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Onchi Sakon Mitsukazu 恩地左近満 (known as Onchi Sakontaro), a retainer of Kusunoki Masashige.

By Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Mitsukazu was a noted spy and informant as well as swordsman and famous for his disguise as a monkey showman, perhaps alluded to in the tengu crest of his helmet -

He and Masashige were killed at the Battle of Minatogawa, (the Battle of Minato River) in 1336 between the Emperor and the Ashikagawa clan. The Ashikagawa won and Kusonoki Masashige committed suicide.

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