Cultural References
In Equinox Flower (彼岸花, Higanbana), a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, one of the characters declaims a poet "based on a death poem of patriot Kusunoki Masatsura". Whether it has to do with the precious poem is unknown.
An approximate translation is :
- My father's precepts are engraved in my heart.
- I will faithfully follow the emperor's edict.
- 10 years of patience, and finally the time has come.
- Strike a powerful blow
- for the emperor's cause we are struggling now.
- To fight and die as men, we make an oath.
- We, 143 companions of war, united as one,
- determined to fight until victory, yes, we are.
- By dying, heroes earn an immortal glory,
- the cowards suffer an eternal shame.
- With the edges of our arrows, we engrave our story,
- the blades of our swords shine in the evening.
- Against the approaching enemy, let's walk with the same step,
- At their general, let's give the final blow.
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