorium of Muko Middle School.
Japanese: この武庫中学の講堂では、学園最初の入学式が大正8年4月に挙行された。
English: Fusanosuke KUHARA subsequently became a charter member and joined the school's board of directors of the school; he expressed his intent to offer Nirakuso to the school, but in the end, it didn't happen.
Japanese: 以後、久原房之助は学園の創立委員、理事となり、二楽荘を学園に提供する意志を表明したが、結局立ち消えとなった。
English: Around 3:30 in October 1932, Nirakuso was burned down by suspicious file where Kozui Otani put their full energy and the temple was led to modernization through the implementation of special education, architecture, horticulture and research and studies like western area expedition.
Japanese: 昭和7年（1932年）10月　日午前3時30分ごろ、大谷光瑞が全精力を注ぎ込み、英才教育の推進や建築、園芸、西域探検などの調査、研究を通じて、教団を近代化に導く舞台とした二楽荘は、不審火によって焼失した。