Yatagarasu appears in Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan) and Kojiki (The Records of Ancient Matters), and Nihonshoki also has a scene of Jinmu tosei, in which a golden kite appears.
八咫烏は日本書紀や古事記に登場するが、日本書紀には、やはり神武東征の場面で、金鵄（金色のトビ）が登場する。