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English: In 1484, he was transferred and made the chief priest of Soju-in Temple (the founder's pagoda), a temple in which Muso Soseki, the founder of Shokoku-ji Temple, was enshrined.
Japanese: 同18年には相国寺開山の夢窓疎石をまつる崇寿院（開山塔）の塔主に遷任。
English: Although he was appointed in November 1487 to a position as the chief priest of Nanzen-ji Temple and was given a Buddhist monk's stole of gold brocade by the former shogun Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, ultimately he didn't join Nanzen-ji Temple.
Japanese: 長享元年（1487年）11月には南禅寺住持となり、前将軍足利義政より金襴の袈裟を受けるが、南禅寺には入らなかった。
English: However, he was so close to Yoshimasa that he was often invited to Jisho-ji Temple, which was then under construction, and his opinion was sought on various issues.
Japanese: しかし義政との交流は深く、この頃建設中の慈照寺（慈照寺）に頻繁に招かれて参考意見を求められている。
English: It is believed that the names "Togudo" (東求堂) and "Dojinsai" (同仁斎), being those of well-known buildings at Jisho-ji Temple, were selected by Yoshimasa from the candidates listed by Osen (authority: Rokusodan-gyo Sutra 'Tohojin (literally, people residing in the east land) who sought to be reborn in saiho (literally, the west land) through reciting the name of Buddha' (東方人、仏を念じて西方に生まれんことを求む) and Kan Yu, 'A saint loves people equally without discrimination' (聖人、一視同仁), respectively.
Japanese: 同寺の有名な「東求堂」「同仁斎」の名は、横川が挙げた候補の中から義政自らが撰したという（それぞれ六祖壇経「東方人、仏を念じて西方に生まれんことを求む」、韓愈「聖人、一視同仁」より）。
English: He also attached compliments to 'Kanbakuzu,' a painting by the artist Masanobu KANO (the founder of the Kano school) in his early days, who also served for Yoshimasa.
Japanese: また同じく義政に伺候していた絵師・狩野正信（狩野派の祖）の初期の作品「観瀑図」に賛辞を添えている。
English: As explained above, Osen was an important member of Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA's salon, which supported Higashiyama culture.
Japanese: 上記のごとく、横川は東山文化を支えた足利義政のサロンの重要な構成員であった。
English: He was eventually inaugurated in December 1492 as the chief priest cum sorokushi (a managing priest at a Zen temple) of Rokuon-in because he was asked to do so repeatedly, but a half-year later he resigned.
Japanese: 明応元年（1492年）12月重ねて要請されたため、鹿苑院塔主・僧録司に就任したが、半年で辞した。
English: In his last years, he trained many disciples while traveling between Omi and Kyoto, and died between December 1493 and January 1494 at Shohoken.
Japanese: 晩年は近江と京を往復しつつ、多くの弟子を育て、明応2年（1493年）11月、小補軒で入寂。
English: He wrote "Hoan Shu," "Hoan Zekku," "Hoan Kyoka Shu," "Shoho Toyu Shu" and "Hyakunin Isshu," in addition to his diary, "Shohoken Nichiroku."
Japanese: 著に『補庵集』『補庵絶句』『補庵京華集』『小補東遊集』『百人一首』など、日記として『小補軒日録』がある。
English: He had many disciples and was a great figure, along with Banri Shukyu, who lived in the same era (the middle to late Gozan Bungaku) and whose origin can be traced back to Gido Shushin and Zuikei Shuho.
Japanese: 門弟も数多く、同年代の万里集九とともに、義堂周信・瑞渓周鳳から連なる五山文学における中・後期の巨星であった。
English: Some say the Chinese character '大' (dai) included in 大文字焼 (Daimonji-yaki) (Mt. Nyoigatake), bonfires of Gozan (five high-ranking Zen temples in Kyoto), which color the late-summer sky of Kyoto, originated from his handwriting.
Japanese: 一説には京都の晩夏を彩る五山送り火の大文字焼（如意ヶ岳）の「大」字は、横川の筆跡によるものだという。
English: It originated in 1311, when Joa Shinkan was given Gidarin-ji Temple, which was then located at Shijo Kyogoku, by the Retired Emperor Gofushimi as a reward for his contribution to the delivery of Kogimonin Fujiwara no Yasuko, the retired Emperor's nyogo (consort), and renamed it Konren-ji Temple.
Japanese: 1311年（応長元年）、浄阿真観が後伏見上皇の女御広義門院藤原寧子の出産に際し効があったことから、上皇から四条京極にあった祇陀林寺を賜り金蓮寺と改めたことに始まる。
English: The Jinko-in Temple is a tanritsu jiin (a temple which belongs to no sect) of the Shingon Sect line in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 神光院（じんこういん）は、京都市北区(京都市)にある真言宗系の単立寺院。
English: It is said that in 1217 during the Kamakura period, Yoshihisa MATSUSHITA, the head Shinto priest of the Kamigamo-jinja Shrine (or the Kamowake Ikazuchi-jinja Shrine) followed an oracle to invite Kyoen Shonin from Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture) as the founder of the temple, and erected it.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代の1217年（建保5年）上賀茂神社（賀茂別雷神社）の社務松下能久が神託により、大和国（現在の奈良県）から慶円上人を開山に招いて寺を建立したという。
English: The Honpo-ji Temple, located at Teranouchi, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City, is a Honzan (a major temple of the Nichiren Sect) and a Yuisho jiin (a historically important temple of the Nichiren Sect).
Japanese: 本法寺（ほんぽうじ）は、京都市上京区の寺之内にある日蓮宗の本山（由緒寺院）。
English: The temple was founded by Nisshin in 1436 at the corner of Higashinotoin-dori Street and Ayanokoji-dori Street.
Japanese: 1436年（永享8年）日親により東洞院通綾小路通に創建された寺である。
English: It once evacuated to Sakai City avoiding the Tenmon Hokke Disturbance, and then returned to Kyoto to be reconstructed at the corner of Ichijo-dori Street and Horikawa-dori Street.
Japanese: 天文法華の乱により一時堺市に退避したが、その後京へ戻り一条通堀川通に再建された。
English: Sesson Yubai (1290 - January 14, 1347) was a Zen monk of the Rinzai Sect who lived from the late Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 雪村友梅（せっそんゆうばい、正応3年（1290年）-貞和2年12月2日(旧暦)（1347年1月14日））は、鎌倉時代末から南北朝時代(日本)にかけての臨済宗の禅僧である。
English: It seems that he learned about China including the Tang language from Ichinei who was a naturalized priest from the Yuan Dynasty, China.
Japanese: 元朝からの帰化僧である一寧から唐語や彼の地の様子を教えられたと思われる。
English: Before long, in 1307, when he was eighteen years old, he traveled by sea to Yuan.
Japanese: まもなく徳治2年（1307年）18歳の時、渡海して元(王朝)へ赴く。
English: For two years he looked around Cambuluc (Beijing City) and visited many priests and scholars such as Genso Gyotan, Hikoku Kirin, Tosho Tokkai, Kaiki Ganki, and Johei Koryu.
Japanese: 2年ほど大都（北京市）周辺を見て回り、元叟行端・虚谷希陵・東嶼徳海・晦機元煕・叔平□隆などに参ずる。
English: However, as the relations between Japan and Yuan worsened, Japanese priests in Yuan were regarded as spies, and he was imprisoned in Huzhou.
Japanese: しかし日元関係の悪化に伴い、日本留学僧は間諜（スパイ）と見なされたため、霅州の獄に繋がれる。
English: On the verge of execution Sesson impulsively recited Rinken no ju, a poetic verse 'Endangered by a sword' by Mugaku Sogen, and the overwhelmed executer postponed the capital punishment, and thus Sesson escaped execution.
Japanese: 雪村も危うく処刑されかけたが、とっさに無学祖元の臨剣頌を唱えたため、気圧された処刑官が、死罪を延期し、処刑を免れた。
English: Chugan Engetsu who visited Kangnam some decades later recorded that the Rinken no ju had been attributed to Sesson, but not Sogen there after this event.
Japanese: 以後、江南地域ではこの臨剣頌が、祖元ではなく雪村の作であると伝わったということが、数十年後同地を訪れた中巌円月によって記録されている。
English: Being excused from the death penalty, Sesson was banished to Changan, and three years later again to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where he spent ten years.
Japanese: 死一等を免ぜられて長安に流され、3年後には四川省の成都に改めて流謫され、その地で10年を過ごす。
English: During this period he read various books on Confucianism and history, and it is said that he used to rip the pages and throw them away into the river once he had memorized the contents.
Japanese: この間、さまざまな経書・史書などを学び、一度暗記したページはちぎって河へ捨てたという。
English: Though he began feeling strongly homesick in those days, he became the chief priest of the Suibi-ji Temple in Nanshan, Changan as requested, and was conferred the title of 'Hokaku Shinku Zenji' by the Yuan Dynasty.
Japanese: この頃より帰国の念が募ったが、請われて長安南山翠微寺の住職となり、元の朝廷から「宝覚真空禅師」の号を特賜された。
English: He took passage in a merchant ship and came back to Hakata, Japan in May 1329.
Japanese: 元の天暦(元)2年（日本では元徳元年、1329年）5月、商船に便乗して博多へ帰朝。
English: On the same ship were Minki Soshun and Jikusen Bonsen who were coming to Japan, as well as Tenga Eko and Motsugai Kaju who were returning to Japan.
Japanese: 新たに日本へ来朝した明極楚俊・竺仙梵僊らや、同じく帰朝した天岸慧広・物外可什らと同船していた。
English: The tacchu, 'Gyokuunan' of the Kencho-ji Temple had been founded for Issan, the mentor of Sessan
Japanese: 塔は師一山のための建長寺玉雲庵である。（原文は「師一山の塔である建長寺玉雲庵の」）
English: Later, in 1331 he was invited by Mitsusada KANASASHI, the Shinto priest of the Suwa-jinja Shrine and the head of a powerful family, and went to Shinano Province.
Japanese: その後元徳2年（1331年）、信濃国諏訪神社の神官で豪族である金刺満貞に招かれ、信濃へ赴く。
English: Furthermore the next year, he was invited by Norihide OGUSHI, a samurai in Kyoto and became the chief priest of the Saizen-ji Temple in Saga (Kyoto City).
Japanese: さらに翌年には京都の小串範秀という武士に招かれ、嵯峨(京都市)の西禅寺住職となる。
English: Also, he was invited by the Otomo clan in Bungo Province, and moved to Oita to serve as the chief priest of the Manju-ji Temple and lived there for three years.
Japanese: また建武(日本)元年（1334年）には豊後国大友氏に招かれ、府内の万寿寺に転じ、3年住した。
English: He went to Kyoto again and lived a secluded life in Toganoo, but recommended by Norihide OGUSHI, Norimura AKAMATSU, the Governor of Harima Province invited Sesson to found the Houn-ji Temple (Kamigori-cho) built by Enritsu.
Japanese: ふたたび京都へ上り栂尾に隠棲したが、播磨国守護赤松則村が小串範秀の推薦を受け、円心が建立した法雲寺(上郡町)の開山として招く。
English: Comparing the clear waters reflecting the colored leaves of the Chikusa-gawa River nearby to the Kinko, or Jing Jiang River in Shou (Chengdu) where he was imprisoned, he named the sango (literally, "a mountain name"), the title prefixed to the name of the Houn-ji Temple, Mt. Kinka (the characters mean gold and flower).
Japanese: 紅葉に映える千種川の清流をかつて幽囚されていた蜀（成都）の錦江になぞらえ、山号を金華山とした。
English: In 1340 the ASHIKAGA brothers Takauji and Tadayoshi bid Sesson serve as the chief priest of the Manju-ji Temple in Kyoto repeatedly, but he refused it firmly because of his illness (palsy).
Japanese: 暦応3年（1340年）足利尊氏・足利直義兄弟は、京都の万寿寺の住職として雪村を招請したが、雪村は病気（中風）により再三固辞する。
English: But Enshin's earnest request lasted for several years and at last moved him; in August 1343 he took the post of the chief priest of the Manju-ji Temple.
Japanese: しかし数年にわたる円心の熱心な願いに折れ、康永2年（1343年）8月ついに万寿寺の住持となった。
English: Nevertheless, the Imperial Court this time ordered him to become the chief priest of the Kennin-ji Temple, and he was inaugurated in March or April 1345.
Japanese: しかし、貞和元年（1345年）2月、今度は朝廷によって建仁寺の住持を命じられ、就任。
English: When he reached the fifth part of Ryogon ju mantra and was burning incense and bowing three times, he became paralyzed on his right side (possibly by a cerebral stroke).
Japanese: 楞厳呪第五段の焼香三拝に至って右半身不随となる（脳卒中による麻痺か）。
English: He refused all the doctors and medicine delivered from the Imperial Court and samurai, and on January 22, 1347 he tried to write his final poem with his left hand in vain, threw away the brush in anger splashing the ink around, and passed away.
Japanese: 朝廷や武家が派遣した医師や薬をすべて断り、12月2日遺偈を左手で書こうとしたが、うまく字にならず、怒って筆を投げつけ、周囲が墨だらけになる中、示寂した。
English: During the golden age of Gozan Literature he was the priest who acted as the central figure; his collections of poetry and prose included "Bingashu," a collection of his gatha, or poetic verse of Buddhism during his stay in Yuan, and "Hokaku Shinku Zenji goroku," a collection of poetry, prose, and sayings of Hokaku Shinku Zen priest, after returning to Japan.
Japanese: 五山文学の最盛期にあって中枢となった僧であり、詩文集としては、在元時代の詩偈を編んだ『岷峨集』や帰朝後の詩文・語録集として『宝覚真空禅師語録』がある。
English: Shakyo is a Buddhist practice to copy Buddhist scriptures, and it also means Buddhist scriptures that have been copied.
Japanese: 写経（しゃきょう）とは、仏教において経典を書写すること、またはその書写された経典のことを指す。
English: Shakyo was necessary to spread Buddhism in a time when printing technology had not been developed, and it was also necessary for many priests in a single temple to conduct ascetic practice, to give lectures, and to conduct research.
Japanese: 写経は、印刷技術が発展していなかった時代には仏法を広めるため、またはひとつの寺院でも複数の僧侶で修行・講義・研究するために必要なことであった。
English: In China, shakyo was stylized in the Rikucho period, and the practice of shakyo started to be popularized in the time of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Japanese: 中国では、六朝時代に写経が定型化され、隋・唐のころに盛んに写経が行われるようになった。
English: In Japan, complete Buddhist scriptures were copied in the Kawara-dera Temple in 673 for the first time, and a public shakyo center was established in the Nara period.
Japanese: 日本では673年（天武天皇2年）に川原寺で一切経の写経が行われたのを創始とし、奈良時代には官立の写経所が設けられた。
English: A public shakyo center was also established in the Todai-ji Temple, and shakyo was practiced by those who practiced shakyo as a profession under a national project.
Japanese: また東大寺などにも設置され、専門の写経生たちによって、国家事業としてに写経が行われた。
English: In the Heian period and afterward, shakyo started to be practiced out of religious beliefs to fulfill personal prayers, not to spread Buddhism.
Japanese: 平安時代以降は、仏法を広めるということよりも個人的な祈願成就など信仰のために行われるようになった。
English: When pessimism spread due to decadent-age theory, kyozuka (a mound of Buddhist scriptures) started to be built to put copied Buddhist scriptures in kyozutsu (a tube in which rolled Buddhist scriptures were kept) for burial.
Japanese: 末法思想が流行すると写経した経典を経筒に納めて埋納する経塚造営が行われる。
English: There were also instances where people copied Buddhist scriptures on sukigaeshi gami (paper made from dissolved old paper) and as shihai monjo (an old document which was written on the other side of a piece of used paper) made of remaining letters that had been written by deceased family members and friends in order to hold a religious service for them.
Japanese: また、亡くなった家族や知人の供養のために、生前に書き残した手紙などを漉返紙や紙背文書として用いて写経する例がある。
English: As an example of the former case, it is recorded in "Nihon Sandal Jitsuroku" (a history book written in the Heian period) that FUJIWARA no Tamiko, one of the wives of Emperor Seiwa copied the Lotus Sutra on paper made of melted letters that had been written by the Emperor when he was alive.
Japanese: 前者の例として『日本三代実録』に清和天皇の没後に后の1人である藤原多美子が生前の手紙を漉き返して法華経を写経したと記録されている。
English: As an example of the latter case, it is known that Fushimi tenno shinkan hokkekyo (the Lotus Sutra written by Emperor Fushimi himself) stored in the Myoren-ji Temple (Kyoto City) was written on the other side of a letter written by his father, Emperor Gofukakusa.
Japanese: 後者の例として妙蓮寺(京都市)所蔵の伏見天皇宸翰法華経が父・後深草天皇宸翰の書状を紙背として用いていることで知られている。
English: Whereas copied Buddhist scriptures are called shakyo, Buddhist scriptures that are created as woodblock prints are called kankyo and kankyo became popular in the Northern Sung Dynasty and afterwards.
Japanese: 書写された経典を「写経」と呼ぶのに対して、北宋代以降に盛行した木版印刷による経典の方は「刊経」と呼ばれている。
English: For today's Japanese temples, shakyo generally means the practice of copying the Heart Sutra.
Japanese: 現代日本の各寺院では、写経と言えば、『般若心経』を写経することを指すのが一般的になっている。
English: Zonnyo (1396 to July 9, 1457) was a priest of the Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) in the Muromachi period, and the 7th head priest of the Hongan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 存如（ぞんにょ1396年（応永3年）－1457年7月9日（長禄元年6月18日(旧暦)））は、室町時代の浄土真宗の僧で、本願寺第7世。
English: He established a twin temple style called ryodo keishiki with Mieido and Amidado, as seen in the Hongan-ji Temple today.
Japanese: 現在の本願寺に見られるような、御影堂・阿弥陀堂の両堂形式をはじめて整備した。
English: There are two kinds of Gomagi, one for prayers to write a wish on while the other is for the repose of one's ancestor's soul.
Japanese: 願い事を書く祈願の護摩木と先祖の供養などを書く供養の護摩木の2種類がある。
English: In rituals such as Agon Star Festival of the Agon Sect, two kinds of Gomagi of 'prayers' and 'reposes of one's ancestor's soul' are burned separately on each gomadan (an altar for the fire ceremony).
Japanese: 阿含宗の阿含の星まつりなどでは「祈願」と「供養」の二壇の護摩壇で祈願と供養の護摩木を別々に焚き上げている。
English: During the Nara period when Buddhist deities were believed to protect the nation, Buddhist scriptures were copied as a national project, but by the Heian period when Jodo-shiso (Pure Land Buddhism) prevailed, they were copied by individuals who wished for their prayers to be fulfilled.
Japanese: 仏教経典を書写する写経は国家仏教中心の奈良時代には官営事業として行われていたが、平安時代には浄土思想が普及し、個人的な祈願成就を目的に行われるようになった。
English: This practice is considered to be a form of belief of "mappo-shiso" (latter day pessimism, which prevailed in the middle of the Heian period, predicting that the mappo era ("latter day") would come in 1052), which may have originated in China or the Korean Peninsula.
Japanese: 平安中期には流行した、永承7年（1052年）に末法の世が訪れるという予言思想である末法思想が成立した信仰形態であると考えられており、起源は中国や朝鮮半島にあるとも言われる。
English: Besides Hokke-kyo (Lotus Sutra), which were typically buried in kyozuka, "Hannya-kyo" (Heart Sutra), "Amida-kyo" (Sukhavati sutra), "Miroku-gyo" (Buddhist scriptures on Maitreya), "Dainichi-kyo" (Mahavairocana Sutra), "Kongocho-kyo" (Vajrasekhara Sutra), and "Rishu-kyo" (scriptures of esoteric Buddhism), were buried as well, and occasionally Kai-kyo (the beginning scriptures) and Ke-kkyo (the ending scriptures) like "Muryo gikyo" (literally, "sutra of immeasurable meanings") and "Kannon kenkyo" were also included.
Japanese: 埋納される仏経典は主に法華経であるが、『般若心経』『阿弥陀経』『弥勒経』『大日経』『金剛頂経』『理趣経』などが用いられることもあり、『無量義経』や『観音堅経』などの開経・結経が添えられる場合がある。
English: Scriptures were mostly copied onto paper, but occasionally onto clay tablets, copper plates, small stones, root tiles, or shells.
Japanese: 経典は紙に写経された紙本経である場合が多いが、粘土板や銅版、礫石、瓦、貝殻などが用いられることもある。
English: Kyozutsu were typically in the shape of small cylinders and sealed on the top, with variants being in the shape of hexagonal cylinders or decorative hoto (two-storied Buddhist tower).
Japanese: 経筒は小型の筒型であるが、箱型六角形のものや装飾が施された宝塔形のものもあり、上部に蓋がされる。
English: Some kyozutsu were contained in other containers made of metal, ceramic, or bamboo.
Japanese: 経筒はさらに金属製や陶製、竹製などの外容器で入れ子にされることもある。
English: Besides kyozutsu, Japanese mirrors, coins, blades, small Buddhist statues, precious stones were also buried, in addition to charcoal, which was to get rid of humidity.
Japanese: 埋納は、和鏡、銭貨、刀身、小仏、玉などの副納品や除湿剤として充填される木炭とともに埋納される。
English: Burial sites were often located on the top of mountains or within the precincts of Shinto shrines, which were considered sacred, and a rock chamber was built under or on the ground and covered with soil.
Japanese: 埋納される場所は霊地や聖地と位置付けられている山頂や神社境内である場合が多く、土中や土上に石室が作られて安置され、封土が盛られる。
English: Some kyozuka were built in caves or steep-sided valleys, and by the middle ages, some were constructed by the wayside or in cemeteries to pray for the dead to rest in peace, which was considered to be a good deed.
Japanese: 洞窟や岩壁の隙間に造営されることもあり、中世には死者の追善的意味も加わり、路傍や墓所においても造営されている。
English: The oldest kyozuka in Japan is the one built by FUJIWARA no Michinaga on the top of Mt. Kinpo in Yamato Province in 1007. Initially, kyozuka were built by nobles, who, out of mappo-shiso (latter day) pessimism, wished to prepare themselves for the advent of Miroku (Maitreya) and to hand down Buddhist scriptures to later generations.
Japanese: 日本での造営は、寛弘4年（1007年）、藤原道長が大和国金峰山山頂に造営した金峰山経塚が最古で、はじめは貴族層が末法の危機感から弥勒下生に備え、経典を後代に伝えようとした意味があるという。
English: After the 12th century, which saw its heyday, the practice of copying and burying Buddhist scriptures temporarily lost momentum until Kaikoku-hijiri (literally, "country-traveling saint") appeared in the middle ages, who traveled across the country and encouraged people to perform the practice.
Japanese: 12世紀を盛期に一時衰退するが、中世には廻国聖が諸国で納経活動を行った。
English: Instead, small, flat stones were used as popular media for carrying scriptures, and multiple stones with one letter from scriptures written on them, which were called "Ichiji isseki kyo" (literally, "one-letter stone scriptures"), or one stone with multiple letters from scriptures written on it, which was called a "Taji isseki kyo" (literally, "multiple-letter stone scriptures"), were buried.
Japanese: 代わって扁平な小石に経典の字句のうち一文字を書写し、それを多数埋納する一字一石経や、複数文字を書写した多字一石経を納める経塚が流行する。
English: In pre-modern ages, kyozuka were built as a part of religious activity, which had become popular as agricultural output increased and the money economy took root in society.
Japanese: 近世の経塚造営は/農業生産の増加や貨幣経済の浸透を前提とした宗教行為の流行を背景に成立し、
English: The practice was led and guided by temples and many people participated who were motivated by the Tasu sazen shiso theory (a belief that good deeds will bring them more blessing).
Japanese: 納経は寺院が主導し、多数作善思想のもと多数の人が加わって行われたという。
English: It is also called Kiredo Monju (Manjusri), Kuseto Monju or Chie Monju.
Japanese: 切戸（きれど）の文殊、九世戸（くせと）の文殊、知恵の文殊とも呼ばれる。
English: It is known as one of the three Monju Bosatsu of Japan along with Abe Monju-in Temple located in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, and Kameoka Monju located in Takahata-cho, Yamagata Prefecture.
Japanese: 奈良県桜井市の安倍文殊院、山形県高畠町の亀岡文殊とともに日本三文殊菩薩のひとつとされる。
English: According to temple records, the temple was founded in 808 on the order of Emperor Heizei.
Japanese: 寺伝によれば、808年（大同(日本)3年）の平城天皇の勅願寺として創建されたという。
English: The temple was given the imperial scroll by Emperor Daigo in the Engi era (beginning of the 10th century), but other than that, its history until the medieval period is not clear.
Japanese: 延喜年間（10世紀初頭）には、醍醐天皇から勅額を下賜されたというが、以後、中世までの歴史は判然としない。
English: Initially, it was founded as a temple of Esoteric Buddhism (Shingon Sect) and became a Zen Sect temple after the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
Japanese: 当初は密教（真言宗）の寺院で、禅宗寺院になるのは南北朝時代以降である。
English: The temple has long been known as a sacred ground for Monju belief and it is taken up as the subject matter of the Noh song 'Kusedo.'
Japanese: 古くから文殊信仰の霊場として知られ、謡曲「九世戸」の題材となっている。
English: Although the existing two-storied pagoda was constructed in the Muromachi period, other buildings, such as the main hall, the front gate and hojo (a chamber for a chief priest of the temple) were constructed in the Edo period or later.
Japanese: 現存する多宝塔は室町時代のものだが、本堂、山門、方丈等はいずれも近世以降のものである。
English: It was constructed by Harunobu NOBUNAGA, the Deputy Governor of Tango Province, and was inaugurated in 1501.
Japanese: 丹後国守護代・延永春信によって建立され、1501年（明応10年）に落成。
English: Hoe (Buddhist memorial services) are gatherings of Buddhist monks and parishioners for memorial services and Buddhist preaching.
Japanese: 法会（ほうえ）とは、仏教において仏法を説くためや供養を行うための僧侶・檀信徒の集まりである。
English: Hoe were also conducted from ancient times in India and China including celebrations of the birthday of Buddha and Buddha's enlightenment, and in Japan Soga no Umako was already promoting Buddhist memorial services.
Japanese: 法会は、古くからインド・中国でも降誕会や成道会は行われており、日本では、蘇我馬子がすでに法会を行っていた。
English: In the Nara period, three ceremonies were emphasized including the Gosaie Ceremony inside the palace, Yuima-e Festival in Kofuku-ji Temple and Saisho-e Ceremony at Yakushi-ji Temple, and in the Heian period the three ceremonies emphasized were Daijo-e at Hossho-ji Temple, Saisho-e at Enshu-ji Temple and Hokkekai, and monks who mastered all three ceremonies were called Sanei-koji (also called Sane-koji or Koji for short).
Japanese: 奈良時代には宮中の御斎会・興福寺の維摩会・薬師寺の最勝会、平安時代には法勝寺の大乗会・円宗寺の最勝会・法華会の3つの法会が重要視され、この3つの法会の講師を務めた僧は三会已講師（さんえいこうじ、略して三会已講、已講ともいう）と称された。
English: Subsequently, the term Hoe came to mean the same as Hoyo (Hoji) memorial services for the deceased.
Japanese: その後、法会は追善供養などで行われる法要（法事）などと同じ意味で使われるようになった。
English: At the time from around 1368 to around 1375, Imperial Princess Karinnomiya Egon, the daughter of Emperor Kogon, enshrined Seikanzeon Bosatsu (bodhisattva) which was caught in a fishing net at Futamigaura in Ise.
Japanese: 応安年間（1368年～1375年）の頃に、光厳天皇の皇女華林宮惠厳（かりんのみやえごん）が、伊勢の二見浦にて漁網に掛かった聖観世音菩薩を祀り上げた。
English: Because dolls were sent to princesses who secluded themselves in the temple from the Imperial Palace, many dolls are stored in the temple.
Japanese: 寺へ入った皇女へ御所から人形が贈られてきたため、多くの人形を保存している。
English: Because of this, the temple started to be known as a Doll Temple, and the temple also started to hold a memorial service for dolls from the general public.
Japanese: そのため人形の寺として知られるようになり、一般からも供養として人形が納められるようになった。
English: A doll mound was built in the temple to hold a memorial service for dolls and to promote Kyo dolls, and the statue of a Japanese doll and a poem written by Saneatsu MUSHANOKOJI were carved.
Japanese: 境内には人形の供養と京人形の振興を目的として人形塚が建てられており、御所人形像と武者小路実篤の歌が刻まれている。
English: The Omuro School of the Shingon ("True Word") sect is one of the Shingon sect schools in Japan and belongs to the Kogi (old) Shingon sect.
Japanese: 真言宗御室派（しんごんしゅうおむろは）は、日本における真言系仏教宗派のひとつで、古義真言宗に属する。
English: Daihonzan (great head temples): Koryu-ji Temple (Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City); Kongo-ji Temple (Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture); Daisho-in (Miyajima) (Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture)
Japanese: 大本山広隆寺（京都市右京区）・金剛寺(河内長野市)（大阪府河内長野市）・大聖院(宮島)（広島県廿日市市）
English: Bekkaku honzan (special head temples): Ryuho-ji Temple (Aoba Ward, Sendai City); Renge-ji Temple (Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City); Sonju-in Temple (Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City); Kume-dera Temple (Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture); Kanno-ji Temple (Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture); Fukuo-ji Temple (Hiroshima City); Rendai-ji Temple (Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture);
Japanese: 別格本山龍宝寺（仙台市青葉区(仙台市)）、蓮華寺(京都市右京区)（京都市右京区）、尊寿院（京都市右京区）、久米寺（奈良県橿原市）、神呪寺（兵庫県西宮市）、福王寺（広島市）、蓮台寺（岡山県倉敷市）、