Muromachi
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The 1466 main hall of Asuke Hachiman Shrine near Korankei in Toyota, Aichi: a cypress-bark-roofed nagare-style hall preserving mid-Muromachi architecture.
The 1536 tahoto pagoda of Arako Kannon temple in Nagoya, the oldest building in the city, with a Zen-style upper storey over a Japanese-style lower storey.
The 1527 main hall of Kumaku Shrine on Mount Yatsuomote in Nishio, Aichi: a rare hip-and-gable shrine hall with a three-bay porch and cypress-bark roof.
The mid-Muromachi main hall of Kodenji in Kitanagoya, Aichi, a square hip-and-gable hall with a cypress-bark roof once called the most beautiful building in Owari.
Zaigaji Temple in Toyokawa, Aichi keeps two Muromachi structures: a gate planned as two storeys but roofed as one, and a Zen-style zushi cabinet dated 1483.
At Sanmyo-ji in Toyokawa City rises a 14.5-meter pagoda rebuilt in 1531. Its lower stories follow the Japanese style; the third turns to the Zen style, a rare mix.
Inside Sanmyo-ji's main hall in Toyokawa City stands a wooden tabernacle for the Benzaiten image. Built in 1554, it takes the form of a Shinto shrine sanctuary.
A two-storied tahoto at Shokaiji in Inazawa, Aichi, from the mid-Muromachi period. Its bracketing blends two imported styles; the grounds are famed for hydrangeas.
The main hall of Jokoji in Seto, Aichi, known as Muiden. A Zen-style hall of 1493 with a skirting pent roof, it stands below the first Owari lord's mausoleum.
The Kannon hall of Shinkomyoji in Okazaki, Aichi, built in 1478. A Zen-style hall at a Pure Land temple founded by the Matsudaira, ancestors of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Daiju-ji's tahoto in Okazaki, Aichi, was built in 1535 by Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, grandfather of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Its square lower story meets a round upper drum.
Takisanji's two-story gate near Okazaki, an Important Cultural Property since 1901, keeps a medieval temple-gate form, dated between 1267 and early Muromachi.
Takisan-ji's main hall in Okazaki, Aichi, is a cypress-bark-roofed esoteric Buddhist hall of the early Muromachi period, and the stage for a winter fire festival.
At Choko-ji in Inazawa stands a rare hexagonal hall of 1510, regarded as the only surviving medieval example of its form, with a Kamakura-period iron Jizo within.
Rebuilt in 1509, the tahoto at Chiryu Shrine survived the Meiji separation of Buddhism and Shinto by posing as a library, a rare relic of combined worship.
The main gate of Tenonji in Okazaki, Aichi, a late Muromachi yakuimon under a gabled shingle roof, is an Important Cultural Property before the Buddha hall.
The Buddha hall of Tenonji in Okazaki, Aichi, from the early Muromachi period, is an Important Cultural Property three bays square under cypress bark.
The late-Muromachi main hall of Tomiyoshi-Takehaya Shrine in Kanie, a one-bay nagare-zukuri building designated in 1953, is famed for the UNESCO-listed Sunari rite.
The 1477 main hall of Hachimangu in Toyokawa is a three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine with a cypress-bark roof, the official Hachiman shrine of old Mikawa province.
A three-bay tahoto of around 1528 at Higashi Kannonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, an old temple said to be founded by Gyoki; free to visit. Important Cultural Property.