Fujiwara no Sadamasa

Fujiwara no Sadamasa was a mid-Heian warrior of the Fujiwara Toshihito line and a son of Bungo no kami Fujiwara no Shigemitsu. In 985 he joined the Takiguchi palace guard.

In 989 he and his cousin Fujiwara no Tamenobu shot dead Mikuni Yukimasa, a strongman of Echizen Province, at Awataguchi in Kyoto; the court sent Kebiishi police to arrest him, but in vain. His son Masashige's descendants took the name Katō and served the Kawachi Minamoto.