# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toyotomi-hideyoshi
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:41:08.480Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born a peasant on 16 February 1537, Hideyoshi served as a retainer to the warlord Oda Nobunaga and proved himself across Nobunaga's campaigns during the Sengoku period. When Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582 at Honnō-ji, Hideyoshi hunted down the killer Akechi Mitsuhide at the Battle of Yamazaki and claimed succession. Over the next decade he finished what Nobunaga started: conquering Shikoku in 1585, Kyūshū in 1587, and sealing unification with the Siege of Odawara in 1590 and the crushing of the Kunohe rebellion in 1591. By the mid-1580s he held the ranks of Kampaku and Daijō-daijin — Chancellor of the Realm — then passed Kampaku to his nephew and ruled as Taikō, a retired regent. In 1592 he launched invasions of Korea; early victories gave way to stalemate, and the campaign stalled before his death on 18 September 1598. His young son Toyotomi Hideyori lost power to Tokugawa Ieyasu at Sekigahara in 1600, but Hideyoshi's mark held: Osaka Castle, the rigid Tokugawa class system, the sword hunt that disarmed all but samurai, and temples across Kyoto that still stand.