Muromachi
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Muromachi Period
1336 – 1573
A Muromachi bronze bell at Kongobuji on Mount Koya, cast on the Buddha's birthday in 1504 and re-inscribed in 1572. An Important Cultural Property at the Reihokan.
A colossal jōroku triad at Negoro-ji: a Diamond World Dainichi flanked by Kongōsatta and Sonshō Butchō, the only surviving example of a composition devised by Kakuban.
Two Muromachi portable shrines at World Heritage Niutsuhime Jinja, with phoenix roofs and black-lacquered bodies in gold brocade, used in the medieval Hamaori rite.