Nihon shoki

The Nihon shoki (also known as The Chronicles of Japan) is one of the most important texts in the early corpus of Japanese literature and historiography. Completed in 720 CE under the supervision of Prince Toneri and compiled by an unknown committee of a number of native and continental scribes, Nihon shoki is the second-oldest extant Japanese historical text after Kojiki (712). Yet it is far more comprehensive, systematic, and politically ambitious. It offers an expansive and structured narrati