1537–1598 Second unifier; issued the 1587 anti-Christian edict Also written: Toyotomi Hideyoshi · 豊臣秀吉
The peasant's son who completed Nobunaga's unification and ruled Japan as kanpaku and then taikō. He kept the Portuguese trade, turned on the mission with the 1587 edict, crucified the twenty-six martyrs in 1597, and launched the invasions of Korea that exhausted his regime.