翻刻
沙汰しける中もドロ〳〵と時をたがへずゆり
たへず又古家古土蔵のたをれかゝるに杖を
つきつつぱりしてとゞめたるは夥敷餘多（おひたゝしくあまた）有
俄（にはか）の家がへする人あちこちにかしましくて
四日も程なく夜はいかなる者も少し身の労（つか）れ
出てたゞまどろむうち五日となり手の舞（まい）
足の踏（ふむ）ところもしらず六日七日八日夜も空（そら）は
曇（くも）りて雨は少しも降（ふ）らず夜八ツ時七ツ時に
大分つよくドロ〳〵とゆり来り皆大道へ又｜出（いて）
て取沙汰も是が七日七夜のはねなるかと云々
呪（まじな）い居るに九日になりていまたドロ〳〵と時々
鳴（な）り止まず誠に前代未聞の大変（たいへん）にて只
神を祈（いの）り仏を信（しん）じ身を慎むより｜他事（ほか）
なし心得の歌に
かみなりはあたま叩（たゝ）かれ地震とて
尻（しり）つめらるゝ 天のおしかり
現代語訳
そのような話が交わされる中にも、絶え間なくドロドロと揺れが続き、また古い家や古い土蔵が倒れかかるのを、杖で突っ張って支え止めた者が夥しく大勢いた。急いで引っ越しをする人があちこちで慌ただしく、四日目になると、どんな人もやや身体の疲れが出て、ただうとうとするうちに五日となった。喜びも悲しみも感じる余裕もなく、六日、七日、八日と、夜も空は曇って雨は少しも降らず、夜の八つ時（午前二時頃）や七つ時（午前四時頃）に、かなり強くドロドロと揺れが来て、皆また大通りへ出て、「これが七日七夜の余震というものか」などと言い合い、呪いながら過ごすうちに九日となっても、まだドロドロと時々鳴り止まず、まことに前代未聞の大変事で、ただ神に祈り仏を信じ、身を慎むよりほかにない。
心得として詠んだ歌に、
雷には頭を叩かれ、地震とて
尻をつねられる 天のお叱り
英語訳
Amid all these conversations, the rumbling tremors continued ceaselessly without pause. There were countless people who propped up tottering old houses and old earthen storehouses with poles and beams to keep them from collapsing. People hurriedly moving house were bustling about here and there. By the fourth day, everyone began to feel bodily exhaustion, and they merely dozed off where they were until the fifth day arrived. People were beyond knowing how to express their feelings — whether to dance for joy or stamp their feet in despair. Through the sixth, seventh, and eighth days, the sky remained cloudy without a drop of rain, and at around the Hour of the Ox (approximately 2 a.m.) and the Hour of the Tiger (approximately 4 a.m.), the ground shook again quite strongly with rumbling, and everyone went out into the main streets again, murmuring things like, "Could this be the aftershocks of the seven days and seven nights?" As they talked and chanted prayers against the tremors, the ninth day came, yet the rumbling still had not ceased from time to time. It was truly an unprecedented catastrophe, and there was nothing to do but pray to the gods, trust in the Buddha, and conduct oneself with caution.
A verse composed as a reminder:
Struck on the head by thunder,
and by earthquake pinched on the rear —
Heaven's scolding upon us.