Utsunomiya Tomotsuna

Utsunomiya Tomotsuna (1122–1204) was the third head of the Utsunomiya clan and a warrior at the court of the retired emperors in Kyoto. After Minamoto no Yoritomo rose in 1180, Taira no Kiyomori detained him in the capital; only in 1184 was he allowed to join Yoritomo. In the 1189 Ōshū campaign he fought with his son Naritsuna, and Yoritomo praised him as the finest bowman in Bandō.

In 1194 the court ordered him placed in the custody of the Bungo provincial government for seizing public land; he was pardoned in 1196 and died in 1204 aged eighty-three.