Momoyama
Nara · 安土桃山Browse Nara’s cultural heritage from the Momoyama period (1573 – 1603). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Niomon Gate of Okadera in Asuka, Nara, a two-storey gate of 1612 under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, stands at the temple of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage.
The Zaodo, main hall of Kinpusenji in Yoshino, Nara, rebuilt after a fire of 1586 and largely done by 1591, is a National Treasure among Japan's largest halls.
Dated to 1607 by its ridge tablet, the Kuriyama Family Residence in Gojo City is Japan's oldest dwelling of documented date. On its roof, plan, framing and street.
The Saionin Guest Hall, a Momoyama-period reception hall in a Horyuji sub-temple, is listed as a residence, its cedar-bark roof hip-and-gabled north, gabled south.
Chogakuji Romon in Tenri, Nara, an Important Cultural Property since 1907, sets a late Heian upper storey above a Momoyama lower one and once held a temple bell.
The main hall of Denkoji in Nara is a small hall of 1585, three bays square under a tiled hipped roof with a one-bay porch, designated together with a ridge tag.
The Horyuji Temple Great Bathhouse, built in 1605 in the southwest sub-temple block, is a gable-fronted monks' bathhouse that survives with its older front gate.
The main hall of Wanishimo Shrine in Tenri, Nara, a gabled hall of the Keicho era (1596 to 1615) with a porch and cypress-bark roof, was designated in 1938.