The History and Meaning of the Japanese National Anthem
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- “I thought the Olympic/Paralympic games would be a great occasion for me to talk about 君が代 Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan”
After going through many obstacles, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics began from July 23rd and will continue until August 8th.
I thought that this would be a great occasion for me to talk about Japan's national anthem “君が代 kimigayo,” because you will surely be hearing it at the ceremonies.
I would like to explain the meaning of the song, by breaking down the lyrics and taking a closer look at when and how it was made.
Understanding what is sung in the national anthem will surely deepen your understanding towards the characteristics of Japanese people, and also the history of Japan.
Also, at the end of the video, I would like to introduce a problem regarding the national anthem; the conflict between the country and some groups of teachers who are fighting against the forcing of singing the national anthem at school ceremonies.
Today, the national anthem is seen by some people as a negative legacy that is a symbol of the colonial invasion eras...
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1:45 The history and meaning of the Japanese national anthem
6:07 Why some reject singing this song
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Brazil has the largest Japanese descendents community overseas. At undoukai events people always sing the Brazilian Anthem and Kimigayo in the opening ceremony: the Brazilian because we are Brazilian (patriotism) and Kimigayo to remember the ancestors (respect) who emmigrated and brought Japanese culture, sports and culinary to Brazil.
Damn, well i learned something about brazil japanese relations, btw what is an undoukai
@@h.k3260 Undoukai (運動会）in Brazil is an annual event that several Japanese descendants communities promote in order to integrate the families by practicing sports and cultural activities. It is inspired by the Undoukai of the Japanese elementary school that teach children the importance of working together and efforts to compete for a team.
Os japa Br as vezes capricha no fascismo e nem percebe
@@akenji47 ain celebrar sua cultura é tão fascista
@@cell9493 s, a cultura nem nossa é, é de uns japa que saíram de lá quando o país era fascista!
Indonesia's National Anthem "Indonesia Raya" is a national anthem that purely talks about the Freedom of Indonesian and how we Indonesian people love our country so much. The song was created by Wage Rudolf Supratman. He created and played this song during the second Indonesian youth congress and received much applause from the people at the congress. Later his song "Indonesia Raya" was used to promote the unification and freedom of Indonesian people under Dutch occupation. Interestingly, under Japanese occupation, Indonesia's flag and national anthem were allowed by Japanese people. However, not because the Japanese cared about Indonesian at that time, but because they want to give sympathy to Indonesian, so Indonesian wants to join them in the pacific war against the United States.
To add: the Indonesian National Anthem has 3 stanzas but most people sing the first stanza only. I don’t know if it is because of me going to an international school but I honestly didn’t know about 3 stanzas until recently since all I sing in school was the first stanza only.
Don't worry, i'm sure most indonesians also don't know about the next 2 stanzas.
@@TheodoreManthovani lol true
@@TheodoreManthovani actually there is no need to memorize the other two stanzas
Since we only learned and sang the first one in our school era every monday on school ceremony
Also if we sing all stanzas in every official events it will waste of three minutes and too long
@@JWStheDRAGONVNQSHR aih sungguh disayangkan
I like how peaceful and yet impactful the Japanese national anthem is. You can feel how old that anthem is!
5:09 The way your voice sounds when you sing the Kimigayo sounds amazing Shogo!
In Spain our national anthem is even shorter because we don't have lyrics haha !
Thanks for all your nice work !
Thanks for that tip!
Ah I remember a movie about Spanish civil war with a scene where the soldier confused about how to sing the anthem and just decided to humming along lol
@@EukalyptusBonBon which movie?
Lupang Hinirang (Tagalog, “Chosen Land”) is the national anthem of the Philippines. Its music was composed in 1898 by Julian Felipe, and the lyrics were adapted from the Spanish poem Filipinas, written by José Palma in 1899.
True
It was originally sung in Spanish
One of the anthems that shifts the key, the other anthems are South African National Anthem (originally Lord Bless Africa and The Call of South Africa) and Il Canto degli Italiani
I love "Kimi ga yo" as the Japanese anthem. I always thought of it as some sort of beautiful haiku poem. What matters is what it means to you when you sing it, like, wishing for Japan's prosperity 💕
Also, well wishes for the emperor's reign is much less nationalistic and a lot more inclusive than the vast majority of national anthems. Kimigayo is subsequently criticized for both nationalistic implication and for not being about the nation.
Our national anthem, from India is
"Jan Gan Man" and was first sung in 1905 in the Indian National Congress session of Kolkata. It was penned by Rabindranath Tagore (first Asian Nobel laureate), a great Bengali literary giant.
There's a myth around it, that it was meant for George V, which is not true.
Funfact - The actual poem is 5mins long divided in 4 parts and the first part (52 sec) has been made the national anthem
Am bengali
@@NoOneGotPeace Congratulations
AMULYA MISHRA it’s about Hindu god
@@voltgaming2213 its about the supreme being who guids our nation.
Haha, Japan's national anthem is the shortest, and my country's national anthem is the longest! Greece's national anthem consists of 158 verses, and talks about the liberty and freedom when we were independent from the Ottoman Empire. Don't be mistaken, we don't learn THE WHOLE anthem in school, we just sing 5 lines or something.
Where are you from?
@@appleslover I intented to say that I'm Greek and my country has the longest national anthem. So, yeah, I'm Greek
To add to the above, the anthem of Greece is also shared with Cyprus. It's a poem, the "Hymn to Liberty" or "Hymn to Freedom", written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and was set to music at 1865 by Nikolaos Mantzaros. From the 158 stanzas only the first 2, if I'm not mistaken, are sung.
Wait... There is one that's even longer than the monstrosity that's called the "Wilhelmus"? (Dutch national anthem)
I can't even remember that one! 😳
@@NiekNooijens yep it's the longest national anthem! The "Hymn Of Liberty" is the longest national anthem ever created. Here is what we were singing at school: Σε γνωρίζω από την κόψη,
Του σπαθιού, την τρομερή
Σε γνωρίζω από την όψη,
Που με βιά μετράει τη γη
Απ' τα κόκαλα βγαλμένη
Των Ελλήνων τα ιερά
Και σαν πρώτα, ανδρειωμένοι!
Χαίρω Ω χαίρε Ελευθεριά(x 2)
Now, if I were to translate it directly, it would go like this: I know you from the edge, of the sword, the great
I know you from the view, that with haste/ impetuosity measures the earth
From the bones taken out
Of the Greeks holy
And first of all with Valor!
I salute you Liberty!(x2)
That doesn't make any sense right? This is the closest I can write to the original meaning:
We knew you of old
O, divinely restored
By the lights of your eyes
And the light of the Sword.
From the graves of our slain
Shall our valor prevail
as we greet you again
Hail, Liberty! Hail!
'God Save the Queen' and 'Oh Canada' are our national anthems in Canada. I love to hear 'Oh Canada'; but I always preferred 'The Maple Leaf Forever' which was more commonly used originally.
"Oh, Canada" beats the pants off of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
God save the queen is the only national anthem that changes words
@@phillipgregory9671 God Save the Queen changes words? You mean to God Save the King?
@@SatsumaTengu14 yes.
All hail BRITTANIA still the best British anthem
You are amazing. I live in Japan and these insights are the most honest I have had the opportunity to hear from a Japanese person. Usually, I get responses that are either tainted with trauma, shame, defensiveness or all three.
I think the problem is "Kimi (君)" has 2 major meanings. The 1st one is "my lord", the 2nd one is "you" in a respectful form.
Therefore some people consider the anthem is a praise to Shouwa Tennou, who took part of the WWII.
However, the lyrics of the anthem is filled with good wills and as long as the government respects the human rights, the anthem doesn't influence much to the society.
\○/ Tenno Heika Banzai! \○/
For Okinawans.. horror was very real back in WWII. It's not simply "why not forget about it" kind of issue.
All of Japan took part in WWII. The responsibility is collective. Introducing a new national anthem centered on nation rather than head of state, as has been proposed, is inherently more jingoistic
The Swedish national anthem "Du gamla, du fria" (Thou ancient, Thou free) is a text by Richard Dybeck and the melody is an old swedish folk music song. It was adapted in 1866 but is de facto used as national anthem and is not anthem by law. Thanks for this vid. It's always great when we get to learn of Japanese culture.
It was also called "Sång till Norden (song to the North)" and was to be a song about all of Scandinavia.
@@munkSWE88 Yes it was.
Interesting story
Thanks for telling us :)
"Du gamla du fria" är skriven 1844 och kommer från Västmanland ursprungligen. Men det är mer en song som hyllar hela Skandinaviens befolkning snarare än bara Sverige. Och Ja Sverige har inte en formell national song eftersom det är ett medvetet politiskt beslut från Sveriges riksdag.
@@midsue Det stämmer att den skrevs redan 1844.
I had a Japanese friend before who refused to sing their national anthem. I was really surprised because my country's anthem was created to show our countrymen uniting to fight against colonization and for our country's freedom. And I thought that all national anthems were like that. I don't remember his reason, but it most likely the same as what you explained in this video, especially since he comes from a family of teachers (his parents and grandparents). Now I understand where he was coming from when he was so mad about me explaining that we have to put our palms over on the left side of our chest (heart) and sing the national anthem while the flag is being raised.
My country's the Philippines, by the way. If I remember correctly, our national anthem was composed as one of the efforts in fighting against the Spaniards at that time to free our country from their colonization. The lyrics talk about love for our country and the willingness to fight for her and die for her. It's basically like a love song for our country.
I love how your channel goes beyond the topics of Japanese Pop Culture to provide unbiased takes on Japan's socio-political issues.
It paints a clear picture that Japan is so much more than anime and neon lights.
I am so glad you say so, because that’s exactly what I’m aiming for😊
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
That’s something that is definitely appreciated and that you have the cultural and historical knowledge to link the issues to the cultural and historical aspects that lead to them instead of taking the reductive approach of linking real issues to cartoons as that latter approach leads to many of those issues being dismissed or not seen as real issues as that veers viewers off into the cartoon aspect instead of the historical one.
A bit late, but when I was a young kid in the early 80s our family lived in Japan and I went to a nearby pre-school. I don't remember very much but I do remember learning and singing Kimigayo along with the Japanese kids. We ended up living in Japan for several years, so when I hear Kimigayo I get quite nostalgic!
Croatia’s national anthem is called ‘Lijepa naša domovino’ (‘Our Beautiful Homeland’) and it sings about our country’s beauty and glory, and as well a deep love of the natural land. The anthem was written in 1835 :)
That's cool. I never heard the Japanese national anthem before until now. The poem sounds deep.
Also all 10s for Shogo by the judges
Kimigayo is such a beautiful song. For me it is the most beautiful of all national anthems.
Unfortunately it gives PTSD to countries occupied by Japan because they were forced to sing this also lol.
@@lilyblack1979 It is high time those countries get over it. Actually those countries use the occupation that happened 70 years ago to demand unrealistic advantages and compensations. It was tragic but it happened a long time ago. Get over it.
Brief story of US national anthem:
Francis Scott Key witnessed the British attacking Fort M'Henry in the War of 1812, wrote a poem about the fort and its flag lasting the night, the poem was set to the music of a pub song, in the early 1900s Woodrow Wilson had it played at all official events, Americans made it the national anthem in 1931.
About nights yea~, so that's why it's bit solemn.
And don't ever sing the third verse.
We have so many other, and much better, patriotic songs. America the Beautiful. Fanfare for the Common Man. Or Battle Hymn of the Republic. Although I suppose the last could be too bellicose.
@@danclassic7065 Columbia Gem of the Ocean is better. The Battle Hymn of the Republic was the war song of the Evangelical Holy War (aka Civil War). Not even kidding about that bit.
@@toomanymarys7355 Evangelical Holy War? That is an "interesting" angle which I really hope isn't a new attempt at propping up the Lost Cause myth.
Battle Hymn of the Republic took the melody and rhythm of an abolitionist song, John Brown's body. Sure, evangelicals were a main driver of the abolitionist movement. But ending slavery was and still is a humanist cause as well.
@@danclassic7065 Fanfare for the Common Man is American, but I think it's meant to be very international, too.
Brazil's national anthem is about how we got our independence from Portugal. It is divided in two parts. Everyone knows the first part basically because it's what we sing before sports matches.
Our anthem is quite beautiful, being created by a positivism movement, with lyrics exalting our land, our people, our history and future! And is huuuuge... I remember how, in school, people never remembered some parts and started mumbling until they catch up to the lyrics... "OH, PÁTRIA AMADA, IDOLATRADA, SALVE, SALVE! Braaasil djdjfjgkykrksjfj seja siiIIIIMBOLO... "
But did you guys really got independence from Portugal? After Napoleons war the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil and they… just stayed there and decided to make it into an empire and then a republic. I mean is that really “independence”?
@@ericktellez7632 yes, it does. Brazil had a parliamentary system, which was composed by Brazilians & defended Brazilian interests. besides that, the Emperor of Brazil & the Queen of Portugal were born in Brazil, thus are Brazilians.
@@jgr7487
Not true, Dom Pedro was born in Lisbon, Portugal
@@ericktellez7632 Pedro II & Maria II weren't. Pedro I adopted Brazil & Rio's culture as his country pretty much since he arrived here.
The Philippine national anthem was originally a revolutionary hymm without lyrics for the people to be inspired to fight against the spaniards, later Juan Felipe a filipino would compose the lyrics to the hymm having a spanish version first and used during the first philippine republic. A filipino version was later made and that is now the Philippine national anthem.
Lupang Hinirang
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Thank you for the video, I actually learned a lot from it.
I'm from Philippines and our national anthem is titled "Lupang Hinirang".
Me too
I am no longer Filipino because I took American citizenship; however, Lupang Hinirang is a beautiful national anthem. We always had to assemble, sing it and recite the Panatang Makabayan in school. So as a habit, I will stop and stand at attention whenever I hear the Star Spangled Banner playing.
@@mariatolentino4516 No you are still Filipina, but now you are also American. Citizenship doesn't take away your nationality, it makes you fully both. Asian American, Filipina American. If Black people can be African American, and Hispanic/Latinos can be Latin American, than you are Filipina American. Of course you don't have the citizenship of Philippines anymore (unless you get the dual Citizenship), but ethnicity wise you still are.
Very interesting, now I'll know the meaning the next time i hear it watching SuperGT races. Thank you!
Interesting topic 🤔. Thanks for uploading 👍🌟
I am from Norway, and we have to shorten our national anthem at pretty much any event outside our Constitutional Day. It has I believe eight verses, but we usually sing only the first one. I just checked and apparently it was only completely instated as our National Anthem in 2019! Learn something new everyday! I don't know of anyone refusing to sing it though, so I can't say how that feels, but it sounds sad! I may not be Japanese, but I have definitely been interested in Japan and its culture for a time now, and having second thought about one's own national anthem because of historical heritage/situations sounds a bit sad. Of course, this is up to one's own decision, when you sing your national anthem, you should feel proud, right? Of your country, your heritage, and fellow people of your nation, whoever they may be! Very interesting video about Japan's national anthem! I never knew this! I think this is a good thing to know, especially if like me, you want to learn about the Japanese language and culture.
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In Canada, our national anthem "O Canada" was originally written in French and later the English lyrics were taken from a poem written by a Quebec Judge named Robert Stanley Weir. In 1980 after the passing of the National Anthem Act "O Canada" became the National Anthem of Canada
And they basically copied the melody of one of Mozart' pieces.
I'm also Canadian and it's sad but true.
@@peanuts666 Like the first few measures of March of The Priests with a few modifications, I do find it absurd and interesting at the same time.
@@Leo_HuangAB me too
Another great video by Shogo! It was interesting seeing some of the history behind the anthem.
I remember reading it's translated version in a book once, but because it was never explicitly an anthem there, I thought it was just a poem. Looks like I was about half right since it was set before 1970's era US.
Our Philippine national anthem was composed during the time of revolution against our colonist specifically the Spaniards. It is a song that gives courage for the Filipinos at that time to fight and love for the country. Adopted from the Spanish poem by Jose palma and music composed by Julian Felipe, it was commissioned in June 5, 1898 by Emilio aguinaldo(1st president of the Philippines). It was first performed in public during the proclamation of Philippine independence at aguinaldo's residence in kawit, cavite on June 12, 1898.
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very interesting topic :)
I've actually never heard of this but it will certainly stick with me.
Thank you for the video!
Thank you for your videos.
5:09 Your voice sounds amazing Shogo!
Very educational channel. Thank you. 🥰
I love the Japanese anthem and I always stand up and sing it on football matches and Olympics (at the beginning ceremony), haha
What I do know about the USA's National Anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" was a poem written by Francis Scott Key. This is because he was living in Maryland near Ft. McHenry, early in the morning of September 14, 1814 when the British was bombarding Ft. McHenry as they use Congreve Rockets in hopes to destroy the fort, the rockets failed, and this was the inspiration for Mr. Key's writing of the poem which would become America's national anthem.
In conclusion, The Star-Spangled Banner was a poem written by a lawyer who witnessed the bombardment of a strong American fort, and stood up against the British which at the time was considered of having the strongest military in the world. Though, the War of 1812 ended in a draw, but it saw the United States rising as another global power.
The Anthem is still taught in US Schools, though the pledge of Allegiance is not.
Irony: a commie invented the pledge originally, and now commies oppose it.
The tune, funny enough, is a British drinking song called 'To Anacreon in Heaven,' which may account for it being so hard to sing solo. :) (And actually the Pledge is another story entirely, it seems to depend on the state or school if kids are made to say it, ..part of the problem there is the right-wing inserted 'Under God' into the phrase 'One Nation Indivisible' back in the Fifties, when they were afraid of Commies making everyone atheist or something, ...but makes some Constitutional problems about freedom of religion, and also means it doesn't scan as writing anymore. Separate thing, though.
One of the biggest themes of the Star Spangled Banner is supposed to represent the resililence of our idelas of freedom and democracy and bravery and all despite adversity and maybe dark times.
@@OllamhDrab Actually yes, the "under God" in the Pledge, and "In God we trust" on our money in the USA are directly due to the way communism was threatened by people believing in something religious and thus Russia basically made it illegal to be theistic. Ergo, the USA was showing openly that they were opposing communism, and it's never gone away.
What is not taught unless you actually know about proper flag etiquette or go to Fr. McHenry itself (I'm lucky enough to live near it so we did as a school field trip) is that the flag would have been lowered overnight as a) the US flag should not be flown at night unless it is illuminated properly, and b) it can not be flown in the rain, which the night of the bombardment did have a rain storm. In the morning the flag was raised again, but Mr. Key wasn't able to see it until the smoke from the attack cleared, by which time the flag had been lowered and re-raised while he couldn't have seen it. He thought the flag had flown the entire battle. Thus the song is technically a lie, even though the fort didn't surrender.
Interesting fact somewhat related to this: Baltimore is the only major city on the US's eastern seaboard that hasn't fallen under the occupation/control of a foreign power.
@@steveunderwood9307 Mind you, I think the soldiers at the fort couls be forgiven if they were a little busy overnight to lower that flag. Especially if it might be *taken* as a surrender by the enemy.
the vast majority of nations have been involved in some kind of warlike conflict in the past, recent or not, from which their anthems and flags have emerged in most cases as banners. We must not reject our past, but learn from the mistakes that have been made. Sometimes unfortunate historical events have also helped us to reaffirm our national unity and establish friendly ties with our neighboring nations, making us more benevolent, less arrogant and to value the human life of all equally. Japan is a valuable example of how a society divided, militarized and sunk in war for centuries has managed to overcome, after many tragic events, division and hatred to end up being a peaceful, prosperous and united nation.
The french anthem was writen during the revolution but spread during the first war of the coalition during the Napoleonic wars.
When Europes monarchies feared that revolutionaries ideas would spread from France to other monarchies, Austria declared war on France. The French high command needed a song to inspire the troops to fight and this is basacly how the Marseillaise became the national anthem.
Fun Fact: The song is the first European march anthemic style.
I served in the US Navy at Yokosuka. Every morning and evening when they raised and lowered the flags, all traffic stopped, people stop, and those in uniform saluted in the general direction of the American and Japanese flags. Since the base technically belonged to the Japanese, we would have to stand at attention and salute the flags during BOTH anthems.
Also, when six navies (US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, and Japan) finished a joint exercise, we all headed to Pearl Harbor for shore leave. Then, we had to stand at attention and salute SIX national anthems!
Shogo-kun, as an American, I do not* believe that anyone should be forced* to sing their national anthem, ☝🏻 but I do believe that all able-bodied people should STAND UP 🕴🏼 in respect during the playing and/or singing of ANYBODY’S national anthem, the United States’, Japan’s, any nation’s anthem. 👫👫 It’s about respect towards our fellow humans, Shogo-kun. Arrigato gozaimasu for reading. 🇺🇳🌎🌏🌍
I second that, but I would add that it does show a bit more solidarity, as well as, patriotism towards ones nation if one does sing out of free will.
Being patriotic at least by my definition doesn’t mean that you are blind out it’s faults or it’s need for change, but that you love not only the land of your birth but the people that you’ve known and those you will in the future.
magnificent voice mr. shogo
Quality content as always. And yes faith and love for humanity 💗 Japanese culture is still fascinating.
Finland's national anthem is based on a poem from 1846 by our national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg and melody written by a German immigrant Fredrik (Friedrich) Pacius first performed in 1848.
Because the poem was originally written in Swedish, the lyrics proved to be a little difficult to translate into Finnish, so the finnish lyrics that are used nowadays date from around the year 1889.
The melody of the Finnish national anthem is also used in the national anthem of Estonia and was in the national anthem of the Livonians.
The words of the song in English depend a little on whether you translate from the Swedish or Finnish lyrics, but in general describe how we love our hills, valleys and shores and how our country is poor and we have suffered hunger and hardship. Also there are some passages about how our fathers fought with plows, swords and thoughts and blood flowed.
The ending is about how our country is about song, poetry and truth and we will rejoice in the safety and freedom.
Adding to this, the name of the song is literally "Oh, Our Land", which is also the beginning of the lyrics.
Most people only know the first verse, and perhaps one more, but practically no one has even seen/heard the whole thing, much less learned to sing it all.
Because of the non-Finnish composer and the sharing of the tune with another country, there's some still-ongoing discussion about choosing another song for the anthem, most likely Finlandia by Jean Sibelius.
I think it is very cute how Finns and Estonians share the same anthem melody, brotherly nations and all
your loyalty to humanity reminds me of when Genki Sudo paraded a flag with all the world's flags in his fights
When I was stationed in Okinawa, every Friday, we were in semi-dress uniform and stood at attention at the flagpoles for both The Star Spangled Banner and Kimigayo, so it's familiar to me. I learned the words and meaning when I took a Japanese class in college.
The National Anthem of Argentina was created in 1813 (Music by Blas Parera and Lyrics by Vicente López y Planes), during the revolution and the war for independence from the spanish empire, and it begins with the words: "Listen, ye, mortals, the sacred cry: freedom, freedom, freedom" and ends with the words: "Crowned with glory shall we live, or with glory we swear to die". It used to be quite long and combative, but then it was shortened at the beggining of the XX century.
In Canada, we actually have 2-3 versions of national anthem O Canada. There is the english version, the french version and the hockey version (french + english). The anthem was originally written in 1880 for the Saint-Jean Baptiste Day (which is now Quebec national holiday). It was meant to be the anthem of the people of Quebec (distinct nation in Canada) but it got modified to be the one for the country and then they translated it to english. Although the lyrics are quite differents from the two languages. And the hockey version was made for hockey fan from all the country to be able to hear its in their native language (french and english are the two officials languages of Canada). It is split in french and english.
Your singing voice was hauntingly beautiful
The norwegian national anthem speaks of loving our country throughout history, starting with the line «yes, we love this country». It tells of the nations characteristics and recounts events throughout our history and towards the end it speaks of friendship and unity with other nordic countries.
We call it the anthem, but I’m not sure it was ever declared official. Technically there are two main contenders, but Ja, vi elsker by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1859) is the defacto one
Shogo seems to also be training in traditional singing. BEAUTIFUL!
I remember when i talked with my Japanese language tutor sensei about Kimigayo. She said "we didn't know the meaning of the lyrics, it's to old"
I love this National anthem, in fact I byhearted it, now I can sing it... I am also so proud our Japan has become so developed
Oldest national anthems have an even more "violent" meaning (think of the French one), but this depends on when and in which circumstances have been composed. The Italian (my country) as well. But right now they are meant, as they all should be, as a unifying spirit for a country. In the best sense, and never "against" someone else. Same applies to the Japanese one, and it is a nonsense for Japanese people to be against it.
French one is actually not violent, it talks about fighting the leeches and it also includes the soldoers fighting for the opposing side is not their actual enemies but the ones ruling/forcing them etc. It is one of the best anthems in whole Europe (and I want to clarify in advance that I'm not a french person so this is not a patriotism rant. I'm just a history enthusiast.)
If I may say - you have a very pleasant singing voice, especially for the almost chant-like anthem.
Hi from Australia- our official anthem is Advance Australia fair which is pretty straightforward and not many people know all the words.The unofficial anthem is Waltzing Matilda, which is a song about a sheep thief. Great song that
Italian anthem "Fratelli d'Italia" (brothers of Italy) was composed by Goffredo Mameli (and sometimes the anthem is called Mameli's Anthem in his honour) in 1847, in the middle of the Risorgimento period of the nation (1815-1871 - though exact dating is still debated). This anthem too was unofficial until it was declared by law as the official Italian anthem in 2017, after a period of controversies that started ever since the annexation of the lands of the papacy in 1871 and the following move of the nation's capital to Rome.
About your second point, in an international sports like the just finished European Football Championship (that we WON 🥳) or the World Cup (that I don't think we will win 😬) events it's widely thought to be unclassy for the players in the field not to sing the anthem. So bad the feeling of one of them not singing it is, it -can- will cast aspersion over him in the homeland, thing that has always met my personal condemnation, as one should not be forced by peer pressure to sing if one doesn't want, no matter the reason given.
And for the painful part. We Italians have the doubtful honour of have invented fascism (some think as a reaction to communism, but the matter is WAY more complex and unfit to be fully explained here) at the start of last century. In fact in two years time it'll be a century ever since the start of those two bleak decades. But to assign blame to the anthem for the evil way it was used to promote fascism in those miserable years would be like assigning the blame of a murder to the weapon used to accomplish it. A complete idiocy.
Sure is, beside for the athletes in the international sports events, no one is forced to sing the anthem here in Italy, and trying to make children sing it in whatever moment in the school year would meet with stern condemnation not only from the parents, but everyone getting to know it, as not only it is anti-constitutional to be forced to do what you are against or do not understand the subtle ramifications of, but, as I said before, there's a healthy fear of right-winged ideologies being fed to children like it was done in those wretched twenty years, a century back, right alongside the anthem.
For me and my tastes the matter is more complex. At the start I held no enmity whatsoever towards the anthem, but in the two years I served in the military I, like every other soldier, was *forced to participate* to the ceremonies of flag rising in the morning and the lowering of the flag in the evening, but even if you were excused for whatever reason not to participate to the ceremony in the square where the flag was, at the anthem sounding you were under the standing orders of stay at attention facing towards the place where the flag was until the anthem finished playing...
*EVERY.*
*FUCKING.*
*DAY.*
And woe on you if you didn't.
Two years of this unreasonable compulsionary behaviour poisoned me forever of the anthem even more than the thinking about the inappropriate ways it was used (and sometimes today still is) to promote fascism. Then again, that's me. I don't preach to others about MY preferences and would like to be granted the same treatment.
I like the verse about how the Austrian eagle has lost its feathers because it became poisoned by the blood it sucked from Italy, the Poles, and the Cossacks. Even if they don't sing that part at sporting events. But they do sing about donning Scipio's helmet!
The Spanish anthem "Marcha Real" or Royal March in English was stablish by Carlos III in 1770. It was a military song called "Marcha de los granaderos" an it was the official anthem except during the two times that Spain was a Republic. Nowadays, the anthem is very criticized by different groups like independentist groups from some regions in Spain (football match Barça Vs Athletic is one example) or republicans. The anthem have lyrics but were eliminated because it was related to the fascist during the Franco's dictatorship.
That was an interesting video and I hope that your channel continue to grow ☺️
Brazil's National Anthem was created for our first Emperor and when the Republic take it place..we keepd the anthem...
Bom depende, o Hino de independência realmente ficou, mas o Hino nacional que é tocado na maior parte das vezes é do início do século XX. Mas meu mano, não vejo como o hino de ambos podem serem ruins, eu amo a todos, independente da ideologia monarquista ou republicana, Abraço aí amigo.
guatemala's national anthem was made by a foreiner that trully loved this country by participating anonimously on a competicion to create an anthem, firt the delegation negated his victory since he wasnt Guatemalan but he tried a second time and his was winner once more. plus it was the most beautyful of the whole competicion so it stayed
normally simbolizes for people to love and pride our country's flag, to figth anyone who dares to dirty the countrys name.
nowadays is sang during protest against the goverment's corruption.
i loved the shinto interpretation of your anthem, to wish for every being to live a long and prosperous live full of both inner and visible growth. Seeing how it was used to justify a mean is hard. i can understand why some teachers where against it.
Our national anthem here in Botswana is "Fatshe leno la rona" which translates to "This land is ours" and the English version is "Blessed be this noble land." It was written by K.T. Motsete in 1962.
It's about how our country is a gift from our forefathers and we should take care of it. One thing that comes up alot is wealth, how all men and women should come together to bring economic progress. This is because it was made four years before we gained independence and the country was really poor. This changed a year after Independence when diamonds were discovered and we became one of the leading exporters of diamonds
Nepal's national anthem is "Sayau Thunga" which means hundreds of petals of a Marigold flower. Nepal has more than 123 languages and a great diversity in culture, custom and tradition among the people but people celebrate everyone's festivals together. The National anthem says "Despite being diverse, we all are same." This national anthem was recently made and started to be sung on 3rd August 2007(10 months before my birth) and this national anthem also represents diversified Nepalese culture, unity among people and bravery of the Gurkhas. The national anthem is:
"Sayau Thunga fool ka hami
eutai mala nepali
saarvavaum bhai failiyeka
mechi mahakali
prakriti ka koti koti
sampada ko aachala
birharu ko ragata le swotantra ra atala
gyana bhumi shanti bhumi
terai pahad himala
akhanda yo pyaro hamro matri bhumi Nepal
bahul jaati bhasa hamro sanskriti chhan bishala
agragami rastra hamro jaya jaya Nepal."
Since Light of Asia, Buddha was born here, Nepalese call our country the land of knowledge and peace. Even though Nepal is a small country, it has 8 of the 14 peaks above 8000m. Nepal's national anthem explains about the diversified cultures because of the land topography but people are "ONE SINGLE GARLAND OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF FLOWERS"
(We learnt it yesterday at school)
Brazil's national anthem is very long and beautiful in it's lyrics, it tells in rich metaphors the story of Brazilian people bravely fighting for independence.
Switzerland's national anthem was changed on a temporary base in 1961 and the new one became definitive in 1981. It was based on a 1841 poem that was then translated into our 3 other languages (the 4 national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Rumantsch). Part of the reason why the old one was replaced, I guess, was because the music was the same as the one of the British anthem and this possibly created confusion in some circumstances
That is a beautiful song and sung well.
The national anthem of Portugal "A portuguesa" was adopted after the fall of the monarchy in 1910 but it was originally written by a portuguese-german composer and it was used as an anti-british song followong the ultimatum delivered by them to Portugal , it was also used in Anti-monarchist riots who spread in consequence of our king having accepted the ultimatum without fighting back the anthem transmits basically the feeling of "sausade" which is missing something with regret of having let it go and in our anthem it's the "saudade" of our former glory and empire
Hope you like our national anthem love Japan from Portugal 🇯🇵❤🇵🇹
Great job Shogo!
The Swiss national anthem was written by Alberich Zwyssig and he used a poem written in 1840 but he slightly altered some words
We always sang the Australian national anthem (Advance Australia Fair) during assemblies in school, but I never really thought about it as some declaration of allegiance or something.
It's just a patriotic song about freedom, nature and encouraging working hard with lyrics like "we've golden soil and wealth for toil" and "nature's gifts of beauty rich and rare".
In the US, Kids are forced to recite the "pledge of allegiance". Compared to that, singing kimigayo is completely harmless
Brub the national anthem is the star spangled banner and ain’t nobody forcing kids to do the pledge of allegiance.
Quick explanation. Brazilian anthem melody comes from the song of the coronation of the Imperator, the lyrics was changed by Joaquim Osório Duque-Estrada and It was officialized in 1922. Until that year our anthem was the Anthem of the Proclamation of the Republic.
First time hearing Japanese national anthem was opening ceromony ,just thought it was very beatifull gentle song. Thanks for explaining history , children at our school in 1960s had to sing hyms and pray . As I didn't beleive or like singing I just moved my mouth so it looked like it. Can not say much about uk anthem as it mentions royalty and god to much for liking .
The Japanese National Anthem mentions long life, unity, and the belief of ONE nation united....I like it...
Greenland’s case is special because we actually kinda have two national anthems. So the official one from 1916 is called “Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit” is about how nice our country is and we can be proud of it. Since 1979 we also have a 2nd anthem, “Nuna asiilasooq” is more an anthem for ethnic Greenlanders, especially the Kalaallit as an ethnicity. This anthem is also recognised by the government. However the other one is I think more widespread as a national anthem. :)
Forget the national anthem let’s start coming up with an international anthem
The "Hino Nacional Brasileiro" had it's melody composed in 1831 by Francisco Manuel da Silva, one of the founders of the "Imperial Academia de Música e Ópera Nacional"(National Imperial Music and Opera Academy). This was during the imperial era of Brazil. In 1922 the current lyrics were adopted (written by Osório Duque-Estrada). The Brazilian National Anthem mainly evokes a sense of love for the land (emphasizing nature), it's people and the history of the nation. The anthem is well know for being very long (in contrast to Japan, Brazil has one of the longest anthens in the world), having two stanzas. Brazilian Law mandates that the two stanzas are integral and should both be played in all formal events. The thing is, even one stanza is already longer than most other national anthems, so in several sport events (like the FIFA World Cup) the National Anthem is shortened, not even to a full stanza. Hence the refusal from brazilian fans to stop singing the anthem that became notorious in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Our anthem is weird too the wilhelmus is basicly sung from the point of view of our founder william of orange as he was in inner conflict between choosing the loyalty of the kingdom of spain and serving his people and god
Yeah it's a weird one. We also sing "by the way, I'm German and serve the Spanish king".
Why would you include other nationalities in your national anthem?
4:56: To me it seems that the geological composition of the boulder as a big rock formed of stuck-together gravel only strengthens the meaning of the poem, whether in the sense of just celebrating Japan as a unified nation-state or the more fascistic interpretation (breccia seems like an even better analogy for ideal of strength through unity than the fasces does, tbh).
As for my country, Denmark actually has two national anthems - "There is a beautiful land" is a gentle celebration of the natural beauty and people of the country (the three and a half verses that are ever played, anyway - there's another nine verses exalting everything from the flag to the then-current king, the capital city, the abolition of the slave trade, the arts and sciences etc). That's the one that usually gets played at friendly sporting events like the Olympics.
The other, older one, "King Christan stood at the Lofty Mast" is three verses of Danish naval heroes beating the snot out of the Swedish navy (the King hits a Swede so hard his brain pops out) and one verse about how great it is to die at sea in pursuit of eternal glory. That one gets played mostly at military, government and royal occasions. It's probably not as close to the character of modern Denmark as the first one, but it is a lot of fun to sing.
Lupang Hinirang is the national anthem of Philippines. It sings of the beauty of the homeland, and protecting it from being invaded.
Interesting. I did saw some soccer matches. When other nations sing their national anthem. Japan team actually sings space battleship yamato's OPP
11:07 - 11:16 I hope many more realize about we are in the same planet (Home).
Shogo-sama, honjitsu mo arigatou gozaimashita!!
I first heard Kimi Ga Yo 30 years back and found it quite interesting. Also 30 years ago, I heard what was supposedly an English translation of a Japanese folk song which goes like this:
Look into the rose! Look into the rose!
For the beauty of the Earth lies in one petal...
Do you know of any traditional Japanese song which has a similar meaning to the lines above?
lol it's not much a different here in the US, there are a lot of people who are against singing for the anthem and it has been more prevalent in the modern time. To the point where people actually take it to court. There are "patriot" American type of people, and they would attack you if they dont see you singing the anthem out loud in front of them. Right now, the feeling is quiet divided in the realm of American nationalism/patriotism
There are much better songs that are much more beautiful and capture American values better than a song that was originally British and you can only sing if you're drunk or have intensive training.
God Bless America is much better. This Land is Your Land is plenty better though it is anti war and anti government.
Truly, I wouldn't want a song that's by a man so obsessed with religion that he goes on a long twitter rant to the tune of God Save the King/Queen. Which is what Francis Scott Key did.
But it’s not the people against the anthem are around 5 percent at best and about 80 percent of those are pro communism, anti religion, and try to link everything as existing to extend slavery. They are just a loud little group that has substantial presence in the education sector and if they didn’t this would not even merit a discussion.
That said overall they are allowed to do whatever and it’s not until they start going the next step into defacing the flag or altering the anthem the way a five year old would to evoke a response that they get in trouble.
The thing that was always the target before was the pledge of allegiance but when it became clear that’s not giving them the level of attention they wanted the shots against the anthem and the flag became more commonplace and they are such an ethnocentric little group that they promote different anthems to different races atm.
Thank you for the respect you hold for all people. I think there is also a special cooperation that only the Japanese people can make.
Oh, the Jamaican anthem is a prayer. There is an instrumental part which sometimes kids sing. It goes like "Jamaica land boom".
Shogo-sama, I see you're currently experimenting with the caption here. But I believe adding the caption inside the video rather than putting it externally makes your videos look more professional and...versatile(?) if someone wants to download it. But I understand that the editing can be a bit tedious by going with the in-video caption tho.
I personally am in favor of the former, so I'm hoping to see you captioning things back as usual, Shogo. But, at the end of the day, please do what you think is best. 👀
Ah, I remember having to sing the Mexican National Anthem every Monday morning back in my old elementary and middle schools. Despite the war lyrics, all of us students were usually very unenergetic while reciting it...
Though, I do remember an odd legend about its history, which we were taught in those days.
Long ago, the Mexican government launched a contest to get the lyrics for the national anthem. A poet named Francisco González Bocanegra was the lucky winner. The legend says that, at first, he was unwilling to participate in the contest. So his girlfriend... "persuaded" him to join.
And by "persuading" I mean she locked him up in a room with a pen and paper and refused to let him out until he's finished writing the darn thing.
...Maybe that's why the lyrics are so war-like...
I live in Cuba, my national anthem was written in times of war and it is an anthem that calls for combat. It dates from 1868 when the war against Spanish colonialism began. I greatly admire Japan and its past as warriors and conquerors and especially the Japanese discipline.
Japanese culture is so full of life.. especially there teachings , would love to visit someday 🍃⭐
Czech national anthem "Kde domov můj" comes from the theatral play "Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka". It was written in the 19th century by Josef Kajetán Tyl (lyrics) and František Škroup (melody). Czechs enjoy and these times they even more enjoyed going to theatre. The song became popular and later the first half with part of Slovakian anthem made up the national anthem of Czechoslovakia. After the split in 1993, only the song "Kde domov můj" is the national anthem of Czech Republic.
Bangladesh's Anthem "Amar Shonar Bangla" (My Golden Bengal) was written by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 when the British Indian Government divided Bengal to subdue the Bengal Renaissance and Political Disobedience. The song is ode to the flora, fauna and Culture of Bengal in the form of Mother Bengal, Tagore purposefully avoided political or ideological references to show the Union of Bengal as apolitical.
The fact that the poor principal offed himself from too much stress to handle is terrible
I hope he's resting well in the heavens, I'm so sorry for it to happen
Problem is the Dutch anthem is one of the longest in the world with 12 Couplets... 😳 I only know the first three... Yet I memorized the Japanese one fully.
The Japanese one might be very poetic, the dutch one is humble to the part that it's weird.
We literally sing "Wilhelmus van nassaue, Im from german blood"
And
"I always honored the King of Spain".
So in our national anthem.. the song where we can be as patriotic as we can be, we sing "I'm actually German under the rule of Spain"
Yeah great... 🙄🙄
the first 2 sentences in our national anthem, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ik, van Duitse bloed,"(William of Nassouwe am I of German blood) where to be sung from the perspective of William of Orange-Nassau himself(who was of German decent). and where chanted among soldiers patriots and common folk alike to boost moral and fighting spirit before they charged into battle with the spanniards.. and they are symbolizing William of Orange his struggle with the Spanish Empire for the creation of The United Provinces of the Netherlands and for the freeing of all Dutch peoples from Spanish/Catholic rule.. so Yeah Great indeed
@@MrStoeptegelx It happens to be the oldest national anthem in the world, at least with the melody and the status as such. Of course the Japanese Kimigayo is the far older text.
All I know about my country's national athem (Bulgaria) is that it sings about nature and the land itself, hence why it's named "Mila Rodino" meaning"Dear Motherland".
However, from googling a bit, it seems there's a second part that talks about patriotism/nationalism. But I've never heard that one even once in my life.
The anthem of the Kingdom of Spain is called the royal march.
The spanish anthem is official since 1843 by royal decree of the queen Isabel II.
The Spanish anthem is one of the few anthems that doesn't have lyrics.
After Malaysia got our independent from British, we also had our national anthem which is "Negaraku" (my country). The history of this song is actually originated form Seychelles and one of our federated subject of malaya king which is Perak's king bring the song back home and tuned it into Perak's anthem which is (Allah selamatkan sultan). And then, before we got our independence in 1957. Malaysia prime minister at that time select the anthem as our country anthem and we use it until now.
This anthem promotes our love to country through unity and pray to God for our Kings.
Wasn't it a song played in nightclubs so alot of people thought it was inappropriate?
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I live in Poland. Polish anthem was written by Dąbrowski, who was the commander of polish troops in Italia. His army was supposed to fight for independence of Poland (which wasn't on the map then) alongside Napoleon's army.
Because of that, im the anthem there's a linę saying "Bonaparte have us an example of how to win"
I found it funny because Bonaparte lost everything. The "Independent" country Dąbrowski fought for perished then too.
Thanks for reading Polish history i guess
I once saw a video from a Japanese person stating that he really envies Malaysian people coz we can show our patriotism freely anywhere and he mentioned mainly about flags. We can wave our flag freely anywhere without being criticized. Heck some of us even used Imperial Japanese flag as a decoration on their cars and no one criticized them. Whilst in Japan, it's the exact opposite, quite. That's why he is so envious of us.
His envy or the ones waving Imperial Japanese flag, I'm not sure which one is the bigger problem…