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before a shogunate tribunal in 1787, the temples Myōhō–ji, Ankokuron-ji and Chōshō-ji in Kamakura all claimed to be the site where Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan, had his hermitage in a hut in the 13th century?
in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?
after losing the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in Japan's 1868 Boshin War, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu took refuge on the USS Iroquois rather than spend the night in Osaka Castle?
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito's engagement to Princess Kazu-no-Miya Chikako of Japan was cancelled by the Tokugawa bakufu so that the princess could marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, for political reasons?
Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651?
14th-century shogun Ashikaga Takauji (pictured) sent his son Motouji to Kamakura to consolidate his rule there, but ended up creating a rival shogunate because Motouji started calling himself Kubō?

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