Utsunomiya Kagetsuna

Utsunomiya Kagetsuna (1235–1298), seventh head of the Utsunomiya clan, was a gokenin in the mid-Kamakura shogunate. He served Shogun Prince Munetaka from 1252 and later rose to become governor of Shimotsuke and a member of the Hikitsuke and Hyōjō councils. In 1283 he issued the Utsunomiya house code, modeled on the Goseibai Shikimoku.

As a sworn brother of Adachi Yasumori, he was purged after the 1285 Shimotsuki incident, but returned to office when Taira no Yoritsuna fell in 1293. He died in 1298 aged sixty-four.