Mitsui Sukenaga

Mitsui Sukenaga (三井 資長) was a warrior of the mid-Kamakura period. His common name was Saburō. He is believed to have been part of the Mitsui clan, a family serving as shugodai of Nagato Province. His wife was the elder sister of Takezaki Suenaga, known from the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba.^[1]

During the Battle of Bun'ei, he fought alongside his brother-in-law Takezaki Suenaga against the Mongol forces. Sukenaga, Tsunenaga, and three attendants, a total of only five knights, chased retreating Mongol soldiers from Akasaka and charged into the Mongol army that had deployed from Sohara-yama, sustaining arrow wounds. When Tsunenaga reported their achievements to Adachi Yasumori's residence in Kamakura, it was mentioned that both Tsunenaga, Sukenaga, and their attendants had sustained injuries to their hands.