Fujiwara no Yoshifusa (藤原良房, 804 - October 7, 872) was the first of the great regents from the Fujiwara clan. He was the second son of Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu and Fujiwara no Mitsuko.
A skillful politician, he managed to set up his own grandson as the emperor Emperor Seiwa, with himself acting as regent and de facto ruler. He was the first regent (Sessho) in Japanese history who was not himself of imperial rank.
Yoshifusa is referred to as Chūjin Kō (忠仁公) (posthumous name as Daijō Daijin).
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Career
- Jōwa 1, on the 9th day of the 7th month (834): Sangi (参議)
- Jōwa 2 (835): Gon-no-Chūnagon (権中納言)
- Jōwa 7 (840): Chūnagon (中納言)
- Jōwa 9 (842): Dainagon (大納言)
- Jōwa 15, on the 10th day of the 1st month (848): Udaijin (右大臣)
- Saikō 4, on the 19th day of the 2nd month (857): Daijō Daijin (太政大臣)[1]
- Ten'an 2, on the 7th day of the 11th month (858): Sessho (摂政) for Emperor Seiwa.[2]
- Jōgan 14, on the 2nd day of the 9th month (October 7, 872): Yoshifusa died at the age of 69.
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
See also
- Fujiwara Regents
- Shoku Nihon Kōki, one of the Six National Histories of Japan; edited by Fujiwara no Yoshifusa.
Notes
- ^ Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219, p. 285; n.b., Yoshifusa was the first minister to be promoted to Daijō-daijin. That high office was previously filled by Imperial Princes only.
- ^ Brown, p. 286.
References
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- (Japanese) Hioki, S. (1990). Nihon Keifu Sōran. Toyko: Kōdansya.
- (Japanese) Kasai, M. (1991). Kugyō Bunin Nenpyō. Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppan-sha
- (Japanese) Kodama, K. (1978). Nihon-shi Shō-jiten, Tennō. Tokyo: Kondō Shuppan-sha.
- (Japanese) Owada, T. et al. (2003). Nihonshi Shoka Keizu Jimmei Jiten. Tokyo: Kōdansya.
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