Shiba Ujiyori

Shiba Ujiyori was the third son of Shiba Takatsune and a Northern Court commander who was made shugo of Wakasa. He married a daughter of Sasaki Dōnyū, the strongest man in the Muromachi bakufu.

After his eldest brother Ienaga fell in battle in 1338 and Ujitsune was disgraced after his Kyūshū campaign of 1362, many backed Ujiyori for the vacant office of kanrei, but Takatsune favored his younger sons and passed him over. Disillusioned, Ujiyori took Buddhist vows and withdrew to Ōmi province.