Editing Toyotomi Hideyoshi (section)

=== Kyushu Campaign ===
{{Main|Kyūshū Campaign}}
In 1586 Hideyoshi conquered [[Kyūshū]], wresting control from the [[Shimazu clan]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HQTbDphPKmoC&pg=PA87 Berry 1982, pp. 87–93]</ref> [[Toyotomi Hidenaga]], Hideyoshi's half-brother, landed to the south of [[Bungo province]] on Kyūshū's eastern coast. Meanwhile, Hideyoshi took his own forces down a more western route, in [[Chikuzen province]]. Later that year, with a total of 200,000 soldiers against the 30,000 men of the Shimazu forces, the two brothers met in [[Satsuma province]]. They [[Siege of Kagoshima|besieged Kagoshima castle]], the Shimazu clan's home. The Shimazu surrendered, and Hideyoshi was able to return his attention to the [[Hōjō clan]] of [[Kantō]], the last major clan to oppose him.

Later in 1587, Hideyoshi banished [[Christianity|Christian]] [[missionary|missionaries]] from Kyūshū, either to exert greater control over the ''[[Kirishitan]]'' ''daimyō''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HQTbDphPKmoC&pg=PA91 Berry 1982, pp. 91–93]</ref> or to prohibit human trafficking.<ref name="Japanslavesportuguese; Watanabe Daimon">{{cite web |author1=Watanabe Daimon |title=｢大量の日本人女性を､奴隷として本国に持ち帰る｣豊臣秀吉がキリスト教追放を決意したワケ  |trans-title="Bringing a large number of Japanese women back to his home country as slaves": Why Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to expel Christianity |url=https://president.jp/articles/-/52513?page=3 |website=President Online |publisher=PRESIDENT Inc |access-date=June 4, 2024 |pages=1–3 |language=Ja |date=2021}}</ref> Around that time, at least 50,000 Japanese people were sold overseas as slaves, mainly by Portuguese merchants.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Arata Harumasa |title=｢日本人の奴隷化｣を食い止めた豊臣秀吉の大英断  |trans-title=Hideyoshi's Great Decision to Prevent the Enslavement of the Japanese People |url=https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/411584?display=b |website=Toyo Keizai Online |publisher=Toyo Keizai |access-date=June 5, 2024 |pages=1–4 |language=Ja |date=2021}}</ref> However, since he did much trade with Europeans, individual Christians were unofficially overlooked.