Kudō Suketsune

Kudō Suketsune (1147–1193) was a late-Heian warrior of the Fujiwara Nanke line, heir of Kudō Suketsugu in Izu Province. While he served Taira no Shigemori in Kyoto, his guardian Itō Sukechika seized his estate and wife, and in 1176 Suketsune's men ambushed Sukechika and killed his son Kawazu Sukeyasu.

After Minamoto no Yoritomo rose in 1180, Suketsune became his Kamakura attendant, valued for court music and knowledge of the capital, and joined the 1184 Taira campaign. In 1193, at Yoritomo's Fuji hunt, Sukeyasu's sons the Soga brothers slew him in revenge.