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本書 ほんしょ

  1. main text
  2. original text
  3. this book; this volume

日本書紀 にほんしょき

  1. Chronicles of Japan; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi

日本書紀通証 にほんしょきつうしょう

  1. Perpetual Commentary on the Chronicles of Japan (by Tanikawa Kotosuga, 1762)

記紀 きき

  1. the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (earliest historical records of Japan)
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