Saneuji Saionji - Saionji Saneuji

A politician in the mid-Kamakura period. Tokiwai Shokoku. His Buddhist name was Jitsuku. His father was Kintsune and his mother was the daughter of Fujiwara Yoshiyasu. He served the Gotoba Dynasty and seven other Dynasties. After the Jōkyū War (1221), he succeeded his father, who had taken control of the Kamakura Shogunate's political affairs, as Daijō Daijin, and his two daughters were successively made Chūgū (empresses), and the two sons born to them were successively enthroned. In 1246 (Kangen 4), when Hojo Regent Tokiyori banished Shogun Yoritsugu's father Yoritsune to Kyoto, he was appointed Kanto Moushitsugi by Tokiyori's petition, a position he held throughout his life. As the Kanto no Shinji, Saneuji became a key figure in the relationship between the Imperial Court and the military as well as a maternal relative of the Imperial family, and the power of the Saionji family was further strengthened. Saneuji was also highly praised for his poetry and prose, and his waka poems were included in imperial anthologies such as the "Shin Choksen Wakashu".

[Muneharu Taga]

"Ryusu's Kamakura Period Volume 2" (1957, Shunjusha)

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鎌倉中期の政治家。常盤井相国(ときわいしょうこく)。法名実空。父は公経(きんつね)、母は藤原能保(よしやす)の女(むすめ)全子。後鳥羽(ごとば)朝以下7朝に仕える。承久(じょうきゅう)の乱（1221）後、鎌倉幕府の支持で公家政局を握った父の後を受けて太政大臣(だいじょうだいじん)に昇り、その二女を相次いで中宮(ちゅうぐう)とし、その所生の2皇子は相次いで即位した。1246年（寛元4）北条執権時頼(ときより)が将軍頼嗣(よりつぐ)の父頼経(よりつね)を京に逐(お)ったとき、その奏によって関東申次(もうしつぎ)となり、生涯を通じてその任にあった。関東申次となったことは、皇室の外戚(がいせき)たる関係とともに実氏を公武関係の枢要とし、西園寺家の権勢はいよいよ強化された。実氏はまた詩歌・文章をよくして世の推賞するところであり、その和歌は『新勅撰(ちょくせん)和歌集』以下の勅撰集に採られている。

［多賀宗隼］

『龍粛著『鎌倉時代　下』（1957・春秋社）』

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