Article Ishida Mitsunari (1560-1600)

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An Hideyoshi's administrator turned battlefield warrior! That's as unlikely as a reality TV show moron becoming the leader of the not-so-free world!

Researchers at Saga University said on 13 February 2026 that they had reconstructed the face of Ishida Mitsunari from a skull replica held at the Kyōto University Museum. Assistant Professor Kawakubo Yoshitomo, a physical anthropologist who studies ancient human remains, carried out the work with colleagues at Saga University. The team analysed the replica using detailed measurements and a 3D scanner.

They built the facial features using data on bone and skin thickness among modern Japanese populations. The area around the nose had been damaged, so the researchers used a new method to estimate the missing shape from the surviving skull structure.

The Yomiuri newspaper reported that Assistant Professor Kawakubo commented, "The facial features are exactly as we imagined them based on the shape of the bones. Since DNA analysis is not possible from a replica, it is significant that we were able to get close to the real thing through a morphological approach. Comparing the original and the new Saga produced recreations of Mitsunari's face, and those few remaining portraits give us a closer look at what Ishida Mitsuhide really looked like, making him not just a name in a history book but a living, breathing man, too.

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