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The chief protagonist of NHK’s year-long historical drama television series for 2020, called “Awaiting Kirin,” was Akechi Mitsuhide. There are always published an enormous number of books about the protagonist of any of NHK’s historical drama television series. This book, too, was one such book, but I wrote it in the hope that it would not become buried among the many other related books.
 
I am employed at the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo and am involved in the compilation of . The period for which I am responsible is, roughly speaking, the period when Oda Nobunaga held political power (). Currently, I am in the process of compiling the source materials for 1575 (Tenshō 3), and a collection of materials related to the Battle of Nagashino, which occurred on the 25th of the fifth month of this year, will soon be published. Akechi Mitsuhide did not participate in this battle, but immediately afterwards he was ordered to launch an attack on the province of Tanba, where he would discharge his chief duties as one of Oda Nobunaga’s retainers.
 
Although this book is a paperback, I have endeavoured to trace Akechi Mitsuhide’s life in a way that is as faithful as possible to the methods that I have mastered in the course of my own work, that is, by carefully reading sound historical sources and building