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    <title>sacred scriptures of the Japanese</title>
    <subTitle>with all authoritative variants, chronologically arranged, setting forth the narrative of the creation of the cosmos, the divine descent of the sky-ancestor of the imperial house and the lineage of the earthly emperors, to whom the Sun-Deity has given the rule of the world unto ages eternal</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Wheeler, Post</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1869-1956</namePart>
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    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">ed. and tr.</roleTerm>
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  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Westport, Conn</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Greenwood Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1952</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1976</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xlvi, 562 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Post Wheeler.</note>
  <note>Translations of the Kojiki and the Nihongi, supplemented and amplified by translations of a number of lesser works, collated and combined in a connected narrative.</note>
  <note>Reprint of the ed. published by H. Schuman, New York.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mythology, Japanese</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 645</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">DS855 .W48 1976</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">952/.01</classification>
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      <title>Kojiki. English. 1976</title>
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      <title>Nihon shoki. English. 1976</title>
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