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Which ancient Japanese works contain early examples of phonetic writing?

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Japanese calligraphy — Japanese language Record of a haiku exchange on *kaishi* writing paper by Japanese poet Bashō and one of his pupils in the teacher's own handwriting, 17th century, from a hanging scroll (ink on paper).

Early examples of phonetic writing in Japanese appear in the Kojiki (712) and the Nihon shoki (720).1

In these officially commissioned histories, Chinese characters were used for their phonetic values rather than their meanings to transcribe Japanese names, expressions, and more than 120 songs, some of which may date back to the 5th century CE. This method of using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds eventually evolved into man’yōgana, a phonetic syllabary that came into widespread use in the 8th century. While many sections of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki were written entirely in Chinese, parts of the Kojiki utilized a complex mixture of characters, employing them for both their semantic meaning and their phonetic sound to better accommodate the agglutinative nature of the Japanese language.1234