Kamakura’s Bamboo Temple of Zen and Samurai Legacy Hōkoku-ji is a small Zen temple in Kamakura, world-famous for its bamboo grove of more than 2,000 mōsō bamboos. For this reason, it is also known as Take-dera, the Bamboo Temple. The temple was founded in 1334, shortly after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate. Ashikaga Ietoki, […]

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