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2. Kamakura's Seven Entrances - Wikipedia

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   A map of Kamakura with the Seven Entrances. The city of Kamakura, Kanagawa in Japan, is closed off on three sides by very steep hills and on the fourth by the sea: before the construction of several modern tunnels and roads, the so-called Seven Entrances (Nana-guchi), or Seven Passes (七切り通し, Nana-kiridoshi) (all artificial) were its main links to the rest of the world. [1]

3. Inamuragasaki - Wikipedia

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   The relative position of Inamuragasaki and of the Passes attacked by Nitta Yoshisada. Because the ancient Tōkaidō highway passed along the sea south of this cape before heading to the Miura Peninsula, before the opening of the Gokuraku Pass Inamuragasaki was the traditional point of entry to Kamakura at the time of the Kamakura shogunate. [2]

4. Kamakura - Wikipedia

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   Kamakura (鎌倉, Kamakura, ⓘ), officially Kamakura City (鎌倉市, Kamakura-shi), is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu . The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km 2 over the total area of 39.67 km 2 (15.32 ...

5. Kamakura's proposed World Heritage Sites - Wikipedia

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   Asaina Pass (朝夷奈切通) One of Kamakura's Seven Entrances: Ruins of Tōshō-ji (東勝寺跡) Ruins of the Hōjō family temple, burned in 1333 on the day of the fall of Kamakura: Nagoshi Pass (名越切通) One of Kamakura's Seven Entrances; has a cluster of yagura: Shōmyō-ji : Shingon temple in an area of Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama that ...

6. Siege of Kamakura (1333) - Wikipedia

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   15,000 [1: The 1333 siege of Kamakura was a battle of the Genkō War, and marked the end of the ... The hills surrounding Kamakura contained seven passes, ...

7. Kantō kubō - Wikipedia

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   An illustration from the Shinpen Kamakurashi of the spot in Kamakura where the mansion of the Kantō kubō used to stand. It was still left empty in 1685 by peasants, more than two centuries after the dynasty's fall, thinking it may one day return and bring prosperity back to Kamakura.