Nanbu Sanemitsu

Nanbu Sanemitsu (born 1181) was a mid-Kamakura warrior and the second head of the Nanbu clan, succeeding as the second son of its founder Mitsuyuki. In the Jōkyū War of 1221 he joined Hōjō Yasutoki's army and fought at the Uji River.

The Azuma Kagami records him guarding Shogun Fujiwara no Yoritsune on his 1238 visit to Kyoto, and in 1252 attending the new shogun Prince Munetaka at Tsurugaoka Hachiman shrine together with his heir Tokizane.