"My husband Ecchu was killed in battle together with Sakon (literally, the Palace Guards of the Left, but the word probably specifies a person here), and that made me a widow now. Please, do have mercy on me. I beseech you to send this letter to my old mother awaiting at home for consolation."
「夫越中、左近と共に戦死し、わらわ今寡婦となりたれば、請う、君少しく哀憐を垂れ、願わくは書をもって家に致し、もって老母の情を慰めしめよ」