is the name of a short street in
Kamakura
, officially , 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 km2 over the tota ...
,
Kanagawa
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
, Japan, which begins in front of
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, the city's most important
Shinto shrine
A Stuart D. B. Picken, 1994. p. xxiii is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, , the deities of the Shinto religion.
The Also called the . is where a shrine's patron is or are enshrined.Iwanami Japanese dic ...
and ends in front of
Hōkai-ji.
[Kamakura Shōkō Kaigijo] It is believed to be the street that passed in front of the so-called
Ōkura Bakufu (also called is the name given in Japan to the first government of the Kamakura shogunate, shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo. The name is that of the location in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, where Yoritomo's palace used to stand. ...
, seat of first ''
shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...
''
Minamoto no Yoritomo
was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Minamoto no Yoriie" in . He was the husband of Hōjō Masako ...
's first government, which was in turn a section of the old Kanazawa Kaidō.
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Kamakura, Kanagawa