Fujiwara no Narichika

Japanese: 藤原成親 - ふじわらのなりちか

Year of death: 7/9/1177 (8/4/1177)
Year of birth: 1138
A nobleman in the late Heian period. Son of Fujiwara Ienari and the daughter of Fujiwara Tsunetada. His father, Chunagon Ienari, was a wealthy provincial governor and a favorite of Emperor Toba, so Narichika was awarded a peerage at just four years old. He served as the governor of Echigo and Sanuki, which were Ienari's fiefdoms. A man of great beauty, described in the Gukansho as "a beautiful young lord who has the appearance of a master of the palace," he was favored by Emperor Goshirakawa and was promoted repeatedly, passing through the ranks of To no Chujo and being listed as a nobleman in 1166, and in 1175 he was promoted to the rank of Gon Dainagon, Shonii (Senior Second Rank). However, his path was not always smooth. In the Heiji Rebellion (1159), he sided with Fujiwara Nobuyori and was dismissed from his post, but was pardoned by the mediation of his sister's husband, Taira Shigemori. In 1161, he was also involved in the plot to make Prince Norihito (later Emperor Takakura) the crown prince, which was plotted by Taira Tokitada and others, and was dismissed from his post, but was eventually reinstated. Furthermore, in 1169, Fujiwara Masatomo, the deputy governor of Owari, the province under Narichika's fief, was involved in an incident in which he assaulted a priest from Hirano Manor in Mino Province, which was under the jurisdiction of the Sanmon (Enryaku-ji Temple), and was dismissed from his post at the request of Enryaku-ji Temple and exiled to Bitchu Province, but was reinstated thanks to the strong protection of Emperor Goshirakawa. Narichika had always acted as he pleased under the protection of the Taira clan and the Emperor, but in 1177, when he sought the position of taisho (general commander), he was prevented by the Taira clan, and he became angry and conspired with the Emperor's attendants Saiko and Hossho-ji Shigyo Shunkan to overthrow the Taira clan (the Shishigatani plot), but when this was discovered in advance, an angry Kiyomori killed him in Bizen, where he had been exiled. <References> Gomi Fumihiko, "Study on Society in the Insei Period"

(Mamiko Kimura)

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Japanese:

没年：治承1.7.9(1177.8.4)
生年：保延4(1138)
平安後期の公卿。藤原家成と藤原経忠の娘の子。父の中納言家成が富裕な受領であり,鳥羽院の寵臣であった関係から,成親もわずか4歳で叙爵。家成の知行国であった越後守,讃岐守を歴任。『愚管抄』に「フヤウノ若殿上人ニテ有ケル」と評される美貌を持ち,後白河院の寵愛を受けて昇進を重ね,頭中将を経て仁安1(1166)年公卿に列せられ,安元1(1175)年正二位権大納言に至る。しかし,その道は決して平坦ではなかった。平治の乱(1159)で藤原信頼に与同し解官されたが妹婿である平重盛のとりなしで許され,また応保1(1161)年には平時忠らが謀った憲仁親王(のちの高倉天皇)立太子事件にまきこまれ解官されたが,やがて復任。さらに嘉応1(1169)年成親の知行国尾張の目代藤原政友が山門(延暦寺)領美濃国平野荘の神人を凌轢するという事件を起こし,延暦寺の訴えにより解官,備中国に配流されたが,これも後白河院の強力な保護により復任された。このように常に平氏や院の庇護の下で思うままに行動してきた成親であるが,治承1(1177)年大将の地位を望んだところ平氏によって阻まれたことを恨み,院の近習である西光や法勝寺執行俊寛らを語らって平氏打倒を企て(鹿ケ谷の謀議),それが事前に露見したため,怒った清盛によって配流先の備前で殺された。<参考文献>五味文彦『院政期社会の研究』

(木村真美子)

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