Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949. The book was partially censored by Americans during the occupation of Japan.[1] It was later rewritten several times and published in various forms. The book became influential, and became a basis of 1953 film Battleship Yamato and 1990 TV series Battleship Yamato.
| Author | Mitsuru Yoshida |
|---|---|
| Original title | 戦艦大和ノ最期 |
| Translator | Richard H. Minear (1985) |
| Language | Japanese |
| Published | 1949 |
| Publication place | Japan |
An English version, translated by Richard H. Minear, was published in 1985 under the title Requiem for Battleship Yamato.[2][3]
Further reading
edit- David Stahl. "Mythic reality, battlefield survival and psychosocial conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru's The End of Battleship Yamato". In Hayter, Irena; Sipos, George T.; Williams, Mark (eds.). Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan. 2021: Routledge. ISBN 9780429280559.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - Shunichi Takekawa (1 May 2012). "Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture". japanesestudies.org.uk. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- Gerow, Aaron (31 January 2016). "9. War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato, Kamikaze, Trauma, and Forgetting the Postwar". In Berry, Michael; Sawada, Chiho (eds.). Divided Lenses. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 196–219. ISBN 978-0-8248-5817-9.
References
edit- ^ Smith, Christopher (14 November 2019). "Yoshida Mitsuru's 1946 "The End of the Battleship Yamato"". Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature. 34 (2): 247–260. doi:10.5744/delos.2019.1026. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- ^ Mitchell, Richard H. (August 1986). "Requiem for Battleship Yamato. By Yoshida Mitsuru. Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95". The Journal of Asian Studies. 45 (4): 868–869. doi:10.2307/2056124. ISSN 1752-0401. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- ^ "Requiem for Battleship Yamato". www.kamikazeimages.net. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
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