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剱（けん）全圖（ぜんづ）【枠囲い】
込共に長さ三」尺重さ一貫九」百目柄橿一丈」二尺矢縄十三」
尋重さ二百七」十目なり」前編に云ご」とく鯨纲に」
かかり萬𫒙を」残なく突㔟」子舩等牽れ」行まゝに鯨」
弱る時此剣」にて数多突」半殺にして鼻の」障子を切綱」
を通し持双」舩に繋ぎ畄」鯨の脊脇腹」の辺を剣に」
て数本突に」臓腑迠届た」りけん創口」より潮入海」
面に泡浮び」出る是を湧」と云其生死」の境を見定」
め羽指のもの」海にいりて」腹の下二所」に綱を通し」
来るを持双」舩に搦付」再此剣にて」ひた突に突」殺す也
現代語訳
**剣全図**
込み共に長さ3尺、重さ1貫900目、柄は樫で1丈2尺、矢縄は13尋で重さ270目である。前編に言った通り、鯨が網にかかり、万銛を残らず突き、子船等が引いて行くままに鯨が弱った時、この剣で数多く突いて半殺しにして、鼻の障子を切り、綱を通し、持双船に繋ぎ留める。鯨の背、脇腹の辺りを剣で数本突くと、臓腑まで届いたのであろう、創口より潮が入り、海面に泡が浮かび出る。これを「湧」と言う。その生死の境を見定めて、羽指の者が海に入って腹の下2か所に綱を通してくるのを持双船に絡み付け、再びこの剣でひたすら突いて突き殺すのである。
英語訳
**Sword Complete Diagram**
Including the head, it is 3 shaku long and weighs 1 kan 900 monme. The shaft is made of oak wood and measures 1 jō 2 shaku, with a 13-fathom arrow rope weighing 270 monme. As mentioned in the previous section, when a whale is caught in the nets and all the harpoons have been thrust into it, and as the subsidiary boats pull it along, when the whale weakens, they thrust this sword into it many times to half-kill it. Then they cut the nasal septum, thread a rope through it, and tie it to the main paired boats. When several swords are thrust into the whale's back and flanks, reaching the internal organs, seawater enters through the wounds and bubbles float up to the sea surface. This is called "welling up" (yū). Observing this boundary between life and death, the harpooner enters the sea and threads ropes through two places under the whale's belly, which are then attached to the main paired boats. Then they thrust repeatedly with this sword until the whale is killed.