The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “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: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn: “And the tale of his descent into that strange nether world, and of what there befell him, is it not written in the Kojiki?”
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn: “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 by Yoshisaburo Okakura: “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 by Lafcadio Hearn: “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.”
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn: “He had a palace on the same hill where his shrine now stands; and this site--whence a fine view of the city can be obtained--is the scene of a pleasing legend preserved in the Kojiki:”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan by W. G. Aston: “The Kojiki is a repertory of the old myths and legends, and, in the latter part, of the ancient history of Japan.”
An Encouragement of Learning by Fukuzawa Yukichi: “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]”