Kikuchi Takemitsu

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kikuchi.

Kikuchi Takemitsu (菊池 武光; 1319 – 1373) was a Japanese samurai lord in the Nanboku-chō period. He was the 15th head of the Kikuchi clan.

Kikuchi Takemitsu in Zenken Kojitsu

Statue of Kikuchi Takemitsu

Biography

Takemitsu was the 9th son of Kikuchi Taketoki, and fought on the side of Emperor Go-Daigo as his father had done, a strong and dependable ally to Prince Kaneyoshi, the son of Emperor Go-Daigo, in the struggle against the Kamakura shogunate.

His most famed battle is the Battle of Chikugogawa, fought on the banks of the Chikugo River in Kyūshū, in which he was victorious.^[1]