Akechi Mitsutada
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Akechi Mitsutada (明智光忠? 1540 - July 4, 1582) was a senior retainer under the Akechi clan throughout the late Sengoku Period of Japan. Mitsutada was both a direct cousin and retainer to Akechi Mitsuhide--who was subordinate to the Oda--and thus supported the ambitions of Oda Nobunaga around the year of 1570. Rewarded with Yakami castle of Tanba province after assisting in the death of the Hatano in 1577, Mitsutada served under the former with mediocre notability, supporting the treacherous Akechi Mitsuhide by 1582, at which he and his cousin would presently assault their lord at the temple of Honnoji. Splitting from Mitsuhide with his own respective unit of soldiers, Mitsutada assisted in the neighboring assault upon Nijo -- a temple that held Nobunaga's heir, Nobutada. Unfortunately for Mitsutada however, he would be crucially wounded by Oda arquebusiers during such an attempt, forcing him to retreat the battlefield until he reached a temple that allowed him medical treatment without condition of enemy assault or ambush. Conjectively remaining within such a region, even after Mitsuhide's murder of Nobunaga and retreat to Yamazaki, by the present means of his injuries, Mitsutada committed ritual suicide after hearing of his cousin's death 13 days into the future.
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- Akechi Mitsutada - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
