Kyōgoku Ujinobu

Sasaki Ujinobu (1220–1295), also called Kyōgoku Ujinobu, was a mid-Kamakura warrior and the founder of the Kyōgoku branch of the Sasaki clan. The fourth son of Sasaki Nobutsuna, governor of Ōmi, on his father's death in 1242 he inherited six districts of northern Ōmi and the clan mansion at Kyōgoku-Takatsuji in Kyoto, from which his descendants took their name.

He joined the Hikitsukeshu and Hyōjōshū, became governor of Ōmi in 1283, and founded Seiryōji, later the Tokugen-in temple. He died in 1295 aged 76.