Yoshida Shrine is a Shinto shrine at 8 Yoshidakaguraokacho in Sakyō Ward, Kyoto. The Fujiwara clan founded it in 859, and its main buildings follow the Kasuga-zukuri style. The shrine enshrines the deities Takemikazuchi, Futsunushi, Ame-no-Koyane and Himegami.
It received imperial patronage beginning in the early Heian period. In 965 Emperor Murakami ordered imperial messengers to report important events to Japan's guardian kami, starting with sixteen shrines. In 991 Emperor Ichijō added three more shrines to the list, bringing it to nineteen, and Yoshida was among them. From 1871 to 1946 it ranked as a second-rank government-supported shrine.
Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of Yoshida Shinto, is buried here, and the shrine is marked by its Kasuga-zukuri architecture.
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