Nippon no rekishi (Japanese History) 6 (Shueosha Comic Bunko)

[Machine Translation] At the end of the Warring States period, three heroic figures emerged in Japan. These warlords dreamed of reigning as the shoguns. Nobunaga Oda, who thoroughly rejected traditional authority; Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who envisioned a unique East Asian order; and Ieyasu Tokugawa, who aimed to create a peaceful society based on the concentration of power in the shogunate family. It was also a cosmopolitan period, with the absorption of Namban culture flourishing through the red seal trade with foreign countries after the introduction of guns. Merchants in Sakai and Hakata engaged in rich economic exchange.

戦国末期、日本には3人の英傑が現れる。天下人として君臨することを夢見た武将たち。伝統的な権威を徹底して否定した織田信長、独自の東アジア秩序を構想した豊臣秀吉、将軍家への権力集中をもとに太平の社会作りを目指した徳川家康。また、鉄砲伝来以降、海外との朱印船貿易を通じ、南蛮文化の吸収が盛んな国際的な時代でもあった。堺や博多の商人は豊かな経済交流を行っていく。