the Northwest Caucasian(Circassian) Nart Sagas, the Chinese Fengshen Yanyi epic by Xu Zhonglin, and the Japanese Kojiki by O no Yasumaro & Hieda no Are and the Nihon Shoki by Prince Toneri & O no Yasumaro, which are the 2 oldest and most important ...
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 ...
Kojiki, The - Basil Hall ChamberlainLight of Asia, The - Edwin ArnoldMahanirvana Tantra - Arthur AvalonMusings of a Chinese Mystic - Lionel GilesMysticism: Christian and Buddhist - Daisetsu Teitaro SuzukiPrem Sagur of Lallu Lal, The - W. Hollings...
One of the oldest records of salt making appears in the eighth-century chronicles of Kojiki and Nihon shoki, Japan’s oldest mythological and historical writings. There it is said that when the ship that brought water for the imperial table became too old to be used, it was turned into fir...
11 February is the accession date of the legendary first Emperor of Japan, Emperor Jimmu at Kashihara-gū, converted into Gregorian calendar of 660 BC which is written in Kojiki and chapter 3 of Nihon Shoki. Coincidentally, 11 February 1889 is the day of the promulgation of the Meiji ...
Some of the oldest Japanese historical documents such as the Kojiki date back to the 8th century, providing a fascinating window into the world at that time.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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kojiki, pt. 2, p. 65. 141) Tai-jing-yii-lan, 73. 142) Skeat, p. 274; Kruijt., blz. 161. 143) Kruijt, blz. 163. 144) Tylor, vol. 1, p. 140. 145) Holmberg, 1913, S.201. CHAPTER I Horses and Water-gods 3 5 said to disappear into the water.l46) This again must ...
Buddhism’s claim to be a universal religion would seem to be severely compromised by its exclusion of certain groups of people from its scheme of salvation. Women, in particular, were treated at one time or another as less than fit vessels for attaining enlightenment. As is well known, even...