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title: 戊申詔書 (Boshin Rescript), Kanpō no. 7592, 14 October 1908, p. 1
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description: Front page of the gazette prints the Imperial Rescript of 13 October 1908 urging subjects, after the Russo-Japanese War, to unite, work diligently…
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---

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# 戊申詔書 (Boshin Rescript), Kanpō no. 7592, 14 October 1908, p. 1

Front page of the gazette prints the Imperial Rescript of 13 October 1908 urging subjects, after the Russo-Japanese War, to unite, work diligently, practise thrift, and be 'sincere and righteous'. The virtue words carry no measurable obligation, and the ancestors' precepts and national history, 'bright as sun and stars', are invoked to lend the exhortation authority.

## Text on the object

Original (Japanese (classical, katakana and kanji)) · read from the image, not independently checked

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[header, left margin] 官報(日刊) 第七五九二號　明治四十一年十月十四日　水曜日　印刷局

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御名御璽

明治四十一年十月十三日

內閣總理大臣　侯爵　桂太郞
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[header] Official Gazette (daily), no. 7592, Meiji 41 (1908), 14 October, Wednesday. Printing Bureau.

Imperial Rescript

We consider that in the present age human culture advances day by day and month by month, East and West lean on one another and each supplies the other's lack, so that they share the benefit. We therefore intend all the more to cultivate foreign relations, deepen friendship, and look to share with the powers lasting felicity. Yet to share in the blessings of civilization as the great trend advances daily depends, of course, on the development of the nation's own fortunes; the war being still recent, the many branches of government need further reinvigoration. Let high and low unite in heart, be loyal and faithful to their callings, work diligently and thriftily at their livelihoods, be sincere and righteous, form a generous and kindly custom, cast off show and keep to substance, warn one another against idleness and neglect, and strive without rest. The sacred precepts of Our ancestors and the achievements of Our glorious national history are bright as the sun and stars; if you truly keep them and apply the sincerity of tempering yourselves, the root of national progress lies close at hand. Standing in the present world situation, We hope, relying on the assistance of Our loyal and good subjects, to enlarge the imperial design of the Restoration and to proclaim the awe-inspiring virtue of Our ancestors. You, Our subjects, shall take Our purpose to heart.

Imperial name and seal

Meiji 41st year, 10th month, 13th day

Prime Minister, Marquis Katsura Tarō
```

Printed in right-to-left vertical columns without punctuation. The Kwantung Governor-General's police-offences ordinance below the rescript is not transcribed. Translation is a literal machine rendering, not checked by a fluent reader.

[← Indian Opinion (Phoenix, Natal), page 382: speeches at the burning of registration certificates, 22 August 1908](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/indian-opinion-certificate-burning-speech-1908/) [El Renacimiento, 30 October 1908, p. 4: the editorial 'Aves de rapiña' (Birds of Prey) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/el-renacimiento-aves-de-rapina-1908/)

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