Muromachi

The Golden Hall Shelter Hall at Chusonji, Hiraizumi, sheltered the Golden Hall until 1965 and is called Japan's oldest surviving shelter hall. Its history and visit.

Late Muromachi hall at Mikumano Shrine in Hanamaki, Iwate: a thick-pillared three-bay hall, rare in Iwate, that once housed a 4.73-metre statue of Bishamonten.

Held by Chusonji Temple in Hiraizumi, Iwate, these four Important Cultural Property masks include the Wakajo, whose ink inscription on the reverse dates it to 1291—making it the oldest dated Noh mask known to survive in Japan. Together with two Okina masks and one Roujo mask, they are still worn each year by Chusonji's monks during Kojitsu Shikisanban, a medieval ennen performance offered on May 4–5 and November 3 at the Hakusan Shrine Noh stage.

Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1961, Atayuta Shrine Main Hall in Takayama stands inside a protective shelter, its Muromachi shingled roof rarely seen.

Araki Shrine Main Hall in Takayama dates to 1390. Its three-bay nagare-zukuri form, cypress shingles and carved frog-leg strut reward close study. Entry is free.

Rebuilt in 1412 by a Hida warlord, this shrine hall in Gero keeps carved warblers said to have sung as it was built, beside a pair of vast sacred cedars.

At Ankoku-ji temple in Takayama, the Main Hall of Kumano Shrine outlasted the fires of the Sengoku wars. A rare one-bay misedana hall, it is among the city's oldest.

Main hall of Hida Kokubunji, Takayama, shown by its 1954 repair to be mid-Muromachi with a Momoyama porch; golden-hall foundations lay beneath. Open to visitors.

Shin Buddhist hall of about 1504, moved to Takayama from Shokawa for the Miboro Dam, with its gentle roof restored. Said to be the oldest of its kind.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Amida Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hall with the only hip-and-gable roof in its row, designated in 1953. How to read its roof.

Built in 1463, three years after the main hall, the Shinchokokuji Temple Three-Storied Pagoda in Seki, Gifu, has three cypress bark roofs. Where to view it and why.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Shaka Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hipped-roof hall designated in 1953. Its roof, its Amida Hall neighbour, a rare 2026 opening.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Daishi Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hipped-roof hall 17 m west of the main hall, designated in 1953, tied to the Shingon lineage.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Tutelary Deity Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine inside a Buddhist temple, designated in 1953.

Rebuilt in 1460, the Shinchokokuji Temple Main Hall in Seki, Gifu, pairs Muromachi beams inside with a Momoyama porch of lion carvings. What to see, and the rules.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Yakushi Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hipped-roof hall of 4 by 3 bays, designated in 1953. Its central post, ridge, pagoda view.

Shrine hall of 1564 in Ena, Gifu, enshrining the three Kamakura shoguns: a low hip-and-gable hall with deep eaves and Muromachi brackets, rare in eastern Mino.

Built in 1502 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1956, this Muromachi worship hall in Yamagata City, Gifu, keeps its cypress-bark roof. Free entry.

Rising 24.6 metres in the grounds of a Shinto shrine in Godo, Gifu, this late Muromachi pagoda was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1914. Grounds free.

This late fifteenth-century hall in Yaotsu, Gifu, applies Zen-style building to a small three-bay plan under a thatched roof. An Important Cultural Property.