Matsudono Moroie

, third son of

Matsudono Motofusa was an imperial regent in the late 12th century, serving both Emperor Rokujō and Emperor Takakura. He was also called , as he came from the village of Matsudono, near Kyoto. Fujiwara no Tadataka and Matsudono Moroie were his first and third ...

, was a ''

kugyō is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre- Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...

'' (high-ranking Japanese official) from the late

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...

to the early

Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle bet ...

. Regent Fujiwara no Tadataka and Buddhist monks

Gyōi was a Japanese poet and Buddhist monk of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. He was the son of Fujiwara no Motofusa, and was known as the . He was one of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, and many of his poems appear in imperial ...

and are his stepbrothers. Though he was not first-born, in 1179 aged eight he was promoted to '' gon-chūnagon'', one of ''

Daijō-kan The , also known as the Great Council of State, was (i) (''Daijō-kan'') the highest organ of Japan's premodern Imperial government under the Ritsuryō legal system during and after the Nara period or (ii) (''Dajō-kan'') the highest organ of Jap ...

'' due to the political tension between

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and

Taira no Kiyomori was a military leader and ''kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan. Early life Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō, Japan, in 1118 as the first so ...

. However, this caused backlash from Kiyomori, leading to the Jisho coup in the same year. In 1232, he ordained as a Buddhist monk and took the

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Daishin (大心). 1172 births 1238 deaths Fujiwara clan Matsudono family People of Heian-period Japan People of Kamakura-period Japan Kamakura period Buddhist clergy {{japan-noble-stub