Fujiwara no Yoshikado explained

Fujiwara no Yoshikado
Nationality:	Japanese
Parents:	Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu (father)

was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.^[1]

Career at court

He was a minister holding the title of daijō-daijin.^[1]

Genealogy

This member of the Fujiwara clan was the sixth son of Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu.^[2] Among Yoshikada's brothers were Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Fujiwara no Nagayoshi^[3] and Fujiwara no Yoshisuke.

Descendants of Yoshikado include, Fujiwara no Kanesuke, Fujiwara no Masatada, Fujiwara no Tametoki and Murasaki Shikibu.^[2]

His immediate descendants were two sons by the names of Fujiwara no Takafuji and Fujiwara no Toshimoto.^[4]

Yoshikada is considered the ancestor of the Uesugi clan,^[5] the Ii clan,^[6] and the Nichiren clan.

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
• Papinot, Edmund.. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.

Notes and References

1. [Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]
2. Florenz, Karl. (1906)
3. [Francis Brinkley|Brinkley, Frank]
4. Web site: Fujiwara no Yoshikado • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 . 2023-01-05 . . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 . en-GB.
5. [Edmund Papinot|Papinot, Edmund]
6. Papinot, "Ii clan," p. 13 (PDF 17 of 80).