Hideyoshi Takes Odawara

July 5, 1590

Toyotomi Hideyoshi sealed the Hojo clan into their enormous Odawara castle and lounged in a lacquered tea house just outside the walls while holding concerts and cherry-blossom parties. Four months later the Hojo surrendered. With them, the last independent daimyo fell. The reunification of Japan was finally complete. The Hojo surrender completed Japan's reunification, and Hideyoshi's redistribution of fiefs reshaped the entire archipelago's political geography.