Naoe Kagetsuna

Naoe Kagetsuna (直江景綱) (1509–1577) was an officer under the Uesugi clan in historic Japan.

Kagetsuna served as a very close confidante to Uesugi Kenshin. In both domestic and external affairs, Kagetsuna left his mark on Kenshin's regime. Kagetsuna was entrusted with distribution and defense of the supplies and reinforcements to the battlefield, during the expedition to the Kantō region. He fought alongside the Uesugi clan during the Battle of Kawanakajima.

His widow daughter, Lady Osen (お船の方) married to Naoe Kanetsugu.

Twenty-Eight Generals of the Uesugi

Amakasu Kagemochi Ayukawa Kiyonaga Gejō Saneyori Honjō Shigenaga Inoue Kiyomasa Irobe Katsunaga Kaji Tomotsuna Kakizaki Kageie Koshi Hidekage Matsumoto Kageshige Murakami Yoshikiyo Nagao Fujikage Naoe Kagetsuna Nakajō Fujisuke Ōsaki Takakiyo Saitō Tomonobu Shibata Harunaga Shibata Naganori Shimazu Norihisa Gejō Saneyori Suda Chikamitsu Suibara Takaie Takanashi Masayori Takenomata Hirotsuna Taiga Tadahide Usami Sadamitsu Watanuki Hirotsuna Yamayoshi Toyomori Yasuda Nagahide

Four Heavenly Kings of the Uesugi	Amakasu Kagemochi Kakizaki Kageie Naoe Kanetsugu Usami Sadamitsu

Twenty-Five Generals of the Uesugi	Amakasu Kiyonaga Chisaka Kagechika Honjō Kaneyori Honjō Shigenaga Irobe Nagazane Iwai Nobuyoshi Kaji Harutsuna Kakizaki Kageie Kanazu Yoshimoto Kitajō Kagehiro Nagao Kageharu Nagao Masakage Nakajō Fujisuke Naoe Kagetsuna Niitsu Katsusuke Oguni Yorihisa Saitō Tomonobu Sanponji Kagenaga Shida Yoshihide Suibara Chikanori Takanashi Masayori Takenomata Yoshitsuna Usami Sadamitsu Yasuda Yoshimoto Yoshie Sadanaka

Prominent people of the Sengoku period

Three major daimyōs	Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu

Shogun	Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada

Emperors	Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei

Other daimyōs	List of daimyōs from the Sengoku period

Swordsmen	Hikita Bungorō Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi

Ninja, rogues and mercenaries	Fūma Kotarō Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Mochizuki Chiyome Nakamura Chōbei Ohama Kagetaka Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun

Monks and other religious figures	Ankokuji Ekei Honganji Kennyo Hon'inbō Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Choro Shimozuma Chuko Shimozuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō

Onna-bugeisha	Ii Naotora Ikeda Sen Kaihime Komatsuhime Maeda Matsu Ōhōri Tsuruhime Tachibana Ginchiyo

Other women	Asahihime Chacha Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Hosokawa Gracia Izumo no Okuni Kitsuno Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Nene Nōhime Oeyo Oichi Ohatsu Okaji no Kata Lady Kasuga Lady Saigō Lady Tsukiyama Senhime Sentōin Tokuhime

See also	List of samurai from the Sengoku period

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