Fujiwara no Fusasaki
{{short description|Member of the Fujiwara clan}}
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|death_date = 737
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|spouse =Muro no Oukami (daughter of Mine-ō - a descendant of Emperor Bidatsu)
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Fujiwara no Matate
Fujiwara no Mitate
Fujiwara no Kitanobunin
And many others
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Fujiwara no Muchimaro (brother)
Fujiwara no Miyako (brother)
Fujiwara no Nagako (brother)
Fujiwara no Umakai (brother)
Fujiwara no Maro (brother)
Empress Kōmyō (sister)
Fujiwara no Tabino (brother)
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Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原 房前, 681 – May 25, 737) was a Japanese court noble who was a member of the Fujiwara clan and the founder of the Hokke House of the Fujiwara.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|Japan Encyclopedia, p. 202|page=202}}; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). {{Google books|JlUCAAAAYAAJ|A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203.|page=203}} He served as Sangi (Associate Counselor) in the Imperial Court.
Career
Fusasaki was a Sangi (associate counselor) in the Daijō-kan.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). {{Google books|18oNAAAAIAAJ|Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 224.|page=69}}
He founded the temple of Sugimoto-dera in Kamakura in 734 with the priest Gyōki (668–749). The temple's legend holds that Empress Komyo (701–760) in the Nara Period (710–794) instructed Fusasaki, the then high-ranking minister, and a famous priest named Gyoki (668–749) to build the temple enshrining a statue of Eleven-Headed Kan'non, or Ekādaśamukha in Sanskrit, as the main object of worship. Priest Gyoki fashioned the statue himself because he was also a great sculptor.{{cite web|url=http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~QM9T-KNDU/sugimoto.htm|title=Sugimoto-dera|date=July 2002|accessdate=2009-04-19}}
Fusasaki and his three brothers died during a major smallpox epidemic in 737.
Family
- Father: Fujiwara no Fuhito (藤原不比等, 659–720)
- Mother: Soga no Shōshi (蘇我娼子, ?–?), daughter of Soga no Murajiko (蘇我連子)
- Main-wife (seishitsu): Muro no O-Okimi (牟漏女王, ?–746), daughter of Minu-Ō (美努王)
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| Order | Name | Japanese | Lifetime |
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| 2nd son | Fujiwara no Nagate | 藤原永手 | 714–771 |
| 3rd son | Fujiwara no Matate | 藤原真楯 | 715–766 |
| 6th son | Fujiwara no Mitate | 藤原御楯 | ? –764 |
| daughter | wife of Emperor Shōmu | 北殿 | ? –760 |
- Wife: Daughter of Kusagunokura no Oyu (春日倉老)
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| Order | Name | Japanese | Lifetime |
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| 1st son | Fujiwara no Torikai | 藤原鳥養 | ? – ? |
- Wife: Daughter of (片野朝臣)
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| Order | Name | Japanese | Lifetime |
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| 4th son | Fujiwara no Kiyokawa | 藤原清河 | ? –778 |
| 5th son | Fujiwara no Uona | 藤原魚名 | 721–783 |
- Wife: Daughter of (阿波采)
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| Order | Name | Japanese | Lifetime |
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| 7th son | Fujiwara no Kaedemaro | 藤原楓麻呂 | 723–776 |
- Children with unknown mother:
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| Order | Name | Japanese | Lifetime |
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| daughter | wife of Fujiwara no Toyonari | 藤原豊成室 | ? – ? |
| daughter | Fujiwara no Ohirako | 藤原宇比良古 | ? – 762 |
Notes
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References
- Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/413099 OCLC 413099]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC Japan encyclopedia.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Annales des empereurs du Japon] (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
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