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Akechi Mitsuyoshi
Born	1569
Died	July 4, 1582
Allegiance	Akechi clan
Commands	Sakamoto Castle
Battles / wars	Battle of Yamazaki (1582)

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 Castle when the Honnoji Incident occurred.

After Oda Nobutada died at the Nijo Palace, he moved to Sakamoto Castle in Omi Province and was engaged in the defense of western provinces.

When his father, Mitsuhide, was defeated in the Battle of Yamazaki, he was under attack by Nakagawa Kiyohide and Dom Justo Takayama, whereupon he committed suicide.

v t e Prominent people of the Sengoku and Azuchi–Momoyama periods
Emperor	Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei
Three major daimyō	Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shōgun	Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada
Other daimyō	Amago Tsunehisa Amago Haruhisa Asakura Yoshikage Ashina Moriuji Akechi Mitsuhide Azai Nagamasa Chōsokabe Motochika Date Terumune Date Masamune Hatakeyama Yoshitaka Honda Tadakatsu Hōjō Sōun Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujiyasu Ii Naomasa Imagawa Yoshimoto Imagawa Ujizane Isshiki Yoshimichi Itō Yoshisuke Kitabatake Tomonori Kuroda Nagamasa Matsunaga Hisahide Miyoshi Nagayoshi Mogami Yoshiaki Mōri Motonari Ōuchi Yoshitaka Ōuchi Yoshinaga Ōtomo Sōrin Rokkaku Yoshikata Ryūzōji Takanobu Saitō Dōsan Saitō Yoshitatsu Sakai Tadatsugu Sakakibara Yasumasa Satomi Yoshitaka Sanada Yukitaka Sanada Masayuki Sanada Nobuyuki Satake Yoshishige Sagara Yoshihi Shimazu Yoshihisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Tachibana Dōsetsu Takeda Nobutora Takeda Shingen Tōdō Takatora Uesugi Kagekatsu Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Norimasa Ukita Naoie Uragami Munekage Yamana Toyokuni Yamana Suketoyo
Swordsmen	Marume Nagayoshi Hikita Bungorō Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Mizuno Katsushige Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi Shinmen Munisai Itō Ittōsai
Advisers and strategists	Kobayakawa Takakage Kuroda Yoshitaka Naoe Kanetsugu Takenaka Shigeharu Usami Sadamitsu Yamamoto Kansuke
Ninja, rogues and mercenaries	Mochizuki Chiyome Fūma Kotarō Hatsume no Tsubone Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Nakamura Chōbei Ohama Kagetaka Sugitani Zenjūbō Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun Umemura Sawano
Monks and other religious figures	Ankokuji Ekei Hongan-ji Kennyo Hon'inbō Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Koji Kashin Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Chōrō Shimozuma Chūkō Shimotsuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō
Female castellans	Ashikaga Ujihime Chacha Miyohime Munakata Saikaku Nene Onamihime Otazu no Kata Otsuya no Kata Seishin-ni Tachibana Ginchiyo
Female warriors	Akai Teruko Fujishiro Gozen Ichikawa no Tsubone Ikeda Sen Kaihime Kamehime Katakura Kita Katō Tsune Komatsuhime Kushihashi Teru Maeda Matsu Myōki Myōrin Numata Jakō Ōhōri Tsuruhime Okaji no Kata Okyō no Kata Omasa Oni Gozen Shigashi Shirai no Tsubone Ueno Tsuruhime Yuki no Kata
Other women	Lady Acha Akohime Asahihime Lady Chaa Chikurin-in Gōhime Lady Goryū Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Tsumaki Hiroko Lady Hayakawa Hosokawa Gracia Irohahime Izumo no Okuni Jukei-ni Shimazu Kameju Lady Kasuga Keigin-ni Kitsuno Konoe Sakiko Kōzōsu Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Kyōun'in Matsuhime Megohime Lady Myōkyū Naitō Julia Nōhime Odai no Kata Oeyo Oichi Oinu Ohatsu Lady Ōkurakyo Ōmandokoro Ono Otsū Ōtomo-Nata Jezebel Rikei Lady Saigō Lady Sanjō Seien-in Seikōin Senhime Sentōin Tobai-in Toyotomi Sadako Tomo Lady Toida Tokuhime Tōshōin Lady Tsukiyama Yamauchi Chiyo Yoshihime Yoshihiro Kikuhime
Foreign people in Japan	Alessandro Valignano Francis Xavier Gaspar Coelho Jacob Quaeckernaeck Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn Julia Ota Luís Fróis Soga Seikan Wakita Naokata Wang Zhi William Adams Yasuke
See also	List of samurai from the Sengoku period

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-{{nihongo|'''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]].
+{{nihongo|'''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 Castle]] when the [[Honnoji Incident]] occurred.
-He stayed at [[Kameyama Castle]] when the [[Honnoji Incident]] occurred. After [[Oda Nobutada]] died at the [[Nijo Palace]], he moved to [[Sakamoto Castle]] in [[Omi Province]] and was engaged in the defense of western provinces.
+After [[Oda Nobutada]] died at the [[Nijo Palace]], he moved to [[Sakamoto Castle]] in [[Omi Province]] and was engaged in the defense of western provinces.
 When his father, Mitsuhide, was defeated in the [[Battle of Yamazaki]], he was under attack by [[Nakagawa Kiyohide]] and [[Dom Justo Takayama]], whereupon he committed suicide.

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