Shōni Sukeyoshi

Shōni Sukeyoshi (1198–1281) was a Kamakura-period warrior and the second head of the Shōni clan, the first to take the Shōni name. As the shogunate's Chinzei commissioner over northern Kyūshū, he received envoys from the Mongol Yuan in 1268.

He took Buddhist orders before the first Mongol invasion of 1274 and passed family leadership to his son Tsunesuke, yet still led Kyūshū's forces against the invaders. In 1281 he fought at Iki Island and helped drive the Mongols out, dying soon afterwards from his wounds at eighty-four.