{"product_id":"sw026","title":"SW026 ‘Maeda Toshiie’ | King \u0026 Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eSW026 – ‘Maeda Toshiie’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaeda Toshiie lived through the turbulent decades in which Japan moved from prolonged civil warfare towards political unification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1538, Toshiie became associated with Oda Nobunaga and developed a reputation as a warrior before later becoming one of the leading daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis career therefore crossed the world of the Sengoku battlefield and the increasingly complex politics of Japan's unification. After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, Toshiie was one of the senior figures intended to help govern until the young Toyotomi heir came of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToshiie's death in 1599 removed an important political counterweight shortly before the struggle that culminated at Sekigahara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSW026 – Maeda Toshiie is an excellent personality figure for collectors interested in the men whose careers linked Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisplayed with other named daimyo and samurai, he helps turn the collection into a miniature portrait of the personalities behind Japan's dramatic 16th-century conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable from The Military Workshop – a finely detailed King \u0026amp; Country representation of Maeda Toshiie, warrior, daimyo and important figure in the final decades of the Sengoku period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King \u0026 Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52792774426906,"sku":"SW026","price":91.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/0154\/0890\/files\/SW026_1.jpg?v=1788521378","url":"https:\/\/themilitaryworkshop.com\/products\/sw026","provider":"The Military Workshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}