Kamakura Museum of National Treasures
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
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Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.