Sasaki Dōyō

Sasaki Dōyō (1296–1373), lay name Takauji, was a warrior lord of the Kyogoku branch of the Sasaki clan in Omi province. He served the Hojo regent Takatoki and later helped build the Muromachi shogunate, becoming governor of six provinces. Under Shogun Yoshiakira he was the shogunate's most powerful figure, engineering Shiba Takatsune's fall in 1366.

He was famed for his extravagant basara style and renga linked verse, contributing 81 poems to the Tsukubashu anthology, and died in 1373.