Uesugi Kenshin
Nagao Kagetora (長尾 景虎, February 18, 1530 – April 19, 1578[1]), was a Japanese daimyō also known as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉 謙信). He was born in the Nagao clan[2]. He ruled over Echigo Province during the Sengoku period of Japan[3]. Kenshin a powerful daimyo and was called the "Dragon of Echigo". He was a great administrator and helped develop local industries and trade. He gave his people a high standard of living in Echigo.
Kenshin was a very honorable person. He also led many defensive campaigns to bring peace to the Kantō region and believed in the Buddhist god of war, Bishamonten. Some of his followers even thought that he was an incarnation of Bishamonten and called him the "God of War."
He is enshrined in Uesugi Shrine as a kami..[4][5]
Uesugi Kenshin Media
- Uesugi Kenshin with Two Retainers (Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art).jpg
Depiction of Kenshin in a monk-like image with two ministers, from Muromachi period (1336–1573)
- KasugayamaCastle-print.jpg
Kasugayama Castle was Kenshin's primary fortress.
- Sengoku period battle.jpg
Depiction of the legendary personal conflict between Kenshin and Shingen at the fourth battle of Kawanakajima
- Uesugi Kenshin Portrait Close-up Rinsenji Temple.png
Uesugi Kenshin portrait close-up Rinsenji Temple
- 上杉謙信墓所／林泉寺 - panoramio.jpg
Uesugi Kenshin's grave at the Rinsen-ji temple, Jōetsu, Niigata
- Letter from Uesugi Kenshin to Uesugi Kagekatsu.jpg
Letter from Uesugi Kenshin to Uesugi Kagekatsu
- Gackt in 2008.jpg
Gackt as Kenshin at the Kenshin Festival in Jōetsu, Niigata, 2008
- Uesugi Kenshin Nyudo Terutora Riding into Battle LACMA M.2007.152.65.jpg
Kenshin's mythical riding into battle by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1883)
- Uesugi Kenshin by Kuniyoshi.JPG
Kenshin depicted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1843–1844)
Related pages
- Naoe Kanetsugu
- Aya-Gozen
References
- ↑ Uesugi Kenshin at Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Dupuy, Johnson & Bongard 1992.
- ↑ Turnbull 1987.
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Other websites
- Samurai Archives – Uesugi Kenshin Archived 2019-01-16 at the Wayback Machine