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The army that Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched to Korea in May of 1592 was the product of the preceding decades of warfare in Japan, in which arquebuses and infantry warfare had become increasingly important. This shift from earlier practice continued during the campaigns against first the Koreans, and then the Ming Chinese forces that came to […]

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, love, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient… I have practised patience. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) Japan, after the death of its feudal overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1535–98), was threatened by anarchy. A council of five co-regents had […]