TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI

born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province [now in Aichi prefecture], Japan died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi original name Hiyoshimaru feudal lord and chief Imperial minister (158598), who completed the 16th-century unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga. Additional reading Walter Dening, The Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 4th ed. (1955); Tadachika Kuwata, Toyotomi Hideyoshi kenkyu (1975), a detailed study of Hideyoshi's life (in Japanese); and Adriana Boscaro (ed. and trans.), 101 Letters of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1975), an account of Hideyoshi's personal life through his correspondence to his family.