英語訳
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### Tsukumo-zuka (Nine-and-Ninety Mound)
This mound is located in the hills behind the main abbot's quarters (hōjō), about fifty paces away. Earth has been piled up to a height of roughly one jō (approximately 3 meters), and various trees grow thickly on top. As noted above, this was originally constructed to serve as a firebreak against wild-field fires (nōbi); however, later generations, associating it with *The Tales of Ise*, gave it this poetic name.
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### Narihira-zuka (Narihira's Mound)
This mound stands more than thirty paces north of Tsukumo-zuka. Like the Tsukumo-zuka, it was most likely originally built to block and stop wild-field fires, but in later ages, a person of romantic fancy named it after *The Tales of Ise*. A stone monument has been erected on top of the mound, with the following waka poem inscribed upon it:
> *Musashino ni — kagatari tsutaeshi — Arihara no*
> *Sono na wo shinobu — tsuyu no furuzuka*
> ("On Musashino, a mound of ancient dew, where the name of Arihara, handed down in legend, is fondly recalled")
However, this cannot be taken as definitive proof of an association with Narihira.
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### Sakura Kuruma no Michi (Cherry Blossom Carriage Road)
This is the name given to the path running to the northwest of Heirinji Temple's precincts. Long ago, when the temple was relocated from Iwatsuki to its present site, cherry trees were planted on both sides of this road for the purpose of transporting construction timber for the halls. These trees have now grown old, and several dozen specimens remain, bursting into full bloom each spring.
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### Benzaiten-gū (Shrine of Benzaiten)
This shrine stands to the north of the same road. The deity is enshrined on an islet in a pond measuring roughly two hundred paces on each side. The sacred image of the heavenly maiden (tennyo) is said to be the work of Kōbō Daishi (Kūkai), and is renowned for its miraculous efficacy.
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### Taikeidō (戴渓堂, the Hall of the Stream-Bearer)
This hall is situated on the grounds of the sub-temple Renpōken (聯芳軒). Inside, it enshrines a purple-bronze (shidō) image of the White-Robed Kannon (Byakue Kannon), over one shaku two or three sun in height (approximately 37–40 cm), made for the Venerable Dokuryu (独立禅師), as well as a portrait of the Master himself. The sacred canopy (hōgan) housing the main image and the altar table before it were all items the Master brought with him, and each is a piece of refined antique elegance. The Fukami family, who were connected to the Master through secular ties, came to Japan from Ming China together with him; and it is because of their connection to this temple that the Master's portrait and personal belongings are preserved here.
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### Wooden Memorial Tablet of the Venerable Dokuryu (独立禅師木牌)
This tablet stands before the image. The front bears the inscription: "Meidokuryu Eki Zenji Kakui" (明独立易禅師覚位, "The enlightened position of the Venerable Dokuryu-Eki of the Ming Dynasty"). On the reverse: "Passed away on the sixth day of the eleventh month of Kanbun 12, year of Mizunoe-Ne (壬子, 1672). On an auspicious day (kokudan) in the seventh month of Kyōhō 1, year of Hinoe-Saru (丙申, 1716), this tablet was reverently enshrined within the Taikeidō. Recorded with reverence by the disciple Kō Gentai (高玄岱)."
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### Hanging Placard (額)
Hung from the eaves of the same hall. It reads: "Written by Ten'un (点雲) Rōnō (老納, 'old monk')."
**[TAIKEIDŌ 戴渓堂]** (displayed vertically, one character per line)
### Couplet (聯)
Hung on the outer pillars of the same hall:
> **衣冠去国存君父**
> *(Though garments and cap leave the homeland, the lord and father are not forgotten)*
> **日月還天耀古今**
> *(Sun and moon return to heaven, shining bright through past and present)*
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### Hanging Placard (額) [hung above the Kannon image]
In the calligraphy of Gentai (玄岱).
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**[天竺古先生 TENJIKU KOSHINSEI]** (Venerable Ancient Master of India [i.e., Kannon])
On the reverse:
Plaque of the Great Being Kannon, within the Taikeidō
Kyōhō 1, year of Hinoe-Saru (丙申)
Seventh month, auspicious day (kokudan)
Placed by Kō Gentai (高玄岱)
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**[梅花関主 BAIKA KAN-SHU]** (Master of the Plum Blossom Barrier)
Hung to the right of the above. In the calligraphy of Fushō Kokushi (普照国師).
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**[五夜禅灯三昧火]** *(In the five watches of the night, the Zen lamp burns with the fire of samādhi)*
**[萬年藤凡乙枝香]** *(For ten thousand years, the wisteria and its branches carry their fragrance)*
These are hung to the left and right before the Kannon image. They are inscribed "Self-composed by Tenkanyanō (天間野衲)," with the seals of Dokuryu and "Tengai Ikkanmin (天外一間人)" and others affixed. On the reverse: "This is the couplet composed by our late master during his time in the Guan (関中, i.e., during his passage). Now, specially refurbished, to illuminate the old with the new, so it is said. In the tenth month of the second year of Kyōhō (1717), year of Hinoto-Tori (丁酉), the disciple Kō Gentai once again reverently re-erected this."
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### A Single Wooden Memorial Board (木牌)
This is also kept within the same hall. It is a record of the life and conduct (gyōjō) of the Venerable Dokuryu. It measures over five shaku in height (approx. 1.5 m) and about four shaku in width (approx. 1.2 m), coated with black lacquer, with characters carved into the surface. The inscription text was composed by Kō Gentai.
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### Inscription and Preface for the Venerable Dokuryu-Eki of Ming, Together with Its Foreword
Seal-script written by Ochi Naosato Kunjōfu (越智直郷君章父), Magistrate of Inshū (因州)
Reverently composed and written by the disciple Kō Gentai (高玄岱)
The Master was a man of the "rainhat and hoe" of the Ming dynasty—one known as Master Mankō (曼公). He was a native of Jinhe County (仁和県), Hangzhou (杭州). His ancestors traced their lineage to Dai Andō (戴安道) of the Jin dynasty, and for generations the family was settled in Shanyin and Kuaiji (山陰会稽); but from his grandfather's generation they departed and settled elsewhere. His father, Senbu Kyōkyō (銓部敬橋), was a man of upright conduct. His mother, née Chen (陳氏), was the daughter of Chen Longjiang (陳竜江) of Yaojiang (姚江). She gave birth six times, bearing seven children (including one pair of male twins). The Master was one of the last-born of this final delivery, and was in fact born on the nineteenth day of the second month of the Wanli era (万暦年間). His childhood name was Kan'in (観胤), given because he shared the same birth date as the Great Being (Kannon Bodhisattva). Endowed by nature with keen intelligence, he could recite a text from memory after a single reading. From childhood he studied for the civil examinations (kyo-shi-gyō) and entered the official academy (kōjo), but he did not take to the eight-legged essay style (hakkobu) required for the examinations. Around the age of twenty-five, he suffered the calamity that befell his provincial capital, and found himself living through the turmoil of Wei Zhongxian's (魏忠賢) tyranny at court. He ultimately abandoned his examination studies and wandered freely around Lake Lu (卥湖), delighting in the pleasures of mountains and streams. Approaching thirty, he had yet to compose a poem; but one day, when his poetry society companions pressed him to write one, he immediately responded aloud:
> *Wo lai xi tou zuo, xi yue liu wo su*
> (I came and sat at the stream's head; the stream's moon bid me stay the night)
At just these two lines, all present were astonished and filled with admiration. Thereafter, whenever a topic was given, the moment he set brush to paper, his thoughts flowed abundantly; his poetic gifts were outstanding—fresh and natural, washing away all the stale and borrowed, never imitating others' phrases.
Around the age of fifty, the Ming dynasty fell and the Qing dynasty took over all under heaven. Unable to bear the anguish of seeing the land covered in dust by foreign conquerors, he withdrew to the valley of Changsui (長水) and hid himself away from the world. Later, a certain man from Yue (粤, Guangdong) invited him to cross the sea together, promising a joyous cleansing of the troubled heart. In the early spring of the year Guisi (癸巳, 1653), they set out, and arrived at Nagasaki in the third month. This was the second year of Jōō (承応二年, 1653).