Muromachi
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The Ioji Temple Main Hall Zushi in Toon City, Ehime, is a miniature shrine of 1534, 289 cm tall in Zen style, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966.
The goma hall of Ishiteji in Matsuyama, Ehime, built in the early Muromachi period, is a three-bay hall for fire rituals under a pyramidal copper roof.
The bell tower of Ishiteji in Matsuyama, Ehime, built in 1333, has a skirted lower storey and a cypress-bark roof, at the 51st temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage.
The main hall of Oyamazumi Shrine on Omishima, Ehime, built in 1427, is a nagare-zukuri hall at a shrine revered for its god of the sea and its armour collection.
A granite hokyointo behind the main hall of Nishiyama Koryuji in Saijo, Ehime: 305 cm tall, of the Nanboku-cho period, and intact from its base to its spire.
The 1375 main hall of Nishiyama Koryuji in Saijo, Ehime: a large hall mixing Japanese and Zen elements, under a hipped roof that looks almost pyramidal.
A small 1431 Kannon hall at Shounji on Iwagi Island, Ehime: a Zen-style tile-roofed hall with radiating fan rafters and a rare double-lotus altar railing.
A three-bay hall of 1463 with a pyramidal tile roof on Yugeshima, Ehime, noted for rare bracketing and original materials that survive right down to its roof tiles.
Completed in 1484 at temple 49 of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Matsuyama, this 5-bay hipped hall blends wayo and zenshuyo; its shrine bears pilgrim graffiti of 1525.
A three-bay Zen-style hall of about 1483 in the hills of Kihoku, its thatch restored in 1982 after decades under pantiles, with a well-preserved shrine inside.