Takashima Takanobu

Sasaki Takanobu, also called Takashima Takanobu, was an early Kamakura-period warrior of Ōmi and the second son of Sasaki Nobutsuna, head of the Sasaki clan. As jitō of Tanaka village in Takashima district he founded the Takashima clan.

In 1235 a dispute with the Hiyoshi Shrine escalated when his deputy killed a shrine monk; Enryakuji monks marched on Kyoto with portable shrines, and the court exiled Takanobu to Bungo Province. His descendants and the unrelated Yamazaki clan became known as the Seven Heads of Takashima.