Example sentences for: hideyoshi

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

  • 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.

  • When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his “dynasty,” initially under the tutelage of five regents.

  • Nobunaga was assassinated by one of his own generals in 1582, and Hideyoshi, who had started out as a simple infantryman, succeeded him.

  • 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.


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