was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period and commander of Kuroi Castle. He was a retainer of Inaba Ittetsu, 【よろパラ 〜文学歴史の10〜 日本史人物列伝『斎藤利三』】 but later joined Akechi Mitsuhide.

Oda Nobunaga was not pleased that Toshimitsu chose to work under Mitsuhide, and if not for Mitsuhide's intervention, Nobunaga would have killed him.

Toshimitsu was also vital in Akechi's betrayal at Honnō-ji and at the Battle of Yamazaki.明智家臣団

He was the father of the Lady Kasuga, who became a preeminent retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate.

See also Saito Toshikazu

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External links

Saito Toshimitsu entry at Samurai Wiki