Kira Sadayoshi

Kira Sadayoshi (died 1343), also called Ashikaga Sadayoshi, was lord of Saijō Castle in Mikawa Province and a Kamakura vassal. During the Kōan invasion of 1281 he is said to have gone down to Iwami Province. After his father Mitsuuji was killed in the Shimotsuki Disturbance of 1285, he became heir to his grandfather Nagauji.

In 1333 at Yatsuhashi he encouraged Ashikaga Takauji's decision to rebel against the Hōjō, and he went on to fight in the Nakasendai War of 1335. He died in 1343.