SEKIGAHARA

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in 1598, he left a unified Japan in the hands of his five-year-old son, Hideyori – appointing a council of regents, comprising the country’s five most powerful lords. However, as the samurai returned home from the disastrous invasion of Korea, the regents split into two factions – one led by the Hideyori loyalist, Ishida Mitsunari, and the other by their senior-most member, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Having spent decades helping to