This cultural era, the Muromachi Period, lasted well past the Ashikiga. Easy-recognizable cultural institutions, such as Noh drama or architecture, developed, adding their richness to Japanese ...

or shokunin in Japanese. The inception of local industries goes back about 500 years, to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when powerful clans governed the region. Every winter, as heavy snow fell ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...

Here’s what you need to know about this actively volcanic island’s hot springs, gastronomy, and uniquely Japanese accommodations.

Japan’s confirmed oldest corporation ... it was founded during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573). Records show that Toraya Confectionery provided sweets under the 1586-1611 reign of Emperor ...

The shock of rising prices in Japan The unused communal toilet - known as tōsu - was built in the first half of the Muromachi period (1336-1573) and is located inside Tofukuji temple. It's ...

But “traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with ‘koji’ mold in Japan” is now registered ... more than 500 years ago during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573).

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan ... sometime during the Muromachi period (between 1392 ...