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"Kimi Ga Yo" (May 1,000 Years of Happy Reign Be Yours) (Jp. 君が代) is the official national anthem of Japan as was unofficial until 1999. It is in the form of a Waka, an ancient Japanese style of poem, from the Heian period. The author is unknown.
Lyrics
| Kimi ga yo wa Chiyo ni,
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May thy life (my Lord's reign), |
君が代は |
There is a theory that this lyric was once a love poem. The ancient Japanese believed that boulders grow from pebbles much like a sapling grow into a tree and that is reflected in the poem.
In 1869 Oyama Iwao and other Satsuma military officers selected Kimi Ga Yo as a national anthem and made an Englishman John William Fenton write music for it. However, due to bad reputation, it was abandoned in 1876. The present music was composed by Hayashi Hiromori in 1880.
See also: Japan, Flag of Japan
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