Kojiki, The - Basil Hall ChamberlainLight of Asia, The - Edwin ArnoldMahanirvana Tantra - Arthur AvalonMusings of a Chinese Mystic - Lionel GilesMysticism: Christian and Buddhist - Daisetsu Teitaro SuzukiPath of Light, The - L.D. Barnett...
The Kojiki was the oldest account of Japan’s history (or it’s semi-historical, anyway) that still survives, and it dates from the early 700s. The first work to unambiguously mention Japan was the Book of Han, which was a Chinese book dating from 111 CE that covers history from 206 ...
oldest records of salt making appears in the eighth-century chronicles of Kojiki and Nihon shoki, Japan’s oldest mythological and historical writings. There itis said that when the ship that brought water for the imperial table became too old to be used, it was turned into firewood used to...
Some of the oldest Japanese historical documents such as the Kojiki date back to the 8th century, providing a fascinating window into the world at that time. Similarly, more recent history includes eras such as the Sengoku period which is the subject of much historical fiction, and the Meiji ...
In the Kojiki 古事記 (Japan's oldest surviving text, complied around 712 AD), the deity is known as Katsuragi no Hitokotonushi no Ōkami.Says Matsunaga Naomichi at Kokugakuin University:“A god (kami) appearing on Mount Katsuragi, near the border of Yamato and Kawachi Provinces, and who ...
From the Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki), translated by Albert Craig, with appreciation to Basil Hall Chamberlain and Donald L. Philippi. 12 Chapter 1 • Japanese History: Origins to the Twelfth Century mountain itself was an upwelling of a vital natural force. Even today in Japan, a ...
女乞食の大きな乳房かな jokojiki no / ookina chibusa kana de la mendiante / l’opulente / poitrine Koldusasszony, dús keblekkel 1919 (Tokyo) 大正八年葬列足早な足に暮色まつはり soretsu ashibayana ashi ni boshoku matsuwari Funeral procession, hurrying legs, evening color clings to the ...
"The "Shrine of the Eight‐fold Fence" from the Kojiki,. photograph by the author, February 2005 . 26 Cranston 7. 20 quality of the saké as coming from a deity."27 Throughout the Kojiki, ...
class mother said as she farewelled her beloved son departing for a distant battlefield. Such speculation is the province of fiction. We must therefore conclude that history can never tell the entire story. Furthermore, as demonstrated by theShiji(Japanese:Shiki; English:The Records of the Grand...
One of note is that myths recorded in the ancient annals of Japan (Kojiki and Nihon Shoki) indicate influence from Greek mythology, with the implication that people who had adopted the myths of ancient Greece also came into the Japanese archipelago. For instance, when a woman was about to ...