masamime

Updated: May 3, 2025

There now remained only three really formidable enemies of Hideyoshi. These were Hojo Ujimasa, in the Kwanto; Date Masamime, in Dewa and Mutsu, and Shimazu Yoshihisa, in Kyushu. Of these, the Shimazu sept was probably the most powerful, and Hideyoshi determined that Kyushu should be the scene of his next warlike enterprise.

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