was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. The 10th head of the Date clan's Iwade-Date clan branch, Kuninao served as a retainer of Sendai han.伊達家外伝; retrieved 2013-6-13. After the Meiji Restoration, Kuninao went to Hokkaidō and assisted in land reclamation. Among various other contributions to the founding of modern Hokkaido, Kuninao planned what became the modern town of Tōbetsu.
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