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4 BCE: Traditional founding date of the Ise Grand Shrine in honour of the Shinto goddess Amaterasu.
712 CE: The Kojiki is written, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.
720 CE: The Nihon Shoki is written, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.
807 CE: Imibe-no-Hironari writes the Kogoshui, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.