Muromachi
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Erected in 1465 on Mount Tomiya in Ibaraki, this three-bay pagoda carries a finial inscription naming both its patron and its master carpenter. Designated in 1906.
Built in 1543 and shorn of its upper storey in the Kansei era, Sairenji Niomon still carries three-stepped brackets designed to hold a balcony that is long gone.
The 1546 main hall of Satakeji in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, prayer temple of the Satake clan: a thatched hall wrapped in a shingled pent roof with a central cusped gable.
A Muromachi-period gate at Zenkoji in Ishioka, begun by the Oda clan as a two-storey romon but left unfinished; parts meant for the upper level remain in its roof.
The main hall of Yakuoin in Mito, rebuilt in 1529: an unusually large seven-bay hall in a regional Muromachi style, later repaired under Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
A late Muromachi pagoda at Raigoin in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki. The finial inscription names Toki Haruhide and the year 1556. Square below, round above, listed in 2006.
The Sanbutsudo of Ryuzenji in Toride, Ibaraki, a thatched hall from before 1569, enshrines three Buddhas and keeps a local blend of Zen and native styles.
The thatched four-legged gate of Ryogonji in Kasama, family temple of the Kasama clan, dates from the mid-Muromachi period and has been protected since 1917.