Kikkawa Tsuneshige

Kikkawa Tsuneshige was a warrior of the late Kamakura period and the founder of the Iwami branch of the Kikkawa clan. A son of Kikkawa Tsunemitsu, he married the daughter of a local lord of Iwami Province and probably settled on her estate there to manage her household.

In 1313 he probably administered the clan's holding at Ōasa in Aki Province before his elder brother Tsunetaka moved there. The brother later granted him the stewardship of Tsufuchi-no-shō in Iwami, making him first head of the Iwami line.