Muromachi
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A herdboy rides his ox home through falling snow in Li Di's Returning Herd in Snow, a Southern Song National Treasure kept at Nara's Yamato Bunkakan museum.
A middle Muromachi hall at Uda Mikumari Shrine, Nara, repeating the sumigi-iri Kasuga form of the 1320 main hall at a smaller scale for a deity from Kasuga Taisha.
The only nagare-style hall among the five medieval halls of Uda Mikumari Shrine, Nara: a late Muromachi subordinate hall showing the long slope of its roof in front.
A stone five-ring memorial to warlord Tsutsui Junsho at Enshoji in Ikoma, carved with his name, his death date in 1550 and Sanskrit letters on each face.
The Amida hall of Enjoji in the hills east of Nara, rebuilt in 1472 on the plan of the Heian hall lost in 1466, with a stage on its front deck and painted pillars.
The main hall of Enshoji in Ikoma, built in 1552 for the memorial temple of warlord Tsutsui Junsho: a plain square hall moved here from central Nara city.
The vermilion gate of Enjoji near Nara, rebuilt in 1468 and designated in 1906, with an Amida seed syllable carved on the front and a peony on the back.
The main hall of Enpukuji in the Ikoma hills, dated to 1371 by ink on its altar wall frame, with shutters across its front and six groups of old parts kept with it.
Once the main hall of Daigorinji, Omiwa Shrine's Buddhist temple, this tiled hall keeps a Nara-period inner sanctum and early Kamakura outer space in one building.
Kikō-ji's main hall in Nara, said to have modeled Tōdai-ji's Great Buddha Hall, is a tiered Muromachi rebuilding of 1544 housing a late-Heian seated Amida triad.
The Kitamuroin Front Gate, a late Muromachi bark-roofed hira-karamon of a Horyuji sub-temple, is older than the Saionin Karamon and stands with the hall it guards.
The Kitamuroin Main Hall, built in 1494 in a Horyuji sub-temple, is a small square hall with a cypress-bark roof, one of a series of dated small halls at the temple.
Dated 1463 by an inscription on its central pillar, Kichiden-ji's tahoto in Ikaruga is Nara's oldest surviving two-storied pagoda, with a hidden Dainichi inside.
The Niomon Gate of Kinpusenji in Yoshino, Nara, built in 1456, is a National Treasure and a leading example of the rare medieval gate with two full roofs.
The main hall of Koizumi Shrine in Yamatokoriyama, Nara, is a one-bay kasuga-style hall of the late Muromachi period, under cypress bark, protected since 1920.
The Five-Storied Pagoda of Kofukuji in Nara, rebuilt in 1426, is a National Treasure over 50 metres high, Japan's second-tallest, under a major repair until 2033.
The Eastern Golden Hall of Kofukuji in Nara, rebuilt in 1415 on a foundation of 726, is a Muromachi National Treasure with an open front bay in the Nara manner.
A small square hall of 1447 on a detached plot of Taimadera, Nara: three bays by three, with a hipped roof and a Muromachi-era facade. Designated in 1971.
Built in 1572 and dated by its ridge tablets, the main hall of Takayama Hachimangu in Nara is a nagare-zukuri shrine named an Important Cultural Property in 1978.
The Tanzan Shrine Gonden Hall in Sakurai, Nara, was the Jogyodo of the old Myorakuji temple, a late Muromachi hall with a cypress-bark roof, designated in 1915.