Kujiki

Kujiki (旧事紀?), or Sendai Kuji Hongi (先代旧事本紀?), is a historical Japanese text. It was generally believed to have been one of the earliest Japanese histories until the middle of the Edo period, when scholars such as Tokugawa Mitsukuni successfully contended that it was an imitation based on the Nihon Shoki, the Kojiki and the Kogo Shūi. In 2006, this opinion was challenged, based on examinations of extant manuscripts, by John R. Bentley, who made a sophisticated argument for Kujiki having been written during the early eighth century. It is too soon to say whether Bentley's argument will be accepted by scholars.