Waga Yoshiyuki

Waga Yoshiyuki, first called Katta Saburō Saemonnojō, founded the Waga clan of Mutsu province. Oniyanagi genealogies make him the son of Karita Yoshisue, a Kamakura gokenin enfeoffed in Katta district, and the Azuma Kagami names him in 1232.

During the Jōkyū era of 1219 to 1222 he entered Waga district as jitō of half its lands, took the name Waga and seated his main line at Iwasaki in Kuroiwa, now Kitakami; his third son Kageyuki fathered the Susumago branch.