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 ...

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

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 sword was pulled from the attic decades ago, but a recent ceremonial cleaning revealed it was a priceless heirloom from the 12th century.

KYOTO--Massive garden stones, the largest of which weighs 9.8 tons, were excavated at the residence here of a shogunate family in the Muromachi Period (1336-1573), in what archaeologists believe ...

Casting a household-name actor to headline a period epic would normally be seen as a safe bet, but the producers of “Muromachi Outsiders” were taking a risk when they picked Yo Oizumi for the ...

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 ...