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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...