Too lazy to manually translate so this is just Google Translated Wikipedia entry.
One of the things that annoyed me about "pop historians" online is how SO many people were saying "there's no way that Hideyoshi was the commander of the Kanegasaki Retreat because his status is low".
No, just because he doesn't have that fancy Whatever-no-Kami titles, doesn't mean that his status within the Oda family vassal rankings is low. The actual paperwork proving Hideyoshi's status pre-Kyoto was just rather hard to find, and you can't make assumptions when there's lack of evidence.
People should already know about Hide being chosen to be one of the Kyoto admins alongside Niwa Nagahide by now, right? (teaming up with Akechu, yay!!) It was featured in Sengoku Musou, come on, that means it can't be that hard to look up. Someone's bound to have made a detailed post about it by now.
Anyway, Kyoto is a very big deal, so being allowed to be in charge in Kyoto affairs should mean you're very important. Nobu isn't going to assign some low ranking nobody bum to be his representative to manage Kyoto.
I'm sure people won't argue against Nagahide being a high ranking vassal, so if Hide is more or less equal to him, then that's a fairly high status. So as per Kanegasaki, which is after Kyoto, Hideyoshi should have been someone up there equal to more senior vassals.
It's baffling that Japanese people are the ones spewing stuff about "low status low status" because even I from outside Japan can find texts at the very least shows possible proof of Hideyoshi's high status, even if it's not 100% confirmation. Why do you not know about them? Why aren't you trying to look for it properly? It just sounds like these people read a Famous Person say it and then just parroted the opinion.
I would be so mad if it's Watanabe Daimon, he sounds like he actually hates Hideyoshi, so his opinion is super biased and I hate him. I'm okay with negative opinions about any Sengoku figure I like as long as it's fair, and this dude doesn't sound fair. He sounds like he's gleefully taking any opportunity to talk bad on Hideyoshi and any positive concessions he makes sounds like he's making it under duress.
