Fujiwara no Fusasaki explained

Fujiwara no Fusasaki
Birth Date:	681
Death Date:	737
Nationality:	Japanese
Spouse:	Muro no Oukami (daughter of Mine-ō - a descendant of Emperor Bidatsu)
Issue:	Fujiwara no Nagate Fujiwara no Matate Fujiwara no Mitate Fujiwara no Kitanobunin And many others
Footnotes:	Relatives Fujiwara no Muchimaro (brother) Fujiwara no Miyako (brother) Fujiwara no Nagako (brother) Fujiwara no Umakai (brother) Fujiwara no Maro (brother) Empress Kōmyō (sister) Fujiwara no Tabino (brother)
Native Name:	藤原 房前
Native Name Lang:	Japanese
Father:	Fujiwara no Fuhito
Mother:	Soga no Shōshi

Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原 房前, 681 – May 25, 737) was a Japanese court noble who was a member of the Fujiwara clan and the founder of the Hokke House of the Fujiwara.^[1] He served as Sangi (Associate Counselor) in the Imperial Court.

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)

Order	Name	Japanese	Lifetime
2nd son	Fujiwara no Nagate	藤原永手	714–771
3rd son	Fujiwara no Matate	藤原真楯	715–766
6th son	Fujiwara no Mitate	藤原御楯	? –764
daughter	wife of Emperor Shōmu	北殿	? –760

• Wife: Daughter of Kusagunokura no Oyu (春日倉老)

• Wife: Daughter of (片野朝臣)

Order	Name	Japanese	Lifetime
4th son	Fujiwara no Kiyokawa	藤原清河	? –778
5th son	Fujiwara no Uona	藤原魚名	721–783

• Wife: Daughter of (阿波采)

• Children with unknown mother:

Order	Name	Japanese	Lifetime
daughter	wife of Fujiwara no Toyonari	藤原豊成室	? – ?
daughter	Fujiwara no Ohirako	藤原宇比良古	? – 762

References

• Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. OCLC 413099
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691

Notes and References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in ; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915).
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).
3. Web site: Sugimoto-dera. July 2002. 2009-04-19.