Fujiwara no Saneyori

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fujiwara no Saneyori . (Historicizing drawing by Kikuchi Yōsai , 19th century)

Fujiwara no Saneyori ( Japanese 藤原 實 頼 ; * 900 ; † 970 ) was his father's successor as regent ( Kampaku ) for the mentally ill Japanese Emperor Reizei and the underage En'yū .

Life path

Fujiwara no Saneyori was the eldest son of Tadahira and is also known as Ono-miya-dono . He achieved a certain fame as a poet, especially for his waka poems, which are collected in Seishinkō-shū ( 清 慎 公 集 ). In 960 he was determined by the Tennō as a juror in a poetry competition. His diary-form memoirs are titled Seishin-kō-ki.

After he had already served as Udaijin ("Chancellor on the right") since 944 , he rose to Sadaijin ("Chancellor on the left") in 947 . In 967 he succeeded his father as regent for the insane Japanese Emperor Reizei . The following year he was then Dajō-Daijin (Grand Chancellor). When Reizei renounced the throne, he became regent ( sesshō ) - an office that included the full sacerdotium of the Tennō - for the minor En'yū.

Saneyori was able to marry two of his daughters to emperors: Jusshi ( 述 子 ) married Murakami (r. 946-67); Keishi ( 慶 子 ) became the wife of Go-Suzaku (r. 1036-45).

swell

  • Berend Wispelwey (Ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1 , Fiche 45