Muromachi

This square, thatched, hipped Kannon hall at Shimo-Awano in Kyōtamba was raised before 1539. Ridge tablets fix its date; it is an Important Cultural Property.

Rebuilt in 1491, five years after a fire, this hall at Tō-ji's center houses Kukai's 21-statue mandala. Layout guide, hours, fees and 2026 special viewing.

Tō-ji's Founder's Hall, said to be Kūkai's home, was rebuilt in 1380 with a cypress-bark roof. Its house-like design, hidden Fudō and free daily 6 a.m. rite.

Myōshin-ji's oldest subtemple holds the Kaisandō, or Mishōan, a mid-Muromachi Zen-style hall moved from Tōfuku-ji in 1537 to honor its founder, Kanzan Egen.

At Gyokuhōin, Myōshin-ji's oldest sub-temple, a cypress-bark gate fronts the founder's hall. Tradition dates it to 1409, among Japan's oldest surviving karamon.

Sagara Shrine Main Hall in Kizugawa is a three-bay nagare sanctuary of the early Muromachi era, mixing Japanese, Chinese and Great Buddha details. Designated 1911.

A three-bay nagare-style sanctuary of 1494 at Saguri Shrine in Kumiyama, Kyoto, with carvings of birds, deer and squirrels among grapes, and colour renewed in 1981.

The octagonal, vermilion Sanshōji Aizen-dō rises beyond the Tsūten-kyō at Kyoto's Tōfuku-ji. This rare early-Muromachi hall enshrines the love-deity Aizen Myō-ō.

The personal chapel of Ashikaga Yoshimasa at Ginkakuji, Kyoto, built in 1486 and a National Treasure since 1951, with the four-and-a-half-mat Dojinsai study.

Built in 1502, this three-bay hall is Fukuchiyama's oldest building. An ink inscription dated it, while excavation found pits where fires burned beneath its gods.

The main hall of Juhachi Shrine in Uji, Kyoto, built in 1487, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in wood shingles, designated with its ridge tags.

Built in 1406, the main hall of Shindō-ji in southern Kyoto is an Important Cultural Property and the heart of a Shugendō mountain temple, housing a 2.7-meter Zaō Gongen image carved in the Muromachi period.

Zuihō-in's gate at Daitoku-ji, raised 1536-1555 for Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin's Zen temple. A rare late-Muromachi munemon with original cypress-bark roof.

The main hall of Zuihō-in, a sub-temple of Kyoto's Daitoku-ji, was built between 1536 and 1555 by the Christian daimyō Ōtomo Sōrin's order. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1962, it is one of the finest surviving examples of late-Muromachi hōjō architecture in Kyoto.

One of a pair of seamless stone stupas, or muhōtō, standing north of the Founder's Hall at Sennyū-ji. Both date to the early Muromachi period and were designated in 1955.

The worship hall of the Seiryugu shrine in upper Daigoji, Kyoto, raised in 1434 and a National Treasure since 1954, built out over a steep slope.

The main hall of the Seiryugu shrine in lower Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1517 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, home of the temple's guardian deity.

The 1513 abbot's hall of Daisenin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1957, a typical six-room Zen hall and a rare medieval survival.

The Seishido hall of Chion-in, Kyoto, rebuilt in 1530 on the site of Honen's hermitage and an Important Cultural Property since 1899, the temple's oldest building.

Cut with a date corresponding to 1334, this granite stone pagoda gives scholars a fixed point for dating medieval stonework in Japan. Its temple stays closed.