Bundle: the Temples of Kamakura

Buy a bundle of eBooks about Kamakura's most famous temples!

This bundle contains our guide books about the Kencho-ji, Hokoku-ji, Engaku-ji, Hasedera, Zuisen-ji, Jomyo-ji and Meigetsu-in.

You will be able to download seven single pdf files after buying, featuring one garden in each pdf book. By buying the bundle you will save over 10%!

This bundle contains seven volumes of the most famous temples with gardens in the Kamakura area. These are:

Kenchō-ji
Kenchō-ji is the oldest Zen training monastery in Japan and holds the highest rank in the Kamakura Five-Mountain system (五山). It was built in the Kamakura period (1192-1337), the construction was finished in 1273.

Hōkoku-ji
Hōkoku-ji is a small Zen temple in Kamakura, world-famous for its bamboo grove of more than 2000 Mōsō bamboos. It is also called Take-dera (Bamboo temple) for that reason.

Engaku-ji
Engaku-ji temple is the second most important temple in the Kamakura Zen temple mountain system. It is situated in North Kamakura (Kita-Kamakura 北鎌倉).

Hasedera
The Hasedera temple is most famous for its eleven-headed Kannon statue, which is over 9 meters high. The temple is of the Jodo school of Buddhism and is said to have been founded in 736.

Zuisen-ji
Zuisen-ji is a small temple hidden away in the eastern mountains of Kamakura. The temple’s nickname is ‘flower temple’ and its flower garden in the front of the temple is the most beautiful in Kamakura.

Jōmyō-ji
Founded in 1188, this Rinzai Zen temple is number 5 of the Kamakura Zen temples. The Kamakura branch of the Ashikaga family, the main powerholders in the Muromachi period, made it their family temple.

Meigetsu-in
Meigetsu-in is a temple of the Rinzai Zen school of Buddhism. It was founded in 1383 (Muromachi period) by Uesugi Norikata, a powerful statesman of the Uesugi clan. The temple is known as the Hydrangea temple.