was a Japanese ''

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 ...

'' (court noble) of the late

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 ...

. He was the son of regent

Nijō Kanemoto , son of regent Nijō Yoshizane and adopted son of Nijō Morotada, was a Japanese ''kugyō'' (court noble) of the Kamakura period (1185–1333) of Japan. He held regent positions sesshō in 1298 and kampaku from 1300 to 1305. Regent Nijō Michih ...

. Michihira held the position of '' kampaku'' (chief advisor to the emperor) from 1316–1318 and from 1327–1330. He married a daughter of

Nijō Morotada was a Japanese ''kugyō'' (court noble) of the Kamakura period. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)''Annales des empereurs du Japon,'' p. 270 He was a member of the Nijō family, which was a branch of the Fujiwara clan. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Nij ...

and a daughter of . From the latter he had a son,

Nijō Yoshimoto , son of regent Nijō Michihira, was a Japanese ''kugyō'' (court noble), waka poet, and renga master of the early Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392). Yoshimoto's wife gave birth to Nijō Moroyoshi. With another woman, he had sons Nijō Morotsugu ...

, and a daughter who was later a consort of

Emperor Go-Daigo Emperor Go-Daigo (後醍醐天皇 ''Go-Daigo-tennō'') (26 November 1288 – 19 September 1339) was the 96th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'')後醍醐天皇 (96) retrieved 2013-8-28. according to the traditional order ...

, and another son who was adopted by the Tominokouji family and became known as .

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* 1288 births 1335 deaths Fujiwara clan Michihira {{japan-noble-stub