kagesue

Updated: August 24, 2026

*Japanese tradition loves to tell of a contest between Sasaki Takatsuna and Kajiwara Kagesue as to which should cross the river first. Kagesue was the son of that Kajiwara who had saved. Yoritomo's life in the episode of the hollow tree.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era