When engaged in the military service in the year of Jinshin, you, SAKANOUE no Imiki Okina, took yourself off to face the national crisis and confronted it regardless of the risk of losing your life and narrowly escaping certain death.
汝、坂上忌寸老は壬申の年の軍役に自分の命をかえりみず、社稷の急に赴き、万死を出て国難に立ち向かった。