Muromachi
Fukui · 室町Browse Fukui’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
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Fukui Muromachi Period
1336 – 1573
Open on all four sides and seven bays wide, the worship hall at Ōshio Hachimangū in Echizen is a rare nagatoko hall, an Important Cultural Property since 1978.
Rebuilt in 1447 by a northern warlord, Hagaji's Main Hall in Obama is a mid-Muromachi esoteric hall, an Important Cultural Property with a tenth-century Kannon.
On a forested Wakasa mountainside near Obama, the 1489 main hall of Hanjo-ji is an Important Cultural Property keeping an older, sturdy style of timber carpentry.