翻刻
【右丁】
ともかきあせれと女／業（わざ）我も一所に死んと
思ひ水の中にて我子を見れは色も青〳〵
ぐんにやりしとれは迚も助からぬ我子の命
既（すで）に捨んと思へ共二つ四つのいたわけ成ヱり
暫（しば）しこゝろも定まらず子の可愛さに我身の
難儀既に危（あよ）ふく思ひけれはいや世の諺（ことわざ）に
も子を捨る藪（やふ）あれ中と身を捨る所はなひと
恩案を極め是非にかわす水中へなげて
【左丁】
我子は無常のきりに誘（さそ）はれて流れ行衛も
海堤へ鮫（さめ）や鯨（くじら）のゑしきになると思へば胸（むね）せま
りつらひなからもやう〳〵我身は助りまし
た無利はこさらぬ私の内も亭主親子が
流れてしまひ二つ四つの子供を二人つれて女の
手業にやいかぬ夫もとふりじや私の事は
八人家内か五人は死んで三人り死つて難義を
します近所／隣（となり）りに一人りや二人り死んて
現代語訳
ともかく慌てふためいても、女の力では私も一緒に死んでしまうと思い、水の中で我が子を見ると、顔色も青白くぐったりとしているので、とても助からない我が子の命をもう諦めようと思ったが、二歳四歳の幼い子供なので、しばらく心も定まらず、子の可愛さに我が身の難儀も既に危うく思われたけれど、いや世の諺にも「子を捨てる藪はあるが、身を捨てる所はない」とあるように、思案を極めて、是非もなく水中へ投げて、我が子は無常の死に誘われて流れ行く。いつかは海へ出て鮫や鯨の餌食になると思えば胸が締め付けられ、辛いながらもようやく我が身は助かりました。
無理もないことですが、私の家でも亭主と子供が流されてしまい、二歳四歳の子供を二人連れて女の手一つではどうにもならない、そんな有様です。私の場合は八人家族のうち五人は死んで三人が生き残って難儀をしています。近所隣や里では一人か二人が死んで
英語訳
In any case, no matter how much I panicked, with a woman's strength I too would die together with them. Looking at my child in the water, I saw their face was pale and limp, so I thought to abandon my child's life that could not possibly be saved. But they were only two and four years old, such young children, so for a while my heart could not settle. With the preciousness of the children and my own predicament already seeming perilous, I thought of the old saying: "There may be bushes where one abandons a child, but there is no place where one abandons oneself." After much deliberation, I had no choice but to throw them into the water, and my children were lured away by the impermanence of death, flowing away. Thinking that someday they would reach the sea and become food for sharks and whales, my heart tightened with pain, but somehow I managed to save myself.
It cannot be helped, but in my household too, my husband and children were swept away, and with two children aged two and four, I cannot manage alone as a woman - such is my situation. In my case, out of a family of eight, five died and three survived, leaving us in hardship. In the neighboring houses and village, one or two people died and