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Hideyoshi used a fleet of similar ships in his [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.

Hideyoshi used a fleet of similar ships in his [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.

The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] then banned the ''daimyô'' of western Japan from possessing ''atakebune'' in [[1609]], in order to curb their ability to lend aid to [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] in [[Siege of Osaka|Osaka]]. ''Atakebune'' rapidly became rare oddities, which the shoguns enjoyed as amusing curiosities. Sometime around 1700, [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] had the last ''atakebune'' dismantled.

The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] then banned the ''daimyô'' of western Japan from possessing ''atakebune'' in [[1609]], in order to curb their ability to lend aid to [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] in [[Siege of Osaka|Osaka]]. ''Atakebune'' rapidly became rare oddities, which the shoguns enjoyed as amusing curiosities. One such ship, known as the ''Atake-maru'', built by Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] in [[1633]], is particularly famous. The last ''atakebune'', it was dismantled in [[1682]] by [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] on account of the shogunate's financial difficulties.<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 290n56.</ref>

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