Shōtoku era (1711–1716) Donated by Saitō Shōji
This doll represents the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was one of the most powerful men in Japan and regarded as one of the “Great Unifiers” of Japan in the late 16th century. The expression on the doll’s face is thought to resemble his successor Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shōgun of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603. The doll may have been made as a kind of portrait.