Conyac で依頼された翻訳結果を公開

As there is a place called Dotonbori in Osaka and "bori" means moat, 50-meter-wide moats stretched east to west in Osaka in the Edo period. It was common practice for people to escape by boat on the moat with their household goods because they feared fire could occur in the built-up area. It taught them a harsh lesson that many became the prey of the tsunami.

However, a same tsunami caused by the earthquake actually had brought many deaths 249 years earlier. It had been Houei earthquake in 1605. The lesson learned from tsunami damage was not utilized due to escape by boats and the sorrow for the failed lesson is inscribed in the stone monument built after Ansei-Nankai earthquake alongside Taisho-bashi bridge in Osaka.