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Sengoku period Japanese samurai

Saitō Dōsan (斎藤 道三), also known as Saitō Toshimasa (斎藤 利政), was a Japanese samurai during the Sengoku period. He was also known as the "Viper of Mino" (美濃の蝮) for his ruthless tactics. His honorific title from the Imperial Court was Yamashiro no kami (山城守). After entering monkhood in his later years, he was also called Saitō Yamashiro nyudō no kami (斎藤山城入道守).

Originally a monk, he was a seller of oil. He became a daimyō through gekokujō of Toki Yorinari at Mino Province in 1542. Yorinari was forced out of Mino by Saitō Dōsan. He married 'Omi no kata', a
sister of Akechi Mitsutsuna (Akechi Mitsuhide's father). He defeated Oda Nobuhide at the Battle of Kanōguchi in 1547. However, in 1549, eventually Oda Nobuhide was defeated by Dōsan, Nobuhide made peace with Dōsan by arranging a political marriage between his son and heir, Oda Nobunaga, and Dōsan's daughter, Nōhime. Dōsan, therefore, became the father in law of Oda Nobunaga. Both temples are located in the city of Gifu which celebrates Dōsan with an annual festival.

Saitō Dōsan is known for having a large number of pseudonyms and for frequently changing his name. Some believe that this is because there were two Saitō Dōsan, father and son, and the son adopted his father's name after his death. Other names of Saitō Dōsan are Minemaru (峰丸), Hōrenbō (法蓮坊), Matsunami Shogorō (松浪庄五郎), Nishimura Kankurō Masatoshi (西村勘九郎正利), Shinkurō (新九郎), Nagai Norihide (長井規秀), and Saitō Sakondayu Toshimasa (斎藤左近大夫利政). The name Saitō was adopted from the former shugodai of Mino who had been overcome by the Nagai clan in the 1520s.

In the Action RPG Nioh 2 he's reimagined as a retired Yokai hunter that fell in love with a female Yokai who bore him two children; Saito Yoshitatsu and the main protagonist "Hide". He's killed by Yoshitatsu's forces at the end of the first act.