Hino Suketomo

Gon-chūnagon

Hino Suketomo (1290-1332) was a courtier and scholar of the court nobility, close to Emperor Go-Daigo, and implicated in the first plot against the Kamakura shogunate. After the failure of the Shōchū Incident, he was exiled to Sado Island in 1325, where he was placed under the custody of the Honma, deputy governors of the island. Local tradition places his place of detention at Danpū Castle. When the Genkō Incident broke out, he was beheaded on Sado in 1332. His son Kumawaka, later Hino Kunimitsu, is said by the Taiheiki to have come to Sado to avenge him. He is venerated at Mano-no-miya Shrine, and a Lotus Sutra copied in fine script in his own hand is designated an Important Cultural Property.