Background
Uesugi Norizane was born in 1411 in Japan.
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Uesugi Norizane was born in 1411 in Japan.
Shugo (Constable) of Awa and Kōzuke Province, Norizane Uesugi was appointed Kanto kanrei (Shogun's deputy in the Kanto region) in 1419, as an assistant to Kanto kubo Ashikaga Mochiuji. When Mochiuji rebelled against the shogunate, and attacked Norizane directly, Norizane complained to the shogunate, and fled to Kozuke province. He returned to Kamakura in 1439, following Mochiuji's death. Norizane, as Kanto kanrei, now controlled the Kantō in the absence of a Kanto kubo; from then on, the kanrei would be the shogun's direct deputy, the kubō serving only as an empty title. Norizane left his post to his brother Uesugi Kiyotaka soon afterwards, and became a Buddhist monk. Over the course of his life, he was the patron of the Ashikaga Academy and helped to expand its library.
Uesugi Norizane founded the Ashikaga Gakko, the only school of higher learning in the Muromachi period, at the site of the present-day city of Ashikaga in Tochigi Prefecture.He appointed the monk Kaigen to head it, drawing up rules for its operation, building up a library, and instituting courses of instruction.
