nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: This beautiful and clever princess who was later called Chujo Hime lost her real mother in her childhood and was fostered by a wicked stepmother.
Japanese: 後に中将姫と呼ばれるようになる、この美しく聡明な姫は、幼い時に実の母を亡くし、意地悪な継母に育てられた。
English: Chujo Hime had been continuously abused by this stepmother and nearly killed because of an innocent sin at last.
Japanese: 中将姫はこの継母から執拗ないじめを受け、ついには無実の罪で殺されかける。
English: However, a follower of the family of FUJIWANO no Toyonari who was ordered to kill her and saw her devote herself in sutra chanting with wishing for gokuraku ojo (peaceful death), could not kill her with a sword and left her at 'Mt.Hibari.'
Japanese: ところが、姫の殺害を命じられていた藤原豊成家の従者は、極楽往生を願い一心に読経する姫の姿を見て、どうしても刀を振り下ろすことができず、姫を「ひばり山」というところに置き去りにしてきた。
English: After that, Chujo Hime met her father Toyonari who had changed his mind and returned to the capital once, but soon she became a priestess in Taima-dera Temple and devoted herself in wishing for gokuraku ojo.
Japanese: その後、改心した父・豊成と再会した中将姫はいったんは都に戻るものの、やがて當麻寺で出家し、ひたすら極楽往生を願うのであった。
English: The famous 'Taima Mandala' was woven by her with five-colored lotus threads in one night.
Japanese: 姫が五色の蓮糸を用い、一夜にして織り上げたのが、名高い「当麻曼荼羅」である。
English: When she was twenty-nine years old, living Amida Buddha and twenty-five Bosatsu appeared and she left for Saiho Gokuraku Jodo.
Japanese: 姫が29歳の時、生身の阿弥陀仏と二十五菩薩が現れ、姫は西方極楽浄土へと旅立ったのであった。
English: It seems that this story was so popular it has been embroidered by Zeami and Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU and adopted as the subject of Yokyoku (Noh song), Joruri and Kabuki.
Japanese: この話はよほど人気があったようで、世阿弥や近松門左衛門らによって脚色され、謡曲、浄瑠璃、歌舞伎の題材ともなった。
English: The original of Taima Mandala (Konpon [fundamental] Mandala) has been secretly stored at Taima-dera Temple although it was greatly damaged.
Japanese: 当麻曼荼羅の原本（根本曼荼羅）は、損傷甚大ながら現在も當麻寺に秘蔵されている。
English: However, as a result of research, it is clear that it is not a fabric woven with lotus threads like the legend says, but a figured brocade with silk threads.
Japanese: ただし、伝説に言うような蓮糸の織物ではなく、絹糸の綴織（つづれおり）であることが研究の結果判明している。
English: It is said to have been made during the Nara or Tang period in China, but it is more influential too see that it was made in China.
Japanese: 制作は奈良時代とも中国・唐時代とも言われるが、中国製とする見方が有力である。
English: It seems that Mandala was originally hung on Zushi, but it was renovated to be pasted on a board in the medieval times when it was hardly damaged.
Japanese: 曼荼羅は元は厨子内に掛けてあったと思われるが、傷みの激しくなった中世に板貼りに改装された。
English: Shogu, a priest of the Daiun-in Temple in Kyoto, recorded the repair of the Mandala in 1677 during the Edo period.
Japanese: 京都・大雲院の僧・性愚（しょうぐ）という人物が、江戸時代の延宝5年（1677年）に行われた曼荼羅修理の状況を記録に残している。
English: According to that record, when Japanese paper was pasted on the surface in order to unglue Mandala from the board and water was poured, Mandala was taken off with a big sound.
Japanese: それによると、曼荼羅を板から剥がすために表面に和紙を貼り、水を注いだところ、大きな音とともに剥がれ落ちた。
English: The desquamated remaining pieces of the fabric were pasted on another silk cloth that had been prepared, and the part in which patterns disappeared from the deterioration of the fabric were painted.
Japanese: 別に用意していた絹地の上に剥離した織物の残片を貼り付け、織物が劣化して図柄の消えている部分は絵の具で補った。
English: It is said that about one third of the original figured brocade remains.
Japanese: オリジナルの綴織の残存している部分は図柄全体の3分の1程度と言われている。
English: Especially, the lower part of the picture is totally lost and filled with a picture, but the original fabric remains in comparatively good condition in some parts such as right kyoji (attendant figures) (on the observers' left) of Amida Sanzon (Amida Triad).
Japanese: 特に図の下部は全く失われて絵画で補われているが、阿弥陀三尊の右脇侍（向かって左）の部分などにはオリジナルの織物が比較的良好に残っている。
English: In addition, the trace of the Mandala on the surface of the board when the Mandala on the board was unglued was called 'Uraita Mandala' and is enshrined on the back of Mandala Zushi.
Japanese: なお、板貼りの曼荼羅を剥がした後、板の表面に剥がれた曼荼羅の跡が残ったのを「裏板曼荼羅」と称し、曼荼羅厨子の背面に安置された。
English: The original Taima Mandala seemed to be hardly damaged during the Kamakura period, more than four centuries after production, and the first transcription 'Kenpo Mandala' was produced in 1215.
Japanese: 当麻曼荼羅の原本は、制作から4世紀以上経った鎌倉時代にはかなり傷んでいたようで、建保3年（1215年）には第1回の転写本である「建保曼荼羅」が制作された。
English: This first transcription was said to have been enshrined at the Rengeo-in Temple (Sanjusangen-do Hall) in Kyoto and retuned to the Taima-dera Temple later, but it does not exist now.
Japanese: この第1回転写本は京都の蓮華王院（三十三間堂）に収められ、後に當麻寺に戻ったというが、現存していない。
English: The patterns of the second transcription 'Bunki Mandala' was completed in 1502 and its memorial service was held in 1505, and the third transcription, Jokyo Mandala, was completed in 1685, any of which was not a fabric but a picture.
Japanese: 2回目の転写本は、文亀2年（1502年）に図柄が完成し、永正2年（1505年）に供養された「文亀曼荼羅」、3回目の転写本は、貞享2年（1685年）完成の貞享曼荼羅で、いずれも織物ではなく絵画である。
English: The one hung on Zushi at Hondo of the Taima-dera Temple (Mandala Hall) at present is Bunki Mandala (an important cultural property).
Japanese: 現在、當麻寺本堂（曼荼羅堂）の厨子に掛けられているのは文亀曼荼羅（重文）である。
English: In the present Taima-dera Temple, south-facing Kon-do Hall and Kodo Hall (lecture hall) and east-facing Hondo stand board and board.
Japanese: 現在の當麻寺には、南を正面とする金堂・講堂と、東を正面とする本堂が相接して建っている。
English: Between the Kon-do Hall and the east and west pagodas, branch temples such as Nakanobo Hall and Gonen-in Temple had been built, so that it is difficult to imagine the location at the time of foundation.
Japanese: 金堂と東西両塔の間には後世に中之坊、護念院などの子院が建てられ、創建当初の伽藍配置は想像しにくい。
English: As well as many other temples in ancient times, the front entrance seemed to be south-facing when it was founded, but the entrance of the Taima-dera Temple today is the Todaimon Gate (東大門).
Japanese: 上代の多くの寺院同様、創建当時は南が正面入口であったと思われるが、現在の當麻寺の入口は東大門である。
English: There is no gate in the south and it is difficult to know the original location of temple buildings and the flow line of praying.
Japanese: 南側には門はなく、本来の伽藍配置や信仰の動線はわかりにくくなっている。
English: It seems that the Taima-dera Temple when first adopted such a formation of temple buildings similar to the Yakushi-ji Temple style in which Kon-do Hall was placed in the center, the Kodo Hall was placed behind Kodo and the two east and west pagodas were placed forward along a north-south axis.
Japanese: 創建当初の當麻寺は、金堂を中心とし、南北方向の中軸線に沿って、金堂の後方に講堂、前方には東西二つの塔を配する薬師寺式に近い伽藍構成をとっていたと思われる。
English: After that, the faith in the Taima Mandala became popular and the hall where Mandala was enshrined was called 'Hondo.'
Japanese: その後、当麻曼荼羅に対する信仰が盛んとなり、曼荼羅を安置する堂が「本堂」と呼ばれるようになった。
English: There is no honbo (a priest's main living quarters) of the Taima-dera Temple and the central temple buildings are controlled by branch temples which belong to the Jodo-kyo and Koyosan Shingon sect.
Japanese: 當麻寺自体の本坊はなく、中心伽藍は浄土宗と高野山真言宗に属する子院によって管理されている。
English: On the pillar of naijin (inner sanctuary of a shrine or temple) there is an inscription about a donation of rice fields in 1268, and it seems that it was rebuilt before that year, that is, in the early part of the Kamakura period.
Japanese: 内陣の柱に文永5年（1268年）の田地寄進銘があり、これより以前、鎌倉時代前期の再建と思われる。
English: Although it is smaller than the Kon-do Hall of big temples in Fujiwara-kyo (the Fujiwara Palace; the ancient capital of Fujiwara) and Heijo-kyo (the ancient capital of Japan in current Nara), it seems to have the same scale as when it was founded.
Japanese: 藤原京や平城京の大寺の金堂に比較すれば小規模だが、創建以来の規模を保っているものと思われる。
English: The center of faith for the Taima-dera Temple has transferred to Hondo (Mandala Hall) where Taima Mandala was enshrined, but it goes without saying that the original central temple building is the Kon-do Hall.
Japanese: 中世以降、當麻寺の信仰の中心は当麻曼荼羅を安置する本堂（曼荼羅堂）に移っているが、本来の中心堂宇が金堂であることは言うまでもない。
English: It is known that it was rebuilt in 1303, at the end of the Kamakura period, by the ink writing on a ridgepole.
Japanese: 棟木の墨書により鎌倉時代末期の乾元2年（1303年）の再建であることが知られる。
English: An inscription of the ink writing of a ridgepole shows that it was built in 1161, at the end of the Heian period.
Japanese: 棟木の墨書銘から平安時代末期、永暦2年（1161年）の建築であることがわかる。
English: However, research at the time of demolition for repair shows that it was a reconstruction of the former hall built in the beginning of the Heian period (about the ninth century) and that a part of material of the building in the Nara period was also diverted.
Japanese: が、解体修理寺の調査の結果から、平安時代初期（9世紀頃）に建てられた前身堂を改築したものであり、さらにさかのぼる奈良時代の建物の部材も一部転用されていることがわかっている。
English: The east pagoda is such a unique pagoda as the first story has three intervals (in the sense that there are four pillars and three intervals between pillars), the second and third stories have two intervals (in the architecture of temples and shrines in Japan it is unusual to have even-numbered intervals between pillars and a pillar in the center.
Japanese: 東塔は初重が通常どおり3間（柱が一辺に4本立ち、柱間が3つあるという意味）であるのに対し、二重・三重を2間とする特異な塔である（日本の社寺建築では、柱間を偶数として、中央に柱が来るのは異例）。
English: In addition, while Suien, a design of pattern, on the roof of the west pagoda is orthodox, the one on the east pagoda is unique with a shape like a fish bone (however, it does not seem to have been made at the time of the foundation).
Japanese: また、屋根上の水煙（すいえん）という装飾のデザインを見ると、西塔のそれはオーソドックスなものだが、東塔の水煙は魚の骨のような形をした、変わったデザインのものである（ただし、創建当初のものではないらしい）。
English: Judging from the style of the details, it can be guessed that the east pagoda was built at the end of the Nara period and that the west pagoda was from late Nara period to the beginning of the Heian period.
Japanese: 細部の様式等から、東塔は奈良時代末期、西塔はやや遅れて奈良時代最末期から平安時代初頭の建築と推定される。
English: Although there is a little difference in design and period of construction between the east pagoda and the west pagoda, it is very significant as the sole example that east and west pagodas are existing.
Japanese: 東西の塔にデザインや建築時期の違いは若干あるものの、近世以前の東西両塔が現存する日本唯一の例として、きわめて貴重なものである。
English: Sozo was actively produced during the Nara period, but it is comparatively rare to produce a Honzon statue in sozo.
Japanese: 塑像（粘土製の像）は奈良時代には盛んに制作されたが、寺の本尊像を塑像とするのは比較的珍しい。
English: The firm face of this statue is similar to the style of the 'Buddha head' in the Kofuku-ji Temple in Nara and guessed to be produced in the Tenmu era (the end of the seventh century) during the first stage of the Taima-dera Temple.
Japanese: 本像の張りのある面相は、奈良・興福寺の「仏頭」の作風に通ずるものがあり、當麻寺草創期の天武朝（7世紀末）の造像と推定される。
English: Taima Mandala Zushi: a big Zushi of about five meters high enshrined in naijin of Hondo (Mandala Hall) in order to hang Taima Mandala.
Japanese: 当麻曼荼羅厨子-本堂（曼荼羅堂）内陣に安置される高さ約5メートルの巨大な厨子で、当麻曼荼羅を懸けるためのものである。
English: Its flat surfaces are shallow sexanglular and the decorations of gold and silver pictures and gold hyomon (type of lacquer ware) on roof and pillars are made in an ancient style as seen in the Shoso-in treasures, which show that this Zushi was made from the end of the Nara period to the beginning of the Heian period.
Japanese: 平面は奥行が浅い扁平六角形で、屋根、柱等に残る金銀泥絵や金平文（きんひょうもん）の装飾は正倉院宝物などに見られる古式の技法で、本厨子の制作が奈良時代末期～平安時代初期にまでさかのぼることを示す。
English: The front doors of Zushi (each three folding doors of left and right) was newly made when Zushi was repaired greatly in 1242.
Japanese: 厨子正面の扉（左右各3枚ずつの折戸）は、仁治3年（1242年）に厨子の大修理を行った際に新調したものである。
English: A lotus pond is expressed with gold makie (Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder) on a black lacquered base and more than 2,000 people's names of Kechien (making a connection with Buddha to rest their spirits) are also expressed with makie.
Japanese: 黒漆地に金蒔絵で蓮池を表わし、下部には2,000名を超える結縁者の氏名がやはり蒔絵で表わされている。
English: The figured brocade of Taima Mandala: it is 'Konpon Mandala' mentioned in the section of 'Taima Mandala and a legend of Chujo Hime.'
Japanese: 綴織当麻曼荼羅図-「当麻曼荼羅と中将姫伝説」の節で述べた「根本曼荼羅」である。
English: Bonsho: although it has no inscription, it can be guessed to be one of the oldest bonsho, judging from its style and so on, and a relic in the first stage of Taima-dera Temple.
Japanese: 梵鐘-無銘ながら、作風等から日本最古級と推定される梵鐘で、當麻寺創建当時の遺物と推定される。
English: Its style is of an early period before bonsho became formalized, such as inconsistency on the number of renben (lotus petal) of the pedestal and of the bell in two parts.
Japanese: 2か所にある撞座の蓮弁の枚数が一致しない等、作風には梵鐘が形式化する以前の初期的要素がみられる。
English: It is the second oldest statue of Shitenno in Japan, next to the statue of Kon-do Hall of Horyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 日本における四天王像の作例としては、法隆寺金堂像に次いで2番目に古い。
English: In addition, it is a significant work as one of the oldest statues made in kanshitu-zukuri (a method of making a Buddha statue, which is made of canvas and Japanese lacquer, and inside of the statue is a cavity) in Japan.
Japanese: また、日本における乾漆造の作例としても最古に属する貴重な作品である。
English: While the statues of Shitenno after aging generally shows strenuous movement and a menacing pose, the Shitenno statues of the Taima-dera Temple stand with a gentle look on its face and an exotic facial expression.
Japanese: 後世の四天王像が一般に激しい動きを表し、威嚇的ポーズを取るのに対し、當麻寺の四天王像は静かな表情で直立しており、その顔貌には異国風が感じられる。
English: Among the four statues, the statue of Jikokuten (Dhrtarastra) comparatively keeps original parts, but the statue of Tamonten (Vaisravana) is a wooden statue made during the Kamakura period as a whole.
Japanese: 4体の中で持国天像は比較的当初の部分を残すが、多聞天像は全体が鎌倉時代の木彫に代わっている。
English: Toshodai-ji Temple, located in Gojo-cho, Nara city, is noted in connection with Jianzhen.
Japanese: 唐招提寺（とうしょうだいじ）は、奈良市五条町にある鑑真ゆかりの寺院。
English: Jianzhen from Tong Dynasty China, a monk who became widely known through a novel entitled "Tempyo no Iraka" (Roof Tiles of the Tempyo Period) written by Yasushi INOUE, spent his later years in this temple.
Japanese: 井上靖の小説『天平の甍』で広く知られるようになった中国・唐出身の僧鑑真が晩年を過ごした寺である。
English: "Shoku Nihongi" (The Chronicles of Japan Continued) and other sources say that Jianzhen, a priest, was granted a former residence of Imperial Prince Niitabe (the 7th prince of Emperor Tenmu) by the Imperial Court in 759 to make it into a temple.
Japanese: 『続日本紀』等によれば、唐招提寺は唐僧・鑑真が天平宝字3年（759年）、新田部親王（にいたべしんのう、天武天皇第7皇子）の旧宅跡を朝廷から譲り受け、寺としたものである。
English: The "shodai" contained in the temple name is a Chinese word originally from Sanskrit which means "four corners" and "wide."
Japanese: 寺名の「招提」は、サンスクリット由来の中国語で、元来は「四方」「広い」などの意味を表わす語であった。
English: Like words such as "tera," "in," "shoja" and "ranny,a" the word "tosho" was used as a general noun to identify Buddhist temples (including private temples).
Japanese: 「寺」「院」「精舎」「蘭若」などと同様、仏教寺院（私寺）を指す一般名詞として使われていた。
English: That is to say that the origin of the temple's name is said to derive from "a temple for the priest of Tang, Jianzhen, Ganjin-wajo."
Japanese: つまり、本寺の寺名の由来としては、「唐僧である鑑真和上のための寺」というような意味合いであるとされている。
English: The life of Jianzhen (688 - 763) is described in detail in "Daiwajoden" written by Shitaku, a disciple who accompanied Jianzhen, "Todaiwajo Toseiden (The Eastern Expedition of the Great T'ang Monk)" written by OMI no Mifune based on "Daiwajoden," and "Tempyo no Iraka" by Yasushi INOUE, among others.
Japanese: 鑑真（688年-763年）の生涯については、日本に同行した弟子の思託が記した『大和上伝』、それをもとにした淡海三船（おうみのみふね）の『唐大和上東征伝』、井上靖の『天平の甍』などに詳しい。
English: "Kairitsu" means "norm" or "rules," a set of things for the followers to practice in their daily life.
Japanese: 「戒律」とは「規範」「きまり」といった意味で、仏教者が日常生活上守らなければならない事柄である。
English: It consists of Bosatsu-kai (Bodhisattva Precepts) for general followers of Buddhism and "Gusokukai" for proper monks.
Japanese: 一般の仏教信者に授ける「菩薩戒」と、正式の僧に授ける「具足戒」とがある。
English: A renunciant monk had to be taught "Gusokukai" by a qualified monk in a facility called "Kaidan" in order to become a proper monk.
Japanese: 出家者が正式の僧となるためには、「戒壇」という施設で、有資格者の僧から「具足戒」を受けねばならない。
English: At that time (in the early eighth century) there was no officially established Kaidan in Japan and an insufficient number of monks were qualified to teach precepts.
Japanese: 当時（8世紀前半）の日本には正式の戒壇はなく、戒律を授ける資格のある僧も不足していた。
English: Fusho and Yoei, who went with a Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty China in 733, had been ordered by the Imperial Court to invite a suitably qualified person to Japan to establish an official kairitsu.
Japanese: 天平5年（733年）、遣唐使とともに渡唐した留学僧の普照と栄叡（ようえい）は、日本に正式の戒壇を設立するため、しかるべき導師を招請するよう、朝廷からの命を受けていた。
English: They met Jianzhen, a high rank monk in Yangzhou (present-day Jiangsu Province) for the first time in 742.
Japanese: 彼らが揚州（現・江蘇省）の高僧鑑真に初めて会ったのは西暦742年のことであった。
English: Jianzhen accepted their offer to visit Japan, but he failed to reach Japan by boat, a life-threatening journey at that time, as many as five times over twelve years.
Japanese: 鑑真は渡日を承諾するが、当時の航海は命がけであり、鑑真は足掛け12年の間に5回も渡航に失敗した。
English: At his fifth attempt he was forced to sail to Hainan at the southernmost tip of China, and after losing Yoei who had accompanied him so far, he also suffered the burden of losing his eyesight.
Japanese: 5回目の航海では中国最南端の海南島まで流され、それまで行動をともにしてきた栄叡を失い、自らは失明するという苦難を味わった。
English: After Jianzhen reached Satsuma (though some suggest it was Ryukyu) in December 753, he eventually made land in Naniwa no tsu (Naniwa Port in Osaka) in February 754.
Japanese: 天平勝宝5年（753年）12月、薩摩（琉球ともいう）に上陸した鑑真は、翌天平勝宝6年（754年）2月、ようやく難波津（大阪）に上陸た。
English: He taught Bosatsu-kai (Bodhisattva Precepts) to Emperor Shomu, Empress Komyo, Empress Koken and others in front of Daibutsu-den Hall (the Great Buddha hall) at Todai-ji Temple in the same year.
Japanese: 同年、東大寺大仏殿前で、聖武天皇、光明皇后、孝謙天皇らに菩薩戒を授けた。
English: After he spent five years, the first half of his ten-year stay in Japan, at Todaiji Temple, he was granted the site where the current Toshodai-ji Temple stood in 759.
Japanese: 日本で過ごした晩年の10年間のうち、前半5年間を東大寺で過ごした後、天平宝字3年（759年）、前述のように、今の唐招提寺の地を与えられた。
English: Toshodai-ji Temple, located at Nibou Gojo Ukyo in Heijokyo, was where Imperial Prince Niitabe once lived and covered an area of 400 acres.
Japanese: 唐招提寺の寺地は平城京の右京五条二坊に位置した新田部親王邸跡地で、広さは4町であった。
English: The remains of the former building considered to have been the residence of Imperial Prince Niitabe were detected as a result of excavations of the precinct.
Japanese: 境内の発掘調査の結果、新田部親王邸と思われる前身建物跡が検出されている。
English: In addition, among the old tiles unearthed from the precinct, tiles of simple geometric design (a combination of hollow semicircular tiles of Jukenmon (concentric circle design) and plain rectangular tiles of Jukomon) are assumed to have been used in the mansion of Imperial Prince Niitabe.
Japanese: また、境内から出土した古瓦のうち、単純な幾何学文の瓦（重圏文軒丸瓦と重弧文軒平瓦の組み合わせ）は、新田部親王邸のものと推定されている。
English: The kyozo (sutra repository), one of the two azekura-zukuri style warehouses that still exist in the temple, is considered to be have been used as a warehouse in the mansion of Imperial Prince Niitabe, rebuilt at a later date.
Japanese: 寺内に現存する2棟の校倉造倉庫のうち、経蔵は新田部親王宅の倉庫を改造したものと思われる。
English: "Shodaiji Konryu Engi" (The history of Shodai-ji Temple), included in "Shoji Engi Shu" (a book describing the history of every temple), lists the names of the buildings of the temple and describes who had each of them built.
Japanese: 『招提寺建立縁起』（『諸寺縁起集』所収）に、寺内の建物の名称とそれらの建物は誰の造営によるものであるかが記されている。
English: It says that Nyoho (date of birth unknown - 815), who visited Japan with a disciple of Jianzhen, had Kon-do Hall built, the FUJIWARA no Nakamaro family donated the Jikido dining hall to the temple, and the FUJIWARA no Kiyokawa family donated Kensaku-do.
Japanese: それによると、金堂は鑑真の弟子でともに来日した如宝（?-815年）の造営、食堂（じきどう）は藤原仲麻呂家の施入（寄進）、羂索堂（けんさくどう）は藤原清河家の施入であった。
English: The building of the Buddhist temple was continued by the generation of Jianzhen and Nyoho's disciples, and the subsequent generation of the grandson-disciple, Buan.
Japanese: 伽藍の造営は鑑真の弟子の如宝、孫弟子の豊安（ぶあん）の代にまで引き継がれた。
English: It fell into decline after the Heian Period but was revived by Kakujo (1193 - 1249), a monk who lived in the Kamakura Period.
Japanese: 平安時代以後、一時衰退したが、鎌倉時代の僧・覚盛（かくじょう、1193年-1249年）によって復興された。
English: (Although the Hondo of Shinyakushi-ji Temple is a structure from the Nara Period, it was originally not designed to be the Hondo.)
Japanese: （奈良・新薬師寺の本堂は奈良時代の建築だが、元来本堂として建てられたものではない。）
English: The front is 7-ken in width and the sides are 4-ken in length ("ken" is not a unit of length but refers to the number of pillars).
Japanese: 正面7間、側面4間（「間」は長さの単位ではなく、柱間の数を表わす）である。
English: A feature of this structure is its 7-ken X 1-ken open-air space (without walls and door fittings) at the front.
Japanese: 手前の7間×1間を吹き放ち（壁、建具等を設けず、開放とする）にすることがこの建物の特色である。
English: Eight large round pillars that stand in a line at the front of the hall are a point worthy of note in this structure.
Japanese: 吹き放しとなった堂正面には8本の巨大な円柱が並び、この建物の見所となっている。
English: The structure was repaired in 1270 and from 1693 to 1694 and the roof is of early-modern style.
Japanese: 建物は文永7年（1270年）と元禄6年-7年（1693年-1694年）に修理されており、屋根構造は近世風になっている。
English: Nara Prefectural Board of Education announced in 2005 that the Kon-do Hall was of Japanese cypress cut in 781, suggesting that it was built in the same year or later.
Japanese: 2005年、奈良県教育委員会の発表によれば、金堂の部材には西暦781年に伐採されたヒノキ材が使用されており、建造は同年以降ということになる。
English: Three statues are enshrined in the hall: a seated statue of Rushana Butsu stands in the center, a statue of Yakushi Nyorai to the right, and a statue of Thousand Armed Avalokiteshwara to the left.
Japanese: 堂内には中央に本尊・廬舎那仏坐像、向かって右に薬師如来立像、左に千手観音立像の3体の巨像を安置する。
English: In addition, statues of Bonten and Taishakuten stand to the right and left at the front and statues of the Four Devas stand in the four corners of Syumidan.
Japanese: そのほか、本尊の手前左右に梵天・帝釈天立像、須弥壇の四隅に四天王立像を安置する。
English: Its roof was originally of kirizuma-zukuri style (an architectural style with a gabled roof) but was rebuilt in irimoya style (with a half-hipped roof) with door fittings.
Japanese: 屋根は切妻造であったが、寺院用に改造するにあたって、屋根を入母屋造とし、建具を入れている。
English: It is viewed as precious as it is the only ancient structural remnant of court architecture of the Tenpyo era, although it was rebuilt in 1275 in the Kamakura Period.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の建治元年（1275年）にも改造されているが、天平時代宮廷建築の唯一の遺構として極めて貴重である。
English: Enshrined in the hall are the principal statues of Miroku-nyorai (an Important Cultural Property of the Kamakura Period) and Dhrtarastra and Virudhaka (an Important Cultural Property of the Nara Period).
Japanese: 堂内には本尊弥勒如来坐像（重文、鎌倉時代）と、持国天、増長天立像（重文、奈良時代）を安置する。
English: Many statues had been enshrined in the hall by the time the new hozo (treasure house) was completed in 1970.
Japanese: 1970年に新宝蔵が完成するまでは、堂内に多数の仏像を安置していた。
English: The kyozo is considered to have been built out of a warehouse belonging to the mansion of Imperial Prince Niitabe, and was built before Toshodai-ji Temple was founded.
Japanese: 経蔵は唐招提寺創建以前ここにあった新田部親王邸の倉を改造したものとされる。
English: The Kaidan-in was not rebuilt after being burnt down in a fire in 1851, at the end of the Edo Period.
Japanese: 戒壇院の建物は江戸時代末期の嘉永元4（1851年）に焼失して以来再建されていない。
English: Some suggest that the Kaidan of Toshodai-ji Temple has been there since the temple's foundation, while others claim that it was originally built in 1284.
Japanese: 唐招提寺の戒壇は創建時からあったものとする説と、鎌倉時代の弘安7年（1284年）に初めて造られたとする説とがある。
English: Goei-do Hall (the hall dedicated to the founder of the sect), an important cultural property, enshrines a sculpture of Jianzhen (a national treasure), and is made public from 5th through 7th of June on the Kaizan-ki (anniversary of the temple-founder's death).
Japanese: 御影堂（重文）-鑑真の肖像彫刻（国宝）を安置する（開山忌の6月5日－7日のみ公開）。
English: It was used as an office building of the District Court until 1962 and moved to Toshodai-ji Temple in 1964.
Japanese: 1962年までは地方裁判所の庁舎として使用され、1964年に唐招提寺に移築された。
English: "Huangshan Mountains in Morning Mist," a wall painting drawn by the Japanese-style painter Kaii HIGASHIYAMA, was painted in memory of Jianzhen.
Japanese: 障壁画「黄山暁雲」は鑑真の御霊を慰める為、日本画家東山魁夷によって新たに描かれたものである。
English: A group of statues carved from ichiboku (one tree) called "a group of wooden Buddhas of the former Kodo Hall" created between the late Nara and early Heian periods and once temporarily placed in Kodo Hall, and a wooden statue of the seated Dainichi Nyorai (an important cultural property) once placed in Kon-do Hall are both stored and some of them are exhibited here.
Japanese: 金堂にあった木造大日如来坐像（重文）のほか、「旧講堂木彫仏群」といわれる、もと講堂に仮安置されていた奈良時代末期～平安時代前期の一木彫仏像群が収蔵され、一部が展示されている。
English: Bonmoe (Uchiwamaki) (a gathering held to read the Bonmo-sutra and pray for happiness), on May 19, is an event to remember the Kakujo Shonin who restored Toshodai-ji Temple in the Kamakura Period
Japanese: 梵網会（うちわまき）（5月19日）-鎌倉時代に唐招提寺を復興した覚盛上人を偲んで行われる行事。
English: The event is said to have started when the Buddhist nun from Hokke-ji Temple remembered his virtues by placing a round fan on the altar so that he could swat away mosquitoes.
Japanese: その徳を偲んだ法華寺の尼僧がせめてうちわで蚊を払えるようにと霊前にうちわを供えたのが始まりといわれる。