Hiki Yoshikazu

Hiki Yoshikazu
比企 能員
Hiki Yoshikazu
DiedOctober 8, 1203
Kamakura, Japan
Occupation(s)Samurai lord, Gokenin
Known forSamurai lord, involvement in power struggle in Kamakura Shogunate

Hiki Yoshikazu was a Japanese samurai lord and a powerful gokenin of the Kamakura Shogunate during the Kamakura period. He was related to the ruling Minamoto clan through his daughter's marriage. He, and much of the Hiki clan, were killed for allegedly conspiring to have one of the Minamoto clan's heirs killed, in order to gain power himself.

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