His son, the Emperor Meiji, continued his father's wish by constructing a shrine on the current site and relocating to it the statue housed within the Goei-do hall to found Shiramine-gu Shrine in August 1868.
子の明治天皇がその意を継ぎ、現在地に社殿を造営し、明治元年（1868年）8月、御影堂の神像を移して神体とし白峯宮を創建した。