Kobayakawa no Sadahira

Kobayakawa no Sadahira was head of the Numata-Kobayakawa clan of Aki Province, active from the late Kamakura through the Northern and Southern Courts period. In 1333, aged about sixteen, he fought for the Kamakura shogunate in the Genkō War, following the Rokuhara tandai's fleeing followers to their mass suicide at Renge-ji in Ōmi before escaping to his Numata estate.

He received junior fifth rank and the office of Bingo no Kami in 1337, inherited Yasunao lands from his father Nobuhira in 1341, and in 1351 was appointed shugo of Aki.