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Fujiwara No Kanemichi
, also known as Horikawa-dono and Tōtōmi-kō, was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Tokihira" in ; Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). Career Kanemichi served as a minister during the reign of Emperor En'yū. His chief rival was his younger brother, Kaneie, who was also raised to the position of regent during a different time frame. * 972 ('' Tenroku 3, 11th month''): Kanemichi is elevated to the concurrent offices of ''nadaijin'' and '' kampaku.''Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ; see "Fousiwara-no Kane mitsi", pre-Hepburn romanization * 974 ('' Ten'en 2, 2nd month''): Kenemichi is named '' Daijō Daijin.'' * December 20, 977 ('' Jōgen 2, 8th day of the 11th month''): Kanemichi dies at the age of 51. Genealogy This member of the Fujiwara clan was the son of Morosuke. He was the second son. The Honda clan claims descent from him. Kanemichi had four brothers: Kaneie, Kinsue, Koretada,Nussba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiwara Clan
The was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since ancient times and dominated the imperial court until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. They held the title of Ason. The abbreviated form is . The 8th century clan history states the following at the biography of the clan's patriarch, Fujiwara no Kamatari (614–669): "Kamatari, the Inner Palace Minister who was also called ‘Chūrō'',''’ was a man of the Takechi district of Yamato Province. His forebears descended from Ame no Koyane no Mikoto; for generations they had administered the rites for Heaven and Earth, harmonizing the space between men and the gods. Therefore, it was ordered their clan was to be called Ōnakatomi" The clan originated when the founder, Nakatomi no Kamatari (614–669) of the Nakatomi clan, was rewarded by Emperor Tenji with the honorific "Fujiwara"after the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
925 Births
Year 925 ( CMXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By date January – June * January 5 – Gabellus becomes the first abbot of the monsastery of San Martín de Albelda in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. * January – Hashim ibn Muhammad becomes the new ruler of the Banu Tujib, an Arab state in Spain, upon the death of his father, Muhammad al-Anqar al-Tujibi. * May 15 – Nicholas I Mystikos, twice the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and having reigned a second time since 912, dies at the age of 73. * May 23 – At Luoyang, Zhao Guangyin, the Grand Chancellor (equivalent to a Prime Minister) of the Emperor Li Cunxu of Later Tang dynasty China, dies. Zhao's duties are assumed by Li Cunxu's son, Prince Li Siyuan.''Zizhi Tongjian'', vol. 274. * June 29 — Stephen II becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, succeeding Nicholas I. July – December * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon Odai Ichiran
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of the country's terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains. The country sits on the Pacific Ring of Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Titsingh
Isaac Titsingh FRS ( January 1745 – 2 February 1812) was a Dutch diplomat, historian, Japanologist, and merchant.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Isaak Titsingh" in . During a long career in East Asia, Titsingh was a senior official of the Dutch East India Company (). He represented the European trading company in exclusive official contact with Tokugawa Japan, traveling to Edo twice for audiences with the shogun and other high bakufu officials. He was the Dutch and VOC governor general in Chinsura, Bengal.Stephen R. Platt, ''Imperial Twilight: the Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age'' (NY: Knopf, 2018), 166-73. Titsingh worked with his counterpart, Charles Cornwallis, who was governor general of the British East India Company. In 1795, Titsingh represented Dutch and VOC interests in China, where his reception at the court of the Qing Qianlong Emperor stood in contrast to the rebuff suffered by British diplomat George Macartney's mission in 1793, just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint (trade name), imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the ''Harvard Guide to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dairoku Kikuchi
Baron was a Japanese mathematician, educator, and education administrator during the Meiji era. After earning degrees in mathematics and physics from St John's College at the University of Cambridge, he became one of the first Japanese professors of mathematics at the University of Tokyo. Later in his life, he served as president of the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Gakushuin, and the Riken Institute. Biography Early life and family Kikuchi was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), as the second son of Mitsukuri Shūhei, a professor at Bansho Shirabesho, himself the adopted son of Mitsukuri Gempo, a Shogunate professor. The Mitsukuri family had distinguished themselves as scholars, and were at the centre of Japan's educational system in the Meiji era. His grandfather had been a student of Dutch studies ("rangaku"). Kikuchi Dairoku changed his surname from Mitsukuri to Kikuchi upon succeeding as the heir to his father's original family; the requisite legal proced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Brinkley
Francis Brinkley (30 December 1841 – 12 October 1912) was an Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar who resided in Meiji period Japan for over 40 years, where he was the author of numerous books on Japanese culture, art and architecture and an English-Japanese Dictionary. He was the great-uncle of Cyril Connolly. Early life Frank Brinkley was born at Parsonstown House, County Meath in 1841. He was the thirteenth and youngest child of Richard Brinkley J.P., of Parsonstown and his wife Harriet Graves. John Brinkley, the last Bishop of Cloyne and the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland, was his paternal grandfather. Richard Graves, a Senior Fellow of Trinity College and the Dean of Ardagh, was his maternal grandfather. One of Brinkley's sisters, Jane (Brinkley) Vernon of Clontarf Castle, was the grandmother of Cyril Connolly. Another sister, Anna, became the Dowager Countess of Kingston after the death of her first husband, James King, 5th Earl of Kingston and was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiwara No Tamemitsu
Fujiwara no Tamemitsu (藤原 為光) (942–992) was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). Career Tamemitsu served as a minister during the reigns of Emperor En'yū, Emperor Kazan and Emperor Go-Ichijō. * 985 (''Kanna (era), Kanna 1''}: Tamemitsu was named ''udaijin''. * 991 (''Shōryaku 2, 9th month''): Tamemitsu was promoted from ''udaijin'' to daijō Daijin.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ; see "Fousiwara-no Tame kio", pre-Hepburn romanization He is referred to as Kōtoku-kō (恒徳公) (posthumous name as Daijō Daijin). Tamemitsu erected Hōjūjidono, Hōjū-ji temple to mourn his daughter ''Shishi''. Genealogy This member of the Fujiwara clan was the son of Fujiwara no Morosuke. His mother was Imperial Princess Masako, daughter of Emperor Daigo. Tamemitsu had four brothers: Fujiwara no Kaneie, Kaneie, Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Kanemichi, Fujiwara no Kinsue, Kinsue. and Fujiwara no Koretada, Koretada.Nussbau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiwara No Koretada
Fujiwara no Koretada/Koremasa (藤原 伊尹; 924 – 9 December 972), also known as Ichijō Sesshō, was a Japanese statesman, courtier, politician and waka-poet during the Heian period.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Tokihira" in ; Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). His poems were published in "The Collected Poems of the First Ward Regent", ''Ichijo Sessho Gyoshu'', and in ''Hyakunin Isshu'' (poem No. 45). He was handsome and wise, and his personality was flashy. He is also known as ''Kentoku-kō'' (謙徳公). Career Emperor Murakami named Koretada conservator of Japanese poetry in 951. Koretada served as a minister during the reign of Emperor En'yū. * 7 March 970 ('' Tenroku 1, 27th day of the 1st month''): Koretada is named ''udaijin''.Titsingh, * 26 June 970 (''Tenroku 1, 20th day of the 5th month''): After the death of Fujiwara no Saneyori, Koretada is named '' sesshō'' (regent). * 22 November 971 (''Tenroku 2, 2nd day of the 11th month''): Koret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiwara No Kinsue
Fujiwara no Kinsue (藤原 公季; 957–1029), also known as ''Kaikō'', was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Tokihira" in ; Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). Career Kinsue served as a minister during the reign of Emperor Go-Ichijō. * 997 ('' Chōtoku 3, 7th month''): Kinsue was promoted from the office of ''dainagon'' to ''naidaijin''. * 1017 ('' Kannin'' 1, 3rd month): Kinsue is made ''udaijin''. * 1021 (''Jian 1, 7th month''): Kinsue was promoted from the office of ''udaijin'' to '' daijō daijin.'' * 1029 ('' Chōgen 2, 10th month''): ''Daijō daijin'' Kinsue died; and he was posthumously named Kai-kō. He was given the posthumous title of as Jingi-kō (仁義公). Genealogy This member of the Fujiwara clan was a son of Morosuke. Kinsue's mother was Imperial Princess ''Kōshi'', daughter of Emperor Daigo. She died in Kinsue's childhood; and he was brought up by his sister Empress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honda Clan
The is a Japanese family that claims descent from the medieval court noble Fujiwara no Kanemichi. The family settled in Mikawa and served the Matsudaira clan as retainers. Later, when the main Matsudaira family became the Tokugawa clan, the Honda rose in prestige. The clan includes thirteen branches who had ''daimyō'' status, and forty-five who had ''hatamoto'' status. Arguably the most famous members of the Honda clan were the 16th century samurai general Honda Shigetsugu and Honda Tadakatsu. Two of the major branches of the clan claim descent from Tadakatsu, or his close relative Honda Masanobu. Origins The Honda clan descended from the Fujiwara clan through Fujiwara no Kanemichi. The clan was founded by Kanemichi's son, Akimitsu's 11th generation descendant, Honda Sukehide. Sukehide lived in Bungo Province (present-day Ōita Prefecture), Honda, and took the family name from his place of residence. History Honda Sukehide's son Sukesada became a retainer to shogun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
