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
り諸人外の小屋二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）沿いの者はいうに及ばず、有明の里の者まで、昔の湖（のよう）になってしまうのではないかと（心配し）、仏崎の観音へ参詣する人が夥しく（おびただしく）（ありました）。松本の御城主様（においては）、組々の大庄屋へ仰せ聞かせになり、常陸の国・鹿島大神宮へ御代参があったとのことです。これは水が引いた後のことです。
さて、また三清寺（みすみでら）を御見分ありて、「案じる（心配する）ことはあるまい」と仰せになりました。また、下賤の者どもの思うところも、岩倉山は元来土山であり、もっとも中に大石が抜け落ちたとはいえ、土の深い山ゆえ、大地震の折に（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れば、万々年（まんまんねん）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）からの満々たる（水の）海は日々増し、溢れ来たり、いかにせんと案じ煩い、夜も寝付かれず、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・越後までの人々は、今にも水が押し来るかと心配し、皆山へ登り、諸人外の小屋に暮らしておりましたが、四月十三日七ッ時（ななつどき）、花倉へ（水が）突き埋めた土手が切れ、その鳴り音は天地に響き、一度にどっと押し払い、暮れ六ッ（くれむつ）（の頃）には終いには次第に常の水（平常の水位）ともなりました。
さてこそ、松代御領分・水押しの村々を左に記します。
英語訳
Those living along the (Sai River) need hardly be mentioned, but even the people of the Ariake village (area) feared that (the land) might revert to the ancient lake it once was, and great numbers of people went on pilgrimage to the Kannon of Hotokesaki. The lord of Matsumoto Castle conveyed instructions to the chief headmen (ōshōya) of each district, and it is said that a proxy pilgrimage (daisan) was dispatched to the Grand Shrine of Kashima in Hitachi Province. This occurred after the waters had receded.
Furthermore, an inspection was made of Misumi-dera (temple), and (the lord) declared, "There is nothing to worry about." The common people likewise reasoned that, although Mount Iwakura is fundamentally a soil mountain, and though large boulders had indeed fallen from within it, because it is a mountain of deep earth, (the boulders) fell during the great earthquake; and since Misumi-dera stands on cliffs of solid single-slab rock on both banks, there should be no danger of rockfalls for ten thousand years—
**Left folio:**
—and so they felt relieved. Yet the vast sea of water from below continued to rise day by day, brimming and threatening to overflow, and people were at a loss as to what to do. They lay awake through the nights with worry, and during the day could not keep their hands to their work.
Furthermore, the people of the villages below the Hanakura embankment—all the way through Kawanakajima and into Echigo Province—feared that the waters might surge upon them at any moment. All climbed to the mountains, and everyone lived in shelters outside (their homes). 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 thrust and buried at Hanakura broke. The roar resounded throughout heaven and earth, and all at once the waters swept away in a great rush. By the time of the sixth bell of evening (around 6 p.m.), the waters had gradually subsided to their normal level.
And so, I shall record below the villages in the Matsushiro domain that were struck by the floodwaters.