Toyonari Fujiwara

Japanese: 藤原豊成 - ふじわらのとよなり

Year of death: Tenpyo Jingo 1.11.27 (766.1.12)
Year of birth: Keiun 1 (704)
A nobleman in the Nara period. The eldest son of Fujiwara no Muchimaro. His mother was the granddaughter of Abe no Mishu, the Minister of the Right, Junior Second Rank (although it is said that she is the daughter of Abe no Sadakichi or Abe no Masatora). Nakamaro was his younger brother by the same mother. His wife was Fujiwara no Fusasaki's daughter, Momono. His children included Tsugutsuna, Otonawa, and Nawamaro. He was also called Naniwa no Daijin and Yokotsuna Daijin. Renowned for his academic talents at a young age, in 723 he was appointed Uchi no Toneri and Hyobu no Jo, and the following year in 724 he was promoted to Junior Fifth Rank. He was promoted steadily thereafter, and in 737, after his father and uncles died from an epidemic (smallpox), he was the only member of the Fujiwara clan to be chosen as a councilor. In 749, he was appointed Minister of the Right and head of the Imperial Court, and in 757, he was awarded the rank of Shonii (Senior Second Rank), but after the conference to select a new Crown Prince to replace King Doso, he came into conflict with his younger brother Nakamaro. In the same year, the Tachibana Naramaro Incident broke out, and his third son Otonawa was implicated in it, so he was appointed Ingaisoushi (chief commander in chief) of Dazaifu (Dazaifu City), but he is said to have stayed at his villa in Naniwa, claiming to be ill, and did not take up his post. When Nakamaro rebelled in 764, he was restored to his position as Minister of the Right and awarded the rank of Juichii (Junior First Rank), but died just over a year later.

(Yoshinori Hashimoto)

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Japanese:

没年：天平神護1.11.27(766.1.12)
生年：慶雲1(704)
奈良時代の公卿。藤原武智麻呂の長子。母は右大臣従二位阿倍御主人の孫娘(ただし安倍貞吉の娘とも安倍真虎の娘とも伝えられる)。仲麻呂は同母弟。妻は藤原房前の娘百能。子に継縄,乙縄,縄麻呂らがいる。難波大臣とも横佩大臣とも号した。若くして才学の誉れ高く,養老7(723)年に内舎人で兵部丞を兼ね,翌神亀1(724)年には従五位下。以後順調に昇進し,天平9(737)年疫病(天然痘)で父や叔父たちが死去するなか,藤原氏からただひとり参議に選ばれた。天平勝宝1(749)年には右大臣に任じて廟堂の首班となり,天平宝字1(757)年正二位に叙されたが,道祖王に代わる新皇太子推戴会議以後弟仲麻呂と対立。同年に勃発した橘奈良麻呂の変に第3子乙縄が関与したとされて大宰府(太宰府市)の員外帥に任じられたが,病と称して難波の別荘に居座って赴任しなかったといわれる。仲麻呂が反乱を起こすと(764),再び右大臣に復帰し,従一位に叙されたが,1年余で死去。

(橋本義則)

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