Category
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Gukanshō
is a historical and literary work about the history of Japan. Seven volumes in length, it was composed by Buddhist priest Jien of the Tendai sect around 1220.
Azuma Kagami
Japanese chronicles
Mizukagami
is a Japanese rekishi monogatari. It is believed to have been written in the around the onset of the Kamakura period . It has been credited to Nakayama Tadachika or Minamoto Masayori, but the actual writer is unknown. It is the third book of the four mirror series.
Shaku Nihongi
Ancient Japanese text
Genkō Shakusho
book by Kokan Shiren

Denkoroku
is a kōan collection written in 1300 by Keizan Jokin Zenji, the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, based on approximately a year of his Dharma talks.
This text is not to be confused with "The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp", while there is considerable overlap of the individuals referenced, the content of these records does not exactly match.
Rokudai Shōjiki
Japanese history book written in the early Kamakura period