翻刻
出し寒風つよく苫を焚煖をとり纔に残り候魚を
分けたべ申候ケ様に飢凍へなから日も暮夜も明け
十三日に相成り候晩景に東南に相覚へ候方へ山を見付
申候鳥も数〳〵見へ申候傳蔵申ニハ此藤九郎と云島
の居を見れハ彼山ハ必島なるへし何卒流し付かせ
給れと神仏に祈念し其日の夕暮によふ〳〵流近き
候處一ツ之島には御座候されども風波励しく飢も疲
も甚しく御座候間まつ碇を下し其侭漂ひ罷
在候処磯魚たくさん見へ申候間釣を垂れ候処多く釣
たり是をたべ夜を明し翌十四日一同憤発いたし碇
綱おしきり船板なんとを漕寄候処磯の岩にふれ
当り船ハ破損仕候五右衛門一番に磯へ飛揚り覚へず
磯草をつかミたべ申候つゝいて一同島にハあかり候
得共此嶋人の住へき所にてハ無之岩石に茅篠の
類生茂り候のミにて如何共相成不申こゝかしこ
見廻り候處東の方ニ相覚へ候磯にて洞穴を見付
まつ是を起臥の處に相定メかの藤九郎之多く
居申候を礫にて打殺し引さきたへ候へハ随分腹を
養ふへきニ付頻に是を打殺したべ罷在候水は岩
の間より滴り有之候をさいせん船破損之砌打揚候
桶臺を以取り溜或ハ雨をうけ是を飲ミ申候身を
投死んと存候時も御座候へ共又思返し生る丈ハいく
へし抔申日を送り候無程夏の気候に相成候
時分かの藤九郎次第ニ少く相成り磯より上へはい揚り
現代語訳
雨が降り出し、寒風が強く、苫を焚いて暖を取り、わずかに残っていた魚を
分けて食べた。このように飢えと凍えに苦しみながら日も暮れ夜も明け、
十三日になった夕方、東南と思われる方角に山を見つけ
た。鳥も数多く見えた。伝蔵が申すには「この藤九郎という島
鳥の様子を見れば、あの山は必ず島であろう。どうか流し着かせて
ください」と神仏に祈念し、その日の夕暮れにようやく流れ近づいた
所、一つの島ではあったが、風波が激しく飢えも疲
労も甚だしかったので、まず錨を下ろしてそのまま漂って
いた所、磯魚がたくさん見えたので釣りを垂れた所、多く釣れ
た。これを食べて夜を明かし、翌十四日、一同奮発して錨
綱を押し切り、船板などを漕ぎ寄せた所、磯の岩に触れ
当たって船は破損した。五右衛門が一番に磯へ飛び上がり、無我夢中で
磯草をつかんで食べた。続いて一同が島に上がった
が、この島は人の住むべき所ではなく、岩石に茅や篠の
類が生い茂っているばかりで、どうにもならない。あちこち
見回った所、東の方と思われる磯で洞穴を見つけ、
まずこれを起き臥しする場所と定め、かの藤九郎がたくさん
いるのを石で打ち殺して引き裂いて食べれば、十分腹を
養うことができるので、頻繁にこれを打ち殺して食べていた。水は岩
の間から滴っているのを、最初に船が破損した時に打ち上げられた
桶や台を使って取り溜め、あるいは雨を受けてこれを飲んだ。身を
投げて死のうと思った時もあったが、また思い直して「生きられるだけは生き
よう」などと言って日を送っていた。やがて夏の気候になった
頃、かの藤九郎は次第に少なくなり、磯から上へ這い上がり
英語訳
It began to rain, and with the strong cold wind, they burned straw mats for warmth and divided and ate
the little fish that remained. Suffering from hunger and cold in this way, days turned to night and nights to day,
and on the evening of the 13th day, they spotted a mountain in what seemed to be the southeast
direction. Many birds were also visible. Denzō said, "Looking at the behavior of these island birds called fujikurō,
that mountain must surely be an island. Please let us drift ashore there," and prayed to gods and Buddha.
That evening they finally drifted close to it.
Though it was indeed an island, the wind and waves were fierce and their hunger and exhaustion
were severe, so they first dropped anchor and continued drifting.
When they saw many reef fish, they cast their lines and caught
many. They ate these and passed the night. The next day, the 14th, all of them rallied their spirits and
cut the anchor rope, using ship planks and such to row closer. When they touched against
the rocky shore, the ship was damaged. Gozaemon was the first to leap onto the rocks, and desperately
grabbed and ate seaweed. The others followed and all came ashore on the island,
but this island was not a place where humans could live - only rocks with miscanthus grass and bamboo grass
growing thickly, and there was nothing they could do about it. Looking around here and there,
they found a cave in what seemed to be the eastern shore.
First they decided to use this as a place to sleep, and since there were many of those fujikurō birds,
they killed them with stones, tore them apart and ate them, which was sufficient to
nourish their stomachs, so they frequently killed and ate these birds. For water, they used
tubs and platforms that had been washed ashore when the ship was first damaged
to collect the drips from between the rocks, or caught rainwater to drink. There were times when they thought of
throwing themselves to their deaths, but they reconsidered and said things like "let's live as long as
we can" and passed their days this way. Eventually, when the weather became summer-like,
those fujikurō birds gradually became fewer, and they crawled up from the shore