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Toyotomi Hideyori
豊臣秀頼
“The Young Lord of Osaka Castle”
1593–1615 (aged 23)
- Rank / office
- Minister of the Right
- Domain / base
- Settsu, Kawachi and Izumi
- Banner / crest
- Paulownia (go-shichi)
- Battles in 3D
- 2 battles
Portrait · Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Born to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Yodo-dono, he was the object of his father's doting in his last years. He lost Hideyoshi at six, and after Sekigahara was reduced to a lord of 650,000 koku in Settsu, Kawachi and Izumi. He grew into a giant of a man over six feet tall, and when he met Ieyasu at Nijō Castle his bearing is said to have put the old man on his guard. When the Tokugawa marched on the pretext of the Hōkō-ji bell inscription, he gathered a hundred thousand rōnin, Sanada Nobushige among them, and held Osaka Castle. In the winter siege the Sanada-maru beat off the Tokugawa, but, partly at the wish of his mother Yodo-dono, shaken by the bombardment, he made a truce and the moats were filled. Beaten in the summer campaign the following year in his naked castle, he took his own life with his mother in the burning keep. He was twenty-three.
Life and battlesGold dots mark battles you can watch in 3D
- 1593Bunroku 2
Birth
Born to Hideyoshi at Osaka Castle. His childhood name was Hiroi.
- 1598Keichō 3
Death of his father
Lost Hideyoshi at six and was placed under the guardianship of the Five Elders and Five Commissioners.
- 1611Keichō 16
Meeting at Nijō Castle
Met Ieyasu; his imposing build and bearing are said to have put Ieyasu on his guard.
- 1614Keichō 19
Winter Siege of Osaka
Gathered a hundred thousand rōnin and held the castle. The Sanada-maru repelled the Tokugawa, but the truce cost him his moats.
Winter Siege of Osaka Commander-in-chief 30,000 troops Watch in 3D › Hideyoshi's son and master of Osaka Castle. At twenty-three he faced the great Tokugawa army and directed the defence from the inner bailey. Amid the bombardment and his mother Yodo-dono's alarm, he accepted the truce. - 1615Keichō 20
Summer campaign and death
Defeated in his naked castle, he took his own life with his mother Yodo-dono as Osaka Castle burned.
Siege of Osaka (Summer Campaign) Watch in 3D ›
