See also https://asiamedals.info/threads/chi...adges-and-watch-fobs.22957/page-4#post-345900
Private collection. Photos courtesy of the owner.
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草むす屍 - Dead Body Covered in Grass/Grass-covered Dead
[Waka (poem) from Man'yōshū (oldest collection of Japanese waka, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period)
海ゆかばみず漬く屍 山行かば、草むす屍 おほ君の辺にこそ死なめ 顧みはせじ
Should you go to sea, I'll be a corpse soaked in water.
Should you go to the mountains, I'll be a corpse covered in grass
Would that I could die by the side of my Lord...I should have no regrets]
第五十二期野山砲 - 52nd Class of Field and Mountain Artillery
區隊 - Ku-tai /training unit equivalent to a platoon/
皇紀二五九九年 - 1939
陸軍士官學校卒業 - Army Academy Graduation
Private collection. Photos courtesy of the owner.
Reverse
草むす屍 - Dead Body Covered in Grass/Grass-covered Dead
[Waka (poem) from Man'yōshū (oldest collection of Japanese waka, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period)
海ゆかばみず漬く屍 山行かば、草むす屍 おほ君の辺にこそ死なめ 顧みはせじ
Should you go to sea, I'll be a corpse soaked in water.
Should you go to the mountains, I'll be a corpse covered in grass
Would that I could die by the side of my Lord...I should have no regrets]
第五十二期野山砲 - 52nd Class of Field and Mountain Artillery
區隊 - Ku-tai /training unit equivalent to a platoon/
皇紀二五九九年 - 1939
陸軍士官學校卒業 - Army Academy Graduation