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Ōtate no Ran was a battle that occurred after the death of
Uesugi Kenshin. The battle was between
Uesugi Kagekatsu and
Uesugi Kagetora. The battle took place at the Fief of
Echigo. The battle had occurred in 1579.
The great warlord Uesugi Kenshin died in the spring of 1578 and left Echigo with an uncertain future. Prior to his death, he'd 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, 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
Otate. 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
Otate 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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