Hatakeyama Yoshitaka

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Hatakeyama Yoshitaka (?-1576) was the 11th ruling head of the Hatakeyama of Noto province throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Even though born as the second son to Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna, Yoshitaka was to be sent to the Nihonmatsu branch of their respective clan, adoption being their coherent intent. However, around 1566 Yoshitsura had been driven from his province out of consequence to treachery and civil dispute among the retainer class, which caused Yoshitaka to be placed upon the throne in 1574 and evidently becoming the conspirators' ruling puppet. To add to the circumstances, the Cho clan and their supporters usurped Yoshitaka's position later that year and had murdered him in 1576; but their exists sources stating that he lived up until 1577, committing suicide after Uesugi Kenshin had besieged Nanao castle of Noto province.^[1]