Fudoki

These documents were called Fudoki (Records of Natural Features).

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Her novels include two volumes of the Heian trilogy Love/War/Death: The Fox Woman and Fudoki.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

ETA: ellen_denham reminded me of Fudoki, by kijjohnson!

September 14th, 2007 supurnuva 2007

Her use of animals to tell tales that illuminate human characters was also on good display in the 2003 novel Fudoki.

Archive 2008-09-01 Karen Burnham 2008

Guilty admission -- I've only read her first novel, the superb The Fox Woman, but if Fudoki is as good as I've heard, it's a well deserved nomination.

Dear Alan Keyes: yendi 2004

[Page 10] 1 According to "Sagami-Fudoki," or "The Natural Feature of Sagami Province," this district was in ancient times inhabited by Koreans.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

(Fudoki) showed that a levy made there about the middle of the seventh century had produced twenty thousand able-bodied soldiers, * whereas a century later, there were found only nineteen hundred; yet another century afterwards, only seventy; at the close of the ninth century, nine, and in the year 911, not one.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Fudoki to have made for himself a muro; Jimmu's sort is represented as sleeping in a great muro, and the Emperor Keiko, when (A. D.82) prosecuting his campaign in Kyushu, is said to have constructed a muro for a temporary palace.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

In the Fudoki of other provinces reference is made to forest giants in Harima, Bungo, Hitachi, etc., and when full allowance has been made for the exaggerations of tradition, there remains enough to indicate that the aboriginal inhabitants did not attempt any work of reclamation.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

If you like Kij Johnson’s story telling style be sure to check out her novel Fudoki, which was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

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