Utsunomiya Sadatsuna

Utsunomiya Sadatsuna (1266–1316), eighth head of the Utsunomiya clan, was a general of the later Kamakura shogunate. He took his name from Hōjō Sadatoki. During the second Mongol invasion of 1281, the Kōan campaign, the regent Hōjō Tokimune named him commander of some sixty thousand gokenin of the Sanyō and San'in circuits, and he led them to Kyūshū.

In 1305 he helped destroy Hōjō Munekata in the Kagen disturbance, and in 1312 he dedicated a great iron stupa in his late mother's memory. He died in 1316 aged fifty-one.