Hideyoshi

[ hee-de-yaw-shee ]

noun

1. To·yo·to·mi [taw, -yaw-, taw, -mee], 1536–98, Japanese general and statesman: prime minister and dictator of Japan 1585–98.

Example Sentences

The show opens with the death of Japan's former ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, paving the way for Shogun's power struggle.

From BBC

Edy Hideyoshi Horikawa cheated death so many times during World War II that the U.S. government assumed he had been killed in action.

From Seattle Times

Catholics have a history of being ostracized for their faith in Japan, and 26 Christians who were executed in the late 16th century under orders from the warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi are commemorated in a monument in Nagasaki.

From New York Times

After it was outlawed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a samurai general who unified Japan in the 16th century, peasants continued to eat it in secret and died in droves.

From Reuters

“It’s a bad sign,” said Scythe Hideyoshi, “when our young hopefuls gravitate so openly to the enemy.”

From Literature