Tō no Shigetane
Tō no Shigetane (1177–1247) was the second head of the Tō clan and a trusted attendant of Kamakura Shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo. He succeeded his father Taneyori around 1190, and in 1199 joined the sixty-six gokenin signing the impeachment of Kajiwara Kagetoki.
A waka poet, he joined Sanetomo's inner circle; in 1206 the shogun sent him poems urging his return from Higashi Manor to Kamakura. After Sanetomo's assassination in 1219 he took vows and yielded the headship to his son Taneyuki.