翻刻
暮方ゟ西ニ常の如き雲出て暮（わく）々たる草木にて
こんじきの色うつる空有紅のことし同夜四ツ時燃
出し信州追分小諸ゟ南え四里余の間灰砂降り
其火石今に目前たり北ハ山麓迄押出此所
石と溜り或ハ押切端と唱誠に昔しより焼山なから
松当山の別当は文明元年三月十日越前国松葉
の庄といふ所より僧壱人来り登山しけるに色々の
不思議霊｜夢（ム）を蒙り夫より鎌原村ニ閑居して
度々此山に登り後に延命寺と号し東叡山
の末寺となり此僧義海ニて延命寺開山有浅間
大明神の別当也
干時天明三癸卯年四月九日ゟ焼初メ日々に
止事なく灰砂降り七月三日四日別而焼ること甚し
く軽井沢碓氷坂本松本田安中高崎より
現代語訳
夕暮れ時から西の方に、いつものような雲が出て、もうもうとした草木に金色の色が映り、空は紅のようであった。同じ夜の四つ時（午後10時頃）に火が燃え出し、信州追分・小諸から南へ四里余りの間に灰や砂が降り、その火石は今も目の前に残っている。北は山麓まで押し出し、この場所で石が積もり、あるいは「押切端」と呼ばれる地形となった。誠に昔から焼け山ではあるが、当山の別当は、文明元年（1469年）三月十日に越前国松葉の庄という所から僧侶が一人来て登山したところ、様々な不思議な霊夢を授かり、それより鎌原村に閑居して、たびたびこの山に登り、後に延命寺と号し、東叡山の末寺となった。この僧は義海といい、延命寺の開山であり、浅間大明神の別当である。
時に天明三年癸卯（みずのとう）年四月九日より焼き始め、日々絶えることなく灰や砂が降り、七月三日・四日は特に噴火することが甚だしく、軽井沢・碓氷・坂本・松本・田野・安中・高崎より……
英語訳
From dusk, clouds appeared in the west as usual, and a golden hue was cast upon the hazy vegetation, while the sky turned crimson. That same night at the Hour of the Dog (around 10 p.m.), fire broke out, and ash and sand rained down over an area of more than four ri to the south of Shinshū Oiwake and Komoro. The fire stones from that eruption remain visible to this day. To the north, the flow extended all the way to the mountain's foothills, where the stones accumulated, forming features known as "Oshikiribata" (thrust edges). Although the mountain has truly been a burning peak since ancient times, the temple administrator (bettō) of this mountain came about when, on the tenth day of the third month of Bunmei 1 (1469), a single monk arrived from a place called Matsuba-no-shō in Echizen Province, climbed the mountain, and received various miraculous and wondrous sacred dreams. Thereafter, he took up quiet residence in Kamanohara Village, frequently ascending the mountain, and later named his temple Enmei-ji, which became a sub-temple of Tōeizan (Kan'ei-ji in Ueno). This monk was named Gikai, and he was the founding abbot of Enmei-ji and the bettō of the Asama Daimyōjin shrine.
At this time, beginning on the ninth day of the fourth month of Tenmei 3, the year of Mizunoto-U (1783), eruptions began and ash and sand fell without ceasing day after day. On the third and fourth days of the seventh month in particular, the eruptions became extremely severe, and from Karuizawa, Usui, Sakamoto, Matsumoto, Tano, Annaka, and Takasaki...