with the other "numbered" names like "Kamakura's Ten Wells" and "Kamakura's Ten Bridges", the modern "Seven Entrances" is an Edo period invention probably...

among which the seven most important were called Kamakura's Seven Entrances (鎌倉七口), a name sometimes translated as 'Kamakura's Seven Mouths'. The natural...

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ships, remained open. The hills surrounding Kamakura contained seven passes, (the so-called Seven Entrances or Mouths), each with guarded checkpoints....

article Sexagenary cycle. Kamakura has many "numbered" locality names like Five Famous Springs, Kamakura's Seven Entrances, etc. These are not traditional...

contains for example information about "Kamakura's Seven Entrances", "Kamakura's Ten Bridges" and "Kamakura's Ten Wells". It includes illustrations, maps...

(belfry) Kakigara-Inari View over Kamakura's Sagami Bay Kyōzō (Sutra Archive) Daikoku-dō Guanyin Rock garden Entrance to the cave Statues of Benten Bas-relief...

general lower. The reason seems to be that, because six of the Kamakura's Seven Entrances faced west and any attack was in any case likely to come from...

the way to the ocean in Yuigahama and doubles as Wakamiya Ōji Avenue, Kamakura's main street. Built by Minamoto no Yoritomo as an imitation of Kyoto's...

and Shichiriura (七里浦). Although not part of Kamakura proper since it lies outside the city's Seven Entrances, the entire area from Katase to Inamuragasaki...

origins are unclear. According to the temple itself, it was founded by Kamakura's fourth regent and de facto ruler of Japan Hōjō Tsunetoki. According to...

unclear. According to the temple's records, Chōju-ji was founded in 1358 by Kamakura's Ashikaga ruler, Kantō kubō Ashikaga Motouji, son of Takauji, on the grounds...

among Kamakura's Five Mountains. It is situated in the city of Kamakura, in Kanagawa Prefecture to the south of Tokyo. Founded in 1282 (Kamakura period...

of the country's military rulers in Kamakura first and Kyoto later. In the final version of the system, Kamakura's Five Mountains were, from the first-ranked...

Hiei-zan), and can be interpreted as meaning "the Mount Hiei of the East." Kamakura's Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū is now only a Shinto shrine but, before the Shinto...

of the Kamakura period remembered as the ideal loyal samurai. Kusunoki fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genkō War to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate...

Kinryūzan Shakuman-in Endon Hōkai-ji (金龍山釈満院円頓宝戒寺) is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Often called Hagidera (萩寺), or "bush-clover...

period and the Tang dynasty, and with buildings in its complex covering the Kamakura, Muromachi, Momoyama, and Edo periods. Five of these buildings have been...

casualties is 2,572, mostly Soviet (2,248), Polish and Serbian prisoners of war. Seven Norwegians were also killed. 2,572 Military 1941  Soviet Union Lenin – On...

Mahāyāna Sūtra Archived 2021-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 32, 37. Kamakura. ISBN 978-1-716-23850-5 (Lulu). Meido Moore. Hidden Zen: Practices for...

(daimyō), and enforced by warrior nobility (samurai). After rule by the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates and a century of warring states, Japan was unified...

later invited by Kamakura's regent Hōjō Takatoki so, the following year, after establishing a temple in Ise province he went to Kamakura and stayed at Jōchi-ji...

military and administrative officers, the samurai truly emerged during the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from c.1185 to 1333. They became the ruling political...

Hara himself in locations all over the country, among them Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Gifu Prefecture, and Wakayama Prefecture. Ten have been declared Important...

sanatorium in January 1937. In February, he was released and moved back to Kamakura, as he could not stand to continue living in the house which contained...

coming to rest at its present location in Nagano city. At the end of the Kamakura period (1185–1333), many temples copied Zenkō-ji's famous Buddha statue...

Alaafin from the 18th century was said to have "made seven silver doors to the seven entrances of his sleeping apartment". Potsherd Pavements at Old...

custody of the Seven Spears, Katō's brutal group of personal enforcers, the Hori men are dragged to the Tōkei-ji "Divorce Temple" at Kamakura where the Hori...

temple in Kita-Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Engaku-ji school of the Rinzai sect and is ranked fourth among Kamakura's Five Mountains...

pseudonym of "Hiroshi Uchida" in Fujisawa. He died three days later in Kamakura. The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing was the deadliest terrorist...