* The Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters ) The foundation to written Shinto history.

: 988 pp. includes almost all waka from the Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters completed 712 ) through the Man ' yōshū ( Collection for Ten Thousand Generations c. 759 ) and also includes the Buddha's Footstone Poems ( 21 Bussokuseki poems carved in stone at the Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, c. 753 )

The Kojiki, or " Record of Ancient Matters ", is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends and history.

This gave rise to her project of performing “ Yomigatari ”, storytelling stages with scenario based on “ Kojiki ” (" Record of Ancient Matters "), the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, at shrines all around Japan since 2003.

Scapulimancy was also mentioned in Chapter 5 of the Kojiki, the Japanese Record of Ancient Matters, in which the heavenly deities used this process of divination during a consultation by lesser gods.

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.

Ancient Japanese texts like the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki for example mention how Yamato Takeru after his death became a white bird and in that form chose a place for his own burial.

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.

Norinaga took the occasion to ask Mabuchi to supervise his annotations of the Kojiki ( Records of Ancient Matters ).

712 Kojiki ( 古事記 " Records of Ancient Matters ", tr.

The 8th-century Japanese Kojiki (" Records of Ancient Matters ") and Nihon Shoki (" Chronicles of Japan ", which quotes the Wei Zhi ) disregard Himiko, unless she was the subtext behind their accounts of Empress Jingū, Yamatohime-no-mikoto, or Yamato-totohi-momosohime-no-mikoto.

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.

* Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters: Yamato-Takeru Slays the Kumaso Brothers

The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.

" Much earlier Mahikari mythology is attributed to the Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters, which was written circa 712 CE.

712 CE Kojiki ( 古事記 " Records of Ancient Matters ") is the oldest extant book written in Japan.

The earliest emperor recorded in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki is Emperor Jimmu.

Mythic records in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki describe how Jimmu's brothers were born in Takachiho, the southern part of Kyūshū ( in modern day Miyazaki prefecture ), and decided to move eastward, as they found the location inappropriate for reigning over the entire country.

The fluidity of Jimmu before the compilation of the Kojiki and of the Nihon Shoki is demonstrated by somewhat earlier texts that place three dynasties as successors to the mythological Yamato state.

The Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki then combined these three mythical dynasties into one long and artificially continuous genealogy.

Both Kojiki and Nihon shoki records Sujin enccouraged the building of artificial ponds and canals.

Significant differences exist in the records of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki.

According to the Kojiki ( 712 ) and Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), Buretsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of Emperor Ōjin, Keitai, came and ascended the throne.

According to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, his father was Hikoushi no Kimi and his mother was Furihime.

Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 8th century.

The recorded history dates to the Kojiki ( 712 ) and Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), but archeological records date back significantly further.

In the early Nara period, the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were written by compiling existing myths and legends into a unified account of Japanese mythology.

This culminates in three major outcomes: Taiho Code ( 701 but started earlier ), The Kojiki ( 712 ), and The Nihon Shoki ( 720 ).

According to the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, a Korean scholar called Wani () was dispatched to Japan by the Kingdom of Baekje during the reign of Emperor Ōjin in the early 5th century, bringing with him knowledge of Confucianism and Chinese characters.

Works such as the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were political in nature, used to record and therefore justify and establish the supremacy of the rule of the emperors within Japan.

Some of Japan's literary monuments were written during the Nara period, including the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the first national histories, compiled in 712 and 720 respectively ; the Man ' yōshū, an anthology of poems ; and the Kaifūsō, an anthology written in Chinese by Japanese emperors and princes.

The scrolls are known for containing supplementary records concerning the mythological age, complementing the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, the two major ancient documents in Japan.

These include Kojiki ( 712 ), a work recording Japanese mythology and legendary history ; Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), a chronicle with a slightly more solid foundation in historical records than Kojiki ; and Man ' yōshū ( 759 ), a poetry anthology.

According to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the oldest record of a Silla immigrant is Amenohiboko, a legendary prince of Silla who settled to Japan at the era of Emperor Suinin, perhaps around the 3rd or 4th century.

According to Kojiki Nihon Shoki, In Emperor Ōjin's reign, Geunchogo of Baekje presented Stallions and Broodmares with Horse trainers to the Japanese emperor.

Along with the Nihon Shoki, the myths contained in the Kojiki are part of the inspiration behind Shinto practices and myths, including the misogi purification ritual.

The Nihon Shoki begins with the Japanese creation myth, explaining the origin of the world and the first seven generations of divine beings ( starting with Kunitokotachi ), and goes on with a number of myths as does the Kojiki, but continues its account through to events of the 8th century.

But the legend of Jingū's invasion of the Korean peninsula also appears in the ancient Japanese chronicles Kojiki written in 680 and Nihon Shoki written in 720.

The Kojiki does not mention her, but the Nihon Shoki describes her as " the Emperor's aunt by the father's side, a shrewd and intelligent person, who could foresee the future " ( tr.

* The Kojiki, a history of Japan, is completed.

Although many of the early literary works of Japan contain the image of the warrior, the term " bushidō " does not appear in early texts like the Kojiki.

According to Kojiki, the oldest record of Japan, a Korean immigrant named Amenohiboko, prince of Silla came to Japan to serve the Japanese Emperor, and he lived in Tajima Province.

The Kojiki is a collection of myths concerning the origin of the four home islands of Japan, and the Kami.

It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeologists as it includes the most complete extant historical record of ancient Japan.

Although the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki myth-histories called Jingū first of the Japanese empresses, Meiji period historians removed her from the List of Emperors of Japan, leaving Empress Suiko ( r. 593-628 ) as the first historically verifiable female Japanese ruler.

The Nihonshoki, the oldest history of Japan which was finished eight years later than the Kojiki, also contains many poetic pieces.

According to the two oldest chronicles of Japan, the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, when Ninigi-no-Mikoto, grandson of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, descended from the heavens, the god Ōkuninushi granted his country to Ninigi-no-Mikoto.

According to Kojiki, the legendary stories of old Japan, and Nihon Shoki, the chronicles of old Japan, Izumo-taisha was considered the largest wooden structure in Japan when it was originally constructed.

Thus the exploration of early classical texts like the Kojiki ( 古事記 ) and the Man ' yōshū ( 万葉集 ) allowed scholars of Kokugaku, particularly the five great figures of Keichū (, 1640 – 1701 ), Kada no Azumamaro ( 荷田春満, 1669 – 1736 ), Kamo no Mabuchi ( 賀茂真淵, 1697 – 1769 ), Motoori Norinaga ( 本居宣長, 1730 – 1801 ) and Hirata Atsutane ( 平田篤胤, 1776 – 1843 ) to explore Japan's cultural differences with China, locate their sources in high antiquity, and deploy the results in a programmatic attempt to define the uniqueness of Japan against a foreign civilization.

Kokugaku positively studied ancient Japanese thought and culture, including " Kojiki ", " Nihon Shoki " and " Manyoshu ", and they aimed at excavating original moral culture of Japan which was different from Confucianism and Buddhism.

According to Shintō myth as written in the Kojiki, the yamatogoto played an important role in the origins of Japan itself.

The Kojiki records the Shintoist creation myth that the god Izanagi and the goddess Izanami gave birth to the Ōyashima ( 大八州 " Eight Great Islands ") of Japan, the last of which was Yamato.