ABSTRACT
CATHOLICS MOSTLY SIDED WITH HIDEYORI.-In 1614 Tokugawa Iyeyasu personally led his men to the siege of Hideyori's Castle of Osaka, but failed to take it and concluded a truce. The next year, that is in 1615, he succeeded in his plans, and the house of Toyotomi was wiped out, which proved a severe blow to the Catholic converts who had sided with Hideyori against Iyeyasu on account of Tokugawa's persecution of the Catholics.
