Fujiwara Tadahira - Fujiwara no Tadaya

Japanese: 藤原忠平 - ふじわらのただひら

Year of death: 3.8.14 (949.9.9)
Year of birth: 4th year of the Genkei era (880)
A nobleman in the mid-Heian period. He was called Koichijo-dono and Gojo-dono. He was the third son of the daughter of regent Mototsune and Prince Hitoshi, but the death of his elder brother Tokihira at a young age (Minister of the Left, 39 years old) brought him good fortune. When Emperor Daigo died in 930, his younger sister Onshi's son Emperor Suzaku ascended to the throne at the age of 8, and Tokihira supervised politics as regent. This marked the revival of the regent position after a 40-year hiatus. He also became regent in 941 after the Emperor's coming-of-age ceremony, and this clearly established the distinction between regent and regent based on the coming-of-age ceremony. Even when the Emperor was succeeded by his younger brother Murakami, he continued to be regent, and held the position of regent for a total of 20 years until his death at the age of 70. He was knowledgeable in the ceremonies and etiquette of the nobles, and passed them on to his sons Saneyori and Morosuke, resulting in the establishment of the Ononomiya school and the Kujo school, respectively. The Hyakunin Isshu poem "Ogurayama Peak's maples leaves heart arbare ima hito toba miyuki machitanamu" (If only I could see the maples leaves at Ogurayama Peak, I would wait for the autumn leaves to bloom once more) was written when the poet accompanied Emperor Uda to Saga in Kyoto to view the autumn leaves, and the emperor mentioned that he wanted to show the leaves to his son, Emperor Daigo. In his later years, when the Johei-Tengyo Rebellion broke out, it is known from the Masakado-ki that Taira no Masakado looked up to him as his "private lord." He died at his own residence, Koichijo-tei, and was buried at Hossho-ji Temple, southeast of the capital, which he himself founded. He was posthumously named Lord Sadanobu, and his diary, the Teishin-ko-ki, is the oldest diary of a nobleman and tells us about the trends at the time of the establishment of the regent government. <References> Murai Yasuhiko, "Fujiwara no Tokihira and Tadahira" (History Education, Vol. 14, No. 6)

(Oboriya Hisashi)

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没年：天暦3.8.14(949.9.9)
生年：元慶4(880)
平安中期の公卿。小一条殿,五条殿と称す。摂関基経と人康親王の娘の3男であるが長兄時平の若死に(左大臣,39歳)が幸運をもたらした。延長8(930)年醍醐天皇が死去すると,妹穏子の生んだ朱雀天皇が8歳で即位,その摂政として政治を後見した。これにより摂関が40年ぶりに復活。また天皇元服後の天慶4(941)年,関白となったが,ここに元服を境にした摂政・関白の区別がはっきりした。天皇が朱雀から実弟の村上に代わっても関白となり,70歳で死ぬまで通算すれば20年間,摂関の地位にあった。公家の儀式,作法に通じ,子の実頼と師輔に伝授し,それぞれ小野宮流,九条流として結実している。百人一首の「をぐらやま峰のもみぢ葉心あらば今ひとたびのみゆき待たなむ」は宇多法皇に従い京の嵯峨に紅葉狩りにでかけたとき,法皇が子の醍醐天皇にも見せたいともらしたのを詠じたもの。晩年,承平・天慶の乱が起きると,平将門から「私君」と仰がれていることが『将門記』で知られる。自邸の小一条第で死去,みずからの創建になる京外東南の法性寺に葬られた。貞信公と諡され,その日記『貞信公記』は公卿日記として最も古く,摂関政治成立期の動向を伝える。<参考文献>村井康彦「藤原時平と忠平」(『歴史教育』14巻6号)

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