Takō Munetomo

Takō Munetomo was a mid-Kamakura-period gokenin and the seventh son of Utsunomiya Yoritsuna of Shimotsuke. In 1238 he accompanied the shogun Fujiwara no Yoritsune on his progress to Kyoto and Rokuhara, and he appears frequently in the Azuma Kagami.

In 1248 he built Takō Castle and founded the Takō clan. He held the post of governor of Iwami Province by 1258 and died in 1292 aged seventy-three.