Kamakura
Yamanashi · 鎌倉Browse Yamanashi’s cultural heritage from the Kamakura period (1185 – 1333). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A Kamakura-period hall in Yamanashi Prefecture. Ten mon levied on each household across the two provinces went into paying for the whole building here.
A Southern Song painting on one scroll at Kuonji in Yamanashi, recorded as having once formed a single set with two other scrolls held elsewhere today.
A late-Kamakura Important Cultural Property in Kosuge, Yamanashi, this hall preserves rare Heian residential carpentry and shelters a hidden Nyoirin Kannon.
A 13th-century portrait of Bodhidharma in red robes, this Kōgaku-ji scroll bears an inscription by Rankei Dōryū and ranks among Japan's earliest ink paintings.