Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

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Lived 1537–1598, aged 61Japan
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    1537–1598
    Aged 61
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Updated 2026-08-31

The peasant who became Japan's most powerful man. Toyotomi Hideyoshi climbed from nothing to Imperial Regent — the first commoner in history to hold the title — then unified a fractured country under his hand.

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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 — Chance…

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