Muromachi
Chiba · 室町Browse Chiba’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Amida Hall of Saiganji in Ichihara, Chiba, a thatched hall built by Kamakura carpenters in 1495, was once gilded and known as the Shining Hall of Heizo.
The Front Gate of Jinya-ji near Mount Kano's summit in Chiba is an early-1500s Zen-style four-legged gate. Toppled by a 2019 typhoon, it was rebuilt by hand by 2021.
The Yakushido of Senpukuji in Inzai, Chiba, is a thatched hall of the late Muromachi period (1467 to 1572) mixing Japanese and Zen styles, key to medieval Kanto.
The Fudo Hall of Daishoji Temple in Isumi, Chiba, a thatched hall of the late Muromachi period, has been protected since 1916 as an Important Cultural Property.
The Hojuin Kannon Hall in Inzai, Chiba, built about 1563, is a small three-bay hall under a hipped thatched roof, designated an Important Cultural Property.
The Kannon Hall of Horaiji in Ichihara, Chiba, a hall of the late Muromachi period three bays square under a thatched hipped roof, was designated in 1931.
A four-legged gate at Hokekyo-ji built in the Zen-derived karayo style, with curved beams and carved eaves that date it to the Muromachi period. Designated 1916.
A pair of Yuan-dynasty folding screens of the sixteen arhats, attributed to Zhao of Ningbo and owned by Hokekyoji in Ichikawa; kept at the Tokyo National Museum.
Rare amber-glazed ceramic guardian lion-dogs from medieval Seto, barely 18 cm tall, kept at Katori Jingu in Chiba and made an Important Cultural Property in 1953.
Designated in 2023, Koami-ji's 20 gilt-bronze esoteric ritual implements bear the engraved name of the monk Shinkai, linking Awa and Kanazawa across Tokyo Bay.
A National Treasure near Tokyo: a Southern Song printing of the Hanshu in 61 fascicles, holding the earliest reliable Chinese record of Japan, the Wa people.
A complete Southern Song printing of the Book of the Later Han, kept in Sakura, whose account of the eastern peoples names Queen Himiko and an embassy of 57 CE.
A National Treasure near Tokyo: the Song-dynasty Shiji printed by Huang Shanfu, the oldest complete copy of the three-commentary edition, all 130 chapters intact.