英語訳
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[Continuing from the previous page:] The vertical dais on the northwest side of [the Great Audience Hall (*Daigokuden*)], measuring eight *ken* in length, cracked open. The houses of the palace precinct and throughout the capital collapsed and were damaged in great numbers. On the seventh day, the Bureau of Divination (*Onmyōryō*) submitted a memorial stating: "The portent of this earthquake indicates that we must be vigilant against armed conflict, banditry, famine, and epidemic disease."
(Although this divination was made, the realm was in fact peacefully governed at that time.)
That night, from the Hour of the Dog (around 8 p.m.) until the Hour of the Rat (around midnight), the earth shook again. On the eighth day, from the Hour of the Dragon (around 8 a.m.) until the Hour of the Ox (around 2 a.m.), it shook four times. On the night of the ninth, twice more; on the tenth, five times; on the eleventh, it shook repeatedly. On the twelfth, at the first quarter of the Hour of the Rat, there was a great tremor, and at the fourth quarter of the Hour of the Tiger, a small one. There were also tremors on the thirteenth, fourteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days.
On the nineteenth day, at the Hour of the Dog, a sound was heard in the heavens twice, and the earth again shook. On the twenty-first day also, at the first quarter of the Hour of the Dog, a sound was heard in the sky, and at the Hour of the Ox there was an earthquake. On the twenty-second day, at the Hour of the Dragon, the earth shook greatly, moved twice, and then stopped. Earthquakes also occurred on the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-ninth days.
In the fifth year of Gangyō (881 CE), on the sixth day of the first month, there was an earthquake at the Hour of the Rooster (around 6 p.m.), and also on the eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, and sixteenth days. There were also earthquakes on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first days of the ninth month (twice on the twenty-first).
The above is based on the *Sandai Jitsuroku* (Veritable Records of Three Reigns).
During the reign of Emperor Kōkō, on the fourteenth day of the fourth month of the first year of Ninna (885 CE), there was a great storm of wind and rain accompanied by an earthquake and a rumbling sound. On the sixteenth day of the same month, frost fell and it was cold; there was an earthquake.
According to the *Fusō Ryakki* (Concise Annals of Japan): On the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the same year, at the Hour of the Snake (around 10 a.m.), a sound was heard in the southeast of the heavens, like the crashing collapse of a two-storied building.
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During the night hours too there was an earthquake accompanied by a rumbling sound.
○ On the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the second year (886 CE), the earth shook greatly. The above is based on the *Sandai Jitsuroku*.
○ In the third year (887 CE), there were earthquakes on the nights of the first and second days of the seventh month, and again on the night of the sixth. On the last day of that month (*misoka*), at the Hour of the Monkey (around 4 p.m.), the earth shook violently and did not cease for several hours. The Emperor departed from the *Jijūden* (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity) and moved to the South Garden of the *Shishinden* (Ceremonial Hall), where two seven-*jō* curtained enclosures were erected as his temporary residence. The storehouses of the various government offices and the houses throughout the capital collapsed in many places, and many people were crushed to death. Some lost consciousness and died on the spot. At the Hour of the Boar (around 10 p.m.), the earth shook again three times. In all provinces of the Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits, there was likewise a great earthquake on the same day; government offices suffered extensive damage, and seawater flooded onto land, causing drowning deaths too numerous to count. Among all affected areas, the province of Settsu suffered the most severely. In the middle of the night, there was again a rumbling sound from both east and west.
On the first day of the eighth month, there were two earthquakes both day and night. On the second day, three during the day. On the fourth, five times. On the fifth, five times as well, and at night there was a great shaking. The people of the capital left their homes and stayed in the streets. The sixth day was the day of the *Sekiten* (the Confucian memorial ceremony), but because a man named *Hata no Chimoto* had been so terrified by the earthquake on the thirtieth day that he had lost consciousness and died, the officials who were to participate in the ceremony were rendered ritually impure, and the ceremony was cancelled. On the seventh day, [continues on the next page...]