Example sentences for: hideyoshi

How can you use “hideyoshi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.

  • But the city’s fortunes turned during the Warring States period (1467–1568), which was finally ended by the unifying warlords Nobunaga and Hideyoshi in the mid-16th century.

  • By 1568, when Kyoto was at last seized from the Ashikaga shogunate, three ruthless generals — Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa — had banded together to eliminate all remaining opposition.

  • Seeing in Christianity a threat to his central authority, Hideyoshi systematically suppressed Christian activity; in 1597 six missionaries and 20 Japanese converts were crucified at Nagasaki.

  • Hideyoshi moved many of Kyoto’s temples to this long narrow road during his reorganization of the city in 1591 following its near-total destruction by clan warfare.


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