Their historical significance derives from their successes during the Genpei War and their subsequent affiliation with the Hōjō clan.
This did not stop him from joining the cause of the Hōjō family for the Jōkyū War of 1221, however.
Though Kagetora held the early advantage with the backing of Uesugi vassals such as Uesugi Kagenobu, Hōjō Hidetsuna, Kitajō Takahiro, and the Hōjō clan, the tide of the battle turned with Takeda Katsuyori's betrayal to Kagekatsu's side.
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His mother was the sister-in-law of Tooyama Yasumitsu, a vassal of the Hōjō clan (other sources say Zuikeiin, Ujiyasu's principle wife).
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When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kemmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan.
The Siege of Hachigata is the name of two sieges of Hachigata Castle, a satellite castle of the Hōjō clan's Odawara Castle, which was besieged twice, both times in advance of an attack on Odawara.
At the battle of Kawagoe in 1545, both major branches of the Uesugi family were defeated by the Hōjō clan; Norimasa's campaigns only continued to be less and less successful.
He is featured in the manga series Nabari no Ou (where he appears as the shape-shifting leader of the Fūma ninja village and an ally of the protagonist), and also makes an appearance in the light novel series Mirage of Blaze (during the story arc involving the Hōjō clan), the manga series Yaiba (revived by Onimaru), the manga and anime series Samurai Deeper Kyo (as Sarutobi Sasuke's childhood friend and rival) and Karasu Tengu Kabuto.
The Takeda clan would go on to fight the Hōjō clan in Suruga province, taking Kanbara castle from Tsunashige in the siege of Kanbara and Fukuzawa town from Tsunanari in the 1571 siege of Fukuzawa.