The 1578 took place following the sudden death of
Uesugi Kenshin
, later known as , was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (magnate). 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 ...
.
Kenshin had requested that the inheritance be split between his nephew,
Uesugi Kagekatsu
was a Japanese samurai ''daimyō'' during the Sengoku and Edo periods. He was the adopted son of Uesugi Kenshin and Uesugi Kagetora’s brother in law.
Early life and rise
Kagekatsu was the son of Nagao Masakage, the head of the Ueda Naga ...
, and his adopted son
Uesugi Kagetora. This conflict happened because of neither heirs being born with the
Uesugi name.
Kagekatsu was the biological son of
Nagao Masakage
was the head of the Ueda Nagao clan following 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 i ...
and
Kagetora was biological son of
Hojo Ujiyasu.
Before the situation could escalate into an armed conflict,
Takeda Katsuyori
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (military lord) of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen. He was son-in-law of Hojo Ujiyasu, ''daimyō'' of Hojo clan.
Early life
H ...
acted as the mediator between those two. Therefore, eventually the Uesugi was divided for a military conflict. The