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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.
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.
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.
When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.
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.