Sokoku no mamori/祖国の護り [With English and Romaji subtitles]

Описание: 祖国の護り / Sokoku no mamori / Guardian of the Homeland
Japanese Military Song

Singer: Meguru Ono, Japan Victor Male Chorus
Performer: Japan Victor Orchestra

Record released by Victor Records in March 1935

Lyricist: Yaso Saijo
Composer: Kuniyasu Murakoshi

[About this song]
This song, subtitled "Song in Praise of Marshal Oyama", is about Field Marshal General of the IJA Iwao Oyama. In 1842, he was born in Satsuma (present-day western Kagoshima Prefecture). He first went to the battlefield during the Boshin War as an artillery captain for the new government. After that, he was dispatched to Europe, where he observed the Franco-Prussian War and researched weapons in Geneva. During the Russo-Japanese War, he served as Supreme Commander, and his exploits were honored alongside those of Heihachiro Togo of the IJN.
This song is also Meguru Ono's first hit.

[About translation]
*Sakurajima
A volcano located in Kagoshima.

*truly like his name "Great Mountain"
Iwao Oyama's surname "大山" literally means "great mountain" or "big mountain".

[Rōmaji lyrics]
Kaitō ten o tsuku tokoro
Moete hi o haku sakurajima
Satsuma ga umeru kai-danji
Sei wa ōyama na wa iwao

Jūhachi ken o hissagete
Hayaku mo tsukusu kinnō ya
Keppū susamu toba fushimi
Hana wa tsubomi no chigo-zakura

Kōkoku no tame umi o koe
Tōki tabine no yōroppa
Kimi ga kiwameshi senjutsu wa
Nihon o terasu shin-shōkō

Hōten saka no taisen ni
Sassō tari ya shireikan
Yoku sangun o shitta shite
Sokoku no kyū o sukuitari

Sōretsu giretsu jinchū no
Shisei ni moyuru kunkō wa
Ge ni ōyama no na no gotoku
Banko-fukyū ni sobiyuran

[Japanese lyrics]
海濤 天を衝くところ
燃えて火を吐く桜島
薩摩が生める快男児
姓は大山 名は巌

十八 剣をひっさげて
夙くも尽くす勤王や
血風すさむ鳥羽伏見
花は蕾の稚児桜

皇国のため海を越え
遠き旅寝のヨーロッパ
君が究めし戦術は
日本を照らす新曙光

奉天 沙河の大戦に
颯爽たりや司令官
よく三軍を叱咤して
祖国の急を救いたり

壮烈 義烈 尽忠の
至誠に燃ゆる勲功は
実に大山の名のごとく
万古不朽に聳ゆらん