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English: The temple was temporarily closed in 1872 due to the anti-Buddhist movement of the beginning of the Meiji period and the Buddha statues were transferred to Sennyu-ji Temple.
Japanese: 明治初年の廃仏毀釈の影響で即成院は明治5年（1872年）にいったん廃寺となり、仏像は泉涌寺に引き取られた。
English: A temporary hall was finally constructed near to the Daimon gate of Sennyu-ji Temple in 1887 and Sokujo-in Temple was revived before merging with the Sennyu-ji Temple sub-temple of Hoan-ji Temple in 1899 and being relocated from the front of the Daimon gate to its current location in the vicinity of the Somon gate in 1902.
Japanese: 明治20年（1887年）に泉涌寺大門付近に仮堂が建設されてようやく復興し、明治32年（1899年）には泉涌寺塔頭の法安寺と合併、明治35年（1902年）には、大門前から総門近くの現在地に移された。
English: In 1911, the statues of Amida Nyorai and the 25 bodhisattvas were designated Important Cultural Properties (National Treasures at the time) under the ownership of Hoan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 明治44年（1911年）には阿弥陀如来及び二十五菩薩像が「法安寺」の所有として重要文化財（当時の国宝）に指定された。
English: The name 'Sokujo-in Temple' was revived in 1941.
Japanese: 「即成院」の寺号が復活するのは昭和16年（1941年）のことである。
English: Wooden statue of Amida Nyorai and 25 wooden statues of bodhisattvas: A total of 26 statues with the 25 bodhisattvas centered around Amida Nyorai and all housed within the main hall on 4-tiered Buddha platforms.
Japanese: 木造阿弥陀如来及び二十五菩薩像　26躯－阿弥陀如来を中心とする計26体の群像で、本堂内のひな段状の仏壇に4段に分けて安置されている。
English: To the left and right of Amida Nyorai is a Kannon bodhisattva statue holding up lotus-shaped pedestals on which the dead are placed to a Seiji bodhisattva statue with its hands together in prayer, with most of the remaining 23 bodhisattvas depicted playing musical instruments.
Japanese: 阿弥陀如来の左右には亡者を乗せるための蓮台を捧げ持つ観音菩薩像と合掌する勢至菩薩像が位置し、その他の23体の菩薩像の多くは楽器を演奏する姿で表わされる。
English: Amida Nyorai and the 25 bodhisattvas are shown as if guiding a soul to the Western Pure Land Paradise; a scene which is often depicted in painting but is rarely represented using life sized three-dimensional statues.
Japanese: 阿弥陀如来と25体の菩薩が、亡者を西方極楽浄土へ導くさまを表現したもので、この種の像は絵画作品としては多数作られているが、等身大の立体像で表わしたものは珍しい。
English: Of the 26 statues, only 11 including Amida Nyorai were crafted during the Heian period, with the remaining 15 being added during the Edo period but created in a manner that is true to the Heian period style.
Japanese: 26体のうち、阿弥陀如来像を含む11体のみが平安時代の作で、残りの15体は江戸時代の補作であるが、平安彫刻の様式を忠実に模して作られている。
English: Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Temple is a Pure Land Sect Buddhist temple located in Sagano, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 化野念仏寺（あだしのねんぶつじ）は、京都市右京区の嵯峨野にある浄土宗の寺。
English: Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Temple originated in the year 811 when Kukai established Gochizan Nyorai-ji Temple and buried the human remains that had been left out in the open.
Japanese: 弘仁2年（811年）、空海が五智山如来寺を建立し、野ざらしになっていた遺骸を埋葬したのに始まるとされる。
English: The principal image is a statue of Amida Nyorai (created by Tankei according to temple legend but the actual creator is unclear) and the main hall was reconstructed by Jakudo in 1712 during the Edo period.
Japanese: 本尊は阿弥陀如来像（寺伝に湛慶作というが実際の作者は不明）、本堂は江戸時代の正徳(日本)2年（1712年）に寂道により再建されたもの。
English: The approximately 8,000 stone Buddha statues and stone pagodas within the temple precinct were originally placed as tombstones to mark the numerous unattended graves throughout Adashino and were collected at the temple in 1903.
Japanese: 境内の約8000体という夥しい数の石仏・石塔は、明治36年（1903年）頃に、化野に散在していた多くの無縁仏を掘り出して集めたものである。
English: Zuishin-in Temple (it is also pronounced Zuishin-nin Temple) is the Daihonzan (head temple) of the Zentsuji School of the Shingon Sect located in Ono, Yamashina Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 随心院（ずいしんいん・ずいしんにん）は京都市山科区小野にある真言宗善通寺派大本山の仏教寺院。
English: The Ono area in which the temple is situated was the base of the Ono clan, and Zuishin-in Temple is known for its connection to ONO no Komachi.
Japanese: 当寺の位置する小野地区は、小野氏の根拠地とされ、随心院は小野小町ゆかりの寺としても知られる。
English: Zuishin-in Temple was a sub-temple of Gyuhisan Mandara-ji Temple which was founded by Ningai (954-1046).
Japanese: 随心院は、仁海（954-1046）が創建した牛皮山曼荼羅寺（ぎゅうひさんまんだらじ）の塔頭であった。
English: He would often hold prayers for rain in the Shinsen-en Garden and at the time was believed to have brought rain - leading him to become known as 'Ame Sojo' (Rain Priest).
Japanese: 神泉苑にて雨乞の祈祷をたびたび行い、そのたびに雨を降らせたとされ、「雨僧正」の通称があった。
English: Mandara-ji Temple was founded by Ningai in the year 991 after the land was granted to him by Emperor Ichijo.
Japanese: 曼荼羅寺は仁海が一条天皇から寺地を下賜され、正暦2年(991年)に建立した寺である。
English: According to legend, Ningai saw in a dream that his mother had been reincarnated as an ox, which he then went on to take care of but it soon died.
Japanese: 伝承によれば、仁海は夢で亡き母親が牛に生まれ変わっていることを知りその牛を飼育したが程なく死んだ。
English: It is said that the grieving Ningai created a Ryokai Mandala (Mandala of the Two Realms) from the hide of the ox which was installed as the principal image and that this is the reason why the temple was named 'Gyuhisan Mandara-ji Temple' (Ox-hide Mandala Temple).
Japanese: それを悲しみその牛の皮に両界曼荼羅を描き本尊としたことに因んで、「牛皮山曼荼羅寺」と名付けたという。
English: A similar tale is told in "Kojidan" (Talks of the Past) but in this version it is not Ningai's mother who was reincarnated as an ox but his father.
Japanese: なお、これと似た説話は『古事談』にもあるが、そこでは牛になったのは仁海の母ではなく父とされている。
English: Zuishin-in Temple was founded as a sub-temple of Gyuhisan Mandara-ji Temple in the time of the 5th head priest Zoshun.
Japanese: 第5世住持の増俊の時代に曼荼羅寺の塔頭の一つとして随心院が建てられた。
English: During the time of Kengon, the 6th head priest, the temple became the favored place of worship of Emperor Juntoku, Emperor Gohorikawa and Emperor Shijo.
Japanese: 続く6世顕厳の時には順徳天皇、後堀河天皇、四条天皇の祈願所となっている。
English: The temple became a Monzeki Temple (a temple served by chief priests descended from the imperial family or regent family) during the time of 7th head priest Shingon (1151-1236), who also served as the administrator of To-ji Temple and steward of Todai-ji Temple, as a result of a letter sent by Emperor Gohorikawa in 1229.
Japanese: 東寺長者や東大寺別当を務めた7世親厳（1151-1236）の時、寛喜元年（1229年）に後堀河天皇の宣旨（せんじ）により門跡寺院（皇族や摂家出身者が住持として入寺する寺院）となった。
English: Numerous buildings went on to be constructed within the grounds of the temple and it also held territory in Yamashiro, Harima and Kii provinces but these were almost completely destroyed by fire during the Onin War.
Japanese: その後多くの伽藍が建造され、山城、播磨、紀伊などに多くの寺領を有したが応仁の乱によりほとんど焼失した。
English: According to "Zuishin-in Shiryaku" (The History of Zuishin-in Temple), the temple site was repeatedly relocated to locations including Karahashi in Kujo and the area near to Shokoku-ji Temple.
Japanese: 『随心院史略』によれば、応仁の乱後は寺地九条唐橋や相国寺近辺などへたびたび移転している。
English: In 1599, during the time in which Zoko (of the Kujo family) served as 24th head priest, the main hall was restored on the old site of Mandara-ji Temple.
Japanese: その後慶長4年（1599年）、24世増孝（九条家出身）の時、曼陀羅寺の故地に本堂が再興されている。
English: Gyogen (1717-1787), who served as monzeki (priest prince) during the mid Edo period and was the son of Kanpaku (chief advisor to the Emperor) Sukezane KUJO, attained the rank of Daisojo (high priest) but returned to secular life in 1743 when Tanemoto KUJO died at a young age and served as Kanpaku and Daijo Daijin (Chancellor of the Realm) under the name Naozane KUJO.
Japanese: 江戸時代中期の門跡であった堯厳（1717-1787）は、関白九条輔実の子で、大僧正に至ったが、九条稙基が夭折したことを受けて寛保3年（1743年）還俗し、九条尚実と名乗って関白、太政大臣の位に至っている。
English: Even after the Omuro-ryu sub-school, Daigo-ryu sub-school, Daikakuji-ryu sub-school and others separated, Zuishin-in Temple remained part of the Shingon Sect but became independent and divided into the Yamashina School, Ono School, Toji School and Senyuji School in 1907.
Japanese: 御室派、醍醐派、大覚寺派等が分立した後も随心院は「真言宗」にとどまっていたが、明治40年（1907年）には当時の「真言宗」が解消されて山階派、小野派、東寺派、泉涌寺派として独立。
English: The Ono School of the Shingon Sect changed its name to the Zentsuji School in 1931.
Japanese: その後昭和6年（1931年）には真言宗小野派を真言宗善通寺派と改称。
English: Zentsu-ji Temple, which now stands on the birthplace of sect founder Kukai, is the Sohonzan (general head temple) of the Zentsuji School, and Zuishin-in Temple is the Daihonzan (head temple) of the same school).
Japanese: 現在は宗祖空海の生誕地に建つ善通寺が善通寺派総本山、随心院は同派大本山と位置づけられている。
English: Said to have been constructed between 1624 and 1631 using funds donated by Tenshinin-ni, who was connected to the Kujo family (the roots of Tenshinin-ni have not been determined).
Japanese: 九条家ゆかりの天真院尼の寄進により寛永年間(1624年-1631年)に建造されたと伝える（なお、天真院尼の出自についてはあまり定かでない）。
English: Relocated by the Nijo family in 1753 and the kuri previously served as the family's mandokoro (administrative office).
Japanese: 宝暦3年(1753年)二条家よりの移築、庫裡は同家の政所であったもの。
English: The red, white and pink blossoms come into bloom at the end of February and are viewed in mid-March.
Japanese: 山紅梅、白梅、薄紅梅などがあり2月末から咲き始め3月中旬が見頃となる。
English: The most numerous pink flowers are named 'Hanezu-no-Ume' after the color 'hanezu' (pale pink).
Japanese: もっとも多い薄紅梅の色である薄紅梅色を「はねずいろ」ということから「はねずの梅」とも呼ばれている。
English: ONO no Komachi, known as a court servant of Emperor Ninmyo and a waka poet, is believed to originate from this area and also to have resided here after leaving the Imperial court.
Japanese: 宮中で仁明天皇に仕え歌人として知られる小野小町もこの地の出で宮中を退いて後も過ごしたとされる。
English: At Zuishin-in Temple are several historic remains related to ONO no Komachi including a Stupa Komachi believed to depict Komachi in her final years, a fumizuka (burial mound of drafts for commemoration) and the Kesho-no-ido (make-up well),
Japanese: 随心院には小町の晩年の姿とされる卒塔婆小町像を始め文塚、化粧の井戸などいくつかの遺跡が残る。
English: Oppo-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Chizan School of the Shingon Sect located in Kinoto, Tainai City, Niigata Prefecture.
Japanese: 乙宝寺（おっぽうじ）は新潟県胎内市乙（きのと）にある真言宗智山派の寺院。
English: The nationally-designated Important National Treasures within the temple precinct consist of the three-storey pagoda, hojo-den (abbot's chamber), rokkaku-do (hexagonal hall), Benten-do (hall devoted to Benten), Kannon-do (hall devoted to Kannon) and Jizo-do (hall devoted to Jizo).
Japanese: 境内には国の重要文化財である三重塔や、方丈殿、六角堂、弁天堂、観音堂、地蔵堂が建つ。
English: It is one of the preeminent ancient temples of Niigata Prefecture and many legends and stories related to it remain, including one that it houses the left eye of Shaka Nyorai.
Japanese: 新潟県屈指の古寺で、釈迦の左眼を納めたと伝えられるなど、寺にまつわる伝説や逸話が多く残されている。
English: It is said that Oppo-ji Temple was founded by Gyoki Bosatsu and Baramon Sojo in the year 736 by the order of Emperor Shomu in order to pray for the tranquility of the Hokuriku area.
Japanese: 天平8年(736)に聖武天皇の勅命により行基菩薩、婆羅門僧正らが北陸一帯の安穏を祈り開山したと伝えられる。
English: It is also said that Basho MATSUO visited the temple while writing "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), and a memorial stone with a haiku inscribed on it stands within the temple grounds.
Japanese: また、松尾芭蕉が奥の細道の途中で立ち寄ったとも言われ、寺内には句碑がある。
English: During the latter part of Muromachi period the Uesugi clan donated an estate of 300-koku and served to protect the temple, and during the early modern period the temple was deeply revered by Yoshiaki MURAKAMI, the lord of the Murakami-jo Castle (in Murakami City).
Japanese: 室町時代後期には、上杉氏が寺領300石を寄進し保護の手を加え、近世初期には、村上城（村上市）主村上義明の帰依が厚かった。
English: Former National Treasures consisted of a wooden seated statue of Dainichi Nyorai, a wooden seated statue of Amida Nyorai and a wooden seated statue of Yakushi Nyorai but these were destroyed by fire in 1937.
Japanese: 他に旧国宝の木造大日如来坐像、木造阿弥陀如来坐像、木造薬師如来坐像があったが、昭和12年（1937年）に火災で焼失した。
English: Approximately 15 minutes by car from 'Nakajo Station' on the JR East Uetsu Main Line or take the bus for Momozakihama, alight at the 'Kinoto' bus stop and walk for 1 minute.
Japanese: 東日本旅客鉄道羽越本線「中条駅」より車で約15分、バス桃崎浜行きで「乙」下車徒歩1分
English: Konoshimanimasu Amaterumitama-jinja Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Uzumasa, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City.
Japanese: 木嶋坐天照御魂神社（このしまにますあまてるみたまじんじゃ）は京都市右京区太秦にある神社である。
English: It is also widely known as "Kaiko-no-Yashiro" (Silkworm Shrine) due to the Kokai-jinja Shrine enshrining the progenitor of textiles that stands to the east of the main hall.
Japanese: また、本殿東側に織物の始祖を祀る蚕養（こかい）神社があることから蚕の社（かいこのやしろ）の通称が広く知られている。
English: The deities currently enshrined are Ameno-minakano-nushino-kami, Okunitamano-kami, Hoori and Ugayafukiaezu.
Japanese: 現在では祭神を天之御中主神・大国魂神・ホオリ・ウガヤフキアエズとしている。
English: Konoshimanimasu Amaterumitama-jinja Shrine means 'a shrine in Konoshima that enshrines the god Amaterumitama' and it originally enshrined 'Ameterumitamano-kami.'
Japanese: 木嶋坐天照御魂神社は「木嶋に鎮座する天照御魂神の社」という意味で、本来は「天照御魂神」を祀る神社ということになる。
English: There are several other shrines in the Kansai area with the 'Amateru' as part of their names and these are thought to have originally enshrined the sun god of each area.
Japanese: 関西には、ほかにも「天照（アマテル）」のつく神社がいくつかあり、元々はそれぞれ当地の太陽神を祀っていた神社と考えられている。
English: The name 'Konoshima' (lit. Tree Island) is believed to have been given due to the trees that grow on plains appearing like islands of trees.
Japanese: 「木嶋」という名前は、原野に茂る木々の様が「木の島」のようであったからとされる。
English: The shrine's origin is not clear but it is known from the reference to it in the "Shoku Nihongi" entry dated on April 3, 701 that the deity was enshrined before this date.
Japanese: 起源は定かではないが続日本紀の大宝(日本)元年（701年）4月3日の条にこの神社の名があることからそれ以前から祭祀されていたとされる。
English: It is classified in "Engishiki" as a Myojin Taisha and it is recorded that monthly festivals, Ainame festivals and Niiname festivals were conducted.
Japanese: 『延喜式』では名神大社に列し、月次・相甞・新甞の官祭を受ける社として記載されている。
English: The Sagano area in which the shrine is situated once flourished with the ceramic, silkworm cultivation and textile technology of the Hata clan who had settled from the Korean Peninsula.
Japanese: この神社がある嵯峨野一帯はかって朝鮮半島から渡来した秦氏が製陶、養蚕、織物などの技術を持ち込んだ。
English: The shrine buildings include the Honden (main hall), Higashi Honden (east main hall, Kokai-jinja Shrine described above) and Haiden (worship hall), which were all rebuilt during and after the Meiji period.
Japanese: 社殿は本殿、東本殿（前述の蚕養神社）、拝殿などからなり明治以降の再建である。
English: To the west of these buildings is the 'Mototadasuno-ike Pond' that is fed by a spring and in which stands a mihashira torii (mitsutorii).
Japanese: 社殿の西に年中湧水している「元糺の池」（もとただすのいけ）という池がありその中に三柱鳥居（三ッ鳥居）がある。
English: This extremely rare type of torii has three legs, three faces, is triangular in shape when viewed from above and is considered to be one of the three great torii of Kyoto.
Japanese: 柱が三本で三正面、上からの形は三角形となっている鳥居は珍しい存在であり京都三鳥居の一つとされている。
English: The origin of this torii is unknown and the current structure was rebuilt in 1831.
Japanese: これも起源不明ながら現存するものは天保2年（1831年）に再興されたものである。
English: Hoshaku-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Chizan School of the Shingon Sect located on the side of Mt. Tenno in Oyamazaki-cho, Otokuni-gun, Kyoto Prefecture.
Japanese: 宝積寺（ほうしゃくじ）は京都府乙訓郡大山崎町の天王山中腹にある真言宗智山派の仏教寺院。
English: Its sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to the name of a Buddhist temple, is 'Tennozan' or 'Sengensan' (formerly Fudarakuzan) and the principal image is a statue of the Eleven-faced Kannon.
Japanese: 山号は天王山または銭原山（古くは補陀洛山といった）、本尊は十一面観音である。
English: It is also known as 'Takara-dera Temple' and 'Daikoku Tenpo-ji Temple' as it also houses the 'uchide' and 'kozuchi' magic hammers that Emperor Shomu is said to have received from the dragon god in a dream.
Japanese: 聖武天皇が夢で竜神から授けられたという「打出」と「小槌」（打出と小槌は別のもの）を祀ることから「宝寺」（たからでら）の別名があり、大黒天宝寺ともいう。
English: According to temple legend, Hoshaku-ji Temple was founded by Gyoki on the order of Emperor Shomu in the year 724 on the southern face of Mt. Tenno (270 m), which is located on the boarder between what was once Yamashiro Province (Kyoto Prefecture) and Settsu Province (Osaka Prefecture), and has been a key transportation and military location since ancient times.
Japanese: 宝積寺は、山城国（京都府）と摂津国（大阪府）の境に位置し、古くから交通・軍事上の要地であった天王山（270m）の南側山腹にあり、寺伝では神亀元年（724年）、聖武天皇の勅願により行基が建立したと伝える。
English: Gyoki was a monk who engaged in social work such as the construction of bridges and the introduction of irrigation during the Nara period and he also built many temples.
Japanese: 行基は奈良時代に架橋、灌漑などの社会事業を行い、多くの寺を建てた僧である。
English: In the year 725, he worked on the 'Yamazaki-bashi Bridge' (between Yamazaki and Hashimoto) over the Yodo-gawa River.
Japanese: 行基は神亀2年（725年）、淀川に「山崎橋」（山崎－橋本間）を架けている。
English: According to "Gyoki Nenpu," he also established Yamazaki-in Temple in Yamazaki, Otokuni County in 731.
Japanese: また、『行基年譜』によれば、行基は天平3年（731年）、乙訓郡山崎に「山崎院」を建立している。
English: The ruins at Oyamazaki Uenoda, Oyamazaki-cho on the southern base of Mt. Tenno are believed to be those of 'Yamazaki-in Temple' and are where fragments of Japan's oldest wall painting were unearthed.
Japanese: 天王山の南側山麓に位置する大山崎町大山崎上ノ田の遺跡が「山崎院」跡に比定されており、ここからは日本でも最古級の壁画断片などが出土している。
English: It is certain from the above evidence that the area surrounding Mt. Tenno holds a deep connection to Gyoki and there is a theory that Hoshaku-ji Temple is the successor to 'Yamazaki-in Temple.'
Japanese: 以上のことから、天王山周辺は行基にゆかりの深い地であることは確かで、宝積寺は「山崎院」の後身と考える説もある。
English: Hoshaku-ji Temple was destroyed by fire in 1232 and the items such as Buddha statues that survive today date from after this year.
Japanese: 宝積寺は貞永元年（1232年）の火災で焼失しており、現存する仏像等はこれ以降のものである。
English: The history of the temple after this time is unclear but it is known to have been restored by Jakusho between the year 995 and 999.
Japanese: それ以前の寺史はあまり明らかでないが、長徳年間（995－999年）、寂照が中興したという。
English: This story tells that he left his old life behind and entered the priesthood after the love of his life died when he was appointed governor of Mikawa Province.
Japanese: それによれば、彼は三河守として任国に赴任していた時に最愛の女性を亡くし、世をはかなんで出家したという。
English: The work entitled "Zoku Honcho-ojo-den" (Sequel to the Accounts of Rebirth into the Pure Land) (written by OE no Masafusa) believed to have been written from the late 11th century to the early 12th century contains early references to the temple as 'Ho-ji Temple.'
Japanese: 11世紀末から12世紀初めの成立と思われる『続本朝往生伝』（大江匡房著）には早くも当寺の通称である「宝寺」の名が見える。
English: FUJIWARA no Sadaie recorded in his diary, 'Meigetsuki,' that he visited Hoshaku-ji Temple in 1202.
Japanese: また、藤原定家の日記「明月記」には建仁2年（1202年）に彼が宝積寺を訪れたことが記されている。
English: When Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI and Mitsuhide AKECHI fought at the Battle of Yamazaki on Mt. Tenno in 1582, Hoshaku-ji Temple served as Hideyoshi's headquarters.
Japanese: 天正10年（1582年）、天王山が豊臣秀吉と明智光秀が戦った山崎の合戦の舞台となり、その際宝積寺には秀吉の本陣が置かれた。
English: When Yamazaki-jo Castle was constructed on Mt. Tenno directly after the conflict, it enveloped the temple and for this reason became known as 'Hoji-jo Castle'.
Japanese: 直後秀吉により天王山に建設された「山崎城」にも取り込まれ、このため城は「宝寺城」とも呼ばれた。
English: During the Hamaguri Rebellion in 1864, the temple served as a base for the seventeen patriots including Maki Izuminokami of the Sonno joi (lit. Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) faction.
Japanese: 元治元年（1864年）には禁門の変で尊皇攘夷派の真木和泉守を始めとする十七烈士らの陣地がおかれた。
English: Wooden standing statue of the Eleven-faced Kannon Bosatsu: The temple's principal image measures 181.8 cm in height and was created by the Buddhist sculptors Hoin Inpan and Hokyo Inun
Japanese: 木造十一面観世音菩薩立像-本尊、像高181.8cm、天福元年（1233年）仏師法印院範、法橋院雲作
English: Wooden statues of Kongo-rikishi: The colored yosegi-zukuri style agyo (open-mouthed) statue (Naraen Kongo-rikishi) stands 284.2 cm tall and the ungyo (closed-mouthed) statue stands 277.5 cm tall
Japanese: 木造金剛力士-寄木造、彩色、阿形（那羅延金剛力士）像高284.2cm、吽形（密迹金剛力士）像高277.5cm
English: The Enma-o, Shimyo, Shiroku, Kushijin and Ankoku Doji statues, which are enshrined in Enma-do, were formerly owned by Nishi-Kannon-ji Temple on the western base of Mt. Tenno in Shimamoto-cho, Osaka Prefecture but were transferred to Hoshaku-ji Temple after this temple closed during the anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji period.
Japanese: 閻魔堂安置の閻魔王、司命、司録、倶生神、闇黒童子の各像は、天王山西麓の大阪府島本町にあった西観音寺旧蔵で、同寺が明治の廃仏毀釈で廃寺になったため宝積寺に移された。
English: These statues were all created during the Kamakura period and are the oldest and some of the best quality statues of the Enma family in Japan.
Japanese: いずれも鎌倉時代の作で、閻魔一族の像としては日本でも古くかつ優れた作品の1つである。
English: There is some confusion regarding the names of the statues other than that of Enma-o, with the statue of Kushijin holding a scroll and the statue of Ankoku Doji holding a writing brush originally being identified as 'Shimyo and Shiroku.'
Japanese: なお、閻魔王以外の各像の名称には混乱があるようで、巻物をもつ倶生神像と筆をもつ闇黒童子像の一対が本来の「司命・司録」像であることが指摘されている。
English: The temple refers to these statues as 'Shimyo Bosatsu' and 'Shiroku Bosatsu' but these deities do not ordinarily carry the title 'Bosatsu.'
Japanese: （なお、寺側では「司命菩薩」「司録菩薩」と呼称しているが、これらの像には「菩薩」を付けないのが普通である）
English: There is a legend that the residence (Fugetsu-an) of renga poet Sokan YAMAZAKI was converted to a simple temple after his death (c.1524) but the priest Shungaku passed away in 1510.
Japanese: 連歌師の山崎宗鑑の屋敷（對月庵）を宗鑑退去（大永3年（1524年）ごろ）後寺庵に改めたとの伝えもあるが、春嶽は永正6年（1510年）にすでに没している。
English: Additionally, it is said that the ruins of Sokan's former residence (Sokan Well) lie in the Osaka Prefecture-side (Yamazaki, Shimamoto-cho) of the village of Oyamazaki.
Japanese: また、大山崎集落の大阪府側（島本町山崎）には宗鑑旧居跡（宗鑑井戸）の伝えもある。
English: As well as being the oldest teahouse in Japan, it is also the only remaining teahouse believed to have been created by SEN no Rikyu.
Japanese: 日本最古の茶室建造物であると同時に、千利休作と信じうる唯一の現存茶室である。
English: It is said to be the prototype of the now commonplace small teahouses with nijiri-guchi (low entrances that make it necessary to bend down in order to enter) as well as the precursor of the sukiya architectural style.
Japanese: 現在一般化している、にじり口が設けられた小間の茶室の原型かつ数奇屋建築の原型とされる。
English: According to temple legend, the Tai-an Teahouse was originally a two-tatami mat sized fixed hearth teahouse built by SEN no Rikyu at the camp of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI during the Battle of Yamazaki in 1582 which was then disassembled and relocated to its current site.
Japanese: 寺伝には、1582年の山崎の合戦のおり豊臣秀吉の陣中に千利休により建てられた二畳隅炉の茶室を解体し移築したとある。
English: In the 1606 'Hoshaku-ji ezu' (painting of Hoshaku-ji Temple), the notation 'kakoi' (tea room) is written in the current location of Myoki-an Temple, so it is thought that the teahouse had already been relocated to its current site by this time.
Japanese: 慶長11年に描かれた｢宝積寺絵図」には、現在の妙喜庵の位置あたりに「かこひ」の書き込みがありこのときにはすでに現在地に移築されていたものと考えられる。
English: In the same painting, the presence of the words 'Sokan Yashiki' (Sokan's residence) and 'Rikyu' written to the west of Myoki-an Temple in what is now the vicinity of the ruins of Sokan YAMAZAKI's former residence at Shimamoto-cho imply that SEN no Rikyu also resided in this area.
Japanese: 同図には、妙喜庵の西方、現在の島本町の宗鑑旧居跡付近に「宗鑑やしき」そして「利休」の書き込みもあり、利休がこの付近に住んでいたことを伺わせる。
English: There is therefore also a theory that the Tai-an Teahouse was relocated from SEN no Rikyu's residence ('Taian - Wabi suki no sekai' by Masao NAKAMURA).
Japanese: したがって待庵はこの利休屋敷から移築されたとも考えられる（中村昌生著　「待庵－侘び数寄の世界」）。
English: There is also a 4-shaku (approximately 121.2 cm) 'Murodoko' alcove in which the floor, corners and ceiling are completely plastered.
Japanese: 床は4尺床、隅、天井とも土で塗りまわした「室床（むろどこ）」である。
English: It is said to be the first structure to allow the outside light to enter freely with its three shitajimado (unpeeled ditch reed lattice windows) and a renjimado (bamboo grille window).
Japanese: 3箇所に下地窓、連子窓を開けており、自由な外光の取入れを初めて実現した建築と言える。
English: The use of bamboo as well as the shitajimado windows and mud plaster gives the structure the feel of a contemporary private residence.
Japanese: 竹材の多用が目立ち、下地窓、荒壁の採用と合わせ、当時の民家の影響を感じさせる。
English: The two-tatami mat tearoom leads onto a one-tatami after-room with an 8-sun (approximately 24 cm) wide wooden boarded edge.
Japanese: 二畳茶室に続けて一畳に幅八寸ほどの板敷きを添えた次の間が設けられている。
English: Since the Edo period numerous tea ceremony masters and researchers have submitted theories regarding the use of this room with a single shelf on its wall but its function is not yet clear.
Japanese: 一重棚を備えているこの室の用途については江戸時代以来茶人や研究者がさまざま説を唱えているが未だ明らかになっていない。
English: An actual size replica of the Tai-an Teahouse as it was at the time of its construction is on display at the nearby Oyamazaki-cho Rekishi Shiryokan (Oyamazaki-Cho Historical Archives).
Japanese: 近くの大山崎町歴史資料館には待庵の創建当時の姿の原寸大復元模型が展示されている。
English: Nationally designated Important Cultural Property, shoin-zukuri style, 2-ken length longitudinal purlins, 3-ken length transverse beams, one-storey, kirizuma-zukuri style shingle roof.
Japanese: 国の重要文化財、書院造、桁行二間、梁間三間、一重、切妻造、杮（こけら）葺き。