In Kamakura, the cherry blossoms typically begin coming out around late March or early April, painting the ancient capital in pink hues. The city, which lends itself to exploration on foot ...

“Azuma Kagami” (literally, “Mirror of the East”), a medieval Japanese text that chronicles the events of the Kamakura Shogunate (1192-1333), contains a scene where a young Hojo Masako ...

Japan was reborn, a land now of warriors and war, a samurai land. Bakufu headquarters in remote Kamakura showed the court in Kyoto — the “uncontaminated world” — outward deference ...

The tradition is said to have been started more than 800 years ago by the samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo, who established the first shogunate in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. It has continued to ...

The anime takes place after the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate and follows the young Tokiyuki Hojo in his quest to take revenge against the man who betrayed his family, Takauji Ashikaga.

When I visited a bookstore in central Tokyo on Jan. 9, I came across a corner featuring the Hojo clan, which wielded enormous power in the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333). I was surprised by the ...