Ogasawara Ujisuke

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(????-????), also known as , the eldest son of Ogasawara Ujikiyo.

Ujisuke served under the Tokugawa during many battles such as the Battle of Anegawa, of the year of 1570. Later on Ujisuke was besieged by the likes of Takeda Katsuyori, in the Takatenjin Castle. Ujisuke surrendered when he learned that all his family was elsewhere in the Tokugawa domain. Then receiving a fief at Omosu in the Suruga Province. Ujisuke fled to the domain of Hojo after the fall of the Takeda clan in 1582. When the Hojo clan itself fell in the year of 1590, Ujisuke was assassinated. He went down in history as a disgrace to his family.

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