Shiba Takatsune

Shiba Takatsune (1305–1367) was the fourth head of the Shiba, a powerful branch of the Ashikaga, and shugo of Echizen, Wakasa and Etchū. In 1333 he joined Ashikaga Takauji's uprising that overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, and he commanded a wing at the battle of Minatogawa in 1336.

His troops killed the Southern Court general Nitta Yoshisada at Fujishima in 1338. After Shōgun Takauji died in 1358 he had his son Yoshimasa made kanrei in 1362 and ran the bakufu, until the Jōji purge of 1366 drove him out; he died at Somayama castle in 1367.