It’s astonishing how much he achieved and how long he lived considering the turbulent and chaotic age he was born into, but through patience, cunning, and subtlety he outlived his more dramatic contemporaries, including Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, to become the most powerful man in the land, reuniting the country and establishing a dynasty that lasted almost three centuries. One of history’s great figures and a founding father of modern Japan.
