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* ''Other Names: Koretô Mitsuhide''
* ''Other Names: Koretô Mitsuhide''
* ''Japanese'': [[明智]] 光秀 ''(Akechi Mitsuhide)''
* ''Japanese'': [[明智]] 光秀 ''(Akechi Mitsuhide)''
Akechi Mitsuhide was a prominent retainer to [[Oda Nobunaga]], who is famous for betraying him and leading armies against him in the [[1582]] [[Incident at Honnoji|Incident at Honnô-ji]], in which Nobunaga was killed.
==Background==
==Background==
[[Image:Akechi_mitsuhide.jpg||thumb|right|Akechi Mitsuhide.]]
[[Image:Akechi_mitsuhide.jpg||thumb|right|Akechi Mitsuhide.]]
The son of [[Akechi Mitsukuni]] (who had held [[Akechi castle]] in east [[Mino province]]), Mitsuhide first spent ten years as an unaffiliated warrior in [[Wakasa province]] around [[1557]] to [[1567]]. He served the [[Saito clan|Saitô]] of [[Mino province]] for a time, and later [[Asakura Ujikage]] of [[Echizen province|Echizen]]. In [[1566]] Mitsuhide is supposed to have acted as a messenger for the 'wandering shôgun' [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]], and thereafter served Nobunaga. Mitsuhide proved himself a capable general and in [[1571]] was awarded [[Sakamoto castle]] and two districts in [[Omi province|Ômi province]]. When Nobunaga went to war with the [[Mori clan|Môri clan]], Mitsuhide was assigned to lead the Oda contingent that would be marching along the northern coast of the Chûgoku arm. He invaded [[Tamba province|Tamba]], where he subdued the [[Hatano clan|Hatano]], and Tango, where he clashed with the [[Isshiki clan|Isshiki]] family.
==Conflict with Nobunaga==
==Conflict with Nobunaga==
