is an officially commissioned
Japanese history text. Completed in 869, it is the fourth volume in the
Six National Histories. It covers the years 833–850.
Following the earlier national history ''
Nihon Kōki
is an officially commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 840, it is the third volume in the Six National Histories. It covers the years 792–833.
Background
Following the earlier national history '' Shoku Nihongi'' (797), in 819 Em ...
'' (840), in 855
Emperor Montoku ordered the compilation of the years since then. Primarily edited by
Fujiwara no Yoshifusa and
Haruzumi no Yoshitsuna, the text was completed in 869.
Written in
Kanbun
''Kanbun'' ( 'Han Chinese, Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century. Much of Japanese literature was written in this style and it was the general writing style for offici ...
-style and contained within 20 volumes, the contents covered 18 years spanning 833 and 850. As opposed to the previous national histories, it is the first to cover a single reign, that of
Emperor Ninmyō setting the model for future national histories.
See also
* ''
Ruijū Kokushi'', a categorized and chronological history text of the ''Six National Histories''; valuable resource in recreating lost contents of the ''Shoku Nihon Kōki''
References
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External links
Text of the ''Shoku Nihon Kōki''(Japanese)
*Manuscript scans,
Waseda University Library: manuscrip
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Late Old Japanese texts
9th-century history books
History books about Japan
Heian period in literature
9th-century Japanese books
History books of the Heian Period