Akechi Mitsuhide (1528 – 1582)
Mitsuhide was a bodyguard of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and later a successful general under daimyo Nobunaga during his war of political unification in Japan. Mitsuhide rebelled against Nobunaga for unknown reasons in the Honno-ji Incident in 1582, forcing the unprotected Nobunaga to commit seppuku in Kyoto.
