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unusual facts about Kamakura-bori


Michiko Suganuma

Michiko Suganuma (菅沼 三千子 Michiko suganuma)(b. 1940) is a leading Kamakura-bori now Wagae-nuri artist from Japan.


Alex Ibru

Embarrassingly for the military regime, during the trip a large crowd demonstrated in Bori blaming Shell Oil pollution for their problems.

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

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

Baran Khan Kudezai

At the end of this war in 1881-82 the British forces were entered into Loralai city without any resistance and they occupied the mostly areas of Bori, Duki, Sanjavi and Mekhtar.

Böri Shad

Following Tung Yabghu's instructions, Böri Shad suggested to the Persian satrap of Aghvania and to Catholicos Viro that they should acknowledge the Khagan as their overlord.

Buddhist influences on print technology

Texts came from five monasteries in Kyoto and five in Kamakura and later other Zen temples began to print texts.

Gen'ō

Prince Morikuni was the shogun in Kamakura; and the daimyo of Sagami, Hōjō Takatoki, was shikken or chief minister of the shogunate.

Gosei

Goseibai Shikimoku, the legal code of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan, in 1232

Heian-kyō

With the advent of the Kanto centred Kamakura and Edo Shogunate, Heian-kyō began to lose its significance as a seat of power.

Hoshino Tenchi

Hoshino developed a literary circle with the various writers who lived near his home in Kamakura, where he resided from 1893.

Izumi-ku, Yokohama

In the Heian period, it was divided between shōen controlled by the Ōba clan and the Kamakura clan (of which Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa was the most illustrious member).

Jirō Osaragi

This led to the foundation of the Japan National Trust, modeled after the National Trust in Great Britain, and which has been successful in preserving the historical ambience of Kamakura and parts of other cities around Japan.

When housing developers threatened the mountainside behind Kamakura's famous Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, he banded together with a number of famous literati and artists (including Hideo Kobayashi, Nagai Tatsuo, Yasunari Kawabata, Riichi Yokomitsu, Itō Shinsui, Kiyokata Kaburagi), residing in Kamakura to oppose the development.

Kachō Hironobu

His palatial residence in Kamakura, Kanagawa (built in 1929) survives, and was donated to the city of Kamakura in 1996.

Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa

Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) (born 1069) was a samurai descended from the Taira clan, who fought for the Minamoto clan in the Gosannen War of Japan's Heian period.

Kamakura jubango

Apart from game 2, played in Shiba Park in Tokyo, and game 5 played in Gunma Prefecture, the match was held in various locations actually in Kamakura.

Kamakura-gū

When Tadayoshi was forced to retreat from Kamakura after losing a battle to Hōjō Tokiyuki, before leaving he gave the order for Morinaga's execution.

Kamiizumi Nobutsuna

The leather sleeve is made of cow or horse hide, but after being lacquered Kamakura Red, it resembles the skin of a hikigaeru.

Koun Ejō

Ejō accompanied Dōgen to Kamakura, then the capital of Japan, during a six month visit starting in 1247 on which he taught Hōjō Tokiyori, the shōgun's regent.

Nana Asma’u

To each jaji she bestowed a malfa (a hat and traditional ceremonial symbol of office of the pagan Bori priestesses in Gobir) tied with a red turban.

Seison Maeda

After Maeda's home was destroyed by the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II, Maeda relocated to Kamakura, where he lived within sight of Kita-Kamakura Station from 1945 until his death in 1977 at the age of 92.

Silk Road transmission of art

To this day however the transmission of many iconographical details is still visible, such as the Hercules inspiration behind the Nio guardian deities in front of Japanese Buddhist temples, or representations of the Buddha reminiscent of Greek art such as the Buddha in Kamakura.

Soyen Shaku

Soyen Shaku died peacefully on 29 October 1919 in Kamakura.

Takayama Chogyū

As sea air was thought to be helpful for lung ailments, Chogyū moved from Tokyo to the seaside resort towns of Atami, Shimizu, Oiso, and finally to Kamakura in an effort to cure his disease.

Taoism in Japan

Daoism influences made its way even to Shinto, specifically Ise and Yoshida Shintō, both of which developed in Kamakura in 1281.

Teika

Fujiwara no Teika, a Japanese scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods

Third Perso-Turkic War

Before returning to Suyab he instructed Böri Shad and his generals to "spare the lives of the rulers and nobles of that land, in as much as they come out to meet my son, surrender to my rule, concede their towns, castles, and trade to my troops".

Tōji-in

The second, which contains a strand of his hair, lies in Kamakura's Chōju-ji.

Tōshō-ji

Toshoji is a Buddhist temple founded in the first half of the 13th Century by Yasutoki Hojo, the third vice-shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.

Umimachi Diary

Once, she dated Tomoaki Fujii, one of the protagonists of Lovers' Kiss (former series of Akimi Yoshida also set in Kamakura).

Yoshishige Abe

Abe died in Tokyo in 1966, but his grave is at the temple of Tōkei-ji in Kamakura.


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