( fl. 1743) was a Japanese samurai of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

. A senior retainer of the

Sendai domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Sendai Domain was based at Aoba Castle in Mutsu Province, in the modern city of Sendai, located in the Tōhoku region of the i ...

, he was first known as Kagehiro (景寛). Murakiyo was the eighth

Katakura Kojūrō was the common name of the head of the Japanese Katakura clan, who served as senior retainers to the Date clan. Following the Date clan's move into Sendai han, they were granted holdings at Shiroishi Castle (12,000 ''koku'' in total), which th ...

. His childhood name was Shigekuro (繁九郎) later Yuunosuke (勇之助) later changed to Kojuro.

Family

* Foster Father:

Katakura Murasada (1676–1744) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. A senior retainer of the Sendai domain, he was first known as Muratoshi (村利). Retired in 1743 in favor of his adopted son Murakiyo. Murasada was the seventh Katakura Kojūrō. His childh ...

* Father: Matsumae Hirotaka * Wife: Gohime * Children: ** Katakura Katayoshi **

Katakura Muratsune (1757–1822) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. A senior retainer of the Sendai domain, he was first known as Kagenaka (景仲) and Murayasu (村寿). Muratsune was the ninth Katakura Kojūrō. He was appointed as ''bugyō'' (the Sendai eq ...

by Concubine ** Daughter married Date Muratomo

External links

Katakura family tree
(in Japanese)

(in Japanese) Samurai Katakura clan 18th-century Japanese people {{samurai-stub