Kajiwara Kagesue
Kajiwara Kagesue, Sasaki Takatsuna, and Hatakeyama Shigetada racing to cross the Uji River before the second battle of Uji, as depicted in a print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kajiwara".
Kajiwara Kagesue (梶原 景季, 1162 - February 6, 1200), also known as Kajiwara Kagetoki, was a samurai in service to the Minamoto clan during the Genpei War of Japan's late Heian period.[1]
The Heike monogatari records an anecdote about a friendly competition with Sasaki Takatsuna prior to the second battle of Uji. Mounted on Yoritomo's black horse, Surusumi, he races Takatsuna across the River Uji.[2]
Kagesue met death in Suruga at the hands of men loyal to Minamoto no Yoriie.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al (2005). "Kajiwara Kagetoki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 454., p. 454, at Google Books
- ↑ Kitagawa, Hiroshi et al. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, pp. 511-513; Varley, Paul. (1994). Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales, p. 94., p. 94, at Google Books
References
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Burce T. Tsuchida, ed. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1 OCLC 164803926
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
- Turnbull, Stephen. (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell. 10-ISBN1854095234/13-ISBN 9781854095237; OCLC 44910809
- Varley, Paul. (1994). Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 10-ISBN 0824815750/13-ISBN 9780824815752; 10-ISABN 0824816013/13-ISBN 9780824816018; OCLC 246555065