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Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)
Ō no Yasumaro · Shinto · 712 CE
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1919)
191 chapters
Japan's oldest chronicle — myths of creation, the gods, and the divine origins of the imperial line.
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Contents
- 1INTRODUCTION.
- 2I.
- 3II.
- 4III.
- 5IV.
- 6V.
- 7RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS (I)
- 8RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS (II)
- 9[SECT. II.—THE SEVEN DIVINE GENERATIONS.]
- 10[SECT. III.—THE ISLAND OF ONOGORO.]
- 11[SECT. IV.—COURTSHIP OF THE DEITIES THE MALE-WHO-INVITES AND THE FEMALE WHO-INVITES.]
- 12[SECT. V.—BIRTH OF THE EIGHT ISLANDS.]
- 13[SECT. VI.—BIRTH OF THE VARIOUS DEITIES.]
- 14[SECT. VII.—RETIREMENT OF HER AUGUSTNESS THE PRINCESS-WHO-INVITES.]
- 15[SECT. VIII.—THE SLAYING OF THE FIRE-DEITY.]
- 16[SECT. IX.—THE LAND OF HADES.]
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