Kudō Suketaka (工藤 祐隆) was a Japanese feudal lord who was the lord of Kusumi Manor in Izu Province[1] and the 6th head of the Kudō clan.
Suketaka gave the Kudō clan's ancestral home, the Kanō Manor (upstream of the Kano River) in Izu Province, to his fourth son, Kudō Shigemitsu.
Suketaka was not blessed with a successor, as his heir, Itō Sukeie, had died prematurely, so he adopted a son from his second wife's previous marriage as Kudō Suketsugu to succeed him.
Suketaka gave Suketsugu his main territory, the Itō Manor and the Usami Manor, and gave the Kawazu Manor to his grandson, Itō Sukechika (founder of the Kawazu clan), the son of his eldest son Sukeie, and thus decided to divide his territory.
[3] However, Sukechika, dissatisfied with this measure, seized the territory after Suketsugu's death.