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  Kojiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kojiki or Furukotofumi (古事記) is the oldest surviving historical book dealing with the ancient history of Japan.
Kojiki begins with the very beginning of the world as it was created by the kami (deities) Izanagi and Izanami and ends with the era of Empress Suiko.
The Kamitsumaki includes the preface and is focused on the deities that made Japan and the births of various deities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kojiki   (480 words)

  
 kojiki - index - shinto texts writings and religious literature
Set in writing in 712 AD, the Kojiki is the Japanese for a group of ancient stories that would be otherwise translated as "Records of Ancient Matters".
The Kojiki essentially begins with the beginning of the world, the birth of Gods and Goddesses, the creation of the islands of Japan, and the descent of the Gods and Goddesses to Japan itself.
The Kojiki, along with the Nihongi, have defined Japanesis image, by the communication through literature of the most ancient of Japan's surviving mythology.
www.comparative-religion.com /shinto/kojiki   (224 words)

  
 Aikido Doshinokai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
According to Abe Sensei, the origination of Aikido exists in Kojiki which was written in the eight century.
He also said with deep emotion that the translation of Kojiki is one of his missions in his life.
According to Kojiki, from Abe Sensei’s explanation, during the Okuninushi-no-mikoto era, the countries of Isumo and Yamato nominated one person in order to achieve a conclusion to the war, and each was to measure his strength against the other’s.
www.doshinokai.com /article1.htm   (645 words)

  
 Kojiki --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
The religious and ethical values of the Kojiki were rediscovered and reevaluated by Moto-ori Norinaga (1730–1801), who wrote the complete “Annotation of the Kojiki” in 49 volumes.
If the history of the language were to be split in two, the division would fall somewhere between the 12th and 16th centuries, when the language shed most of its Old Japanese characteristics and acquired those of the modern language.
Together with the Nihon shoki (Chronicles of Japan), the Kojiki is the first written record in Japan, and part of it is considered a sacred text of the Shinto religion.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9045903   (787 words)

  
 The Kojiki - Izanagi, Izanami, and the Birth of Japan
The Kojiki - Izanagi, Izanami, and the Birth of Japan
This is the story of the Kojiki, the "Records of Ancient Matters", first published in Japan in 712 of the common era.
Mythology - The Kojiki - Izanagi, Izanami, and the Birth of Japan - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/mythology/115595
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/115595   (454 words)

  
 kojiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Kojiki is considered the earliest historical record of Japan.
The writing of the Kojiki was a particularly tricky task because the Japanese language did not have a written script.
As a result, the Kojiki is written in a strange mixture of Chinese used both ideographically, phonetically, and otherwise to create Japanese.
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~copeland/kojiki.html   (150 words)

  
 Summary of the Literature of Japan (Kojiki, Nihon shoki, Fudoki)
The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan) were complete in 712 and 720, respectively, as government projects.
Official embassies to the Sui (589-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties of China (kenzuishi and kentoshi, respectively), initiated in 600, were the chief means by which Chinese culture, technology and methods of government were introduced on a comprehensive basis in Japan.
The Kojiki (712; Record of Ancient Matter) and the Nihon shoki (720; Chronicles of Japan), the former written in hybrid Sino-Japanese and the latter in classical Chinese, were compiled under the sponsorship of the government for the purpose of the authenticating the legitimacy of its policy.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/pro-literature.htm   (2300 words)

  
 Aikido Doshinokai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
According to Abe Sensei, the history of Aikido is derived from the ancient time and the concept of Kokyu is in the Kojiki (or record of ancient matters – Japan’s mythical origins).
We have asked him how “Kojiki” is related to Aikido and about “Kotodama”(言霊) (latent supernatural power in words), that is indispensable to understand deepness of Aikido.
In “Kojiki”, it is described as, “worked alone and never appeared the figure in public”.
www.doshinokai.com /article4.htm   (3363 words)

  
 Mike's History p 62 - Kojiki and Nihongi. Description.
Of these two ancient and highly honored books, the Kojiki is slightly the elder -- it was finished in AD 712 -- and is much the more Japanese.
From the "Kojiki" therefore, Japan's oldest book, we get our clearest vision of the earlier barbaric ages and the earliest spirit of the Japanese.
In short, it gives such an amazing Chinese twist to everything the Kojiki had told, that no student of human nature is likely to neglect the opportunity of comparing these two books.
www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_62.htm   (482 words)

  
 Kojiki
This page is dedicated to Kojiki, who was a very special cat and a very special friend to us.
We found Kojiki in March, 1992, at the Luv-A-Pet center at the PetsMart at 16th Street and Indian School Road in Phoenix, Arizona.
We decided he was "Kojiki," which is Japanese for "Beggar." We later learned that while he was very intensely curious about what you were eating, he would never eat so much as a bite of human food, or even, for that matter, wet cat food.
www.cowboysandvampires.com /kojiki.htm   (718 words)

  
 Kojiki
While the Kojiki is comparable to Beowulf in the English tradition in being the oldest Japanese book extant, and of roughly the same date, it is a very different in kind of book.
Though none of this is close enough to be very accurate history, it offers a sense of the whole tradition as seen by the court at the time--an early conception of Japanese history, many elements from which became traditional.
The Kojiki version does have Yamahiko marrying the princess and staying in the palace in the sea for three years before he even raises the question of the lost fishhook, as the most important difference.
www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Kojiki.html   (1571 words)

  
 ttgapers.com store - Kojiki - Kitaro - Product Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Featuring the string section from the Skywalker Symphony, along with Kitaro’s signature keyboard and flute sounds, the score to this thematic backdrop is full of passion and beauty that is masterfully conceived, arranged and performed.
Kojiki is the original Japanese storybook that retells the core myths of Japanese folklore.
Kitaro's approach to the Kojiki tales is to focus one the creation stories, starting with the creation of the islands, and climaxing in an intense and lurid dance that lures the sun goddess out of her cave, restoring the light and establishing Japan's royal line.
www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-B000005WOM.html   (1137 words)

  
 Yamato Links, Monomyth Website, ORIAS, UC Berkeley
Ebersole examines the role and rituals of death in early Japan to discuss the configurations of society and power; his work provides an alternate approach to reading this early body of literature.
Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) is an official Japanese history edited in the year 712 A.D. The stories were told by an official story teller, Hieda-no-Arei, and were written down by Oo-no-Yasumaro.
The Kami came into existence on a plane parallel to the Prime Material, whence Japan is created after Izanagi (the male) 'dips his spear into the ocean' and creates Japan along with Izanami (the female).
ias.berkeley.edu /orias/hero/yamato/links_yamato.html   (799 words)

  
 Origin of the tanka in the Kojiki (from Japanese literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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The Kojiki text was compiled from oral tradition in 712.
The success of the novel, which relates the story of a nameless young fl man who ultimately determines to forge his own identity rather than accept the ones assigned to him, brought attention to the many other notable...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-61862   (827 words)

  
 Amazon API Demo - Books - Kojiki - Chris Codes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Kojiki is one of the most important works of both Japanese literature and history being that it is both the earliest surviving text composed in Japan on Japanese subjects and also that the stories contained their in formed a large part of the base of the Japanese self image for years to come.
Although it is set up in a pseudo epic-poem/biblical style (line numbers, chapters, etc., obviously absent from the original), this does not reduce the readability and having reference numbers will help people overseas work with the text more easily.
The introduction as well offers a good summarization of scholarly thinking on the Kojiki (and in part Nihonshoki) from ancient times to when the book was written.
www.chriscodes.com /store/detail/books/related_result/Book/0860083209   (490 words)

  
 Kojiki Kitaro Music DVD CD SACD Buy Sell Kitaro Music
Kitaro masterfully conceived and performed the music for Kojiki based on this famous Japanese ancient chronicle of the creation of Japan (Yamato).
The music was originally released by Amuse America as a German import in 1990 and was nominated for a Grammy that same year.
This 1990 world tour concert was accompanied by a beautiful 36 page book printed on premium paper depicting copies of old Japanese prints of this famous myth.
kitaromusic.com /kojiki.htm   (237 words)

  
 Read about Kojiki at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Kojiki and learn about Kojiki here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
According to the preface, the book was presented by
In the Edo era, Motoori Norinaga studied Kojiki with publishing
The best English translation of Kojiki is by
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Kojiki   (417 words)

  
 Kitaro's Kojiki Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This story is adapted from the original Kojiki, the ancient chronicle of the creation of Japan.
It was the beginning of a new dawn in Yamato (Japan).
No material whole or in part may be used without the expressed written consent of the authors.
www.op.net /~kitaro/Kitaro3.htm   (651 words)

  
 The Kojiki and Nihon shoki as collections of myths (from Japanese literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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(Japanese: “Chronicles of Japan”;), text that, together with the Kojiki (q.v.), comprises the oldest official history of Japan, covering the period from its mythical origins to AD 697.
It was compiled in 720 by order of the imperial court to give the newly sinicized court a...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-61861   (870 words)

  
 free papers kojiki: schoolofessays.com- the school for essays, term papers, research papers writing
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 Kojiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It was written in 712 where as the Nihon Shoki was written in 720 so apparently it is the older of the two records.
First though it's thought the first attempt of the Kojiki was lost in the fire that burned the Soga household in a coup of 645 and Emperor Temmu commanded for the scholar-historians of that time to start again.
The Kojiki, it seems are made up of three books: The first giving us the approved version of the Japanese myths while the other two mainly recount the reign of the prior soverigns (Prior to the era it was written in anyway *LOL*).
www.ancientsites.com /aw/Post/258902   (220 words)

  
 Shopping - Kitaro - Kojiki: A Story in Concert
Kojiki is definitely one of the most beautiful concerts I've ever heard.
Although the DVD does not have a great image quality, it is well worth its content.
The picture quality is pretty good (looks like it may have been a laser disc?)and is acceptable for DVD.(Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells concert seems to be the best quality I have seen to date) The sound quality would have been better if had been in PCM.But still a great disc.
www.southseek.com /Electronics/tech/6305425485.html   (168 words)

  
 Essay on Death in the Kojiki Rligion Vs
Death in the Kojiki Rligion Vs Title: Death in the Kojiki Rligion Vs Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Death in the Kojiki Religion Vs. The Christians of Ireland Every culture is different.
All in all, the basis of death for both of these religions is pain no matter how it was dealt with or practiced.
www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/Death_in_the_Kojiki_Rligion_Vs-20963.html   (192 words)

  
 Mike's History p 63 - Kojiki. The Birth of the Deities. Selections.
The Kojiki or the "Records of Ancient Matters".
"Of all the mass of Japanese literature which lies before us as the result of twelve centuries of book-making, the most important monument is the Kojiki." B.H. Chamberlain.
The names of the deities that were born in the Plain of High Heaven when the Heaven and Earth began were the deity Master-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven; next, the High-August-Producing-Wondrous deity; next, the Divine-Producing-Wondrous deity.
www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_63.htm   (1746 words)

  
 The Kitaro Collection (Kojiki: A Story in Concert, An Enchanted Evening, Light of the Spirit, Tamayura, Best of Kitaro) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Kitaro Collection (Kojiki: A Story in Concert, An Enchanted Evening, Light of the Spirit, Tamayura, Best of Kitaro) Reference DVD.
Revolutionary composer Kitaro is renowned for his ability to embody the spirituality of nature and humanity through his music, often using non-traditional instruments and extremely theatrical performance styles.
This 5 pack culmination of his most celebrated and bewitching performances in their entirety: Kojiki: A Story in Concert, An Enchanted Evening, Light of the Spirit, Tamayura and Best of Kitaro.
www.pagenation.com /an/B00005IC0G.html   (288 words)

  
 Kojiki - Kitaro : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk
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