大地震 - 翻刻

翻刻

　銘々野田へ逃出唯茫然たる有様也近郷村々ゟ親類
　縁者へ欠付潰れ家の下にていまだこゑあるを掘出し
　相助又火を防がんとなせ共中々刀【力ヵ】に及ず火勢ます〳〵
　盛んにして風は未申の方より吹立如来御本堂 既（すで）に
　あやうく見へ候所御屋根上三門之屋根上数多の人影 顕（あらはれ）
　八方へ欠廻り飛火を防候地震にもゆり潰れす焼失も
　無之夜明テ御屋根を見あぐれば数多人壱人も不見
　誠にふしぎなる事に候松代様より御防人数多勢イ

　御召連御出役有之候六川御陣中よりも左之通り下後丁
　火先は消口に相成候同夜命助り候ものは不残野中に伏雨
　露にあたり地震は止之不申火気ははけしく二日二夜焼
　誠に難義歎敷事言語に絶へ候
一御山内は大本願上人様御境内諸堂不残衆徒弐十壱院
　中衆十五坊妻戸十坊不残焼二王門御堂庭小間物店
　茶屋むしろ張の見せ物小屋類三丁余不残焼失別
　当大勧進様半潰れにて残る経蔵鐘楼堂万善堂

現代語訳

各々は野原へ逃げ出し、ただ茫然としている有様であった。近郷の村々からは親類・縁者が駆けつけ、潰れた家の下でまだ声のする者を掘り出して助け合い、また火を防ごうとしたが、とてもその力には及ばず、火勢はますます盛んになっていった。風は未申（南西）の方角から吹き立て、如来の御本堂もすでに危うく見えたところ、御屋根の上や三門の屋根の上に数多くの人影が現れ、八方へ駆け回って飛び火を防いだ。（御本堂は）地震にも揺れ崩れず、焼失もなかった。夜明けに御屋根を見上げると、あれほど多くいた人々が一人も見えない。まことに不思議なことであった。松代様からは大勢の防火の人数を引き連れてご出役があり、六川のご陣中からも以下のとおり（人数が）下向され、火の先端（延焼方向）は消し口となった。同夜、命が助かった者は残らず野中に伏し、雨露にさらされ、地震は止まらず、火気は激しく、二日二夜燃え続け、まことに難儀で嘆かわしいこと、言語に絶するものがあった。

一、御山内については、大本願上人様の御境内の諸堂が残らず、衆徒二十一院・中衆十五坊・妻戸十坊が残らず焼失した。二王門・御堂庭の小間物店・茶屋・筵張りの見せ物小屋の類、三丁余りが残らず焼失した。別当・大勧進様は半潰れにて残る。経蔵・鐘楼堂・万善堂（は残った）。

英語訳

Everyone fled to the fields and stood there in a daze. From nearby villages, relatives and kin came rushing to help, digging out those still calling out from beneath collapsed houses, assisting one another. They also tried to fight the fires, but were utterly powerless against them, and the flames only grew fiercer. The wind blew in from the direction of Hitsuji-Saru (southwest), and the main hall enshrining the sacred image appeared to be in imminent danger. At that moment, the figures of numerous people appeared on the roof of the main hall and on the roof of the Sanmon gate, rushing about in all directions to prevent the spread of flying embers. The main hall was neither shaken down by the earthquake nor destroyed by fire. When people looked up at the roof at daybreak, not a single person was to be seen among the many who had been there before — truly a mysterious occurrence.

Lord Matsushiro dispatched a large contingent of firefighters to assist, and from the encampment at Rokugawa, forces were also sent down (as described below), and the advancing front of the fire was brought under control. Those who survived that night all lay out in the open fields, exposed to rain and dew, while the earthquakes continued unabated and the fires burned fiercely for two full days and nights — a hardship and sorrow truly beyond words.

Regarding the temple precincts: all the halls within the precinct of the Daihongan Lady Abbess were lost; all twenty-one in (sub-temple residences for senior monks), fifteen bō of chūshū (mid-ranking monks' quarters), and ten妻戸 bō were burned to the ground. The Niōmon gate, the stalls and souvenir shops in the hall garden, teahouses, mat-sided sideshow booths and the like — more than three chō of them — were all burned without exception. The Daikanjin, the administrative temple, survived partially collapsed. The scripture repository (kyōzō), the bell tower hall (shōrōdō), and the Manzen-dō remained.