Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Volume 1
W. G. Aston
The Nihon Shoki, Japan's official chronicle completed in 720, in W. G. Aston's standard translation. This first volume covers the age of the gods and the early emperors who founded the Yamato state.
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