Satake Moroyoshi

Satake Moroyoshi was a Nanboku-chō warrior, the seventh son of the Hitachi shugo Satake Sadayoshi by a concubine. He joined Ashikaga Tadayoshi's army with his half-brother Yoshiatsu when the Ashikaga marched on Kyōto, then followed Takauji to Kyushu and fought at Tatarahama and Minatogawa in 1336.

While Yoshiatsu returned to govern Hitachi, Moroyoshi remained Takauji's close retainer, and in 1349 backed Kō no Moronao against Tadayoshi. A renga poet anthologized in the Tsukubashū, he received the Yamauchi lands in Kuji district from Takauji and founded the Yamauchi Satake and Kuniyasu clans.