, was a Japanese military commander who served under the warlord
Uesugi Kenshin
, later known as was a Japanese ''daimyō''. He was born in Nagao clan, and after adoption into the Uesugi clan, ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan. He was one of the most powerful ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period. Known a ...
, one of the Twenty-Eight Generals of Uesugi.
The son of Shibata Tsunasada and the elder brother of Shibata Shigeie (Shibata Harunaga), Nagaatsu served under Kenshin from the latter's earliest campaigns. Nagaatsu began serving Kenshin at a very young age and fought in many of his battles.
He fought on the right flank at the 4th
Battle of Kawanakajima (1561) and
Battle of Tedorigawa (1577).
In 1578, during the
Siege of Otate, the succession struggle that followed Kenshin's death, Nagaatsu supported Kenshin's son
Kagekatsu. Nagaatsu died of illness in 1580.
References
Samurai
1538 births
1580 deaths
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