Taira no Kunika

Taira no Kunika (872–935) was the eldest son of Taira no Takamochi and, through his son Sadamori, the ancestor of the Hitachi and Ise Taira lines. In 898 he went east with his father and settled at Ishida in Hitachi, west of Mount Tsukuba.

Marrying a daughter of Minamoto no Mamoru, he succeeded to his father-in-law's post and extended the family's local power. In 935 his nephew Taira no Masakado burned the Ishida hall and killed Kunika, the first bloodshed of the Tengyō War.