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Shôchiku Harmonica Music Sheet (Shôchiku hȃmonika gakufu) No. 4
進軍 映画小唄
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Movie Song: Advance (Shingun, eiga kouta)
Shôchiku Harmonica Music Sheet (Shôchiku hȃmonika gakufu) No. 4
進軍 映画小唄
Designer: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Lyricist: Kodama Kagai (Japanese, 1874 – 1943)
Arranger: Gotô Genji (Japanese, dates unknown)
Publisher: Shôchiku kinema gakufu shuppan sha (Japanese)
Lyricist: Kodama Kagai (Japanese, 1874 – 1943)
Arranger: Gotô Genji (Japanese, dates unknown)
Publisher: Shôchiku kinema gakufu shuppan sha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1930 (Shôwa 5), March 22
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.5 × 19.1 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1185
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"A brave man from the country of the rising sun
Now going to the front;
Flags are flapping, blood is stirring
Shouts of joy and bugle calls.
Without victory there is no return
To see again the country of one’s parents;
Without glory there are no decorating flowers
Scattered bodies will not return home.
Sacred mountains Fuji and Chichibu
Look out over the waves of soldier’s shoulders;
Marching in step like the ocean
Already engulfing the enemy troops.
The fighting man and bird in the sky
Where the plane will meet its fate;
We implore our brothers of the sky
Japanese swords control the earth.
Japanese spirit loads guns
Opens fire on the shadow of enemies;
Evil disappears like clouds or mist
The Emperor’s army shines brightly."
"A brave man from the country of the rising sun
Now going to the front;
Flags are flapping, blood is stirring
Shouts of joy and bugle calls.
Without victory there is no return
To see again the country of one’s parents;
Without glory there are no decorating flowers
Scattered bodies will not return home.
Sacred mountains Fuji and Chichibu
Look out over the waves of soldier’s shoulders;
Marching in step like the ocean
Already engulfing the enemy troops.
The fighting man and bird in the sky
Where the plane will meet its fate;
We implore our brothers of the sky
Japanese swords control the earth.
Japanese spirit loads guns
Opens fire on the shadow of enemies;
Evil disappears like clouds or mist
The Emperor’s army shines brightly."
Marks
“Hishizawa” at lower right
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)