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Sunday, May 5, 2019

ゴールデンボンバー 令和 GOLDEN BOMBER REIWA

   As we already know, Japan had a new Emperor (第126代天皇 徳仁 Emperor Naruhito) on 1 st May, 2019 and 令和 Reiwa is the name of the new era.

   令和 Reiwa are the kanji (Chinese characters) from 万葉集 (manyoushuu), an anthology of 和歌 (waka) poetry from 奈良時代 Nara period (AD 710 - 794). This was the period when many Chinese cultures (Tang Dynasty Chinese writings , fashion, Chinese Buddhism, pottery, etc)  were imported to Japan. This was also the period when poetries were wiritten in 万葉仮名 (manyougana) - Chinese characters were used to represent the Japanese language phonetically , rather than representing the meanings, so for Chinese readers reading manyougana , it wouldn't make any sense in meaning because the Japanese pronunciations of these Chinese characters were used to represent the Japanese words with the same pronunciations.


   Anyway, this is the first Jpop song with the title 令和 Reiwa, performed by visual kei air rock band Golden Bomber. None of the members actually play any musical instruments , thus air rock!

   Notice the time machine used in the video is modelled after Doraemon's time machine.

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