In " Moumoku Monogatari " Junichiro Tanizaki retells the well-known tale of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi from the perspective of a blind servant.

In keeping with the analogy, they even used the term " Emperor " in reference to the shogun / regent, e. g. in the case of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who missionaries called " Emperor Taicosama " ( from Taiko and the honorific sama ).

Following the persecutions of Daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the subsequent closing of Japan to foreigners, the Christians of Japan were forced to go underground and developed an independent Christian culture.

* 1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.

The prints, entitled Hideyoshi and his Five Concubines, depicted the wife and concubines of the military ruler, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who lived from 1536 to 1598.

His work was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

His successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a loyal Oda supporter, would become the first man to unify all of Japan, and was thus the first ruler of all Japan since the Ōnin War.

He is more widely known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan in 1590, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603, were loyal followers of Nobunaga.

These unifiers were ( in order ) Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( also called Hashiba Hideyoshi above ) and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

)-He Was a Christian. Baptismal name is Peter. Become a clan of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was commissioned to the chamberlain.

** Sannomarudono ( died 1603 ), concubine to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, married Nijō Akizane

Chacha ( also known as Lady Yodo ), the eldest, became the mistress of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

* Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Raku means " enjoyment ", " comfort " or " ease " and is derived from Jurakudai, the name of a palace, in Kyoto, that was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( 1537 – 1598 ), who was the leading warrior statesman of the time.

* 1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord ( b. 1536 )

In keeping with the analogy, they even used the term " emperor " in reference to the shogun / regent, e. g. in the case of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, whom missionaries called " Emperor Taicosama " ( from Taiko and the honorific sama )

" The young Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( then named Kinoshita Tōkichirō ) leads a small group assaulting the castle on Mount Kinka ( Gifu ) | Mount Inaba ; 1885, 12th month

In 1586, Hideyoshi was formally given the name Toyotomi by the imperial court.

On February 5, 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had twenty-six Christians killed as an example to Japanese who wanted to convert to Christianity.

", Toyotomi Hideyoshi died September 18, 1598 of complications caused by the bubonic plague.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi changed Japanese society in many ways.

The war had broken out because Tokugawa Ieyasu saw the Toyotomi family as a threat to his rule of Japan ; most scholars believe that, as in the previous war, Musashi fought on the Toyotomi side.

In his later years, Ogasawara and Hosokawa supported Musashi greatly — an atypical course of action for these Tokugawa loyalists, if Musashi had indeed fought on behalf of the Toyotomi.

Two of Hideyoshi's top generals Katō Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori had fought bravely during the war, but returned to find the Toyotomi clan castellan Ishida Mitsunari in power.

Because of his low birth with no family name to the eventual achievement of Kanpaku ( Regent ), the title of highest imperial nobility, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had quite a few names throughout his life.

* Toyotomi had two sons with Yodo, Tsurumatsu, who died young, and Hideyori born in 1593 who became the designated successor of Toyotomi.

Japan had sought to claim sovereignty over Taiwan ( known to them as Takasago Koku ) since 1592, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi undertook a policy of overseas expansion and extending Japanese influence southward, to the west, was invaded and an attempt to invade Taiwan and subsequent invasion attempts were to be unsuccessful due mainly to disease and attacks by aborigines on the island.

This in turn provided Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had risen through the ranks from ashigaru ( footsoldier ) to become one of Nobunaga's most trusted generals, with the opportunity to establish himself as Nobunaga's successor.

With Japan divided into individual territories ( Han ) with the restrictions on travel already in place under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and strengthened afterwards by the successive Tokugawa governments of the Edo period ( 1600-1868 approximately ) provided a fertile ground for the development of formalized methods of tying prisoners who had to be transported across territories because of measures then in place mandating that a prisoner had to be handed off from one set of officials to another at the border of each territory with each law-enforcement group employing a different school ’ s or region ’ s often jealously-guarded methodology.

Though Sengoku battles continued to rage as they had for the previous century, growing larger and more tactically complex, it was at this time that the many " warring states " began to be united, first under Oda Nobunaga, then under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

It spans the years from approximately 1573 to 1603, during which time Oda Nobunaga and his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, imposed order upon the chaos that had pervaded since the collapse of the Ashikaga Shogunate.

During Ōgimachi's reign, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Imperial Family was able to halt the political, financial, and cultural decline it had been in since the Ōnin War, and began a time of recovery.

Ōmihachiman had been a developed commercial town even since Toyotomi Hidetsugu built a castle and gathered many merchants in the last part of 16th century.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori had their showdown at the Siege of Osaka, Kawachi also became a battleground.

In 1589, Sanada retainers had disputes with the Hōjō clan, which eventually led to the fall of the Hōjō clan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invading armies.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had called Masayuki a person whose inside did not match his outside, that his allegiance was fickle and not to be trusted.

In the spring of 1587 Tama managed to secretly visit the Osaka church ; a few months later, when she heard that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had issued a proclamation against Christianity, she was determined to be baptized immediately.

Upon hearing the news that Nobunaga had been killed, and that Akechi Mitsuhide had taken command of his possessions, Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately negotiated a peace treaty with the Mōri, remaining careful to keep Nobunaga's death a secret.

In 1586, Toshihito was adopted by Hideyoshi Toyotomi, but they separated in 1589 when Hideyoshi had his own son.

His wife had died, the Toyotomi were defeated, there was no place to return to, his sons had fathered children on Hachijo, and the Shogunate was to be inherited by members of the Tokugawa clan.