Sanada Nobutsuna

{{Short description|Japanese samurai (1537–1575)}}

{{family name hatnote|Sanada|lang=Japanese}}

{{Infobox officeholder | name= Sanada Nobutsuna

|native_name=真田 信綱

| nationality=

| image= Sanadanobutuna.jpg

| image_size=

| caption=

| office = Head of Sanada clan

| predecessor = Sanada Yukitaka

| successor = Sanada Masayuki

| term_start = 1574

| term_end = 1575

| birth_date=1537

| birth_place=

| death_date= {{death date and age|1575|6|29|1537||}}

| death_place= Battle of Nagashino

| father= Sanada Yukitaka

| mother =

| children = Seiin-in

| relatives = Sanada Masateru (brother)
Sanada Masayuki (brother)
Sanada Nobuyuki (nephew and son-in-law)
Sanada Yukimura (nephew)

| battles = Battle of Kawanakajima (1561)
Siege of Odawara (1569)
Battle of Mikatagahara (1573)
Battle of Nagashino (1575)

|unit= 15px Sanada clan

| allegiance = 20px Takeda clan

}}

{{nihongo|Sanada Nobutsuna|真田 信綱||extra=1537 – June 29, 1575}} was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He is known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen".Internet Movie Database (IMDb), [https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0019073/bio "Shingen Takeda (Character) from Kagemusha (1980)]; retrieved 2013-5-17.

He was the eldest son of Sanada Yukitaka, a castle lord in Shinano Province, who by the time of his son's coming-of-age, had pledged his loyalty to the Takeda. During his coming-of-age ceremony, therefore, Sanada Nobutsuna was granted the shin (信) character from Takeda Shingen's name and took the name of Nobutsuna (信綱).

During the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, Nobutsuna was killed in combat{{cite book|last1=Turnbull|first1=Stephen|title=Battles of the Samurai|date=1987|publisher=Arms and Armour Press|location=London|isbn=9780853688266|pages=91}} his younger brother Masateru was also killed. According to Shinchō Kōki, Nobutsuna served as a member of the rearguard in the retreat and was killed.{{cite web|url=https://sengoku-his.com/475|title=「真田信綱・昌輝兄弟」長篠で惜しくも討死を遂げた昌幸の２人の兄|publisher=戦国ヒストリー|access-date=21 October 2021}}

After Nobutsuna's death his younger brother, Masayuki took the clan leadership.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%9C%9F%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%A1%E7%B6%B1-1078953|title=Sanada Nobutsuna|publisher=kotobank|language=ja|access-date=16 October 2021}} Nobutsuna's daughter Seiin-in was Sanada Nobuyuki (Masayuki's elder son)'s first wife.