英語訳
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Following the destruction by fire of Shin-Yoshiwara, twenty-four locations throughout the city were officially permitted as temporary residences (karitak) for the pleasure houses. Only the town names are recorded here:
*Asakusa area*: Higashi-Nakachō, Nishi-Nakachō, Hanakawado-chō, Yamanoshuku-chō, Kinryūzan-shita, Kawarachō, Shōten-chō, Minami-Umamichi-chō, Tanacho, Sanya-chō, Imado-chō, and others.
*Fukagawa area*: Eitaiji Monzen, Nakachō, Yamamoto-chō, Higashi-Nakachō, Tsukuda-chō, Matsumura-chō (same ward), Tokiwa-chō, Ofunakura-mae-chō, Hachiman Otabisho Monzen, Harobei-yashiki, Matsui-chō, and others.
*Honjo area*: Kane-no-shita, Irie-chō, Nagasaki-chō, Rikushaku-yashiki, Tokishō-yashiki, and others.
Among these, Nishi-Nakachō in Asakusa, Imado-chō, Sanya-chō, and Tanacho had no establishments that relocated there. By the New Year of the following year of the Dragon (Tatsu, i.e., 1856), all the others had opened their doors and were doing thriving business — truly a testament to the blessings of peace and the benevolence of the realm.
Now, at the temporary residence in Yamanoshuku-chō, there was a courtesan named Mayuzumi (childhood name: Kane), belonging to the house of Sanotsuchia in Edo-chō Nichōme. She had been separated from her parents at the age of seven, and as she grew up, her character proved gentle and honest, and her appearance most beautiful. Since the year of the Ox (preceding the earthquake), she had been working as a courtesan, and she had always kept in her heart the wish to find her parents. When the recent earthquake brought its sorrows, she grew increasingly anxious about where her parents might be, and it was for this reason that she donated over 1,200 large yukihira cooking pots to the six official relief huts set up throughout the city. For this act, she received two silver coins as a reward from the authorities. It was said that she did all this in the hope of being reunited with her true parents.
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*Ichinaka Nanjūrō*
*A speech in the style of the Uiro medicine seller*
You there — you may well know already that it was I who set things shaking up above. Beginning with great Edo, an area of twenty ri (roughly 80 km) in all directions was thrown into uproar; fields, farms, and every single town were turned upside down and inside out; storehouses and earthen walls were greatly damaged; there has been nothing like it even in foreign lands, and it is a rare and overwhelming collapse here in our own country — this has been granted the name "Uiro Dōtenkō" (The Heaven-Shaking Uiro-Collapse), and now this collapse has spread throughout society, driving people out into the main streets, laying down rice bales and charcoal bales to sit on, propping up folding screens and shoji screens, and while the onlookers believed the rumors and came flying out of their houses — masters went to the right, maids and manservants to the left, people sleeping in the open air in all eight directions — whether it was a building of eight gables or a hall-style construction, with decorative gable ends and eaves, there was a tremendous crashing and collapsing of quite an extraordinary scale.
Now, the most remarkable thing about this collapse is that it costs not a single coin: running out barefoot, planting a pole in the wide garden or vacant lot, stretching out a straw mat — "Here it comes! Here it comes!" — the trembling has arrived! Unhusked rice, raw rice, the ricebox, all misshapen and askew; parents clutching children and children clutching parents, from parent to child alike; and though the night is long, the ceiling overhead is nothing but the open sky — and even on a rainy day like today, some four or five tens of thousands of households have just stepped right outside, and as for the number of such towns...