The Akechi clan (明智氏, Akechi-shi) is a branch of the Toki clan, which is descended from the Seiwa Genji. The Akechi clan thrived around the later part...

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...

Akechi Hidemitsu (明智 秀満, 1536? - July 4, 1582) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. A senior retainer of Oda Nobunaga's vassal Akechi Mitsuhide...

of Akechi Mitsuhide and Tsumaki Hiroko, the wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki, and a convert to Catholicism. As the last notable survivor of the Akechi clan, the...

Akechi Mitsutada (明智 光忠, 1540 – July 4, 1582) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Akechi clan. He was a cousin of his lord, Akechi...

Several clans claim descent from the Toki, including the Asano, Akechi, Seyasu, Ibi, Hidase, Osu, Tawara, Toyama, Fumizuki and Funaki. The first six clan heads...

Nagamasa but after Azai's downfall in 1573, he attended the Oda clan. As a yoriki of Akechi Mitsuhide a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. he distinguished himself...

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.[unreliable source...

commander of Kuroi Castle. He was a retainer of Inaba Ittetsu, but later joined Akechi Mitsuhide. Oda Nobunaga was not pleased that Toshimitsu chose to work under...

domination were thwarted when he fell victim to the treachery of his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide who forced Nobunaga into suicide during the Incident at Honnō-ji...

Saitō clan. Toshikazu was Saito Tatsuoki cousin, head of Saitō clan. In 1567, after the Battle of Inabayama, Toshikazu became a vassal of Akechi Mitsuhide...

unifying the country, but died in the unexpected rebellion of his vassal, Akechi Mitsuhide. Nobunaga only had a few guards and retainers with him when he...

Counterattacking forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi decisively defeat Akechi Mitsuhide's smaller army; Akechi is killed while retreating to his domain. July 26 – Battle...

father's name Tsumaki Norihiro. She was the wife of Akechi Mitsuhide, a prominent general of the Oda clan, and the mother of Hosokawa Gracia, a famous Christian...

scrapped and never released. The central character of the series, Samanosuke Akechi, is modeled after Takeshi Kaneshiro, who also voiced the character. People...

Hosokawa clan (細川氏, Hosokawa-shi) is a Japanese samurai kin group or clan. The clan descends from the Seiwa Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan, and ultimately...

vassal Akechi Mitsuhide, who drove him to suicide in the Honnō-ji Incident of 1582. At the same time, the Mōri clan overthrew the Ouchi clan in the Chūgoku...

descended from Fujiwara clan. Akamatsu clan (赤松氏) – descended from Murakami Genji. Akechi clan (明智氏) – cadet branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa...

counterattacking against the Yamana clan in Tajima Province. As the Yamana were Nobunaga's vassals, in 1575 Nobunaga sent Akechi Mitsuhide to conquer Tanba and...

Akechi Mitsuyoshi (明智 光慶, 1569 – July 4, 1582) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period and the eldest son of Akechi Mitsuhide. He stayed at Kameyama...

celebration of the demise of the Takeda clan. When he learned that Nobunaga had been killed at the Honnō-ji temple by Akechi Mitsuhide Tokugawa Ieyasu heard the...

conquer the Chūgoku region from the Mori clan, before advancing upon the Mori clan in Nagato Province,: 287, 306  Akechi Mitsuhide to pacify Tanba Province...

Nobunaga Hiroshi Fujioka as Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father Yoshi Sakou as Akechi Mitsuhide Mitsuo Yoshihara as Shibata Katsuie Tatekawa Danshun as Sakuma...

Battle of Mt. Tennō (天王山の戦い Tennō-zan no tatakai). In the Honnō-ji Incident, Akechi Mitsuhide, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, attacked Nobunaga as he rested in...

Masachika (松田政近) (died 1582) was a member of the Japanese Akechi clan. He was vassal of Akechi Mitsuhide. Masachika was born into a prestigious family of...

Hatano Clan's retainers, the Akai clan, Akai Naomasa, also known as Hatano Naomasa, died defending the Hatano stronghold of Kuroi Castle against Akechi Mitsuhide...

Hideyoshi pursued the defeated Akechi clan to Uchidehama and engaged the clan again there. Akechi Mitsuharu led the Akechi, as his cousin, Mitsuhide, died...

vengeance for the death of his lord, made peace with the Mōri clan and thirteen days later met Akechi Mitsuhide and defeated him at the Battle of Yamazaki, avenging...

Prefecture, Japan. Akechi Mitsuhide was the commander of the castle. After the Siege of Mount Hiei, Sakamoto was given to Akechi Mitsuhide who built...

Yasuda Nagahide Yasuda Akimoto Saitō Dōsan Saitō Yoshitatsu Saitō Tatsuoki Akechi Mitsuhide Takenaka Shigeharu Takenaka Shigenori Hachiya Yoritaka Hineno...