Kikkawa
The Kikkawa were a warrior family named for a place in Suruga. They received the stewardship of Ōasa in Aki for service in the Jōkyū War of 1221, and the main house settled there in 1313.
As a local power the Kikkawa later aligned with the Ōuchi and Amago. Mōri Motonari placed his son Motoharu in the family; Motoharu became a Mōri commander in San'in, and the Kikkawa and Kobayakawa supported the main Mōri house. In the seventeenth century the Kikkawa ruled Iwakuni in Suō.
Characters
- Irie no Kagekane
- Irie no Kageyoshi
- Irie no Kiyosada
- Irie no Korekiyo
- Kikkawa Sanetsune
- Kikkawa Tomokane
- Kikkawa Tomotsune
- Kikkawa Tsuneaki
- Kikkawa Tsunehide
- Kikkawa Tsunekane
- Kikkawa Tsunemitsu
- Kikkawa Tsunemori
- Kikkawa Tsunenaga
- Kikkawa Tsuneshige
- Kikkawa Tsunetaka
- Kikkawa Tsuneyoshi