Momoyama

The Myojoji Temple Soshido in Hakui, of about 1596 to 1615, is the Important Cultural Property founder's hall beside the main hall, matching it in size and roof.

The Myojoji Temple Main Hall in Hakui, built in 1604, is an Important Cultural Property at the centre of the temple's row of three halls, under a shingled roof.

The Izumianashi Shrine Auxiliary Kasuga Shrine Main Hall is a small kasuga-zukuri hall dated to about 1602, though older details hint it may predate that era.

Rebuilt by Toyotomi Hideyori in 1602, the Izumianashi Shrine Main Hall joins two small sanctuaries for a married pair of deities, each with its own gable and steps.

The main hall of Katano Shrine in Hirakata, Osaka, is a three-bay nagare-style hall of 1602 roofed in cypress bark, with Momoyama gates protected by the prefecture.

22 buildings dating from 1606 to the mid-Edo period at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, from the Gobutsudo to the guardian shrine, designated in 2019.

A 1606 hall at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, enshrining a portrait of Kobo Daishi, with a pyramidal bark roof and an attached moon-viewing pavilion.

The pagoda of Shoman-in, the Aizen Hall in Tennoji, Osaka, a tahoto of 1597 said to be a gift of Hideyoshi, holds a three-dimensional mandala; entry is free.

The guardian Tenmangu shrine of Sofukuji in Izumisano, Osaka, built about 1576, is a small kasuga-style hall, a forerunner of early modern shrine architecture.

Toyotomi Hideyori had this three-bay shrine hall in Kishiwada rebuilt in 1603. Protected since 1914, it stands in a precinct open to all without charge.

Nagano Jinja Honden in Kawachi-Nagano, Osaka, listed in 1941, packs a dormer gable and a curved bargeboard onto a one-bay cypress bark roof. Free to enter.

Minase Shrine Guest Hall in Shimamoto, Osaka, is the oldest building on its grounds: a Momoyama shoin with a 30-mat room, designated in 1926, opened on special days.

The main hall of Yasaka Shrine in Ikeda, Osaka, built in 1610, is a one-bay nagare-style hall whose decorated struts and beam ends show the Momoyama style.

Discover the Shino Tea Bowl, Named "Hirosawa," an Important Cultural Property of Japan housed at the Yuki Museum of Art in Osaka. A Momoyama-period masterpiece from the Mino kilns, this half-cylindrical chawan features creamy white feldspar glaze, soft fire-color flush, and faintly emerging iron-pigment designs. Ranked among the finest Shino tea bowls alongside the National Treasure "Unohana-gaki" and "Hagoromo," it embodies the very spirit of wabi tea aesthetics.

Discover the Important Cultural Property held at Osaka Castle Museum: Toyotomi Hideyoshi's autograph death poem ('Like dew I fall, like dew I vanish — all the affairs of Naniwa are but a dream within a dream'), ten blood-oath pledges in which Maeda Toshiie and other senior retainers swore loyalty to the young heir Hideyori on sacred Kumano talismans, and the vermilion-sealed orders that launched the second invasion of Korea in 1597. Designated in 2020, these thirteen documents offer an intimate window into the final years of the Toyotomi regime — with full historical background and visitor information for the Osaka Castle donjon.

The Bentendo of Kozenji in Komagane, Nagano, a plain one-bay hall of 1576 in a scenic Tendai precinct, holds a late Muromachi shrine cabinet, rare in the region.

The main hall of Sano Shrine in Yamanouchi, Nagano, a one-bay nagare-style hall of 1592 roofed with thick wooden shingles, is a dated Momoyama shrine building.

The main hall of Shirahige Shrine in Kinasa, Nagano, a shingled nagare hall of about the Momoyama period, keeps Muromachi features in its remote mountain setting.

Suwa Shrine in Kinno, Yasuoka, shelters two plain nagare-zukuri sanctuaries of 1573, side by side and well preserved. What makes them notable and how to visit them.

The Monjudo of Sanbutsuji on Mt. Mitoku, Tottori, a hall of 1580 on posts over the rocks, stands beside a chain-assisted detour made after the 2016 earthquake.