9th Century *anese statesman and Regent to the Emperor Fujiwara no Yoshifusa by Kikuchi YōsaiIn this *anese name, the surname is Fujiwara.

Fujiwara no Yoshifusa (藤原 良房, 804 – October 7, 872), also known as Somedono no Daijin or Shirakawa-dono, was a *anese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.

When Yoshifusa's grandson was enthroned as Emperor Seiwa, Yoshifusa *umed the role of regent (sesshō) for the young monarch. He was the first sesshō in *anese history who was not himself of imperial rank; and he was the first of a series of regents from the Fujiwara clan.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Genealogy
• 3 Marriages and children
• 4 See also
• 5 Notes
• 6 References

Career

He was a minister during the reigns of Emperor Ninmyō, Emperor Montoku and Emperor Seiwa.

• 834 (Jōwa 1, 9th day of the 7th month): Sangi
• 835 (Jōwa 2): Gon-no-Chūnagon
• 840 (Jōwa 7): Chūnagon
• 842 (Jōwa 9): Dainagon
• 848 (Saikō 1, 1st month): Udaijin
• 857 (Saikō 4, 19th day of the 2nd month): Daijō Daijin
• 858 (Ten'an 2, 7th day of the 11th month): Sesshō for Emperor Seiwa.
• October 7, 872 (Jōgan 14, 2nd day of the 9th month): Yoshifusa died at the age of 69.

Yoshifusa conceived the programme of boy-sovereigns with Fujiwara regents; and his adopted son, Mototsune, carried out the plans.

Genealogy

This member of the Fujiwara clan was the son of Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu. Yoshifusa's brothers were Fujiwara no Nagayoshi, Fujiwara no Yoshisuke and Fujiwara no Yoshikado.

Marriages and children

He was married to Minamoto no Kiyohime (源 潔姫), daughter of Emperor Saga.

They had only one daughter.

• Akirakeiko/Meishi (明子) (829–899), consort of Emperor Montoku

He adopted his brother Nagara's third son.

• Mototsune (基経) (836–891) – Daijō Daijin and Kampaku

Yoshifusa is referred to as Chūjin Kō (忠仁公) (posthumous *le was Daijō Daijin).

See also

• Fujiwara Regents
• Shoku Nihon Kōki, one of the Six National Histories of *an; edited by Fujiwara no Yoshifusa.

Notes

References

• Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. (1915). A History of the *anese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. OCLC:413099
• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN:978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC:251325323
• (in *anese) Hioki, S. (1990). Nihon Keifu Sōran. Tokyo: Kōdansya.
• (in *anese) Kasai, M. (1991). Kugyō Bunin Nenpyō. Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppan-sha
• (in *anese) Kodama, K. (1978). Nihon-shi Shō-jiten, Tennō. Tokyo: Kondō Shuppan-sha.
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). *an encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN:978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC:58053128
• (in *anese) Owada, T. et al. (2003). Nihonshi Shoka Keizu Jimmei Jiten. Tokyo: Kōdansya.
• t...ingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du *on. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC:5850691

Notes

• In the 13th century, the main line of the Fujiwara family split into "Five regent houses": the Kujō, Nijō and Ichijō (descendants of Kanezane); and also the Konoe and Takatsukasa (descendants of Motozane). To view the complete family tree, visit Fujiwara family tree.