Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Japanese name: As is customary in Japan, the family name precedes the given name in this article. Thus Toyotomi is the family name, Hideyoshi the given name.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (jap. 豊臣 秀吉; b. 17 March 1537 in Nakamura, Aichi-gun, Owari Province (now Nakamura-ku, Nagoya); † 18 September 1598 at Fushimi Castle (now in Fushimi-ku, Kyōto)) was a Japanese general and politician who was instrumental in unifying modern Japan, which is why he is referred to as the second of the Three Unifiers of the Empire. He took office as general after the assassination of Oda Nobunaga, led the unification of Japan. He was followed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa dynasty of Shōguns.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Shintō
Posthumously, Hideyoshi was worshipped under the name Toyokuni Daimyōjin (豊国大明神 "shining deity of the wealth of the land"). As a Shintō deity (kami), he is worshipped in a number of shrines. These are called either Toyokuni Shrine (Kun reading) or Hōkoku Shrine (On reading), both of which may be spelled 豊国神社 (Shinjitai) or 豐國神社 (Kyūjitai) respectively, including Toyokuni Shrine in Kyōto (built 1599), later rebuilt as Hōkoku Shrine (built 1700 on the present site of Hōkoku-ryō Mausoleum, subsequently demolished and rebuilt elsewhere in 1880), Toyokuni Shrine in Kanazawa, Hōkoku Shrine in Tōkyō, Hōkoku Shrine in Ōsaka (along with Toyotomi Hidenaga and Toyotomi Hideyori), Nagoya Toyokuni Shrine (built in 1881), and Nagahama Hōkoku Shrine (Shiga Prefecture).
Kyōto Toyokuni Shrine
Cinematic reception
The Japanese film Death of a Tea Master deals with the conflict between Hideyoshi and his influential tea master Sen no Rikyu. The documentary The Gold of the Samurai also deals with Hideyoshi Toyotomi. The film is mainly about the extraction and use of the gold he mined. In the fantasy film The Legend Of Goemon by director Kazuaki Kiriya, besides Hideyoshi himself, both his tea master Rikyu and his predecessor Oda Nobunaga as well as his successor Tokugawa Ieyasu appear.
