Kotō Takezane

Kotō Takezane (died 1348) was the fourteenth head of the Kotō, a warrior clan of Asa District in Nagato Province. In the Genkō War he served the Nagato tandai Hōjō Tokinao, but in 1333 turned against him and helped drive him from Nagato, after which the Kenmu government made him shugo of Nagato in 1334.

When Takauji rebelled, Takezane joined him in Kyushu in 1336 and fought the Southern Court, keeping the post under the Muromachi shogunate. After the 1348 fighting at Shijōnawate he fell ill, passed the office to his son Takemura, and died in Kyoto that November.