 Nagao Tamekage

According to George Bailey Sansom, Nagao Tamekage's career makes him representative of the emergence of the "daimyōs", and the shift of regional power from the shugo ("constables "), governors, and other government officials to independent lords.He is perhaps best known as the biological father of Nagao Kagetora, who would be adopted into the Uesugi clan as Uesugi Kenshin, and has become one of the most famous Sengoku-period "daimyōs".