Suketoki Itō

Suketoki Itō (1185–1252) was an early Kamakura-period warrior and gokenin, remembered as the founder of the Hyūga Itō clan. As a small child called Inufusamaru, he lost his father Suketsune Kudō when the Soga brothers killed him in their famous revenge of 1193; although some sought to spare the captured Soga Tokimune, his tearful pleas led to Tokimune being handed over to the family and executed.

He served the shogunate thereafter, joined its Tōkaidō army during the Jōkyū War of 1221, and in 1235 became Governor of Yamato. He died in 1252, aged 68.