Japanese Sources

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/ - extracts from the Nihongi
• http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id97.htm - the Wei Shi extract providing the first Chinese account of Japan
• http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id112.htm - text of several admnistrative documents on the origin of the samurai
• http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/SOURCES/asahina.htm - the Asahina Battle Chronicle (early C16th)