鎌倉

Kamakura (city)

鎌倉様

かまくらよう

Kamakura style; style of customs of samurai and their women during the Kamakura period

鎌倉彫り

かまくらぼり かまくらほり

carvings of the Kamakura style

鎌倉時代

かまくらじだい

Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE)

鎌倉幕府

かまくらばくふ

Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333 CE)

いざ鎌倉

いざかまくら

case that something major happens, event of an emergency, when it comes to the crunch

鎌倉新仏教

かまくらしんぶっきょう

new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

鎌倉の戦い

かまくらのたたかい

Battle of Kamakura (Genkō War; 1333); Siege of Kamakura

五山

ごさん ござん

five most important temples of a region

鎌倉女子大学

かまくらじょしだいがく

Kamakura Women's College

鎌倉養護学校

かまくらようごがっこう

Kamakura Special Needs School (older name style)

鎌

かま

sickle

京都五山

きょうとござん

Kyoto Gozan, the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji

鎌槍

かまやり

spear with curved cross-blades

鎌足

かまあし

legs bowed in, sitting with heels spread apart

薄鎌

うすがま

Thin blade (used for cutting)

鎌首

かまくび

sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis), crooked neck, gooseneck

鎌鼬

かまいたち

type Japanese folkloric monster (yokai), thought to be a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim

鋸鎌

のこぎりがま

toothed sickle