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unusual facts about Uesugi family



Nagao Tamekage

He is perhaps most famous as the biological father of Nagao Kagetora, who would be adopted into the Uesugi family as Uesugi Kenshin, and would go on to become one of the most famous of all Sengoku period daimyo.

Uesugi Norimasa

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.

Uesugi Tomooki

Tomooki was of the Ōgigayatsu branch of the Uesugi family, not the more famous and powerful Yamanouchi branch to which Uesugi Kenshin belonged.


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