Uesugi Kiyoko

Uesugi Kiyoko (1270–1343) was the mother of Ashikaga Takauji and Tadayoshi, founders of the Muromachi shogunate. A daughter of Uesugi Yorishige, she became a concubine of Ashikaga Sadauji and bore Takauji in 1305.

After her husband's death she sustained the Ashikaga house and stayed with her sons through the wars overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate, then advanced the Uesugi. Known as the Nun Ōkata, also a waka poet, she died on 20 January 1343.