Saitō Toshimitsu Explained

Saitō Toshimitsu
Native Name:斎藤 利三
Birth Date:1534
Birth Place:Mino Province
Order:Lord of Kuroi Castle
Term Start:1579
Term End:1582
Predecessor:Akai Naomasa
Successor:Horio Yoshiharu
Children:Lady Kasuga
Allegiance: Saitō clan
Inaba clan
Akechi clan
Battles:Tanba Campaign (1575)
Siege of Kuroi Castle (1579)
Honnoji Incident (1582)
Battle of Yamazaki (1582)
Commands:Kuroi Castle

was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He was a castle commander of Kuroi Castle.[1] He was a retainer of Inaba Ittetsu,[2] but later joined Akechi Mitsuhide.

Oda Nobunaga was not pleased that Toshimitsu chose to work under Mitsuhide, and if not for Mitsuhide's intervention Nobunaga would have killed him.

Toshimitsu was also vital for the Akechi action at Honnō-ji and the Battle of Yamazaki.[3]

He was the father of the Lady Kasuga, who became a preeminent retainer of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 黒井城. 攻城団. Japanese. 25 July 2019.
  2. 【よろパラ 〜文学歴史の10〜 日本史人物列伝『斎藤利三』】
  3. http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Orion/6291/akechike/kasindan.html 明智家臣団