Muromachi
Wakayama · 室町Browse Wakayama’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
An Important Cultural Property at Sainanin on Mt. Kōya, showing the guardian deity Daigensui Myōō. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records it as a Yuan Chinese work.
An Important Cultural Property at Kongobuji, from Yuan-dynasty China. Tradition calls it Yakushi, the Medicine Buddha, but its official title names only a buddha.
An iron-bound wooden grain measure dated 1396, the Kōya masu set the rice tax for Mount Kōya's Kanshōfu Estate and is Japan's oldest standard measure of known date.
A 6,285-volume Korean Goryeo Buddhist canon at Koyasan, dedicated in 1599 by Ishida Mitsunari for his late mother and kept in an octagonal revolving bookcase.
This Wakayama shrine holds about 1,200 medieval court furnishings from around 1390, from gold-lacquer toiletry boxes with their fittings to painted cypress fans.
A Muromachi tachi by Kagenaga of Inaba Province, given to Susa Shrine in Arida, Wakayama, by the shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in 1721 and kept as a shrine treasure.
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.
The Shisho Myojin Shrine of Kongo Sanmaiin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built in 1552, is the temple's tutelary shrine, a one-bay kasuga-style hall in cypress bark.
The Daishi Hall of Negoroji in Iwade, Wakayama, built in 1391 for an image of Kobo Daishi, survived with the Great Pagoda when the temple burned in 1585.