• the name of Shichirigahama (pictured), a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?

Facts on topics related to Shichirigahama

Kamakura, Kanagawa

• 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?
• 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?
• of the three precious statues of the goddess Kannon enshrined in the Sugimoto-dera temple in Kamakura, Japan, likely none were made by the artists they are traditionally attributed to?
• the Zen rock garden in the grounds of Zuisen-ji temple, near Kamakura, Japan, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?

Inamuragasaki

• the cape of Inamuragasaki was so named for its similarity in shape to a stack of rice at harvest time?

Edo period

• Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan?
• rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan?