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| | Terukazu - Chapter 5: The Great Age of Scroll Painting (12th to 14th Century) |
 | | Fujiwara Kanezane, minister at the time, wrote in his diary that he was delighted to have missed these three visits and to have thus avoided figuring among the portraits in this painting. |
 | | He had risen to the ministerial rank of U-daijin when his political rival Fujiwara Tokihira (87I-9O9), head of the powerful Fujiwara clan, slandered and misrepresented him in the eyes of the new emperor Daigo, with the result that Michizane was exiled to Kyushu, where he died of grief and rage. |
 | | Fujiwara Kinhira, minister of the left, commissioned the work from Takashina Takakane, head of the court atelier, and presented it in I309 to the shrine of Kasuga at Nara, as a testimonial of fidelity and gratitude to the deities, the divine patrons of his family. |
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