Hideyoshi Adopts Successor Plans

1591

Toyotomi Hideyoshi formally made his nephew Hidetsugu his heir after his own young son Tsurumatsu died. Two years later the birth of a second son, Hideyori, would overturn this arrangement and set in motion the gruesome destruction of Hidetsugu and his entire household. The crisis that followed Hideyori's birth and Hidetsugu's destruction fatally weakened the Toyotomi regime Ieyasu would exploit.