Gotō no Mototsuna

Gotō no Mototsuna (1181–1256) was a Kamakura-period gokenin and court poet, son of Gotō no Motokiyo. In the Jōkyū War of 1221 he served the Kamakura shogunate as an army commissioner and, on its orders, beheaded his father, who had fought for the retired emperor.

In 1225 he joined the newly created Council of State. Dismissed in the 1246 palace purge, he returned as a Hikitsuke-shū judge in 1252. His verses appear in imperial anthologies including the Shin Chokusen Wakashū, and some traditions name him as author of the Jikkinshō.