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.
The Hakozaki Shrine Worship Hall in Fukuoka is an open, wall-less gabled hall of about 1545 joined to the Main Hall in a T shape, designated an ICP in 1907.
The Hakozaki Shrine Main Hall in Fukuoka is a 9-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary built by Ouchi Yoshitaka in 1545, with a stair in every bay, designated an ICP in 1907.
The stone five-storied pagoda at Furogu in Okawa, Fukuoka, dated 1355 in a Southern Court era name, was designated in 1910 and is an Important Cultural Property.
The Furo Shrine Main Hall at Furogu in Okawa, Fukuoka, a nagare-style sanctuary of 1560 in cypress bark, is said to be the sole survivor of a battle in 1600.