5-note bugle call breaks silence aboard MSDF ship at 8 a.m.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--The low and heavy drone of massive ship engines could be heard resounding across Kure Port here, which is surrounded by steep mountains, on a recent sunny morning during a lull in the rainy season.
The crew was busy aboard a vessel about to leave the harbor. A young officer with a megaphone in hand was calling out instructions, aboard the Yamayuki training vessel of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The captain and others on duty constantly manned the vessel’s bridge, busily checking out instruments and radar equipment.
A quintet holding shiny gold bugles lined up on the back of the bridge, which looks down on the port. Silence soon reigned.
“Ten seconds to go,” an onboard public address system said. That prompted the buglers to sound an “attention” call, which resembles a military fanfare.
“Jikaaan" (Tiiime)!
At 8 a.m., the quintet began playing one of the ceremonial tunes for bugles, of which there are seven in the MSDF. An MSDF flag, representing the rising sun with rays, was raised on a flagpole at the stern. All stopped moving and straightened themselves.
The melody resounded in the surroundings for 45 seconds. Once the bugles stopped, the crew members returned to their posts, and there was a clamor again.
Over the nearly 130 years since the Imperial Japanese Navy opened a naval port here in Kure in 1889, the same scene has been repeated daily at 8 a.m., except for a short period in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
The quintet even carried on during a recent spell of torrential rains that caused heavy damage to Kure in July.
The tune played by the crew members is titled “Kimigayo,” but it has a five-note melody, which is quite unlike Japan’s national anthem of the same name. It is referred to as “Rappa Kimigayo” (bugle Kimigayo) in the MSDF.
When did the original melody begin to be used?
The tune is played only with the five notes of C-G-C-E-G, with the last three being an octave higher.
“The SDF bugles have no pistons,” said Masajiro Tanimura, 79, a resident of Tokyo’s Koto Ward, who previously headed the MSDF Band Tokyo. “You only have those five different notes to play with the motion of your mouth alone.”
Tanimura thereupon presented a document titled: “Score for the Army and Navy bugles.”
Issued Dec. 3, 1885, it is an Imperial Army and Navy notice, which defines bugle scores for 221 tunes, including the Rappa Kimigayo, to be used during ceremonies and in giving commands.
“Kimigayo, the first of the tunes included therein, is inherited by the MSDF alone,” Tanimura said.
A passage in the “Navy salute protocol,” a notice issued in 1897, indicates the tune was used during flag-raising ceremonies.
“Arms should be presented toward the warship flag, and Rappa Kimigayo should be performed once ... when the warship flag is raised or lowered at prescribed times,” the passage reads.
When are those prescribed times? To answer that question, Tanimura presented yet another document.
“The merchant ship regulations, a decree from 1870, says a flag for showing the nationality should remain raised from 8 a.m. through sunset,” he said.
That belonged to common sense of the Seven Seas.

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消防団で、吹奏する《国旗に対する敬礼》と同じですね。

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海上自衛隊の君が代はカッコいい～＼(^^)／🎵。

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これ君が代だったんだ…

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海自のラッパ君が代は、艦艇と1術校(幹候)のみで、同じ海自でも陸上部隊や航空部隊は普通の君が代で国旗掲揚します。

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信号ラッパだから音限られるから馴染みが一般人ではないんだよな

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産経新聞勝と思た......

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