翻刻
【右丁】
御請負候申、是計￣ニ而も、夥敷御金の上￣リ申事￣ニ御座候、鯨の油
なと夥敷有之、ゑそゟ殿様へ上け申候鯨は、九月ゟ末￣ニ大分寄り
申候鯨を取候ては、切候而、石の上￣ニのせ火を焼油を取申候、色々大木
共有之候、長￣サ之拾間程、竹の如￣クなる木有之候、くる〳〵巻候て手を
はなし候へは、元の通￣リまつすく￣ニ罷成候、是をしうりの木と申候、
しばりの木と申事と相聞へ申候
一私共￣ニ不限年中には度々漂着之船共在之参つけ申候も
のは商もいたし、罷帰候、松前は勿論津軽南部辺￣ニはゑそ人之
【左丁】
内、日本人￣ニ成、かろき奉公なといたし居申候者も有之由、是も
宿之もの咄申候
一廿三日町奉行之由、高橋浅右衛門所へ、半太夫被召連罷出候へは、臺
所之様成所にて、岡部四郎右衛門と申仁被召出逢懸舩頭長右衛門
梶取三五郎罷出候処、委細被仰尋候故、ゑとろふにて委￣ク
取上￣ケはたかに罷成候而、一物も無之食事をもあたへ不申、段々
打擲のわけ、山河の長右衛門行衛不知事とも一々申述候、其通
を浅右衛門江四郎右衛門被申達候聲物越に聞へ候、浅右衛門聞
現代語訳
【右丁】
（津軽その他の商人たちが鮭などを）請け負っており、これだけでも莫大な金が上がるものでございます。鯨の油なども夥しくあり、蝦夷から殿様へ上納されます。鯨は九月の末頃に大分（たくさん）寄ってきます。鯨を獲っては切り分けて、石の上に載せて火を焚き、油を取ります。様々な大木もございます。長さが十間ほどで、竹のような木があります。くるくると巻いてから手を離すと、元の通りまっすぐに戻ります。これを「しうりの木」と申します。「しばりの木」と申すこととも聞こえます。
一、私どもに限らず、年中には度々漂着した船の者たちも参り、商いもいたして帰っています。松前はもちろん、津軽・南部辺りには、蝦夷人の
【左丁】
うち、日本人となり、軽い奉公などをしている者もいるとのことです。これも宿の者が話してくれたことです。
一、二十三日、町奉行とのことで、高橋浅右衛門のところへ、半太夫に連れられて罷り出ますと、台所のような所において、岡部四郎右衛門という方が召し出されており、逢い懸けの船頭・長右衛門と梶取・三五郎が罷り出ましたところ、詳しくお尋ねになりましたので、択捉島にて詳しく、（荷物など）すべて取り上げられて丸裸になり、一物もなく食事も与えられなかった次第、段々と打擲（ちょうちゃく）された経緯、山河（丸）の長右衛門の行方が知れなくなったことなどを、一々申し述べました。その内容を浅右衛門へ四郎右衛門が申し達する声が、物越しに聞こえました。浅右衛門が聞き……
英語訳
**[Right folio]**
(Merchants from Tsugaru and elsewhere) contracted for this trade, and from this alone an enormous amount of money was generated. There were also vast quantities of whale oil; whales were sent up to the lord from Ezo. Toward the end of September, great numbers of whales would gather. After catching the whales, they would be cut up, placed on stones, and fires lit beneath them to extract the oil. There were also various large trees. There was a tree about ten ken (approximately 18 meters) in length, resembling bamboo. When rolled up tightly and then released, it would spring back perfectly straight, just as it had been before. This was called the "shiuri tree." It also appears to have been referred to as the "shibari tree."
One item: Not only in our case, but throughout the year, people from ships that had drifted ashore would come and go, conducting trade and returning home. Not only in Matsumae, but in the Tsugaru and Nanbu areas as well, among the Ezo people,
**[Left folio]**
there were some who had become Japanese subjects and were performing light forms of service. This too was told to us by the people at our lodging.
One item: On the twenty-third day, we were summoned by what appeared to be the town magistrate's office. Led by Handayū, we appeared before a man called Okabe Shirōemon, at a place resembling a kitchen. There, the captain of the vessel we had encountered, Chōemon, and the helmsman Sangōrō also appeared. We were questioned in detail, and so we explained everything one by one: how on Etorofu Island, everything had been seized from us in great detail, leaving us completely stripped bare with nothing remaining; how we had been given no food; the circumstances of being progressively beaten; and how Nagaemon of the Yamakawa [vessel] had gone missing. The voice of Shirōemon reporting this account to Asaemon could be heard through the partition. Asaemon, upon hearing…