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South of Tokeiji, on the way to Kamakura’s center, are Meigetsu-in and Jochiji, Zen temples with especially fine gardens.
Kamakura was falling apart.
Outstanding among the exhibits are Buddhist sculpture of the tenth- and 11th-century Heian era, illustrated narrative scrolls from the 13th-century Kamakura period, paintings by the great Muromachi artist Sesshu, and woodblock prints by the Edo-period masters Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai.
Although Zen had been present in Japan since the 12th century, its ascendancy began under the Kamakura regime, which found the mystic Chinese philosophy admirably suited to Japanese sensitivity, impressionism, and love of form and ritual.
The Kamakura shogunate was founded late in the 12th century after a long and bloody rivalry between two noble factions over control of the imperial court.