Masuda Kanetaka

Kanetaka Masuda was a warrior of Iwami Province from the late Heian to the early Kamakura period, the fourth head of the Mikamoto house, later called Masuda, and eldest son of Mikamoto Kaneharu. In the Genpei War he was the only Iwami lord to answer Minamoto no Yoritomo's call, fighting at Ichinotani in 1184.

Appointed Iwami's oryoshi that year, he went on to fight at Dannoura, where he took twenty-five enemy ships, and secured his family's twenty-two estates. In 1192 he moved to Masuda in Mino District and took the Masuda name, beginning Nanao Castle the next year. His son Kanesue succeeded him.