OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine here, providing a clue to how people worshipped him during his successor's era.
Hideyoshi (1537-1598) started construction of Shigetsu Castle in 1592 as his retirement residence after he gifted his fortress and residence called Jurakudai to his nephew, Toyotomi Hidetsugu.