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Sections of Toyokuni Shrine, along with its fief, were seized by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1615]], and the chief object of worship relocated and made inaccessible. As part of the shogunate's efforts to enhance its own power and legitimacy, promote the worship of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] as Tôshô Daigongen, and eliminate Toyotomi loyalists, the shogunate seized the remainder of the shrine lands & buildings in [[1620]], leaving only a small gravesite on the site. Many branch shrines across the archipelago were destroyed, as Tôshôgû shrines spread. Some regional Toyokuni shrines, and festivals dedicated to Hideyoshi, managed to slip by unnoticed by the Tokugawa authorities, and to survive.

Sections of Toyokuni Shrine, along with its fief, were seized by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1615]], and the chief object of worship relocated and made inaccessible. As part of the shogunate's efforts to enhance its own power and legitimacy, promote the worship of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] as Tôshô Daigongen, and eliminate Toyotomi loyalists, the shogunate seized the remainder of the shrine lands & buildings in [[1620]], leaving only a small gravesite on the site. Many branch shrines across the archipelago were destroyed, as Tôshôgû shrines spread. Some regional Toyokuni shrines, and festivals dedicated to Hideyoshi, managed to slip by unnoticed by the Tokugawa authorities, and to survive.

The lead Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto, along with branch shrines across the country, have revived since the end of the [[Edo period]].

The lead Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto was re-established by the [[Meiji government]] in [[1880]] at the suggestion of the [[Meiji Emperor]], along with a branch shrine in [[Osaka]], and the [[Kenkun Shrine]] dedicated to [[Oda Nobunaga]] in Kyoto.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 89-90.</ref>

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