Kajiwara Kagesue

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]

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.

The Heike monogatari records an anecdote about a friendly competition with Sasaki Takatsuna prior to the second battle of Uji.[2] Mounted on Yoritomo's black horse, Surusumi, he races Takatsuna across the River Uji.[3][4]

Kagesue met death in Suruga at the hands of men loyal to Minamoto no Yoriie.[1]

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al (2005). "Kajiwara Kagetoki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 454., p. 454, at Google Books
2. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 204. ISBN 1854095234.
3. 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
4. Turnbull, Stephen (1977). The Samurai, A Military History. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 64–65. ISBN 0026205408.

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. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• Varley, Paul. (1994). Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824815752; ISBN 9780824816018; OCLC 246555065