Kikuchi Takanao

Kikuchi Takanao (1146–1188) was the sixth head of the Kikuchi clan of Higo Province. Resenting Taira control of the trade with Song China, in 1180 he raised the Chinzei Rebellion. Pardoned and then condemned, he submitted to Taira no Sadayoshi in 1182.

He fought for the Taira at Dannoura in 1185 and surrendered to Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who handed him to his rival Ogata Koreyoshi. The Heike Monogatari places his beheading in that year, clan genealogies in 1188.