The Miki Family was famous for procuring many historic Kamakura Era and Muromachi Era documents from the surrounding Koyadaira and Yamakawa area.

At least at the early Kamakura period, Chiten kept substantial power over many important decisions.

It includes many areas outside the Seven Entrances as Yamanouchi,, Shichirigahama, and Ofuna, and is the result of the fusion of Kamakura proper with the cities of Koshigoe, absorbed in 1939, Ofuna, absorbed in 1948, and with the village of Fukasawa, absorbed in 1948.

It was under the regency that Kamakura acquired many of its best and most prestigious temples and shrines, for example Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, and Zeniarai Benten Shrine.

Takahashi claims that if Kamakura ruled the Kantō, not only was the Emperor in fact still the ruler of Kansai, but during this period the city was in many ways politically and administratively still under the ancient capital of Kyoto.

Although the Ashikaga shogunate had retained the structure of the Kamakura bakufu and instituted a warrior government based on the same social economic rights and obligations established by the Hōjō with the Jōei Code in 1232, it failed to win the loyalty of many daimyo, especially those whose domains were far from Kyoto.

The Kamakura period was a starting point for many martial arts.

Minamoto no Yoshinaka is one of many main characters in the Kamakura period epic, the Tale of Heike.

His descendants set up the Kamakura shogunate, making his a prestigious pedigree claimed by many buke, particularly for the direct descendants in the Ashikaga clan ( that set up the Ashikaga shogunate ) and the rival Nitta clan.

During the Kamakura Period, the Tendai school used its patronage to try to oppose the growth of rival factions — particularly the Nichiren school, which began to grow in power among the merchant middle class, and the Pure Land school, which eventually came to claim the loyalty of many of the poorer classes.

In practice, the family had actual governmental power, many times dictatorial, rather than Kamakura shoguns, or the Imperial Court, who were merely legal symbols.

In Nikkō, Kyoto, Hakone, Kamakura and other places, he painted 24 large canvases and many small ones.

* 1215 ( Kempo 3, 8th-9th months ): There were many, serial earthquakes in the Kamakura area.

Rankei Doryū founded the Kenchō-ji temple in Kamakura and many of his works have been preserved.

Shikishi is credited with 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū, a collection of some 2, 000 popular works compiled in the early Kamakura period, and many other poems included in the Senzai Wakashū, compiled in the late Heian period to commemorate Emperor Go-Shirakawa's ascension, and later compilations.

At the end of the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ), many temples copied Zenkō-ji's famous Buddha statue, and many new temples were built around the country, calling themselves " Zenkō-ji " or " Shin-Zenkō-ji " ( The New Zenkō-ji ).

Rather more examples survive from the following Kamakura period ( 1185-1333 ), including many showing scenes of life among the ordinary people, and also stories of wars from Japanese history.

His grave is at the temple Ryuho-ji in Ofuna, Kamakura, where he lived for many years.

The main shrines to this kami are Kitano Tenman-gū in Kyoto and Dazaifu Tenman-gū in Fukuoka Prefecture, and the top three are rounded out by Egara Tenjin Shrine in Kamakura, but there are many other shrines dedicated to him across Japan.

* ( 1301 ), at 2. 5 metres tall the largest of all the many temple bells of Kamakura.

All Japanese Kamakura sects of Buddhism ( Zen, Nichiren, Jodo ) have relaxed Mahayana vinaya, and as a consequence, vegetarianism is rare.

The older Buddhist sects such as Shingon, Tendai and the early schools of the Nara period continued to thrive through the Kamakura period, and even experienced some measure of a revival.

During the Kamakura period, the temple was a center for ecumenical studies linking the Shingon sect with the Tendai, Ritsu and Zen sects, along with Kakuon-ji in Kamakura and Shōmyo-ji in Mutsuura.

After having persuaded himself that Amidism was not the true Buddhist doctrine, he passed to the study of Zen Buddhism, which had become popular in Kamakura and Kyōto.

Although very small, Yamanouchi is famous for its traditional atmosphere and the presence, among others, of three of the five highest-ranking Rinzai Zen temples in Kamakura, the.

* 1191: Rinzai Zen Buddhism is introduced in Japan by the monk Eisai of Kamakura and becomes popular among the samurai, the leading class in Japanese society

of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken ( officially regent, but de facto ruler of Japan ) of the Kamakura shogunate ( reigned 1268 – 84 ), known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism and by extension Bushido among the warrior class.

It is due to him that Zen Buddhism became firmly established in Kamakura, then later in Kyoto, and in the whole of Japan, especially among the warrior class.

Hōjō Masako, the widow of Yoritomo, allowed him to build Jufuku-ji, the first Zen temple in Kamakura.

During his student years at Tokyo University, Suzuki took up Zen practice at Engaku-ji in Kamakura.

While studying at Tokyo University Suzuki took up Zen practice at Engaku-ji in Kamakura studying initially with Kosen Roshi.

He described this life and his own experience at Kamakura in his book The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk.

Zen became a major element in both foot and mounted archery as it also became popular among the samurai in every aspect of their life during the Kamakura Period.

Suzuki who had left Kita Kamakura to lecture on Zen at Columbia University.

Soyen Shaku ( 釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919, Kamakura, Japan ; written in modern Japanese Sōen Shaku or Kōgaku Sōen Shaku ) was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States.

Noriko ( Setsuko Hara ), a secretary in Tokyo, lives in the extended Mamiya family at Kamakura, Kanagawa, which includes her parents Shukichi and Shige ( Ichirô Sugai and Chieko Higashiyama ), her older brother Koichi ( Chishu Ryu ), a physician, his wife Fumiko ( Kuniko Miyake ), and their two young sons Minoru ( Zen Murase ) and Isamu ( Isao Shirosawa ).

The next year Nyogen went to Kamakura to Engaku-ji where he studied Zen under Rinzai master Soyen Shaku.

It was introduced to Japan by Zen Buddhists in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, around 1191A. D.

Rinzai Zen was supported widely by the upper samurai class in the Kamakura era.

Tōkei-ji's former butsuden ( Important National Cultural Property ) used to be the main hall of a Rinzai Zen temple in Kamakura.

The great Kenchō-ji temple, number one of Kamakura's great Zen temples ( the Kamakura Gozan ) includes two shrines.

During the 14th century, the development of the great Zen monasteries in Kamakura and Kyoto had a major impact on the visual arts.