Momoyama
Miyagi · 安土桃山Browse Miyagi’s cultural heritage from the Momoyama period (1573 – 1603). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Osaki Hachiman Shrine in Sendai was founded by Date Masamune in 1607. Sanctuary and hall are joined by a low-floored stone room, the oldest example of the form.
The abbot's hall Date Masamune built when he revived Zuiganji in Matsushima in 1609, with ten painted rooms, a unique alcove and a carved Onari entrance.
A Buddhist hall of 1607 in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai, five bays square. Bare timber at the gable ends, and a richly ornamented shrine standing inside it.
A yakuimon gate of about 1609 at Zuiganji in Matsushima, reserved for the emperor, imperial family and lord, with a heavy tiled roof and white taikobei walls.
Zuiganji's 1609 kitchen and office hall in Matsushima, with a smoke-vented gable roof, Momoyama scroll carving and bold beams, joined to the main hall by a corridor.
Date Masamune's 1604 hall on an islet in Matsushima Bay, reached by the Sukashi-bashi bridges, with zodiac carvings and Five Wisdom Kings shown every 33 years.
A four-legged gate of about 1609 before Zuiganji's main hall in Matsushima, the temple's only shingled roof, with an open frame and inventive carved brackets.