Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

The is a biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history. The Confucian scholar (1564–1640) published the work in 1626 during the rule of the third Tokugawa shōgun Iemitsu. The work was published five times between 1626 and 1710. The complete work spans 22 scrolls.