Mitsukazu Kato - Kato, not found

Japanese: 加藤光員 - かとう・みつかず

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A military commander in the early Kamakura period. He was called Kato Futo. His father was Kagekazu. In 1180, together with his father and younger brother Kagetaka, he participated in the uprising of Minamoto no Yoritomo, but was defeated in the Battle of Ishibashiyama and fled to Kai. He later advanced to Suruga with the Takeda clan and killed the deputy governor Tachibana Tomoshige. After that, he fought in various battles with his younger brother and became a powerful vassal of the Kamakura shogunate. He held the position of land steward of Toyoda-sho, Ikeda-beppu, and Nakaato-sho in Ise Province, and was also the steward of Onakatomi Yoshitaka, the chief priest of Ise Shrine. He also served the retired Emperor Gotoba as a west-facing warrior, was appointed as Ise no Kami and Kebiishi, and was called Daifu Hangan. During the Jokyu War (1221), he was on the side of the Kyoto faction, but there are no historical documents that tell us about his activities. All that is known is that his territory, Kano Maki in Izu Province, was confiscated and given to his younger brother Kagetaka, and that his son Mitsukane was killed as a member of the Kyoto faction. He apparently died shortly after the rebellion.

(Kazuto Hongo)

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Japanese:

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鎌倉初期の武将。加藤太と称す。父は景員。治承4(1180)年父や弟景廉と共に源頼朝の挙兵に参加,石橋山の戦で敗れて甲斐に逃げ,のち武田氏と共に駿河に進み目代橘遠茂を討った。以後弟と共に転戦し,鎌倉幕府の有力御家人となった。伊勢国の豊田庄,池田別符,中跡庄の地頭職を持ち,伊勢神宮祭主大中臣能隆の家司でもあった。また西面武士として後鳥羽上皇に仕え,伊勢守・検非違使に任じられ,大夫判官と称した。承久の乱(1221)では京方に属したが,その活動を伝える史料は残っていない。所領の伊豆国狩野牧が没収されて弟景廉に与えられたこと,子の光兼が京方として殺されたことが知られるのみである。乱後まもなく死去したらしい。

(本郷和人)

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