En'ya Yoriyasu

En'ya Yoriyasu was a Kamakura shogunate gokenin and shugo of Izumo Province, founder of the Izumo En'ya clan. A son of Sasaki Yasukiyo, he came of age between 1246 and 1263 under the shikken Hōjō Tokiyori, receiving from him the character yori in his name. Around 1278 he succeeded his father as shugo of Izumo, built Ōsako Castle in Enya village and took the place name En'ya, beginning the clan.

In 1283 he funded the three-storey pagoda at Gakuen-ji. The Izumo shugo office passed through the line of his son Sadakiyo throughout the Kamakura period.