Mutō Sukeyori

Mutō Sukeyori (1160–1228) was an early Kamakura shogunate warrior and the founder of the Shōni clan. He first served under Taira no Tomomori but surrendered to Minamoto no Yoritomo after the Battle of Ichinotani in 1184, and fought in the Ōshū campaign of 1189.

Sent to Kyūshū as Chinzei commissioner in the 1190s, he became governor of five Kyūshū provinces. In 1226 he became the first retainer to hold a junior post at Dazaifu; his son Sukeyoshi inherited the office and took the name Shōni.