Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, 第 1 巻

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xxiv ページ - OF old, Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo not yet divided. They formed a chaotic mass like an egg which was of obscurely defined limits and contained germs.
124 ページ - Sage's action? Moreover, it will be well to open up and clear the mountains and forests, and to construct a palace. Then I may reverently assume the Precious Dignity, and so give peace to my good subjects. Above, I should then respond to the kindness of the Heavenly Powers in granting me the Kingdom, and below, I should extend the line of the Imperial descendants and foster rightmindedness. Thereafter the capital may be extended so as to embrace all the six cardinal points, and the eight cords may...
103 ページ - Now I have heard from the Ancient of the Sea, that in the East there is a fair land encircled on all sides by blue mountains. Moreover, there is there one who flew down riding in a Heavenly Rock-boat. I think that this land will undoubtedly be suitable for the extension of the Heavenly task, so that its glory should fill the universe.
117 ページ - The practice according to which, at the present time, the Kume sing this and then laugh loud, had this origin. Again he sang, saying: "Ho! now is the time! Ho! now is the time! Ha! Ha! Psha! Even now My boys!
114 ページ - ... sink them in the River Nifu. If the fishes, whether great or small, become every one drunken and are carried down the stream, like as it were to floating maki leaves, then shall I assuredly succeed in establishing this land. But if this be not so, there will never be any result.
27 ページ - His breath was transmuted into the wind and the clouds, his voice into thunder, his left eye into the sun, and his right into the moon ; his four limbs and five extremities into the four quarters of the globe and the five great mountains, his blood into the rivers, his muscles and veins into the strata of the earth, his flesh into the soil, his hair and beard into the constellations, his skin and the hairs thereon into plants and trees, his teeth and bones into the metals, his marrow into pearls...
108 ページ - So he took it and offered it to the Emperor. At this time the Emperor happened to be asleep. He awoke suddenly, and said : — " What a long time I have slept ! " On inquiry he found that the troops who had been affected by the poison had all recovered their senses and were afoot. The Emperor then endeavoured to advance into the interior, but among the mountains it was so precipitous that there was no road by which they could travel, and they wandered about not knowing whither to direct their march....
326 ページ - The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.-
323 ページ - Here long, there short, is the duckweed, To the left, to the right, borne about by the current. The modest, retiring, virtuous, young lady: — Waking and sleeping, he sought her.
124 ページ - This whole speech is thoroughly Chinese in every respect, and it is preposterous to put it in the mouth of an Emperor who is supposed to have lived more than a thousand years before the introduction of Chinese learning into Japan.

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