Momoyama

Two 1595 halls near the summit above Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu. The worship hall is cantilevered over a cliff and joined at the rear to the sanctuary behind it.

Two 1598 halls at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu. The last of the shrine's three Hiyoshi-zukuri sanctuaries, it was set down over bedrock left exposed beneath the floor.

Two summit halls above Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, dated 1599. Nearly a twin of neighbouring Ushio Shrine, it differs in frontage, entrance and how the gable is built.

Two 1595 halls at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu. The sanctuary of the consort deity carries lavish metal fittings; its worship hall is the only latticed one here.

Two Momoyama halls at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu. The sanctuary repeats a neighbouring design with its metalwork stripped back; the worship hall has no walls at all.

Two Momoyama buildings at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu: an 1586 National Treasure whose roof stops at the rear, raised over a chamber that once held Buddhist images.

A 1586 tower gate at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, listed in 1917. Four carved monkeys prop the eaves, and three more play in pine branches on the upper storey.

Momoyama halls at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, built 1595 and 1596. The 1595 Main Hall is a National Treasure whose details diverge quietly from its western twin.

A Momoyama gate at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, dated only to a twenty-year span. Step through and the sanctuary is not ahead of you but turned aside from the path.

Three stone beam bridges over the Omiya River at Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu, listed together in 1917. Each translates the joinery of a timber bridge into cut stone.

Hogonji's karamon gate, Kannon Hall and corridors on Chikubushima, moved by Toyotomi Hideyori in 1603; the gate, possibly from Osaka Castle, is a National Treasure.

Tentokuji Temple in Akita City, the Satake lords' family temple, has four Important Cultural Property buildings, with a thatched 1687 Main Hall restored in 2024.

The Rengebuji Temple Kobodo on Sado, built in 1609, houses a seated Kōbō Daishi and is an Important Cultural Property: a square hall under a pyramidal shingle roof.

Discover Gekka-den, an Important Cultural Property quietly tucked into the inner garden of Sankeien in Yokohama. Built in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu within Kyoto's Fushimi Castle as a waiting room for daimyo lords, this elegant single-story hall with hip-and-gable cypress-bark roof was relocated via Mimuroto-ji in Uji to Sankeien in 1918. Inside are painted screens of bamboo and folding fans attributed to the Momoyama master Kaiho Yusho, and chrysanthemum-pierced transoms—rare survivors from the dawn of the Edo period.

Iwakiyama Shrine's worship hall in Aomori began as a Buddhist temple's main hall, built 1603 to 1640. The vermilion five-bay hall still reads as a temple sanctuary.

The thatched main hall of Kakushuji, mortuary temple of the Tsugaru founder. A large early-1600s Soto Zen hall by the Iwaki River, an Important Cultural Property.

A vermilion three-story pagoda on a wooded slope at Yusan-ji, Fukuroi. Built from 1574 to 1611, it blends Japanese and continental styles, a noted Momoyama pagoda.

A gilded miniature shrine in Yusan-ji's hillside Yakushi hall, this Important Cultural Property of about 1588 holds a hidden Medicine Buddha opened once a century.

Discover the Cross and Manji Karakusa Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Box, an Important Cultural Property of Japan housed at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka. This Momoyama-era black-lacquer box fuses Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Christian, and Nanban motifs in a single dazzling raden composition.

The Myojoji Temple Sanjubanshindo in Hakui, built in 1614, is a nagare-style shrine to the thirty guardian deities of the Lotus Sutra, with a karahafu front eave.