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The lyrics for Roei no Uta were chosen in such a fashion, after a contest jointly held by the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. The jury, which included the writer Kan Kikuchi and the poet Hakushū Kitahara , awarded Kīchirō Yabūchi's Roei no Uta as the winning entry.
"Kimigayo" is the national anthem of Japan.The lyrics are from a waka poem written by an unnamed author in the Heian period (794–1185), [1] and the current melody was chosen in 1880, [2] replacing an unpopular melody composed by John William Fenton in 1869.
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
"Roi" (pronounced; transl. King) is a song performed by French singer Bilal Hassani and written by Hassani, Madame Monsieur and Medeline. The song represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv , Israel .
The lyrics of the song were further changed with its newer title, "Shiretoko Love Song". This version sung by Tokiko Kato became extremely popular, and single record was a million seller in Japan. She won the singer award of the 13th Japan Record Awards of 1971. [3] Shiretoko still continues to be one of the songs most often sung in Japan's ...
Rofū Miki (1948) "Red Dragonfly" (Japanese: 赤とんぼ, Hepburn: Akatonbo) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki.
The first verse of the song. Hotaru no Hikari (蛍の光, meaning "Glow of a firefly") is a Japanese song incorporating the tune of Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne with completely different lyrics by Chikai Inagaki, first introduced in a collection of singing songs for elementary school students in 1881 (Meiji 14).
"Battōtai" (抜刀隊, Drawn-Sword Regiment) is a Japanese gunka composed by Charles Leroux with lyrics by Toyama Masakazu in 1877. Upon the request of the Japanese government, Leroux adapted it along with another gunka, "Fusōka" ( Song of Fusang ) , into the military march Japanese Army March [ ja ] in 1912.