Sentence examples for ancient matters from inspiring English sources
The principal chronicles describing the origins of Japanese history are the Nihon shoki ("Chronicle of Japan") and the Koji-ki ("Record of Ancient Matters").
The Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon-gi, or Nihon shoki ("Chronicles of Japan"), are regarded in a sense as sacred books of Shintō.
(According to the Kojiki, "Records of Ancient Matters," it was another brother, the storm god Susanoo, who was sent on the mission).
Most of the surviving Japanese myths are recorded in the Kojiki (compiled 712; "Records of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon shoki (compiled in 720; "Chronicles of Japan").
The books include the Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters"), the Nihon shoki, or Nihon-gi ("Chronicles of Japan"), the Kogoshūi ("Gleanings of Ancient Works"), and the Engi shiki ("Institutes of the Engi Period").
In Japan the 8th-century histories Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters") and Nihon shoki ("Chronicles of Japan") are studded with fables, many on the theme of small but intelligent animals getting the better of large and stupid ones.
Studying archaeological literature and interventions born with the aim of conserving and innovating ancient matter, one detects that they contain interpretative routes suitable for understanding the changes in design and contemporary theory.
The series bears the striking contrast of colors, dramatic embossing, and innovative textural effects that are hallmarks of Maki's prints, bringing his ancient subject matter into a modern print vernacular.
A friend suggested I read "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World" by the anthropologist Wade Davis.
In the 2009 book "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World," the anthropologist Wade Davis writes that Heyerdahl "inverted history itself" with his claims about the Polynesian migration.
I guess, as I head toward my century, it helps to stimulate the ancient grey matter!
