Tozawa Kanemori

The Hankanfu genealogy makes Tozawa no Kanemori the second head of the Tozawa clan and a son of the founder Hidemori. In 1206, pressed by the Nanbu clan, he left the Shizukuishi manor in Mutsu and withdrew west across the Ōu Mountains to Kadoya-kodate in Dewa.

In 1220 he moved his seat from Kadoya-kodate to Kadoya, and in 1228 built Kadoya Castle, planting the clan in Dewa, from which it later grew powerful around Kakunodate.