The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called...

in many aspects, the version of the tale of Izanagi and Izanami in the Nihonshoki differs from the Kojiki version in that Izanagi does not descend into...

Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami, in Kojiki) (国常立尊, Kuninotokotachi-no-Mikoto, in Nihonshoki (no-Mikoto here being an honorific of divinity) or Kuni-toko-tachi is...

Yamato". Buretsu is described as an extremely wicked historical figure. The Nihonshoki describes the 11-year-old Buretsu, in 500, cutting open the stomach of...

(1986). "Patriarchal Revolution in Ancient Japan: Episodes from the "Nihonshoki" Sūjin Chronicle". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 2 (2): 23–37...

Man'yōshū, and a number of his verses are preserved in the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki. Archaeological research has also confirmed that large keyhole-shaped...

Yatagarasu is recorded in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), the Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan), and the Enki Shiki (Records of Ancient Matters)...

The first record of the Southern Islands is an article of 618 in the Nihonshoki (720) which states that people of Yaku (掖玖,夜勾) followed the Chinese emperor's...

(737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty. According to Kojiki and Nihonshoki, he was a son of Emperor Yūryaku and his consort Katsuragi no Karahime...

is often broken to suit the poet's preferences. During the Kojiki and Nihonshoki periods the tanka retained a well defined form, but the history of the...

Retrieved 2020-02-07. Metevelis, Peter (1983). A Reference Guide to the Nihonshoki Myths, Asian Folklore Studies. Vol 52, No 2, p. 383–8. Seagrave, Sterling...

state of Japan began to make contact with Tanegashima. According to the Nihonshoki, the imperial court hosted a banquet for the islanders of Tanegashima...

Yung, and states that he restored Baekje into a strong nation. Japan's Nihonshoki gives his birthdate as 25 June 461, and describes him as the son of the...

the Mahan confederacy. In 249, according to the ancient Japanese text Nihonshoki, Baekje's expansion reached the Gaya confederacy to its east, around the...

creation. The two books shared many of the same or similar pieces but Nihonshoki contained newer ones because it recorded later affairs (up till the reign...

unknown place in the Nihonshoki, a history book written in 720. There is no direct connection between the Hidaka of the Nihonshoki and the modern Hidaka...

referred to as (ヤマト大王/大君) or the "Great King of Yamato". According to the Nihonshoki, he was of gentle personality and was in favor of Buddhism. In 645 he...

disease and he fell ill. The story above is found in the Kojiki. In the Nihonshoki version, the father and Yamato Takeru keep a good relation. Prince Takeru...

sacred sword were moved to the current location of the Atsuta Shrine. Nihonshoki explains that this move occurred in the 51st year of Keiko's reign, but...

year after the emperor's accession to the throne. The historical text Nihonshoki, written in the year 720, has the first mention of this ceremony, whose...

Haruniwa is born. 1763 - Meets Kamo no Mabuchi who tells him to read the Nihonshoki and the Man'yōshū 1764–71 - Studies the Kojiki, and begins to spread his...

over Ōomi , the Minister of State, from his father. According to the Nihonshoki, from the end of the reign of Empress Suiko to that of Empress Kōgyoku...

whose construction Umako ordered, according to the Suiko section of the Nihonshoki. Ishibutai Kofun is believed to be the tomb of Soga no Umako. Soga no...

sacred sword were moved to the current location of the Atsuta Shrine. Nihonshoki explains that this move occurred in the 51st year of Keiko's reign, but...

Gen. Name according to Kojiki (Honorific form) Name according to Nihonshoki (Honorific form) 1 Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神, Kuninotokotachi-no-kami) Kuninotokotachi...

Present day interpretations based on Ōita's topography, as well as the Nihonshoki, state that Oita's name comes from "Okita", meaning "many fields", rather...

bureaucrat, chronicler Known for Compiling the Kojiki Notable work Kojiki, Nihonshoki Title Junior Fourth Rank, Minbukyo (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade),...

gem-glistening cup. Stanford University Press. p. 804. ISBN 9780804731577. Nihonshoki, Vol. 13, Story of Ingyō Kelly, Charles F. "Kofun Culture". www.t-net...

Records follows this, but the origin is not mentioned in the Kojiki or Nihonshoki, so the truth is not clear. The clan started off as low class but gained...

brother, is likely to be an equivalent of Ankō, who is also noted in the Nihonshoki as an elder brother to Yūryaku. However, the Book of Song records Kō as...