Muromachi
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A Southern Song Jian bowl at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, silver spots packed tightly across both surfaces. Once owned by the regent Hidetsugu.
A Southern Song tenmoku bowl at the Fujita Museum in Osaka, its black glaze scattered with haloed spots. Alone among yohen bowls, it is mottled inside and out.
The Golden Hall of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, rebuilt before 1378, is a leading eclectic-style hall that mixes three styles around a divided sanctuary.
Built in 1442 beside the Kashii River in Izumisano, Ogami Shrine's main hall is Osaka's oldest kasuga-style hall, with a rare karahafu gable over its front eaves.
The main hall of Katano Tenjin Shrine in Hirakata, Osaka, a nagare-style hall dated 1402 by its ridge tag, is with its neighbour the oldest building in the city.
The hall of the Hachiman sub-shrine at Katano Tenjin Shrine in Hirakata, Osaka, a mid-Muromachi nagare-style hall, is one of the oldest buildings in the city.
The Kariteimoten Hall of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, a one-bay kasuga-style shrine of 1549 with a cusped front gable, is the temple's guardian shrine.
The Tatekake Pagoda of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, built in 1502, stops at its first storey under a thatched pyramid roof, sturdy and fine in its timbers.
The Romon of Kyuan-ji in Ikeda, Osaka, is an early-15th-century temple gate and the oldest building on the grounds, mixing native wayo with Zen-style carving.
The stone hokyoin stupa at Kinzenji in Toyonaka, Osaka, made in 1349, is a three-tiered stone stupa that was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1961.
The main hall of Kusabe Shrine in Sakai, Osaka, an early Muromachi building, is gabled at the front and hip-and-gable at the back, an Important Cultural Property.
Three main halls stand in a row at Kumata Jinja in Osaka. The Third Hall, built in 1513 in single-bay Kasuga style, ranks among the city's oldest wooden buildings.
At Kumata Shrine in Osaka's Hirano district, the central Second Hall is a three-bay nagare-zukuri building of 1513, among the city's oldest, dated by its ridge tags.
An early Muromachi refectory at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, used by Emperor Go-Murakami as a temporary palace from 1354, entered under a cusped gable.
An early Muromachi bell tower northeast of the main hall at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, its lower level wrapped in a flared hakamagoshi skirt.
The tahoto pagoda of Daiitokuji in Kishiwada, Osaka, built in 1515, is a delicate late Muromachi pagoda unusually placed behind the temple's main hall.
A mid-Muromachi sanctuary of three cypress-bark halls, one kasuga-zukuri and two nagare-zukuri, linked by corridors and designated in 1900; closed beyond the haiden.
Built in 1541, the main hall of Tajihayahime Shrine in Sakai carries carved struts and openwork brackets, among them a praying mantis on a banana plant.
Kongo-ji's National Treasure screens set a gold sun over spring hills and a silver moon over snowy pines. Explore this Muromachi masterpiece and its rare openings.
The National Treasure celadon vase 'Bansei', fired at Southern Song China's Longquan kilns, passed from an empress to a Kyoto temple before reaching Izumi, Osaka.