Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising:

• a negative electrode core body;
• and
• a negative electrode mixture layer provided on a surface of the negative electrode core body,
• wherein the negative electrode mixture layer includes graphite and fibrous carbon including single wall fibrous carbon and multiwalled fibrous carbon, and
• wherein, when a range of 40% of a thickness of the mixture layer from a surface of the negative electrode mixture layer on a side opposite to the negative electrode core body is defined as a first region and a range of 40% of a thickness of the mixture layer from an interface between the negative electrode mixture layer and the negative electrode core body is defined as a second region,
• a BET specific surface area of the graphite included in the first region is smaller than a BET specific surface area of the graphite included in the second region, and
• the first region includes the single wall fibrous carbon in greater quantity than the multiwalled fibrous carbon in terms of mass and the second region includes the multiwalled fibrous carbon in greater quantity than the single wall fibrous carbon in terms of mass.