Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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This song was published on 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War and was a tribute song to Lieutenant Colonel Tachibana Shūta who died in Liaoyang, China. He was immediately shot after moments of leaving the trench while he was announcing a charge against the Russian position. After his death and the end of the war, just a year later, he was viewed as a heroic martyr. His regiment, the 34th Regiment, was renamed to the "Tachibana Regiment", there were numerous monuments of him in several cities, the bay near his hometown was officially renamed “Tachibana Bay”, And he was deified and his birthplace was converted to a Shinto Shrine, which is still around to this day. Before his death, he was treated of high importance and in 1891, He was assigned as an aide-de-camp to the Crown Prince at the time, Yoshihito (Emperor Taisho)

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遼陽城頭夜は闌けて
有明月の影すごく
霧立ちこむる高梁の
中なる塹壕声絶えて
目醒め勝ちなる敵兵の
胆驚かす秋の風

わが精鋭の三軍を
邀撃せん健気にも
思い定めて敵将が
集めし兵は二十万
防禦至らぬ隅もなく
決戦すとぞ聞えたる

時は八月末つ方
わが籌略は定まりて
総攻撃の命下り
三軍の意気天を衝く
敗残の将いかでかは
正義に敵する勇あらん


「敵の陣地の中堅ぞ
まず首山堡を乗っ取れ」と
三十日の夜深く
前進命令忽ちに
下る三十四連隊
橘大隊一線に

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