Kamakura
Shizuoka · 鎌倉Browse Shizuoka’s cultural heritage from the Kamakura period (1185 – 1333). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A Kamakura-period dais held at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka. Its own length and its own width there are recorded as one single figure only.
A Kamakura-period naginata in Shizuoka Prefecture. Its tang, hidden away inside the shaft, runs some twenty centimetres longer than the blade does here.
A gold lacquer box attributed to Hojo Masako hides a Tang poem in silver and holds Japan's oldest complete cosmetic set, a Kamakura-era National Treasure.
A mid-Kamakura Fukuoka Ichimonji masterpiece with a flamboyant clove-pattern hamon, given by Oda Nobunaga for the Nagashino Castle defense. Sano Art Museum, Mishima.
Carved by Unkei in 1186 for Hojo Tokimasa, five National Treasure statues at Ganjojuin Temple in Izu mark the birth of Kamakura realism. Full visiting guide inside.
Held at Hie Shrine in Numazu, Shizuoka, the Sannō Reigenki is a Kamakura-period illustrated handscroll dated 1288. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it is the oldest surviving work in its tradition, recording the shrine's founding legend and the spread of Sannō belief.