Kobayakawa no Tomohira

Kobayakawa no Tomohira was head of the Numata-Kobayakawa clan of Aki Province and a powerful gokenin vassal of the Kamakura shogunate. He enforced shogunate orders against Seto Inland Sea pirates, capturing the Iyo pirate Yagorō Iehide in 1319.

During the Genkō War of 1333 he sent his grandson Sadahira to Kyoto on the shogunate's side. After its defeat the Kenmu regime seized the Numata estate, until the Takehara branch won a pardon; the clan then served the Ashikaga.