Chiba Yoritane

Chiba Yoritane (1239–1275) was the eighth head of the Chiba clan of Shimōsa and a gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. In 1241, aged three, he succeeded his father Tokitane, while the kinsman Chiba Hidetane held real power until his faction was destroyed in the Hōji conflict of 1247.

Called to the Kyushu coastal guard during the Mongol invasions, he was wounded fighting the Yuan army and died in 1275 aged thirty-seven, leaving the clan to his son Munetane.