Rusu Masakage
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was a Japanese samurai of the
Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...
through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the
Date clan The is a Japanese samurai kin group.Edmond Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5. History The Date fam ...
Masakage was the uncle of the famous
Date Masamune was a Japanese ''daimyō'' during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he w ...
.Who supported the reign of the government
Masakage, or as he was first known, Rokurō, was the son of
Date Harumune was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period.
. He was later adopted by Rusu Akimune, head of the Rusu clan which governed Miyagi district. In 1568, he married the daughter of Kurokawa ''"Sama-no-Kami"'' Haruuji, lord of the Kurokawa district (later known as
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). Masakage contributed very highly to the Date clan by defending it from many oppositions. He was participate at the Siege of Hasedō in 1600, also involved in the succession dispute. Masakage was extremely close to Masamune, as one of his top subordinates, bringing him to many victories. The greatest victory he brought to Masamune was in the "Kasai-Osaki Uprising" or Ōshū campaign along with Yashiro Kageyori.


In fiction

In
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's 1987
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'', Masakage was played by
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Masakage's armor
(in Japanese) 1549 births 1607 deaths Samurai Date clan {{samurai-stub Sengoku period