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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 adopted by Kenshin.Upon Kenshin's death in 1578, Kagekatsu battled Kenshin's other adopted son
Uesugi Kagetora for the inheritance, defeating him in the 1578
Ōtate no Ran. He forced Kagetora to commit seppuku, and became head of the
Uesugi clan. Kagekatu was married with
Takeda Katsuyori's sister (
Takeda Shingen's daughter) after
Ōtate no Ran.
As a general under
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kagekatsu took part in the
Odawara and
Korea campaigns, and rose to prominence to become a member of the
council of Five Elders. Originally holding a 550,000
koku fief in
Echigo province, Kagekatsu received the fief of
Aizu, worth a huge 1.2 million
koku when Hideyoshi redistributed holdings in 1598. After Hideyoshi's death, that year, Kagekatsu then allied himself with
Ishida Mitsunari, against
Tokugawa Ieyasu, as the result of some political dispute.
The
Sekigahara Campaign could be said to have begun, at least in part, with Kagekatsu, who was the first daimyo to plan revolt against Tokugawa Ieyasu. He built a new castle in Aizu, attracting the attention of Tokugawa, who ordered him to Osaka, to explain his conduct. Kagekatsu refused, and Tokugawa began plans to lead a 50,000 man army north against him. Ishida and Uesugi hoped to occupy Tokugawa Ieyasu with this fighting in the north, distracting him from Ishida Mitsunari's attacks in and around
Osaka. Tokugawa expected the likes of this, however, and remained in Osaka to fight Ishida; his generals
Mogami Yoshiaki and
Date Masamune would fight Kagekatsu in
Tōhoku (the far north-east of Honshū, Japan's main island). Kagekatsu had intended to move his force south, attacking the Tokugawa from the north-east while Ishida attacked from the west, but he was defeated very early in the campaign, at the siege of his castle at
Shiroishi.
Declaring his allegiance to Tokugawa following his defeat, Kagekatsu became a
tozama (outsider) daimyo; he was given the
Yonezawa han, worth 300,000
koku, in the Tōhoku region. Kagekatsu would later fight for the Tokugawa shogunate against the
Toyotomi clan in the 1614-15
siege of Osaka.
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