Takanao Kikuchi

Japanese: 菊池隆直 - きくち・たかなお

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A military commander in Higo during the final period of the Heian period. According to the family tree, he was the sixth head of the Kikuchi clan, and in the latter half of the 12th century, he exerted his military might over the entire Higo province, and was called Kikuchi Gonnokami. In the autumn of 1180 (Jisho 4), in opposition to the control of Kyushu by the Taira clan, he united the forces of Higo, including Aso Koreyasu and Kihara Morizane, and raised an army. At one point, he attacked Dazaifu, but in the spring of 1182 (Yowa 2), he surrendered to Taira Sadayoshi, the envoy in pursuit of them. After that, he went to Kyoto as a military commander on the Taira side, and in August of the same year, he accompanied Emperor Antoku, who went down to Dazaifu. His whereabouts after that are unclear, and it is said that he returned to Higo when Ogata Koreyoshi and others attacked Dazaifu in October of the same year, or that he shared the fate of the Taira clan, was captured, and was beheaded at Gojogawara in Kyoto. <References>Kudo Keiichi, "The Establishment of the Shoen Kokuryo System and the Civil War"

(Keichi Kudo)

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生年：生没年不詳
平安時代最末期の肥後の武将。系図によると菊池氏惣領第6代,12世紀後半肥後一国に武威を振るい,菊池権守と呼ばれる。治承4(1180)年秋,平家の九州支配に抗して,阿蘇惟安,木原盛実ら肥後の勢力を糾合して挙兵,一時は大宰府を攻めたが,養和2(1182)年春追討使平貞能に降伏,以後平家方の武将として京都にのぼり,さらに同年8月大宰府に下った安徳天皇に供奉した。その後の動静は明らかでなく,同年10月の緒方惟義らの大宰府攻撃に際し,肥後に帰ったとも,平家と運命を共にし,捕らえられ京都五条河原で斬首されたともいわれる。<参考文献>工藤敬一『荘園公領制の成立と内乱』

(工藤敬一)

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