1.
九月十日
菅原道眞
去年今夜待清涼
秋思詩篇獨斷腸
恩賜御衣今在此
捧持毎日拜餘香
2.
奉和塞下曲
勢識人
胡兒寒月曉吹笳
梅柳雖春未見花
為報國恩不敢死
邊亭萬里老風沙
3.
萱 澤雪村
澤國春風入草根
誰家庭院不生萱
遠懷未有忘憂日
白鬂垂垂獨倚門
4.
深泊高麗呈國王
釋大智
曠劫漂流生死海
今朝更被業風吹
無端失却歸鄉路
空望扶桑日出時
5.
後醍醐廟看梅
釋絕海
乘輿南狩不時囘
遺廟西山雲一隈
昔日何人調鼎手
老禪掃雪獨看梅
6.
會裏僧與武具
釋一休
道人行脚又山居
江海風流簑笠漁
逆行沙門三尺劍
不看禪錄讀軍書
7.
寄濃州僧
武田晴信
氣似岐陽九月寒
三冬六出灑朱欄
多情尚遇風流客
共對士峰吟雪看
8.
九月十三夜中作
不職庵
上杉輝X
霜滿軍營秋氣淸
數行過雁月三更
越山幷得能州景
遮莫家鄕憶遠征
9.
征韓之役路過梁山村見梅花開折一兩枝馬上帶之
釋俊岳
萬國平夷忽促還
春來日日度關山
擔頭只揷梅花去
自說江南有伯顏
10.
偶成
伊達政宗
邪法迷邦唱不終
欲征蠻國未成功
圖南鵬翼何時奮
久待扶搖萬里風
山のごと坂田の稲を抜き積みて君が千歳の初穂にぞ舂く
yama no goto sakata no ine wo nuki tsumite kimi ga chitose no hatsuho ni zo tsuku
like mountains we have piled the year’s first harvest: rice for pounding and observing the thousand years of your imperial reign
Ōnakatomi no Sukechika (大中臣輔親, 954-1038) was a Heian Period Shinto priest and poet.
松本盛昌, 愛國百人一首ゑはがき
東京：愛國社、昭和18年 (1943)。
Postcard, illustrated by Matsumoto Morimasa
Filed under 愛國百人一首
青雲のむかふす極すめらぎの御稜威かがやく御代になしてむ
aogumo no mukafusu kiwami sumeragi no miitsu kagayaku miyo ni nashiten
on the far horizon blue clouds expand: so may the brightness of his majesty’s reign extend forever
Hirano Kuniomi (平野国臣, 1828-1864) was a warrior from southern Japan involved in several coup attempts during the Bakumatsu; a proponent of the Sonnō jōi exclusionist platform, he was executed at 36. Two personal poetry anthologies of his work survive: Hirano Kuniomi Kashū (平野国臣歌集) and Reigo Shōkō (囹圄消光), a compilation of poetry written while he awaited execution.
松本盛昌, 愛國百人一首ゑはがき
東京：愛國社、昭和18年 (1943)。
Postcard, illustrated by Matsumoto Morimasa
Filed under 愛國百人一首
大御田のみなわも泥もかきたれてとるや早苗は我が君の為
omita no minawa mo hiji mo kakitarete toru ya sanae wa waga kimi no tame
planting rice seedlings in a muddy paddy amid the pouring rain: even these tasks done for the Emperor’s sake
Kamo no Mabuchi (賀茂真淵, 1697-1769) was a major Edo Period philologist and a central figure in the Kokugaku school of national studies. Kamo was a student of Kada no Azumamaro, and his own most famous student was Motoori Norinaga.
松本盛昌, 愛國百人一首ゑはがき
東京：愛國社、昭和18年 (1943)。
Postcard, illustrated by Matsumoto Morimasa
Filed under 愛國百人一首
君をいのるみちにいそげば神垣にはや時つげて鶏も鳴くなり
kimi wo inoru michi ni isogeba kamigaki ni haya toki tsugete tori mo nakunari
having risen early to pray for his majesty I hear the cock crow passing on my way as the shrine gate rises
The postcard’s subject is standing next to the statue of Ōmura Masujirō (大村 益次郎, 1824-1869) at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Ōmura is regarded as the father of the modern Japanese military, and his statue was one of the first in a western style to be erected in Japan.
松本盛昌, 愛國百人一首ゑはがき
東京：愛國社、昭和18年 (1943)。
Postcard, illustrated by Matsumoto Morimasa
Filed under 愛國百人一首
いのちより名こそ惜しけれもののふの道にかふべき道しなければ
inochi yori na koso oshikere mononofu no michi ni kaubeki michi shinakereba
more precious than life is an unsullied name for the warrior who would undertake the way that must be trod
Poem by Morisako Shinnō (森迫親正, 1535-1551), a Sengoku Period warrior who died at 17. The Aikokusha postcard is an historical depiction of the author, but another contemporary postcard offers an illustration of a nocturnal military mission in winter:
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君がため花と散りにしますらをに見せばやと思ふ御代の春かな
kimi ga tame hana to chirinishi masurao ni misebaya to omou miyo no haru kana
in this spring of your reign I think I see in the cherry blossoms that fall so swiftly the stalwart warriors eager to give their lives for you
Poem by Kanō Morohira (1806-1857), an Edo period nationalist scholar born in Tōtōmi Province (now Shizuoka Prefecture). Before inclusion in the 1943 Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, this poem was part of Kanō’s 1854 anthology Songs from the Persimmon Garden (柿園詠草, Kakizono Eisō). Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney discusses the identification of falling cherry blossoms with the sacrifices of Japanese soldiers at length in her Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), but especially at pp. 74-75.
The postcard’s subject is standing in front of a shrine that resembles the Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, established in 1869 to honor the spirits of persons who died in the service of the Empire of Japan.
松本盛昌, 愛國百人一首ゑはがき
東京：愛國社、昭和18年 (1943)。
Postcard, illustrated by Matsumoto Morimasa
Filed under 愛國百人一首
Richard Mammana 