Mita Tsunahide

Danjō-shōhitsu · Lord of Katsunuma and Karakai Castles

Mita Tsunahide (三田綱秀, c. 1491? - 1563) was the last major lord of the Mita clan, a warrior family that dominated the Ōme region, in western Musashi Province, from his castles at Katsunuma and later Karakai. A former ally of the Go-Hōjō, he was listed among their external allies in 1559. In 1560 he joined Uesugi Kenshin during the latter's invasion of Kantō, and he took part in the siege of Odawara in 1561. After Kenshin withdrew, he refused to submit again and entrenched himself in Karakai mountain castle, which he had had built around 1558. Defeated by Hōjō Ujiteru in 1563, he took refuge, according to tradition, at Iwatsuki Castle under the protection of Ōta Sukemasa, where he took his own life, marking the end of the Mita clan's power.