Requiem for Battleship Yamato

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 [ja] and 1990 TV series Battleship Yamato [ja].

An English version, translated by Richard H. Minear, was published in 1985 under the title Requiem for Battleship Yamato.[2][3]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Requiem for Battleship Yamato". www.kamikazeimages.net. Retrieved 8 November 2024.