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 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.