Togashi Yasuie

Togashi Yasuie was a late-Heian and early-Kamakura warrior, sixth head of the Togashi clan of Kaga. In 1183 he joined Minamoto no Yoshinaka against the Taira and fought at Kurikara Pass, where torches tied to oxen were driven burning into Taira no Koremori's camp.

After Yoshinaka's fall in 1184 he guarded the Ataka barrier as shugo of Kaga. In 1187, tradition holds, he recognized Yoshitsune disguised as a yamabushi but let him pass, moved by Benkei's kanjinchō; stripped of office, he took the name Shigezumi and ended his days at Nonoichi.