Hinomoto Statues – Lady Oboshi
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Blossoms guard the waves,
Our warm embrace of progress,
Mother of the fleet.
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She rose from the decks of rebellion, seizing that which was denied.
Once the consort of an admiral, she turned against him and the shogunate,
taking the fleet for the common people.
She broke open the granaries for the starving,
sheltered the weak,
gave us knowledge that had long been denied,
and guarded the coast with a hand both stern and kind.
Her name became a promise:
protection for the people,
industrialization for the common good.
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