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2 unusual facts about Muromachi Period


Muromachi period

Christianity had an impact on Japan, largely through the efforts of the Jesuits, led first by the Navarrese Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), who arrived in Kagoshima in southern Kyūshū in 1549.

Yagō

Though it is not clear when the custom first emerged, it first appears in print in the chronicles of the Muromachi period.


Hata, Nagano

A small sub-temple, Tamura Temple, was built in the Muromachi period and enshrined the famous conquest of the Ezo by Shōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.

Japanese sword

The export of nihontō reached its height during the Muromachi period when at least 200,000 nihontō were shipped to Ming Dynasty China in official trade in an attempt to soak up the production of Japanese weapons and make it harder for pirates in the area to arm.

Jurōjin

He was introduced into the Japanese art tradition by Zen Buddhist painters, and depictions of Jurōjin span from the Muromachi period (1337 – 1573) through the Edo period (1603 – 1868).

Uesugi Norizane

Uesugi Norizane (上杉 憲実; 1410 – March 22, 1466) was a Japanese samurai of the Uesugi clan who held a number of high government posts during the Muromachi period.

Yamato-e

From the Muromachi period (15th century), the term Yamato-e has been used to distinguish work from contemporary Chinese style paintings (Kara-e), which were inspired by Chinese Song and Yuan era ink wash paintings.


see also

1414

Tenshō Shūbun, Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1463)

Four mirrors

Shikyō (Japanese: 四鏡) "Four Mirrors"; four Japanese history books of the Muromachi Period

Kanesuke

Takatsukasa Kanesuke(鷹司 兼輔, 1480–1552), a Japanese court noble of the late Muromachi period

Mokuan

Mokuan Reien (died 1345), Japanese painter during the Muromachi Period