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Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
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Period of Japanese history from 1467 to 1615
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Oda Nobunaga
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Akechi Mitsuhide
16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga (1528–1582)
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