Toyotomi Hideyoshi: The Peasant Who Became Master of Japan

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[canadasleftcoast.]

Nobunaga pounds the rice cake, Toyotomi kneads it, and Tokugawa sits down and eats it!

[kevinmcqueenie]

Just ready to watch but… if you’re doing Hideyoshi, I’d love to see Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu get the biographics treatment too. Complete the Three Great Unifiers trilogy! From a Brit in Japan who loves that period of history here, it would be very pleasing. Keep up the excellent work on all your many channels my dude!

[Mr_M_History]

Dude! You're such a king. You have no idea how much guys like us look up to your biographic videos!

[Miserereion]

If a bird doesn’t sing….
Nobunaga: “Kill it!”
Hideyoshi: “Make it!”
Ieyasu: “Wait for it!”

This pretty much sums up the characters of these three leaders.

[diaz_Epammg]

Dear Simon . It's not Leyasu . It's 'ie' eeyea . ieyasu .

[Hiramthefallen]

Love your videos they always send me down an immersive period for days. When I saw your video on oda Clan it took two weeks before I moved on. Your Roman videos kept me in Ancient Rome for a month

[GBGB]

It's Tokugawa Ieyasu, not Tokugawa Leyasu. That's an "i" at the beginning. Japanese names don't have L sounds.

[jeonyounggun]

Immediately after unifying the Japanese archipelago, Hideyoshi wrote that he would take over the Philippines, Taiwan, India, and Thailand, and that he would also conquer China. When he told Joseon to take the lead, he refused and Hideyoshi started a war. He also referred to him as the son of his own sun.

[goldesd]

You should make a video about minamoto no yoshitsune. Great content!

[ignitionfrn]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:45 - Chapter 2 - Rising through the ranks
6:55 - Mid roll ads
8:20 - Chapter 3 - Becoming the boss
13:15 - Chapter 4 - One lord to rule them all
17:50 - Chapter 5 - Collision in korea
- Chapter 6 -

[IpoteticAMVsChannel]

I love you Simon and your team, and I love watching your videos on my lunchbreak but I must say...your misspronounciation of names in this one is on another level! 😂

[hewhoshallnotbenamed]

With Nobunaga and Hideyoshi done with we now need an Ieyasu Biographics video to complete The Great Unifiers of Japan trilogy.

[reecepreble]

Korean Admiral Yi might be interesting. Turtle boats.

[spottedDeath]

It’s Tokugawa Ieyasu not Leyasu. I get the English mispronunciations but that’s just wrong.

[arnoldmojados]

Toyotomi is the Goat..from Peasant to Rule of all Japan? That's Cinderella

[michaelsinger]

Such a cool topic. Could you do a video on Tokugawa Ieyasu as well? It would compliment this video
Perfectly.

[tljackson]

Simon…right on with the videos! Can’t stop watching them! Well you got the two unifiers of Japan but where’s the video on the third one brother! Tokugawa Ieyasu. I’m waiting for that video brother!

[sdogg]

You and Babish need to do a crossover episode. Maybe Babish can make some old historic food from one of your previous episodes.

[johnmiller]

Simon,
As a librarian I'm going to beg of you to add one thing

A few further reading links -- your staff & you already must have them from your own research
I bet a lot of viewers would appreciate that
I LIKE rabbit holes digging stuff up, others not so much
Just stick em in the description section

[cecileroy]

Thank you so much - I love learning about this period in Japanese history!