Nanbu Nagatsugu

Nanbu Nagatsugu was a warrior of the late Kamakura and Southern Court period and the third head of the Hekii, later Nejō, Nanbu branch. In 1327 the shogunate sent him to Mutsu to help crush the Andō revolt. In 1330 he went to Kyoto and served Prince Morinaga under Kusunoki Masashige.

After the prince was killed in 1335, he took Buddhist orders as Hōtatsu and backed Morinaga's son Prince Okiyo. He is thought to have fallen fighting the turncoat Akamatsu Norisuke in 1352.