was a Japanese court noble of the late

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

. He held the

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position of kampaku from 1823–1856.

Biography

Masamichi was born the son of regent

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. He served as kampaku from 1823–1856. In 1856, at the

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, he was prosecuted and later became a priest. He had a son, Sukehiro, with the daughter of the seventh head of

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. One of his daughters married the 13th head of

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1789 births 1868 deaths Fujiwara clan Takatsukasa family {{japan-noble-stub