Shimazu Hisatsune

Shimazu Hisatsune (1225–1284) was the third head of the Shimazu clan and a Kamakura vassal. In 1265 he succeeded his father Tadatoki and went to Kamakura.

In 1275 he returned to Kyushu against the Mongol invasions and was posted to defend Chikuzen; in the 1281 Kōan invasion he led the Shimazu army with distinction, a feat pictured in the Mongol Invasion scrolls. He died in 1284 at Hakozaki, aged sixty, succeeded by his son Tadamune.