By EIICHI MIYASHIRO/ Senior Staff Writer
January 4, 2021 at 16:43 JST
A portrait of Akechi Mitsuhide in the possession of Hontokuji temple in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
As much as popular samurai movies and TV dramas strive to get their facts straight, portrayals of a coup against feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) by one of his subordinates at Honnoji temple in Kyoto have long shown the wrong historical figure playing the central role. [Read More]
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