Example sentences for: kojiki

How can you use “kojiki” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to the earliest official accounts, the eighth-century Kojiki (“Record of Ancient Matters”) and Nihon-shoki (“Chronicles of Japan”), the islands of Japan were born of a marriage between the god Izanagi and his sister Izanami.

  • Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).


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