Kitabatake Chikafusa

Kitabatake Chikafusa (1293–1354) was a Murakami Genji court noble and a chief advisor to Emperor Go-Daigo in the Kenmu restoration of 1333. That year he accompanied his son Akiie and Prince Noriyoshi, the future Emperor Go-Murakami, to Taga Castle in Mutsu.

After Ashikaga Takauji revolted he joined the Southern Court at Yoshino, and in 1339, from Oda Castle in Hitachi, wrote the Jinnō Shōtōki in defence of the Southern imperial line. From 1344 he led the court under Go-Murakami, briefly retook Kyoto during the Kannō Disturbance, and died at Anō in 1354.