翻刻
右 心経（シンキヤウ）ノ本文ナリ引合（ムサアハ）ヲテ読（ヨム）ベシ是等（コレラ）ノ事ヲ用ヒ
テ仮名文字（カナモシ）モイマタシラザル所ハ南部（ナンブ）盛 岡（ヲカ）ノ城下
ヨリ七八十里ヲ北西￣ニ アタリタル田（タ）山村杯イヘル極（コク）山
中ノ辺鄙（ヘンヒ）ナリ誠ニ古（イニシヘ）ノ結縄（ケツジヤウ）ノ約（ヤク）トモイフベシ蝦夷（ヱソ）
地モ只今ニ文字無ク木ニ刻（キサ）ヲ付テ覚印トスルト
カ也是 等（ラ）ノ事ニテ思ヘハ《見せ消ち：両｜西（サイ）》国（コク）ト東国（トウゴク）トノ文華（フンクハ）ノ
格前（カクヘツ）ナル事 甚（ハナハタ）シ九州ノ山中イロハ仮名（カナ）イマダシ
ラザル所ニハ当時モ浪波津（ナニハヅ）浅香（アサカ）山ノ二首ヲ手
習フ事ナリ古風（コフウ）ヲウシナハザル事思ヒユ【右に「ヤ」の書き込みあり】ルベシ
現代語訳
右は心経の本文なり。引き合わせて読むべし。これらの事を用いて、仮名文字もいまだ知らざる所は、南部盛岡の城下より七八十里を北西にあたりたる田山村などいえる極山中の辺鄙なり。誠に古の結縄の約とも言うべし。蝦夷地も只今に文字無く、木に刻を付けて覚え印とするとか也。これらの事にて思えば、西国と東国との文華の格別なる事甚だし。九州の山中、いろは仮名いまだ知らざる所には、当時も難波津・浅香山の二首を手習う事なり。古風を失わざる事思いゆべし。
英語訳
The right side shows the main text of the Heart Sutra. It should be read by matching them up. Using these methods, the places that do not yet know hiragana letters are remote mountainous areas like Tayama village, which is located seventy to eighty ri northwest of Morioka castle town in Nanbu domain. This can truly be called equivalent to the ancient practice of knotted cord records. Even now in Ezo territory, there are no written characters, and they make notches in wood as memory aids, so it is said. Considering these matters, the difference in literary culture between the western and eastern provinces is quite extreme. In the mountains of Kyushu, where iroha kana are not yet known, people still practice calligraphy with the two poems "Naniwa-zu" and "Asaka-yama." One should reflect on how ancient customs have not been lost.