Momoyama

The Momoyama red gate of Nishinomiya Shrine, Hyogo, designated in 1926 and now an Important Cultural Property, said to be Hideyori's gift and start of the lucky man race.

At Kaibara Hachimangu in Tanba, Hideyoshi's 1585 rebuild joins a gable-fronted worship hall to a bark-roofed main hall. A 5-minute walk from JR Kaibara Station.

Himeji Castle's 74 turrets, gates and walls, an Important Cultural Property since 1931: the Hishi Gate, Princess Sen's Kesho Yagura, the long corridor and repairs.

Himeji Castle Inui Small Keep, a National Treasure since 1951 and the largest small keep: four floors, west-facing gable and windows, and the Old Woman's Stone.

Himeji Castle Main Keep, a five-roofed keep built 1608-09, a National Treasure since 1951: 31.5 m tall on a 14.85 m base, two 24.6 m pillars, and entry rules.

Himeji Castle West Small Keep, a National Treasure since 1951: the only small keep with two basement levels, with a kara gable and lacquered windows facing south.

Himeji Castle East Small Keep, a National Treasure since 1951: a plain three-roofed keep north of the main keep with no gables or cusped windows, and how to see it.

Built in 1596, Kada Kasuga Shrine's main hall in Wakayama is an Important Cultural Property whose carved struts show shrimp, shells, Ebisu, and a rare kalavinka.

The bell tower of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a Momoyama-period tower of 3 by 2 bays with a skirted base and a tiled hip-and-gable roof, was designated in 1908.

Built by Ishida Mitsunari in 1599 beside Kobo Daishi's mausoleum, the Kongobuji Temple Okunoin Sutra Repository houses a painted revolving bookcase. How to visit.

Two small Keicho-era sanctuaries in a shelter at Tenman Shrine, Wakayama: a kasuga-zukuri Taga hall and a nagare-zukuri hall for the Ise deities, designated 1974.

The Tenman Shrine Main Hall in Wakayama, rebuilt in 1606, has a cypress-bark hip-and-gable roof, a front gable and carved, painted kaerumata. Designated in 1916.

The Tenman Shrine Tower Gate in Wakayama, built in 1605, sets a wide Zen-style upper storey on four round pillars at the top of 50 steep steps above Wakaura Bay.

Built in 1578, this single-bay hall at a Kimino Town shrine in Wakayama is the youngest of five designated buildings and the only one roofed in thick shingle.

Built in 1573 and spanning 5 bays by 4, this hall in Kimino Town, Wakayama, is the only ceramic-tiled roof among the five designated buildings at the shrine.

An Important Cultural Property at Seikeiin on Mount Koya, painted by the young Hasegawa Tohaku. Long the standard face of Takeda Shingen, the sitter is now disputed.

Zoku Hokanshu, a National Treasure on Mount Koya, binds 77 scrolls and 6 booklets of medieval documents, from imperial edicts to a farmer's katakana petition.

A Momoyama tachi signed Kunihiro, generally identified as the work of Horikawa Kunihiro, owned by Kongobu-ji on Mt Koya and shown at times in its Reihokan museum.

Four Nō costumes from a shrine below Mount Kōya: two embroidered hunting robes, a chōken and a happi, recorded in a 1610 diary, exceptionally rare Momoyama work.

A National Treasure at Kongōbu-ji on Mount Kōya, the Hōkanshū is 54 scrolls of some 692 medieval documents, including an autograph letter by Minamoto no Yoshitsune.