翻刻
【右丁】
行燈ゆり消し候間直様戸を蹴放し候内御母は小児を抱き庭へ
出申候潤三郎如吉を出し可申と存候処両度迄ころび申下女一人にて
潤三郎如吉とも一所に出し可申ところけ出し居を介抱いたし
漸々三人とも出し申候跡の下女両人は余之間に泊り消候と無中に
なり最早死候事と泣居申外より大声にて早く出よ〳〵と申候ても
出不申泣声聞へ候間自分飛込候得共真暗にて声計りにて相分り
不申漸々壱人之手を取り外えなけ出し又壱人も同様にいたし
漸安心致し候処又々内にて声のいたし候間誰々と呼候に潤三郎義は
初に出し候をねほけ候てをつかんに逢候と存又々内え飛込漸々無
中にて出し庭中に戸板を敷皆々を置漸々大小を取りに内に入
申候其夜は八十度余も大きく震申候余程続き由に候得とも右之
【左丁】
騒にて一向存不申跡にて承候得は勝蔵抔は表にて早く外え出見
候処屋根之棟ゆら〳〵と大浪を打候様に有之由危き事にて
御座候少々ツヽ地も破れ申候存外に家は潰無之候土蔵之壁は
多分落申候しかし中ノ条は一番軽く相聞申候今日迄二日二夜
庭中に仮家致し居申先々ゆり程遠に相成候間両三日も立候はゝ
止ミ可申候案事申間敷候一円に軽くなり候ても大七八度小五七十
度震申候猶追々咄しを承り可申入候善光寺之咄は余程之
大変前代未聞之由に御座候かわはや百人又は五十人連ㇾ之ばゝァ悉ク
押し打れ候上焼死いたしいやなる時節に逢候様に候得共又後学に
成候事共多く候古昔はつりあんどん多有之由地震にこり候時
節と見へ申候
現代語訳
**【右丁】**
行燈が揺れて消えてしまったので、すぐさま戸を蹴り開けたところ、御母上は小児を抱いて庭へ出ました。潤三郎と如吉を（安全な場所へ）出してやろうと思ったところ、（自分は）二度までも転んでしまい、下女一人で潤三郎と如吉ともども一緒に（外へ）出してやろうとしたところ、（下女が）転んでいるのを介抱し、ようやく三人とも（外へ）出しました。残りの下女二人はほかの間に泊まっており、消えるように（姿が見え）なくなり、もはや死んだことと泣いておりました。外から大声で「早く出よ、早く出よ」と言っても出てこず、泣き声だけが聞こえるので、自分（＝筆者）が飛び込んだところ、真っ暗で声だけを頼りにしては分かりません。ようやく一人の手を取って外へ投げ出し、またもう一人も同様にして、ようやく安心しました。ところがまた屋内で声がするので、誰々と呼ぶと、潤三郎は最初に外へ出したのに、寝ぼけてお婆のところへ会いに（戻った）と思い、またも屋内へ飛び込み、ようやく暗闇の中で（潤三郎を）外へ出し、庭中に戸板を敷いて皆々をその上に置き、ようやく（自分の）大小（刀）を取りに屋内に入りました。その夜は八十度余りも大きく揺れました。余程（揺れが）続いた由ではございますが、右の
**【左丁】**
騒ぎにて全く気づきませんでした。後で聞いたところによれば、勝蔵などは表に出て早く外の様子を見たところ、屋根の棟がゆらゆらと大波を打つように揺れていた由、危ないことでございます。少しずつ地面も割れました。思いのほか家は潰れませんでした。土蔵の壁はかなり落ちました。しかし中之条は（被害が）一番軽いと聞いております。今日まで二日二夜、庭中に仮の家を作って過ごしております。先々（これから）は揺れが遠のいてきたので、二、三日も経てば止むことでしょう。案じるには及びません。（揺れは）すっかり軽くなったとはいえ、大きいものが七、八度、小さいものが五、七十度揺れております。なお追々（続報を）お話として承ることでしょう。善光寺の話は余程の大変事で、前代未聞の由でございます。川でも百人、あるいは五十人連れのお婆さん（たち）がことごとく押しつぶされた上、焼死しており、いやな時節に遭ったようではございますが、また後学になることも多うございます。古い昔には吊り行燈が多くあった由、地震に懲りた（から吊り行燈が普及した）時節と見えます。
英語訳
**[Right folio]**
The hanging lamp swayed and went out, so I immediately kicked open the door; the household's mother had already grabbed a small child and gone out into the garden. I intended to get Junzaburō and Yukichi out to safety, but I fell over twice myself; the single maidservant attempted to get both Junzaburō and Yukichi out together, but she too had fallen, so I assisted her, and we finally managed to get all three of them outside. The remaining two maidservants had been lodging in another room and had vanished completely, as if swallowed up — everyone assumed they must be dead by now and was weeping. From outside, we called out loudly again and again, "Come out! Come out!" but they did not emerge; since we could hear their crying voices, I plunged back inside, but it was pitch dark and I could only follow the sound without being able to locate them. At last I seized one by the hand and threw her out through the entrance, then did the same for the second, and finally felt some relief. But then voices were heard again from inside — calling out "Who is it? Who is it?", I realized that Junzaburō, who had been the first one I had gotten out, must have gone back in half-asleep, thinking he was going to find the old woman; so I plunged inside once more, and in the darkness finally got him out again. We spread wooden doors across the garden as a floor and laid everyone down on them; then at last I went back inside to retrieve my daishō (long and short swords). That night the earth shook greatly some eighty times or more. It seems the shaking continued at considerable length, but amid the
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**[Left folio]**
commotion described above, I was entirely unaware of it. Hearing afterward, I was told that Katsuzō and others had come out to the front and looked out at the scene early on, and that the ridge of the roof was swaying back and forth like great waves — a terrifying sight. The ground cracked open slightly here and there. Contrary to expectations, few houses were completely destroyed. The earthen warehouse walls crumbled considerably. However, Nakanojō appears to have suffered the lightest damage of anywhere. For the past two days and two nights up to today, I have been living in a makeshift shelter set up in the garden. Going forward, the tremors seem to have been growing more distant, and I expect they will stop within two or three days — there is no need to worry. Even though things have become considerably calmer overall, there are still seven or eight large tremors and fifty to seventy small ones. I expect to hear further accounts as news arrives. The story of Zenkoji is an extraordinary catastrophe, said to be unprecedented. Even along the river, groups of a hundred or fifty old women pilgrims were all crushed and then burned to death — it seems a dreadful time we have encountered, yet there is much to learn from it for the future. I have heard that in ancient times hanging lamps were widely used — it would appear that this was a period when people had learned their lesson from earthquakes.