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

He and his wife own a home in Kamakura, Japan, where they had two historical farmhouses disassembled and reassembled on their property.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 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

One of the anxieties which had harassed the government of Kamakura constantly had been the fear that it might one day be overthrown by attack from Kyoto.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro