Kamakura is a coastal town located on Sagami Bay on Honshu Island, Japan, which was the capital of the Kamakura Shogunate from 1192 to 1333 CE. Provided with excellent natural defensive features, it was fortified and made the base of the Minamoto clan and then the Hojo shoguns. Several important Buddhist temples were built at the site such as the Kenchoji, and there still remains today the massive bronze Buddha that once belonged to the 13th-century CE Kotokuin temple. The city fell with the Kamakura Shogunate when it was attacked and destroyed by an army of rebel samurai led by Nitta Yoshisada c. 1333 CE.
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1185 - 1333The Kamakura period in Japan.
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1191The Shinto Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine is moved from Yuinogo to Kamakura, Japan by Minamoto no Yoritomo.
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1192 - 1333The Kamakura Shogunate rules Japan.
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1192 - 1199Minamoto no Yoritomo is shogun in Japan.
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1249 - 1253The Kenchoji Zen Buddhism monastery is built in Kamakura, Japan.
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1252The Kotokuin Temple with its massive bronze statue of Buddha is built at Kamakura, Japan.
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1283The Engakuji Zen Buddhist monastery is established at Kamakura, Japan by Hojo Tokimune.
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1327 - 1333Hojo Moritoki reigns as shogun in Japan, the last of the Kamakura Shogunate.
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c. 1333Nitta Yoshisada attacks and destroys Kamakura, capital of Japan's Kamakura Shogunate.
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1333 - 1336The Kenmu Restoration when the Japanese emperor Go-Daigo uses rebel warlords to oust the Kamakura Shogunate.
