Kikuchi Takefusa

Kikuchi Takefusa (1245–1298), third son of the ninth head Takayasu, was the tenth head of the Kikuchi clan of Higo. In the 1274 Mongol invasion he fought Yuan troops at Akasaka, hurling them back to Sohara in a scene depicted in the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba.

In the 1281 invasion he served at Hakata, but received only armor and no bakufu reward, turning him against the Hōjō. His eldest son Takamori predeceased him, so his grandson Tokitaka succeeded him in 1298.