Tō no Taneyuki

Tō no Taneyuki, also called Sosen, was the third head of the Tō clan and founder of its Gujō branch in Mino Province. A waka poet like his father Shigetane, he served four successive Kamakura shoguns and won Yamada Manor in Gujō for his Jōkyū War service in 1221.

In 1233 he visited Fujiwara no Teika, seeking in vain a place in the new imperial anthology. In the Hōji Conflict of 1247 he stormed Chiba Hidetane's stronghold in Kazusa and saved his maternal grandson.