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  1. City on Honshu island, Japan; population
  2. 175,000. It was the seat of the first
  3. shogunate 1192-1333, which established the
  4. rule of the samurai class, and the Hachimangu
  5. Shrine is dedicated to the gods of war; the
  6. 13th-century statue of Buddha (Daibutsu) is
  7. 13 m/43 ft high. From the 19th century,
  8. artists and writers (for example, the
  9. novelist Kawabata) settled here.
  10.