The Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697

By Ō no Yasumaro, William George Aston, W.J. Aston (Transl.)

Book Overview

The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (The Japanese Chronicles). It is more elaborate and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482071185
• ISBN13: 9781482071184
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 732 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Quite a good source.

Mr. Aston outdid himself with this work, which must have been an undertaking of many a year. With more detail on the creation story than the Kojiki, the book runs a similar ground but as Aston will point out on occassion, has a large Chinese influence as well. I have been researching world myth for eight years now, and find this a great ancient source for the subject. The time of the gods lasting just over the first hundred pages, however the remaining literature provides in depth custom and legend that others around the globe can appreciate, and in some cases relate to, reguardless where you dwell.