"Miya-san Miya-san" 宮さん宮さん or Tonyare-bushi, Japanese Song of the Meiji Restoration, 1868-1869

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"Miya-san, Miya-san!", or "Tonyare-bushi", is one of the first modern Japanese patriotic/militaristic songs. Made sometime around the Meiji Restoration, approximately 1868-1869, the song's about the Boshin War, to be exact the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, between the armies of the shogunate and the armies of the pro-Imperial faction, told from the pro-Imperial Satsuma-Chosu-Tosa-Hizen forces perspective. The Boshin War itself was a kind of a civil war that occurred following the formal declaration of the restoration of Imperial rule.

The picture used as the background is an ukiyo-e painting of the shogunate forces retreating during the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, while the symbol overlaying the background is of the Chrysanthemum symbol of the Japanese Imperial Court. The picture appearing during 1:11-1:24 is a painting of the last Japanese shogun, Yoshinobu, escaping Osaka towards Edo.

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