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Toyotomi Hideyoshi

豊臣秀吉

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.

Full article: The Monkey Who Became God: The Life and Personality of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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