- List of Illustrations*
- Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Taikōki: A Fictional Hero Emerges
- 2. Hideyoshi’s War: Yoshikawa Eiji’s Shinsho Taikōki and Hideyoshi as World War II Hero
- 3. The Salaryman Samurai: Hideyoshi as Business Model
- 4. The Women of the Realm: Hideyoshi as Social Criticism
- 5. Things Best Left Unseen: The Problem of Hideyoshi in the Twenty-First Century
- Epilogue: Whither Hideyoshi?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations
- I.1. A young Hideyoshi running away from home and toward his future
- I.2. An installment of Yada Sōun’s Taikōki
- I.3. A page from Yada Sōun’s illustrated Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1.1. A portrait of Hideyoshi
- 1.2. Hideyoshi on the march
- 1.3. Cherry blossom viewing
- 2.1. The second installment of Yoshikawa Eiji’s Taikōki
- 2.2. Aozora kyōshitsu (Open-air classroom)
- 2.3. “Moriagaru Taikōnetsu,” the introductory Yomiuri Shinbun roundtable article
- 3.1. The cover of Shimizu Sadakichi and Kojima Kōhei’s Hideyoshi to ningen kankei
- 3.2. An illustration of the Dōgatōge drive-in restaurant in Tsutsui Yasutaka’s “Tsutsui Junkei”
- 5.1. Mimizuka (Mound of ears)
- 5.2. A child plays at Mound of Ears Park
- 5.3. Saga Nagoya Castle Museum
- 5.4. Models of a Japanese atakebune and a Korean turtle boat
- 5.5. Saga Nagoya Castle ruins
- 5.6. View of Genkai Sea from Saga Nagoya Castle ruins
- 5.7. Virtual tour of Saga Nagoya Castle ruins
- 5.8. “Chibi” statues of Onene and Hideyoshi
- 5.9. A sign explaining the statues of Onene and Hideyoshi
- 5.10. Hideyoshi and Onene yurukyara goods
- 5.11. Hideyoshi and Onene ema
- E.1. Takenaka Naoto as Hideyoshi
- E.2. Cover art from Hideyoshi de gozaru!!
- E.3. A still from Teshigahara Hiyoshi’s Rikyū
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