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Sengoku to Azuchi-Momoyama period · 1537–1598
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
豊臣秀吉 · Japan
The first commoner to become kampaku (imperial regent)
Born Kinoshita Tōkichirō and later named Hashiba Hideyoshi, he rose through Oda Nobunaga's ranks and is regarded as the second of the 'unifiers of the realm' after Nobunaga. He rose to kampaku and Grand Chancellor — the first commoner to become kampaku — and after handing on that post ruled as taikō until his death.
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History · Osaka Castle
Hideyoshi's golden keep and the Siege of Osaka
In 1583 Toyotomi Hideyoshi began building a castle on the site of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji, intending to surpass Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle in every way: a five-storey keep with gold-leaf-clad walls. It was completed in 1597, and Hideyoshi died the following year. In the winter of 1614 Tokugawa Ieyasu besieged the Toyotomi forces in the castle; after a truce, Osaka Castle's outer moat was filled in, and the following summer the Toyotomi family was destroyed in the Summer Siege of Osaka.
History · East Gardens of the Imperial Palace (site of Edo Castle)
Ōta Dōkan's castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu's realm
In 1457 Ōta Dōkan, a retainer of the Uesugi family, the Kantō deputies, built a castle at Edo, digging moats and building walls; the following year he took Buddhist vows and the name 'Dōkan'. He is regarded as the founder of the castle town of Edo but was assassinated by his lord in 1486. More than a century later, in 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took Odawara and granted the eight Kantō provinces to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who made this by-then-derelict castle his base. In 1603 he founded the Edo shogunate, and Edo became the political centre of Japan until, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the castle became the Imperial Palace.
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