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 | | Japan's failure at sea, and the difficulty in resupplying troops on land, were one of the major reasons for the invasion's ultimate failure, together with the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the main proponent of the invasion. |
 | | From 1592, the supreme commander of Hideyoshi's fleet was Kuki Yoshitaka, whose flagship was the 33 meter flagship Nihonmaru. |
 | | In 1609, the lord Shimazu Tadatsune of Satsuma invaded the southern islands of Ryūkyū (modern Okinawa) with a fleet of 13 junks and 2,500 samurai, thereby establishing suzerainty over the islands. |
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