Born at Osaka castle to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Yodo-dono. A son of Hideyoshi's old age, he was doted on by his father.
Toyotomi Hidetsugu, Hideyoshi's nephew and regent, was forced to commit seppuku, leaving the infant Hideyori as the only Toyotomi heir.
Hideyoshi died, having repeatedly begged the Five Elders and Five Commissioners to support the young Hideyori.
Tokugawa Ieyasu won at Sekigahara. Hideyori had not fought, but his lands were cut to about 650,000 koku in Settsu, Kawachi and Izumi.
In the year Ieyasu became shogun, Hideyori married Ieyasu's granddaughter Senhime, a match binding the Toyotomi and Tokugawa.
From around this time he rebuilt many temples and shrines across Japan in his father's memory, which also displayed the vast wealth of the Toyotomi.
He met Ieyasu at Nijō castle in Kyoto. Seeing how impressively Hideyori had grown, Ieyasu reportedly became more wary of the Toyotomi.
The inscription on the bell of the rebuilt Hōkō-ji was denounced as cursing Ieyasu (the Hōkō-ji bell incident), and the Winter Siege of Osaka followed. He fought with gathered rōnin but made peace, and Osaka castle's moats were filled in.
In the Summer Siege of Osaka, despite the valiant fighting of Sanada Nobushige and others, Osaka castle fell. Hideyori took his own life with his mother Yodo-dono and the Toyotomi line ended. His wife Senhime was rescued.
Toyotomi HideyoshiTokugawa IeyasuSenhimeKatō KiyomasaIkeda TerumasaSanada Yukimura (Nobushige)Yodo-dono
Tachibana MuneshigeKuroda NagamasaYodo-donoItō MancioHasekura TsunenagaUkita HideieYuki HideyasuKobayakawa Hideaki
People of the Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.