Kamikaze Screening

[newt]

I'm prolly gonna get it screened sat., i was thinking it should say something under the picture...

I was looking for some poems by kamikaze pilots in ww2 didn't find much....or any poem quote/definition/anything would be awesome...

heres the full picture, I'm gonna have it screened onto the back of a white shirt... Pretty big, prolly this size or bigger on shirt.




http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/kamikazebonsia1.gif

http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/kamikazebonsia1.gif

[Hampton]

I did a quick search, I dunno if you have seen these already though:

letters written by Kamikaze pilots (http://www.geocities.co.jp/WallStreet-Stock/6210/isyo.html)

Also this book: Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot: Poems (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879056010/maverimagazithev/103-8896694-8393439)


Manned suicide bombs were called oh jinrai, ?cherry blossom kamikaze?; and in February 1945 one young pilot left the following haiku poem (as translated by Ivan Morris):only we might fall in the Spring? So pure and radiant There are two conclusive arguments against Draeger?s identification. First the cherry blossom emblem is almost invariably shown with five convex lobes or petals where the Kodokan emblem has eight ogival lobes. (Some foreign judo dubs and organisations have used the five-lobed cherry as part of their emblems; Judo Canada, using five ogival lobes, contñves to get the best of both worlds.) Secondly, the Kodokan itself has given the following explanation:

Link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:xDmrpsc_FwwJ:www.kanosociety.org/bulletin5.htm+kamikaze+pilot+poem&hl=en)


Hostile Visit

McQueen reads a poem written by a Japanese kamikaze pilot in World War II:


"With my mission now at hand, my dear old town, my dear old people,
I now abandon everything and leave to protect this country.
To preserve our eternal and just cause, I now go forth.
My body will collapse like a falling cherry blossom
but my soul will live and protect this land forever.
Farewell. I am a glorious wild cherry blossom.
I shall return to my mother's place and bloom."

Reserve Sub-Lieutenant 1st Class Yuzuru Ogata, Ohka Squadron Graduate, Kansai University, age 23.


Taken from Thunder Gods: Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story by Hatsuho Naito
Translation from Japanese to English by Mayumi Ichikawa

www.space-readyroom.de/literature.html+kamikaze+pilot+poem&hl=en]Link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:7z9K_ALdWz0J:[url).[/url]

[newt]

awesome man thanks alot.

[MiniOswald]

theres a book i have
'Kamikaze
japans suicide samurai'

by raymond lamont-brown
dont know where youd pick one up but it has letters and possible poems in it

[Hate Is Art]

I love that picture!!! It fantastic!