Takeda Masayoshi

Takeda Masayoshi (c. 1300–1343) headed the Ishikawa branch of the Kai Genji Takeda and is the only attested governor of Kai in the late Kamakura period. In 1331 he led Kai troops for the shogunate against Emperor Go-Daigo, fighting at Mount Kasagi and Akasaka Castle.

After the shogunate fell he joined the Kenmu government, then followed Ashikaga Takauji and invaded Shinano's Suwa District in 1336. He later went over to the Southern Court and was killed by a shogunal governor-deputy in 1343.