Kikuchi Takeshige

Kikuchi Takeshige (died August 1341) was the 13th head of the Kikuchi clan of Higo Province and a son of Kikuchi Taketoki. In 1333 he joined his father's attack on the Kamakura shogunate's Chinzei tandai Hōjō Hidetoki at Hakata; Ōtomo Sadamune and Shōni Sadatsune instead counterattacked, Taketoki was killed, and Takeshige fled home to succeed him.

Under the Kenmu Restoration he was made governor of Higo for his father's merit. In 1335 he served under Nitta Yoshisada against Ashikaga Takauji, and from 1337 led Southern Court armies in Kyushu, winning at Inuzuka and Ishigakiyama.