Scope: An English rendering of Katakamuna Uta 24, separated into transliteration, controlled literal gloss, and interpretive English.
Japanese Source Text
ア メ クニ サ キ リ モ コ ロ シマ ア メ クニ サ ツ チ
ソ コ ソ キ シマ タケ ヒ ワケ
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The source authority for this translation is the published Japanese entry for Katakamuna Uta 24. 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
Ame Kuni Sakiri — Mokoro Shima — Ame Kuni Sacchi — Soko Soki Shima — Takehi Wake
Literal Gloss
At the deepest base an island-root stands and foundational energy supports it. Fire with bamboo-like joints differentiates; the fire-water of heaven and land is divided, and islands of many condensations arise along that boundary. Blessing and earthly power then settle into the islands as land.
Interpretive English
Uta 24 roots the island-form in the deep foundation, differentiates articulated fire, and stabilizes the divided heavenly and earthly forces as inhabited land. The bamboo and fire imagery is structural within the source, not asserted as historical etymology.
Evidence Boundary
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