− | 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. | + | The two campaigns, 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. |
| 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. | | 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. |