Kamakura

American  

[kah-mah-koo-rah] / ˈkɑ mɑˈku rɑ /

noun

1. a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.

2. the first period, 1185–1333, during which Japan was ruled by a feudal regime.

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Kamakura British  

/ ˌkæməˈkʊərə /

noun

1. a city in central Japan, on S Honshu: famous for its Great Buddha (Daibutsu), a 13th-century bronze, 15 m (49 ft) high. Pop: 169 714 (2002 est)

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Example Sentences

First author of the paper is Renata Poulton Kamakura of Duke University.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

Over-tourism has also become a growing issue at other popular tourist destinations such as Kyoto and Kamakura.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

He initially used a different name when checking into a hospital in Kamakura City in Kanagawa, south of Tokyo.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

About 30 miles south of Tokyo is the city of Kamakura, where the American composer John Cage was taken soon after arriving on his first visit to Japan, in 1962.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Here he made his capital, which was afterwards removed, and about three hundred years since fixed in Yedo; and Kamakura is left, like other decayed capitals, to live on the recollections of its former greatness.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)