Kudō Kagemitsu

Kudō Kagemitsu was a twelfth-century warrior of the Kudō clan active in Kai and Izu Provinces. He backed Minamoto no Yoritomo's 1180 rising and helped rout a Taira force at the Battle of Hashidayama. In the 1189 Ōshū campaign he and his son Yukimitsu served with distinction; Yukimitsu received lands in Iwate District, founding the Kuriyagawa Kudō line.

At Yoritomo's 1193 Fuji hunt, Kagemitsu three times missed a great deer, declared it the mountain god's mount and his own death near, and fell ill that night.