Akechi Mitsuhide
w:Akechi Mitsuhide (Date of Birth - Date of Death) (Japanese:明智 光秀, Hepburn:Akechi Mitsuhide, 1528–1582) was a Japanese samurai general of the Sengoku period.
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- 日向守明智云、仏のうそをば方便と云、武士のうそをば武略と云。土民百姓はかはゆきこと也と名言也。
- Translation: Lies of Buddha are upaya. Lies of samurais are strategy. And lies of farmers are something naïve.
- Source: Original Japanese text wikisource:ja:老人雑話, 坤之巻 (Rojin zatsuwa, Kon no maki), English translation published in Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles.
