翻刻
抑駿河国賤畠山に御立有浅間大菩薩の御
本地を尋奉￣ルに頃はいつ成￣ルらん其頃花の都に
源の玄官公と申て公家の御流おわします
御年廿三御きりやうたにこゑましませは高￣キも
賤￣キもしたわぬ人はなかりけり然共未定￣ル北の方
ましまさずかゝる折ふし下野国より登￣リし人
の申けるは我国に五万長者と申てうとく
人ましまし候姫君壱人持せ給ふ此姫みめ形
世に勝￣レ月にたはふれ花にめて空吹風に琴合￣セ
現代語訳
そもそも駿河国の賤ヶ岳（しずがたけ）にご鎮座なさる浅間大菩薩の御本地を尋ね申し上げると、それはいつの頃のことであったろうか。その頃、花の都（京の都）に、源の玄官公（げんかんこう）と申す公家のご流儀の方がいらっしゃいました。御年二十三歳で、そのご器量は誰よりも優れていらっしゃいましたので、身分の高い方も低い方も、慕わない人はおりませんでした。しかしながら、まだ定まった北の方（奥方・妻）がいらっしゃいませんでした。ちょうどそのような折に、下野国から上京した人が申しますには、「我が国に五万長者と申す、大変裕福な方がいらっしゃいまして、姫君を一人お持ちでいらっしゃいます。この姫君は、お顔立ち・お姿が世にも優れていて、月に戯れ、花を愛で、空を吹く風に合わせて琴を奏でられ…」
英語訳
Now, inquiring into the true nature (honji) of the Great Bodhisattva Asama, who is enshrined at Shizugatake in Suruga Province: in what age might this have taken place? In those days, in the flowering capital (Kyoto), there resided a gentleman of noble lineage known as Lord Genkan of the Minamoto clan. He was twenty-three years of age, and his appearance and bearing were so superior to all others that there was no one, whether of high or low station, who did not adore him. However, he had not yet taken a wife (a "Northern Lady"). It was at just such a time that a person who had traveled up to the capital from Shimotsuke Province came and said: "In our province there is a man known as the Goman Chōja (the Millionaire of Five Myriads), a most wealthy and distinguished person, who has one daughter in his care. This princess surpasses all in the world in her beauty and grace — she plays among the moonlight, delights in flowers, and harmonizes her koto with the wind blowing through the sky..."