Taira no Sukemori

Taira no Sukemori (1161–1185) was the second son of Taira no Shigemori and a grandson of Kiyomori. In 1170 his quarrel with the retinue of Regent Matsudono Motofusa, the carriage incident, led to an armed revenge attack on the regent's men and stalled his court career.

A gifted poet whose verses appear in imperial anthologies and a favourite of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa, he later fought in the Genpei War. Routed at Mikusa-yama in 1184, he drowned himself after the Taira defeat at Dannoura in 1185, aged twenty-five.