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The poem was included in many anthologies, and was used in a later period as a celebration song of a long life by people of all social statures. Unlike the form used for the current national anthem, the poem originally began with "Waga Kimi wa" ('my lord') instead of "Kimiga Yo wa" ('my lord's reign'). [10]
The Ode of Showa Restoration (昭和維新 （ しょうわいしん ） の 歌 （ うた ）, shōwaishin no uta) is a 1930 song by Japanese naval officer Mikami Taku. It was composed as an anthem for the Young Officers Movement. The song makes strong appeal to natural and religious imagery.
The song is a duet, featuring the Japanese actress Michiko Namiki and the singer Noboru Kirishima and released in January 1946. It is considered the first hit song in Japan after World War II. [citation needed] "Soyokaze" (そよかぜ, Soft breeze) was released on October 11, 1945, and was the first movie produced after World War II in Japan ...
Kuroda Bushi (Japanese: 黒田節, literally the tune of Kuroda), also known as Kuroda-bushi, is a folk song from Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. This song, since its birth in the 1590s, has become popular across Japan, being sung now often at nomikai (drinking parties) or at karaoke .
Gunka (軍歌, lit. ' military song ') is the Japanese term for military music. While in standard use in Japan it applies both to Japanese songs and foreign songs such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", as an English language category it refers to songs produced by the Empire of Japan in between roughly 1877 and 1943.
Henry van Dyke originally wrote these lyrics in 1907 as a poem entitled "Hymn of Joy," and with the words set to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," the song has largely been known by its first line ...
"Umi Yukaba" (海行かば) is a Japanese song whose lyrics are based on a chōka poem by Ōtomo no Yakamochi in the Man'yōshū (poem 4094), an eighth century anthology of Japanese poetry, set to music by Kiyoshi Nobutoki.
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