Katō Kagekado

Katō Kagekado (1156–1221) was a warrior of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods and a leading Kamakura gokenin. A second son of Katō Kagekazu of Ise, he settled in Izu and in 1180 joined Minamoto no Yoritomo's uprising against the Taira.

He fought at Ishibashiyama and in the 1189 Ōshū campaign, and in 1203 killed Nitta Tadatsune on Hōjō orders during the Hiki incident. He took the tonsure after Shōgun Sanetomo's murder in 1219 and died in 1221.