was a daimyo who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan. He was one of the many powerful lords of the Sengoku period. He is famed for his prowess on the battlefield, the legendary rivalry with Takeda Shingen, his military expertise, strategy and his belief in the god of war - Bishamonten. In fact, many of his followers and others believed him to be the avatar of Bishamonten, and called Kenshin god of war. (more)
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Genres: politics
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Uesugi Kagekatsu:
Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉 景勝, January 8 1556-March 19 1623) was a daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history. The son of Nagao Masakage (the head of the Ueda Nagao clan) and Uesugi Kenshin's elder sister. After his father, died he was a
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Uesugi Norimasa:
was a daimyō of feudal Japan, and held the post of Kantō Kanrei, the Shogun's deputy in the Kantō. He is perhaps best known as the adoptive father of Uesugi Kenshin, one of the most famous warlords in Japanese history. At the battle of Kawagoe in 154
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Takeda Shingen:
Takeda Shingen In 1559, his name was changed again (this time by his own will) to the well-known Takeda Shingen. Shin is the contemporary Chinese pronunciation of the character nobu, which means "believe"; gen means "black", the color of intelligence
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Battles of Kawanakajima:
The battles of Kawanakajima were fought in the Sengoku Period of Japan between Takeda Shingen of Kai province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo province in the plain of Kawanakajima, in the north of Shinano Province, located in the southern part of the ci
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Takeda clan:
The Takeda was a famous clan of daimyō (feudal lords) in Japan's late Heian Period to Sengoku period. The Takeda were descendants of Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and are a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji), by Minamoto no Yoshimitsu (1056-1127), b
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Echigo Province:
Echigo was an old province in north-central Japan, on the Sea of Japan side, northernmost part of the Hokurikudō (北陸道）circuit. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kozuke, Shinano, and Etchu provinces. Today the area is part of Niigata prefecture, which al
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Nagao clan:
The Nagao clan was a family of daimyo, feudal lords who built and controlled Kasugayama Castle and the surrounding fief, in what is now Niigata Prefecture. Nagao Kagetora, adopted by Uesugi Norimasa, became lord of the castle in 1548, taking the name
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Odawara Castle:
Odawara Castle is a landmark in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture. It was the stronghold of various daimyo during the Muromachi period of Japanese history. From 1495 onward, five generations of the Late Hōjō clan held the castle. Odawara Are
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Hōjō Ujiyasu:
was the son of Hōjō Ujitsuna and a daimyō (warlord) of the Odawara Hōjō clan. Upon his father's death in 1541, a number of the Hōjō's enemies sought to take advantage of the opportunity to seize major Hōjō strongholds. Ogigayatsu Tomosada tried unsuc
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Murakami Yoshikiyo:
Murakami Yoshikiyo (村上 義清, 1501 - 1573) a retainer of the Japanese clan of Uesugi during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Yoshikiyo followed in fighting against both Takeda Nobutora and his son Takeda Shingen. Yoshikiyo was also a very close a
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Yamamoto Kansuke:
Yamamoto Kansuke (1501 - October 18, 1561) was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals. Also known by his formal name, Haruyuki (晴幸). 武田家臣団人事ファイル 山本晴幸(山本勘助) He was a brilliant strategis
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Takeda Nobushige:
Takeda Nobushige Sanada Yukimura's initial name was, in fact, Sanada Nobushige, named after this very person. Noritoshi Kashima portrayed Nobushige in NHK's 2006 Taiga drama.
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Nagao Tamekage:
Nagao Tamekage (長尾為景)(d. 1536) was a retainer of Japanese feudal lord Uesugi Funayoshi, and a daimyo in his own right, during Japan's Sengoku period. According to some scholars, such as George Bailey Sansom, Nagao Tamekage's career makes him represen
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Nagao Harukage:
Nagao Harukage was the final ruling head over the clan of Nagao within the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Initially receiving the title of Lord of Echigo and Head of Nagao, at the period in which he succeeded his respective father--Tamekage--
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