Nanbu Sanetsugu

Nanbu Sanetsugu (c. 1250–1332) was the late-Kamakura second head of the Hakiri Nanbu clan, succeeding his father Sanenaga. In 1282 he escorted the frail Nichiren from Minobu to Ikegami, where he died.

In 1331, already over seventy, he joined the Genkō War for Emperor Go-Daigo and held Akasaka Castle. Captured when it fell, he was beheaded at Kyoto's Rokujō-gawara in the twelfth month of 1332, the first of the rebels executed. His son Nagatsugu succeeded him.