History,Fiction

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i will add some informations about the characters from the real history and from the fiction

 

1- Uesugi Kagetora

a- Fiction;

 

He was born to Houjou Ujiyasu and Zuikeiin as their eighth (seventh to survive to adulthood) and youngest son. In the novel, Saburou was described has most feature of Zuikeiin (Kagetora biological mother), playful and notably loves animal so much. As a child, Saburo was sent as a hostage to Takeda Shingen at the formation of the alliance between the three clans of Houjou, Takeda, and Imagawa. Then, when that alliance was broken, he returned to become the adopted child of his great uncle Houjou Genan.

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most of his biological brothers especially Hojou Ujimasa as he mentioned, he never felt Saburou like his own brother more like stranger as Saburou spent so much of his childhood with Takeda. In the novel, Saburou Kagetora was described had to go through a lot of struggle during his former life besides had to become a young hostage for the sake of alliance such as gang-raped by his retainers Matsuda Takahide and Matsuda Katsuhide before Saburou were sent to Kenshin in Echigo. Aftermath, the tragedy the culprits left Hojou for an unknown reason to Hojou clan.

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This tragedy were not known anyone besides the culprits and latter who painfully buried the fact which resulted in his personality who do not trust anyone, short-temper and always alone. This fact were revealed in a chapter, when Hojou Ujimasa once again encountered the possessed (kanshou)Matsuda Takahide who told Ujimasa the truth in pride because Takahide wanted a revenge which he assaulted towards the youngest brother of his who was at the time 14 years

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old and had not known a woman. (Timeframe 3 years before Takaya Ougi met his brothers again in the anime Mirage of Blaze's plot).

In the twelfth year of the Eiroku era (1569), an alliance was formed between the Houjou and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo; in the following year he became a hostage again, this time to Kenshin in Echigo. Until, Saburou Kagetora's brother Hojou Ujimasa broke the alliance without even inform personally to Saburou which resulted Kenshin's wrath. After Kenshin's death, Kagekatsu and Kagetora fought for power-succession (Battle of Otate) while Naoe Nobutsuna according to Kousaka Danjou in the novel was a leader to Kagekatsu's faction which resulted Kagetora's death.

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After his death in the Otate no Ran, he was charged by Uesugi Kenshin to become kanshousha in order to ensure that the peace of Japan is not disrupted by the onshou as the leader of the Yasha-shuu and the commander of the Meikai Uesugi Army. Kagetora were forced to live for the war that lasted 400 years beside his comrades Naoe Nobutsuna, Yasuda Nagahide, Kakizaki Haruie and Irobe Katsunaga. Kagetora's last body, (Timeframe 30 years ago),

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he engaged an intense war with Oda Nobunaga that might resulted Kagetora's soul to be purified and unable to possess. During the time, his guardian Naoe Nobutsuna raped Kagetora's beloved person Minako because Naoe painfully unable to accept Kagetora were 'stolen' from him as he secretly had a romance feeling towards Kagetora for the past 400 years. Kagetora found this abominable act after Kakizaki Haruie told the fact after Haruie realized Minako's physical were different than the last time he saw her.

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Kagetora unable to forgive Naoe who force Kagetora to possess Minako's body which resulted Minako's soul to disappeared. To Naoe, he did not have any choice since Kagetora's soul were stripped of his body while Kagetora tried to save Naoe and Minako from Nobunaga plot which left him with a choice that he doesn't want to do but HAD to because Kagetora is the only person he doesn't want to lose. In that battle, all of the Yasha-shuu died except Irobe who continue to search all of their souls but unable to trace Kagetora's and deducted that Kagetora's soul has been purified.

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This fact were unable to accept by Naoe Nobutsuna or his current body Tachibana Yoshiaki, resulted his numbers of suicide attempt. Countless times, he been hunted by Kagetora's last word You alone I will never forgive for eternity. His act of suicide attempt were stopped by Yoshiaki or his current body father who said over and over again There must be meaning in your existence. Naoe or Yoshiaki didn't believe his existence without Kagetora but stopped his compulsive act after his parents sent him to receive Buddhist teaching at a temple. He continuously believed that Kagetora still alive and waited for him.

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However, Naoe met Kagetora again who possessed the body of Takaya Ougi, a high school student at Jouhouku High when Naoe tried to stop the resurrection of Takeda Shingen. However, Takaya Ougi does not remembered his own identity. A possessor or 'kanshousha' should be able to remember their whole life because their souls has yet to be purified. Naoe relieved at the fact Takaya's amnesiac and wanted to start a new relationship with his lord but as time passes, Takaya began to have flashes of memories.

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B-History

1552? 1554? - Apr. 19, 1579

 

Also known as: possibly Houjou Ujihide, Houjou Saburou , Saburou Kagetora

Uesugi Kagetora was the seventh son (sixth to survive to adulthood) of Houjou Ujiyasu, younger brother of Houjou Ujimasa, Houjou Ujiteru, Houjou Ujikuni, Houjou Ujinori, Houjou Ujitada, and older brother of Houjou Ujimitsu. His mother was the sister-in-law of Tooyama Yasumitsu, a vassal of the Houjou Clan (other sources say Zuikeiin, Ujiyasu's principle wife). It's likely that he and Houjou Ujihide were two different people and that Ujihide was the son of Houjou Tsunashige and living in Edo while Saburou was living in Echigo, so most historians refer to him as Houjou Saburou when describing his early life.

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As a child, he was sent into the priesthood at Souun Temple in Hakone, then sent as hostage to Takeda Shingen of the Takeda Clan in the three-way alliance between Houjou, Takeda, and Imagawa formed in 1554 (though this last point is now in dispute, as it is told only in the Records of Ancient Battles of the Eight Kanto Provinces and recorded in none of the Takeda Clan records.)

 

He was adopted by his uncle Houjou Genan in 1569 and married Genan's daughter

When the Houjou and Uesugi clans formed an alliance in 1569, Saburou was sent to Uesugi Kenshin in an exchange of hostages with Kakizaki Haruie. (At first, the hostage was set to be Houjou Ujimasa's third son Kunimasumaru, but Ujimasa could not bring himself to send off his son, who was then still a baby.) Saburou was sent to the Uesugi clan in early 1570. Kenshin, who never married,

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developed a liking for the handsome and intelligent Saburou. He married his niece Seienin, the daughter of Nagao Masakage and older sister of Nagao Akikage (Uesugi Kagekatsu) to Saburou, gave him the name Kagetora (a name that had once belonged to Kenshin himself), and adopted him into the Uesugi Clan.

 

When Kenshin died suddenly in 1578 without naming an heir, Kagetora and Kagekatsu, similarly adopted by Kenshin, fought for succession to the position of clan head (the Otate no Ran). Though Kagetora held the early advantage with the backing of Uesugi vassals such as Uesugi Kagenobu, Honjou Hidetsuna, Kitajou Takahiro, and the Houjou Clan, the tide of the battle turned with Takeda Katsuyori's betrayal to Kagekatsu's side.

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When the Otate fell in 1579, Kagetora attempted to escape to Odawara Castle (Hojou clan stronghold, Kagetora's birth land) but was betrayed at Samegao Castle by Horie Munechika and committed suicide. Kagetora's wife committed suicide along with him (though there are also accounts that she remained behind at the Otate and committed suicide there when her brother Kagekatsu refused Kagetora's surrender.) Kagetora's oldest son, Doumanmaru died at the hands of Kagekatsu's troops along with Uesugi Norimasa, and the rest of Kagetora's children were believed to have died along with their parents during Otate power struggle.

 

There are accounts said that Kagetora was better to replace Kenshin as heir as Kagetora once aided Kenshin in a battle using his intelligence and earned him named Kenshin's name which is Kagetora while Kagekatsu only popular at gaining support in Uesugi clan

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2- Naoe Nobutsuna

a- Fiction;

his current name ; Tachibana Yoshiaki

He is the third son of the Tachibana family and is a monk of Shingon-shu Buzan-ha at the Kougenji temple in Utsunomiya. He is about eleven years older than Takaya, and much more methodical and deliberate in his methods. Intense and understated in speech, he nonetheless harbors a passionate and rebellious nature beneath his veneer of docility and allegiance. He is also deeply in love with Kagetora Uesugi and showed on several occasions that he would do anything to make him his. He wields a similar form of energy magic, and is capable of sensing demonic or supernatural auras. Takaya and all other members of the Uesugi clan call him "Naoe." He also has a strong attraction to Takaya.

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B-History

Nobutsuna was the adopted son-in-law of Naoe Kagetsuna and succeeded him in 1577. Lord of Yoita castle, he supported Uesugi Kagekatsu in the 1578-79 Ôtate no ran. However, in 1581 he was killed by Yasuda Hidehiro at Kasugayama castle. As Nobutsuna had no sons, Kagekatsu ordered that his widow marry Higuchi Kagetsugu, who became the head of the Naoe (as Naoe Kanetsugu).

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History

 

Ōtate no Ran

Ōtate no Ran was a battle in the succession struggle that occurred after the death of Uesugi Kenshin. It was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kagekatsu and Uesugi Kagetora, and took place in 1579 in the fief of Echigo.

 

The warlord Uesugi Kenshin died in the spring of 1578 and left Echigo with an uncertain future. Prior to his death, he had arranged for two men to inherit his domains and, perhaps unsurprisingly, this resulted in a civil war. The two leaders in question were Uesugi Kagekatsu and Uesugi Kagetora. Kagekatsu was the son of Nagao Masakage and Kenshin's nephew. Kagetora was the 7th son of Hojo Ujiyasu and at one time had been adopted into the Takeda family. Kenshin had adopted Kagetora in 1569 as part of a Hojo-Uesugi peace treaty and married him to one of Nagao Masakage's daughters,

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thus making him Kagekatsu's brother-in-law. When Kenshin died, mutual distrust and ambition quickly divided the two men, and separate camps formed - one with Kagekatsu at Kasugayama Castle and one with Kagetora at Ōtate. Kagekatsu managed to gain the support of some of Echigo's greatest generals (including Amakasu Kagemochi, Saito Tomonobu, and Suibara Takaie) and after some bitter fighting managed to bring down Ōtate Castle. A Hojo attempt to come to the aid of their kinsman failed, and Kagetora committed suicide. While Kagekatsu was now the sole lord of Echigo, the war would prove almost as disastrous for the Uesugi as the Battle of Nagashino had been for the Takeda. Divided and bloodied, the Uesugi suffered the loss of almost all the lands Kenshin had taken to the west of Echigo to the Oda army. Only the death of Oda Nobunaga in 1582 halted the inexorable Oda push towards Echigo itself

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Fiction;

its the same as the real History although, i think it was kagekatsu who started the war

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3-Uesugi Kenshin

Fiction

History

February 18, 1530 – April 19, 1578

 

He was one of the most powerful lords of the Sengoku period. While chiefly remembered for his prowess on the battlefield, Kenshin is also regarded as an extremely skillful administrator who fostered the growth of local industries and trade; his rule saw a marked rise in the standard of living of Echigo. Kenshin is famed for his honourable conduct, his military expertise, a long-standing rivalry with Takeda Shingen, his numerous campaigns to restore order in the Kanto region as the Kanto Kanrei, and his belief in the Buddhist god of war — Bishamonten. In fact, many of his followers and others believed him to be the Avatar of Bishamonten, and called Kenshin god of war.

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Kenshin is sometimes referred to as "The Dragon of Echigo" because of his fearsome skills in the martial arts displayed on the battlefield. His rival Takeda Shingen was called "The Tiger of Kai". In some versions of Chinese mythology (Shingen and Kenshin had always been interested in Chinese culture

the Dragon and Tiger have always been bitter rivals who try to defeat one another, but neither is ever able to gain the upper hand.

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In 1561, Kenshin and Shingen fought the biggest battle they would fight, the fourth battle of Kawanakajima. Kenshin used an ingenious tactic: a special formation where the soldiers in the front would switch with their comrades in the rear, as those in the frontline became tired or wounded. This allowed the tired soldiers to take a break, while the soldiers who had not seen action would fight on the frontlines. This was extremely effective and because of this Kenshin nearly defeated Shingen. In this battle is the tale of Kenshin riding up to Shingen and slashing at him with his sword. Shingen fended off the blows with his iron war fan or tessen. However, Kenshin failed to finish Shingen off. A Takeda retainer drove him away, and Shingen made a counter-attack. The Uesugi army retreated and many drowned in a nearby river while others were cut down by the Takeda.

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The result of the fourth battle of Kawanakajima is still uncertain. Many scholars are divided on who the actual victor was, if the battle was actually decisive enough to even declare one. Kenshin lost 3000 of his army while Shingen lost around 4000, but Shingen also lost two of his most important generals during the battle

Although Shingen and Kenshin were rivals for more than fourteen years, they are known to have exchanged gifts a number of times, most famously when Shingen gave away a precious sword, which he valued greatly, to Kenshin. When Shingen died in 1573, Kenshin was said to have wept aloud at the loss of so worthy an adversary, and dismissed advices from his retainers to use the opportunity to attack as childish.

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Shingen, on his deathbed, commended Kenshin as an honourable warrior, and instructed his son to rely upon Kenshin. The two sides would become allies in 3 years.In addition, there was an incident when a number of other daimyo (including the Hōjō clan) boycotted salt supplies to Kai province. Kenshin heard of Shingen's problem with a daimyo of the Hōjō clan who refused to send rice to him. Kenshin secretly sent salt to the Takeda (salt was a precious commodity as it was used in preserving food) and wrote to his enemy, Shingen, that in his opinion,

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the Hōjō lord had committed a hostile act. Although he could have cut off Shingen's supplies and "lifeline", Kenshin decided not to do so because it would be dishonorable. In reflection, Kenshin made a statement "Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt." In this, Kenshin set a noble example for all time in his treatment of his rival Shingen. The statement is a common modern reference by peace advocates who in recognition of Kenshin state that "peace is to be achieved with rice and salt, not with swords and spears".

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in the year 1576, Kenshin began to consider the issue of Oda Nobunaga, who had since grown to be Japan's most powerful warlord of the time. With both Takeda Shingen and Hōjō Ujiyasu dead, Kenshin was no longer blocked off from this realm of expansion. So, when the death of a Noto lord in the area sparked up confusion and conflict, Kenshin was quick to use the opportunity, taking land from the weakened clan which put him in a position to threaten Nobunaga and his allies. In response, Nobunaga pulled together his own forces and those of his two best generals;to meet Kenshin at Tedorigawa. The experienced Shibata Katsuie who served Nobunaga since the beginning, was sent forth to test Kenshin's famed battle reputation. According to some accounts, Shibata led 18,000 men into battle first, and Nobunaga himself followed up with 20,000 reinforcements. If this information is accurate, it would make the battle between the two one of the largest fought in the Sengoku period.