historiographer's

Updated: April 17, 2025

These five compilations together with the Nihon Shoki are honoured as the Six National Histories. It is noticeable that the writers were men of the highest rank, from prime ministers downwards. In such honour was the historiographer's art held in Japan in the eighth and ninth centuries.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

In 1216 about the time when his Breton historiographer's poem was completed Philip affected to regard it as a notorious fact that John had, either in person or by another's hand, murdered his nephew.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 : (From Barbarossa to Dante)