Kojiki API - urantia.dev

The API serves Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters (Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1882) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The oldest Japanese chronicle, from the creation to the early rulers, 712. It has 291 passages in 180 sections. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# Kojiki 1.1
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/kojiki/1.1
# A whole section
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/kojiki/1

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "kojiki",
      "title": "Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters",
      "translator": "Basil Hall Chamberlain",
      "year": 1882
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "Kojiki 1.1",
        "division": 1,
        "text": "The names of the Deities that were born in the Plain of High Heaven when the Heaven and Earth began were the Deity Master-of-the-August-Centre-of-Heaven, next the High-August-Producing-Wondrous Deity, next the..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug kojiki, the id kojiki-chamberlain-1882, and the prefix kojiki all name this text.

References

Section and paragraph, Kojiki 1.1. The paragraph numbers are ours. GET /scriptures/kojiki lists every section with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"kojiki","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=kojiki'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/kojiki/1.1/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1882)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: Section and paragraph (Kojiki 4.2): the 180 sections are Chamberlain’s, and their paragraphs are numbered in order, with each song in the paragraph that leads into it. The passages that he gave in Latin are kept so. His introduction and notes are not here.