Uesugi Fusaaki

Japanese: 上杉房顕 - うえすぎ・ふさあき

Year of death: 12th February 1466 (26th February 1466)
Year of birth: 1435
A military commander in the Muromachi period. Kanto Kanrei. Son of Norizane and younger brother of Noritada. Childhood name: Ryuharu. Hyobu Shoyu. When his father Norizane forced his other brothers to become monks, he was the only one ordered to remain in secular life and stay in Kyoto, and was given his land. Later, his older brother Noritada, who had returned to secular life, was assassinated by the Kamakura kubo Ashikaga Shigeuji in 1454, and full-scale fighting broke out between the kubo and the Uesugi clan. In the following year, 1455, he was asked by Nagao Kagenaka and others to become a general on the Uesugi side, and was also appointed Kanto Kanrei. He then faced Shigeuji's side from his base in Musashi Isoko, but he died in the camp at Isoko without being able to turn the tide of battle in his favor.

(Yamada Kuniaki)

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Japanese:

没年：文正1.2.12(1466.2.26)
生年：永享7(1435)
室町時代の武将。関東管領。憲実の子,憲忠の弟。幼名竜春。兵部少輔。父憲実により他の兄弟が出家させられたとき,ひとり在俗のまま在京を命じられ,所領も譲られた。その後還俗した兄憲忠が享徳3(1454)年に鎌倉公方足利成氏に謀殺され,公方方と上杉方の全面的な戦闘が開始されると,翌康正1(1455)年長尾景仲らに請われて上杉方の将帥となり,関東管領の職にもついた。そして武蔵五十子を拠点として成氏方と対陣したが,戦局を好転できぬまま五十子の陣中で死去した。

(山田邦明)

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