A Kamakura-era chronicle
Read Azumakagami by the Gregorian date
A static web app that lets you browse and search Azumakagami (the official chronicle of the Kamakura shogunate) by year, month and day.
- Entries
- 5,687
- Year range
- 1180–1267
- Span
- 88 years
About Azumakagami
Azumakagami (吾妻鏡) is a chronological record compiled by the Kamakura shogunate documenting Japan's Kamakura era. Drawing on the National Institute of Japanese Literature's dataset and TEI encoding, this app maps each entry to a Gregorian date so you can browse them by year and month. Researchers, students and curious readers alike can quickly follow earthquakes, natural events, and political incidents through the calendar.
Filter by keyword
Match text in titles to narrow the year-by-month grid to months that contain relevant entries.
Monthly calendar view
Inspect any month: each entry is placed on its Gregorian date in a full month grid.
Linked to TEI viewer
Each entry links to the original manuscript image via the TEI facsimile viewer.
Start browsing
Pick a month from the year-by-month grid to open its calendar and see the entries for that period.
Open the calendar