Hideyoshi Toyotomi

Hideyoshi Toyotomi is the most famous peasant-samurai in Japan and heralded as one of the three unifiers. He started as Nobunaga's sandal holder and worked his way to dominate over other warlords of his era. Hideyoshi became famous for his self-proclaimed title as the Great Regent (太閤, Taikō). After his death, Edo period folklore claims that Nobunaga gave him the nickname "Monkey" (サル, Saru) in ode to his monkey-like physique. He is said to have had an unrequited infatuation with Oichi. Nene is his wife, Lady Yodo is his famous concubine, and his successor is Hideyori.

He is the titular character in Koei's Taiko Risshiden series. His appearance for the series' second title appears as a guest character inDynasty Warriors. His character name for this game is Tōkichi (とーきち).

Hideyoshi first appeared in Samurai Warriors as a unique NPC in its first installment; he became a playable character in its expansion. Fans voted him to thirty-sixth place in Gamecity's Sengoku Musou 3: Empires character popularity poll. For the Samurai Warriors 4 poll, he placed fifty-second. This character incarnation has an image song calledHideyoshi, Arijyarou Uta (ka) that appears in SanThree's CR Sengoku Musou Moushouden.

His Nobunaga's Ambition counterpart is twenty-second place in Gamecity's character popularity ranking for 2015. The Nobunaga no Yabou 201X poll for 3-star officers puts him in twenty-fourth place together with Ranmaru while his reindeer portrait is ranked thirty-eighth. He placed eleventh in the Nobunaga no Yabou Taishi poll for most favorite father; fans voted him eighth for the best leader poll and fifth for best subordinate.

His Geten no Hana incarnation has the following image songs: Koi no Fumi, Issei Ichidai no Koi, and Hikari Sasu Mirai he.