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Kujiki (旧事紀), or Sendai Kuji Hongi (先代旧事本紀), is a historical Japanese text.It was generally believed to have been one of the earliest Japanese histories until the middle of the Edo period, when scholars such as Tokugawa Mitsukuni and Tada Yoshitoshi successfully contended that it was an imitation based on the Nihon Shoki, the Kojiki and the Kogo Shūi. [1]
Toyotama-hime (Japanese: 豊玉姫) is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. She is the daughter of the sea deity, Watatsumi , and the wife of Hoori . She is known as the paternal grandmother of Emperor Jimmu , the first emperor of Japan.
Norinaga's most important works include the Kojiki-den (Commentaries on the Kojiki), made over a period of around 35 years, and his annotations on the Tale of Genji.Using the methods of kokugaku and kaozheng, Norinaga claimed that the Kojiki was the oldest surviving Japanese text.
The Kojiki (古事記, "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi [1] or Furukotobumi, [2] [a] is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 [3] concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami (神), and the Japanese imperial line.
The Kojiki is an old and important Japanese text. It says Umashiashikabihikoji was the fourth kami to appear. He appeared with other deities like Ametokotachi. They hid themselves after appearing. Umashiashikabihikoji has a gendered name. He is the first kami with such a name. [2] The Kojiki says Umashiashikabihikoji was the fourth kotoamatsukami.
The earliest extant large-scale works compiled in Japan are the historical chronicles Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720). [9] Other early Japanese works from the Nara period include biographies of Prince Shōtoku, cultural and geographical records and the Man'yōshū, the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Necessarily all of these works were ...
Hoori's legend is told in both the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. Hoori was a hunter, and he had an argument with his brother Hoderi, a fisherman, over a fish-hook that Hoori had forced his elder brother to lend him and had lost. Hoderi claimed that Hoori should give back the fish-hook, for he refused to accept another one (due to the belief that ...
Nihon Shoki (日本書紀) – An early Japanese written chronicle of myths, legends, songs, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 720 AD. Similar to the Kojiki. Ningen – The human realm of incarnation, the third-highest realm on the wheel of reincarnation. See Rinne (below).