Tō

The Tō were a branch of the Chiba warrior family, named for the Tō estate in Shimōsa held by their founder Tō Taneyori. A later branch ruled from Shinowaki Castle in Gujō, Mino Province.

In 1468 Saitō Myōchin seized Shinowaki while its lord Tō Tsuneyori was campaigning in the east, but returned it the following year. Tsuneyori was also a poet; in 1471 he taught the poet Sōgi his family's interpretation of the Kokinshū anthology.