Suwa Yoritsugu

Suwa Naoyori was the name taken by Suwa Upper Shrine high priest Yoritsugu after he received a character from Ashikaga Tadayoshi. In the Kannō Disturbance of 1350 to 1352 he led Tadayoshi's faction in Shinano, and in 1351 captured Suzawa Castle, where Kō no Morofuyu killed himself.

After Tadayoshi's fall he served Prince Munenaga of the Southern Court and fought at Musashino in 1352, but returned to the Muromachi shogunate by 1359. Ordained as Fukan, he remained the Suwa clan's elder statesman until his death around 1395.