Example sentences for: hideyoshi

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

  • His death in 1591 by seppuku (the ritual disemboweling more crudely known to Westerners as harakiri) was in fact commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his former friend and patron.

  • The 17th-century buildings owe much of their splendor to the structures brought here from Hideyoshi’s opulent Fushimi Castle on the south side of Kyoto (dismantled by a Tokugawa shogun in 1632).

  • When Hideyoshi built his main castle in the center of Osaka after unifying the country in 1583, the city’s prosperity seemed written in stone.

  • To celebrate his unification of Japan after more than a century of civil war, Hideyoshi had made the castle the country’s greatest fortress, so the Tokugawa felt obliged to destroy it in 1615 after snatching power away from Hideyoshi’s heir.

  • In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.


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