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  2. Akechi Mitsuhide - Wikipedia

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    Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀, March 10, 1528 – July 2, 1582), [1] 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.

  3. Akechi clan - Wikipedia

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    Akechi Mitsutada (died 1582), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Akechi clan. Akechi Mitsuyoshi (died 1582), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, son of Akechi Mitsuhide, committed seppuku at the age of 12 or 13. Hosokawa Gracia (1563–1600), daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide and a famous Christian convert. Hosokawa Tadaoki's ...

  4. Hosokawa Gracia - Wikipedia

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    She was the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide and Tsumaki Hiroko, the wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki, and a convert to Catholicism. [2] [3] As the last notable survivor of the Akechi clan, the clan that planned and executed the assassination of Oda Nobunaga, the first "Great Unifier" of Japan, Gracia's death affected both armies. The incident did much ...

  5. Honnō-ji Incident - Wikipedia

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    Akechi Mitsuhide, on the other hand, was leading 13,000 fully armed soldiers. This was a perfect opportunity for Mitsuhide. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Honnō-ji was a fortified temple with stone walls and a moat, and it had a reasonable defense capability, but it was helpless when surrounded by a large army.

  6. Siege of Shigisan - Wikipedia

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    Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada, with Akechi Mitsuhide, would defeat Hisahide at the Siege of Shigisan. If Hisahide had surrendered, Nobunaga would have given him a small fiefdom. If Hisahide had surrendered, Nobunaga would have given him a small fiefdom.

  7. Awaiting Kirin - Wikipedia

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    The drama aims to shed light on the first half of Akechi's life, of which little is known about due to lacking historical records. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] On March 8, 2019, NHK announced that John R. Graham will be Awaiting Kirin ' s composer, having previously been a composer for Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV ; he is the first American hired to compose ...

  8. Battle of Yamazaki - Wikipedia

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    Soon, panic set in among the Akechi army, and Hideyoshi's army chased them back to Shōryūji, where the garrison collapsed. Mitsuhide himself fled much further, to the town of Ogurusu, where he was killed by a gang of bandits. [1]: 29 Mitsuhide is thought to have been killed by a bandit known as Nakamura about two weeks after the battle.

  9. Akechi Mitsutsuna - Wikipedia

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    Akechi Mitsutsuna (明智 光綱) was a senior retainer under the Toki clan from Akechi clan throughout the latter Sengoku period of feudal Japan. [1] [unreliable source?] He was the father of Akechi Mitsuhide and brother of "Omi-no-kata" (Saitō Dōsan's wife). His father was Akechi Mitsutsugu (1468-1538).