Kitabatake Akiie

Kitabatake Akiie (1318–1338) was the eldest son of Kitabatake Chikafusa and a Southern Court general in the Nanboku-chō wars. In 1333 he accompanied his father and Prince Noriyoshi to Taga Castle in Mutsu and rallied the Date, Yūki and Nambu warrior houses of the northeast to the court, later becoming chinjufu shōgun. In 1336 he marched west and helped Nitta Yoshisada drive Ashikaga Takauji from Kyoto.

Campaigning south again in 1338 he captured Kamakura, but was overwhelmed and killed by Kō no Moronao at the Battle of Ishizu in Izumi, aged twenty.