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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Quotes about Akechi Mitsuhide
[edit]- 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 [1][2]
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- ↑ Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles.
- ↑ Akechi Mitsuhide. Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus of Wikipedia's Kyoto Articles. "Rojin zatsuwa" introduces the following words as Mitsuhide's. He said, "Lies of Buddha are upaya. Lies of samurais are strategy. And lies of farmers are something naïve." Some say that these words display his rationalism.