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This year, not only has the entire land of Japan been suffering from famine, but in the province of Sado, due to the locusts that poured down abruptly from the heavens from the seventh day of the seventh month onward, and to the rain, in one stroke the rice crop and other grains were ruined. Furthermore, epidemics have been raging in various places, so I fear that it is difficult for people to escape death.