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* ''Title: Kuranosuke
 
* ''Title: Kuranosuke
 
* ''Distinction: [[Akechi Mitsuhide|Akechi]] retainer
 
* ''Distinction: [[Akechi Mitsuhide|Akechi]] retainer
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* ''Japanese'': 斉藤 内蔵助 利三 ''(Saitou Kuranosuke Toshizou / Toshimitsu)''
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Toshimitsu, also known as Toshizô<ref>An alternate reading of the same characters, 利三.</ref> was from [[Mino province]] and a long-time retainer of Akechi Mitsuhide, though he at first served [[Saito Yoshitatsu|Saitô Yoshitatsu]]. He was considered a competent soldier. According to one version of events, he was captured after the [[Battle of Yamazaki]] and executed at the Higashiyama Awata execution grounds<ref name=shinnyodo>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/5272248576/ Explanatory plaque for Tatekawa Sakura on-site at Shinnyodô]. Photo taken by [[User:LordAmeth]], 24 June 2010.</ref>. Another theory has that he killed himself the day after the battle.
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Toshimitsu was from [[Mino province]] and a long-time retainer of Akechi Mitsuhide, though he at first served [[Saito Yoshitatsu|Saitô Yoshitatsu]]. He was considered a competent soldier. According to one version of events, he was captured after the [[Battle of Yamazaki]] and executed. Another theory has that he killed himself the day after the battle. Toshimitsu's daughter was the well-known [[Kasuga no Tsubone]], who would be a nurse for the later [[shogun|shôgun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]].
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It is said that his close friends, the painter [[Kaiho Yusho|Kaihô Yûshô]] and the tea master [[Toyobo Chosei|Tôyôbô Chôsei]], took his head to [[Shinnyodo|Shinnyodô]], a temple in eastern Kyoto, where they buried it.<ref name=shinnyodo/>
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Toshimitsu's daughter was the well-known [[Kasuga no Tsubone]], who would be a wetnurse for [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], the third Tokugawa [[shogun]].
    
==References==
 
==References==
 
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