落ち武者狩り

retinue. Such Ochimusha were often hunted, a practice called ochimushagari (落ち武者狩り), after his army was defeated and cannot be protected among his men, and

a losing battle, Mitsuhide was killed in an instance of ochimusha-gari (落ち武者狩り), a medieval Japanese custom in which local samurai, farmers and bandits