英語訳
## [Map Legend and Place Name Information]
**North: Kubiki District, Echigo Province — Along the Takada Road, collapsed houses found in various places — This river marks the provincial border**
[Mountains and Passes] Mt. Iizuna, Mt. Togakushi, Mt. Mushikura, Mt. Kokūzō, Mt. Hijiri, Mt. Madara, Mt. Tsumago (Tsumeyama), Mt. Takai, Toriuchi Pass, Tomikura Pass, [other] Pass
[Rivers and Lakes] Lake, Susobana River, Dojiri River, Sai River, River Crossings [ten locations]
The Chikuma River flows down toward Niigata in Echigo Province
[District Names] Minochi District, Takai District, Sarashina District, Hanishina District, Azumi District, Chikuma District
[Post Stations and Village Damage]
- Nojiri: Many deaths and missing
- Kashiwabara: Many deaths and missing
- Furuma
- Mure: Many deaths and missing
- Aramachi
- Naganuma
- Kaesa
- Asano
- Kōjiro
- Zenkōji-machi: Over 4,200 deaths and missing; number of travelers unknown
- Tanbashima
- Iiyama: 1,200 crushed to death
- Matsushiro: Over 200 houses collapsed
- Inariyama: Over 180 deaths and missing; number of travelers unknown
- Omi
- Shinmachi: 136 deaths and missing
- Yashiro
- Shimotokura
- Kamitokura
- Sakaki
- Kozumi
- Ueda
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## [Villages Submerged by Flooding]
All farmhouses along the valley road in this area were completely inundated.
Togari, Ueno Mita, Ōkurasaki, Konuma, Ario, Goinō, Hachisu, Fukasawa, Okuteyama, Kasakura, Futaishi, Kanisawa, Akanuma, Nishimurayama, Funo, Mamejima, Yotsugoya, Kawai, Senda, Ichimura, Araki, Nakagosha, Koshibami, Koichi, Sewaki, Yamurayama, Komatsubara, Yotsuya, Imasato, Misawa, Imai, Nakashima, Komorisawa, Kamihikōna, Kitahara, Fusetakata, Shibasawa, Nakahikōna, Tsunashima, Mashima, Ōtsuka, Fujimaki, Tobe, Oka, Hirota, Shinmei, Mizusawa, Ai, Kinebuchi, Komori
Half of Kijimadaira submerged: Kazumi, Tenjindō, Kamishinda, Yasuda, Iwai, Tagami, Yanagisawa, Akaiwa, Koshi, Koshimaki, Ōmata, Kuribayashi, Ippongi, Hekida, Angenji, Kusama, Kanai, Wakamiya, Odanaka, Ebe, Tategahana, Ōshima, Iida, Kitaoka, Fukuhara, Ainoshima, Higashimurayama, Nakashima, Ushijima, Watauchi, Ryōke, Kawata, Higashikawata, Ōmuro, Makinoshima/Hiwano Kojō, Shiba, Nishidera-o, Sansui, Hiraminochi, Hashiba, Kamijō, Takefusa, Hokari, Ōbara, Hina, Hashimoto, Sarugabamba
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## [Villages with Collapsed Houses]
Shibatsu, Ochikage, Akashio, Kawatani, Kodama, Yoshimura, Ugi, Tago, Hakoshimizu, Ugi, Yoshida, Miwa, Tsumashina, Iriyama, Izumidaira, Kamio, Sakura, Mōsuge, Yokotsuna, Kubodera, Furugubo, Iwakusa, Aoki, Susawa, Sasadaira, Furuma, Daianji, Togakushi, Kinnasato (8 villages destroyed), Nenbutsji, Umegi, Iori, (3 villages), Nagai, Shimohira, Furujiuku, Yamafuse, Aoike, Karinohara, Okada, Gomei, Futayanagi, Shimoishibkawa, Kamiishikawa, Shinano-i, Hirakubo, Nagase, Motomachi, Utabi, Seharada, Noui, Hikuma, Asano, Kamio, Yamahirabayashi, Hirabayashi, Magoze, Sakurai, Anba, Akata, Tanoguchi, Imaizumi, Haibara, Makitanaka, Shikawa, Hachiman, Shinda, Senbonyanagi, Shimotonego, Hoya, Yagisawa, Shikatani, Shiushiri
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## [Villages that Escaped Damage]
Nakazawa, Tōfukuji, Shimoyokata, Kamiyokata, Higashidera-o, Kiyono, Iwano, Tsuchiguchi, Amenomiya, Ojima, Fujimaki, Mukōhachiman, Mishima, Wakamiya, Kōri, Kuwabara, Nakahara, Ichinokawa, Nakamaki, Ōtahara, Takano
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## [Summary of Damage by Region]
- Nojiri and Kashiwabara vicinity: 16 villages, 60% destroyed
- Kashiwabara and Furuma vicinity: 37 villages, 70% destroyed
- Foot of Mt. Madara: 38 villages, 90% destroyed
- Iiyama mountain-side vicinity: 27 villages, 90% destroyed
- Iiyama and Yasuda vicinity: The ferry crossing rope was severed
- Kijimadaira vicinity: 52 villages, 70% destroyed; half of Kijimadaira inundated; many collapsed houses in Sotoyama-daira
- Yoshida and Shinmachi vicinity: 48 villages, 60% destroyed; 7 of these villages had collapsed houses
- Mōsuge vicinity: (Dam) broke on the 8th day of the 4th month; 38 villages up to Sasadaira, 90% destroyed
- Yoshihara vicinity: Nakayama, 58 villages, 70% destroyed; 13 villages up to Kayayori Nakai, 70% destroyed
- Ōoka: 48 villages, many collapsed and burned houses; from the headwaters of Ōoka-gumi to Shimo-Ikasaka, inundated
- From here to Matsumoto: collapsed houses found in various places
- From here to Oshino: 14 villages inundated
- Tokura vicinity: Though there were collapsed houses, deaths, etc. in the villages of this area, there was no time to record them all
- Nezumi vicinity: Iwahana — landslide
- Ikeda-gumi: 45 villages collapsed
- From Ōmachi to the Echigo border: 90 villages, 60% destroyed
- Mishima and Wakamiya vicinity: 2 villages, 7 villages collapsed, 6 villages
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## [Map Legend]
- Square symbol (□): Post stations; villages flooded/inundated
- [Ellipse symbol]: Villages with collapsed houses
- District divisions
- This symbol (■): Burned (spread of fire)
- This color: Water
- This color: Road
- Large circle (○): Villages that escaped damage (though each had between 10–30% of houses collapsed)
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## [Main Text]
On the night of the 24th day of the 3rd month of Kōka 4 (1847), the Year of the Hinoto-Hitsuji (Ding-Wei), around the Hour of the Boar (approximately 10 p.m.), a great earthquake struck seven districts of Shinano Province. The houses of townspeople in castle towns and surrounding settlements were simultaneously shaken to ruin, and fires broke out immediately in various places. The number of those who died by crushing or burning was beyond counting. At the same moment, Mt. Kokūzō collapsed at the Iwakura locality in Yamahirabayashi, falling into the Sai River. The villages upstream were inundated, becoming like a lake, while the riverbed at Tanbashima dried up to become like dry land — one could cross it without even wetting one's feet. In addition, mountains and valleys collapsed in many places, blocking the flow of water. On the 13th day of the 4th month, during the lower part of the Hour of the Monkey (approximately 5 p.m.), the blockage burst all at once, and the waves rose to several jō in height. From Nakajima, all the houses along the Chikuma River were swept away, and the number of those who drowned was beyond counting — thousands upon thousands.
The *Fusō Ryakki* (a Japanese historical chronicle) states: On the last day of the 7th month of the 3rd year of Ninna (887 CE), the Year of Hinoto-Hitsuji (Ding-Wei), in the reign of Emperor Kōkō, a great mountain in Shinano Province collapsed enormously, and the castles and dwellings of six districts were swept away to the ground; cattle, horses, men, and women were carried off and perished in such numbers as to form hills (and so forth). From the Ninna Ding-Wei year to the Kōka Ding-Wei year, nine hundred and sixty-one years have now passed, and we witness once again such a natural calamity. It is not only the people of this province who suffered: owing to the special opening of the sacred doors of the Zenkōji Nyorai (a major Buddhist pilgrimage event), travelers from all provinces died in numbers too great to count.
**Addendum:**
Friends from distant places have frequently written to inquire about the true state of affairs. While I would like to commit every detail to paper, I have written down the main points and had them carved into woodblocks for printing. For whatever is insufficient, I ask the indulgence of those who read this.
Resident of Inariyama, *Miyashō*
**[Written in red ink]:** These blocks were finished being carved around the end of the 6th month (Minazuki). Even now, the earth trembles five to seven times day and night without ceasing.