Rokujo family

A waka master family from the Middle Ages. They are also called the Rokujo Fujiwara family to distinguish them from the Rokujo Genke family of Minamoto no Tsunenobu and Toshiyori. The family was founded by Akisue of the Sueshige line of the Fujiwara clan, who was a favorite of Emperor Shirakawa. The family's residence was in Rokujo Higashinotoin, and the residence of his son Akisuke was in Rokujo Omiya, hence the name. The heyday of the family was during the time of Akisuke, who selected "Shikashū," and his son Kiyosuke, who wrote "Ogisho" and "Fukurozōshi," but it was gradually overwhelmed by the Mikohidari family and lost influence after the death of Akisuke's adopted son, Kenshō. In the Kamakura period, it produced poets such as Yukiie, one of the compilers of "Zoku Kokinshū," who took an anti-Mikohidari stance, and maintained a certain degree of authority, but it gradually declined and was discontinued during the Nanboku-chō period.

[Shinichiro Kawakami]

"Study of the Lives of Poets in the Late Heian Period" by Inoue Muneo (1978, Kasama Shoin)" ▽ "Collected Works of Taniyama Shigeru 4: Poetry Contests and the Poetry Circle in the New Kokin Period" (1983, Kadokawa Shoten)

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中古・中世の歌道師範家。源経信(みなもとのつねのぶ)・俊頼(としより)の六条源家(げんけ)と区別するため六条藤家(とうけ)ともよぶ。白河院(しらかわいん)の寵臣(ちょうしん)であった藤原氏末茂(すえしげ)流の顕季(あきすえ)を祖とし、その邸宅が六条東洞院(ひがしのとういん)に、その子顕輔(あきすけ)の邸宅が六条大宮にあったための呼称である。『詞花集(しかしゅう)』を撰(えら)んだ顕輔と、『奥義抄(おうぎしょう)』『袋草紙(ふくろぞうし)』等を著したその子清輔(きよすけ)の時代が全盛期で、しだいに御子左(みこひだり)家に圧倒され、顕輔の猶子(ゆうし)顕昭(けんしょう)死後は勢力を失った。鎌倉時代に入ると、『続古今集』撰者(せんじゃ)の一人で、反御子左の立場をとった行家(ゆきいえ)などの歌人を生み、ある程度の権威を保ったが、しだいに衰え、南北朝期に断絶した。

［川上新一郎］

『井上宗雄著『平安後期歌人伝の研究』（1978・笠間書院）』▽『『谷山茂著作集4　新古今時代の歌合と歌壇』（1983・角川書店）』

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