Tenchikaibyaku

In Japanese mythology, the Japanese creation myth (天地開闢, Tenchikaibyaku lit. "creation of heaven and earth"^?), is the story that describes the legendary birth of the celestial and earthly world, the birth of the first gods and the birth of the Japanese archipelago.

This story is described first hand at the beginning of the Kojiki, the first book written in Japan (712), and in the Nihon Shoki (720). Both form the literary basis of Japanese mythology and Shinto. However the story differs in some aspects between these works with the most accepted for the Japanese being the one of the Kojiki.

Shinto (神道 Shintō^?) or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi,^[1] is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the people of Japan.