The earliest poem in Japan is the religious classic "Kojiki" (correct)
"Kojiki" is a Japanese myth and legend dictated by Hieda Ari, approved by Emperor Tenmu, and compiled by Taian Manryu It is a Japanese literary work that is also historical, and was compiled on January 28, the fifth year of Hetong (712 AD). It tells the myths and legends of the founding of Japan, as well as the history of emperors from Emperor Jimmu to Emperor Suiko.
The text of the book is mainly written in ancient Chinese with Chinese characters, while the poems use Chinese characters as the phonetic notation of spoken Japanese. Although the word order is based on the subject-verb-object grammar of Chinese, the grammatical structure of Japanese It also appears from time to time, reflecting some characteristics of early Japanese variant Chinese.
As the first written classic in Japanese history, "Kojiki" is one of the earliest existing Japanese literary works. It emphasized the sanctity and orthodoxy of the emperor's "divine mandate" and preserved a large number of myths, legends, stories, poems and rich diction of ancient Japan, which had an impact on later Japanese history, religion, life and other fields.
Another classic ancient book in Japan:
It is generally believed that the "Man'yoshu" has been compiled and passed down by many people over many years, and was maintained by the Otomo family in the second half of the 8th century (717 AD) -785) completed. Later, it was corrected and approved by several people before it became the modern version.
"Man'yoshu" is praised as the source of Japanese national poetry. The Manyoshu is Japan's earliest poetry collection, equivalent to China's "Book of Songs". The collected poems are from the 4th century to the middle of the 8th century. There have always been different opinions on the year when they were written and who compiled them, but most of them were written during the Nara period (710-784 AD).