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The 17th-century buildings owe much of their splendor to the structures brought here from Hideyoshi’s opulent Fushimi Castle on the south side of Kyoto (dismantled by a Tokugawa shogun in 1632).
By 1568, when Kyoto was at last seized from the Ashikaga shogunate, three ruthless generals — Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa — had banded together to eliminate all remaining opposition.
But the city’s fortunes turned during the Warring States period (1467–1568), which was finally ended by the unifying warlords Nobunaga and Hideyoshi in the mid-16th century.
In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.
The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.