, also known as Go-Ono no Miya (後小野宮), was a Japanese statesman and aristocrat.
Biography
He was born the fourth son of
Fujiwara no Tadatoshi. He became the adopted heir to his grandfather
Saneyori, the head of Ononomiya family (小野宮家), and he inherited a vast estate and documents of the Ononomiya family.
He became ''
udaijin
was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the ''udaijin'' in the context of a central administ ...
'' (Minister of the Right) in 1021. Sanesuke had a thorough knowledge of customs and rites, so he was called ''Kenjin Ufu'' (賢人右府) (wise Udaijin).
He wrote the diary ''Shōyūki'' (小右記) for fifty years. He died at the age of 90.
Sanesuke is mentioned in the
diary
A diary is a written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal ...
of
Murasaki Shikibu
was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of '' The Tale of Genji,'' widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between abou ...
, the author of ''
Genji Monogatari''. In it, she praises him for being out of the ordinary, and describes in detail a number of occasions of his superstitious behavior. In the ''Diary'', Sanesuke is described as having summoned exorcists on a number of occasions, and employed children in the beating of gongs to cure him of illness or nightmares.
Family and issue
He was married to a daughter of
Minamoto no Koremasa (descendant of
Emperor Montoku
(August 826 – 7 October 858) was the 55th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 文徳天皇 (55)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Montoku's reign lasted from 850 to 858.
Traditional narrative
Before ...
), and also married to Princess Enshi (婉子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tamehira. She was a consort of
Emperor Kazan
was the 65th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 花山天皇 (65)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Kazan's reign spanned the years from 984 through 986.
Biography
Before his ascension to the Chry ...
and married to Sanesuke after the Emperor became a priest. Neither of these two marriages produced a child. He adopted nephews. Later in life, he fathered two children by maids.
* Ryōen (良円) - priest
* Chifuru (千古) (daughter) - married to
Fujiwara no Kaneyori Fujiwara (, written: 藤原 lit. "''Wisteria'' field") is a Japanese surname. (In English conversation it is likely to be rendered as .) Notable people with the surname include:
; Families
* The Fujiwara clan and its members
** Fujiwara no Kamatari ...
(son of
Fujiwara no Yorimune)
Two adopted children are the sons of
Fujiwara no Kanehira. Kanehira was Sanesuke's elder brother.
* (adopted son)
Sukehira (資平) (986–1068) - heir of Ononomiya family
* (adopted son) Sukeyori (資頼)
References
*Frederic, Louis (2002). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
*Sansom, George (1958). ''A History of Japan to 1334''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
*Tsuchida, Naoshige (1973). ''Nihon no Rekishi No.5''. Tokyo:
Chuokoron-sha
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Profile
The company publishes a wide variety of mater ...
. (Japanese)
*Hosaka, Hiroshi (translation into modern Japanese) (1981) ''Ōkagami'', Tokyo:
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. (Japanese)
957 births
1046 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Japanese diarists
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