Kusunoki Masatoo

Kusunoki Masatoo was an akutō, a provincial outlaw chief, of Kawachi Province in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, traditionally remembered as the father of Kusunoki Masashige and Masasue. His name appears in no contemporary record and rests only on the Tachibana genealogy preserved in the Sonpi Bunmyaku.

Some scholars identify him with Kawachi no Kusunoki Nyūdō, a tonsured strongman and former steward of the Ōbe estate in Harima whom its peasants denounced to Tōdai-ji in 1295. He is thought to have died around 1320.