Kawabata Yasunari, who lived in Kamakura for a period, is said to have loved Hokokuji's bamboo grove and often strolled here. For Kawabata, who deeply cherished Kamakura, the ethereal stillness of this bamboo grove was a place that breathed life into his creative work. The connection between the author who pursued 'the beauty of Japan' — winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature — and this Michelin three-star bamboo grove symbolizes the depth of Kamakura's cultural legacy.