Shiba Iekane

Shiba Iekane (1308–1356) was son of Shiba Muneuji and younger half-brother of Shiba Takatsune. He joined Ashikaga Takauji's uprising against the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and was made shugo of Wakasa in 1336, fighting Southern Court general Nitta Yoshisada in Hokuriku, whom he helped destroy in 1338.

During the Kannō disturbance he sided with Takauji against his own brother. In 1354 he was appointed kanrei of Ōshū, where he defeated rival generals, made the office hereditary in his clan, and founded the Ōsaki and Mogami lines; he died there in 1356.