Shiga Yoshisato (志賀 能郷) was a samurai lord of the Kamakura period.
[1] Shiga Yoshisato was born as the eighth son of Ōtomo Yoshinao and Shinmyō.
Yoshinao was a gokenin retainer of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo and the founder of the Ōtomo clan, and served as Governor of Buzen and Bungo Provinces, Defense Commissioner of the West and Lieutenant of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards (Sakon no shōgen) under the Kamakura shogunate.
[1] In 1223, his father Yoshinao died at the age of 51 and handed him over the position of governor (jitō), and the territory, of Kachigazuru, Buzen Province.
At its zenith, the Ōtomo clan ruled Buzen, Bungo, Chikugo, Hizen, Higo, and Chikuzen Provinces, as well as half of Hyūga and Iyo Provinces.