Yuigahama

Kamakura's Official Textbook for Culture and Tourism (2008:33)] . This is the reason why, although the beach gives its name to only the west part of the beachside community, traces of the name Yuigahama can be found also in Zaimokuza (for example in Moto Hachiman's official name, Yui Wakamiya). The center of Yuigahama came legally into being between 1964 and 1965 and was named after the beach. Today's Yuigahama was until then divided between Zaimokuza, Ōmachi, and Hase.

There are different theories about the origin of the name. According to one it derives from an earlier one, nihongo|Yuigo|由比郷. According to another it derives from the presence of a cooperative (nihongo|"yui"|結). The name Yui itself has been written in various ways, among them 由井 and 湯井.

During the Kamakura period it was called nihongo|Maehama|前浜 and it was used to practice martial arts such as nihongo|Ogasagake|小笠懸) (horseback archery) and nihongo|yabusame|流鏑馬 (a horseback archery competition). It became a battlefield in 1180 at the time of the battle between Miura Yoshizumi and Hatakeyama Shigetada, and again in 1333 for the battle between Nitta Yoshisada and the defence forces of the Hōjō. Human bones of the era are still occasionally found during excavations.

Notes

Historical landmarks

* The Ichi no Torii, first of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's three gates, dating back to the 11th century, and rebuilt in the 17th.
* Hatakeyama Shigeyasu's grave
* The Hase-dera Buddhist temple
* The Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in

=References=
*, Kamakura Shunshūsha, 2008 ja icon; ISBN 978-4-7740-0386-3