Fujiwara no Koretada - Fujiwara no Koretada

Japanese: 藤原伊尹 - ふじわらのこれただ

Year of death: Tenroku 3.11.1 (972.12.9)
Year of birth: 2nd year of the Enshu era (924)
A nobleman in the mid-Heian period. He was called Ichijo Regent. His posthumous name was Kentoku-ko. He was the eldest son of the Minister of the Right, Michisuke, and Fujiwara no Tsunekuni's daughter, Moriko. He sided with his uncle, Michitada, who was considered the mastermind behind the Anwa Incident (969), and was promoted from Gon Dainagon to Dainagon shortly thereafter. When Emperor En'yu took the throne in place of Emperor Reizei (both were cousins of Koretada), Prince Reizei's son, Prince Michisada (later Emperor Kazan), born to his daughter, became the Crown Prince. In Tenroku 1 (970), he became Minister of the Right, and four months later, when his uncle, Fujiwara no Saneyori, passed away, he became Regent. In the second year, he became Daijo-daijin (Grand Minister of State with the rank of Shonii). He served as Regent for a year and a half before dying of illness. His remains were buried in the grounds of Tenan-ji Temple outside Saikyo (the precursor to Hokongo-in Temple in Futagaoka, Ukyo Ward). It is said that he died due to the ghost of Fujiwara no Asanai, who had once competed for the position of councilor and lost. He was good at waka poetry, and wrote the "Ichijo Sessho Goshu". His poem "A person who should be called pitiful should be thought of as a waste of one's life" was included in the Hyakunin Isshu. He was beautiful, loved extravagant things, and was said to have been lecherous (as can be seen from his poem). He built a mansion called Momozono to the north of the Daidairi, which was passed down to his grandson and adopted son Gyōnari and became Sesonji Temple.

(Oboriya Hisashi)

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Japanese:

没年：天禄3.11.1(972.12.9)
生年：延長2(924)
平安中期の公卿。一条摂政と称す。諡号は謙徳公。右大臣師輔と藤原経邦の娘盛子の嫡男。安和の変(969)で主謀者と目される叔父師尹に加担し,直後に権大納言から大納言に進んだ。冷泉天皇に代わって円融天皇が即位すると(ともに伊尹の従兄弟)娘が生んだ冷泉皇子の師貞親王(のちの花山天皇)が東宮となった。天禄1(970)年,右大臣となり,4カ月後に伯父の藤原実頼が他界し摂政となる。2年,正二位太政大臣。摂政を1年半務めて病死。遺骸は西京外の天安寺(右京区双ケ岡にある法金剛院の前身)境内に埋葬された。彼の死は,その昔,参議の座を争って負けた藤原朝成の生霊によるなどといわれる。和歌をよくし,『一条摂政御集』がある。百人一首に「あはれともいふべき人は思ほえで身のいたづらになりぬべきかな」がとられた。容姿端麗で奢侈を好み,好色であったという(その歌からも察せられる)。大内裏の北に桃園という邸宅を構え,これが孫で養子の行成に伝えられ世尊寺となる。

(朧谷寿)

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