ABSTRACT
In the twelfth month of 1592 Hideyoshi declared his intention of sending an expedition to Korea, and appointed Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa to lead the vanguard. They were ordered to start in the third month of the following year, and the rest of the army of 270,570 men was to proceed under the various commanders from the base at Nagoya in Hizen according to plan. Hideyoshi left Kyoto on the twenty-sixth of the third month for this base, and arrived there in the third week of the month after. Here preparations had been hurried on for his reception since the year before, and everything about his quarters was imposing and splendid. Ieyasu was appointed to the supreme command of all the Daimyos of the Eastern Provinces, so he left his son Hidetada in Edo to act as Warden in his absence, with Sakakibara Yasumasa, Sakai Shigetada, Honda Yasushige, Matsudaira Yasuchika, and Miyake Yasusada as councillors, and appointed his other son Hideyasu commander over Uesugi, Date, Satake, Nambu, and the others whose contingents marched with the Tokugawa force, the whole amounting to about fifteen thousand men. For the first time Ieyasu appointed five O-bangashira to command the five divisions into which his army was arranged. He had a number of war-vessels built from timber which was brought from the forests of Izu, and for these Koriki Kiyonaga was made Commissioner. When Ieyasu arrived at the base at Nagoya he was at once summoned by Hideyoshi to take part in the council of war with Maeda, Gamo, Asano, and others.
