Kawano Michiari

Kawano Michiari (1250–1311), head of the Kawano clan of Iyo Province, was a Kamakura gokenin who led the Iyo navy against the Mongols. In 1272 the shogunate mediated the settlement of the succession feud with his uncle Michitoki.

In 1281 he moored his warships on the Hakata beach with the stone wall behind his force; his resolve became known as Kawano's rear wall. At Shikanoshima he boarded a Yuan ship, was wounded by a crossbow bolt, and took a Mongol general alive. Grants restored the clan's lost estates, and he is remembered as the Kawano restorer.