Kimi ga Yo
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| Kimi ga Yo (君が代, "May your reign last forever") is Japan's national anthem, and is also one of the world's shortest national anthems in current use. The lyrics are based on a waka poem written in the Heian period, sung to a melody written in the later Meiji era. — Excerpted from Kimi ga Yo on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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[edit] Lyrics
君が代は
千代に八千代に
さざれ石の
いわおとなりて
こけのむすまで
[edit] Lyrics in Latin alphabet
Kimi ga yo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made
[edit] Translation
May your reign
Continue for a thousand years, for eternity,
Until pebbles
Grow into boulders
Covered in moss.
[edit] Translation by Basil Hall Chamberlain
A thousand years of happy life be thine!
Live on, my Lord, till what are pebbles now,
By age united, to great rocks shall grow,
Whose venerable sides the moss doth line.
