Posted on 08/27/2025 1:13:48 AM PDT by chajin
NAGOYA The statue of 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi located at the entrance of a shopping arcade in Nagoya has been beheaded, a local association said Tuesday.
A local resident notified the shopping center association on Saturday that the statue was missing its head. The neck has since been covered with duct tape to prevent further damage, according to an official of the group.
The association, which regards the statue as a symbolic figure of the arcade, is considering filing a damage report with police, the official said.
The defacement of the statue, made of reinforced plastic, comes after previous instances of damage to similar sculptures. In 2022, a statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu was knocked down and had a hole made in its back, while one of Oda Nobunaga was found without an arm in 2019.
The Hideyoshi statue, which sits on a pedestal, had been previously damaged before undergoing repairs. The statues were all donated in 2013.
Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu are Japan's most famous warlords known as "three heroes" who fought to unify Japan to end some 100 years of strife. They were all born in or near present-day Nagoya.
“Nobunaga made the bread that Hideyoshi baked, and Tokugawa ate.”
A sentence that explains the role each leader played in the unification of Japan.
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“We got no food, we got no jobs, our statues’ heads are falling off!”
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I believe I killed Lord Nobunaga twice.
..in the latest Assassins Creed game.
It was Tokugawa Iemitsu, more than the “original” shogun Ieyasu, who was the Diocletian of Japan, in the 1630s.
Takayama Ukon, the Christian daimyo who was one of the top students of tea ceremony master Sen no Rikyu, was able to live for 25 years under the protection of the Maeda clan in Kanazawa, and because Kanazawa was the main source of gold mining the Maedas were able to keep the Shogun at bay. But Iemitsu was so scared of European domination that he crucified every non-samurai Christian he could find, and then gave the Christian samurai the option of seppuku (suicide) or exile in the Philippines. The Maeda clan wanted to go to war with the Shogun over the issue, but Ukon said his life wasn’t worth having so many people die, so he went to Manila—except he got sick on the way there, and died soon after.
Maybe Leo will canonize Takayama Ukon; since I’m Lutheran it’s not my circus, etc.
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