Scope: An English rendering of Katakamuna Uta 68, separated into transliteration, controlled literal gloss, and interpretive English.
Japanese Source Text
トヨホ イホ カム ナカラ オホ カム カエシ ワケ カエシ イキ トキ オホ ワ
カエシ スヘ ソラ カム ナカラ オキ ハヒ オキ ナキ サキ アヤ オキ ツ
アカ ユラ ハユ タヘ
Source Authority and Review Boundary
The source authority for this translation is the published Japanese entry for Katakamuna Uta 68. 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
Toyoho Iho — Kamunagara — Oho Kamu Kaeshi — Wake Kaeshi — Iki Toki — Oho Wa Kaeshi — Kaeshi Sube Sora — Kamunagara — Oki Hahi — Oki Naki Saki — Aya Okitsu — Aka Yura Hayu Tae
Literal Gloss
Many abundant ears ripen. Latent reality and differentiated fire-water are returned; living breath and time return to a great circle. The return is governed and opens into space. Deep fire-water spreads, grows calm, and opens ahead; it becomes patterned weaving, while red life-fire shimmers and shines as a subtle fabric.
Interpretive English
Uta 68 is a return-cycle: harvest, latent and differentiated currents, breath, time, space, deep calm, pattern, and red life-fire are rewoven. The reading makes no historical-etymological claim.
Evidence Boundary
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