Date
Name Seienin
Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 清円院(Japanese Kanji) せいえんいん(Japanese Hiragana)
Other Forms FormsSeien-in
Edit Status Status
Meaning & History
Seienin (清円院) was a Japanese noble woman from the Nagao clan during the Sengoku period. She is best known as the formal second wife of Uesugi Kagetora, also referred to as Kakeiin, and as the niece of the famed Uesugi Kenshin. She was the daughter of Aya-Gozen and sister of Uesugi Kagekatsu.