Enoshima (江の島) is a small island in Sagami Bay on the Pacific Coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. It is part of Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Enoshima has an area of about 0.2 km². It is linked to the
mainland by a bridge.
The island is at the mouth of the Katase River.
In 1927, Enoshima was as one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan
which best showed Japan and its culture in the Shōwa period.
History
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1047 (Eishō 2): Enoshima Engi was written
by the Buddhist monk Kōkei. The work is a history of the shrines on
the island.
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1182 (Juei 1): Minamoto no Toritomo gave a statue
to the Benzaiten shrine on the island.
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1325 (Shōchū 2): Shōjōkō-ji was established. It
is the Buddhist temple on the island.
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1874 (Meiji 7): Samuel Cocking developed
botanical gardens.
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1964 (Shōwa 39): Sailing s during the 1964 Summer
Olympics were scheduled near the island.
Related
pages
- Provinces of Japan
- Prefectures of Japan
- List of regions of Japan
- List of islands of Japan
- Shōnan
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