翻刻
の伝語になして人の後覚にもならんかと筆に
誌すこととハ天災を免れし冥加悉くよろこひにこそ
抑此地震先の善光寺の御寺のほとりことに甚しそれ
地しんといふより夥敷震動し大山を崩し深河を埋
め土中より火焔のこときもの吹出し御殿宝蔵寺中町
屋ハいふに及はす倒れ潰れあるひハ地にめりこみあ
るひハ大磐石にうたれ僧俗男女老少の死上ヶかぞふ
べからず地火一時に八方へちり住居のこらす焼亡し
廿七日までの辛苦筆紙に尽しかたし是より北のかた
大峯黒姫山戸隠山上松北郷しんかうじ福岡上野
西条吉村田子平手宝飯まち北平落影小高大高
柏原塩尻百川せき川の御関所辺より越後高田御城下
辺二十四日よりゆりはじめ廿九日午の刻ころ別して
強く震り土蔵寺社人家を倒し大山崩して田はた
埋川あふれ大水にて押流し死人怪我人夥し就
中長沢村と申小村にて死失の者六七十人あり皆
土に埋り手足のミ見へりこれハ同寺より東の方ハこんとう
岩間の御所中の御所あらき此辺より百余村殊にき
びしく姥捨山の今更に親も子を捨子ハ親を尋ね
なから大地に落入火焔に眼くらみ地は裂て泥を吹
現代語訳
の言い伝えとなして、人の後の教えにもなろうかと筆に記すことは、天災を免れた冥加をすべて喜びにこそ。
そもそもこの地震は、まず善光寺の御寺のあたりが特に甚だしく、それは地震というより激しい震動で、大山を崩し深い河を埋め、土中より火炎のようなものを吹き出し、御殿・宝蔵・寺中・町屋は言うに及ばず倒れ潰れ、あるいは地にめり込み、あるいは大磐石に打たれ、僧俗男女老少の死者の数は数え切れません。地火が一時に八方へ散り、住居は残らず焼失し、二十七日までの辛苦は筆や紙では尽くしがたいものです。これより北の方、大峰・黒姫山・戸隠山・上松・北郷・新光寺・福岡・上野・
西条・吉村・田子・平手・宝飯町・北平・落影・小高・大高・柏原・塩尻・百川・関川の御関所辺りより越後高田御城下辺りまで、二十四日より揺れ始め、二十九日午の刻頃（正午頃）特に強く震り、土蔵・寺社・人家を倒し、大山が崩れて田畑を埋め、川が氾濫し大水で押し流し、死人・怪我人が多数出ました。中でも長沢村という小村で死亡した者が六、七十人あり、皆土に埋もれ手足のみが見えていました。これは同寺より東の方、権堂・岩間の御所・中の御所・荒木、この辺りより百余村が特に厳しく被害を受け、姥捨山がまさに今更に親も子を捨て、子は親を尋ねながら大地に落ち入り、火炎に目がくらみ、地は裂けて泥を吹き
英語訳
This account is written to become a tradition passed down and serve as a lesson for future generations. Recording this with the brush is done in celebration of the divine blessing of having been spared from natural disaster.
The earthquake was particularly severe around Zenkoji Temple, with such intense shaking that it was more than just an earthquake - it was violent tremors that collapsed great mountains, buried deep rivers, and caused flame-like phenomena to burst forth from the earth. The palace, treasure houses, temple quarters, and townhouses all collapsed and were crushed without exception. Some sank into the ground, others were struck by massive rocks, and the number of deaths among monks, laypeople, men, women, elderly, and young was beyond counting. Underground fires scattered in all directions at once, burning down all dwellings without remainder. The hardships until the 27th day cannot be fully described with brush and paper. From here northward, through Ōmine, Kurohime Mountain, Togakushi Mountain, Agematsu, Kitago, Shinkoji, Fukuoka, Ueno,
Saijo, Yoshimura, Tako, Hirate, Hoii town, Kitahira, Rakuei, Kotaka, Otaka, Kashiwabara, Shiojiri, Hyakukawa, and the checkpoint area of Sekigawa to the castle town of Takada in Echigo Province - the shaking began on the 24th, and around noon on the 29th it was particularly strong, toppling storehouses, temples and shrines, and private houses. Great mountains collapsed burying fields and rice paddies, rivers overflowed causing great floods that swept everything away, and there were numerous dead and injured. Particularly in the small village called Nagasawa, sixty to seventy people died, all buried in earth with only their hands and feet visible. From the temple eastward through Gondō, Iwama no Gosho, Naka no Gosho, and Araki - over a hundred villages in this area suffered particularly severe damage. At Obasute Mountain, as if truly now parents abandoned children and children searched for parents while falling into the great earth, blinded by flames, as the ground split open spewing mud.