Kujō Yoshitsune
Illustration — Kujō Yoshitsune Kujō Yoshitsune, also known as Fujiwara no Yoshitsune, son of regent Kujō Kanezane and a daughter of Fujiwara no Sueyuki, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period. He held a regent position Sesshō from 1202 to 1206. Kujō Michiie was his son.
Also recorded as Fujiwara no Yoshitsune · Kujo Yoshitsune · Fujiwara no Ryokei · Kujou Yoshitsune
Kujō Yoshitsune
Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III) · Public domain
- Born
- 1169
- Died
- 1206
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer · calligrapher
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Kujō Yoshitsune Kujō Yoshitsune, also known as Fujiwara no Yoshitsune, son of regent Kujō Kanezane and a daughter of Fujiwara no Sueyuki, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period. He held a regent position Sesshō from 1202 to 1206. Kujō Michiie was his son.
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In 1179 Yoshitsune came of age. In 1188 when his elder brother died he was designated as successor of the family. In 1196 political shake-up caused him to lose the court position he was appointed a year before.
• Father: Kujō Kanezane • Mother: Fujiwara Tomoko • Wives and Children: • Wife: Ichijō Yoshiyasu's daughter • Kujō Michiie • Kujō Noriie (1194–1225) • Fujiwara no Ritsushi married Emperor Juntoku • Wife: Fujiwara Hisako (?-1222) • Kujō Motoie • Wife: Samesuke Masatsune's daughter • Ryoson • Wife: Daizendaibu Nobunori's daughter • Dokei • unknown • Keisei (1189–1268)
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1169
Kujō Yoshitsune born.
1206
Kujō Yoshitsune died.
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- 1.Jiro Takei, Marc P. Keane SAKUTEIKI Tuttle Publishing, 2001 p.6 ISBN 9780804832946
- 2.Jeffrey P. Mass The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century Stanford University Press, 1997 p 152 ISBN 9780804743792
- 3.Mass The Origins of Japan's Medieval World p 175
- 4.Jien, Delmer Myers Brown The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō. University of California Press, 1979 p. 162 - 164 ISBN 9780520034600
- 5.Jien The Future and the Past p. 167
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