- Category
- Mythic chronicle
- Claimed author
- O no Yasumaro recording traditions recited by Hieda no Are
- Likely origin
- Early Japanese court compilation translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Date
- compiled 712 CE; Chamberlain English translation reprinted 1919
- Language
- Classical Japanese / Chinese-style prose
- Manuscripts
- Early Japanese court chronicle represented by Chamberlain's public-domain English translation
- Accepted by
- Foundational Shinto and Japanese mythic-historical chronicle
The Kojiki is indexed for kami, creation, Izanagi and Izanami, Amaterasu, Susa-no-wo, descent myths, divine genealogy, purification, ritual, sacred kingship, and early Japanese mythic history.