Kitabatake Akiyoshi

Kitabatake Akiyoshi (c. 1326–c. 1383), third son of Kitabatake Chikafusa, founded the Ise Kitabatake house. He went to Ise Province in 1336, built Tamamaru Castle and was apparently appointed governor around 1338; after the castle fell in 1342 he held Taki as the Southern Court's bulwark.

In 1352 he led three thousand cavalry into Kyoto, routed Hosokawa Akiuji and drove Ashikaga Yoshiakira into Ōmi to briefly restore Southern rule; defeated at Otokoyama, he escorted the emperor to Anō. His verses appear in the Shin'yō Wakashū, and war chronicles say he died at Taki in 1383.