The tradition is said to have been started more than 800 years ago by the samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo, who established the first shogunate in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. It has continued to ...

Japan was reborn, a land now of warriors and war, a samurai land. Bakufu headquarters in remote Kamakura showed the court in Kyoto — the “uncontaminated world” — outward deference ...

“Azuma Kagami” (literally, “Mirror of the East”), a medieval Japanese text that chronicles the events of the Kamakura Shogunate (1192-1333), contains a scene where a young Hojo Masako ...

9, I came across a corner featuring the Hojo clan, which wielded enormous power in the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333). I was surprised by the sheer number of books and magazines that have been ...