Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the foot soldier's son from Nakamura in Nagoya who rose to power, left his mark on Sunomata, Nagahama, Mount Tennozan, Osaka Castle, Jurakudai in Kyoto and Fushimi Castle.
This route follows his rise in order: the birthplace, the legendary one-night fort, his first lordship on Lake Biwa, the 1582 battle that avenged Nobunaga, and the great castles and palaces of his later years. Several of the original buildings are gone, so some stops are approximate.
Date Masamune, the One-Eyed Dragon, was born at Yonezawa Castle and ended his life as lord of Sendai. This route follows him through Yonezawa, Aizu, Iwadeyama, Sendai Castle, Zuigan-ji at Matsushima and his mausoleum at Zuihoden.
It covers the castles he took, rebuilt or founded between 1584 and 1636, and the temple and tomb that survive him. Most of the original buildings are gone, so several stops are sites or rebuilds.
The Siege of Odawara of 1590 was fought at Odawara Castle in Kanagawa, with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's one-night castle at Ishigakiyama and Hōjō outposts at Hachigata, Hachiōji and Oshi.
Hideyoshi's army surrounded the Hōjō capital while other forces took its castles across the region one by one. This route follows the campaign through five castle sites, from the siege to the last holdouts, and most can still be visited as parks or ruins.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, was born at Okazaki Castle and buried at Nikkō Tōshō-gū. His route also crosses the Sekigahara battlefield, Edo Castle in Tokyo and Sunpu Castle in Shizuoka.
Follow five places from his birth in 1543 through the 1600 battle, his rise to shogun in 1603, his retirement and his death in 1616. Sekigahara is pinned approximately to the town.
En 1600 un piloto inglés llegó a las costas de Japón. «Shōgun», de FX, cambia los nombres de los protagonistas (John Blackthorne es William Adams, lord Toranaga es Tokugawa Ieyasu, lady Mariko es Hosokawa Gracia) y traslada el naufragio de Usuki a la aldea de Ajiro, en Izu. Esta ruta sigue los lugares documentados detrás del drama, desde el desembarco real en Usuki y la corte de los regentes en el castillo de Osaka hasta la mansión donde murió Gracia, el astillero de Adams en Itō, su casa en Nihonbashi y su tumba en Hirado. La serie de 2024 se rodó en la Columbia Británica.
En el otoño de 1600 dos ejércitos se encontraron en Sekigahara para decidir quién ostentaría el poder tras Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Un solo día entre la niebla dio a Tokugawa Ieyasu una victoria decisiva y lo puso en el camino hacia el shogunato.
La ruta sigue la campaña desde el asedio de Fushimi hasta los castillos de Mino, el campo de Sekigahara, la caída de Sawayama, el castillo de Mitsunari, y su entierro en Kioto, y termina en el castillo de Edo en 1603. Las fechas del antiguo calendario japonés se indican como tales.
