History & cultureKurisushima NightcoreEPIC Nightcore Version | 抜刀隊 - Battotai | The famous Imperial Japanese March
EPIC Nightcore Version | 抜刀隊 - Battotai | The famous Imperial Japanese March
8.9× channel medianLong-form6:00MusicPublished Sep 28, 2026, 9:43 AM · 4w ago
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Description
This is my next cover of Battotai, this time with all six verses. This one has a completely different style and stays faithful to the original 1882 first edition :3
Battotai opens with an odd fact: its enemy is Japanese. The poem was written in 1882 by Toyama Masakazu for the first collection of new-style Japanese poetry, five years after the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, when former samurai rose against the Meiji government. It honours the Battotai, the "Sword-Drawing Corps", a unit of swordsmen raised because conscripted soldiers could not match the rebels with the blade, and it takes its model from Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
Charles Leroux, a French military bandmaster serving in Japan, set it to music, and it was first performed at the Rokumeikan in Tokyo on 9 November 1885. In 1886 the tune became part of the Imperial Army's parade march, and a march built on it is still played by Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
*日本語*
我は官軍我敵は
天地容れざる朝敵ぞ
敵の大將たる者は
古今無雙の英雄で
之に從ふ兵は
共に慓悍決死の士
鬼神に恥ぬ勇あるも
天の許さぬ叛逆を
起せし者は昔より
榮えし例あらざるぞ
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
皇國の風と武士の
其身を護る靈の
維新このかた廢れたる
日本刀の今更に
又世に出づる身の譽
敵も身方も諸共に
刃の下に死ぬべきぞ
大和魂ある者の
死ぬべき時は今なるぞ
人に後れて恥かくな
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
前を望めば劔なり
右も左りも皆劔
劔の山に登らんは
未來の事と聞きつるに
此世に於てまのあたり
劔の山に登るのも
我身のなせる罪業を
滅す為にあらずして
賊を征伐するが為
劔の山もなんのその
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
劔の光ひらめくは
雲間に見ゆる稻妻か
四方に打出す砲聲は
天に轟く雷か
敵の刃に伏す者や
丸に碎けて玉の緒の
絶えて墓なく失する身の
屍は積みて山をなし
其血は流れて川をなす
死地に入るのも君が為
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
彈丸雨飛の間にも
二ツなき身を惜まずに
進む我身は野嵐に
吹かれて消ゆる白露の
墓なき最後とぐるとも
忠義の為に死ぬる身の
死にて甲斐あるものならば
死ぬるも更に怨なし
我と思はん人たちは
一歩も後へ引くなかれ
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
我今茲に死ん身は
君の為なり國の為
捨つべきものは命なり
假令ひ屍は朽ちぬとも
忠義の為に捨る身の
名は芳しく後の世に
永く傳へて殘るらん
武士と生れた甲斐もなく
義もなき犬と云はるゝな
卑怯者となそしられそ
敵の亡ぶる夫迄は
進めや進め諸共に
玉ちる劔拔き連れて
死ぬる覺悟で進むべし
[EN] DISCLAIMER
This is a cover of Battotai, a poem written in 1882 by Toyama Masakazu and set
to music in 1885 by Charles Leroux. It looks back on the Satsuma Rebellion of
1877, a civil war in which the Imperial Army fought former samurai of its own
country, and its melody lives on in a parade march still played in Japan. The
lyrics are the original wording and are presented as an artistic and
historical document. Their language about rebels, loyalty and death expresses
the view of one side in 1877 and is not endorsed here. No real person or
people is targeted. This video is made for artistic and educational purposes
only.
[JP] 免責事項
本作は、1882年に外山正一が書き、1885年にシャルル・ルルーが作曲した「抜刀隊」の
カバーです。1877年の西南戦争、すなわち政府軍が同じ国の旧士族と戦った内戦を題材と
しており、その旋律は今も日本で演奏される行進曲に受け継がれています。歌詞は原詞の
ままであり、芸術的・歴史的な資料として紹介するものです。反乱者、忠義、死をめぐる
表現は1877年当時の一方の立場を表したもので、本作がそれを支持するものではありませ
ん。特定の人物や民族を攻撃する意図もありません。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: 抜刀隊 (Battōtai), 1885
Music: Charles Leroux
Lyrics: 外山正一 (Toyama Masakazu)
EPIC Nightcore cover arrangement and production: Kurisushima
Tags
日本battotai日本史ww2japan marchbattotai marchjapan
Details
- Published
- Sep 28, 2026, 9:43 AM
- Length
- 6:00 (360 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- Music
- Audio language
- JA
- Quality
- HD
- Captions
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Licensed content
- No
- Video ID
- z_C7q94Bnaw
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