Hei

The Hei were warrior lords of Hei district in Mutsu Province, around present-day Miyako. After the fall of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, Hei Chikamitsu followed Kitabatake Akiie and had his lands confirmed.

The main line later took the name Takusari and faced repeated attacks by the Nanbu clan. Takusari Mitsuyoshi and his son Mitsushige entered Nanbu service and joined the invasion of Korea in the 1590s; Takusari Castle was dismantled while they were away.