Kudō Takamitsu

Kudō Takamitsu was a powerful inner retainer of the Hōjō Tokusō in the late Kamakura period. When Daijō Takamoto, head of the Hitachi Daijō house, died in 1289, Takamitsu intervened in its succession, securing the expulsion of the heir Tsunemoto and installing his own grandson Chōju, later called Tokimoto, as family head.

The brothers' lawsuit ran for more than twenty years and ended in Tokimoto's favour. Genealogies make Takamitsu the son of Kudō Shigemitsu and the father of Kudō Tokimitsu.