翻刻
予題序予公私鞅掌未暇濡毫亡
何敬仲病而逝焉頃者敬仲之子
伯慶以先子遺命将梓此編復請
予言予向聞敬仲言公瑶又有桂
舘随筆及詩文集若干巻行刻傳
于世云鳴呼世之棄視先人遺籍
徒飫鼠蠹者何限敬仲能顕父書
伯慶又能紹父志豈不嘉尚哉予
不及識公瑶此書固其余緒今讀
之而厥學之淵博可以知也見其
子其孫而其為人之修亦可以想
也夫地脉有水火游子六之説原
出于西庠而
皇朝稲若水之言暗與此符矣予又#1
現代語訳
（前頁より続く）…予に題序を求めた。予は公私ともに多忙にて（鞅掌にして）、未だ筆を執る暇がなかった。いつの間にか、敬仲は病を得てそのまま逝去してしまった。このほど、敬仲の子・伯慶が、先父の遺命により、この編を上梓しようとして、再び予に一言を求めてきた。予はかつて敬仲から聞いたことがある。公瑶にはまた「桂館随筆」および詩文集若干巻があり、刻（版刻）して世に伝えると云っていた。ああ、世に先人の遺籍を捨て顧みず、ただ鼠や虫食いの餌にするだけのものがいかに多いことか。敬仲はよく父の書を世に顕（あらわ）し、伯慶はまたよく父の志を継いだ。どうして嘉尚（褒め称えること）せずにいられようか。予は公瑶に直接まみえる機会を得なかったが、この書はもとよりその学問の余緒（一端）である。今これを読んで、その学問の淵博なることを知ることができる。その子・その孫を見て、その人となりの修（修養）もまた想い知ることができる。そもそも地脈に水火游子六の説があり、その原（もと）は西庠（西洋）に出ているが、わが皇朝（日本）の稲若水の言葉は、暗（はから）ずもこれと符合している。予はまた…（以下次頁へ続く）
英語訳
(Continued from previous page) …[Keichu] asked me to write a preface. I was occupied with both public and private affairs (and had not yet found the leisure to take up my brush). Before I knew it, Keichu had fallen ill and passed away. Recently, Keichu's son Hakkei, acting on his late father's dying instructions, intending to have this work woodblock-printed, once again came to request a few words from me. I had formerly heard from Keichu that Shikōyō also had a work called "Keidai Zuihitsu" (Miscellaneous Notes from the Keidai Study) and several volumes of poetry and prose collections, which were to be carved and transmitted to the world. Alas, how countless are those in this world who discard and neglect the manuscripts left by their forebears, leaving them merely to be devoured by rats and bookworms! Keichu succeeded in bringing his father's writings to light, and Hakkei has further carried on his father's will — how could one not praise and admire this? I myself never had the opportunity to meet Shikōyō in person, yet this book is assuredly a fragment of his broader scholarship. Reading it now, I can discern the depth and breadth of his learning. And seeing his son and his grandson, I can well imagine what manner of cultivated man he must have been. Now, there exists the theory of "water-fire wandering seeds" (水火游子六) concerning subterranean veins, which originally derives from Western learning, and yet the words of Ine Jakusui of our imperial realm accord with this theory as though by chance. I furthermore…(continues on the following page)