Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Life and beginnings

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born on 17 March 1537 and died on 18 September 1598. He was also known as Kinoshita Tokichiro and as Hashiba Hideyoshi. The biography calls him a samurai and daimyo of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, and the second Great Unifier of Japan. He rose from a peasant background as a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. The guide says the same thing in fewer words: a lowly footsoldier who became one of Nobunaga’s most trusted retainers, a warrior, and a patron of the arts. Peasant and footsoldier are the two pages’ words for the start. They are not two childhoods.^{[1] [3]}

He was the first commoner to become kampaku, imperial regent, and he also held the office of chancellor of the realm. He later passed the kampaku title to his nephew Toyotomi Hidetsugu and remained in power as taiko, a retired kampaku, until his death. The game’s agenda uses the word kampaku. The historical office is a court title. It is not a relationship score.^{[1] [3]}

Defining achievements

After Nobunaga was killed in the Honno-ji incident in 1582, Hideyoshi defeated the assassin Akechi Mitsuhide at the Battle of Yamazaki. The guide says he avenged his former lord and continued the work of conquest, looking toward the Korean peninsula and beyond. The biography’s lead, as read here, establishes the revenge and the rise. It does not, in that lead, narrate the Korean campaigns year by year. The published Yi Sun-sin essay is the Joseon admiral who fought the Japanese navy in that war, and it is the place that dates his death. This page dates Hideyoshi’s death to 18 September 1598. They are opponents of the same wars. They are not the same office.^{[1] [3]}

The published Sengoku Japan essay is the period, not this one lord. Historians do not agree when that period ends. Some stop at Nobunaga’s march on Kyoto in 1568. Others run as far as the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638. The civilization guide says Tokugawa Ieyasu secured the shogunate in 1603 and ended the conflict. Hideyoshi’s death in 1598 sits before that shogunate and after 1568. He is inside the disputed span. He is not the whole span.^{[1] [2]}

Legacy and interpretation

The biography calls him one of the most powerful men in Japanese history and the second unifier. The guide uses the same “second” and adds the arts. Patronage is the guide’s word. This essay does not inventory the works he paid for, because the lead does not. The names Kinoshita, Hashiba, and Toyotomi are successive names, not three personas. The guides list one leader entry.^{[1] [3] [4]}

The Chinese footnote, as retrieved, says the content is also in a bundle whose Chinese name is not Brush and Blade, and then says that buying the Brush and Blade collection means you already own it. The English footnote names only Brush and Blade, says the base game is required, and says each part of the DLC is delivered in game on release. Heian and Sengoku’s English notes add that the collection is sold separately and released in two installments. This leader page does not repeat the installment sentence. This essay does not invent it here.^{[3] [4]}

A closer look

The ability, Great Unifier, makes land units deal more damage when they attack and take more damage when they defend. Units heal more on a culture building or a wonder. Culture buildings are cheaper to produce, and cheaper still in cities the player did not found. The historical unification is a sequence of campaigns after 1582. A damage trade on every attack is a rule. It is not Yamazaki, and a heal on a culture building is not the arts patronage. The agenda, Kampaku, raises the relationship with civilizations that have enough land units and enough culture, and lowers it with those that do not. The court title was an office he held and then gave to his nephew. A minimum of units plus culture is not that resignation. Yields stay on the guide.^{[1] [3]}

The Chinese page names the ability and the agenda in its own words and titles him with its own characters. There is one leader entry.^{[3] [4]}

In Civilization VII

The English guide places him in the Brush and Blade Collection DLC, two leaders, four civilizations, and four wonders. Attributes are militaristic and cultural. The simplified Chinese page uses the collection name that matches the catalog’s Chinese chip in the main text, and the mixed footnote noted above. The catalog chip follows the English collection name. There is no second persona.^{[3] [4]}

The first step back from the ability is to keep 17 March 1537, the Honno-ji incident of 1582, Yamazaki, the Korean wars that the admiral’s page dates through 1598, and the death on 18 September 1598 apart from a damage trade. The published Sengoku essay is the period. The published Yi Sun-sin essay is the other fleet.^{[1] [2] [3]}