The Hero with a Thousand Faces on Kojiki: “In the Japanese 'Records of Ancient Matters' appears another harrowing tale...that of the descent to the underworld of the primeval all-father Izanagi.”
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series on Kojiki: “or the ancient story from the Kojiki, that the Emperor O-Jin, being augustly intoxicated, 'smote with his august staff a great stone in the middle of the Ohosaka road, whereupon the stone ran away!'”
The Japanese Spirit on Kojiki: “One thing is certain about them, that they were not free from influences exerted by the different myths prevalent among the Chinese and the Indians at the time when they were written down in our earliest history, the Ko-ji-ki or Records of Ancient Matter, completed in A.D. 712.”
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation on Kojiki: “The oldest is entitled Ko-ji-ki, or "Records of Ancient Matters"; and it is supposed to have been compiled in the year 712 A.D. The other and much larger work is called Nihongi, "Chronicles of Nihon [Japan]," and dates from about 720 A.D.”
An Encouragement of Learning on Kojiki: “A man who can recite Japan's Kojiki from memory but does not know today's price of rice should be called ignorant in the learning of everyday life. [auto-translated]”