The Sieges of Osaka Castle

In 1614 and 1615, Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康, 1543-1616) launched two military campaigns that culminated in the destruction of Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼, 1593-1615), the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉, 1537-1598), thereby eliminating the most formidable threat to the legitimacy of the shogunate he had founded. Hideyori held the position of daimyō over a substantial domain valued at more than 650,000 koku (石), centred...

The Sieges of Osaka Castle