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.
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.