Kamakura
Yamagata · 鎌倉Browse Yamagata’s cultural heritage from the Kamakura period (1185 – 1333). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
An Important Cultural Property in Sakata: the shortest surviving Tales of Ise, with 115 episodes on gampi paper, an older text outside Teika's standard line.
The Uesugi Family Documents, 2,018 papers from the lords of Yonezawa, survive in their original folded, sealed form as Japan's first samurai National Treasure.
Volume five of Gyonen's autograph commentary on the Kegon Kumokusho, written at Todai-ji in 1286. An Important Cultural Property, now kept unseen in Yamagata.
Three Goryeo-dynasty scrolls dated 1309, owned by Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa and designated an Important Cultural Property. Stolen in 1987, the set remains missing.
A Kamakura-period National Treasure sword signed Sanemitsu, given by Oda Nobunaga to the Tokugawa general Sakai Tadatsugu in 1582, now at the Chido Museum, Yamagata.