akamagasaki

Updated: February 12, 2026

The salient facts are that Hideyoshi left Osaka with the main army of one hundred and thirty thousand men on the 22d of January, 1587, and, travelling by land, reached the Strait of Akamagasaki now called Shimonoseki on the 17th of February.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era