Nakanoin Michikata

Nakanoin Michikata (1189–1239) was an early Kamakura-period court noble and the fifth son of Minamoto no Michichika. He became head of the Kurōdo-dokoro in 1211 and joined the kugyō the following year. After the Jōkyū War of 1221 he was suspended from court.

Afterwards he supported his half-sister Shōmeimon-in and her grandson Prince Kunihito, the future Emperor Go-Saga. Promoted to chūnagon in 1227 and dainagon in 1238, he founded the Nakanoin house, wrote on court ceremonial, and left ten poems in imperial anthologies.