=Nihongi=.--The mythical narrative of the _Nihongi_, or 'Chronicles of Japan,' also an official compilation (A.D. 720), is not quite so full as that of the _Kojiki_, and it has the disadvantage of being composed in the Chinese language. But it has one feature of great interest. The author, or some nearly contemporary writer, has added to the original text a number of variants of the current myths, thus enabling us to correct any impression of uniformity or consistency which might be left by the perusal of the _Kojiki_ or _Nihongi_ alone. These addenda show that there was then in existence a large body of frequently irreconcilable mythical material, which these works are attempts to harmonize. A translation of the _Nihongi_ by the present writer forms Supplement I. of the _Transactions_ of the Japan Society (1896). Dr. Florenz's excellent German version of the mythical part of this work may also be consulted with advantage. It has copious notes. =Kiujiki=.--A third source of information respecting the mythical lore of Japan is the _Kiujiki_. A work with this name was compiled A.D. 620, _i.e._, one hundred years before the _Nihongi_, but the book now known by that title has been condemned as a forgery by native critics. Their arguments, however, are not quite convincing. The _Kiujiki_ is in any case a very old book, and we may accept it provisionally as of equal authority with the _Kojiki_ and _Nihongi_. It contains little which is not also to be found in these two works. Unlike them, the _Kiujiki_ makes no attempt to be consistent. It is a mere jumble of mythical material, distinct and conflicting versions of the same narrative being often dovetailed into one another in the most clumsy fashion. It has not been translated. =Idzumo Fudoki=.--This work, a topography of the province of Idzumo, was compiled about A.D. 733. It contains a few mythical passages. =The Kogoshiui= was written in 807. It adds a very little to the information contained in the _Kojiki_ and _Nihongi_. =Shôjiroku=.--In this work, which is a sort of peerage of Japan (815), the descent of many of the noble families is traced from the deities of the Shinto Pantheon. =Yengishiki=.--Our principal source of information for the ceremonial of Shinto is the _Yengishiki_, or 'Institutes of the Period Yengi' (901-923). It gives a minute description of the official Shinto ritual as then practised, together with Red Snow Algatwenty-seven of the principal prayers used in worship. These prayers, called _norito_, were now, so far as we know, for the first time reduced to writing, but many of them must be in substance several hundreds of years older. Some have been translated by Sir Ernest Satow for the Asiatic Society of Japan (1879-81), and the series is now being continued by Dr. Karl Florenz, whose translation of the _Ohoharahi_ (1899) is a notable addition to the English reader's means of studying Shinto.