give the player advice. Manga Hyouge Mono (, lit. "Jocular Fellow") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It was adapted into an anime series in 2011, and includes a fictional depiction of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life. In the Sengoku Basara game series and anime, he is described as a brutally strong man who killed his own wife to harden his heart, then raised an army to conquer Japan with conscripts and forced draftees. He is armed only with gauntlets, is large in physique, and is so strong that he can deflect a hail of arrows with a wave of his hand and drain a part of the Seto Inland Sea to defeat Chosokabe Motochika. Many of his subordinates and allies, such as Takenaka Hanbei and Ishida Mitsunari, are also major characters in the series. Anime In the Netflix anime series Great Pretender (2020), Hideyoshi is referenced many times by Laurent Thierry, one of the central protagonists of the series. Documentary In the Netflix documentary series Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan (2021), Hideyoshi is portrayed by Masami Kosaka. The show depicts his life and rise to power. Honours Senior First Rank (August 18, 1915; posthumous) See also People of the Sengoku period in popular culture#Toyotomi Hideyoshi Itsukushima's Senjokaku Hall Dom Justo Takayama :hr:Toyotomi Hideyoshi Notes References Berry, Mary Elizabeth. (1982). Hideyoshi. Cambridge: Harvard UP, ; Haboush, JaHyun Kim. (2016) The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation (2016) excerpt Jansen, Marius B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard UP. ; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; External links The Christian Century in Japan, by Charles Boxer 1537 births 1598 deaths 16th-century Japanese people Daimyo Samurai Sesshō and Kampaku Toyotomi clan Warlords Oda retainers People from Nagoya People of Muromachi-period Japan People of Azuchi–Momoyama-period Japan Military engineers People of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) 16th-century Japanese calligraphers Deified Japanese people Kabuki characters