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弘化四未年 信濃国大地震之次第御届書
当月廿四日昼夜快晴穏至極暖風に御座候処同夜四ッ時
大地震にて信州中ノ条私陣屋構 棟（練）塀所々ゆり倒し
其外陣屋村元 近 《見せ消ち：村々》辺村々農家手放候分は下家廻り揺倒
厳敷震動いたし暫く相立漸々相止候処夫より 少々宛
間を置不絶震動致し陣屋より北之方相当り雷鳴之
如き響仕夜明迄之内には凡八十度余之地震翌朝
少々静に相成候得共今以震動相止不申支配所之内
水内郡村々之内にては潰家怪我死人等も有之由に候得とも
未訴出不申追々風聞之趣は参候処同国川中島辺ゟ
善光寺夫より南え当り山中と唱一郷近辺重モ之地震と
相聞申候川中島辺は民家一村不残又は過半ゆり倒
現代語訳
**弘化四年（未年） 信濃国大地震之次第御届書**
当月二十四日、昼夜とも快晴で穏やかな極めて暖かい風の日でございましたところ、同夜四つ時（午後十時頃）に大地震が起こり、信州中之条の私の陣屋の構え・練塀が所々揺れ倒れ、その他、陣屋村元近辺の村々の農家で手放し（管理できない）状態になったものは、下家・廻り（周辺の建物）が揺れ倒され、激しく震動いたしました。しばらくして漸く揺れが収まったものの、それより後も少しずつ間を置いて絶えず震動し、陣屋より北の方角に当たって雷鳴のような響きがいたしました。夜明けまでの間に、およそ八十度余りの地震があり、翌朝には少々静かになりましたが、今もって震動は止まらない状況でございます。支配所の内、水内郡の村々においては、家屋の倒壊・怪我人・死人なども出ているとのことですが、未だ訴え出てはおらず、次々と風聞として入ってくる情報によりますと、同国川中島辺りから善光寺、それより南の山中と呼ばれる一郷近辺が最も重大な地震の被害を受けたと聞いております。川中島辺りでは民家が一村残らず、あるいは過半が揺れ倒れ……
英語訳
**Kōka 4th Year (Year of the Sheep) — Official Report on the Great Earthquake in Shinano Province**
On the 24th of this month, throughout the day and night the weather was beautifully clear, perfectly calm, and exceptionally warm. However, at the fourth hour of that same night (approximately 10 o'clock in the evening), a great earthquake struck. The compound walls (neribei) of my administrative outpost (jin'ya) in Nakanojō, Shinshū, were toppled in several places. Furthermore, farmhouses in the villages surrounding the outpost headquarters that could no longer be managed had their outbuildings and surrounding structures shaken to the ground, and the tremors were extremely severe. After some time, the shaking gradually subsided, but thereafter continued without cease, with small tremors at intervals. A sound resembling thunder rumbled from the direction to the north of the outpost. Until dawn, there were approximately eighty or more tremors. By the following morning, things became slightly quieter, but the trembling has not yet ceased even now. Within the territory under our administration, in the villages of Mimi-gun (Mizuchi District), there are reports of collapsed houses, injured persons, and deaths, though no formal petitions have been submitted as yet. Information continues to arrive through rumor, indicating that the area from Kawanakajima in the same province to Zenkōji temple, and further south to the region known as Yamanaka, appears to have suffered the most severe earthquake damage. In the area around Kawanakajima, not a single farmhouse in entire villages, or more than half of them, was left standing without being toppled…