EPIC Nightcore Version - Hirose Chūsa - 廣瀨中佐

廣瀨中佐 (Hirose Chūsa) Full Nightcore Version with Lyrics & Subtitles On 27 March 1904, during the second attempt to block the harbour entrance of Port Arthur, the blockship Fukui Maru was torpedoed and began to sink before its crew could fire the scuttling charges. Petty officer Sugino Magoshichi, sent below to light the fuse, was missing at roll call. Commander Hirose Takeo searched the sinking ship three times, calling his name, before at last moving to the lifeboat, where a shell struck and he vanished in an instant. Hirose Chūsa was written for the fourth-grade textbook of Japan's official school song series, published in December 1912. Three verses, no chorus, and the hero's own name withheld until the very last line: Hirose was posthumously honoured as Japan's first war god. *日本語* 轟く砲音飛來る彈丸 荒波洗ふデッキの上に 闇を貫く中佐の叫 杉野は何處杉野は居ずや 船內隈なく尋ぬる三度 呼べど答へずさがせど見えず 船は次第に波間に沈み 敵彈いよいよあたりに繁し 今はとボートにうつれる中佐 飛來る彈丸に忽ち失せて 旅順港外恨ぞ深き 軍神廣瀨と其の名殘れど *English* The guns are roaring, the shells come flying. On the deck, washed over by the raging waves, the commander's cry cuts through the dark: "Where is Sugino? Sugino, are you not here?" Three times he searches every corner of the ship. He calls, no answer; he looks, no sign of him. Little by little the ship sinks beneath the waves, and the enemy shells fall thicker and thicker around him. At last he steps across into the boat, and a flying shell takes him in an instant. Off the harbour of Port Arthur, how deep the grief, though his name lives on as the war god Hirose. [EN] DISCLAIMER This is a cover of a song written for Japan's official fourth-grade school songbook, published in December 1912. The lyrics are the original wording, sung and printed since the early twentieth century; they are not mine. It tells of a single night of the Russo-Japanese War, the death of Commander Hirose Takeo off Port Arthur in 1904, and is presented here as an artistic and historical reconstruction, not as a political statement. No specific enemy, ideology, or era beyond 1904 is depicted. No war, military, government or ideology is endorsed or glorified. No real nation or people is targeted. This video is made for artistic and educational purposes only. [JP] 免責事項 本作は1912年12月に発行された日本の尋常小学校第四学年用の公式教科書のために 書かれた歌をカバーしたものです。歌詞は20世紀初頭から歌い継がれてきた原詞で あり、制作者によるものではありません。日露戦争中のある一夜、1904年に旅順港 外で戦死した廣瀨武夫中佐の物語を描いており、芸術的・歴史的な再現として紹介 するものであり、政治的な主張ではありません。特定の敵や思想、1904年以降の時 代は描かれていません。戦争、軍隊、政府、思想を賛美または推奨するものではな く、現実の国家や民族を攻撃するものでもありません。本作は芸術および教育を目 的とした作品です。 [CREDITS & COPYRIGHT NOTICE] Original song: 廣瀨中佐 (Hirose Chūsa / "Commander Hirose"), 1912 From: 尋常小學唱歌 第四學年用 (Jinjō Shōgaku Shōka, Book 4), Japanese Ministry of Education Music and lyrics: Ministry of Education committee, authors not credited (music traditionally attributed to Okano Teiichi, 1878-1941)