Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (born 1536)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō and Hashiba Hideyoshi , was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan. Although he came from a peasant background, his immense…