Scope: An English rendering of Katakamuna Uta 69, separated into transliteration, controlled literal gloss, and interpretive English.
Japanese Source Text
カム ナカラ カエシ ナキ トキ トコロ タカ ユラ イヤ アマ ウツシ
オホ アマ ウツシ カム ナカラ カム ナホヒ イキ アマツ トメ ハヤ ウツシ
ワタ ツミ ハヤ ヨミツ カム アマ
Source Authority and Review Boundary
The source authority for this translation is the published Japanese entry for Katakamuna Uta 69. 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
Kamunagara — Kaeshi Naki — Toki Tokoro — Taka Yura — Iya Ama Utsushi — Oho Ama Utsushi — Kamunagara — Kamu Naohi — Iki Amatsu Tome — Haya Utsushi — Watatsumi — Haya Yomitsu — Kamu Ama
Literal Gloss
The returning current becomes calm and time and place are fixed. Fire-water shimmers in a high field; reflection of heavenly water deepens and expands. Latent Naohi corrects the current, living breath rests in the heavenly field, and swift reflection passes through the great sea-body and manifold waters before returning to latent heavenly water.
Interpretive English
Uta 69 stabilizes the return into time and place, corrects it through Naohi, and circulates breath and reflection from heaven through sea back to latent heavenly water. This is interpretive, not etymological proof.
Evidence Boundary
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