英語訳
## A Kawaraban (News Broadsheet) Concerning the Great Edo Fire of the Third Month of Bunsei 12 (1829)
On the 21st day of the 3rd month of Bunsei 12 (the Year of the Ox, 1829), around the Hour of the Snake in the morning (approximately 10 a.m.), a fire broke out from a riverside shack in the Soto-Kanda area. A fierce north wind was blowing at the time, and sparks flew as far as the base of the Yanagihara embankment. One of the official rice storehouses (o-momi-gura) burned to the ground. From there, flames spread across a wide front, breaking out toward Kodenma-chō, the Prison, and Ōmon-dōri. The Daimaru dry goods store, along with the homes and storehouses of other major merchants in the vicinity, were burned away. Fukiya-chō, and the kabuki and puppet theaters of Sakai-chō were also entirely destroyed.
To the east, the fire spread toward the residence of the Gundai (the magistrate overseeing rural districts), the Bakurō-chō area, Yokoyama-chō, Hashi-chō, and further toward Yanagibashi and the Ryōgoku Hirokōji. Gathering momentum, it swept through the residences of the daimyō, burning everything as far as Hama-chō, Eikyū Bridge, and the edge of Eitai Bridge. The fire then shifted to Hakozaki, Shinkawa, Shimbori, and Reigan-jima, burning the residence of the Lord of Echizen and all the townspeople's houses without exception. Sparks even flew to Tsukuda Island, burning every last building on the island.
Furthermore, from Sujikai, the fire burned through Suda-chō, Mikawa-chō, Nabe-chō, Kaji-chō, the area around Ryūkan Bridge, Imagawa Bridge, Gin-chō, Ishi-chō, Hon-chō, Suruga-chō — including both branches of the Echigo-ya (a major draper's shop) — and the lined-up establishments of great merchants in the Muromachi area were all burned away. Odawara-chō, Setomono-chō, Ise-chō, Nihonbashi, Dobashi, Yokkaichi, Kawara Bridge, Komatsu-chō, Terifuri-chō, Koami-chō, Hon-zaimoku-chō, Kaisoku Bridge, Kayaba-chō and beyond, North and South Hatchōbori, the Teppōzu area, the Tsukiji Monzeki temple precinct — all were burned without exception. Also the residences of numerous daimyō great and small, the Hitotsubashi residence, the Owari clan's warehouse residence, and countless others were lost to fire. In the Kōhiki-chō area, the Kishū clan's warehouse residence and other residences, the Kawarasaki kabuki theater, the theater district, and all townspeople's houses were completely destroyed, burning even as far as the Okudaira clan's residence. The Nihonbashi bridge itself was burned and collapsed; Tōri-chō, Hirokōji, and Kyōbashi also burned and collapsed. Ginza-chō, Sanjikken-bori, Owari-chō, Takekawa-chō, and beyond Shimbashi as far as Shiodome — the Wakisaka clan's residence was partly burned.
Also, the areas around Isseki Bridge, the riverside, Gofuku-chō, Hinoki-chō, Oke-chō, Bikuni Bridge, Yumi-chō, Sukiya Bridge, South Nabe-chō, up to the edge of Dobashi were burned, and the fire was finally brought under control on the morning of the 22nd.
On this day the north wind was particularly fierce, sometimes mixing with westerly winds, sometimes with easterly winds (kochi) swirling around, blowing sand and raising dust; following the wind, it was terrifyingly violent. The flames blazed and surged upward, as if scorching the very heavens themselves.
In the streets of every quarter — north, south, east, and west — people old and young, men and women alike, abandoned the household goods and clothing they had managed to carry out, scattering in all directions. Parents abandoned children; children were separated from parents; husbands and wives were torn apart. People stumbled and tumbled over abandoned belongings. [Many] were burned to death. The sound of weeping and screaming shook heaven and earth, no different from the Hell of Screaming (Kyōkan-jigoku), a sight too terrible to behold. To call it pitiful would be an understatement.
The great residences and storehouses of the daimyō lords and those throughout the various towns that had been so splendidly built — the number that burned and collapsed was so great as to be beyond counting. Furthermore, that all three of the great kabuki theaters were simultaneously destroyed by fire was something that could only be called unprecedented in all of history.
After the fire was extinguished, the remaining vacant houses in the unburned districts were immediately all rented out, and there was no means by which people could find housing; those sleeping outdoors were extraordinarily numerous, and the hardship was beyond description. Therefore, in their most gracious compassion, the authorities erected emergency relief shelters (o-sukui-goya) in open fields at various locations, accommodating those left on the streets, and furthermore bestowed upon them food for both morning and evening meals, relieving the suffering of the people. The graciousness of the lord's benevolence is such that one cannot look up to it enough; it was truly an event without precedent.
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**Locations of Emergency Relief Shelters (O-sukui-goya):**
- Outside Sujikai-bashi Gate — 1 location
- Edo-bashi Hirokōji — same (1 location)
- Outside Saiwai-bashi Gate — same
- Outside Sukiya-bashi Gate — same
- Outside Kanda-bashi Gate — same
- Outside Tokiwa-bashi Gate — same
- Matsuya-bashi riverside — 2 locations
- In front of Tsukiji Monzeki — 2 locations
- Ryōgoku Hirokōji — 1 location
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**Map Legend:**
- □ (open square): Upper residence (kami-yashiki) of a daimyō
- △ (open triangle): Middle residence (naka-yashiki) of a daimyō
- ○ (open circle): Lower residence (shimo-yashiki) of a daimyō
- ■ (filled square): [Burned upper residence]
- ▲ (filled triangle): [Burned middle residence]
- ● (filled circle): [Burned lower residence]
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**Place Names and Estate Names Noted on the Map (major items):**
*Northern area (Kanda vicinity):* Sakuma-chō 2-chōme, Zaimoku-chō, Sujikai Gate, Izumi Bridge, Arashi Bridge, Asakusa Gate, Yanagibashi, Ryōgoku Bridge, Honjo, Suda-chō, rice storehouse (momi-kura), Iwamoto-chō, Kaji-chō, Kodenma-chō, Bakurō-chō, Yokoyama-chō, Hon-chō, Ō-Tenma-chō, Yanagihara Dōbō-chō, Tokiwa-bashi Gate, Suruga-chō, Setomono-chō, Nihonbashi, etc.
*Central area (Nihonbashi/Kyōbashi vicinity):* Muromachi, Odawara-chō, Ise-chō, Nihonbashi, Isseki Bridge, Koami-chō, Sakai-chō, Kobuna-chō, Hon-zaimoku-chō, Kaisoku Bridge, Kayaba-chō, Hatchōbori, Teppōzu, Tsukiji Monzeki, Gofuku-bashi Gate, Kajibashi Gate, Sukiya-bashi Gate, Kyōbashi, Ginza, Sanjikken-bori, Shimbashi, etc.
*Southern area (Hama-chō, Reigan-jima, Tsukuda Island vicinity):* Hama-chō, Eikyū Bridge, Eitai Bridge, Hakozaki, Shinkawa, Shimbori, Reigan-jima, Ishikawa-jima, Sumiyoshi, Tsukuda Island (noted: "The large ships here were completely burned to ashes")
*Daimyō Residences noted:* Hitotsubashi, Owari, Kishū (Kii), Echizen, Okudaira, Wakisaka, Hosokawa, Kuze Nagato, Tayasu, Matsudaira Echizen, Matsudaira Tosa, Matsudaira Echū, Ii Kamon, Sakai, Makino, Andō, Inaba, Doi Ōi, Date, Owari, and many others.