The Amakasu clan ( , Amakasu-shi) was a minor Japanese clan of the
Sengoku period
The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615.
The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...
. Originally from Echigo Province, they were led to oblige the powerful
Nagao clan
was a Japanese samurai clan. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nagao," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 39 retrieved 2013-5-5.
History
The Nagao clan descend from T ...
and later the
Uesugi clan
The is a Japanese samurai clan which was at its peak one of the most powerful during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods (14th to 17th centuries). Appert, Georges. (1888) ''Ancien Japon,'' p. 79./ref> At its height, the clan had three main branch ...
. In the 16th century
Amakasu Kagemochi was forced to fight for
Uesugi Kenshin. After his death in 1578, descendants of Kagemochi continued to serve the Uesugi during the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
.
Under the orders of
Uesugi Kenshin, Uesugi samurai officer,
Amakasu Kagetsugu
was a samurai officer who served the Uesugi clan.
Under the orders of Uesugi Kenshin, Kagetsugu became the head of the Amakasu clan. Kagetsugu was known as a valiant warrior, and was skilled in wielding swords as well as spears. He is also said ...
, became the head of the Amakasu clan
Japanese clans
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