Nihongi

Further Reading

Books

• Breen, John, and Mark Teeuwen, eds. Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Breen, John, and Mark Teeuwen. A New History of Shinto. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• Matsumae Takeshi. “Early Kami Worship,” trans. Janet Goodwin. In The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, ed. Delmar Brown. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Ooms, Herman. Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650–800. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.
• Scheid, Bernhard. “Two Modes of Secrecy in the Nihon shoki Transmission.” In The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion, ed. Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen. New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Taro, Sakamoto. The Six National Histories of Japan, trans. John S. Brownlee. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press, 1991.

Journals

• Borgen, Robert, and Marian Ury. “Readable Japanese Mythology: Selections from Nihon shoki and Kojiki.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 24, no. 1 (April 1990): 61–97.
• Jun’ichi, Isomae. “Reappropriating the Japanese Myths: Motoori Norinaga and the Creation Myths of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki,” trans. Sarah E. Thal. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 27, nos. 1/2 (Spring 2000): 15–39.
• Kirkland, Russell. “The Sun and the Throne: The Origins of the Royal Descent Myth in Ancient Japan.” Numen 44, no. 2 (May 1997): 109–152.

Web Sites

• “Kojiki and Nihon shoki (Nihongi).” Encyclopedia of Shinto Web site. http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1243.