丰臣

The Toyotomi (丰臣) name was bestowed by Emperor Ōgimachi on the peasant-born general Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴秀吉) in 1586, elevating him to imperial-court rank. Hideyoshi (丰臣秀吉, 1537-1598) is one of the 'Three Unifiers' of Japan alongside Oda Nobunaga (织田信长) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (德川家康). He launched the disastrous Imjin War invasions of Korea (壬辰倭乱) in 1592 and 1597.

Unlike most Chinese transliterations of Japanese names, 丰臣 is the actual on'yomi reading of the kanji 豊臣 - Chinese readers pronounce the original Japanese characters with Mandarin readings. Same convention applied to 织田 (Oda), 德川 (Tokugawa), 武田 (Takeda).