Shinpen Kamakurashi

The Shinpen Kamakurashi (新編鎌倉志, - Newly Edited Guide to Kamakura) is an Edo period compendium of topographic, geographic and demographic data concerning the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and its vicinities.

[1] It includes illustrations, maps, and information about temples, ruins and place names etymologies not only about Kamakura, but also about Enoshima, Shichirigahama, Hayama and Kanazawa.

[3] The book created and popularized many of these "numbered" names, which were picked up by many subsequent tourist guides and became part of Kamakura's image.

[3] It is also the source of at least one Kamakura canard: it is often written that Kugyō, the Buddhist monk who in 1219 assassinated his uncle and shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo, on the night of the murder was hiding behind the great ginkgo tree next to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's senior shrine, but the Azuma Kagami, our main historic source on the event, simply says he came "from the side of the stone stairs" (石段の際).

[6] The book was written at Zuisen-ji, a Zen temple of the Engaku-ji school in Kamakura[7] by Kawai Tsunehisa, Matsumura Kiyoyuki and Rikiishi Tadakazu.