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A wife of Mitsuhide. She was born as a daughter of TSUMAKI Norihiro, one of the powerful samurais of Mino Province. When the Akechi family ruined after the Battle of Nagara-gawa in 1556, she supported her husband who experienced difficulties to realise reestablishing Muromachi Bakufu and converted her hair into money to help him. She is said to have died in 1576 or in 1582 when Sakamoto Castle fell after the Honnoji Incident and the Battle of Yamazaki.
Maki (Sayuri Ishikawa*)
A mother of Mitsuhide and a wife of AKECHI Mitsutsuna. Instead of her husband who died young, she brought up Mitsuhide. In the series, she tells young Mitsuhide how a samurai should be and makes him visit Tsumaki Castle to meet Hiroko that is a marriage interview in fact.
AKECHI Samanosuke (Shōtarō Mamiya)
A cousin of Mitsuhide and a son of AKECHI Mitsuyasu. Like Hiroko, he supported Mitsuhide and married Mitsuhide's daughter. After the Honnoji Incident, he defended Sakamoto Castle against the army of HORI Hidemasa. On the 14th of June 1582, he killed the damily of Mitsuhide and his wife, he commits suicide and burned the castle.
(*) She is an experienced singer who is famous for her smash hit "Tsugaru Kaikyō Fuyugeshiki" and acts a Christian woman in a Taiga Drama series "Kōmyō ga Tsuji".
The images are from the official website of "Kirin ga Kuru".
