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Previous post - Next post | Parent - | Posted on 2005/7/20 15:36
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Dear Honobono,

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The word of 'Nanaseihoukoku' in Japanese is pronounced like 'Shichisho-houkoku'. In our elementary school days this word was very popular in Japan and we used to use it in the title of calligraphy.
I'm ashamed that I didn't know that it is pronounced like that.

Your thoughts you want to protect Japan, even though you will be reborn 7 times !
Japan was protected by those who had such thoughts and died, wasn't it?

Before the Second World War Japanese young people were forced to accept such an education and as a result it spread out all through Japan and they were influenced by it, didn't it? How did children study around that time, didn't they?

The word of 'Shichisho-houkoku' reminded me of Yukio Mishima. He got into an army post in Ichigaya in Tokyo with young people who belonged to 'Tatenokai' by force and he agitated from a balcony. He was wearing a headband and the word of 'Shichisho-houkoku' was written in it, wasn't it?I was so shocked that he committed 'Harakiri', suicide in 1970.

However the royal family in Japan has continued to exist (one royal line )from the first emperor, Jimmu to the current emperor in Heisei era for a long time (the 125th in the succession) consecutively. There isn't such a royal family with a long history, even though you look for all of the country, is it?

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It means that 'Boys, have an object for the future when they are 11 years old .'
I had experiences in '13 Mairi'. - I visited a shrine with my daughters when they were 13 years old. But I knew for the first time that boys visited there when they were 11 years old. A kind of Japanese culture is about to disappear little by little, isn't it?

Is '11 Mairi' still held in the Shijyonawate Shrine?

from Anmitsuhime

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