Muromachi

Yamanashi · 室町

Browse Yamanashi’s cultural heritage from the Muromachi period (1336 – 1573). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

33 total Yamanashi Muromachi Period 1336 – 1573
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Seihakuji Temple Buddha Hall
Yamanashi 室町中期
Seihakuji Temple Buddha Hall

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.

Summer Landscape (Color on Silk)
Yamanashi 南宋
Summer Landscape (Color on Silk)

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.

Main Hall of Yamamiya Shrine, Asama Shrine
Yamanashi 室町後期
Main Hall of Yamamiya Shrine, Asama Shrine

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.

Unpoji Niomon Gate
Yamanashi 室町後期
Unpoji Niomon Gate

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.

Unhoji Temple Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Unhoji Temple Main Hall

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.

Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine Togu Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine Togu Main Hall

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
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Shinmon Gate

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.

Kubo Hachiman Shrine Auxiliary Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Auxiliary Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall

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.

Kubo Hachiman Shrine Auxiliary Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町中期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Auxiliary Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine Main Hall

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
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Torii

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)
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall (Choya)

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
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Main Hall

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.

Kubo Hachiman Shrine Subordinate Kora Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Subordinate Kora Shrine Main Hall

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.

Kubo Hachiman Shrine Subordinate Takeuchi Daijin Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kubo Hachiman Shrine Subordinate Takeuchi Daijin Main Hall

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.

Takeda Hachiman Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Takeda Hachiman Shrine Main Hall

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.

Chokokuji Temple Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Chokokuji Temple Main Hall

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.

Tenjin Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Tenjin Shrine Main Hall

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.

Tokoji Temple Buddha Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Tokoji Temple Buddha Hall

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.

Nakamaki Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Nakamaki Shrine Main Hall

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.

Kumano Shrine Worship Hall
Yamanashi 室町後期
Kumano Shrine Worship Hall