Akechi Mitsutsuna

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Akechi Mitsutsuna (明智光綱, Akechi Mitsutsuna^? died 1538) was a senior retainer under the Toki clan throughout the latter Sengoku period of feudal Japan. He was the son of Akechi Mitsutsugu and ascended to the head of the Akechi clan by the late 1400s. Mitsutsuna settled his domain within the southeastern half of Mino Province, occupying Akechi Castle as his initial base of power. Mitsutsuna fathered many potential heirs to his family line, one of such being the famed Akechi Mitsuhide, who would carry on his respective clan through heirship, initially serving under the Toki clan following the headship of his father. As Mitsutsuna thus served under Toki Yorinari for many years by means of his genetic relation to the former, he died by some unknown means within 1538, conjectively by means of old age, considering that the Toki were already neutral in their political aspirations and did not meet any direct form of harm until Saitō Dōsan's overthrownment.