...Conrad Totman Hideyoshi . By Mary Elizabeth Berry . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1982 . xiv, 293 pp. Notes, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN JAPAN 951 Hideyoshi. By MARY ELIZABETH BERRY. Cambridge: Harvard University...

... 1985; Hellie 1971; Ali 1966). The “reunification” of Japan and consolidation of authority in the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his Tokugawa successors is generally viewed in this same light. There is widespread scholarly agreement that Hideyoshi's authority and that of the early Tokugawa shoguns...

... of Nobunaga's Azuchi castle in 1576 and the destruction of Hideyoshi's Osaka fortress in 1615, though the book also contributes to our understanding of some of the larger themes of sixteenth-century historical development, especially the interactions among political unification, social change, and cultural...

...., pp. 126–96. 14 “Rose Hōan, “Taikō ki” [Chronicles of Toyotomi Hideyoshi], Shiseki shūran, vol. 6, ch. 29, p. 203. 15 Kusaka Hiroshi , ed., Hō Kō ibun [Documents of Toyotomi Hide-yoshi] (Tokyo: Hakubun Kan, 1914), pp. 77–137. 16 “Taikō ki,” Shiseki shūran, vol. 6...

... On May 23, 1592, the first elements of a Japanese invasion force consisting of roughly 160,000 men began landing at Pusan on the southeast Korean coast. The Japanese warlord Hideyoshi, having reunified the home islands following a period of profound internal fragmentation, boasted that he would next...

... was the golden age, not merely of turncoats, but of mediocrities.” 1 To Murdoch the Sengoku period was a “vile” age when the Japanese people showed, as he put it, a “lust for war and slaughter … utterly beyond human control,” and only the timely arrival of the “great trio” of daimyo, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi...

... with the war itself. 4 The first two contributions present the war from the Japanese side. Kitajima Manji and Sajima Akiko, respectively, point out the difference in war aims between Hideyoshi's first and second expeditions and explain Hideyoshi's decision to order a second invasion as follows: the only...

... on the land, and especially the institutional structures that affected land and tax policy. He concludes that these policies in Kaga did not result from the implementation there of the orders of the national hegemons or the shoguns. Hideyoshi, for all his flair and bombast, did not compel the Maeda to carry...

... on the land, and especially the institutional structures that affected land and tax policy. He concludes that these policies in Kaga did not result from the implementation there of the orders of the national hegemons or the shoguns. Hideyoshi, for all his flair and bombast, did not compel the Maeda to carry...

... on the commercial and urban programs of hegemons like Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, seeks to demonstrate how new hegemonic structures were able to work a transformation on society, taking it out of the Middle Ages into the early modern period. It is Wakita's intention to provide 658 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..." (p. 20). For Hickman (as for many writers) the age is denned by its warlord unifiers, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose aspirations he defines as "power, wealth, and pleasure" with gold as the "mesmeric material that held out promise of the realization of these ideals" (p...

... around 1592 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for his deceased son Sutemaru and served speci cally as some kind of funerary building at Sutemaru s mortuary temple, Sho¯unji, and more broadly as part of a massive campaign of building or refurbishing sacred sites. Watsky then shows how sometime early...

... across generations and within an individual's life and changing socioeconomic conditions in the post-Korean War period. PHILIP C. B R O W N reexamines the issue of the "reunification" of Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his Tokugawa successors by looking at the land surveys undertaken by Hideyoshi...

... and China. BY MICHAEL COOPER, S. J. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1974. 416 pp. Notes, Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $13.00 Between 1590 and i6iojoao Rodrigues was the foreigner with whom both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu had the most regular and closest contact. From 1610...

... history, the impact of the Hideyoshi invasions cannot be dismissed. Whether in building the famed fleets of Admiral Yi Sunsin (1545–98) or falling victim to arson and ground combat, forests suffered. Uprooted people became shifting cultivators and vagrants, bringing to the Chosŏn court alarming tales...

... Christians in the invading army of Japanese under Hideyoshi, and that Christian literature in Chinese was being read in Korea in the seventeenth century, the first actual acceptance of Christianity by Koreans has hitherto been supposed to have been in the 178O's. The second work, the Sayo-yoroku, is a diary...

... and especially economic conditions in those years. This holds, too, for his explanation of the "dark age" and of the national unification under Nobunaga and Hideyoshi. Political and institutional foundations underlying the peculiar historical developments are well described, but spiritual and ideological factors...

... one or more working definitions of "Bakufu" severely limits the ability of these authors to speak directly to one another. This is clearest in the case of Bernard Susser's illuminating piece on Hideyoshi and the daimyo. As it stands, its inclusion is rather perplexing. After all, Hideyoshi never took...

.../Nagasaki trade, the affairs of the few remarks about Rodrigues' romanization of San Felipe and the Madre de Deus, the mutual Japanese (p. 228). Rodrigues' second grammar antagonism of Jesuits and friars, the 1597 martyr- introduced the symbols k and gh for, respectively, doms, the death of Hideyoshi...

... important event of the Choso n dynasty. And, there is Mary Elizabeth Berry (Hideyoshi [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982 who takes a brief interest because invading Korea was one of the things that Hideyoshi did. Recently, Peter H. Lee has given us a translation of the Imjin nok, a collection...