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English: Kawara-dera Temple was one of the four great temples of Asuka along with Asuka-dera Temple (Hokko-ji Temple), Yakushi-ji Temple and Daikan-daiji Temple (Daian-ji Temple), and although it is thought to have been constructed during the reign of Emperor Tenchi in the mid-seventh century, there is no mention of the founding of the temple in the official records in the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan).
Japanese: 川原寺は、飛鳥寺（法興寺）、薬師寺、大官大寺（大安寺）と並ぶ飛鳥の四大寺に数えられ、7世紀半ばの天智天皇の時代に建立されたものと思われるが、正史『日本書紀』にはこの寺の創建に関する記述がない。
English: The time and circumstances surrounding its creation have been debated over many years and there are several theories, and for this reason it is also called 'the mysterious temple'.
Japanese: そのため創建の時期や事情については長年議論され、さまざまな説があり、「謎の大寺」とも言われている。
English: The other three great temples were relocated to Heijokyo at the time of the move of the capital to Heijokyo, but Kawara-dera Temple remained in the Asuka area.
Japanese: 平城京遷都とともに他の三大寺（飛鳥寺、薬師寺、大官大寺）はその本拠を平城京へ移したが、川原寺は移転せず、飛鳥の地にとどまった。
English: It was burnt down at the very end of the Heian Period in 1191 and very little remains of the original structure other than the roof tiles and senbutsu (fired earthen Buddhist statues) that have been excavated, and the cornerstones of the doto (temple and pagoda).
Japanese: 平安時代最末期の建久2年（1191年）の焼失後は歴史の表舞台から姿を消し、発掘された瓦や塼仏（せんぶつ、土で作り焼成した仏像）、堂塔の礎石以外には往時をしのばせるものはない。
English: Although the chapter dealing with the year 653 in the "Nihonshoki" states 'With the death of Somin, many Buddhist statues were placed in Kawara-dera Temple in his memory', there is an editor's note stating 'it may have been Yamada-dera Temple not Kawara-dera Temple', showing that even at the time the "Nihonshoki" was edited this story was already unreliable.
Japanese: 『日本書紀』の白雉4年（653年）条には「僧旻（みん）の死去にともない、追善のため多くの仏像を川原寺に安置した」との記事があるが、『書紀』の編者は「川原寺でなく山田寺であったかもしれない」との注を付しており、『書紀』編纂の時点ですでにこの話はあやふやなものであったことがわかる。
English: Therefore, the earliest concrete record of Kawara-dera Temple is the section from March of the year 673 in the "Nihonshoki", mentioned below.
Japanese: したがって、川原寺の史料上の初見として確実なものは、次に述べる『書紀』の天武天皇2年（673年）3月の記事である。
English: According to the article, 'writers were gathered at Kawara-dera Temple to transcribe the complete Buddhist scriptures for the first time'.
Japanese: それによれば、この時、「書生（書き手）を集めて川原寺において初めて一切経を書写した」という。
English: This article is famous as being the first record describing the transcription of the complete Buddhist scriptures in Japan, but the name Kawara-dera Temple appears quite abruptly, and "Nihonshoki" does not mention the circumstances surrounding the founding of the temple.
Japanese: この記事は、日本における一切経書写事業の初見として著名なものであるが、川原寺の名はこの記事で唐突に現れ、その創建事情については『書紀』は述べていない。
English: "Shoji Engi Shu" (a book describing the history of every temple) contains the theory that it was built in 584, but from looking at the age of objects that have been excavated from the Kawara-dera Temple ruins, such as tiles, it is unlikely that it was built that early.
Japanese: 『諸寺縁起集』には敏達天皇13年（584年）創建説を載せているが、川原寺跡からの出土遺物（瓦など）の年代から見て、そこまでさかのぼるとは考えられない。
English: From the reference in the aforementioned "Nihonshoki", it is thought to be quite certain that the temple was built before 673, and the theory that Emperor Tenchi built it over the site of Kawahara Palace once managed by his mother Empress Saimei (the second enthronement of Empress Kogyoku) seems most credible.
Japanese: 前述の『書紀』の記述から見て、天武天皇2年（673年）以前の創建であることは確かであると思われ、天智天皇が母の斉明天皇（皇極天皇重祚）が営んだ川原宮の跡地に創建したとする説が有力となっている。
English: Kawarhara Palace was a temporary palace used after Itabuki Palace burnt down, until the move to Okamoto Palace the following year.
Japanese: 川原宮は、斉明天皇元年（655年）に板蓋宮が焼失し、翌年岡本宮へ移るまでの間に使用された仮宮である。
English: During the excavation and research conducted between 1957 and 1959, it was revealed that the temple layout of Kawara-dera Temple was quite unique with one tower and two kon-do halls, and the style is now called the 'Kawara-dera Temple style temple layout'.
Japanese: 昭和32年から34年（1957-1959年）に実施された発掘調査で、川原寺の伽藍配置は一塔二金堂式の特異なものであったことが判明し、「川原寺式伽藍配置」と称されている。
English: At Kawara-dera Temple the corridors from the left and right of the middle gate cut the center of the temple into squares, and Chukon-do Hall is located at the center of the northern area.
Japanese: 川原寺では中門左右から出た廻廊が伽藍中心部を方形に区切り、廻廊の北辺中央に中金堂が位置する。
English: In the area surrounded by corridors, a five-level pagoda stands to the front and right, to the east of Chukon-do Hall, and Saikon-do Hall (West Golden Hall) stands to the west.
Japanese: 廻廊で囲まれた区画内には中金堂の手前右（東）に五重塔、西に西金堂が建つ。
English: The way the temple and towers stand next to each other within corridors is similar to the layout of Horyu-ji Temple Sai-in (West Precinct), but one key difference is that while Horyu-ji Temple's kon-do hall faces south, Kawara-dera Temple's kon-do hall faces east towards the tower.
Japanese: 廻廊内に仏堂と塔が左右に並んで建つ点は法隆寺西院伽藍と類似するが、法隆寺金堂が南を正面とするのに対し、川原寺西金堂は東を正面とし、塔のある方向に向いて建てられている点が異なる。
English: According to the results of the excavation and research, the design of Saikon-do Hall included an open front (without any fittings or walls) just like the existing main hall of Toshodai-ji Temple, and Chukon-do Hall was a building of very open design with two pillars in front and one on each side, and eaves which descend over all four sides of the main building.
Japanese: 発掘調査の結果によれば、西金堂は現存する唐招提寺金堂と同様に正面を吹き放ち（建具や壁を入れずに開放とする）とした建築であり、中金堂は正面三間×側面二間（「間」は柱間の数を意味する）の母屋の四方に吹き放ちの庇をめぐらした開放的な建物であったことがわかっている。
English: It is notable that marble cornerstones, which have not been seen elsewhere, were used for Chukon-do Hall.
Japanese: 中で、中金堂の礎石には他に類例のない大理石の礎石が使用されている点が注意される。
English: Furthermore, the tiles used at the time of construction which have been unearthed at Kawara-dera Temple have a very intricate design of eight flower petals split in two and are called 'double-petaled lotus flower design tiles', which later became mainstream in tile design.
Japanese: ）また、川原寺から出土する創建時の瓦は「複弁蓮花文瓦」と呼ばれる、8枚の花びらのそれぞれを2つに分けた形式の複雑なデザインのもので、これが以後の瓦文様の主流となった。
English: The fact that Kawara-dera Temple burnt down in 1191 is recorded in Kanezane KUJO's diary "Gyokuyo".
Japanese: 川原寺は建久2年（1191年）炎上したことが、九条兼実の日記『玉葉』の記載からわかる。
English: Also, a historical source from 1070 called 'Omi Gufukujiryo Shoen Chushin' (Reports of the Manor of Gufukuji Temple in Omi Province) mentions that a document related to the manor was burnt in the fire at Gofuku-ji Temple (Kawara-dera Temple), promoting speculation that there was another fire prior to 1070.
Japanese: また、延久4年（1070年）の「近江国弘福寺領荘園注進」という史料に、荘園にかかわる文書（もんじょ）が弘福寺（川原寺）の火災で焼けてしまった旨の記載があることから、延久4年以前にも火災のあったことが推測される。
English: Kawara-dera Temple was rebuilt in the Kamakura Period, but it burnt down once again at the end of the Muromachi Period after being struck by lightning, and it was never able to regain the scale it once had.
Japanese: 川原寺は鎌倉時代にはいったん再興されるが、室町時代末期に雷火で再び焼失し、以後はかつての規模を取り戻すことはなかった。
English: In 1974, over one thousand sozo (earthen images) and senbutsu were excavated from Itabuki-jinja Shrine on the hill behind Kawara-dera Temple.
Japanese: 昭和49年（1974年）、川原寺の裏山の板蓋神社から、千数百点におよぶ塑像の断片や塼仏（せんぶつ）が発掘された。
English: A large number of tiles called Sanson Senbutsu measuring 20cm both in length and width and embossed with the three Buddhist deities, have been excavated from the hill behind Kawara-dera Temple.
Japanese: 川原寺裏山からは、縦横とも20cmほどの板状の塼に三尊仏を浮き彫りにした三尊塼仏が大量に発掘されている。
English: There have been no other instances of a large number of senbutsu being excavated from one location anywhere else in Japan, and although their use has not been clearly identified, the theory that they completely covered the walls of the temple as a decoration is most favored.
Japanese: 塼仏が1箇所から大量に発掘された事例は日本で他になく、その用途ははっきり解明されていないが、仏堂の壁面を塼仏で埋め尽して荘厳していたという説が有力である。
English: Currently, the Kawara-dera Temple ruins are maintained so that the original positions of the great southern gate, the middle gate and the corridors are identifiable.
Japanese: 現在、川原寺跡は南大門、中門、廻廊などの旧位置がわかるように整備されている。
English: Gufuku-ji Temple, which stands close to the Chukon-do Hall ruins, is a temple that has inherited the light of Buddhism from Kawara-dera Temple, and houses the wooden statues of Jikokuten and Tamonten (from the early Heian Period) which have been designated Important Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 中金堂跡付近に建つ弘福寺（ぐふくじ）は川原寺の法灯を継ぐ寺院で、重要文化財の木造持国天・多聞天立像（平安時代前期）を安置する。
English: Chiri-tsubaki, a variety of camellia named for its characteristic of shedding petals one by one, is one of the "Three-famous camellia of Nara", along with nori-koboshi, a kind of camellia with spots which look like glue, found at the Kaisando Hall at Todai-ji Temple, and goshiki-tsubaki, the five-colored camellia of Byakugo-ji Temple.
Japanese: 花びらが一枚ずつ散ってゆく散り椿は、東大寺開山堂の糊こぼし・白毫寺の五色椿と並び「奈良三名椿」に数えられる。
English: This temple is said to have been founded in 771 by Shitaku Risshi, the disciple of Ganjin Wajo, but the exact time and circumstances of its foundation, as well as its subsequent history until medieval times remain unclear.
Japanese: 鑑真和上の弟子である思託（したく）律師により宝亀2年（771年）に開創されたと伝わるが、創建の正確な時期・事情は定かでなく、以後中世までの沿革も定かでない。
English: In 1585, the mother of military commander Junkei TSUTSUI, Hoshun Soei-ni Nun, rebuilt it to pray to Buddha for the happiness of Junkei after his death.
Japanese: 天正13年（1585年）に武将の筒井順慶の母・芳秀宗英尼が順慶の菩提を弔うために再興した。
English: The main hall (an Important Cultural Property) is a building with a hipped roof and a design element called hosangen which was erected during the restoration of 1585, in which the statue of Jizo Bosatsu is enshrined.
Japanese: 本堂（重要文化財）－天正13年（1585年）の再興時に建立された寄棟造・方三間の建物で、地蔵菩薩立像が安置されている。
English: The wooden statue of the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha depicts a naked form and was popular among some parts of society in the Kamakura Period; also known as 'naked Jizo', it was usually seen with a kimono over the body of the statue.
Japanese: 木造地蔵菩薩立像－鎌倉時代に一部に流行した裸形像で、別名・裸地蔵とも呼ばれ、裸形の木像の上に、普段は本物の着物が着せられている。
English: Several individual items which form a part of the statue, such as a glass bottle and a small Buddhist statue, have also been designated Important Cultural Properties.
Japanese: 像内納入品のガラス瓶、小仏像等も一括して重要文化財に指定されている。
English: The wooden statue of Sho-Kannon, Aryavalokitesvara was made a Designed Important Cultural Property (National Treasure at the time) in 1929.
Japanese: 木造聖観音立像-昭和4年（1929年）重要文化財（当時の国宝）に指定。
English: The temple contains the tomb of the monk Gyoki who dedicated himself to work beneficial to the community such as building bridges and flood controls, and even had a part in the construction of the Great Buddha of Todai-ji Temple in the Nara Period.
Japanese: 奈良時代に架橋、治水などの社会事業に奔走し、東大寺大仏の造立にも力のあった僧・行基の墓所がある寺である。
English: It is believed that Gyoki was an incarnation of Monju Bosatsu (Manjusri), and the jigo (literally "temple name," which is the title given to a Buddhist temple) comes from Dasheng Zhilin-si (the Chinese pronunciation for Holy Chikurin-ji Temple) on Wutai-shan Mountain in China, which is considered Monju Bosatsu's holy land.
Japanese: 行基は文殊菩薩の化身と信じられており、寺号は文殊菩薩の聖地である中国の五台山(中国)大聖竹林寺にちなむ。
English: It was as good as abandoned after the Meiji Period and managed for a time by the head temple, Toshodai-ji Temple, but work on the property restarted at the end of the twentieth century.
Japanese: 明治時代以降は廃寺同然となり、本山の唐招提寺が管理していたが、20世紀末から境内の整備が進められている。
English: There is a record in "Gyoki's Chronicles" (completed in 1175), one of the basic resources for the study of Gyoki, that suggests Gyoki moved to Ikuma Sembo (resident priests' quarters) in 707, aged forty.
Japanese: 行基研究の基礎資料の一つである『行基年譜』（安元元年(1175年)の成立）には、慶雲4年（707年）、当時40歳の行基が「生馬仙房」に移ったとの記載がある。
English: However, in the "Abridged Records of Chikurin-ji Temple" (completed in 1305) written by a scholar monk of Todai-ji Temple called Gyonen, it is mentioned that Gyoki entered Ikoma-yama in 704 and lived at Kayano Sembo.
Japanese: 一方、東大寺の学僧・凝然（ぎょうねん）が著した『竹林寺略録』（嘉元3年(1305年)成立）には、行基は慶雲元年（704年）、生駒山に入り、「草野（かやの）仙房」に住したとある。
English: There is no proof that 'Ikuma Sembo' and 'Kayano Sembo' are one and the same, or if either are the current Chikurin-ji Temple, but considering the fact that Gyogi's tomb is located here, it is thought that it is likely that Chikurin-ji Temple is a reincarnation of 'Ikuma Sembo'.
Japanese: 「生馬仙房」と「草野仙房」が同じものであるか、またそれが現在の竹林寺に相当するのかについては確証はないが、当地に行基の墓があることから考えて、「生馬仙房」の後身が竹林寺であると考えて大過ないと思われる。
English: The section on November 20, 773 in the official history record "Shoku Nihongi" (Chronicles of Japan Continued) says 'of the forty or more temples at which Gyoki trained, six are dilapidated, so each will be given two to three square kilometers of land', and 'Ikuma-in Temple' is included as one of the six.
Japanese: 正史『続日本紀』の宝亀4年（773年）11月20日条には「行基が修行した40余箇所の寺院のうち、6箇院は荒れ果ててしまっているので、それぞれに田3町ないし2町を施入する」という趣旨の記述があり、その6箇院の中に「生馬院」が含まれている。
English: From this article it can be gathered that 'Ikuma-in Temple' was already in disrepair a little over twenty years after Gyoki's death.
Japanese: ここからは、行基の没後20数年にしてすでに「生馬院」が荒廃していたことが伺える。
English: According to the "Chikurin-ji Temple History" penned by a monk named Jakumetsu about five centuries later in 1235, in that same year he and his peers followed the orders Gyoki gave him in a dream and dug up his grave at Mount Ikoma-yama, and discovered articles such as a urn and an epitaph.
Japanese: 約5世紀後の文暦2年（1235年）、寂滅という僧の著した『竹林寺縁起』によると、同年、寂滅らは行基の夢告にしたがって生駒山の行基の墓を掘り起こしたところ、舎利瓶（蔵骨器）や墓誌を発見したという。
English: The details of the inscription on the epitaph can be found in Toshodai-ji Temple documents, and according to them, after Gyoki died at Sugawara-dera Temple (now Kiko-ji Temple in Nara City) he was cremated at 'the eastern foot of Mount Ikuma-yama'.
Japanese: 墓誌の記載内容は唐招提寺文書中に残されており、それによると、行基は菅原寺（現・奈良市喜光寺）で没した後、「生馬山之東陵」で火葬に付されたという。
English: Gyoki's urn and epitaph were reburied, but a very small piece of the bronze epitaph was excavated at the end of the Edo Period and became the personal property of a local person.
Japanese: 行基の舎利瓶と墓誌は再埋納されたが、銅製墓誌のごく一部の残片が江戸時代末期に発掘され、地元の個人の所有となっていた。
English: This was certified as an Important Art on November 11, 1933 under the name 'The Remnants of the Bronze Cinerary Urn of Gyoki', and is now stored at Nara National Museum.
Japanese: これは昭和8年（1933年）11月11日、「銅製行基舎利瓶残片」の名で重要美術品に認定され、現在は奈良国立博物館の所蔵となっている。
English: Later the temple was rejuvenated by Eison, who played an important role in the restoration of Saidai-ji Temple, and his disciple Ninsho among others, but closed at the time of the anti-Buddhist movement in the Meiji Period.
Japanese: その後、西大寺_(奈良市)中興の祖・叡尊（えいそん）、その弟子忍性（にんしょう）らにより再興されたが、明治の廃仏毀釈によって廃絶となる。
English: They contain some of the remains of the monk Ninsho who founded Gokuraku-ji Temple (in Kamakura City) and dedicated himself to the revival of religious precepts and work benefitting the community in the Kamakura Period, and which were, according to his will, buried at Gokuraku-ji Temple, Kakuan-ji Temple (in Yamato-Koriyama City, Nara Prefecture) and Chikurin-ji Temple.
Japanese: 鎌倉・極楽寺(鎌倉市)の開山であり、鎌倉時代に戒律の復興と社会事業に尽力した僧・忍性の遺骨は、遺言により、極楽寺、額安寺（奈良県大和郡山市）、竹林寺の3箇所に分骨された。
English: The artifacts also include a bronze cinerary urn and stone funerary urn and other items discovered in the excavation and research which took place in 1986.
Japanese: 昭和61年（1986年）の発掘調査で見出された銅骨蔵器、石櫃等の一括である。
English: It is said that Gyoki died in the year 749 at the age of 82 at Sugawara-dera Temple (now Kiko-ji Temple) in Heijokyo, and according to his will he was cremated at the eastern foot of Ikoma-yama Mountain and buried at Chikurin-ji Temple.
Japanese: 行基は天平21年（749年）に平城京・菅原寺（現在の喜光寺）において82歳で生涯を終え、遺命により生駒山の東陵で火葬され、竹林寺に埋葬されたといわれる。
English: The incomplete remains of Ninsho's tomb tower, a gorinto, contains what is thought to be the tomb of Eison's disciple Ninsho, and a urn designated as an Important Cultural Property was discovered during the excavation research project by the Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 五輪塔残欠（忍性墓塔）－叡尊の弟子・忍性の墓とされるもので、奈良県立橿原考古学研究所の発掘調査により重要文化財指定の骨蔵器（舎利瓶）が発見された。
English: The wooden image of a sitting Gyoki Bosatsu, an Important Cultural Property, was stored at Chikurin-ji in the past, but moved to Toshodai-ji Temple when Chikurin-ji Temple was closed during the time of the anti-Buddhist movement in the Meiji Period.
Japanese: 木造行基菩薩坐像（重要文化財）－かつて竹林寺に安置されていたが，明治の廃仏毀釈によって廃絶となったために唐招提寺に移された。
English: The temple is said to have been founded by Gyoki, a priest in the Nara period who engaged in welfare activities such as building bridges, and who also contributed to the raising of the Great Buddha of Todai-ji Temple.
Japanese: 奈良時代に架橋、土木工事などの社会事業に携わり、東大寺大仏造立にも貢献した僧・行基が創建したと伝わる。
English: One of the most important documents for the study of Gyoki, "Gyoki Nenpu" (The Gyoki Chronicle), which was completed in 1175, explains that the predecessor of Kiko-ji Temple, Sugawara-dera Temple, was originally the house of TERA no Fuhitomaru, who donated it to Gyoki, and the building became one of 49 temples built by Gyoki.
Japanese: 行基研究の基礎文献の一つである『行基年譜』（安元元年・1175年成立）によれば、喜光寺の前身である菅原寺は、養老5年（721年）、寺史乙丸なる人物が自らの住居を行基に寄進して寺としたものであって、行基建立の四十九院の一つであるとされている。
English: Gyoki died at the temple at the age of 82 in 749, and was buried in a grave at Chikurin-ji Temple in Ikoma (Ikoma City).
Japanese: 行基は天平21年（749年）この寺で82歳で死去し、生駒の竹林寺(生駒市)に葬られた。
English: However, another historical source, "Sugawara-dera Kibun Ikaijo" (The Instructions Handed Down in Sugawara-dera Temple), records that the temple was founded on the order of Empress Genmei.
Japanese: 一方、「菅原寺記文遺戒状」という別の史料によれば、この寺は霊亀元年（715年）、元明天皇の勅願により建てられたものという。
English: When it was built, it was called 'Sugawara-dera' as it was located in Sugawara-no-sato (Sugawara Village), which is the supposed birthplace of SUGAWARA no Michizane.
Japanese: 創建当初は菅原道真の生誕地と伝わる菅原の里にあることから「菅原寺」と呼ばれていた。
English: The anecdote relates how an inexplicable sacred light came from the temple's honzon when Emperor Shomu came to pray, and that he expressed his pleasure by changing the temple's name from 'Sugawara-ji' to 'Kiko-ji ('ki' means 'pleased', and 'ko' means 'light').
Japanese: 伝承によれば、聖武天皇が参詣した際に当寺の本尊より不思議な光明が放たれ、これを見た天皇が喜んで、「菅原寺」を改めて「喜光寺」としたという。
English: "Shoku Nihongi" (The Chronicle of Japan Continued) says that the Haji clan living in the area was given the surname of Sugawara by Emperor Kanmu in 782.
Japanese: 『続日本紀』によれば、延暦元年（782年）、この地に住んでいた土師氏が桓武天皇から菅原姓を賜ったという。
English: In the Middle Ages (from the end of the twelfth century to the end of sixteenth century in Japanese history), Kiko-ji Temple became a branch temple of Kofuku-ji Temple, and more precisely, it belonged to Ichijo-in (a temple where priests from families of emperors' chief advisors lived), a sub-temple of Kofuku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 中世には興福寺の末寺となり、直接には興福寺の塔頭の一つであった一乗院に属した。
English: In the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States in Japan), the construction of Kiko-ji Temple was almost completely burned down during the fighting, but it was later rebuilt.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)に伽藍のほとんどが兵火により焼失したが、間もなく再建された。
English: Reconstructed in the Muromachi Period, the one-story building with additional eaves on the outer walls is said to have been built one-tenth the size of the Daibutsu-den (Great Buddha Hall) of Todai-ji Temple, and as a result of this the hondo is also called 'A trial of the Great Buddha's Hall'.
Japanese: 室町時代に再建された単層裳階付き建物で、東大寺大仏殿の十分の一のサイズに建てられたといわれ、「試みの大仏殿」とも呼ばれる。
English: The Nandaimon (Great South Gate) was destroyed by fire again after its reconstruction, but it is to be rebuilt in 2010, after a gap of 450 years.
Japanese: 南大門－再建後に再び焼失し、2010年に450年ぶりに再建される予定。
English: Kakuan-ji Temple is a temple belonging to the Shingon Ritsu sect of Buddhism, located in Nukatabetera-machi, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 額安寺（かくあんじ）は奈良県大和郡山市額田部寺町（ぬかたべてらまち）にある真言律宗の寺院である。
English: It is said to have been erected in the Asuka Period by Prince Shotoku, and some say that the remains of Kumagori Shoja Temple, the temple previously built at the current location of Daian-ji Temple, are of it, but actually, it is accepted that it was erected to be the Uji-dera temple (temple built to pray for the glory of a clan) for the local ruling family, the Nukatabe clan, who were based in this area.
Japanese: 飛鳥時代に聖徳太子の建立と伝えられ、大安寺の前身である熊凝精舎（くまごりしょうじゃ）跡ともいわれるが、実際にはこの地を本拠としていた豪族額田部（ぬかたべ）氏の氏寺として建立されたものと思われる。
English: According to "Daianji Garan Engi narabini Ruki Shizai Cho" (The History of Daian-ji Temple and the Record of the Estates, held at the National Museum of Japanese History) in 747, the predecessor of Daian-ji Temple, one of the Seven Great Temples of Nara, was Kumagori Shoja Temple erected in Nukatabe's land by Prince Shotoku, which became Daian-ji Temple in Heijo-kyo after repeated relocations and renamings.
Japanese: 天平19年（747年）の『大安寺伽藍縁起並流記資財帳』（だいあんじがらんえんぎならびにるきしざいちょう、国立歴史民俗博物館蔵）によれば、南都七大寺の1つである大安寺の前身は、聖徳太子が額田部の地に建立した熊凝精舎であって、これが後に移転と改称を繰り返した後、平城京の大安寺となったという。
English: However, the theory that Kumagori Shoja Temple and Daian-ji Temple are the same is open to question without evidence from other supporting historical sources.
Japanese: しかし、熊凝精舎を大安寺の前身とする説は他に裏づけとなる史料がなく、疑問視されている。
English: It is also said that such a theory was put forward because the monk Doji who contributed to the transfer of Daian-ji Temple to Heijo-kyo was from the Nukatabe clan.
Japanese: 大安寺の平城京移建に貢献した僧・道慈が額田部氏出身であることから、このような説が生じたのではないかとも言われる。
English: According to "Nukatabedera Garan narabini Jori Zu" (Pictures of Nukatabe-ji Temple and the Streets, a National Treasure) passed down through the generations at Kakuan-ji Temple and now in the National Museum of Japanese History, during the Nara Period, the Golden Hall, lecture hall and three-story pagoda were built one after another and it flourished greatly.
Japanese: かつて額安寺に伝来し，現在では国立歴史民俗博物館に所蔵される「額田寺伽藍並条里図（ぬかたでらがらんならびにじょうりず、国宝）」によれば、奈良時代には金堂・講堂・三重塔が建ち並び、大いに栄えていたようである。
English: This Garan narabini Jori Zu was presumed to have been painted in around the Tenpyo-Hoji era (757-765) from the name and other details inscribed on the picture plane, supporting the theory that the foundation of Nukata-dera Temple (Kakuan-ji Temple) was earlier than this period.
Japanese: この伽藍並条里図は、画面に記入されている人名等から天平宝字年間（757-765年）頃の作成と推定され、額田寺（額安寺）の創建がこれ以前であることを裏付けている。
English: It went into decline in the Heian Period, but was revived by Eison, Ninsho and others of Saidai-ji Temple in the late Kamakura Period.
Japanese: 平安時代には寺勢が衰えたが、鎌倉後期に西大寺の叡尊・忍性らにより再興された。
English: This was restored later by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI as the temple's estate of approximately a hectares was received in exchange for a five-story pagoda which was given to Shitenno-ji Temple.
Japanese: 後に豊臣秀吉により四天王寺へ五重塔を譲ることと引き換えに寺領一町歩が与えられて再興された。
English: A set of mementos such as the cinerary urn of Ryokan-Shonin Ninsho, the founding priest of Kamakura gokuraku-ji Temple (Kamakura City) who died in 1303, and that of Zengan-Shonin Junnin, Ninsho's disciple and the third chief priest of Gokuraku-ji Temple from 1326.
Japanese: 鎌倉極楽寺(鎌倉市)開山の良観上人忍性（嘉元元年/1303年没）ならびに忍性の弟子で極楽寺3世の善願上人順忍（嘉暦元年/1326年）の骨蔵器などの一括遺品である。
English: Ninsho was a monk who made great efforts to revive religious precepts and did work to benefit society during the Kamakura Period, and his ashes were buried in three places, Gokuraku-ji Temple, Kakuan-ji Temple and Chikurin-ji in Ikoma (Ikoma City).
Japanese: 忍性は鎌倉時代に戒律復興と社会事業に努めた僧で、その遺骨は極楽寺、額安寺、生駒の竹林寺(生駒市)の3か所に分骨された。
English: Ninsho's cinerary urn has a unique shape like a liquor bottle, and a bronze urn of the same type as that from Kakuan-ji Temple was also excavated from the tomb of Ninsho in Chikurin-ji Temple.
Japanese: 忍性の骨蔵器は瓶子のような独特の形のもので、竹林寺の忍性墓からも、額安寺のものと同形式の銅骨蔵器が出土している。
English: Important Cultural Properties include a small black-lacquered altar called Kubikake Dazushuji Mandara Zushi, a cabinet which has two rings tied with cord and on which the mandala is painted, the mandala reflecting the seeds of Mahavairocana (Nara National Museum).
Japanese: （重要文化財）黒漆小龕（首懸駄都種子曼荼羅厨子）（奈良国立博物館蔵）
English: Senko-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Daigo school of the Shingon sect situated in Heguri-cho, Ikoma County, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 千光寺（せんこうじ）は、奈良県生駒郡平群町にある真言宗醍醐派の寺院。
English: Daruma-ji Temple is a temple of the Nanzen-ji school of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism, located in Oji-machi, Kita-katsuragi County, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 達磨寺（だるまじ）は、奈良県北葛城郡王寺町にある臨済宗南禅寺派の寺院。