Kikkawa Tsunekane

Kikkawa Tsunekane was a warrior of the early Nanboku-chō period and the third head of the Iwami branch of the Kikkawa clan. In 1349 he took his mother Ryōkai's side in her quarrel with his elder brother Tsunetō, drove Tsunetō out, and succeeded to the family.

In the Kannō Disturbance he backed Ashikaga Tadayoshi and Tadafuyu, campaigning in Aki and Nagato. In 1358 the Southern Court emperor Go-Murakami appointed him acting governor of Suruga, and in 1368 Tadafuyu granted him the stewardship of Ōasa-no-shinshō.