1940 Stationary Wireless Unit Commemorative Watch Fob/皇紀二千六百年固定無線隊記念章

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Obverse

無線 - Wireless

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]

See also watch fobs with the same inscription https://asiamedals.info/threads/chi...adges-and-watch-fobs.22957/page-4#post-345900 ; https://asiamedals.info/threads/193...raduation-commemorative-watch-fob-1939.29000/.

皇紀二千六百年 - 1940

固定無線隊 - Stationary Wireless Unit

記念 - Commemorative
 
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