Muromachi
室町Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Main Hall, built around 1519, joins three sanctuaries into one eleven-bay nagare-zukuri building, the largest of its type surviving in Japan.
Kora Shrine Main Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, said to be rebuilt in 1500, is the only kasuga-zukuri sanctuary among the shrine's designated halls in Yamanashi.
Takeuchi Daijin Main Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, said to date from 1500, is a small unpainted sanctuary praised for its graceful carving and balanced proportions.
The main hall of Takeda Hachiman Shrine in Nirasaki, Yamanashi, built in 1541, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark with five ridge tags.
The main hall of Chokokuji in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, dated to 1524, is a three-bay hip-and-gable hall of a temple said to date back to the monk Gyoki in 718.
The main hall of Tenjin Shrine in Yamanashi City, built in 1522, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, with a long, flowing front roof.
The Buddha hall of Tokoji in Kofu, Yamanashi, a late Muromachi Zen hall with a pent roof under cypress bark, is the only building to survive both 1582 and 1945.
A ridge tablet dates this one-bay cypress-bark sanctuary to 1478. Set among the vineyards of Makioka, it served four villages and was designated in 1953.
The main hall of Ikuwa Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, from the early Muromachi period, is a one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated with 2 ridge tags.
The main hall of Isasa Shrine in Kusatsu, Shiga, built in 1468, is a one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated with two ridge tags.
The listed stone hokyointo at Ishiyama-dera in Otsu: the left of 2 pagodas west of the Tahoto, an early Muromachi memorial to Kamegaya Zenni designated in 1961.
A mid-Muromachi one-bay shrine hall with a flowing roof in the Inari Shrine precinct at Yasu, Shiga. Designated in 1917, it once served the vanished Fukurin-ji.
Built in 1347 and moved from Onjo-ji in 1595, the main hall of Mount Hiei's Saito precinct is Enryakuji's oldest building, a seven-bay hall known as the Shaka-do.
A three-bay late-Muromachi hall roofed in cypress bark, in cedar forest north of Saitō on Mount Hiei. Enryakuji calls it the only building to survive the 1571 fire.
Oisugi Shrine Main Hall in Kusatsu, Shiga, is a 1452 nagare-zukuri hall with painted carvings, designated in 1906, and host to the UNESCO Sanyare Odori.
The 1427 Main Hall of Shinohara Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, stands beside a National Treasure. This Important Cultural Property is nicknamed the Rice-Cake Shrine.
Ozu Shrine Main Hall in Moriyama, Shiga: a three-bay nagare-style hall with a cypress-bark roof, rebuilt around 1526 in the late Muromachi period, in wooded grounds.
Oda Shrine's two-story Romon Gate in Omihachiman, Shiga, is a 14th-century Important Cultural Property, its cypress-bark roof and Muromachi form intact.
Kasuga Shrine Gate in Takagi, Yasu, is a cypress-bark munamon of about 1511: two posts and a gabled roof. Designated in 1961. What to notice and how to walk there.
Kasuga Shrine Main Hall in Koyagi, Higashiomi, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall of 1444 roofed in cypress bark, designated in 1911 with its ridge tag. How to visit.