, also known as , was a Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

warrior. served the

Saitō clan The was a Japanese samurai clan that ruled Mino province in the Sengoku period. The clan appropriated the name of a defunct samurai clan named "Saitō" that had previously hailed from Echizen province and claimed descent from Fujiwara Toshih ...

Mino province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, and Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviat ...

. Later, he become a retainer of

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period. He is regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobunaga was head of the very powerful Oda clan, and launched a war against other ''daimyō'' to unify ...

. Naomoto was considered one of the , along with

Inaba Yoshimichi , also known as Inaba Ittetsu (稲葉一鉄), was a Japanese samurai warrior in the Sengoku period. served the Saitō clan of Mino province. Later, he become a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Biography His childhood name was Hikoshiro (彦四郎) la ...

and

Andō Morinari , also known as was a Japanese samurai warrior in the Sengoku period. served the Saitō clan of Mino province. Later, he become a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Biography He served as a head retainer under Saitō Dōsan after Dōsan overthrew Toki Y ...

. In 1567, they agreed together to join the forces of

.Ōta, Gyūichi. (2011)
''The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,'' p. 114
He took part in the

Siege of Inabayama The of 1567 was the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to defeat the Saitō clan in their mountaintop castle and conquer Mino Province, Japan. It was a short two-week siege, fought between 13 and 27 September 1567, or in the Japanese ca ...

in 1567 and the

Battle of Anegawa The Sengoku period (30 July 1570) occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans._It_is_notable_as_the_first_battle ...

in 1570. On 12 May 1571, he died fighting against the

Ikkō-ikki were rebellious or autonomous groups of people that were formed in several regions of Japan in the 15th-16th centuries; backed up by the power of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, they opposed the rule of governors or ''daimyō''. Mainly con ...

at the First Siege of Nagashima while under the command of

Shibata Katsuie or was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku period. He served Oda Nobunaga as one of his trusted generals, was severely wounded in the 1571 first siege of Nagashima, but then fought in the 1575 Battle of Nagashino an ...

Family and relatives

* Ujiie Yukikuni (father) ** Ujiie Naomasa (son) **

Ujiie Yukihiro was a samurai and feudal lord in Sengoku period to the beginning of Edo period, also known as . He was the son of Ujiie Naotomo. Biography He was the second son of Ujiie Naotomo, one of the Mino Triumvirate. His eldest brother was Ujiie Naoma ...

(son) ** Ujiie Yukitsugu (son) Others in Ujiie clan * Ujiie Mitsuuji * Ujiie Sadanao

References

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