Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Life

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in a peasant family who then slowly rose up in position. He left his home to work for the daimyo, of Totomi. A short period of time later, he went back home and became a foot soldier for Oda Nobunaga, who was a really good Japanese leader at that time. A summarized history of Oda Nobunaga, he was the son of Oda Nobuhide, who was a minor daimyo in Owari province, which is now a part of Aichi prefecture in central Honshu. Nobuhide even though he was a minor daimyo, he controlled the area around the city of Nagoya, and accumulated a huge amount of wealth and a respectable force of samurais serving the daimyo. Nobuhide passed away in 1551, after which Nobunaga took over his father’s residence and overpowered his relatives and other respectable people of the province. A daimyo is a feudal lord. From a foot soldier, he went up to becoming a samurai through his perceptive manners and agility. Hideyoshi fought in numerous important wars for Nobunaga when he began his operation to conquer central Japan back in 1568. In some time during 1573, Hideyoshi became a lord of Nagahama in Omi province by overthrowing two authoritative daimyos, and after which he
He grew up during the tough times of the war, his mother was permanently separated from his father due to a change of alliances, his father had to send him away as hostage to the Imagawa family, a powerful family located in Sumpu, now known as the city of Shizuoka, while he was on his way to the Imagawa family, he was taken by the members of the Oda clan, Imagawa family’s rival, and he was released back to the Imagawa’s family two years later. After starting his own family, he found out that his father was murdered by a close servant in 1549. He watched his family’s fortune go down to nothing from a far away place, unable to do anything about