Appendix: Relevant Historical Materials - Some of the characters of the Warring States period in Japan
Oda Nobunaga: Owari Daimyo, when he was young, because his style did not conform to bushido, he was named "the great fool of Owari", but he succeeded in suppressing his brother's rebellion after his father's death, and unified Owari Ichikoku (equivalent to a prefecture in China), and in 1560 AD, Imagawa Yoshimoto (nicknamed "the first Yutori in the East China Sea"), who held the three kingdoms of Mikawa, Sunfu, and Enoe, mobilized a large army of 25,000 people to Kamiraku (to meet the emperor in the capital, and was thought to be the supreme power), and was raided by Oda Nobunaga with thousands of men in the Barrel Saruma area, Imagawa Yoshimoto died in this battle (this first bow in the East China Sea didn't even know how to ride a horse, so he couldn't escape on horseback after being raided, so he could only fight on foot, and was easily killed by Ashigaru.) )。 Oda Nobunaga became famous in this battle, gradually becoming the most powerful name in Japan, and after that, he continued to sweep through Japan, Nobunaga himself had no interest in becoming a great general, and it was rumored that he was even going to depose the emperor, he himself was full of interest abroad, and in the Battle of Nagashino, Oda Nobunaga severely damaged the cavalry of the Takeda family with a method of fire and spear three-stage fire (at that time Takeda Shingen was dead. Just as Nobunaga was about to unify Japan, in 1582, his subordinate Akechi Mitsuhide staged a mutiny near Kyoto and besieged Oda Nobunaga, who lived in Honnoji, and Nobunaga eventually committed suicide by seppuku, known in history as the "Honnoji Rebellion." This is also considered to be a major event that changed the course of Japanese history.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Chinese history books called "Taira Hideyoshi", his real name is Kinoshita Toyoshiro, he was born very poor, it was very rare in the Warring States Period, he was originally a subordinate of Oda Nobunaga, and when he attacked the Mino region, he was appreciated by Nobunaga because he built a castle overnight (the Mowu One Night Castle Incident, in fact, it was a simple small fortification made of wood), and later became a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, in order to get rid of the untouchable element in his name, Therefore, he changed his name to Hashiba Hideyoshi (one character each taken from the surnames of Nobunaga's two important ministers, Niwa Nagahide and Shibata Katsuie). When Oda Nobunaga marched into Kyoto, he was betrayed by his allies, and Hideyoshi Hashiba took charge of the palace and successfully repelled the enemy army, becoming a leading general. In 1582, after the death of Oda Nobunaga, the Honnoji Revolution, he managed to withdraw his troops from the front, defeated the army of Akechi Mitsuhide, and succeeded in defeating his rival Shibata Katsuie in the subsequent division of Nobunaga's inheritance, and then used diplomacy and military affairs to suppress all the daimyo and unify Japan. Because of his poor background, he could not become a shogun (the general must have a descendant of the Genpei family, which was almost a default at the time), so he was preparing to serve as the highest civil governor of the imperial court, the minister Taisei, and in order to obtain his status, he deliberately worshipped a public family as his father, which became a laughing stock at the time, and later changed his name to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a name that everyone is familiar with.
Another most important decision in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life was to attack Chao-Xian, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi formulated the goal of "Emperor Fengtian fixed the capital of Beijing and became the common monarch of Ming, Japan, and India", and formulated an aggressive plan of "conquering Chao-Xian first, using Chao-Xian as a springboard and then attacking Chinese mainland", which was almost the line and policy of aggression that Japan had pursued for hundreds of years. After refusing to cooperate with Japan, the Han attacked the Han in 1592 AD, known in Japan as the Battle of Wenlu Keicho and the Wanli Dynasty-Xian War in China.
The war ended with Japan's defeat, and it was the last time that China completely defeated Japan with its own great national strength.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi died before the end of the war, leaving his only son, Toyotomi Hideyori, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was born in Mikawa, took advantage of the internal contradictions of the Toyotomi family to successfully ascend to the throne, and defeated the Western army loyal to the Toyotomi family in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, and in 1615, the Osaka Summer Battle, Toyotomi's last stronghold, Osaka, was captured, and the Toyotomi family was completely wiped out, which also marked the end of Japan's Warring States.