Muromachi

Built in 1385 and dated by an inscription on its finial, the Nyoiji pagoda is Hyogo's second-oldest, a Tendai tower near Kobe enshrining three Buddhas.

Dated to 1453 by ink inscriptions on its timbers, the Monju-do at Nyoi-ji in Kobe rises from a hillside on a raised floor, standing beside two more medieval halls.

The Myokendo of Hasedera in Tambasasayama, Hyogo, once a temple guardian shrine, is a plain one-bay nagare-style shrine of the mid Muromachi period in a cover hall.

The Hachiman Shrine Three-Storied Pagoda at Rokujo Hachimangu in Kobe's Yamada-cho was built in 1466, dated by a ridge tag. See its upswept bark roofs and bus route.

The Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall at Jodoji in Ono is a 7-bay passage hall with a tiled hipped roof; its open frame borrows Chogen's Daibutsu style. Designated 1901.

The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Nakasuji, Takarazuka, is a late Muromachi kasuga-style sanctuary with a refined front gable, rebuilt from its own timbers in 1996.

The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall, Jodoji's guardian shrine in Ono, is a mid-Muromachi bark-roofed nagare-zukuri hall with early double-beam gables and carved kaerumata.

The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall at Hazu Hachiman Jinja in northern Takarazuka is a shingle-roofed nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1403, with doors in both gable ends.

The sanctuary of Hiide Shrine in Toyooka, Hyogo, an Engishiki-listed shrine, is a three-bay nagare-style hall of the late Muromachi period with original details.

Designated in 1953, Hiromine Shrine Hokyointo stands on the slope beside the approach in Himeji. Incised moon discs and Sanskrit syllables mark its four faces.

Rebuilt in 1444, Hiromine Shrine Main Hall in Himeji runs eleven bays across, a scale rare in shrine building. Nine holes in its rear wall serve a nine-star rite.

Tucked within the main hall of Sumadera (Fukushō-ji) in Kobe's Suma district is an Important Cultural Property completed in 1368: a three-bay miniature shrine set upon a tiered altar that unusually combines Chinese-style (karayō) and Japanese-style (wayō) architecture in a single composition. Standing near the famed Genpei battlefield of Ichi-no-Tani, this extraordinary early-Muromachi ensemble has been carefully preserved for over six and a half centuries.

The Furui Family Residence, known as "Sennen-ya" (Thousand-Year House), is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property located in Yasutomi, Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture. Dating to the late Muromachi period, it is counted among Japan's three great thousand-year houses, featuring bamboo slatted floors, adze-finished timbers, and the legendary fire-quenching Turtle Stone.

Discover 140 exquisite Heian-period bronze mirrors offered to a sacred mountain pond and now preserved at Hyogo's Kurokawa Institute — windows into Japan's ancient water-spirit worship.

A thatched three-bay hall of 1427 in upland Wakayama, dated by its ridge tablets, housing a 1494 shrine cabinet and a village rite still held each lunar new year.

The tahoto pagoda of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a three-bay two-storey pagoda of 1449 roofed in hongawara tiles, was designated in 1908 with a ridge tag.

The two-storey gate of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a gate of the mid Muromachi period three bays wide with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, was designated in 1908.

The Kongobuji Temple Sannoin Main Hall comprises three shrines to Koyasan's guardian deities, rebuilt in 1522 per the Agency, with oversized Kasuga-style forms.

Built in 1560 and named an Important Cultural Property in 1955, this single-bay Kasuga-style hall in mountainous Aridagawa keeps carved peonies and faded polychrome.

The Chohoji Temple Great Gate in Kainan, Wakayama, a gate of 1388 and a National Treasure since 1953, is famed for its proportions; the temple is closed.