翻刻
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【左丁】
真田信濃守より嫡子え手書三月晦日到来
去ル廿四日夜四時前大黒之絵認メ大抵出来にて未筆持テ
居候処大地震ゆり出し候得共倒余り構不申候間其侭筆持
居候処急に強く相成内外障子共一同に倒れ候間其侭縁頬え
出候処女中共久保九十郎其外近間之者迄も変事に付錠口より
参り奥之庭え出庭え畳敷其上に居候内家老三奉行抔も
参り其所にて逢候処寺内田宮も出候て忰多門ふせり居候上え
住居之場所潰ㇾ梁之下に相成瓦其外をはね漸出候処少々
怪我にて格別之事も無之候久保九十郎忰極人も少し怪我致ㇱ
恩田頼母忰も梁之下タヨリ引出し候由其外家中一同無難町方
にても中町辺大方潰死人十八人程有之怪我人は数不知 其後も
現代語訳
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**【左丁】**
真田信濃守より嫡子への手紙 三月晦日到来
去る二十四日の夜、四つ時前に大黒の絵を描いており、大方できあがって、まだ筆を持っていたところ、大地震が揺れ出しましたが、あまり気にせずそのまま筆を持っておりました。ところが急に激しくなり、内外の障子がいっせいに倒れましたので、そのまま縁側へ出たところ、女中たちや久保九十郎、そのほか近辺の者までも、異変に付き錠口から参り、奥の庭へ出て、庭に畳を敷いてその上に居りますうちに、家老・三奉行なども参り、その場所で出会いましたところ、寺内・田宮も出てきて、（私の）倅・多門がふせり居候ところの上に、住居の場所が潰れ、梁の下になり、瓦その他をはねのけて、ようやく出てきたところ、少々の怪我はあったものの、格別のことはございませんでした。久保九十郎の倅・極人も少し怪我いたし、恩田頼母の倅も梁の下から引き出した由。そのほか家中一同は無難。町方でも中町辺りは大方潰れ、死人は十八人ほどあり、怪我人は数知れず。その後も
英語訳
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A letter in the hand of Sanada Shinano-no-Kami to his heir — arrived on the last day of the third month.
On the night of the twenty-fourth, just before the Hour of the Ox [around 2 a.m.], I was painting a picture of Daikoku and it was mostly finished; I still had my brush in hand when the great earthquake began to shake. As I was not particularly alarmed, I continued to hold the brush. However, the shaking suddenly grew violent, and the inner and outer sliding screens all fell over at once, so I went out to the veranda as I was. The ladies-in-waiting, Kubo Kukurō [Kyūjūrō], and others nearby, alarmed by the event, came through the lock-gate and went out into the inner garden, where tatami mats were laid on the ground and people sat upon them. The chief elder [karō] and the three magistrates also came, and we met there. Terauchi and Tamiya emerged as well, and it was found that my son Tamon, who had been lying down, was in a place where the residence had collapsed and he had ended up under a beam — but he managed to push aside the roof tiles and other debris and get out, and though he suffered minor injuries, nothing serious had happened. Kubo Kyūjūrō's son Gokujin also sustained minor injuries, and Onda Tanomo's son was reportedly pulled out from beneath a beam. The rest of the household escaped without harm. In the town as well, the area around Nakamachi was mostly destroyed, with some eighteen dead and an uncountable number of injured. After that as well —