Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

reprint softback with stiff wrappers As New small octavo 366pp., indexes, 'The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters is Japan's classic of classics, the oldest connected literary work and the fundamental scripture of Shinto. A more factual history called the Nihongi or Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) was completed in A.D. 720, but The Kojiki remains the better known, perhaps because of its special concern with the legends of the gods, with the divine descent of the imperial family, and with native Shinto'.