翻刻
なし漸食をつなき老たる者は溝壑（コウガク）に転じ
壮者は四方に離散して野に餓莩（ガヒヤウ）有候信上
両国騒動に及ぶいたましかりける有様なり
其礼 觴（ゼウ）を尋るに所以有事也とぞ
旅の空 憂寝（ウキ子）の肘（ヒジ）枕￣ラ
爰に天明元年子の秋の頃とかや名利をう
とんじうき世をいとひ塵（チリ）の世俗を遁れんと
何国を宿共雲水の定めなき行脚（アンギヤ）の僧
年ばい【年延い、年輩、年配】六十￣ニ餘る竹杖の諸国をめぐり遠
江秋葉山より伊奈路を越衣か崎に頭陀なるを
上の諏訪に詣ふてつゝ宿願有て社頭の木の
根に枕を高ふして石頭に眠りを結ぶ一まどろみ
現代語訳
ようやく食いつないでいたが、老いた者は溝や谷に倒れ（餓死し）、壮健な者は四方に離散して、野には餓死者が出るほどであった。信州・上野（こうずけ）両国は騒動に及び、まことに痛ましい有様であった。
その由来（礼の起こり）を尋ねるに、わけのあることであるとか。
旅の空 憂き寝の肘枕
ここに、天明元年（子の年）の秋の頃とかいうことだが、名誉や利益を疎んじ、浮き世を厭い、塵にまみれた世俗から逃れようと、どこを宿とも定めず、雲水のように行方の定まらない行脚の僧があった。年の頃は六十余歳で、竹杖をついて諸国を巡り、遠江（とおとうみ）の秋葉山より伊奈路（いなじ）を越えて、衣が崎（きぬがさき）にて頭陀（ずだ）を行っていた。信濃の上諏訪に参詣しつつ、宿願があって社頭の木の根を枕として高らかに眠りにつき（気楽に横になり）、石を頭に眠りを結んだ。ひとまどろみ
英語訳
They barely managed to subsist on such things, but the elderly collapsed and died in ditches and gullies, while those in the prime of life scattered to the four winds, leaving the dead from starvation lying in the fields. Both Shinshū and Kōzuke Provinces were thrown into turmoil, and the situation was truly pitiful to behold.
In seeking the origins of these events, there is indeed reason behind them, it is said.
*Traveling beneath the open sky — sleeping fitfully, using one's elbow as a pillow*
Now, it is said that around the autumn of the first year of Tenmei (the year of the Rat), there was a wandering monk who despised fame and gain, who had grown weary of this fleeting world, and who sought to escape the dust of worldly affairs. Having no fixed abode, he wandered like drifting clouds and flowing water, making his pilgrimage from province to province. He was a man of sixty years or more, travelling with a bamboo staff. Having crossed the Ina road from Akiha Mountain in Tōtōmi Province, he was practicing ascetic wandering (zudag) at Kinugasaki. While paying his respects at the Upper Suwa Shrine in Shinano, he had a vowed wish to fulfill; and so he lay down with the root of a tree at the shrine precinct as his pillow, resting his head as if upon a stone. And in that one drowsy slumber —