Taira no Chikazane

Chikazane, also called Oda Chikazane, was a Shinto official of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, claimed ancestor of the Oda clan. The Oda genealogy calls him a son of Taira no Sukemori, hidden in Ōmi when the Taira fell in 1185, but modern scholars regard this as a later fabrication.

In 1233 he became head priest of the Tsurugi Shrine at Oda-no-shō in Echizen, and took Buddhist vows in 1258 as Kakusei. His death is dated to either 1260 or 1290. He was the father of Oda no Chikamoto.