Kikkawa Tsunetaka

Kikkawa Tsunetaka (1234–1319) was the fifth head of the Kikkawa clan and a late-Kamakura gokenin, remembered as the real founder of the Aki Kikkawa. He succeeded his father Tsunemitsu in 1267.

After clan lands in Aki and Harima were seized, he won their restoration from the Kamakura shogunate in 1313 and, nearing eighty, left the family's old base in Suruga for Ōasa Manor in Aki, where he built Surugamaru Castle. In 1319 he retired in favour of his eldest son Tsunemori and died the same year.