
	Where results make sense

Topic: Hideyoshi

	Azuchi-Momoyama period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nobunaga's retainer Hashiba Hideyoshi, the later Toyotomi Hideyoshi, vanquished Mitsuhide at the Battle of Yamazaki and consolidated his own power in Kyoto to eventually conquer all of Japan by 1590.
		A commoner by birth and without a surname, Hideyoshi was adopted by the Fujiwara family, given the surname Toyotomi, and granted the title kanpaku, representing civil and military control of all Japan.
		Hideyoshi's major ambition was to conquer China, and in 1592, with an army of 200,000 troops, he invaded Korea, then a flourishing wealthy kingdom that enjoyed an alliance with China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azuchi-Momoyama_period (1265 words)

	1584. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The first invasion of Korea by the armies of Hideyoshi was possibly motivated by fear of the excess of experienced warriors in Japan, although the overly ambitious Hideyoshi was indeed planning the conquest of China.
		Hideyoshi, irritated by the bickering between the Portuguese Jesuits and the Spanish Franciscans (who came to Japan in 1593) and suspecting that Christian proselytizing was merely an opening wedge for the subsequent conquest of Japan by Europeans, executed 3 Jesuits, 6 Franciscans, and 17 Japanese Christians.
		Hideyoshi did not press the persecution further, because he did not wish to drive away the Portuguese traders, who were then especially welcome, since direct commercial intercourse with China had been stopped.
	www.bartleby.com /67/858.html (528 words)

	Toyotomi Hideyoshi
		Hideyoshi's childhood name is recorded as Hiyoshimaru, or 'bounty of the sun', quite possibly a later embellishment contrived to give substance to a claim of divine inspiration Hideyoshi made regarding his birth.
		Hideyoshi commanded troops at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 and was active in Nobunaga's campaigns against the Asai and Asakura; he finally and definitively emerges into the light of history in 1573.
		Hideyoshi, whose forces still controlled some territory in Korea's southern-most province (Kyongsang), could boast to Luis Frois later that year that "he had already conquered the kingdom of Korea." and that the Chinese "had sent him their submission".4 He further demanded that Luzon show him obedience, threatening to invade if this was not done.
	www.samurai-archives.com /hideyoshi.html (8027 words)

	Ancient Japan - 6
		Hideyoshi adopted several major policies to accomplish this end: a comprehensive land survey (kenchi), the disarmament of the peasantry, and the separation of the classes.
		Hideyoshi's so-called "sword hunt" (katana-gari) of 1588, which attempted to disarm the peasantry and melt the confiscated arms into an enormous statue of the Buddha, was an important prerequisite for this policy.
		Furthermore, Hideyoshi's son and heir Hideyori was reduced to the position of a daimyo of the Kinki (Osaka area) district.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan6.html (4436 words)

	Net4TV Voice: Hideyoshi, Japan's Second Unifier: Part I
		Hideyoshi correctly sensed that his power should rest upon the independence of the daimyo to manage their own domains, while also having them pay homage and fight his battles.
		Hideyoshi’s holdings were not the largest in the country; in addition, two of his defeated foes were allowed to remain among the most powerful families in the new Japan.
		Hideyoshi was well aware of how to use this psychology to his advantage, for the surrender and / or defeat of the most powerful daimyo was very likely a strong deterrent to upstarts.
	www.net4tv.com /voice/Story.cfm?storyID=352 (2064 words)

	Hideyoshi
		Hideyoshi was born a poor commoner, but he was a man of great talent, and quickly became one of Oda’s most trusted men.
		Hideyoshi’s samurai found the men, and when the sailors demonstrated their firearms, the samurai were astonished by these new weapons.
		Because Hideyoshi preferred his son to inherit the throne, he ordered his nephew to commit suicide, and all the nephew’s children killed, which was done.
	www.rickriordan.com /background_essay_5.htm (940 words)

	Toyotomi Hideyoshi
		Most of the measures that Hideyoshi employed would become the basis of Tokugawa rule only a decade later and were instrumental in the long period of domestic quiet that characterized the Tokugawa period (1603-1868).
		Hideyoshi made class a permanent status for individuals and their offspring; in particular, he made the samurai ("servants"), who were the professional soldiers of Japan, into a separate class and forbade anyone from the non-samurai class to carry weapons or armor.
		These loyalties ran deep, for Hideyoshi had amassed tremendous wealth and lavished it on the imperial court and on various lords throughout the country (hence his posthumous title, "Wealth of the Nation").
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/TOKJAPAN/TOYOTOMI.HTM (575 words)

	Hideyoshi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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 land survey, revised the land tax, developed a code of maritime law, and encouraged foreign trade.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hi/Hideyosh.html (231 words)

	KESSEN: CHAPTER 1: HIDEYOSHI'S RISE TO POWER
		Hideyoshi was the homeless son of a peasant.
		Hideyoshi rose through the military ranks to become a general for Nobunaga Oda, who was successful in uniting Japan and capturing the capital in 1568.
		Hideyoshi fought for almost eight years and eliminated all the remaining opposing clans.
	www.kessen.ea.com /history_1.html (263 words)

	Toyotomi Hideyoshi
		Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born as the son of a poor farmer in a village in Owari province.
		Hideyoshi was now the uncontested actual ruler of Japan, although he never held the official position of shogun.
		Hideyoshi was a smart guy and his tactics in achieving his goals were different from those of Nobunaga.
	www.artelino.com /articles/toyotomi_hideyoshi.asp (1166 words)

	The Madness of Hideyoshi
		Hideyoshi's trust in the Kato, Mori, and Konishi was further displayed after his conquest of Kyushu; the Mori family was given most of Northern Kyushu as a fief (Sansom, 322.) Hideyoshi clearly trusted those families which he sent to Korea.
		Hideyoshi's irrational slaughter of his family clearly indicates that he was suffering from a severe mental imbalance at the time.
		Hideyoshi, taking advantage of Oda Nobunaga's death, saw that Nobunaga's two sons were quarreling over succession, and, as Nobunaga's top general, placed Nobunaga's infant grandson, Samboshi in charge of the realm (Sansom, 311.) Thus, Hideyoshi was able to rise to power more easily because of the lack of a leader in the Oda family.
	www.samurai-archives.com /mth.html (2456 words)

	Shogun(1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hideyoshi commences unification of Shikoku daimyo and defeat of Chosokabe house.
		Hideyoshi commences unification of Kyushu daimyo and defeats Shimazu of Satsuma
		Ieyasu was the successor of Hideyoshi, and the founder of Edo Shogunate.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /english/faculty/stein/electronic/student/kotajima/mini (1030 words)

	KESSEN: CHAPTER 2: JAPAN REUNITED
		Hideyoshi had to figure out a way to keep power over Japan without instigating revolt or a sectioning-off of provinces.
		Hideyoshi made class a permanent status for individuals and their offspring.
		Hideyoshi died the same year and his dreams of extending the Japanese empire over the whole of Asia died with him.
	www.kessen.ea.com /history_2.html (360 words)

	Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Timeline - 1500s \| PBS
		Hideyoshi's response to the assassination of Nobunaga gave him a place of special importance and he quickly assumed the role of Japan's ruler.
		Hideyoshi rewarded Ieyasu with eight provinces located in the Kanto plain and ordered him to move his headquarters to Edo, a swampy, backwater castle town far from the center of Japanese politics.
		Hideyoshi unintentionally inspired Christians around Japan; new converts were recruited and Nagasaki became the center of Christian activity.
	www.pbs.org /empires/japan/timeline_1500.html (993 words)

	The Nutshell Version
		In 1588, Hideyoshi commanded all commoners to turn in their weapons because he was planning to build a really, really big statue of the Buddha (we are talking bigger than the Statue of Liberty).
		Hideyoshi didn't care about building a statue, he just wanted to disarm the peasants (kind of hard to rebel without weapons, isn't it?).
		Hideyoshi left five of his most powerful ``allies,'' in charge of the country and his young son.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/intro/node14.html (919 words)

	Plutschow - Japanese Tea Ceremony
		He [Hideyoshi] has been good enough to inform all the parties concerned in writing that at such a time the borders of the provinces will be judged according to the merits of each case.
		Hideyoshi intended the party to be a kind of democratic gesture uniting under his ritual authority all those who were practicing Tea.
		Although we do not know the exact reasons why Hideyoshi forced Rikyu into suicide soon after this event, it is possible that it was a conflict over the use of Tea as a mirror of the new social order that he tried to establish after he managed to unify the nation under his hegemony.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/ap0501/tea.htm (8706 words)

	Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama
		Hideyoshi soon was able to expand his power over the whole of the country.
		Hideyoshi in spite of his low origin succeeded in developing the situation to his benefit pushing aside numerous mighty and well-born pretenders.
		In this portrait Hideyoshi’s face hardly bears any individuality, neither does it hint in the least at his legendary resemblance to a monkey that brought him the nickname of Sarukichirō, under which he is depicted in the print.
	students.risd.edu /faculty/evarshav/Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama.html (5632 words)

	The Bridge Period of the Three Strongmen
		Hideyoshi, born of peasant parents, is highly intelligent and clever.
		Hideyoshi had a son who was 5 years old the year he was dying.
		Hideyoshi assembled 5 of the great families to swear to protect the young boy and his place as de facto ruler.
	facstaff.elon.edu /sullivan/big3&3zt.htm (1752 words)

	Toyotomi Hideyoshi biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born at the place now called Nagoya, Owari province, the home of the Oda clan.
		After Oda Nobunaga's sudden death in 1582 followed by the defeat of his assassin, Akechi Mitsuhide at the Battle of Yamazaki, Toyotomi took control of Oda's territory within a year, and was pronounced to succeeded him as military ruler.
		Before gripping control of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi employed a friendly diplomatic stance with the Ming Dynasty and helped the Chinese government combat the Japanese piracy (wakou) along the coasts of Yellow Sea, South China Sea and Taiwan.
	toyotomi-hideyoshi.biography.ms (929 words)

	Untitled
		Hideyoshi secured Kazutoyo's castle in Nagahama through a bribe and then moved on to Kameyama and forced Takigawa's surrender.
		Hideyoshi, meanwhile, relocated his base to Kinomoto and made ready to march north up the Hokkoku-kaido.
		Seven Hideyoshi samurai distinguished themselves in the battle and became known as the 'Seven Spears': Fukushima Masanori, Kato Yoshiaki, Wakizaka Yasaharu, Hirano Nagayasyu, Katagiri Katsumoto, Kasuya Takenori, and Kato Kiyomasa.
	members.aol.com /kllrkatnas/Shizugatake.htm (1060 words)

	Ryo Sanada - Yukimura Sanada
		Hideyoshi attacked Miki's satellites (including Hataya and Ogo) and began a siege of the Besso's stronghold.
		Hideyoshi though decided to dam up the waters by Ashimorigawa and divert it around the castle.
		Hideyoshi kept his attack on the castle strong, but was afraid that the Mouri army would interfere.
	www.angelfire.com /il2/yourlink/History_Lesson.html (1364 words)

	Edo-jo
		In 1589, Hojo Ujimasa was defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the seige of Odawara, and Hideyoshi confiscated all the lands that formerly belonged to the Hojo family.
		Hideyoshi wanted to reward Tokugawa Ieyasu for his help in defeating the Hojo, but since Ieyasu was one of the most powerful daimyo in the country, Hideyoshi didn't want to reward him TOO much, lest he become even stronger than Hideyoshi.
		Hideyoshi figured that if Ieyasu was far away, he couldn't interfere as much in the way Hideyoshi ran the country.
	www.us-japan.org /edomatsu/edojo/story.html (1321 words)

	tokugawa
		Nobunaga's work was continued by his able general and successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598).
		By 1598, when Hideyoshi died, virtually all of Japan was under central control.
		Hideyoshi instituted these changes, for example, conducting a survey (census) to determine people and property; what followed (of course) was a new and improved tax system, and the drafting of Japanese subjects for labor and military service.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist/tokugawa.htm (2035 words)

	Toyotomi_Hideyoshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉, original surnames Kinoshita 木下 and Hashiba 羽柴; 1536 - September 18, 1598), was a sengoku daimyo who unified Japan.
		Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in what is now Nakamura-ku, Nagoya in the Owari province, the home of the Oda clan.
		In 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died; thus, the Japanese army withdrew and the battles ended.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Toyotomi_Hideyoshi (1623 words)

	February 5: Crucified for Christ in Japan
		Hideyoshi rose from humble origins to complete the unification of Japan.
		When Franciscan friars came from the Philippines, Hideyoshi was happy to talk with them and allow them to operate an open mission in Japan although Christianity was illegal.
		The Franciscans, presuming on what they thought were their excellent relations with Hideyoshi, took the matter up with the general.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/02/daily-02-05-2001.shtml (816 words)

	Osaka Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the 16th century, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1536- 1598), who was a famous general, built the castle to show his power.
		Hideyoshi was born in a tiny farm village in the Fushimi district, which is located in mid-west Japan.
		Hideyoshi had an unorthodox way to govern, which was called "sword hunt." Hideyoshi prohibited possession of iron products by farmers because in the past, farmers blamed the government for taking their harvest by means of a process which we call Nengu.
	www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us /esl/osakacsl.htm (563 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At this point, Hideyoshi was being criticized by the people around him for his plans to invade China and Korea.
		He was a serious threat to Hideyoshi’s plans and something had to be done.
		He believed that Hideyoshi was wrong and he would not help in killing his leader’s adversaries.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~jtran/Hideyoshi.doc (904 words)

	Toshiie & Matsu
		When Hideyoshi withdraws his troops, causing the defeat of the Oda army, Nobunaga orders Hideyoshi to commit harakiri.
		Hideyoshi is determined to reconcile with Toshiie, but upon learning that the Maeda troops are on the move, he prepares for the worst.
		Although he told Hideyoshi that theirs would be a 50-50 partnership, in front of the vassals, he defers to Hideyoshi.
	users.adelphia.net /~gojira/toshiie.htm (2818 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hideyoshi sought to mythologize his obscure but plebeian origins; of the five family names he used, none was his own, and Toyotomi was the name of an ‘aristocratic’ house created at his behest by the imperial court in 1585.
		When Nobunaga was murdered in 1582, Hideyoshi thrust himself forward as leader of the ‘realm’ established by Nobunaga in central Japan.
		In the next few years he consolidated and extended his primacy, and by 1591, as a result of his conquests and appropriations, all of traditional Japan was subjected to his regime, which laid down the foundations of Japan’s early modern social order.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0859/T085944.asp (402 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)