翻刻
之者はいふに不及有明の里の者迄も古の湖
水にも相成哉と仏崎の観音え参詣之人
夥し松本御城主様にては組々大庄屋へ被
仰聞常 陸（ダチ）の国鹿嶋大神宮え御代参有
之しとかや是は水引後の事也扨又三清寺
を御見分ありて案事は有之間敷と被仰又
下賤の思ふ所も岩倉山は元来土山にて尤
中に大石抜ヶ落候へ共土 《見せ消ち：源｜深》の山故代大地
震に抜ヶ落しが三清寺は両岸共に一巻
石之山なれば万々年抜ヶ落はある間敷
【左丁】
と安堵之思ひをなすといへども下よりの満海
日々増したたゑ来り如何はせんと案事煩
ひ夜も不寝入昼は仕事も手に不付且又花
倉土手より下の村々川中島越後迄の人
々は今にも水押来るかと案事皆山へ登
り諸人外の小屋に暮せしが四月十三日七ッ
時花倉え突埋の土手切レ其鳴り音天地
に響き一度にどつと押払暮六ッ終には追々
常水とも相成ける扨てこそ松代御領分水押
の村々左に記ス
現代語訳
（犀川）沿いの者はいうまでもなく、有明の里の者までも、「昔の湖水（に戻るの）ではないか」と思い、仏崎の観音へ参詣する人が夥しくありました。松本の御城主様におかれては、組々の大庄屋へお申し付けになり、常陸の国・鹿島大神宮へ御代参をなさったとのことです。これは水が引いた後のことでございます。
さて、また（松本城主は）三清寺をご見分になり、「案じるには及ぶまい」とおっしゃいました。また、下々の者が思うところも、岩倉山はもともと土山であり、なるほど中に大石が抜け落ちたとはいえ、土深（土の深い）山ゆえ、大地震の際に（大石が）抜け落ちたのであり、三清寺は両岸ともに一枚岩の山であるから、万々年（永遠に）抜け落ちることはあるまい、
【左丁】
と安堵の思いをなすとはいえ、下（流）よりの満々たる（海のような）水が日々増し、湛えてくるので、「いかにすべきか」と心配し煩い、夜も眠れず、昼は仕事も手につかず。また花倉土手より下の村々、川中島・越後に至るまでの人々は、「今にも水が押し来るのではないか」と案じ、皆山へ登り、諸人は外の小屋に暮らしておりましたが、四月十三日七ツ時、花倉へ突き埋めた土手が切れ、その鳴り音は天地に響き、一度にどっと（水が）押し払われ、暮れ六ツの終わりにはだんだんと平常の水（水位）にもなりました。
さて、こうして松代御領分の水押（水害）の村々を左に記します。
英語訳
Those living along the (Sai River) need not even be mentioned — even the people of the Ariake village believed the area might revert to the ancient lake it once was, and great numbers of people made pilgrimages to the Kannon of Hotokesaki. The lord of Matsumoto Castle issued instructions to the chief headmen (ōshōya) of each district group, and it is said that a proxy pilgrimage (daisan) was dispatched to the Great Shrine of Kashima in Hitachi Province. This was after the waters had receded.
Furthermore, (the lord of Matsumoto) conducted an inspection of Sanseiji (Temple), and declared that there was no need for concern. Likewise, the common people reasoned as follows: Iwakura Mountain is fundamentally a soil mountain, and although large rocks had indeed broken away from within it, it was a deeply earthen mountain, and it was on account of the great earthquake that the rocks had fallen away. Sanseiji, however, stands on solid rock cliffs on both banks, and therefore there could be no chance of rock falls for ten thousand years to come —
**Left folio:**
— and so they found some measure of reassurance. Nevertheless, the vast, sea-like waters from below continued to rise day by day and swell ever higher, and people were filled with worry and anxiety: they could not sleep at night, and by day could not keep their hands to their work. Moreover, the people of the villages below the Hanakura embankment — all the way through Kawanakajima and into Echigo Province — fearing that the waters might surge toward them at any moment, all climbed up into the mountains, and everyone spent their days and nights in makeshift shelters outdoors.
Then, on the thirteenth day of the Fourth Month, at the Hour of the Seventh Bell (around 4 p.m.), the embankment that had been used to plug the breach at Hanakura gave way. The sound of its breaking reverberated across heaven and earth, and all at once the waters surged and swept away. By the end of the Hour of Twilight (around 6 p.m.), the river gradually returned to its normal level.
And so, the villages within the Matsushiro domain that were inundated by the floodwaters are recorded on the left (following page) as follows.