The Toyokuni Shrine Treasure Museum

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Picture showing the special festival at the seventh anniversary of Hideyoshi’s death in 1604

Shrine commemorating Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Affectionately known as Hokoku (an alternative reading of the kanji characters for Toyokuni), this shrine has a karamon gate (National Treasure), which is a remnant of Fushimi Castle. Next to this impressive gate stand eight stone lanterns donated by warlords under the patronage of the Toyotomi family. It is said that this magnificent shrine was built after Hideyoshi Toyotomi died and was imperially conferred with the posthumous Shinto name of “Hokoku Dai-myojin”. Nevertheless, once the Toyotomi family had perished at the hands of Ieyasu Tokugawa’s troops, the Edo (Tokugawa) shogunate closed the shrine, and it was only reconstructed in 1880 on the site where the Great Buddha of Hoko-ji Temple stood under the orders of the Emperor Meiji, sometime after the shogunate had fallen.
The treasure hall was opened in 1925. The concrete building in the Momoyama style of architecture was very unusual back in 1925. Here, exhibits connected to the Toyotomi family, mainly from the Momoyama period (including Important Cultural Properties), are displayed.