Fujiwara no Ietada

Japanese: 藤原家忠 - ふじわらのいえただ

Year of death: 24th May 1136 (25th June 1136)
Year of birth: Kohei 5 (1062)
A nobleman in the late Heian period. Son of the daughter of the chancellor Fujiwara no Michizane and the governor of Mino, Minamoto no Yorikuni. He was promoted from third-rank middle captain to councillor in 1082, and the following year to provisional middle counsellor. He served as the head of the Left Guard, the Empress's palace official and the general of the Left and Right Guards, before becoming the Minister of the Right in 1122. In 1131 he became the Minister of the Left with the rank of Junior First Rank, but in 1136 he became a monk due to illness. He was given the name Kazan-in Minister of the Left, as he lived in a mansion called Kazan-in. When his brother Michimichi died in 1099 he was in a position to succeed the regent family, but was ordered by his father Michizane to assist his nephew Tadazane, and he helped the regent family. When Tadazane fell into seclusion after falling ill with the dislike of the retired Emperor Shirakawa in 1120, there was a proposal for him to become his successor, but this did not come to fruition. He is the founder of the Kazan-in family, one of the Seika families, second only to the regent family in rank. There is also a theory that he died on the 14th.

(Harumi Watanabe)

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Japanese:

没年：保延2.5.24(1136.6.25)
生年：康平5(1062)
平安末期の公卿。関白藤原師実と美濃守源頼国の娘の子。三位中将より永保2(1082)年に参議となり,翌年に権中納言。左衛門督,皇后宮大夫,左右近衛大将を歴任して,保安3(1122)年右大臣となる。天承1(1131)年従一位左大臣に至るが,保延2(1136)年病により出家。花山院という邸宅に住んだことから花山院左大臣と号した。兄師通が康和1(1099)年に没したときには摂関家を継ぐ立場にもあったが,父師実から甥の忠実の補佐を命ぜられ,摂関家を助けた。保安1(1120)年忠実が白河上皇の勘気を被り蟄居したとき,その後任の案もあったが実現しなかった。摂家に次ぐ家格の清華家のひとつ花山院家の祖。没した日は14日とする説もある。

(渡辺晴美)

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