Minamoto no Yoshitomo

Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123–1160) was the sixth head of the Kawachi Genji and father of Yoritomo, Noriyori and Yoshitsune. Sent east as a youth, he built ties with Kantō warrior houses and became governor of Shimotsuke.

In the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156 he fought for Emperor Go-Shirakawa against his own father Tameyoshi. Three years later he joined Fujiwara no Nobuyori in the Heiji Disturbance, was defeated by Taira no Kiyomori, and was murdered by a treacherous retainer while fleeing through Owari in 1160.