Why is Toyotomi Hideyoshi called a monkey?

According to historical records such as Taige Su Sheng Ji, Xiuji really looks like a monkey, so he was nicknamed the monkey. It's not just a rumor, there is evidence in Nobunaga's existing letter.

In addition, Nomoto Nagata's letter also revealed that Hideyoshi also has a nickname called "Bald Rat". After Hideyoshi's middle age, her hair gradually became sparse. When he went out to war in his later years, he often painted eyebrows and pretended to have a beard in order to make himself more dignified.

Introduction:

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born into a poor peasant family in Aichi Prefecture and Guangzhong Village. At the end of the Warring States period, the Japanese feudal lords were the famous warring states generals who unified Japan for the first time in modern times after the Muromachi shogunate.

At the age of eight, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's father died. Soon, his mother found another husband. In the stepfather's eyes, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is like a monkey. She hates him very much, so she asks him to do odd jobs for others.

But Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not welcome anywhere, and he won't stay anywhere for long. At the age of sixteen, he left home with Yongle money left by his biological father.