Kamitsumaki

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Kamitsumaki is the first volume of the ancient Japanese chronicle Kojiki, focusing on Shinto creation myths and the age of the gods.

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Kamitsumaki canonical 3
Nakatsumaki 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf section of Kojiki
volume of a literary work
associatedWithDeity Amaterasu
Izanagi
Izanami
Susanoo
compiledUnder Empress Genmei
contains genealogies of early kami
myths of Izanagi and Izanami
myths of Susanoo
myths of primordial deities
myths of the birth of Amaterasu
myths of the birth of the kami
myths of the creation of heaven and earth
myths of the creation of the Japanese islands
cosmologicalTheme emergence of land from chaos
separation of heaven and earth
countryOfOrigin Japan
culturalSignificance earliest extant written source for many Shinto myths
dateOfCompilation circa 712 CE
early 8th century
focusesOn Shinto creation myths
age of the gods
hasNarrativePerspective third-person narrative
hasStructure sequence of mythic episodes
hasThreeVolumeStructureRole first volume
influenced Japanese classical literature
later Shinto myth compilations
language Classical Japanese
literaryGenre chronicle
partOf Kojiki
partOfWorkBy Ō no Yasumaro
politicalFunction legitimization of imperial lineage through divine origins
precedes Nakatsumaki
Shimotsumaki
preservedIn various manuscript lineages of Kojiki
religiousFunction foundation narrative of Shinto cosmology
religiousGenre mythology
religiousTradition Shinto
script Chinese characters
subjectOf Japanese literary scholarship
Shinto theological studies
comparative mythology research
titleInJapanese 上巻
tradition Japanese imperial court tradition
usedIn Japanese history of religion courses
Shinto doctrinal interpretation

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Kojiki hasPart Kamitsumaki
Kojiki hasPart Kamitsumaki
this entity surface form: Nakatsumaki
Shimotsumaki associatedWork Kamitsumaki
Record of Ancient Matters hasPart Kamitsumaki