Kikuchi Taketoki

Kikuchi Taketoki (1292–1333) was the twelfth head of the Kikuchi clan of Higo. He succeeded as a child after his brother Tokitaka and their uncle killed each other in a family feud.

In 1333, answering Emperor Go-Daigo's call against the Kamakura shogunate, he plotted to attack the Chinzei tandai at Hakata. When the plan leaked and his allies held back, he attacked anyway in the third month and fell with two hundred clansmen. His rising opened Kyūshū's anti-shogunate revolt; the tandai fell two months later.