Kawakami Yorihisa

Kawakami Yorihisa was a Nanboku-chō warrior and founder of the Kawakami branch of the Shimazu of Satsuma. Eldest son of Shimazu Sadahisa, he was born of a concubine and never inherited the headship.

In 1335 he joined Ashikaga Takauji with his father, and in 1336 he led Satsuma troops at the siege of Nitta Yoshisada's Kanagasaki castle in Echizen. Sent home in 1337 to crush a Southern Court rising in Satsuma, he fought there until in 1352 he received the stewardship of half the Kaseda Beppu estate and took the name Kawakami.