Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi | |
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.jpg) Portrait o Toyotomi Hideyoshi drawn in 1601 | |
| Imperial Regent o Japan | |
| In office 1585–1591 | |
| Monarch | Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei |
| Precedit bi | Konoe Sakihisa |
| Succeedit bi | Toyotomi Hidetsugu |
| Chancellor o the Realm | |
| In office 1587–1598 | |
| Monarch | Go-Yōzei |
| Precedit bi | Fujiwara no Sakihisa |
| Succeedit bi | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 Februar 1536 or Mairch 26, 1537 Nakamura-ku, Nagoya |
| Dee'd | 18 September 1598 (aged 61 or 62) Fushimi Castle |
| Naitionality | Japanese |
| Mither | Nene, Yodo-Dono |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉, Februar 2, 1536 or Mairch 26, 1537 – September 18, 1598) wis a preeminent daimyo, warrior, general an politeecian o the Sengoku period[1] who is regardit as Japan's seicont "great unifier."[2] He succeedit his umwhile liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, an broucht an end tae the Sengoku period. The period o his rule is eften cried the Momoyama period, named efter Hideyoshi's castle. Efter his daith, his young son wis displaced bi Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Hideyoshi is notit for a nummer o cultural legacies, includin the restriction that anly members o the samurai class could bear airms. He financed the construction, restoration an rebiggin o mony temples staundin the day in Kyoto. Hideyoshi played an important role in the history o Christianity in Japan when he ordered the execution bi crucifixion o twenty-sax Christians.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ōmi" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 993-994 at Google Books.
- ↑ Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Course of History, Viking Press 1988. p. 68.