It begins with Jinmu tosei (story in Japanese myth about the first generation of the Imperial Family), and contains mythological tales such as Yamatotakeru or Empress Jingu, which means that it was the period between the god world and the human world.
神武東征に始まり、ヤマトタケルや神功皇后の話など神話的な説話が多く、神の世と人の世の間の時代であることを示している。