Haga Takatoshi

Haga Takatoshi was a late Kamakura-period warrior, a member of the Haga clan descended from the Kiyohara lineage, one of the most powerful vassal families of the Utsunomiya lords in Shimotsuke Province. Heritage sources credit him with the construction of the main castle of Tobiyama, c. 1293–1298, on a terrace overlooking the Kinugawa east of Utsunomiya. For three centuries this stronghold remained the seat of the Haga and a pivot of the defence of the Utsunomiya domain, until its abandonment in 1597.