Muromachi
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A middle Muromachi-period hall in Yamanashi Prefecture. Its own date field and its own commentary each give a year, and the two lie eighty-two years apart.
A Southern Song painting on one scroll at Kuonji in Yamanashi, recorded as having once formed a single set with two other scrolls held elsewhere today.
Rebuilt by Takeda Shingen in 1558 at the site where Kai Province's first-ranked shrine began, this cypress-bark hall carries helmets carved on its struts.
The Niomon at Unpoji in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a late-Muromachi three-bay eight-legged gate, copper-roofed and flanked by two Nio guardian kings on the stone approach.
Unpoji's main hall in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a late-Muromachi Important Cultural Property with a cypress-bark hip-and-gable roof and a curved karahafu worship porch.
Rebuilt by Takeda Shingen in 1561 as the main hall and moved aside in 1594, this small nagare-zukuri hall is the oldest building at the shrine, designated in 1907.
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Shinmon Gate, dated to 1511, is a bark-roofed four-legged gate facing east, designated together with the arched stone bridge set in front of it.
Wakamiya Hachiman Worship Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, built in 1536, is a plain hip-and-gable hall about twenty years older than the long main worship hall nearby.
Wakamiya Hachiman Main Hall, an auxiliary sanctuary at Kubo Hachiman Shrine in Yamanashi, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall thought to be the oldest in the grounds.
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Torii, dated to 1535, is a braced wooden ryobu torii on the approach to the shrine, described by Yamanashi City as Japan's oldest wooden torii.
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall (Choya), dated to about 1557, spans 11 bays to face the main hall; its low floor suggests it also served as the shrine office.
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Main Hall, built around 1519, joins three sanctuaries into one eleven-bay nagare-zukuri building, the largest of its type surviving in Japan.
Kora Shrine Main Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, said to be rebuilt in 1500, is the only kasuga-zukuri sanctuary among the shrine's designated halls in Yamanashi.
Takeuchi Daijin Main Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, said to date from 1500, is a small unpainted sanctuary praised for its graceful carving and balanced proportions.
The main hall of Takeda Hachiman Shrine in Nirasaki, Yamanashi, built in 1541, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark with five ridge tags.
The main hall of Chokokuji in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, dated to 1524, is a three-bay hip-and-gable hall of a temple said to date back to the monk Gyoki in 718.
The main hall of Tenjin Shrine in Yamanashi City, built in 1522, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, with a long, flowing front roof.
The Buddha hall of Tokoji in Kofu, Yamanashi, a late Muromachi Zen hall with a pent roof under cypress bark, is the only building to survive both 1582 and 1945.
A ridge tablet dates this one-bay cypress-bark sanctuary to 1478. Set among the vineyards of Makioka, it served four villages and was designated in 1953.