鎌倉

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鎌倉 (Kamakura).

鎌倉

1. (～市) Kamakura (a city in Kanagawa, Japan)

From Old Japanese 鎌倉 (Kamakura).

Originally a compound of 竈 (kama, “oven”) +‎ 鞍 (kura, “saddle”), from the way that the landscape as viewed from the sea looks like a saddle inside an oven, that is, a flat area in the mountains, surrounded by hills in the shape of an old traditional oven.[1]

The kanji spelling appears to be an example of ateji (当て字), literally "sickle warehouse".

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かまくら [kàmákúrá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ma̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

鎌倉 (hiragana かまくら, rōmaji Kamakura)

1. a placename, especially:
   1. Short for 鎌倉市 (Kamakura-shi): a city in the southeast of Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan; the capital city of the Kamakura shogunate
   2. Short for 鎌倉郡 (Kamakura-gun): a district in central Sagami Province, today part of Kanagawa Prefecture
      • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 15, page 214-215:[3]

        鎌倉郡 加末久良 按萬葉集作可麻久良...

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2. a surname

• Entry at Nihon Jiten (in Japanese)

Originally a compound of 竈 (kama, “oven”) +‎ 鞍 (kura, “saddle”), from the way that the landscape as viewed from the sea looks like a saddle inside an oven, that is, a flat area in the mountains, surrounded by hills in the shape of an old traditional oven.[1]

鎌倉 (Kamakura) (kana かまくら)

1. a placename on the southeastern part of modern Kanagawa Prefecture
   • 711–712, Kojiki (second scroll, Yamato Takeru no mikoto)[2]

     足鏡別王者、【鎌倉之別、小津、石代之別、漁田之別祖也。】次息長田別王之子、杙俣長田子王。

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   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3365),[3], text here

     可麻久良乃美胡之能佐吉能伊波久叡乃伎美我久由倍伎己許呂波母多自

     Kamakura no₂ Mi₁go₁si-no₂-saki₁ no₂ ipakuye no₂ ki₁mi₁ ga kuyube₂ki₁ ko₂ko₂ro₂ pa motazi

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   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4330),[4] text here

     奈尓波都尓余曾比余比弖気布能比夜伊田弖麻可良武美流波ゝ奈之尓　右一首、鎌倉郡上丁丸子連多麻呂。

     Nanipa-tu ni yo₂so₂pi₁ yo₂so₂pi₁te ke₂pu no₂ pi₁ ya idete-makaramu mi₁ru papa nasi ni (Hidari isshu, Kamakura-gun jōtei Maroko no Muraji Ōmaro)

     Today in Naniwa Bay, adorned [with flags], I depart without a mother seeing me off (by the leader Maroko no Omaro from the district of Kamakura).

• 鎌倉山 (Kamakura-yama)

• Japanese: 鎌倉 (かまくら, Kamakura)