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The 31 pages that link to Kojiki, each with the reason it gives.

• ShintoRelated: Its creation narratives preserve influential accounts of kami and Japan’s origins.

• Nara periodRelated: Its compilation served court efforts to preserve an authoritative account of rulership and origins.

• KamiRelated: Its creation narratives introduce many kami and their relationships.

• Japanese folkloreRelated: Its myths preserve influential narratives later associated with Japanese sacred tradition.

• Japanese mythologyRelated: It is the oldest major surviving written source for many foundational Japanese myths.

• AmaterasuRelated: It preserves a major account of Amaterasu’s birth and myths.

• Imperial House of JapanRelated: It preserves foundational stories linking the imperial line to the gods.

• Man'yōganaRelated: Its songs and names use phonetic Chinese characters to represent Japanese words.

• KokugakuRelated: Norinaga’s detailed commentary made the Kojiki central to Kokugaku thought.

• Motoori NorinagaRelated: Norinaga’s commentary on this chronicle became his defining work.

• Empress GenmeiRelated: Genmei commissioned this chronicle, completed in 712.

• IzanagiRelated: Its creation narrative recounts Izanagi’s partnership with Izanami and his purification.

• NoritoRelated: Its creation narratives supply kami and mythic references found in ritual tradition.

• ShimenawaRelated: Its creation myths provide an early narrative context for sacred ropes and boundaries.

• Emperor JimmuRelated: Its creation myths and imperial genealogy preserve Jimmu’s legendary story.

• HaraeRelated: The Kojiki preserves the foundational myth of purification through Izanagi's ablutions.

• Imperial Regalia of JapanRelated: It preserves a major account of the divine descent associated with the regalia.

• Prince ShōtokuRelated: Its court-centered historical tradition contributes to the setting in which Shōtoku is remembered.

• YōkaiRelated: Its mythic world preserves early accounts of supernatural beings and sacred events.

• KaguraRelated: Its account of Ame-no-Uzume’s dance informs traditional explanations of kagura’s beginnings.

• TenpyōRelated: It predates Tenpyō and reflects the court’s earlier effort to record political origins.

• Empress JingūRelated: Its shorter account preserves an alternative version of Jingū’s reign and lineage.

• Eastern religionsRelated: Its accounts preserve foundational narratives about Japan's kami and imperial lineage.

• Nobutsuna SasakiRelated: Its classical language and narratives formed part of the textual world Sasaki studied.

• Susanoo-no-MikotoRelated: It preserves a major written account of Susanoo’s myths.

• Yamato TakeruRelated: Its account supplies a major version of Takeru’s life and exploits.