Historical Figures
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Citation Formats
General Reference
APA Style
BibTeX
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, otherwise known as Kinoshita Tokichiro and Hashiba Hideyoshi, was a Japanese samurai and daimyo of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, regarded as the second Great Unifier of Japan.
Facts
Cross-Tradition Connections
Preceded By
Succeeded By
Indirect per Hideyoshi's own cited lead: Ieyasu displaced Hideyoshi's son and named successor Toyotomi Hideyori at Sekigahara in 1600, two years after Hideyoshi's own death, rather than succeeding Hideyoshi directly. Recorded here as the conventional third-unifier succession (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu) with the indirection stated rather than implied.
Sources
1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead sectionQuote, Lead section
of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods
1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox (born)Quote, Infobox (born)
16 February 1537
1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox (died)Quote, Infobox (died)
18 September 1598
1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPreceded By: Oda Nobunaga, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)Quote, Preceded By: Oda Nobunaga, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
After Nobunaga was killed in the Honno-ji Incident in 1582, Hideyoshi defeated the lord's assassin, Akechi Mitsuhide, at the Battle of Yamazaki and became his successor.
1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationSucceeded By: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Tokugawa Ieyasu)Quote, Succeeded By: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Tokugawa Ieyasu)
Hideyoshi's young son and successor Toyotomi Hideyori was displaced by Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 which would lead to the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.