Scope: An English rendering of Katakamuna Uta 13, separated into transliteration, controlled literal gloss, and interpretive English.
Japanese Source Text
スヒ チニ ツヌ クヒ イモ イク クヒ オホ トノチ イモ オホ トノヘ
オモ タル イモ アヤ カシ コネ イサ ナミ イサ ナキ トヨ カフ シヌ
ウキ フヌ マカ ハコ クニ
Source Authority and Review Boundary
The source authority for this translation is the published Japanese entry for Katakamuna Uta 13. Its canonical text, structural analysis, and evidence labels govern any discrepancy. This English rendering preserves the transliteration, literal gloss, and interpretive layer separately; it does not expand the Japanese authority’s claims.
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Transliteration
Suhichi ni — Tsunukuhi — Imo Ikukuhi — Oho Tonochi — Imo Oho Tonohe — Omo Taru Imo — Aya Kashikone — Isanami — Isanaki — Toyo Kafushinu — Uki Funu — Maka Hako Kuni
Literal Gloss
Breath descends into earth and blood. Horn and stake establish and fix the field; life-breath moves through the receptive water-womb while a pillar of fire is set within it. Inner hall and outer boundary appear. Water and fire are stirred into wave and calm, floating and gestating functions divide, and a great box-like womb of land is formed.
Interpretive English
Uta 13 carries the order of the inner spirit into embodied land. Breath, earth, blood, pillars, womb, inner and outer space, wave and calm cooperate until the country forms as a great containing matrix. This is a structural reading of the Japanese authority, not proof that its sound correspondences share historical origins.
Evidence Boundary
This English edition preserves the Japanese source’s distinction between canonical text, structural observation, TENMON interpretation, comparison, and unverified hypothesis. Sound correspondences are not presented as proof of historical etymology.