HIDEYOSHI

Meaning of HIDEYOSHI in English

/hee"de yaw"shee/ , n.

Toyotomi /taw"yaw taw"mee/ , 1536-98, Japanese general and statesman: prime minister and dictator of Japan 1585-98.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI — born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province, Japan died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi One of the three unifiers of premodern Japan (with …
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TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI — born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province [now in Aichi prefecture], Japan died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi original name Hiyoshimaru feudal lord …
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YI SUN-SHIN — born April 28, 1545, Seoul, Korea died Dec. 16, 1598, off Noryang Korean admiral and national hero. He worked on …
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TOKUGAWA PERIOD — (1603–1867) In Japanese history, period of the military government established by Tokugawa Ieyasu with his assumption of the title of …
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TOKUGAWA IEYASU — born Jan. 31, 1543, Okazaki, Japan died June 1, 1616, Sumpu Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate (see Tokugawa period ) …
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TEA CEREMONY — Japanese chadō or cha-no-yu Ritualized preparation and drinking of tea developed in Japan. It involves a host and one or …
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ŌNIN WAR — (1467–77) Civil war in central Japan that destroyed the remnants of central governmental authority and led to a century of …
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ODA NOBUNAGA — born 1534, Owari province, Japan died June 21, 1582, Kyōto With Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu , one of the …
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KANŌ SCHOOL — Japanese painting style of the 15th–19th centuries. It was practiced by a family of artists that served the Ashikaga shoguns …
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JAPAN — Island country, lying off the eastern coast of Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. Its four main islands are Hokkaido …
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BURAKUMIN — (Japanese; " hamlet people ") Japanese minority group that suffers discrimination based on its historical outcaste status. In the late …
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KAMPAKU — (Japanese: white barrier), in Japanese history, office of chief councillor or regent to an adult emperor. The post was created …
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YAMANOUCHI FAMILY — Yamanouchi also spelled Yamauchi, family of Japanese feudal lords who from 1600 to 1868 dominated the important fief of Tosa …
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WAKAYAMA — ken (prefecture), south-central Honshu, Japan. It occupies the Kii Peninsula, which faces the Kii Strait (west) and the Pacific Ocean …
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UTAMARO
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UESUGI FAMILY — one of the most important warrior clans in Japan from early in the 15th century until the last half of …
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TOYOTOMI HIDEYORI — born Aug. 29, 1593, Osaka died June 4, 1615, Osaka son and heir of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (153798), the great warrior …
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TOYOTOMI HIDETSUGU — born 1568, Japan died Aug. 20, 1595, Koyasan, Kii Province nephew and adopted son and heir of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the …
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SHIMAZU FAMILY — powerful warrior clan that controlled the southern tip of the Japanese island of Kyushu from the 12th to the 19th …
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SEKIGAHARA, BATTLE OF — (Oct. 20, 1600), in Japanese history, conflict that established the hegemony of the Tokugawa family, a hegemony that lasted until …
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OSAKA-KOBE METROPOLITAN AREA — second largest urban and industrial agglomeration in Japan, located on Osaka Bay in west-central Honshu at the eastern end of …
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MORI FAMILY — a clan that dominated the strategic western Honshu region of south-central Japan from early in the 16th century to the …
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MAEDA FAMILY — the daimyo, or lords, of Kaga Province (now part of Ishikawa Prefecture) in central Japan, whose domain was second only …
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KYOTO — The upper levels of the pagoda at Yasaka Shrine standing out against the skyline of Kyoto, city, seat of Kyoto …
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KURODA NAGAMASA — born 1568, Himeji, Japan died Aug. 29, 1623, Kyoto noted Japanese warrior who rendered important service to two leaders, Toyotomi …
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KONISHI YUKINAGA — died Nov. 6, 1600, Kyoto Christian general who spearheaded the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592. The son of a …
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KATO KIYOMASA — born 1562, Nakamura, Owari province, Japan died Aug. 2, 1611, Kumamoto, Higo province Japanese military leader who helped both Toyotomi …
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JAPAN, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a white field bearing a central red disk (a stylized sun). The flag has a width-to-length …
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ISHIDA MITSUNARI — born 1563, Omi Province, Japan died Nov. 6, 1600, Kyoto Japanese warrior whose defeat in the famous Battle of Sekigahara …
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AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA PERIOD — also called Momoyama Period (15741600), in Japanese history, age of political unification under the daimyo Oda Nobunaga and his successor …
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TOKUGAWA IEYASU — born Jan. 31, 1543, Okazaki, Japan died June 1, 1616, Sumpu Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate (see Tokugawa period ) …
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