Toyotomi Hideyoshi — from soldier to leader
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a soldier in Oda’s army and took over leadership after Oda’s ritual suicide. He developed a strong central government that expanded control over the islands of Shikoku and Kȳush̄u. Hideyoshi also opposed European Christian missionaries. He expelled them from Japan, prohibited Japanese from becoming Christians and later executed 26 Japanese and foreign Christians. Before Hideyoshi died in 1598, he set up a council of five senior elders whom he trusted to pass power to his son.
SOURCE7 The Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument was built in 1962 in Nagasaki to commemorate the Christians executed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1597.
SOURCE8 Sixteenth-century Japan
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D
130˚E
135˚E
140˚E
Key
Osaka
Town
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3
Daimyo ¯
MORI
Land of the Oda clan, 1560 CE
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40˚N
Area conquered by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi by 1582 CE
Main Daimyo opposed to Hideyoshi, 1582 CE ¯
SEA OF JAPAN
Sado Island
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2
UESUGI
KOREA
JAPAN
TAKEDA
Oki Islands
Honshu
MAEDA
HOJO
SHIBATA
Edo
Sekigahara
AKECHI
UKITA
Kyoto
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35˚N
TOKUGAWA
Osaka
MORI
Hiroshima
Tsushima
Izushichito Islands
CHOSOKABE
KOBAYAKAWA
Shikoku
OTOMO
Nagasaki
Fukue
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1
PACIFIC
Kyushu
SHIMAZU
EAST CHINA
OCEAN
SEA
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300
kilometres
Tanegashima
130˚E
135˚E
140˚E
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