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	Fujiwara no Michinaga - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Michinaga gave Sanjō pressure to retirement and finally Sanjō was retired in 1016 under a condition around the succession.
		Michinaga was pleased to this decision and gave his daughter to this prince as a wife.
		Michinaga is popularly known as the Mido Kampaku, implying that he had usurped the full power of a kampaku without necessarily calling himself that, though he retained the title sesshō regent in a short term from 1016 till 1017.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Fujiwara_Michinaga (667 words)

	Michinaga
		Michinaga's total de facto rule over Japan can be seen from the fact that he was father to four (non-reigning) empresses, uncle to two emperors and grandfather to another three.
		Michinaga is popularly known as the Mido Kampaku, implying that he had usurped the full power of a kampaku without necessarily calling himself that.
		Michinaga left a diary that is one of our prime sources of information about Heian-era court life at its height.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fu/Fujiwara_no_Michinaga.html (229 words)

	tScholars.com \| Fujiwara no Michinaga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Michinaga pressured SanjÅ to retire and finally SanjÅ did so in 1016 under a condition made upon SanjÅ's succession.
		Michinaga was pleased by this decision and gave his daughter (either Kenshi or Ishi) to this prince as a wife, ensuring that the prince would not be an obstacle in the future.
		Technically, Michinaga never formally took on the title of kampaku regent, but in reality his word was law, even after he formally retired from public life in 1019.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Michinaga (685 words)

	880. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Fujiwara Mototsune (836–91) became the first kanpaku (regent for an emperor who was no longer a minor), a post thereafter customarily held by the head of the clan when an adult emperor was on the throne, while the post of sessh
		This was the heyday of the Fujiwara clan and the core of the Fujiwara period.
		The rule of Fujiwara Michinaga (966–1027) over clan and state saw the zenith of clan power and some of the most brilliant decades of artistic and literary achievement of the epoch.
	www.bartleby.com /67/386.html (1079 words)

	Fujiwara - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fujiwara, noble family that controlled the Japanese emperors and dominated the imperial court from the 9th to the 12th century.
		Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1028), Japanese court official and statesman, probably a model for Genji, hero of the great novel, The Tale of the Genji, by...
		Fujiwara Sadaie, also known as Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241), Japanese classical poet, government official, and literary scholar.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Fujiwara.html (69 words)

	Fujiwara Michinaga Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Fujiwara Michinaga was a son of Kaneiye, a powerful member of the Fujiwara clan who, as regent, had consolidated the power of the Fujiwaras.
		Michinaga became dajo daijin (chancellor) in 1017 and made his son, Yorimichi, sessh (regent); his daughter, Takeko, was made chugu of Emperor Goichijo, and Michinaga thus enjoyed unrivaled prestige and power at the court.
		Though Michinaga turned out to be the most powerful of the Fujiwara regents, his claim to the highest office was not strong on grounds of birth and court rank.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/fujiwara-michinaga (489 words)

	Japanese history: Nara, Heian Periods
		The Fujiwara family controlled the political scene of the Heian period over several centuries through strategic intermarriages with the imperial family and by occupying all the important political offices in Kyoto and the major provinces.
		After Michinaga, however, the ability of the Fujiwara leaders began to decline, and public order could not be maintained.
		The Fujiwara supremacy came to an end in 1068 when the new emperor Go-Sanjo was determined to rule the country by himself, and the Fujiwara failed to control him.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2132.html (639 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Later IchijÅ had children by Fujiwara no Kishi, the daughter of Fujiwara no Michinaga, and Michinaga expected his grandson to ascend to the throne as soon as possible.
		Michinaga became the Kampaku regent of Japan during the reign of IchijÅ and expected to hold this position in SanjÅ's government too, but SanjÅ as a matured man in his thirties desired strongly to govern without such influence.
		Michinaga gifted Atsuakira a status equal to the retired emperor, with the title of Koichijo-in and Nariakira married a daughter of Michinaga.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Emperor_Sanjo (562 words)

	Ancient Japan - 3
		One of the most celebrated affairs involving the expulsion of a member of another family by the Fujiwara was the removal of Sugawara Michizane from his post as minister and his exile to Kyushu.
		From the 10th century and through the 11th, successive generations of the northern branch of the Fujiwara clan continued to control the nation's government by monopolizing the posts of sessho and kampaku, and the wealth that poured into their coffers enabled them to lead lives of the greatest brilliance.
		The powerful authority wielded by the Fujiwara regents was maintained by their maternal relationship to successive emperors; once such a relationship disappeared, their power was bound to weaken.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan3.html (4328 words)

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		During the rule of Sekkanke Michinaga, the Fujiwara reached their peak of power and wealth due in part to years of collecting taxes for personal gain and commandeering massive plots of agricultural land for themselves.
		Michinaga's son succeeded him, but was not nearly as insightful of a ruler, and as he became older, Go-Sanjo successfully took advantage of the mistakes he made and became emperor in 1068, devoid of Fujiwara descent.
		The Fujiwara came to rule because they were able to marry into the imperial family, act as advisors to the emperor, and eventually gain immense influence over the emperor.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group18/Heian.html (1217 words)

	Japan The Fujiwara Regency - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.
		Another Fujiwara became regent for his grandson, then a minor emperor, and yet another was appointed kanpaku (regent for an adult emperor).
		Despite their usurpation of imperial authority, the Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/japan/japan_history_the_fujiwara_regency.html (1088 words)

	Samurai Rising
		During the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Fujiwara family lived in the cultural limelight, all the while holding a firm grip on the reins of power in Heian-kyo.
		The Fujiwara's supremacy in court virtually ended in 1068, when the newly enthroned emperor, Go-Sanjo, decided to rule Japan by himself and the clan discovered he could not be controlled.
		A number of Minamoto warriors came to be known as the "claws and teeth" of the main Fujiwara family, while a family line of the Taira clan became prominent in Heian-kyo as the military supporters of the retired emperors.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C05/E0504.htm (3097 words)

	TopicText (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fujiwaras acted as regents to the emperors and increased their power by intermarriage with the imperial family.
		The outstanding instance is that of Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1027) who married his daughters to four emperors and saw three of his grandsons become emperors.
		Fujiwara no Michinaga and he lived at the time of the writing of The Tale of Genji and in fact even made a sexual advance upon the author or authoress of The Tale of Genji, as she records in her diary.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/Genji/Intro/Text.htm (254 words)

	Heian Period
		The Fujiwara and other great families awarded state titles to their private stewards, and lesser provincial retainers also received such titles, becoming vassals bound to their lords by feudal loyalties: these bonds of obligation became the provincial power bases of the great families.
		The Heian aristocracy, especially the Fujiwara, devoted its wealth and leisure to artistic pursuits, and the period is known for the "rule of taste": the extreme importance of discernment and sensibility in aristocratic social relations.
		Fujiwara Yorimichi's Ho-o-do (Phoenix Hall, completed 1053) of the Byodoin, a temple in Uji near Kyoto, represents an earthly paradise, but it is also partly a place of retreat from the world.
	www.ox.compsoc.net /users/gemini/simons/historyweb/heian.html (3789 words)

	Outline of the Heianjidai, 794-1185 - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		Fujiwara Tokihira was succeeded by Fujiwara Tadahira (880-949), who recovered the position of Kanpaku in 930.
		From 967 until the last decades of the Heianjidai, the Fujiwara dominated the Imperial Court, through the marriage of daughters to heirs to the throne and the monopolization of influential government posts.
		Michinaga was succeeded by Fujiwara Yorimichi (992-1074, sessho 1016-1068), but his ambitions were seriously undermined by an unavoidable problem; a shortage of daughters.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2853 (3171 words)

	Akazome Emon
		When Shoshi /Akiko, the daughter of Rinshi and Michinaga, went to court as the emperor's consort in 999 (and empress a year later), Akazome Emon went with her and served there until the emperor's death in 1011.
		She participated in (and described) poetry competitions sponsored either by the court or the Fujiwara family, about whom she would write her most famous work; the last official mention of her is in 1041.
		It is when she reaches the 980s and the rise of Michinaga to power that the author begins to enjoy herself.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/akazome.html (2522 words)

	Fujiwara no Michinaga
		Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1028) was the most powerful of the Fujiwara sessh
		After Michinaga's death no Fujiwara leader was proved as able.
		The resurgance of the imperial house in the 1100s precipitated the military conflicts of the 1150s.
	www.college.emory.edu /culpeper/RAVINA/PROJECT/Heian_pages/Fujiwara_no_Michinaga.html (96 words)

	Aristocratic Control - The Heian Aristocracy - History - Japan - Asia
		Beginning in 858 the heads of the Fujiwara family married their daughters into the imperial family, then served as regents (kampaku) or chancellors (sesshu), exercising powers delegated to them by infant or minor emperors.
		The most successful of the Fujiwara leaders was Fujiwara Michinaga, who married four daughters to successive emperors in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
		The influence of the Fujiwara family remained strong until the middle of the 11th century, when Fujiwara regents were displaced by retired emperors who dominated their minor successors.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/japan/history/the_heian_aristocracy/aristocratic_control.htm (616 words)

	KJ Selections
		Michinaga's insatiable desire for power drives him to break the "one emperor-one empress" tradition that weathered the reigns of sixty-six monarchs.
		Her father, the imperial regent Fujiwara Michitaka, like generations of Fujiwara before him, depends on his daughter to control the emperor and the power of the throne.
		In 996, Teishi's older brother, the regent-apparent, is implicated in a plot contrived by Michinaga and banished.
	www.kyotojournal.org /kjselections/kjshonagon.html (2714 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Michinaga
		By virtue of his exuberant personality Genji becomes supremely popular at court, indulges in a series of amorous encounters, and wins the admiration of his peers when he dances the "Waves of the Blue Sea."
		The character of Genji may be based in part on the personality of Fujiwara Korechika (975-1010), a nephew of Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027), a great statesman and distant relative of Lady Murasaki.
		Genji, as a result of his numerous love affairs, incurs the jealousy and wrath of powerful rivals who bring about his disgrace and exile.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michinaga (393 words)

	Japanese Court Culture
		Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) consolidated his family’s power by marrying his daughters into the imperial line.
		As the emperors often assumed the throne as children, the Fujiwara father-in-law acted as regents, in effect ruling in the emperor’s name.
		Because of the predominance of the Fujiwara family, the Heian Period is often also referred to as the Fujiwara Period.
	mccoy.lib.siu.edu /~fl102/courtculture.html (1052 words)

	Heian Period
		The most successful of the Fujiwara, Michinaga (966-1027), had no fewer then four of his daughters married to emperors (with another marrying a prince who evidently suffered a breakdown before he could become emperor).
		At one point during the career of Fujiwara Kaneie (929-990) were no fewer then three retired emperors holding court, a situation that divided imperial authority and allowed Kaneie and his successor Michinaga to consolidate the Fujiwara hold on Kyoto.
		Fujiwara Michinori suffered the burning of his mansion and was forced to commit suicide in an attempt to reach Kiyomori.
	www.samurai-archives.com /HeianPeriod.html (4930 words)

	Michinaga Fujiwara - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Michinaga Fujiwara (966-1028), Japanese court official and statesman, probably a model for Genji, hero of the great novel by Shikibu Murasaki.
		Fujiwara hegemony declined after Michinaga’s death in 1028 as power ebbed away in two directions.
		In the mid-11th century the Fujiwara lost their...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Michinaga_Fujiwara.html (96 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The precarious position of the Fujiwaras, combined with their religious beliefs in the mutability of phenomena and their fascination with the transient beauty of earthly things, produced in them a sense of aimlessness and a foreboding of doom.
		In 901 A.D. Tokihira Fujiwara proposed reforms to strengthen the Taikwa institutes by stopping the granting of tax-free manors to members of the ruling class and the flight of farmers to these manors to escape government levies.
		Between the efforts of Tokihira Fujiwara and Go-Sanjo II falls the regency of Michinaga Fujiwara (995 A.D. Through the marriage of his daughters with the Emperor's family, he, as father-in-law and as grandfather, controlled three emperors and their children.
	members.cox.net /ramero/background.htm (1823 words)

	Fujiwara no Michinaga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fujiwara no Michinaga (藤原道長 966-1027), a member of the powerful Fujiwara family in the Heian period (794-1185), became a major behind-the-scenes power by judiciously marrying his daughters to succeeding Emperors.
		For more information on Fujiwara no Michinaga, see the Britannica article.
		Fujiwara no Michinaga's diary is known as the 'Mido Kanpakuki' (御堂関白記).
	www.cjvlang.com /Dow/fujiw.html (147 words)

	Emperors and Empresses of Japan - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		To secure their position, the Fujiwara forced the court to raise Asukabehime's rank to Empress, even though this position had always been reserved for princesses of the imperial family (in other words, emperors took their half-sisters or cousins as empresses).
		The superficial reason was the danger of another Dokyo incident, but the real motive was probably that the Fujiwara were planning to dominate the imperial court by marrying their daughters to future emperors as empresses, so that the reigning emperor would always have a Fujiwara father-in-law.
		It was impossible for a Fujiwara to occupty the throne directly, either as emperor or empress, so the Fujiwara had no interest in seeing an empress on the throne because that would mean she was not one of theirs.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2017 (3090 words)

	Byodo-in
		In 998, Fujiwara no Michinaga also bought a villa which the Minister of the Left, Fujiwara no Toru had built in 889, and was enjoying himself by putting on music or poetry shows.
		After Michinaga's death in 1027, Yorimichi, who had succeeded this villa from his father made this into a temple, built the main temple, and named it Byodo-in.
		Probably, Fujiwara no Yorimichi purposely broke the rules to be able to go to the Houo-do by crossing the Uji river where the Naka-jima island floats, by boat.
	library.thinkquest.org /29295/byodo-in.htm (1524 words)

	Byodoin, The Phoenix Pavilion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the 10th and throughout the 11th century, the northern branch of the Fujiwara family controlled the royal government by maintaining a monopoly on the posts called "sessho" and "kampaku".
		Meanwhile, the Fujiwara and other noble families used the wealth of the nation to live in leisure and comfort, surrounded by arts and leisure unimaginable to the lower classes.
		In 1053, Fujiwara Yorimichi had the the Amida (Amitabha) Hall was built around the Ajiike Pond in order to house a statue of the Amitabha Tathagata (Amida Nyorai).
	www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/Kyoto/byodoin.html (1995 words)

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		Court nobles and Imperial guards represent the Fujiwara Period (897-1185), a time when the powerful noble family, the Fujiwara, controlled the governance of the country as ministers to the imperial court.
		In time the Fujiwaras' power weakened and they had to rely more often on the warrior families, chiefly the Heike and the Genji, to control the country.
		Eventually, the Fujiwara would be succeeded by the military Heike family who in turn were destroyed by the Genji in the Gempei War.
	english.ohmynews.com /articleview/article_print.asp?menu=c10400&no=255600&rel_no=1&isPrint=print (686 words)

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