Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Mitsuhide was a bodyguard of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and later a successful general under "daimyō" Nobunaga during his war of political unification in Japan. Mitsuhide rebelled against Nobunaga for unknown reasons in the Honnō-ji Incident in 1582, forcing the unprotected Nobunaga to commit "seppuku" in Kyoto.