Word: hideyoshi
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...with the New Komeito party who is close to Koizumi, says the outgoing Prime Minister loves to compare himself to Nobunaga Oda, the revolutionary warlord who all but conquered Japan in the 16th century and began the unification of Japan. But Higashi notes that it was Nobunaga's successors, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyesu Tokugawa, who built a stable rule that endured for more than 250 years. "Koizumi was about creative destruction," says Higashi. "But the man who comes afterward needs to rebuild with a lot of care. That's Abe's role." We shall...
...small semichivalric duels between single combatants--gave way to clashes of massed troops under the command of daimyo, or warlords, who had conscripted them from their estates. These armies could be enormous, siphoning up the manpower of whole provinces. In his last major battle in 1590, the warlord Hideyoshi led 100,000 men at the climax of a five-month siege...
...sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed soon gathered 300,000 followers, including most of the inhabitants of Ikitsuki, but its success also spelled its doom. Fearing the Christians' growth and foreign links, the warlord ruler Hideyoshi and later shogun mounted terror campaigns in which tens of thousands perished, often gruesomely. Christianity was all but stamped...
...politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes...
...Japanese who must put forth this supreme effort, however, have first to conquer their national schizophrenia, to achieve a union between the descendants of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu. Osaka and Nagoya must somehow be put together if Japan is to survive...