Kō no Shigeuji

Kō no Shigeuji was a mid-Kamakura warrior and steward, or shitsuji, to the Ashikaga lords Yoriuji and Ietoki in Shimotsuke Province; he was the great-grandfather of Kō no Moronao. A writ he issued in the eleventh month of 1281 is the oldest surviving evidence of a Kō heading the Ashikaga household, by which point the stewardship had become hereditary.

He had died by 1284, when his son Morouji received Ashikaga Ietoki's farewell letter at his suicide. Shigeuji also took part in the Utsunomiya waka circle as a poet.