Ishikawa Akimochi

Ishikawa Akimochi (died 1351), fifteenth head of the Mutsu Ishikawa clan, was the eldest son of Ishikawa Yoshimitsu. Adopted by his childless predecessor Sadamitsu, he succeeded as clan head in 1339.

In the tenth month of 1351 he went up to Kyoto, where Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira granted him the character that formed his new name, Akimochi. He died of illness at Kamakura on the fourth day of the twelfth month that same year, leaving a son, Mitsumochi.