Once the de facto capital of Japan during the Kamakura shogunate (1185–1333), it’s now a favorite day-trip destination for its mix of historical significance and scenic beauty. The highlight ...

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Having been worshiped since ancient times the legends goes that Kukai (Kobo-Daishi, the founder of Shingon Buddhism) and Minamoto no Yoritomo who founded the Kamakura shogunate visited. The insides of ...

Tomyodo is a lighthouse built on a small cape called Tomyozaki at the entrance of Uraga Harbor. It was built in 1648 by order of the shogunate, and for 220 years it watched over the safety of ships ...

The “Masukagami,” a 14th-century historical chronicle, offers a wrenching account of the emperor’s struggle for power — and ...

When the sixth shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441) visited Todaiji temple in 1429, he cut off a part of Ranjatai agarwood that had been passed down in the repository.

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--In the late afternoon one weekday in early September, dozens of tourists crowded around a railway crossing here, a pilgrimage site for fans of the popular ...

It was here, in 1868, that the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, returned political power to Emperor Meiji, ending the nearly 700-year shogunate. Overnight, it seemed, Japan was open to the world ...

The People’s Republic of China’s “inevitable” annexation of Taiwan is historically plausible only because the Shogunate removed itself from the Taiwan chessboard. As it was, during the period of ...

A painting depicts Yoshiaki Ashikaga, heir to Japan’s shogunate, a friend and later rival of the Asakura clan. As they investigate the city, archaeologists are learning that the citizens of ...

There’s more than one way to mochi. Japanese chain Warabimochi Kamakura specialises in the loose, blobby kind known as warabimochi, made from bracken starch rather than the usual glutinous rice ...