Momoyama

Discover Koubai-in Main Hall, an Important Cultural Property within Kyoto's Myoshin-ji Temple complex. Built in 1604, this exquisite Zen hojo-style hall features a karesansui garden, historic fusuma paintings, and deep ties to the reviver of one of Japan's greatest Zen temples.

Discover the Sanbo-in Karamon Gate, a National Treasure at UNESCO World Heritage Daigo-ji Temple in Kyoto. Built in 1599, this stunning black-lacquered gate with gold chrysanthemum and paulownia crests embodies the grandeur of the Momoyama period and the legacy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's famous cherry blossom viewing.

Explore the Sanbo-in Hall Complex (Important Cultural Property) at the UNESCO World Heritage Daigo-ji Temple in Kyoto. Discover the Goma-do, Shinden, Junjo-kan, and other magnificent Momoyama-period buildings connected to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's legendary cherry blossom viewing party.

The Main Hall of Shōden-ji in northern Kyoto is an Important Cultural Property originally built as the formal reception hall of Fushimi Castle during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Discover its Kanō Sanraku sliding-door paintings, the haunting blood ceiling from the Battle of Fushimi, and the celebrated dry landscape garden with borrowed scenery of Mount Hiei.

Discover the Yorinoan Shoin of Jodoin, an Important Cultural Property relocated from Fushimi Castle, featuring Kano school paintings and a refined dry landscape garden inside the World Heritage Byodoin Temple grounds in Uji, Kyoto.

Explore the Daishi-dō at Jingoji Temple in Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property hall built on the site of Kūkai's personal residence. Discover its Momoyama-period architecture, the rare board-carved statue of Kōbō Daishi, and the stunning autumn foliage of the Takao area.

Explore the Shinjuan Kuri, an Important Cultural Property built in 1609 within Kyoto's Daitoku-ji temple complex. This early Edo-period Zen kitchen is part of the sub-temple founded by the legendary monk Ikkyu Sojun.

A large, richly carved Momoyama four-legged gate crowning Sennyū-ji. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966, it opens onto a downhill path to the Buddha Hall.

Known as the Shoshinden, this Momoyama shoin at Daikakuji in Kyoto has twelve rooms and a throne room tied to the 1392 union of the two courts. Usually closed.

At the summit of Daigo-yama, the Kaisan-dō honours Daigoji's founder Shōbō. Rebuilt under Toyotomi Hideyori around 1608, it is the largest hall of the upper precinct.

Near the summit of Daigo-yama, the Nyoirin-dō is built out over the slope in kake-zukuri style. Rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori in 1606, it enshrines Nyoirin Kannon.

Rebuilt in 1614 by the priest Takuan, this study hall is called the plainest of Daitokuji's subtemple shoin, standing quietly beside a National Treasure hall.

Built in 1602 with an attached entrance and ridge tablet, this compact abbot's hall at Myoshinji opens its interior only on the booked special viewing.

Discover the Daitoku-ji Karamon Gate, a National Treasure in Kyoto believed to be a surviving structure from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's legendary Jurakudai palace. Explore its stunning Momoyama-era carvings, gilded decorations, and the stories behind this masterpiece.

Built in 1603 and listed in 1967, Engetsukyo is a roofed timber bridge on five piers, eleven bays long, crossing the Sengyokukan ravine at Tofukuji in Kyoto.

Hoshakuji's three-storied pagoda stands on Mt. Tennozan near Kyoto. Dated to 1604 and about 20 meters tall, it is the one-night pagoda tied to Hideyoshi's victory.

Tucked into the wooded foothills of Fukakusa in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward, the Main Hall of Hōtō-ji is a magnificent Nichiren-sect Buddhist hall rebuilt in 1608 and designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan in 1984. Seven bays wide and five deep, crowned by a sweeping hip-and-gable tile roof, it preserves the dignified spirit of early Edo-period architecture with strong Momoyama overtones. Just a fifteen-minute walk south of the world-famous Fushimi Inari Shrine, this hidden temple offers visitors a rare chance to experience one of southern Kyoto's finest temple ensembles — alongside the city's oldest tahōtō pagoda and a Muromachi-period gate — in profound tranquility.

Discover the Karamon Gate at Nishi Honganji Temple in Kyoto—a National Treasure and UNESCO World Heritage masterpiece adorned with vivid Momoyama-era polychrome carvings so mesmerizing it earned the nickname "Higurashi-no-Mon," the gate you could admire all day long.

Discover the Kita Noh Stage at Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto — a National Treasure dating from 1581 and the oldest surviving Noh stage in Japan. Learn about its Azuchi-Momoyama architecture, unique pre-standardization design, and how to visit this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Discover Tai-an at Myōkian temple in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto — one of only three National Treasure tea rooms in Japan and the sole surviving tea room attributed to legendary tea master Sen no Rikyū. Learn about its history, wabi-cha aesthetics, and how to visit.