Samurai warlord statue beheaded
The statue is of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who completed the unification of Japan in the 16th century.
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The statue is of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who completed the unification of Japan in the 16th century.
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TOKYO (AFP) — A statue of a powerful 16th-century warlord and samurai outside a shopping arcade in Japan has been beheaded, a shop official and media reports said Wednesday.
The statue is of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who completed the unification of Japan in the 16th century, and is also known for his failed attempts to invade the Korean peninsula.
The association of the Endoji shopping arcade in Nagoya regards the statue as a symbolic figure of the mall, and “is considering filing a damage report with police,” a member told Agence France-Presse.
There was no information about who damaged the statue for what reasons, he added.
The vandalism came after similar damages to other warlord sculptures outside the same shopping arcade in central Japan that were reportedly donated by a real estate company in 2013.
In 2022, the one of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi’s rival and the first shogun of Tokugawa’s Edo period that lasted until the late 19th century, was knocked down and had a hole made in its back.
The figure of Oda Nobunaga was found without an arm in 2019.
The three are Japan’s most famous warlords who fought to unify Japan to end around 100 years of warring states period.
