The Ancient Chronicles
The 8th–9th-century records of the age of the kami and the imperial line — the closest thing Shintō has to scripture, and fully public-domain in English.
The records6
Kojiki (712 — Records of Ancient Matters, 3 books)Nihon Shoki / Nihongi (720 — Chronicles of Japan, 30 books)Aston, "Shinto: The Way of the Gods" (1905)Kogoshūi (807 — the Inbe clan history)Sendai Kuji Hongi / Kujiki (10 books)Fudoki (713 — the provincial gazetteers)
The Liturgy
The ritual prayers of the kami-cult and the 10th-century procedural code that preserves them — with no clean public-domain English.
Ritual prayers & codes3
The Engishiki (927 — 50 vols; the Norito in book 8)The 27 Norito (ritual invocations)Ō-harae no Kotoba (the Great Purification)
Poetry & later tradition
The great poetry anthology and the medieval–Edo theology that made Shintō self-conscious.
Anthology, theology & commentary4
Man’yōshū (759 — 20 books, ~4,500 poems)Jinnō Shōtōki (Kitabatake, 1339)The Five Books of Shintō (Watarai / Ise)Motoori Norinaga — Kojiki-den (44 vols)no complete English translation
Held in this archive awaiting placement3 texts
Texts of this tradition the archive holds that have no chip on this map and no room placement — browsable here honestly; each awaits a reviewed binding or a structure-growth pass (the stays-reception rulings of the placement program, 2026-07).
A Hundred Verses from Old JapanWilliam N. Porter 1909 · awaits a reviewed binding or structure growth · read in the archive ↗Ancient Tales and Folklore of JapanRichard Gordon Smith 1918 · awaits a reviewed binding or structure growth · read in the archive ↗The Tale of Genji (Abridged)Suematsu Kenchō 1900 · awaits a reviewed binding or structure growth · read in the archive ↗