was a Japanese samurai 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 ...
through
Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the
Date clan
The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5.
History
The Date family was founded ...
Masakage was the uncle of the famous
Date Masamune
was a regional ruler of Japan's Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful ''daimyō'' in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he was made all ...
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Masakage, or as he was first known, Rokurō, was the son of
Date Harumune
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period.[Rusu Akimune Rusu or RUSU may refer to:
People
* Rusu clan in Japan
*Rusu Masakage
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the Date clan Masakage was the uncle of the famous Date Masamune.](_blank) , head of the
Rusu clan Rusu or RUSU may refer to:
People
* Rusu clan in Japan
*Rusu Masakage
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the Date clan Masakage was the uncle of the famous Date Masamune. which governed
Miyagi district.
In 1568, he married the daughter of Kurokawa ''"Sama-no-Kami"'' Haruuji, lord of the Kurokawa district (later known as
Aizu
is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east. As of October 1, 2010, it had a population of 291,838. The princip ...
).
Masakage contributed very highly to the Date clan by defending it from many oppositions. He was participate at the
Siege of Hasedō
The was one of a series of battles fought in the far north of Japan's main island of Honshū (the Tōhoku region) contemporaneous with the famous and decisive campaigns between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari further south.
Background ...
in 1600,
also involved in the succession dispute. Masakage was extremely close to Masamune, as one of his top subordinates, bringing him to many victories. The greatest victory he brought to Masamune was in the "Kasai-Osaki Uprising" or
Ōshū Oshu or Ōshū may refer to:
*Another name for Mutsu Province, a former Japanese province
*Ōshū, Iwate, Japan, a city
*Northern Fujiwara
The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏 ''Ōshū Fujiwara-shi'') were a Japanese kuge, noble Japanese c ...
campaign along with
Yashiro Kageyori
(1563–1608) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through the early Edo period. He served the Date clan during the tenure of Date Masamune as lord. Kageyori was also known as Genzaburō (源三郎) and Kageyuhyōe (勘解由兵� ...
.
In fiction
In
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
's 1987
Taiga drama ''
Dokuganryū Masamune'', Masakage was played by
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for '' The Laughing Frog''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
*
1945 births
Living people
Japanese male actors
People fr ...
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Notes
External links
Masakage's armor(in Japanese)
Samurai
1549 births
1607 deaths
Date clan
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