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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 50th sovereign of the imperial 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

(比自㶱, Korean Revised Romanization: Bijabal) in the Japanese chronicle Nihonshoki. It may have arisen from the 3rd century Jinhan state of Bulsaguk (불사국...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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) Gods equivalents 1 Kuninotokotachi (国之常立神, Kuninotokotachi-no-kami)...

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...

552 Buddhism is introduced to Japan via Baekje (Korea), according to Nihonshoki; some scholars place this event in 538. c. 575 Zen adherents enter Vietnam...

was conferred on Takeminakata. She is not found in the Kojiki or the Nihonshoki. As Takeminakata rose up in rank, so did Yasakatome, so that by 867 CE...

friendly relations with China and Yamato period Japan. He is recorded in the Nihonshoki as having sent the noted Baekje scholar Wang In to Japan with copies of...