鎌倉山

Japanese
Kanji in this term
鎌 倉 山
かま
Grade: S		 くら
Grade: 4		 やま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
ateji (当て字)

Etymology

From 鎌倉 (Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture) +‎ 山 (-yama, “mountain”).

Proper noun

鎌倉山 (hiragana かまくらやま, rōmaji Kamakura-yama)

  1. the hilly area west of Kamakura; sometimes referring to the vicinity of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine

Old Japanese

Etymology

From 鎌倉 (Kamakura) +‎ 山 (-yama, “mountain”).

Proper noun

鎌倉山 (Kamakura-yama) (kana かまくらやま)

  1. the mountains around present-day Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture; sometimes referring to the vicinity of the present Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3433),[1] text here
      多伎木許流可麻久良夜麻能許太流木乎麻都等奈我伊波婆古非都追夜安奈牟
      taki1gi2 ko2ru Kamakura-yama no2 ko2daru ki2 wo matu to2 naga ipaba ko1pi2tutu ya aramu
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References
  1. Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
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