Fujiwara no Fusasaki

Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原 房前, 681 – May 25, 737) was a member of the Fujiwara clan and the founder of the Hokke branch of the Fujiwara.[1]

Fujiwara no Fusasaki
Born681
Died737
NationalityJapanese
ParentsFujiwara no Fuhito (father)

Career

Fusasaki was a Sangi (associate counselor) in the Daijō-kan.[2]

He founded the temple of Sugimoto-dera in Kamakura in 734 with the priest Gyōki (668–749). The temple's legend holds that Empress Komyo (701–760) in the Nara Period (710–794) instructed Fusasaki, the then high-ranking minister, and a famous priest named Gyoki (668–749) to build the temple enshrining a statue of Eleven-Headed Kan'non, or Ekadasamukha in Sanskrit, as the main object of worship. Priest Gyoki fashioned the statue himself because he was also a great sculptor.[3]

Fusasaki died during a major smallpox epidemic in 737.[1][2]

Family

  • Father: Fujiwara no Fuhito (藤原不比等, 659–720)
  • Mother: Soga no Shōshi (蘇我娼子, ?–?), daughter of Soga no Murajiko (蘇我連子)
  • Main-wife (seishitsu): Muro no O-Okimi (牟漏女王, ?–746), daughter of Minu-Ō (美努王)
OrderNameJapaneseLifetime
2nd sonFujiwara no Nagate藤原永手714–771
3rd sonFujiwara no Matate藤原真楯715–766
6th sonFujiwara no Mitate藤原御楯? –764
daughterwife of Emperor Shōmu北殿? –760
  • Wife: Daughter of Kusagunokura no Oyu (春日倉老)
OrderNameJapaneseLifetime
1st sonFujiwara no Torikai藤原鳥養? – ?
  • Wife: Daughter of (片野朝臣)
OrderNameJapaneseLifetime
4th sonFujiwara no Kiyokawa藤原清河? –778
5th sonFujiwara no Uona藤原魚名721–783
  • Wife: Daughter of (阿波采)
OrderNameJapaneseLifetime
7th sonFujiwara no Kaedemaro藤原楓麻呂723–776
  • Children with unknown mother:
OrderNameJapaneseLifetime
daughterwife of Fujiwara no Toyonari藤原豊成室? – ?
daughterFujiwara no Ohirako藤原宇比良古? – 762

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 202, p. 202, at Google Books; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203., p. 203, at Google Books
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 224., p. 69, at Google Books
  3. "Sugimoto-dera". July 2002. Retrieved 2009-04-19.

References

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