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Shinkô Music Sheet (Shinkô gakufu) No. 1282
国民進軍歌
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National Subjects' Marching Song (Kokumin shingunka)
Shinkô Music Sheet (Shinkô gakufu) No. 1282
国民進軍歌
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Lyricist: Shimo Yasuji (Japanese, dates unknown)
Composer: Matsuda Yōhei (Japanese, dates uknown)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Lyricist: Shimo Yasuji (Japanese, dates unknown)
Composer: Matsuda Yōhei (Japanese, dates uknown)
Publisher: Shinkō ongaku shuppansha
Japanese
Shôwa era
1940 (Shôwa 15), September 5
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 25.6 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1188
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
"This sun, this sky, this light
Asia dawns, majestically
With burning hope, the hundred million*
Our disabled heroes, carried on their backs,
Now with firm stride, take the first step
Support the cause, march!
That blood, that flesh, that life
Dedicated to the country, the loyal dead,
With endless gratitude, the hundred million
Protect the surviving families of honor
Now, footsteps, completely aloft
Carry out our ideals, march!
That child, that father, that husband
As shields of the empire, conquer and conquer
The invigorated homefront too, the hundred million
Continue to support, the soldier’s houses
Now, to the front, respond together
Voices also roar, march!
Our body, our spirit, our power
With one heart, bring us together
With firm readiness, the hundred million
The heroes who have returned, go out ahead
Now, to the continent, to the ocean
Everyone in the country, march!"
"This sun, this sky, this light
Asia dawns, majestically
With burning hope, the hundred million*
Our disabled heroes, carried on their backs,
Now with firm stride, take the first step
Support the cause, march!
That blood, that flesh, that life
Dedicated to the country, the loyal dead,
With endless gratitude, the hundred million
Protect the surviving families of honor
Now, footsteps, completely aloft
Carry out our ideals, march!
That child, that father, that husband
As shields of the empire, conquer and conquer
The invigorated homefront too, the hundred million
Continue to support, the soldier’s houses
Now, to the front, respond together
Voices also roar, march!
Our body, our spirit, our power
With one heart, bring us together
With firm readiness, the hundred million
The heroes who have returned, go out ahead
Now, to the continent, to the ocean
Everyone in the country, march!"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)