The two campains, the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] (1614) and the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] (1615) by which Ieyasu destroyed [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]]'s son Hideyori in Osaka Castle. This marked the end of the Sengoku. After this, there was no focal point for resistance to the shogunate for almost 250 years.
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The two campains, the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] (1614) and the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] (1615) by which [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] destroyed [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]]'s son Hideyori in Osaka Castle. This marked the end of the Sengoku. After this, there was no focal point for resistance to the shogunate for almost 250 years.
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Following the fall of the castle, and of the [[Toyotomi clan]], Tokugawa Ieyasu made efforts to recover artifacts and heirlooms owned by the Toyotomi, including ceramics, swords, [[tea ceremony|tea]] instruments and a variety of other objects. Some of these objects were repaired (ceramics, with lacquer), or, in the case of swords, reforged. Historian [[Morgan Pitelka]] identifies this as not only a result of Ieyasu's love of art and history, but also a profoundly political act, seizing ownership of these treasures previously owned by the Toyotomi.
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==References==
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*Morgan Pitelka. "Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu." in ''A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 460-461.