翻刻
天明大焼ノ事
浅間ヶ嶽常二煙立時ハ大焼マレナリトソ煙リ
止ル事久シケレハ硫黄ノ気ツモル故二ヤ大焼
有其煙ル所ヲ釜トイフ廻り一里中窪シテ皆硫
黄ナリシカルニ五年以前少々ノ焼ニテ右ノ釜
埋り平地ト成り煙タへテ立事ナカリシカ天明
三癸卯春ヨリ段々煙り立ノホリ東西南北ノ風
二不構常二卯辰ノ方ナヒク煙り先西へ行トキ
ハ変アリト民家言伝へタリ時二春中煙り先キ
西へ行事度々有変アラント皆人ノイヘル二タ
カハス七月六日ヨリ八日ノ大焼前代未聞ノ事
ナリ先五月廿六日巳ノ下刻ヨリ焼出シ大地轟
キ煙立登ル事数百丈幅二三拾門程二見へ雲ノ
峯ヲ積カ如ククリ綿ヲ累ルコトシ六月十八日
夜大焼同廿九日晴テ午ノ刻ヨリ大焼轟五月廿
六日ヨリ騒シ七月一日晴四ッ時曇り小雨降り未
ノ中刻ヨリ焼出シ申ノ刻甚シク大焼去月廿九
日ヨリ甚強シ暮合ヨリ焼シツマル同二日午中
刻ヨリ焼出シ朔日ヨリ弱シ又未ノ刻ヨリ大焼
トナル時日ヨリ強シ戌ノ刻甚強ク寅ノ刻鳴止
現代語訳
天明大噴火のこと
浅間ヶ嶽は常に煙が立つ時は大噴火は稀であるとのことで、煙が止むことが長く続けば硫黄の気が積もるためか大噴火がある。その煙る所を釜という。周り一里、中が窪んで皆硫黄であった。しかるに五年以前の少々の噴火にて右の釜が埋まり平地となり、煙が全く立つことがなかったが、天明三年癸卯春より段々煙が立ち上り、東西南北の風に構わず常に卯辰の方へなびく。煙の先が西へ行く時は変事ありと民家では言い伝えていた。時に春中煙の先が西へ行くこと度々あり、変事があろうと皆人の言うにも
関わらず、七月六日より八日の大噴火は前代未聞の事である。先ず五月二十六日巳の下刻より噴火し始め、大地が轟き煙が立ち上ること数百丈、幅二三十間程に見え、雲の峯を積むが如く、繰り綿を重ねることのようであった。六月十八日夜大噴火、同二十九日晴れて午の刻より大噴火、轟くこと五月二十六日より騒がしい。七月一日晴れ、四つ時に曇り小雨降り、未の中刻より噴火し始め、申の刻甚だしく大噴火、去月二十九日より甚だ強し。暮合より噴火が静まる。同二日午の中刻より噴火し始め、朔日より弱し。また未の刻より大噴火となる。時日より強し。戌の刻甚だ強く、寅の刻鳴り止む。
英語訳
The Great Eruption of Tenmei
When Asamagatake usually emits smoke, major eruptions are rare. It is said that when the smoke ceases for a long time, sulfur gas accumulates, and thus a major eruption occurs. The place where it smokes is called "kama" (cauldron). With a circumference of one ri, the center is hollow and entirely made of sulfur. However, due to a minor eruption five years prior, this cauldron was filled and became flat ground, and smoke completely ceased to rise. But from the spring of Tenmei 3, year of the water rabbit, smoke gradually began to rise, and regardless of winds from east, west, south, or north, it always drifted toward the east-northeast direction. Folk tradition held that when the smoke drifted westward, calamity would occur. Indeed, during spring the smoke frequently drifted westward, and although everyone said calamity would come,
the great eruption from the 6th to 8th day of the 7th month was unprecedented. First, from the late hour of the snake on the 26th day of the 5th month, eruption began, the earth thundered, and smoke rose several hundred jō high, appearing about 20 to 30 ken wide, like piled cloud peaks or layered cotton. On the night of the 18th day of the 6th month, a great eruption occurred; on the 29th of the same month, it cleared and from the hour of the horse there was a great eruption, thundering noisily since the 26th day of the 5th month. On the 1st day of the 7th month it was clear, at the fourth hour it became cloudy with light rain, from the middle of the hour of the sheep eruption began, at the hour of the monkey it became extremely violent - stronger than the 29th of last month. From evening the eruption subsided. On the 2nd day, from the middle of the hour of the horse eruption began, weaker than the 1st day. Again from the hour of the sheep it became a great eruption, stronger than the day before. At the hour of the dog it was extremely strong, ceasing to roar at the hour of the tiger.