Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 10
Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important monument is the work entitled Ko-jzlei' or Records of Ancient Matters, which /l\ was completed in A. D. 712. It is the most important because it has preserved for us more fait}xfully than any other book the mythology, the manners, the language.
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