Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The Lowborn General Who Rose to Unify Sengoku Japan

von Andrew Witt

194 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

He was born a nobody, and he died ruling all of Japan.In the summer of 1582, a general camped outside a flooding castle received news that could either destroy him or hand him the country. His lord had just been murdered. His rivals were already moving. He had eleven days to reach the capital, avenge his master, and claim a legacy no peasant's son had ever been allowed to touch.Few people know that the man who unified Sengoku Japan was never meant to hold a sword at all. He was the son of a farmer, born with no name, no lineage, and no reason to expect anything beyond a life exactly like his father's. What he built instead, through betrayal, war, ruthless calculation, and one unforgettable act of vengeance, became the foundation of the country that emerged from a hundred years of civil war.Toyotomi Hideyoshi: The Lowborn General Who Rose to Unify Sengoku Japan follows this rise in full, from a nameless village called Nakamura to the imperial court itself, where he claimed titles no commoner had ever held. It traces the wars that made him, the family he destroyed to secure his legacy, and the invasion of Korea that finally revealed the limits of his ambition.The truth behind his most famous victories is stranger, and more human, than the legend that grew around them. This book separates documented history from four centuries of embellishment, without losing an ounce of the drama that made his life so extraordinary in the first place.If you have ever wondered how far ambition can carry someone with nothing, or what it costs a man to hold power he was never supposed to have, this is the story you have been looking for. Readers of Japanese history, fans of the Sengoku period, and anyone drawn to true stories of impossible rises will find in Hideyoshi's life a reminder that history's greatest transformations rarely begin with privilege.What you are about to discover will change how you think about what it takes to rule.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176529579
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published