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Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi(born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province, Japan—died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi) One of the three unifiers of premodern Japan (with Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu) who brought the nation out of its Warring States period. He began life as a peasant but was raised to the rank of samurai (warrior) while a soldier for Nobunaga. After Nobunaga's death, he was appointed kampaku (chancellor to the emperor). Having concluded an alliance with his former rival Ieyasu, he became in 1590 the head of an alliance of daimyo that constituted a government of national unification. To stabilize society, he imposed the division of society into warriors, farmers, artisans, and tradesmen (an adaptation of ancient Chinese social divisions) and confiscated swords from all but the warriors. With visions of empire, he made two destructive but unsuccessful attempts to invade Korea (1592, 1597). After his death, power passed to Ieyasu. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while familiar names to a Japanese reader, are probably not familiar to non-Japanese readers, yet the text does not really explain who these powerful Japanese daimyo were. Japan had not rebelled against traditional Chinese hegemony in the region since Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as Japan's dominant warlord, launched two failed invasions of Korea in 1592 and 1597. To this end he contrasts land surveys and taxation in Kaga with the land control policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. |
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