Kamakura
Americannoun
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a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.
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the first period, 1185–1333, during which Japan was ruled by a feudal regime.
noun
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First author of the paper is Renata Poulton Kamakura of Duke University.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 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
Every morning for 10 minutes he listens to a YouTube program by a monk based at a temple in Kamakura.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
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
The shugo, himself a djito, and a very influential one of that class, served as an intermediate commander in transmitting to the djito under him the military instructions which he had received from Kamakura.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
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