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English: Daisen-in Temple was constructed at the time when 'toko no ma' (lit. alcove rooms) were starting to appear, and this main hall has been designated a National Treasure for its possession of what is considered to be the oldest toko no ma in Japan as well as the oldest entrance hall in the country.
Japanese: 「床の間」が現れるのもこの時代で、大仙院の床の間は日本最古とされ、「玄関」も日本最古の玄関として国宝に指定されている。
English: These works are representative of the Muromachi period and have even been displayed at the Louvre Museum in France.
Japanese: 室町時代を代表する障壁画で、フランスのルーブル美術館にも出展されたことがある。
English: Of the former sliding panel paintings of the abbot's quarters, 24 panels including the ink painting 'Zenshu Soshi-zu' (image of the Zen Sect founder) that were in the Ihatsu no ma room are now in the possession of Tokyo National Museum.
Japanese: なお、大仙院旧方丈障壁画のうち、衣鉢の間にあった墨画の禅宗祖師図など24幅は東京国立博物館の所蔵となっている。
English: The garden was created by temple founder Kogaku Soko and depicts in sand the waterfall that descends Mt. Penglai with water spilling over the dam into the ocean, as well as a treasure ship and crane and turtle symbolizing longevity that have been created using rocks.
Japanese: 蓬莱山から落ちる滝、堰を切って大海に流れ込む水をすべて砂で表し、宝船や長寿の鶴亀を岩組で表した開祖古岳宗亘禅師による室町時代の代表的な枯山水庭園。
English: The drawing room has an open veranda to give a feeling of continuity with the garden, and the structure has been designed so that the garden can be viewed when sitting in the tatami room or on the veranda.
Japanese: 書院には縁があり庭園との連帯感をもち、座敷あるいは縁に座して庭園を観賞するように造られている。
English: Baisho-in Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Buzan school of the Shingon Sect located in Nakano Ward, Tokyo.
Japanese: 梅照院（ばいしょういん）とは、東京都中野区にある真言宗豊山派の寺院。
English: The temple's formal name is Baisho-in Yakuo-ji Temple on Mt. Arai.
Japanese: 正式名称は新井山梅照院薬王寺（あらいさんばいしょういんやくおうじ）。
English: Baisho-in Temple is the largest temple in Nakano Ward and is well-known within the city - even lending its name to a train station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.
Japanese: 中野区最大の寺院であり、西武新宿線の駅名にもなるなど、都内でも有数の著名寺院である。
English: A shopping street and food stalls stretch from the front of the station to the temple gate, and the temple has long been fondly known as 'Yakushi-sama' by the local residents.
Japanese: 駅前から山門にかけて、商店街や出店も広がり、地域住民からも薬師様として古来より親しまれている。
English: The name 'Arai' (lit. New Well) is derived from a well that was newly dug on the site and is unrelated to Souji-ji Temple in Adachi Ward.
Japanese: なお、新井の名は当地で新たに井戸を掘ったことに由来するもので、足立区にある總持寺(東京都足立区)とは関係ない。
English: The water (Hakuryu Gongen-sui) of the well at this temple is freely available to all, and many people come to drink it.
Japanese: また当寺の井戸水(白龍権現水)は、一般の人に開放されており、飲用水として多くの人がここの水を汲みに来る。
English: The principal images are statues of Yakushi Nyorai and Nyoirin Kannon that are said to have been hand carved by Kobo Daishi.
Japanese: 本尊は、弘法大師によって手彫されたといわれる薬師如来と如意輪観音像。
English: Since ancient times, the statues have been said to offer blessings for childcare and the curing of the eyes and even now the number of people who visit the temple remains great.
Japanese: 古来より、子育ておよび眼の治癒にご利益があるとされており、現在も参拝するものが後を絶たない。
English: The temple became particularly famous for blessing those seeking treatment for eye diseases after the eye disease of the daughter of Hidetada TOKUGAWA, second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, instantly recovered when she prayed to Yakushi Nyorai for her eye disease to be cured.
Japanese: 2代将軍徳川秀忠の娘が罹った眼の病気が当薬師如来に回復祈願したところ、たちまち回復したことから、特に眼病治癒のご利益に関して有名になった。
English: Nowadays, in addition to the main hall and Fudo-do hall (Acala hall), part of the large precinct is also a park.
Japanese: 現在も、広大な敷地内に本堂、不動堂が安置されている他、境内の一部が公園にもなっている。
English: Also, a headquarters was set up on the site during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan) and became the burial place of Yoshisada NITTA of the Southen Court faction.
Japanese: また、南北朝時代(日本)にこの地域に本拠地を構え、、南朝方（新田義貞）についた窪寺氏の葬地にもなっている。
English: Yashiki-gami are kami that are enshrined at a dwelling.
Japanese: 屋敷神(やしきがみ)は、屋敷に付属している土地に祀られている神・神社のことである。
English: Yashiki-gami are kami that protect a dwelling or the land on which one is situated, and are enshrined to the rear of the residence, on land attached to the site, or in a nearby mountain forest.
Japanese: 屋敷神は屋敷およびその土地を守護する神で、屋敷の裏や敷地に付属した土地もしくはやや離れた山林などに祀られることが多い。
English: These kami are deeply connected to the house but different to those enshrined in shrines within the home and are generally not enshrined inside the house itself.
Japanese: 家との関わりが深い神であるが、神棚などの屋内神とは異なり、原則として屋敷の中には祀られない。
English: However, as is mentioned below, their divination is said to have the same origin as that of agriculture gods and ancestor gods.
Japanese: しかし、後述するように、神格としては農耕神・祖先神と同一の起源を持つ神だと言われている。
English: It has long been believed in Japan that the souls of deceased ancestors resided in mountains, and it is thought that the practice of enshrining yashiki-gami originated when this belief led to the creation of places of worship in mountain forests near to domestic residences.
Japanese: 日本では、古くから死んだ祖先の魂は山に住むと信じられてきたが、その信仰を背景として、屋敷近くの山林に祖先を祀る祭場を設けたのが起源だと考えられる。
English: It was generally believed in ancient times that spirits did not reside in a single place but only came to certain locations at specific times, from which they would return after being worshipped.
Japanese: 古くは一般的に神霊というものは一箇所に留まることはなく、特定の時期にのみ特定の場所に来臨して、祭りを受けた後、再び帰って行くものだと信じられてきた。
English: For this reason, it is thought that the places of worship established in mountain forests were not small shrines but rather ancient trees or rocks to which spirits were believed to be drawn only during the holding of rituals.
Japanese: そのため、山林に設けられた祭場は当初は祠などではなく、祭祀のときのみ古木や石を依代として祀ったものだったと考えられる。
English: Shrines only started to be constructed when the belief later emerged that kami permanently resided in a single area.
Japanese: 祠や社が建てられるようになるのは、神がその場に常在すると信じられるようになった後世の変化である。
English: It is thought that kami enshrined in mountain forests were gradually brought closer to residences before being enshrined in shrines built within houses as can be widely seen today.
Japanese: 屋敷近くの山林に祀られていたのが、次第に屋敷の建物に近づいていって、現在広く見られるような敷地内に社を建てて祀るという形態になったと思われている。
English: The belief that yashiki-gami serve to protect buildings and land is thought to have developed when it became possible to construct shrines near to people's homes.
Japanese: 屋敷神が建物や土地を守護する神がと信じられるようになったのは、屋敷のすぐそばに建てられるようになったからだと考えられる。
English: The assumption is that it was originally the case that only the main family enshrined a deified ancestor spirit as a yashiki-gami, but the emergence of branch families gradually led to any house becoming able to enshrine yashiki-gami.
Japanese: また、一族の祖霊という神格から屋敷神を祀るのは親族の中でも本家のみだったが、分家の台頭により、次第にどの家でも祀るようになっていったと考えられている。
English: In some areas, the increase in the power of what was once the guardian yashiki-gami of a family allowed it to become more than simply a family deity and ascend to the status of a local ujigami (a guardian god or spirit of a particular place in the Shinto religion).
Japanese: ところによっては、一家一族の守護神であった屋敷神が、神威の上昇により、一家一族の枠組みを超えて、氏神に昇格することもあった。
English: According to Koji NAOE, yashiki-gami can be classified as general yashiki-gami, main family yashiki-gami and clan yashiki-gami.
Japanese: 直江廣治氏によると、各戸屋敷神・本家屋敷神・一門屋敷神の三つに分類することができる。
English: General yashiki-gami: All houses within a community have yashiki-gami which are worshipped individually.
Japanese: 各戸屋敷神・・・集落の全ての家が屋敷神を持ち、それぞれで祭祀を行なっている。
English: Main famiy yashiki-gami: Only specific old families within a community have a yashiki-gami which is worshipped.
Japanese: 本家屋敷神・・・集落の家のうち、特定の旧家のみが屋敷神を持っており、祭祀している。
English: Clan yashiki-gami: Only specific old families within a community have yashiki-gami which are worshipped by members of the family.
Japanese: 一門屋敷神・・・集落の家のうち、特定の旧家のみが屋敷神を持っており、旧家に一族が集まって祭祀している。
English: In places in which relationships by blood and marriage are close and the main and branch family system is firmly rooted in the community, the entire family gathers in the main house to worship the 'clan yashiki-gami', but as family relationships weaken and members grow apart, the practice of gathering in the main house to worship becomes replaced by worshipping a 'main family yashik-gami'.
Japanese: 集落内の親族関係が密接で本家分家体制が強固なところでは、一族がそろって本家に集まり祭祀をする「一門屋敷神」であるが、親族同士の関係が弱まり、希薄になると、本家に一族がそろって祭祀を行なうことはなくなり、「本家屋敷神」の状態となる。
English: As a family's institutional connection disappears, branch families emerge as independent units that worship 'general yashiki-gami'.
Japanese: 親族の制度的繋がりが消え、分家が台頭して独立した生活単位となると、分家においても屋敷神の祭祀を行なうようになり、「各戸屋敷神」の状態となる。
English: The word 'yashiki-gami' is a technical term and the actual word used varies depending on the region.
Japanese: 屋敷神というのは、あくまで術語であり、実際の呼称は地域によってさまざまである。
English: South of Ibaraki Prefecture, it is usual to affix the honorific title 'sama' to give 'Ujigamisama'.
Japanese: 現在の茨城県南部では通常「ウジガミサマ」と敬称を付けて呼ばれるのが普通です。
English: Yashiki-gami are identified as being related to agriculture gods (field gods and mountain gods), as the times in which they are worshipped (autumn and spring) coincide with one another.
Japanese: 祭祀を行なう時期（春と秋）が農耕神（田の神・山の神）と重なることから両者の関係が指摘されている。
English: They are also identified as having the characteristics of ancestor gods, as there are many areas in which the entire family is assembled to worship yashiki-gami.
Japanese: また屋敷神の祭祀は一族がそろって行なう地域が広く存在し、祖先神の性格があることも指摘されている。
English: The understanding that yashiki-gami, agriculture gods and ancestor gods are related comes from the fact that there are areas in which the enshrined deity is clearly known to be an ancestor god as well as cases in which the yashiki-gami is identified as having characteristics in common with agriculture or ancestor gods.
Japanese: 明確に祭神を祖先神だと認識した上で祀っているとしているところもあり、また農耕神も祖先神の性格を持っていることが指摘されており、屋敷神・農耕神・祖先神の三者は関わりがあることが分かっている。
English: However, it is not the case that yashiki-gami can be simply considered to be ancestor gods.
Japanese: ただし、屋敷神を祖先神だとすることに関しては必ずしも当てはまるわけではない。
English: It is particularly true in urban areas that a new resident of a house will inherit the yashiki-gami, so it therefore cannot be unconditionally claimed that yashiki-gami are ancestor gods.
Japanese: 特に都市部における屋敷神は、屋敷の居住者が変わっても祭祀を受け継ぐことも有り、一概には祖先神だとは言えない。
English: Despite this, it is generally thought that yashiki-gami originate from the ancestor gods of a particular house and were not enshrined at specific Shinto shrines, but those shrines that once did so include many that now enshrine the deities of famous Shinto shrines.
Japanese: とはいうもののおおむね屋敷神はそれぞれの家に関わりのある祖先神を起源にしていると考えられるのであって、特定の神社の祭神を祀るわけではなかったが、現在では有名神社の祭神を祀っているとしているところも多い。
English: What is likely due to the involvement of folk religion followers, it is known that these shrines were changed to enshrine separated deities transferred from various famous shrines such as 'Inari-shin,' 'Ise-jingu Shrine,' 'Yasaka-jinja Shrine,' 'Kumano Sanzan' (three major shrines in Kumano), 'Hakusan-jinja Shrine,' 'Tenman-gu Shrine,' 'Hachiman-gu Shrine,' and 'Wakamiya Shrine.'
Japanese: これはおそらく民間宗教者の関与によって、「稲荷神」「伊勢神宮」「八坂神社」「熊野三山」「白山神社」「天満宮」「八幡宮」「若宮」などの有名神社の分霊を祀っていることに変更されたと考えられる。
English: Yashiki-gami are mainly enshrined in a corner of the site on which a house is situated and, when this is the case, the deity is enshrined to the northwest or northeast of the house.
Japanese: 屋敷がある敷地の一角に祀られることが多く、その場合は屋敷の北西・北東に祀られることが多い。
English: This is because, in Japan, it is considered to be unlucky to enshrine a deity in the northwest.
Japanese: 北西に祀られるのは日本において不吉だとされる方角だとされていたためである。
English: The belief that the northeast is an unlucky direction was influenced by the later arrival of the Way of Yin and Yang, and is a fairly recent custom.
Japanese: 北東を鬼門として不吉な方角だとするのは、後世の陰陽道の影響であり、比較的新しい習俗である。
English: There are also places in which yashiki-gami are not enshrined next to the house itself, but in a nearby mountain forest.
Japanese: 屋敷のすぐそばには祀らず、少し離れた山林の中に祀られるところもある。
English: This is thought to remain from the time when kami were originally worshipped in forests or mountains as mentioned above.
Japanese: これは既に述べたように本来、森林または山に対して祭祀を行なっていたことの名残であると考えられる。
English: It is generally the case that yashiki-gami are enshrined outdoors, but there are exceptions in which they are enshrined indoors.
Japanese: 原則として屋敷神は屋外に祀られるものであるが、例外として屋内で祀っているところもあるという。
English: This is believed to be a result of kami that were once enshrined in mountain forests being brought closer to the residence itself before finally ending up within the house.
Japanese: これは山林で祀っていたものが屋敷に近づいていった結果、最終的に屋敷と融合したものだと思われる。
English: Where the yashiki-gami is very formally enshrined, the main sanctuary will on a scale similar to a massha branch shrine, and some even have torii.
Japanese: 丁寧に祭祀されている場合は末社程度の規模の社殿を建てられ、鳥居までも持つこともある。
English: However, the construction of main sanctuaries only developed when the later belief emerged that kami permanently reside in a single location, and before this time, they were not enshrined in small shrines but simply worshipped on site.
Japanese: しかし、社殿を備えるようになったのは神の常在を信じるようになった後世の変化で、それ以前は祠もなく、祭場のみだった。
English: Kami were believed to be drawn to trees or rocks, as have been retained in places such as Izu Toshima Island, the Kumano region and Iki Island.
Japanese: 樹木や自然石を依代としており、伊豆利島・熊野地方・壱岐などでは現在でも古態を留めている。
English: This practice is believed to remain from the time when kami were believed to descend upon a location only when worshipped.
Japanese: これは祭りのときのみ神が降臨するものだという信仰の名残だと考えられている。
English: As has been mentioned above, it is thought that ancient trees and rocks are the oldest forms of objects to which kami were believed to be drawn.
Japanese: 神体は既述のとおり、古木や石を用いたのが最も古い形態だと考えられる。
English: Carved wood and strips of paper also became used with the spread of sharp tools and the increasingly widespread diffusion of paper.
Japanese: 鋭利な刃物の普及により削掛が加わり、紙の普及により、御幣も用いられるようになった。
English: Nowadays, paper talismans issued by each shrine are enshrined, particularly at locations enshrining the divided deity of a certain shrine.
Japanese: 現在では、特に祭神を特定の神社の分霊とする場合は、各神社の発行する神札を祀っていることが多いだろう。
English: Yashiki-gami are worshipped twice during the year; spring in the 2nd month (lunisolar calendar), and autumn during the 10th or 11th month (lunisolar calendar).
Japanese: 春の2月_(旧暦)と秋の10月_(旧暦)もしくは11月_(旧暦)の2回に祭祀される。
English: In places where Inari is enshrined, the main time of worship is the Inari festival on the first day of the horse in the 2nd month.
Japanese: 稲荷を祭神としているところでは稲荷の祭日である2月の初午の祭りが重視される。
English: The reason for worshipping in spring and autumn is thought to be due to the belief that agriculture gods descend the mountains to the paddy fields at the beginning of the rice growing season in spring and return to the mountains in autumn, and, as has been described above, yashiki-gami are believed to be closely related to agriculture gods.
Japanese: 春秋に祀るのは、山の神が稲作の開始とともに田に降りて農耕神となる春と、稲作が終わり田の神が山に帰っていく秋に対応しているからだと考えられ、既に述べたように屋敷神と農耕神は深い関わりがあると考えられている。
English: The temple was founded by the kaizan (founding priest) Sanyo Genkitsu (Kanshitsu) and the kaiki (founding patron) Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, and its honorific mountain prefix is 'Mt. Zuigan.'
Japanese: 山号は瑞巌山（ずいがんさん）、開山は三要元佶（閑室）、開基（創立者）は徳川家康。
English: The 'Jugyu no Niwa' (Garden of Ten Bulls) contains the Seiryuchi Pond and a Suikinkutsu, an underground water koto, that are both said to be the oldest in Rakuhoku (the northern part of Kyoto City).
Japanese: 十牛の庭と呼ばれる庭園には洛北で最も古いと言われる栖龍池（せいりゅうち）と水琴窟がある。
English: The temple's origins began in 1601 when Ieyasu TOKUGAWA invited Kanshitsu, 9th head of the Ashikaga Gakko (Japan's oldest academic institution), to establish the Enko-ji Temple School in Fushimi.
Japanese: 家康の命により慶長6年(1601年)に足利学校の第9代の学頭であった閑室を招き伏見に円光寺学校を建立したことに始まる。
English: The school was later moved to Shokoku-ji Temple before being relocated to its current location in 1667.
Japanese: その後、相国寺内に移りさらに寛文7年(1667年)に現在地に移された。
English: Enko-ji Temple School also allowed students other than monks to enroll, and published numerous books including 'The School Sayings of Confucius' and 'Essentials of the Zhenguan Period Government' (refer to 'Zhenguan').
Japanese: 円光寺学校では僧以外の入学も許可し、「孔子家語」（こうしけご）「貞観政要」（じょうかんせいよう、貞観_(唐)参照）などの多数の書物を刊行した。
English: These books are known as 'Fushimi-ban' or 'Enko-ji-ban', and the wooden printing blocks used at the time have been preserved.
Japanese: これらの書物は伏見版、あるいは円光寺版と呼ばれ、そのとき使用された木製の活字が保存されている。
English: There are over 50,000 in total, and have all been designated as Important Cultural Properties as the oldest books in print in Japan.
Japanese: その数は約5万個にのぼり日本最古の活字であり重要文化財となっている。
English: Kodai-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Kennin-ji Temple school of the Rinzai Sect located in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 高台寺（こうだいじ）は京都府京都市東山区にある臨済宗建仁寺派の寺院。
English: The temple was established by Kita no Mandokoro (Kodaiin), the lawful wife of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, to pray for the soul of her late husband, and it was named 'Kodai-ji' after the name taken by Kita no Mandokoro when she became a Buddhist nun.
Japanese: 豊臣秀吉の正室である北政所（高台院）が秀吉の冥福を祈るため建立した寺院であり、寺号は北政所の落飾（仏門に入る）後の院号である高台院にちなむ。
English: Kodai-ji is a Zen temple with a principal image statue of Shaka Nyorai, but also has the characteristics of a mausoleum enshrining Hideyoshi and Kita no Mandokoro.
Japanese: 釈迦如来を本尊とする禅宗寺院であるとともに、秀吉と北政所を祀る霊廟としての性格をもった寺院である。
English: The interior of the mausoleum is decorated with Momoyama style (luxurious, splended and decorative style created during Momoyama Period) makie (Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder), and the temple has become nicknamed 'Makie Temple' for its many makie furnishings that are said to have once been owned by Kita no Mandokoro.
Japanese: 霊屋（おたまや）の堂内装飾には桃山様式の蒔絵が用いられ、北政所所持と伝えられる蒔絵調度類を多数蔵することから「蒔絵の寺」の通称がある。
English: His wife, Kita no Mandokoro, (who was also known as Nene and later took the name 'Kodaiin Kogetsuni' after becoming a Buddhist nun) vowed to establish a temple to pray to Buddha for the happiness of her late husband, and originally attempted to use Kotoku-ji Temple (used to be in Teramachi, Kyoto), in which her mother Asahi no Tsubone was buried, for this purpose but it was too small so she established a new temple on Kodai-ji Temple's current site in Higashiyama.
Japanese: 秀吉の正室である北政所（ねね、出家後は高台院湖月尼）は秀吉の菩提を弔うための寺院の建立を発願し、当初は北政所の実母・朝日局が眠る康徳寺（京都の寺町にあった）をそれに充てようとしたが、手狭であったため、東山の現在地に新たな寺院を建立することになった。
English: After Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA took power but treated Kita no Mandokoro well and charged the samurai under his command with constructing Kodai-ji Temple.
Japanese: 秀吉没後の権力者となった徳川家康は、北政所を手厚く扱い、配下の武士たちを高台寺の普請担当に任命した。
English: One of these builders, Naomasa HORI who was in charge of construction, put in such great effort that a wooden statue of him is enshrined in the Kaisan-do hall (Founder's hall).
Japanese: 中でも普請掛・堀直政の働きは大きかったようで、高台寺の開山堂には直政の木像が祀られている。
English: The Buddha statue hall at Kodai-ji Temple at the time of its founding had been remodeled and relocated from the previously mentioned Kotoku-ji Temple, and other structures including the hojo (Abbot's quarters) and teahouse were relocated from Fushimi-jo Castle.
Japanese: 創建当時の高台寺の仏殿は前述の康徳寺の堂を移築・改造したものであり、方丈、茶室などは伏見城から移築したものであった。
English: A minor affiliated temple Entoku-in stands to the west of Koda-ji Temple as the remains of the Kesho Goten Palace, where Kita no Mandokoro resided from 1605 until her death 1624.
Japanese: 高台寺の西側にある塔頭（たっちゅう、付属寺院）の圓徳院がその跡で、北政所は慶長10年（1605年）から寛永元年（1624年）に没するまでここに住んだ。
English: Kodai-ji Temple was founded in 1606 and was originally devoted to the Soto Sect.
Japanese: 高台寺の開山は慶長11年（1606年）で、当初は曹洞宗の寺院であった。
English: In 1624, Kodai-ji Temple invited Rinzai Sect Kennin-ji Temple priest Sanko Joeki to serve as a reviving founder.
Japanese: 寛永元年7月（1624年）、高台寺は臨済宗寺院である建仁寺の三江紹益を中興開山に招聘。
English: It is said that this conversion took place as a result of the close relationship that Kita no Mandokoro's elder brother, Iesada KINOSHITA, had to both Kennin-ji Temple and Sanko Joeki, and Sanko Joeki leading Iesada's 7th son to enter the priesthood.
Japanese: 北政所の兄・木下家定は建仁寺及び三江紹益と関係が深く、家定の七男が三江紹益のもとで出家していることも、この改宗と関連すると言われる。
English: In the latter part of the Edo period, Kodai-ji Temple temporarily served as the base of the Goryo Eji (Kodaiji-to Party, a splinter group of the Shinsengumi).
Japanese: 高台寺は、江戸時代後期の一時期、御陵衛士（高台寺党）の屯所となったこともある。
English: Structures remaining from the time of the temple's founding include the Kaisan-do hall enshrining a statue of Sanko Joeki, the mausoleum in which Hideyoshi and Kita no Mandokoro rest, and the teahouses named 'Kasa-tei' and 'Shigure-tei'.
Japanese: 創建時の建造物で現存しているのは、三江紹益を祀る開山堂、秀吉と北政所を祀る霊屋（おたまや）、茶室の傘亭と時雨亭などである。
English: The original Buddha statue hall was not rebuilt after being destroyed by fire and the hojo became the center of the temple.
Japanese: 創建当時存在した仏殿は焼失後再建されておらず、方丈が中心的な堂宇となっている。
English: In the east of the temple precincts is a garden containing the Engetsu-ike Pond and Garyu-ike Pond, and in which the Kaisan-do hall, mausoleum and teahouses stand.
Japanese: 境内東側には偃月池・臥龍池という2つの池をもつ庭園が広がり、開山堂、霊屋、茶室などが建つ。
English: Moon-viewing Pavilion (Important Cultural Property): A small building in the middle of the roofed corridor linking the study and the Kaisan-do hall.
Japanese: 観月台（重要文化財）－書院と開山堂を結ぶ屋根つき廊の途中にある小規模な建築である。
English: Kaisan-do Hall (Important Cultural Property): A Zen style Buddhist statue hall with the Irimoya-styled roof (hip-and-gable roof) that stands to the east of the study.
Japanese: 開山堂（重要文化財）－書院の東方、庭園内に建つ入母屋造本瓦葺きの禅宗様の仏堂。
English: The building was originally the private Buddhist statue hall of Kita no Mandokoro before being used to enshrine a wooden statue of reviving founder Sanko Joeki.
Japanese: 元来、北政所の持仏堂だったもので、その後、中興開山の三江紹益の木像を祀る堂となっている。
English: In the center stands the statue of Sanko Joeki, on the right are statues of Kita no Mandokoro's elder brother Iesada KINOSHITA and his wife Unshoin, and on the left is a statue of Naomasa HORI who put great effort into the temple's construction.
Japanese: 堂内は中央奥に三江紹益像、向かって右に北政所の兄の木下家定とその妻・雲照院の像、左に高台寺の普請に尽力した堀直政の木像を安置している。
English: The ceiling is said to have been created from the ceilings of Hideyoshi's gaozafune, a boat for a person of elevated status, and Kita no Mandokoro's ox-drawn coach.
Japanese: この堂の天井は、秀吉の御座舟の天井と、北政所の御所車の天井を用いたものという。
English: Garyoro (Reclining Dragon Corridor): This roofed staircase linking the Kaizan-do hall and mausoleum was given its name due to its resemblance to a dragon's back.
Japanese: 臥龍廊（がりょうろう）－開山堂と霊屋（おたまや）を結ぶ屋根付きの階段、龍の背に似ているところからこの名が付けられた。
English: Mausoleum (Important Cultural Property): This square hall, topped by hogyo-zukuri hiwadabuki, a pyramidal roof covered with Japanese cypress bark shingles, stands on a slightly elevated plot to the west of the Kaisan-do hall.
Japanese: 霊屋（重要文化財）－開山堂の西方、一段高くなった敷地に建つ、宝形造檜皮葺きの堂。
English: Inside, the central miniature shrine (doors ordinarily kept closed) houses a statue of the bodhisattva Maha Pratisara, the miniature shrine on the right houses a seated statue of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, and the miniature shrine on the left houses a statue of his wife, Kita no Mandokoro, kneeling on one knee.
Japanese: 内部は中央の厨子（平素、扉を閉じている）に大随求菩薩（だいずいぐぼさつ）像を安置し、向かって右の厨子には豊臣秀吉の坐像、左の厨子には正室・北政所の片膝立の木像がそれぞれ安置されている。
English: The miniature shrine doors are adorned with makie imagery such as autumn flowers, pine trees and bamboo, and the shumidan (an altar made of fine timber, generally with panelling, hame) feature makie images which include musical instruments.
Japanese: 厨子の扉には秋草、松竹など、須弥壇には楽器などの蒔絵が施されている。
English: The miniatures shrines are also valuable as they feature the name of the artist responsible for creating the makie in inconspicuous locations.
Japanese: 厨子の目立たぬところに蒔絵の作者の名が線描きされておりその点でも貴重。
English: The furnishings in the temple's possession that are said to have been owned by Kita no Mandokoro are decorated with the same makie style known as 'Kodai-ji Makie.'
Japanese: 寺に所蔵される、北政所所用と伝える調度品類にも同じ様式の蒔絵が施され、これらを高台寺蒔絵と称している。
English: The main characteristic of Kodai-ji Makie are designs such as autumn flowers applied to golden flat makie (sprinkled powder applied directly on the smooth lacquered surface in very low relief so only the thickness of the final protective lacquer coating is raised above the surface).
Japanese: 高台寺蒔絵の特色は、金の平蒔絵（文様部分の漆を盛り上げずに、平滑に仕上げたもの）を主体に秋草などの絵画的な文様を描くことである。