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	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.
		Born into a family of scholars, Michizane was an outstanding scholar whose ability in writing Chinese verse and prose was said to rival that of the Chinese themselves.
		With the revitalization of the imperial family, the Taira curried favour with the retired emperors.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan3.html (4328 words)

	Fujiwara family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The surname passed to the descendants of Fujiwara no Fuhito (659–720), the second son and heir of Kamatari, who was prominent at the court of several emperors and empresses during the early Nara period.
		The Fujiwara controlled the throne until the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō (1068-73), the first emperor not born of a Fujiwara mother since the ninth century.
		Fujiwara no Yorinaga sided with the retired emperor in a violent battle in 1158 against the heir apparent, who was supported by the Taira and Minamoto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fujiwara_clan (1958 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)

	Japan the Fujiwara Regency
		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.
		As the most powerful family, the Fujiwara governed Japan and determined the general affairs of state, such as succession to the throne.
		Family and state affairs were thoroughly intermixed, a pattern followed among other families, monasteries, and even the imperial family.
	www.country-studies.com /japan/the-fujiwara-regency.html (1040 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.
		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.
		After eliminating all of his potential and acute enemies, including close family members, he was appointed Shogun (highest military officer) and established a new government in his home city Kamakura.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2132.html (639 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)

	Japan People
		Nakatomi-no-Kamatari (611-669): descendant of the foes of the Soga family at the time of the Buddhist controversy; led a coup with Prince Naka-no-Oe against the Soga; principle sponsor of the Taika Reforms; founded the powerful Fujiwara family that would rule on behalf of the emperors throughout the later Heian period.
		Fujiwara no Yoshifusa (804-72); becomes the first regent of an emperor from outside the imperial family in 858; from this time on Fujiwara leaders are the source of real political power.
		Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1027); leader of the Fujiwara clan at the height of Fujiwara ascendancy in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.
	www.history.umd.edu /Faculty/agoldman/284/htm_pages/terms/j_people.htm (752 words)

	Japan
		Fujiwara Yorinaga sided with the retired emperor in a violent battle in 1158 against the heir apparent, who was supported by the Taira and Minamoto.
		The family was the smallest legal entity, and the maintenance of family status and privileges was of great importance at all levels of society.
		From the outset, the Tokugawa attempted to restrict families' accumulation of wealth and fostered a "back to the soil" policy, in which the farmer, the ultimate producer, was the ideal person in society.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/japan/all.html (17565 words)

	Sayo, Born Into Two Cultures
		Her father, Motoichi, realizing that the family is unable to return to the States and Sayo is at the right age for a marriage, arranged her marriage to Tadashi Fujiwara, a Japanese citizen, when she was 18 years old.
		Sayo and her entire family survived the War, moving from one city to another, avoiding the bomb attacks by the Americans and subsisting on minimal food.
		The entire Fujiwara family, consisting of father, mother, Tadashi’s brother, his wife and their two children and Yuriko, Tadashi’s younger sister, was standing in front of our house.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~7965.aspx (1088 words)

	Kofuku-ji Temple, Nara
		Founded in 669 by Kagami-no-Himehiko, wife of Fujiwara-no-Kamatari, this was the Fujiwara family temple and the principal temple of the Hosso sect.
		As the power of the Fujiwara family increased, so too did the importance of the temple, which in its heyday comprised a total of 175 buildings.
		In front of the hall is a 9th C bronze lantern with an inscription attributed to Kobo-daishi - southwest of this stands a three-story pagoda, a graceful structure of the Fujiwara period.
	www.planetware.com /nara/kofuku-ji-temple-jpn-ks-kofu.htm (471 words)

	Chapter Five
		The northern branch (hokke) of the family became dominant, and the heads of that branch came to hold, in succession, the crucially important offices of sesshō; (regent during the reign of a child emperor) and ka[n]paku (regent during the reign of an adult emperor).
		The Fujiwara family was able to consolidate its control of those offices by making itself the primary supplier of imperial consorts and princesses, thus guaranteeing that the children of the emperors would be members of the Fujiwara family.
		By establishing an alternative court, Shirakawa was able to outflank the Fujiwara. Fujiwara nobles still served as guardians and regents for reigning emperors, but the Cloistered Emperor and his court superseded the reigning emperor and his court.
	www.east-asian-history.net /textbooks/480/ch5_main.htm (7226 words)

	Japan, Buddhism and Warlords
		The government continued to be run by the Nakatomi family, which continued to benefit from its ties with the Yamato family, and the Nakatomi changed their name to Fujiwara.
		The Fujiwara period in Japan's history is said to have begun in 858 and to have continued to 1160.
		Around the time of the wars between the Taira family and the Minamotos many Buddhists were appalled by the violence, including the violence of their fellow Buddhists who had adopted the credo of kill or be killed.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h07japan.htm (4027 words)

	History of Japan/Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
		The Fujiwara had the privilege of intermarriage with the imperial house, and many emperors were married to Fujiwara women or were their sons.
		Fujiwara men proved capable administrators, and they used their family ties to dominate the government.
		Until the end of the 11th century the Fujiwara used the position of regent to dominate the emperors, adults as well as children.
	www.shotokai.cl /otros_datos/japan_history.html (3955 words)

	Women in Japanese literature of the Heian period, by K. Cheney
		The Fujiwara family, of which Murasaki was a member, was the first family to gain power in the central government.
		The Fujiwara family was not on the imperial throne itself, but rather each emperor would marry a Fujiwara woman, and thus "the head of their family was almost invariably the father-in-law or grandfather (or sometimes both) of the reigning sovereign" (Morris 48).
		For example, a woman from a low-ranking family could become a concubine to the emperor and possibly become empress, and if she bore a son, when he became emperor, she would be Imperial matriarch, a position of much power.
	www.her-own-eyes.org /heianwomyn.htm (3852 words)

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		During this period, the leadership of the nation was dominated by a single uji, the Fujiwara.
		In the year 858, the leader of the Northern family, Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, became the supervisor of the child-emperor Seiwa, who happened to be his grandson.
		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)

	E-Budo.com - Fujiwara Chikado and the Fujiwara Family
		Seeing as how Fujiwara no Kamatari (the original Fujiwara) was originally Nakatomi no Kamatari, it leads me to believe he was in possession- or at least informed of the Amatsu Tatara Nakatomi Hibumi.
		The only basis I have to go on in the connection between the family and the Nakatomi Shinden Tenshin Hyoho and the fact that Fujiwara (Nakatomi) no Kamatari was given a copy of the Amatsu scrolls by the 38th (I think?) Emperor.
		I do know his grandfather was Fujiwara no Hidesato of Taira no Masakado fame, so with luck from the heavens I hope that will give me some leads into tracing out this family's complex history a bit more.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/printthread.php?t=13868 (737 words)

	Heian Period
		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.
		Once such family was the Minamoto, whose capture of Fujiwara Sumimoto had earned them acclaim soon to be overshadowed by the endeavors of one of their most famous sons: Minamoto Yoshiie.
		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 (4975 words)

	Ancient Japan - 4
		In 1185, after the destruction of the Taira family at the Battle of Dannoura, Yoritomo was granted the right to appoint his vassals, or gokenin ("housemen") as military governors (shugo) in the provinces and military stewards (jito) in both public and private landed estates.
		Instead, the Hojo family dispatched a bakufu army that occupied Kyoto, and Go-Toba was arrested and banished to the island of Oki.
		The status of women in warrior families was comparatively high; like their Heian predecessors, they were allowed to inherit a portion of the estates and even jito posts, a practice that gradually came to be restricted.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan4.html (4136 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By Hironari's time the Imibe had fallen, even as the Fujiwara, having married into the imperial family, were continuing a steady rise to ever loftier positions in the emperor's service.
		The Nakatomi / Fujiwara were thus responsible not only for the decline of the Imibe, but also for the falsification of history in order to deny the critical role played by the Imibe as ritualists in court affairs in ancient times.
		In the end, the history of the family is the history of the nation.
	www.wordtrade.com /history/asia/japanR.htm (3140 words)

	Notes On Feudal Japan
		A new emperor, Kotoku, was installed and a new family, the Fujiwara, was created; this new family was to breed with and politically dominate the throne for many hundreds of years.
		The Fujiwara continually married into the Imperial line to retain sway as aristocrats, and rushed headlong into the political fracas that was the court microcosm.
		Ninja lived in extremely tight and secretive family organizations, and the finest secrets of their art are probably lost (or at least hidden from the lay eye).
	www.blueladder.com /education/whistjapannotes1.htm (1784 words)

	Heian Period (794-1185A.D.)
		Fujiwara florished in middle of the period and Taira thribed in the late period.
		Taira family was not one of the peerage but a worrior family and was descendant of Emperor.
		This family also had their daughetrs get married to emperors like Fujiwara family did to their daughetrs for getting advantages.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/heian/heian-p.htm (2214 words)

	Sensei's Library: Fujiwara no Sai
		Jared: "The Fujiwara was one of the four great families that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian Period (794-1185), and the most important of them at that time." See
		moonprince: Fujiwara no Sai is my favorite character as well, so I am spreading the 'Gospel according to Sai' to as many friends as I can ^_^ I am particularly vulnerable because I've been addicted to the Heian period of Japan ever since I read The Tale of Genji twenty years ago.
		Fujiwara means 'wisteria bottom', a 'bottom' being a local word for a low lying or marshy piece of ground.
	senseis.xmp.net /?Sai (1146 words)

	A Concise History of Japan
		Izanagi and his wife lived in utmost contentment among their family, and when a daughter was born to them, who was the goddess of the Sun, their joy was unbounded.
		Although it was unthinkable for anybody from another family to become emperor, the fact that any Yamato, male or female, was an eligible candidate caused many of the first emperors to be dethroned or even murdered by nobles looking to place a personal friend on the throne.
		One Fujiwara patriarch, Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027), was the brother of two empresses and the father of four, the uncle of two emperors, the grandfather of two more, and the great-grandfather of another!
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neasia/japan.html (19507 words)

	Reiko Masuko
		families are scattered in Japan centered on Masiko town in Tochigi prefecture.
		In the history of Japan, a branch of the Fujiwara family, which governed most of Japan from the tenth through the twelfth century, moved to the Masiko area and built a castle in order to control the northern region of Japan.
		Our family has inherited an old sword from generation to generation that proves our family used to be of the samurai class.
	studentweb.eku.edu /reiko_masuko/origin.htm (913 words)

	Windows on Asia
		In 645, Nakatomi no Kamatari started the era of the Fujiwara clan that was to last until the rise of the military class (samurai) in the 11th century.
		The Fujiwara family controlled the political scene of the Heian period over several centuries through strategic intermarriages with the imperial family in Kyoto.The power of the clan reached its peak with Fujiwara Michinaga in the year 1016.
		The Fujiwara supremacy came to an end in 1068 when the new emperor Go-Sanjo was determined to rule the country by himself.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AsianStudies/wbwoa/eastasia/Japan/history.html (4522 words)

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