I — throat / voice focus

The kana い is the requested I focus, placed at the throat as a voice-oriented attention point. The source tradition supports the vowel as a practice sound, but the throat coordinate and ether/speech tags are an explicitly schematic body projection.

Point 2 of 9 in Kototama Sound Body — A-I-U-E-O vowel foci

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Masahilo M. Nakazono, The Source of Present-Day Civilization (scholarly_modern)

Modern Kototama source for the vowel/sound-rhythm system; it does not independently establish this centre coordinate.

Kototama Sound Practice as taught by M.M. Nakazono (secondary)

Identifies I as one of the five Mother/Half-Mother vowel sounds and gives its voiced pronunciation practice.

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