翻刻
仁大度博覧強記寡欲多能凡百奇巧妙術
無不通暁悉皆奉鳩渓平賀先生遺教云
特通於天文地理弟子蓋四万余常病古人
天象之学曠日弥久没世不能弁別星象而
立揵径之教為其教也以棋子布置席上乃
《見せ消ち：成｜成》星象経緯自分就 先生而受葉者雖
現代語訳
**（天象話説・跋、つづき）**
……仁にして度量大きく、博覧強記にして寡欲多能、およそ百般の奇巧妙術に通暁せざるなく、ことごとく鳩渓・平賀先生の遺教を奉ずると云う。とりわけ天文地理に通じており、弟子はおよそ四万余人に及ぶ。かねてより古人の天象の学が、長い年月を経るうちに廃れ、没世にして星象を弁別することも能わず、揵径（けんけい）の教えを立てて、その教えとするを病（やまい）としていた。棋子（ごいし）をもって席上に布置することで、すなわち星象の経緯が自ずと分かるのである。先生に就いてその葉（はか）を受けた者は、たとえ……
英語訳
**(Postface to the *Tenshō Wasetsu*, continued)**
…benevolent and magnanimous in disposition, of wide learning and retentive memory, desiring little yet capable in many things — there was no wondrous art or subtle technique of any kind in which he was not thoroughly versed, and all of these, it is said, he received from the posthumous teachings of Kūkei, Master Hiraga. He is especially conversant in astronomy and geography, and his disciples number some forty thousand and more. I had long lamented the state of the ancients' learning of celestial phenomena — that as the years and months passed it had fallen into neglect, and that generation after generation people were unable to distinguish the stellar configurations, instead establishing a teaching based on *kenka* (a simplified framework method) and taking that as their instruction. By arranging go stones (*kishi*) upon a mat, one can spontaneously discern the coordinates of the stellar configurations for oneself. Although those who have approached the Master and received his teachings (*ha*)…