Nobufusa Manri-kōji - Made no Koji Nobufusa

Japanese: 万里小路宣房 - までのこうじ・のぶふさ

Year of death: Sadawa 4/Shohei 3.10.18 (1348.11.9)
Year of birth: 1258
A court noble during the late Kamakura and Nanboku-cho periods. Son of Junior Third Rank Sukemichi. Initially named Michitoshi. In 1301, when Emperor Go-Nijo of the Daikakuji line ascended to the throne, he was appointed as Kurodo. This appointment came late as his father held a minor position. However, he was rapidly promoted thereafter, serving as Benkan, and in 1305 he became Kurodo no tori (head of Kurodo) and then Sangi (councillor). He resigned from his position when the emperor died, but returned to the position as Gon Chunagon (provisional middle counselor) when Emperor Go-Daigo of the same Daikakuji line ascended to the throne in 1318 (Bunpo 2). He supported the cloistered government of Emperor Go-Uda and the direct rule of Emperor Go-Daigo, and was known as Sanbo along with Yoshida Sadafusa and Kitabatake Chikafusa. When Emperor Go-Daigo's plot to overthrow the shogunate was discovered in the Shochu Incident (1324), he went to Kamakura as an imperial envoy and argued for the emperor's innocence. Shortly after this, he was promoted to Gon Dainagon, and it is said that this achievement was the reason for his success. During the Genko Incident (1331), his sons Fujifusa and Suefusa were at the center of the conspiracy, so he was arrested at Rokuhara, but was soon pardoned. Under the Kenmu Restoration, he played an active role as a close aide to Emperor Go-Daigo, and was promoted to the rank of Juichii. In 1336, as criticism of the new government intensified, he was held accountable and became a monk. He left political activity thereafter, but it seems that he never followed the Southern Court (Daikakuji line) to Yoshino, and died in Kyoto.

(Kazuto Hongo)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：貞和4/正平3.10.18(1348.11.9)
生年：正嘉2(1258)
鎌倉後期・南北朝時代の公卿。従三位資通の子。初名通俊。大覚寺統の後二条天皇が即位した正安3(1301)年に蔵人。父が閑職にあったため,この任官は遅いものだった。しかし以後は急速に昇進して弁官を歴任し,嘉元3(1305)年に蔵人頭,参議。天皇が没すると官職を辞したが,文保2(1318)年同じ大覚寺統の後醍醐天皇が即位すると権中納言として復帰。後宇多法皇の院政,後醍醐天皇の親政を支え,吉田定房,北畠親房と共に三房と称された。後醍醐天皇の倒幕計画が発覚した正中の変(1324)に際しては勅使として鎌倉に下向し,天皇の無罪を論じた。この直後に権大納言に昇るが,この功によるともいう。元弘の変(1331)では子の藤房,季房が謀議の中心にあったためにいったん六波羅に捕らえられたが,まもなく許された。建武新政下では後醍醐天皇の側近として活躍し,従一位に昇った。延元1(1336)年,新政への批判が強まると責を問われて出家。以後政治活動から離れるが,南朝(大覚寺統)にしたがって吉野に赴くことはなく,京都で没したようである。

(本郷和人)

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