Saiki no uta/再起の歌 [With English and Romaji subtitles]

再起の歌 / Saiki no uta / Song of Resurgence
Japanese military song

Singer: Club of Former IJA Preparatory Academy 61st Class in Kinki
Performer: Band of JGSDF 3rd Division

Lyricist: 2nd Company of Ground Troops (Fuji Unit)
Composer: Shinnosuke Inoue

[About this song]
This work was made by the 2nd Company of the Ground Troops in the 61st Class of the Imperial Japanese Army Preparatory Academy, also known as the Fuji Unit, shortly after the end of the war. They were assigned to Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, and remained there until the end of the war. Afterward, two songs were made in the Unit, and this is one of them. The other is here:    • Hachi ichi-go no uta/八・一五の歌 [With English ...  

[About translation]
*the imperial words of the Five Articles
They refer to the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors.

*Shinbudai
This is the name given to the site where the IJA Preparatory Academy was located. It was situated in what is now Asaka City, Saitama Prefecture.

[Rōmaji]
Aa shinshū wa towa naredo
Totsujo to kudaru taishō ni
Namida o nomite hoshikage o
Aogishi hatsuki jūgo-nichi

Toki ni ri arazu sui yukazu
Seigi ni tateru kōgun mo
Shūka no ikioi ika ni sen
Hoko o osamuru yamu zo naki

Kimi ga mitate to kuni o ide
Shichijū yo-nen no dentō no
Komoru seichi ni kenji-ra ga
Tsudoishi yayoi no sue tsu kata

Asa na yū na ni gokajō no
Mikoto kashikomi bu o furui
Haja no tsurugi o togi ni keri
Kokku no hagemi ikutsuki zo

Yoshi manabiya o izuru tomo
Omoi wa hasen shinbudai
Yo wa uzumaki ni midaru tomo
Takaku sasagen ōmikoto

Wasururu nakare kono urami
Shinobe chirinishi tokkō-tai
Shūteki ukete nanmei ni
Tsuyu to kienishi shinpei o

Shinobi ni shinobi tae ni tae
Hitsū no mikoto kashikomite
Kyō no urami o kaesubeki
Toki o ba matan yamato-dama

Miitsu kagayaku dōdō no
Muteki kōgun kizuku beki
Kōmyō tomo ni mezashitsutsu
Ai-tazusaete ikan kana


[Japanese]
あゝ神洲は永久なれど
突如と降る大詔に
涙をのみて星影を
仰ぎし八月十五日

時に利あらず騅ゆかず
正義に立てる皇軍も
衆寡の勢如何にせん
戈を収むるやむぞなき

君が御楯と国を出で
七十余年の伝統の
こもる聖地に健児らが
集いし弥生の末つかた

朝な夕なに五ヶ条の
みことかしこみ武を振い
破邪の剣を研ぎにけり
刻苦の励み幾月ぞ

よし学び舎を出ずるとも
思いは馳せん振武台
世は渦巻に乱るとも
高く捧げん大みこと

忘るるなかれこの怨み
偲べ散りにし特攻隊
衆敵受けて南溟に
露と消えにし神兵を

忍びに忍び耐えに耐え
悲痛のみことかしこみて
今日の怨みをかえすべき
時をば待たん大和魂

御稜威輝く堂々の
無敵皇軍築くべく
光明共に目指しつつ
相携えて行かんかな