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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Kamakura > Outdoor Architecture
Outdoor Architecture
Kamakura
Outdoor Architecture
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Kotoku-in Monastery (16)
Daibutsu
Kotokuin

Epoque de Kamakura - near 1252
The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a bronze statue of Amida Buddha that is located on the grounds of the Kotokuin Temple.

Kenchoji (Kenchô-ji) (22)
Kofukuzan Kencho Kokoku Zenji
between 1249 and 1253
Kenchoji is the first Zen temple erected in Kamakura and the pioneer of Zen Buddhism in Japan. It commands the first position in the Five Great Zen-Temples in Kamakura, and is the head of the 500-odd branch temples belonging to the Kenchoji school of the Rinzai Zen sect.

Engakuji (18)
Zuirokuzan Dai-Engaku Kosho Zenji
1828
While Tokimune Hojo (1251-1284) was the de facto ruler of Japan as the Eighth Regent of the Hojo regime, Mongolian troops under the command of Kublai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan (1167-1227), attacked northern part of Kyushu island in 1274 and again in 1281. They failed to invade Japan owing to timely typhoons.
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