Prince Sukehito

Japanese: 輔仁親王 - すけひとしんのう

Year of death: 28th November 1119 (31st December 1119)
Year of birth: Enkyu 5.1.19 (1073.2.28)
A member of the imperial family in the late Heian period. The third son of Emperor Gosanjo. His mother was Motoko, the daughter of councillor Minamoto no Motohira. He was raised by his grandmother, Princess Yomeimon'in Teishi. Emperor Gosanjo reigned for only four years before abdicating in favor of his first son, Prince Sadahito (Emperor Shirakawa), and Prince Sukehito's second son, Prince Sanehito, was made crown prince. His father, Emperor Gosanjo, had left a will for Prince Sukehito to succeed him to the throne, but in 1085, Prince Sanehito died of illness, and the following year Emperor Shirakawa made his own son, Prince Yoshihito (Emperor Horikawa), crown prince and abdicated. While Emperor Horikawa had no heir, Prince Sukehito exerted hidden influence and exerted pressure on Shirakawa's cloistered government, but in 1113, a plot to assassinate Emperor Toba, led by the prince's guardian monk Ninkan, was discovered, and he was completely ousted. He was a talented poet, and his Chinese poems appear in "Honcho Mudai Shi" (Poetry without a title), and 17 of his waka poems are included in imperial anthologies such as "Kinyoshu". He was a man of refined taste and highly respected throughout the country, and it was regretted that he was not able to enter the world.

(Harumi Watanabe)

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Japanese:

没年：元永2.11.28(1119.12.31)
生年：延久5.1.19(1073.2.28)
平安後期の皇族。後三条天皇の第3皇子。母は参議源基平の娘(基子)。祖母の陽明門院禎子内親王に養育される。後三条天皇は在位わずか4年で第1皇子貞仁親王(白河天皇)に譲位,輔仁親王の同母兄の第2皇子実仁親王が皇太子に立てられた。次いで輔仁親王に皇位を継承すべく父後三条天皇の遺言があったが,応徳2(1085)年実仁親王が病没すると翌年,白河天皇は自らの子善仁親王(堀河天皇)を立太子し,譲位した。堀河天皇に継嗣の生まれない間,輔仁親王は隠然とした勢力を持って白河院政を圧迫していたが,永久1(1113)年親王の護持僧仁寛を首謀者とする鳥羽天皇暗殺陰謀事件が発覚,完全に失脚した。詩歌の才に優れ,『本朝無題詩』に漢詩がみえ,また『金葉集』以下の勅撰集に17首の和歌が入集。天下の風流人であるうえに人望があり,世にいれらないことを惜しまれた。

(渡辺晴美)

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