Aritsune Matsuda

Aritsune Matsuda, also called Hatano Aritsune, was a late Heian and early Kamakura warrior in Sagami and the founder of the Matsuda clan. His father Hatano Yoshitsune opposed Minamoto no Yoritomo's rising in 1180 and was driven to suicide, so the boy was entrusted to his maternal uncle.

In 1188 his mounted archery at the yabusame before Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine so pleased Yoritomo that he was granted Matsuda-gō in Ashigara, the finest village of his father's old lands; he took the name Matsuda Jirō and became a Kamakura gokenin.