Muromachi
Fukuoka · 室町Browse Fukuoka’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
101 objects, 19 Noh masks, 80 costumes, and 2 instruments, handed down in a Hyuga merchant family and now a Registered Art Object at the Kyushu National Museum.
Held at the Kyushu National Museum, this Important Cultural Property is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese tea bowl from the 13th–14th century. A rare kiln effect at the boundary of its black and brown glazes produces a silvery 'rainbow' band that gave the bowl its name. Its provenance traces back to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
Built in 1541 by the Harada clan and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2023, Takasu Shrine's main hall in Itoshima is Fukuoka's oldest surviving shrine hall.
Built in 1458, Shiga Shrine is Dazaifu Tenmangu's oldest building, a one-bay hall for the sea gods by the drum bridge, an Important Cultural Property since 1907.
Discover the Fūrō Shrine Five-Story Stone Pagoda (Shōhei-tō), a nationally designated Important Cultural Property dating from 1355. This exquisite Muromachi-period stone pagoda in Ōkawa City, Fukuoka features intricate carvings of Buddhist deities, dragon heads, and demon faces.
Discover Furo Shrine Main Hall (Furo Jinja Honden), an Important Cultural Property in Okawa City, Fukuoka. Built in 1560 by warlord Kamachi Akimori, this cypress-bark-roofed shrine honors the sea deity Watatsumi and the legendary Empress Jingu.