1930 - 君が代 Kimigayo - Imperial Japanese Anthem

This is a 1930 recording of Kimigayo; then the anthem of the Empire of Japan. It remains the national anthem of Japan to this day. Although the melody was composed in 1880, the lyrics of the anthem stretch back a millennium to the Heian era.

~ 君が代 ~
Kimigayo
"His Imperial Majesty's Reign"
君が代は
千代に八千代に
細さざれ石の
巌いわおとなりて
苔こけの生す迄まで

きみがよは
ちよにやちよに
さざれいしの
いわおとなりて
こけのむすまで

Kimigayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made

[kimiɡajo ɰa]
[tɕiꜜjo ɲi jaꜜtɕijo ɲi]
[sazaɾeꜜiɕi no]
[iɰa.o to naɾite]
[kokeꜜ no mɯꜜsɯ made]

May your reign
Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations,
Until the tiny pebbles
Grow into massive boulders
Lush with moss

Thousands of years of happy reign be thine;
Rule on, my lord, until what are pebbles now
By ages united to mighty rocks shall grow
Whose venerable sides the moss doth line.

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