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Shinto and Japanese Religion

The Kojiki

Records of Ancient Matters

by Basil Hall Chamberlain · Basil Hall Chamberlain (trans.)

The first complete English translation of the Kojiki, by the British Japanologist Basil Hall Chamberlain. Though some passages are rendered in Latin and the scholarship is dated, it remains a landmark and is in the public domain.

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