英語訳
**[Upper Section]**
**Combined Legend / Direction and Location Register** 【Written in red ink from here】 *Bunsei 12, 3rd Month, 21st Day* (April 14, 1829)
- ■ = Upper Residence (Kami-yashiki) Approximately 820–830 earthen storehouses (dozō) Approximately 85 bridges
- ▲ = Middle Residence (Naka-yashiki) **Locations of Emergency Relief Shelters (Osukui-goya):**
- ● = Flying Sparks (Tobi-hi)
Outside Tokiwabashi Gate: 1 shelter / Outside Kandabashi Gate: 2 shelters
Outside Sukiyabashi Gate: 1 shelter / Outside Saiwai-bashi Gate: 1 shelter / Outside Sujichigai Gate: 1 shelter
Edobashi: 1 shelter / Tsukiji: 1 shelter / Hatchōbori: 2 shelters
Terrifying to behold and horrifying even to hear — on the morning of the 21st day of the 3rd month just past, from around the Hour of the Horse (approximately 11 a.m.), a great wind blew fiercely from the northwest, turning the sky ominous, when fire broke out in the vicinity of Soto-Kanda.
**[Kanda Area]**
Izumibashi Bridge burned and collapsed. Below the embankment: the residences of Lord Sano, Lord Tomita, and Lord Hosokawa; Kuken-chō, Yamato-chō, Bungo-chō, Kuuemon-chō, Egawa-chō, Hashimoto-chō, Iwai-chō, Matsueda-chō, Bakuro-chō, Shio-chō, Yokoyama-chō, Yoshikawa-chō, Yonezawa-chō, Dōbō-chō, Yanagibashi, and the Ryōgoku area — all burned. Tachibana-chō, Hisamatsu-chō, Muramatsu-chō vicinity; Takenokura, Yamabushi-ido, Hama-chō; ▲(Middle residences of) Lord Ogasawara, Lord Matsudaira Hōki, Lord Satake, Lord Mizuno — along with all hatamoto (bannermen) residences — completely burned.
**[Otamagaike / Koyanagi-chō Area]**
○(Outer area) Otamagaike, Koyanagi-chō, Hiranaga-chō, Kōnya-chō (dyer's quarter), substitute plots, Iwamoto-chō, Toyama-chō, the residence of Lord Ichibashi ☐ — all hatamoto residences and townhouses in this area burned entirely; Koden'ma-chō, the prison (Rōyashiki), Ōden'ma-chō, Toiya-chō (inn quarter), Daimaru (department store) burned; Abura-chō, Daimon-dōri, Ningyō-chō-dōri, Hasegawa-chō — this entire area burned completely.
**[Hori-dome / Horie / Kobuna-chō Area]**
○(Continuing) Horidome, Horie-chō, Kobuna-chō, Koami-chō-dōri, Shin-Zaimoku-chō, Sugimori-bashi, Ninomono-chō, Tomizawa-chō, Takasago-chō, Naniwa-chō, Sumiyoshi-chō, Sakai-chō, Nakamuraza (theater), Fukiya-chō, Ichimuraza (theater), puppet theater — all burned; Yoshi-chō, Izumi-chō, Jinzaemon-chō, Ginza, Matsushima-chō; ▲(Middle residences of) Lord Mizuno Iki, Lord Matsudaira Echizen, Lord Muroga, Lord Toda, Lord Kondō, Lord Makino, Lord Honda Higo-no-Kami ☐; Lord Sakai Iga, Lord Yokoyama; ▲Lord Sakai, Lord Yokose, Lord Andō ☐; Lord Toda, Lord Matsudaira Etchū. Tōka-hori, Gyōtoku riverbank, Eikyūbashi Bridge burned and collapsed; ▲Lord Doi, Lord Matsudaira Izu, Lord Kuze Yamato.
**[Hakozaki / Reiganjima Area]**
Hakozaki-chō, Shinkobori, the Naval Guard (Ofunade) compound — at this time Eitaibashi Bridge was in danger; Minatobashi and Otomebashi bridges collapsed. Ōkawabata, Hama-chō, Shiroganechō, Shinkawa, Hinoki-kashi (cypress quay), Kawaguchi-chō, Higashi-Minato-chō — at this point the wind grew even stronger. Reiganjima was engulfed in flames on all sides; people were confused about where to flee, suffering hardships impossible to fully describe — truly pitiable. At the same time, the middle residence of Lord Echizen and the Naval Guard compound burned; Inaribashi Bridge collapsed; from Teppōzu Inari Shrine along the riverside: Honminato-chō, ▲Lord Matsudaira Awa ☐; Lord Hosokawa, Lord Matsudaira Takumi — the same location: Funamatsu-chō, Jikken-chō, Akashi-chō, and the facing Tsukuda Island all burned completely, along with approximately 50 large boats and an uncountable number of small boats.
**[West Kanda / Nihonbashi Area]**
○(Small) With a strong northeast ("Kochi") wind: west Kanda — Suda-chō, Shinishi-chō, Nabe-chō, Kaji-chō, Matsuda-chō, Shirakabe-chō, Kamakura-gashi (quay), and up to Toyoshimaya burned; Ryūkan-bashi, Matsushita-chō, Tominaga-chō, Kadoto-gashi, Imagawabashi, Shirokane-chō, Shirahata Shrine, Jikken-dana, Koku-chō, Honchō, Setomono-chō, Honya-chō, Anjin-chō, Odawara-chō, Suruga-chō, and all Echigo-ya shops burned; Muromachi, Kinebuki-chō, Ryōgae-chō, Kinza (Gold Mint), Saya-chō, Kugi-dana, Nihonbashi, Edobashi, Aramebashi — all burned and collapsed; Yokkaichi, Dotekura, Nishi-gashi (west quay), Aomono-chō, Man-chō, Gofuku-chō, Hiramatsu-chō, Otowa-chō, Tōri-chō, Shirokiya (dry goods store) burned; Honchō □□, Shimbashi — this entire area burned; Nakabashi, Minami-Denma-chō, Daiku-chō, Oke-chō, Gorōbe-chō, Kaji-chō, Susuki-chō, Tokiwa-chō, Yanagi-chō, Gusoku-chō, Kinroku-chō, Take-chō — this entire area burned.
**[Kyōbashi / Ginza Area]**
Kyōbashi, Shihōdana, Shirouo-yashiki (whitebait fishery), Sanjūkken-bori, Tachisell district, Yumi-chō, Shinreishindō, Nishi-Kōnya-chō, Sakana-chō, Yazaemon-chō, Sukiya-gashi — from Kyōbashi along the main road: Ginza-chō, Owari-chō, Hotei-ya, Ebisu-ya all burned; Takekawa-chō, Izumo-chō, Konparu-yashiki — stopped at Shimbashi.
○(Continuing) Nabe-chō, Takiyama-chō, Sōjūrō-chō, Sannō-chō, Saeki-chō, Kaka-chō, Hachikan-chō, Maruya-chō — the townhouses on the west side from Yamashita-chō to Dobashi remain unburned.
**[Kaioku-bashi Area]**
○(4th area) Kaioku-bashi (Pirate Bridge) burned and collapsed; ☐Lord Makino, Lord Kuki, Lord Obama; Sakamoto-chō, Kayaba-chō, Yakushidō, Hatchōbori ☐ Lord Matsudaira Etchū-no-Kami and all his retainers' compounds burned entirely; Kojima-chō, Kamejima-chō, Hibiya-chō, the same riverside, Furuiwa-dana, Saiwai-chō, Okazaki-chō.
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**[Lower Section]**
Matsuya-chō, the same bridge, Danjō-bashi, the entirety of Hon-Hatchōbori-dōri; Minami-Hatchōbori, the warehouse residence of Lord Tosa ☐ Lord Honda Shimōsa; ▲Lord Matsudaira Ukon-no-Shōgen, Lord Ii Kamon, Lord Nakagawa Shuridaiyū ☐ Lord Matsudaira Tōtōmi-no-Kami, Lord Ogasawara; ▲Lord Okudaira, Lord Wakisaka; Tsukiji, Yanagiwara, Dōbō-chō, Odawara-chō, Hongō-chō, Samubashi; ▲Lord Hotta, Lord Matsudaira Aki, Lord Hitotsubashi, Lord Etchū.
Continuing from Minami-Hatchōbori: ☐Lord Date Kii-no-Kami, Lord Shinjō; Matsumura-chō, Kobiki-chō, theater district; Kinokuni-bashi, the Kii domain warehouse residence; ▲Lord Matsudaira Suō-no-Kami, Lord Itakura, Lord Noto, Lord Magaribuchi, Lord Kanō ☐ Lord Suwa; ▲Lord Ōkubo ☐ Lord Yagyū, Lord Sengoku; ▲Lord Honda, Lord □□, Lord Tanuma ☐ Lord Okudaira Daisendaiyū. The fire stopped at the west side of Shiodome, Shibaguchi, along the street townhouses — stopped at the upper residence of Lord Wakisaka Nakatsukasadaiyū.
○Tsukiji: ▲Lord Matsudaira Tosa, Lord Matsushita, Lord Matsudaira Hida, Lord Kuwayama, Lord Aoyama, Lord Inaba, Lord Honda Danjō, Lord Akita, Lord Kinoshita, Lord Kamei, Lord Hatakeyama; ▲Lord Tochikashiwagi, Lord Nishio, Lord Tsuda, Lord Togawa ☐ Lord Nagai, Lord Miura; ▲Lord Matsudaira Kura — all hatamoto residences in this area burned entirely; the West Honganji temple complex including its precincts burned completely; the facing Tsukishima: Lord Abe, Lord Muragaki ☐ Lord Inaba (both residences burned) — stopped at the warehouse residence of the Owari domain.
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Thus, from the fire that broke out in the morning past the Hour of the Horse on the 21st, and with the great wind blowing so fiercely, people became disoriented in all four directions, abandoning parents, separated from children — the pitiable nature of events defies all description. This is written down so that it may serve as a story to be told for generations to come.
**Total number of districts burned: approximately 1,200 chō (blocks) and more**