Saitō Toshimitsu

In this Japanese name, the surname is Saitō.
Saitō Toshimitsu
斎藤 利三
Portrait of Saitō Toshimitsu from Utagawa Yoshiiku's Heroes of the Taiheiki
Lord of Kuroi Castle
In office
1579–1582
Preceded byAkai Naomasa
Succeeded byHorio Yoshiharu
Personal details
Born1534
Mino Province
DiedJuly 6, 1582(1582-07-06) (aged 47–48)
ChildrenLady Kasuga
Military service
Allegiance Saitō clan
Inaba clan
Akechi clan
CommandsKuroi Castle
Battles/warsTanba Campaign (1575)
Siege of Kuroi Castle (1579)
Honnoji Incident (1582)
Battle of Yamazaki (1582)

Saitō Toshimitsu (斎藤 利三, 1534 – July 6, 1582) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period and 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 in Akechi's betrayal at Honnō-ji and at the Battle of Yamazaki.[3]

He was the father of the Lady Kasuga, who became a preeminent retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "黒井城" (in Japanese). 攻城団. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  2. ^ (in Japanese) 【よろパラ 〜文学歴史の10〜 日本史人物列伝『斎藤利三』】
  3. ^ a b 明智家臣団


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