もろこしも Far Cathay too
天の下にぞ Lies under the same heaven,
有と聞く I hear:
照る日の本を Please do not forget
忘れざらなむ This Land of the Rising Sun.
Written by an aristocratic lady of the Heian period.
Formal argument for a “strong sense of national identity” among the chattering classes of the era, Robert Borgen, Japanese Nationalism: Ancient and Modern.
Annual Report of the Insitute for International Studies [Meiji Gakuin University], no. 1 (December 1998), pp. 49-59.
