The Shoku Nihongi (続日本紀) is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the Six National Histories, coming directly after the Nihon Shoki and followed by Nihon Kōki. Fujiwara no Tsugutada and Sugano no Mamichi served as the primary editors. It is one of the most important primary historical sources for information about Japan's Nara period.
The work covers the 95-year period from the beginning of Emperor Monmu's reign in 697 until the 10th year of Emperor Kanmu's reign in 791, spanning nine imperial reigns. It was completed in 797 AD.[1]
The text is forty volumes in length. It is primarily written in kanbun, a Japanese form of Classical Chinese, as was normal for formal Japanese texts at the time.[2] However, a number of "senmyō" 宣命 or "imperial edicts" contained within the text are written in a script known as "senmyō-gaki", which preserves particles and verb endings phonographically.[3]
^Bender, Ross (March 2009), "Performative Loci of Shoku Nihongi Edicts, 749–770", Journal of Oral Tradition, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 249–268
The ShokuNihongi (続日本紀) is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the Six National Histories, coming...
ShokuNihongi notes that "先是一品舍人親王奉勅修日本紀。至是功成奏上。紀卅卷系圖一卷" in the part of May 720. It means "Up to that time, Prince Toneri had been compiling Nihongi on...
His stay has been noted in the official history records called the ShokuNihongi, where he is referred to as Bodai-Senna. Bodhisena was born in Madurai...
mentioned in the ShokuNihongi's section on 769. Hyūga Hayato (日向隼人) A Hayato tribe who lived in Hyūga Province. The ShokuNihongi records that in 710...
flag reflect this central importance of the sun. The ancient history ShokuNihongi says that Emperor Monmu used a flag representing the sun in his court...
Maiden Habaek (Korean: 하백여랑; Hanja: 河伯女郞) by Goguryeo and China. The ShokuNihongi records that the ancestor of the royal family of Baekje is daughter...
jurisdiction of the government office called Miki no Tsukasa. In the ShokuNihongi, written in 797, there is a record of King Ashihara who got drunk and...
in the Nihongi may also account for its rising popularity among samurai, since Ōjin was apotheosized as a god in Hachiman shrines. In the Nihongi account...
during the Jōmon period. Buckwheat cultivation was first recorded in the ShokuNihongi, in an imperial edict of 722 CE issued by Empress Genshō, instructing...
the Kofun period according to the Nihon Shoki (720), Kojiki (711) and ShokuNihongi (797). According to ancient Japanese records, Nihon Shoki and Kojiki...
Tōsandō region of central Honshu. According to the old history book ShokuNihongi, it was established on June 26 of 721 and abolished on March 3 of 731...
born prior to Shirakabe's ascension to the throne. According to the ShokuNihongi (続日本紀), Yamabe's mother, Yamato no Niigasa (later called Takano no Niigasa)...
Japan; also called Nihongi) – 30 volumes covering the mythological period through 697. Completed by Toneri Shinnō in 720. ShokuNihongi (Chronicle of Japan...
[Niigasa] was of the line of King Muryong of Baekje." According to the ShokuNihongi, Niigasa was a descendant of Prince Junda, son of Muryeong. It was the...
kanji itself already could be seen in Shōsōin Monjo (8th century) and ShokuNihongi (797) in Japan, and furthermore trace back in China, as early as 3rd...
as Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan. Ōmononushi (大物主神) in the Nihongi, Ōmononushi was considered an alternate name for Ōkuninushi. But, it appears...
decorations were used in Japan in the early 8th century. The history book ShokuNihongi (797) states, "On January 1, in the 4th year of Tenpyō, Emperor Shōmu...
style of writing, used in imperial edicts (宣命 senmyō) preserved in the ShokuNihongi and other texts dating from the 8th century (Nara period), is known...
of the Traditional Japanese Performing Arts. Morrisville: Lulu Press. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated from...
general and shōgun of the early Heian period of Japan. According to the ShokuNihongi, an official historical record, the Sakanoue clan is descended from...
title meaning Crown Prince, and Junda is the name. According to the ShokuNihongi (797), Prince Junda was a son of King Muryeong, but his name cannot...
Philippi Nihon Shoki (completed in 720) with translation by W. G. Aston ShokuNihongi (covering 697 to 791) with translation by J. B. Snellen Kogo Shūi (completed...
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