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Hideyoshi

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hideyoshi (Hideyoshi Toyotomi) , 1536-98, Japanese warrior and dictator. He entered the service of Nobunaga as his sandal holder and rose to become his leading general. After Nobunaga's death Hideyoshi ruled as civilian dictator. He set out to unify Japan, violently disrupted by a century of civil strife. Hideyoshi subdued the military Buddhist sects, conquered Kyushu, and in 1584 came to terms with Ieyasu . By 1590, with the defeat of the Hojo clan, Hideyoshi was ruler of a united Japan. Although best remembered for his military exploits, Hideyoshi as a civil administrator decreed a... Read more

Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Encyclopedia of World Biography Toyotomi Hideyoshi The Japanese warrior commander Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) completed the military unification of ... his leading generals, Akechi Mitsuhide and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, to carry out the invasion of the western provinces ... Read more

Ieyasu
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... in his career he helped Nobunaga and Hideyoshi unify Japan. In 1590 he received the ... he later made Edo his capital. After Hideyoshi's death (1598), he became the most powerful ... Hidetada nominal ruler in 1605, subdued Hideyoshi's heirs in 1615, and at his death in ... Read more

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	The Conversion of Hideyoshi's Daughter Go Japanese Journal of Religious Studies; 1/1/2007; Kitagawa, Tomoko; 787 words ; ... in Japan that resulted from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity in 1587, letters ... lady, Go, a woman of the Maeda house and Hideyoshi's own adopted daughter. This study explores ... important not only for her association with Hideyoshi, but also as a case study for the religious ... Read more
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	(book reviews) Pacific Affairs; 9/22/1995; Ravina, Mark; 705 words ; ... University Press. 1993. xvi, 312 pp. (Maps.) US$45.00, cloth. ISBN 0-8047-2036-3 ... the land control policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Brown sets up as his fail the traditional account of Hideyoshi's land surveys (the Taiko kenchi), first ... warrior: The surveys also established Hideyoshi's national ... Read more
	How the mighty are fallen. (Kansai) (Asia) The Economist (US); 4/28/1990; 787 words ; HIDEYOSHI TOYOTOMI, the great shogun who unified Japan in the late ... city near the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto; the Hideyoshi shogunate made it the centre of Japan's political world as well. That did not last long. After Hideyoshi died in 1598, the Toyotomi family lost out to leyasu ... Read more
	Flicks Around Town; Gaedalida. Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 6/9/2000; 787 words ; ... inspection schedules in collusion with Korean informant Hideyoshi to a Yakuza organization in exchange or money. But he ... Momo who is Nakayama's lover nd is also yearned after by Hideyoshi. The three satisfy their desires in Shinjuku and hang ... together. Momo is obsessed with money and makes a pact with ... Read more
	`80 per cent fiction and 20 per cent fact' New Straits Times; 7/5/2000; Tan Gim Ean; 787 words ; ... that "in many ways, the boy is myself, just as Hideyoshi (the Japanese captain who be- friends him ... The ensuing interplay resulted in the James-Hideyoshi relationship," he says. Hideyoshi, an Englishman trapped in a Japanese body ... Read more
	On Beyond `Shogun'; Japan's Castles Hark Back to Days of Warlords & Samurai The Washington Post; 8/9/1987; John Burgess; 787 words ; The tale is told that the great Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi was touring the countryside near the town of Himeji one day ... led local people to redouble their efforts. To show thanks, Hideyoshi had her stone placed high in the wall of the castle's central ... Read more
	Movies; `Rikyu': Pretty Teadius The Washington Post; 4/27/1991; Rita Kempley; 300 words ; ... disparate world views of a crass ruler, Hideyoshi (Tsutomu Yamazaki), and the culturally refined tea master, Rikyu (Rentaro Mikuni). Hideyoshi, a peasant warrior who became the most ... solely at court. The battle rages as Hideyoshi unites the warring provinces, but director ... Read more
	'Lord Takayama Ukon:' A glittering achievement.(Opinion & Editorial) Manila Bulletin; 9/11/2003; 787 words ; ... pleadings of special friends was banished from the land by Hideyoshi and exiled to the Philippines, fortunately, a Catholic ... continued his work of evangelization, of spreading the good news this among the prisoners of the city jail. He showed ... scenes and a particularly good scene was that in which ... Read more
	OSAKA: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan.(Review) Pacific Affairs; 9/22/2000; MOSK, CARL; 623 words ; ... the late sixteenth century, first under Hideyoshi and, subsequently, under Tokugawa hegemony ... ravaged Osaka's Honganji headquarters and Hideyoshi had a menacing castle constructed in ... Tokugawa dynasty and the supporters of Hideyoshi's son, which led to the destruction of ... Read more

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