Momoyama

Momoyama-period audience hall at Daikakuji, the Saga Palace temple in Kyoto: a hip-and-gable cypress-bark building, seven bays at the front, designated in 1912.

The founder's hall at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, the largest hall on the mountain.

The Nyoirindo at the summit of upper Daigoji, Kyoto, built in 1606 and an Important Cultural Property since 1954, successor to one of the temple's first halls.

The shoin of Daisenin at Daitokuji, Kyoto, rebuilt by Takuan in 1614 and an Important Cultural Property since 1962, simple in design and linked with Miyamoto Musashi.

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.

The Momoyama Karamon gate of Daitokuji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1952, said to come from the Jurakudai and lavishly carved.

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.

The Momoyama Karamon of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1953, the finest surviving carved gate of its age, known as the Higurashi-mon.

The Noh stage of 1581 north of the shoin of Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, a National Treasure since 1953 and the oldest surviving Noh stage.

Nishi Honganji's South Noh Stage in Kyoto, Momoyama period, designated 1910: a gabled bark-roofed stage watched from the Taimensho, with Noh performed each May 21.

A Momoyama bathhouse at Nishi Honganji, Kyoto, designated 1908: the raised Okakudai, joined to Hiunkaku by a corridor, with a gabled steam bath and iron cauldron.

The shoin and the two-mat Taian tea room of Myokian in Oyamazaki, Kyoto, thought to be the only tea room left by Sen no Rikyu; a National Treasure since 1951.

Myohoin's Momoyama kuri in Kyoto, said to be the kitchen for Hideyoshi's thousand-monk service: a 21.8 by 23.7 metre hall with massive exposed roof framing.

Octagonal thatched sanctuary of 1601 at Yoshida Shrine, Kyoto, the root hall of Yoshida Shinto founded here by Yoshida Kanetomo in 1484 for all the gods.

Worship hall of 1607 at Yodo Shrine in Fushimi, Kyoto, a former dance pavilion rebuilt by Hideyori, moved in 1900 and spared when the sanctuary burned.

Ryoanji's Main Hall is a 1606 hojo, an Important Cultural Property moved here after fire. From its veranda you view the famous fifteen-stone dry rock garden.

Ryōgin-an's front gate at Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto: a small Momoyama-period Important Cultural Property fronting the 1387 hōjō, Japan's oldest surviving abbot's quarters.

The kitchen of Ryogin-an at Tofuku-ji, Kyoto, raised in 1603 and now an Important Cultural Property. A rare Zen temple kitchen surviving close to its original form.