Uesugi Kagetora (上杉景虎?) (1552 - 1579) was the seventh son of Hōjō Ujiyasu; he was adopted by Uesugi Kenshin, and was meant to be Kenshin's heir. was the son of Hōjō Ujitsuna (北条 氏綱 and a daimyō (warlord of the Odawara Hōjō clan. was a Daimyo who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan. However, in 1578, he was attacked in his castle at Ōtate by Uesugi Kagekatsu--Kagetora's respective brother-in-law--and was subsequently defeated. The 1578 siege of Ōtate took place following the sudden death of Uesugi Kenshin, one of Japan 's greatest warlords Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉 景勝 January 8 1556 - March 19 1623) was a Daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods Kagetora committed suicide the following year.
Uesugi Kagetora in fiction
A modern-day reincarnation of Kagetora also appears in the 2000 anime series, Mirage of Blaze. (anime in Japanese, is a Shōnen-ai Light novel series by Mizuna Kuwabara, which are published under Shueisha 's Cobalt label He is one of the two primary characters--members of the Uesugi Netherworld Force--responsible for exorcising undead soldiers from the Japanese Feudal Era, which are taking part in a modern-day war, led by reincarnations of various feudal era warlords, including the recently-released spirit of Takeda Shingen. The written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts ( December 1, 1521 &ndash May 13, 1573) of Shinano and Kai Provinces was a preeminent Daimyo or feudal lord
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
- Mirage of Blaze information at animenewsnetwork.com
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