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    Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji (松岡山東慶寺), also known as Kakekomi-dera (駆け込み寺) or Enkiri-dera (縁切り寺), is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of...
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    the founder of Tōkei-ji as a “divorce temple”, there is no hard evidence confirming that Kakusan-ni had specifically intended Tōkei-ji as a refuge for...
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    and beheaded; his daughter Naahime (Princess Naa) (age 7) was sent to Tōkei-ji, a convent in Kamakura, where she later became the twentieth abbess Tenshūin...
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    Mountain System" of nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山), of which the famous Tōkei-ji is the only survivor. At the time of the Song dynasty, Chan (Japanese Zen)...
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    Tōmyō-ji three-storied pagoda, a tea room called Rindō-an (林洞庵), a tea hut called Yokobue-an (横笛庵), Tōkei-ji's former butsuden (旧東慶寺仏殿, Kyū-Tōkei-ji butsuden)...
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  • defended Nāhime from Tokugawa troops, and three of them became nuns at Tōkei-ji. Kaihime appears in Koei's Samurai Warriors video game series, where her...
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    Prince Tomoyoshi (知良王) (unknown women) Yōdō (d. 1398) – 5th Head Nun of Tōkei-ji Rokujō Arifusa's wife Ryusen Ryosai (竜泉令淬, d.1366) Kenkō (賢光) Go-Daigo...
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    grave in his birthplace Unoke, Ishikawa. A second grave can be found at Tōkei-ji Temple in Kamakura, where his friend D. T. Suzuki organized Nishida's funeral...
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    in the Kita-Kamakura neighbourhood, such as Jōchi-ji and Tōkei-ji (another temple of the Engaku-ji school). Nehane (Shakyamuni's Nirvana Ceremony) February...
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  • Katō's brutal group of personal enforcers, the Hori men are dragged to the Tōkei-ji "Divorce Temple" at Kamakura where the Hori women had been hiding. Despite...
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    Hōjō clan Tatsunokuchi, where Mongol emissaries were beheaded and buried. Tōkei-ji, famous in the past as a refuge for battered women Tomb of Minamoto no...
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    save Nāhime's life and adopted her; she later became a nun at Kamakura's Tōkei-ji. Hideyoshi's grave, along with Kyoto's Toyokuni Shrine, were destroyed...
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    died of renal failure on March 1, 1983. His grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. 1953 - Yomiuri Prize 1958 - Noma Literary Prize 1959 - Japan...
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  • 1943 until his death of esophageal cancer. His grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. The Takami Jun Prize was established in 1967 by the Association...
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    grave is a very distinctive 13-story white stone pagoda at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. Yasushi Sugiyama Yokoyama Taikan Kaii Higashiyama List of...
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    Tokyo (redirect from Tōkei)
    Xijing (西京)). During the early Meiji period, the city was sometimes called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same characters representing "Tokyo"...
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  • Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese); Chris Rager (English) Japanese name: Tou-Kei (闘鶏, Tōkei) Created by Taejun Pak and illustrated by Kim Junghyun, the manhwa has been...
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    1957 at the age of 53 from tongue cancer. His grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. His was a lifelong friend of the poet and novelist, Hori Tatsuo...
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    Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Yuasa died in 1990, and her grave is at Tōkei-ji, a temple in Kamakura. After her death, the Yuasa Yoshiko Prize was established...
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    Kita-Kamakura Station is close to three major Buddhist temples: Engaku-ji, Kenchō-ji, and Tōkei-ji. Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009...
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    Although she became a catholic before her death, she chose to be buried at Tōkei-ji in Kita-Kamakura founded in 1285 by a monk who felt sorry for women with...
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    September 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2015. "Ayame (Iris sanguinea) flowers in Tokei-ji". thegardenofzen.com. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015. "Iris sanguinea"...
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    brain hemorrhage in Shanghai in 1945, and her grave is at the temple of Tokei-ji in Kamakura. After her death, her royalties were used to establish a literary...
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  • permanently from Tokyo in 1939 until his death. His grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. Japanese literature Japanese poetry List of Japanese authors...
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    Treasure. Abe died in Tokyo in 1966, but his grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura. Shibata, Masako (2005). Japan and Germany under the US Occupation:...
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  • after her husband's death, and died in 1976. Her grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura, which also has a large stone monument inscribed with one of...
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    at his home in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, and his grave is at the temple of Tokei-ji in Kamakura. Rengō kantai shimatsuki [A factual description of the Combined...
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    intracranial hemorrhage in July that year. His grave is at the temple of Tokei-ji in Kamakura. Hardacre, Helen. New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan...
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    cemetery contains one of his two graves (the other is at Tō-in in Kyoto). Tōkei-ji is a nunnery famous in the feudal days for sheltering abused women, who...
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    Kugenuma (Fujisawa, Kanagawa). His grave is at the Buddhist temple of Tokei-ji in Kamakura. In 2000, Oda was posthumously chosen as the best Asian male...
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