Excluding the ''[[Fudoki]]'' of previous centuries, the ''Nihon Shoki'' is coupled with the ''[[Kojiki]]'' as the first two domestic, Japanese histories. Officially finished in [[720]] A.D., the ''Nihon Shoki'' had been in progress for almost fifty years. | Excluding the ''[[Fudoki]]'' of previous centuries, the ''Nihon Shoki'' is coupled with the ''[[Kojiki]]'' as the first two domestic, Japanese histories. Officially finished in [[720]] A.D., the ''Nihon Shoki'' had been in progress for almost fifty years. |