Asakura Takakage

Asakura Takakage (1314–1372) was the second head of the Echizen Asakura clan, serving the Ashikaga shoguns as a retainer of the Shiba. In 1355 he helped defeat a thirty-thousand-strong Southern Court army at Tō-ji's southern gate in Kyoto, and in 1357 he was made steward of the Asuwa estate.

During the Jōji Disturbance of 1366 he joined the bakufu forces against his own lord Shiba Takatsune at Somayama Castle, receiving steward rights over seven Echizen estates and laying the clan's territorial foundation. He died in 1372 and was succeeded by his son Ujikage.