Word: kamakura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction...
Bishop Kenju Masuyama, primate of the Buddhist Church in North America, gazed at the $50,000 Manchurian Railways Building, a handsome structure in the style of the Kamakura period, built in Chicago of Japanese materials by 25 Japanese carpenters. Said Bishop Masuyama to the man in charge, one Kiyohide Yamashitu...
Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...