Akechi Mitsuhide
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Key facts
- Succeeded by
- Toyotomi Hidekatsu
- Born
- 10 March 1528, Tara Castle, Mino Province , Japan
- Died
- July 2, 1582 (1582-07-02) (aged 54), Fushimi-ku, Kyoto , Japan
- Spouse
- Tsumaki Hiroko
- Children
- Akechi Mitsuyoshi , Akechi Tama , at least one other daughter
- Parents
- Akechi Mitsutsuna (father) Daughter of the Wakasa Takeda clan (mother)
- Relatives
- Akechi Hidemitsu (son-in-law), Akechi Mitsutada (cousin)
- Nickname
- "Jūbei" (十兵衛)
- Allegiance
- Toki clan , Saitō clan , Ashikaga shogunate , Oda clan
- Unit
- Akechi clan
- Kanji
- 明智 光秀
- Hiragana
- あけち みつひで
- Romanization
- Akechi Mitsuhide
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Occupation
- samurai
- Position held
- daimyo
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Family
- Akechi clan
- Noble title
- daimyo
- Conflict
- Battle of Yamazaki
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Akechi Mitsuhide2.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Tenkai
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- Commons category
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- date of birth
- 1528-00-00
- date of death
- 1582-07-02
- name in kana
- あけち みつひで
- name in native language
- 明智光秀
- allegiance
- Oda clan
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Encyclopedic overview
Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀; March 10, 1528 – July 2, 1582), first called Jūbei from his clan and later Koretō Hyūga no Kami (惟任日向守) from his title, was a Japanese samurai general of the Sengoku period. Mitsuhide was originally a bodyguard of the last Ashikaga shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and later, one of the trusted generals under daimyō Oda Nobunaga during his war of political unification in Japan.
Mitsuhide rebelled against Nobunaga for unknown reasons in the Honnō-ji Incident in 1582, forcing the unprotected Nobunaga to commit seppuku in Kyoto.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akechi Mitsuhide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.