In June of the fifth year of civilization (1473), Nagao Keenobu, the head of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, died. Since Nagao Keishō, the position of Ieyasugi of the Yamauchi Uesugi clan has been held by Nagao Keishō's "Nagao Sunshiro Family", but when Nagao Keenobu died, his son Nagao Keishō was only twenty-three years old, which was not enough to be a big job, and coupled with Uesugi's intention to suppress the powerful Sunshiro family, Nagao Keinobu's younger brother, Nagao Tadakei, who had joined the Nagao Main Family, as the head of the Nagao Clan.
Uesugi genealogy diagram
However, what Uesugi did not expect was that the SunShiro family had occupied the exclusive family for more than twenty years, and during the Heungde Rebellion, they took the opportunity to expand vigorously, and their power had long been deeply rooted, and it was all involved. After losing his position as head of the family, Nagao Keeharu gathered the people who supported SunShiro's family and gathered an army in protest at the fifty sons of the Uesugi Army.
At that time, the Japanese daimyo did not carry enough food when they gathered their armies to fight, and because the Uesugi Army had been in the Fifty Sons for a long time, many merchants brought goods to the Fifty Sons to sell, and the Uesugi Army was just able to buy grain on the spot. Although Nagao Keeharu did not directly engage the Uesugi Army, he ordered his subordinates to intercept the merchants and prevent them from entering the Fifty Zi Array, which was equivalent to cutting off the logistical supplies of the Uesugi Army and causing great trouble to the Uesugi family.
When the Furukawa clan Saw that the Uesugi family was infighting, they sent troops to attack the Fifty Sons, and won a great victory, and even Uesugi Masamasa, the head of the Uesugi family, died in the battle. Faced with this situation, Ogaya Uesugi Ieyazai Ota Michikuni proposed to kill Nagao Keiko, but his father Ota Michimasa and Yamauchi Uesugi Iezai Nagao Tadakei believed that Furukawa Gongfang was a great enemy at the moment, and did not agree to start a civil war, hoping to solve this problem peacefully. As a result, Ota Michikuni made another proposal to make Nagao Keishuka the guardian of the Musashi Kingdom, whose status was second only to that of the family, but the Uesugi family governor of yamauchi, Uesugi, did not do it again, but instead questioned whether the Uesugi family of Ogaya had colluded with Nagao Keishuka.
In the first month of the ninth year of civilization (1477), Nagao Keechun officially announced the raising of troops and sent troops to attack the fifty sub-arrays of the Uesugi family, forcing the Yamauchi and Ogaya two Uesugi families to go far away to the wild country, which was for the "Nagao Keisei Rebellion". Nagao Keiseru's rebellion had a profound impact on the Yamauchi Uesugi family, and in the Yamauchi Uesugi family, the most powerful were the Nagao clan and the Ōishi clan, of which the Nagao clan was the strongest of the SunShiro family, the Ma Shou family, and the Owari Mori family, and the strongest of the Ōishi clan were the Toe Mori family, the Suruga Mori family, and the Iwami Mori family, and this time, outside the SunShiro family where Nagao Keede was located, but the Ma Shou family, the Suruga Mori family, and the Iwami Mori family also joined the camp of Nagao Keechun. The Yamauchi Uesugi family, which had dominated the Kanto for many years, also fell apart and weakened.
Ota Dokan
At the time of Nagao Keechun's army, the Uesugi family's family, Ota Michi, was still in Edo Castle and not in the Fifty Sons Position, so Ota Michikan was not expelled from Ueno Kingdom with his lord, and became a nail in the Uesugi family's Minami Kanto. In the face of the powerful Nagao Keechun rebels, Ota Michikan immediately summoned the Uesugi clan's vassals to assemble at Edo Castle, and then sent troops to attack nagao Keeharu castles in Sagami and Musashi.
Although Nagao Keeharu had a big temper, he was not a little worse than Ota Michiru in terms of marching and fighting. Ōda Michigun joined forces with the Uesugi army of Ogaya in Kawagoe Castle, and used ingenious tactics to continuously capture rebel castles in the south of Musashi Province, while also killing many of the rebels. To this end, Nagao Keeharu personally led a large army to engage Ota Michikuni, but was also defeated by the Uesugi army of Ogaya.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more unfavorable to him, Nagao Keeharu twisted his mind and sent emissaries to Furukawa, expressing his willingness to join the side of Furukawa. As a result, the "Nagao Keeharu Rebellion" gradually developed from the civil strife of the Uesugi family to a conflict between the Furukawa clan and the Uesugi family.
After receiving the letter from Nagao Keeharu, ashikaga Immediately expressed his willingness to support Nagao Keeharu, and then sent an army to invade Ueno Kingdom to deal with Nagao Keeharu in the south. Soon after Furukawa sent troops, heavy snow fell in the Kanto region, and bad weather prevented the two armies from fighting, and finally at the suggestion of Ota Michikuni, the Uesugi family adopted a strategy of slowing down the army and began peace talks with the Ashikaga Narita clan.
Long-tailed scenery spring
In the spring of the Tenth Year of Civilization (1478), before the peace talks had been fully realized, the Uesugi family of Ogaya once again attacked Nagao Keeharu and the castle on the side of Furukawa. Under the command of Ota Michiru, Nagao Keeharu continued to lose his castle and land, and eventually had to defect to his uncle Nagao Keemei, and these territories that had originally belonged to the Yamauchi Uesugi family that followed Nagao Keishuka's rebellion were fed by Ota Michi.
In September of the following year, Nagao Keeharu, who had disappeared for a long time, reappeared in Musashi with a assembled army, and at this time the Furukawa clan and the Uesugi family were in contact with each other to prepare for peace talks, so this time the Ashikaga Clan not only did not send troops to support Nagao Keeharu, but also let the forces of the Furukawa clan support the Ota Province to quell the rebellion. However, because Uesugi was very unsatisfactory about peace talks with Furukawa, ashikaga eventually sided with Nagao Keeharu. However, Nagao Keeharu's play was still not unexpected, and under the attack of Ota Michiru, Nagao Keeharu's rebellion was put down again.
Long-tailed Jingchun Rebellion
On the other hand, because Uesugi Washinding was reluctant to negotiate peace with the Furukawa clan, ashikaga Clan bypassed Uesugi Akira and came into direct contact with Uesugi Uesugi's biological father, Uesugi Uesugi of the Echigo Uesugi family, while Nagao Keeharu, who had failed in the rebellion, also actively participated in the matter in order to reflect his value on the side of the Furukawa clan, and used his relationship to hook up with the shogunate governor Hosokawa Masamoto. Under the auspices of Uesugi Andō Keita, Furukawa and the Muromachi shogunate reached peace in the fifteenth year of civilization (1483), and the shogunate recognized Ashikaga Norita's status as the "Kanto Gongfang", but the shogunate had already sent Ashikaga Masato as the Kanto Gongfang, and in order to appease Ashikaga Masato, the shogunate gave Ashikaga Masato the Izu Domain, which was supposed to be under the control of the Kwantung Gongfu. The peace talks between The Furukawa clan and the shogunate brought an end to the thirty-year-long "Hemitoku Rebellion" that began with the assassination of Uesugi Kendada.
However, what everyone did not expect was that the end of the Hedō Rebellion did not mean that the Kanto region would be at peace, and that under the apparent calm of the Kanto Region, there was actually a greater contradiction.
Text author: Sanae Hojo
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