Muromachi
Hyogo · 室町Browse Hyogo’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Built in 1385 and dated by an inscription on its finial, the Nyoiji pagoda is Hyogo's second-oldest, a Tendai tower near Kobe enshrining three Buddhas.
Dated to 1453 by ink inscriptions on its timbers, the Monju-do at Nyoi-ji in Kobe rises from a hillside on a raised floor, standing beside two more medieval halls.
The Myokendo of Hasedera in Tambasasayama, Hyogo, once a temple guardian shrine, is a plain one-bay nagare-style shrine of the mid Muromachi period in a cover hall.
The Hachiman Shrine Three-Storied Pagoda at Rokujo Hachimangu in Kobe's Yamada-cho was built in 1466, dated by a ridge tag. See its upswept bark roofs and bus route.
The Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall at Jodoji in Ono is a 7-bay passage hall with a tiled hipped roof; its open frame borrows Chogen's Daibutsu style. Designated 1901.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Nakasuji, Takarazuka, is a late Muromachi kasuga-style sanctuary with a refined front gable, rebuilt from its own timbers in 1996.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall, Jodoji's guardian shrine in Ono, is a mid-Muromachi bark-roofed nagare-zukuri hall with early double-beam gables and carved kaerumata.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall at Hazu Hachiman Jinja in northern Takarazuka is a shingle-roofed nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1403, with doors in both gable ends.
The sanctuary of Hiide Shrine in Toyooka, Hyogo, an Engishiki-listed shrine, is a three-bay nagare-style hall of the late Muromachi period with original details.
Designated in 1953, Hiromine Shrine Hokyointo stands on the slope beside the approach in Himeji. Incised moon discs and Sanskrit syllables mark its four faces.
Rebuilt in 1444, Hiromine Shrine Main Hall in Himeji runs eleven bays across, a scale rare in shrine building. Nine holes in its rear wall serve a nine-star rite.
The shrine cabinet and three-tier altar in the main hall of Fukushoji in Suma, Kobe, made in 1368, are a three-bay cabinet with a later cusped gable and its altar.
The Furui Family Residence, known as "Sennen-ya" (Thousand-Year House), is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property located in Yasutomi, Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture. Dating to the late Muromachi period, it is counted among Japan's three great thousand-year houses, featuring bamboo slatted floors, adze-finished timbers, and the legendary fire-quenching Turtle Stone.
Discover 140 exquisite Heian-period bronze mirrors offered to a sacred mountain pond and now preserved at Hyogo's Kurokawa Institute — windows into Japan's ancient water-spirit worship.