Kikuchi Yoshitaka

Kikuchi Yoshitaka (1201–1258), known as Yajirō, was the eighth head of the Kikuchi clan of Higo Province and a Kamakura bakufu vassal. His father Tsunetsugu died in 1204, leaving him heir to his grandfather Takasada.

In the Jōkyū War of 1221 he backed Retired Emperor Go-Toba; his uncles fought at Uji, and after the court's defeat the clan's estates were greatly reduced. He kept the headship and died in 1258.