About Rusu Masakage
Lived 1549 – 1607 (aged 57–58). Rusu Masakage was a Japanese samurai.
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the Date clan Masakage was the uncle of the famous Date Masamune.
Masakage, or as he was first known, Rokurō, was the son of Date Harumune.
Masakage contributed very highly to the Date clan by defending it from many oppositions. He was participate at the Siege of Hasedō in 1600, also involved in the succession dispute. Masakage was extremely close to Masamune, as one of his top subordinates, bringing him to many victories. The greatest victory he brought to Masamune was in the "Kasai-Osaki Uprising" or Ōshū campaign along with Yashiro Kageyori.
In fiction In NHK's 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune, Masakage was played by Kyōzō Nagatsuka.
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Who was Rusu Masakage?
samurai
When was Rusu Masakage born?
Rusu Masakage was born in 1549.
When did Rusu Masakage die?
Rusu Masakage died on 28 February 1607.
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Rusu Masakage was a samurai.
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Rusu Masakage was Japanese.
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