, son of regent

Nijō Korefusa Nijō can refer to: Places *, one of numbered east–west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto, Japan) **Nijō Castle, a castle in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto **Nijō Station (Kyoto), a train station in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto *, a fo ...

, 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

Muromachi period The , also known as the , is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate ( or ), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi ...

(1336–1573). He was held

Daijō-daijin The was the head of the during and after the Nara period and briefly under the Meiji Constitution. It was equivalent to the Chinese , or Grand Preceptor. History Emperor Tenji's favorite son, Prince Ōtomo, was the first to have been acco ...

position from 1568 to 1578, and held a regent position kampaku two times from 1548 to 1553 and from 1568 to 1578. He married a daughter of prince

Fushimi-no-miya Sadaatsu The is the oldest of the four shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Household of Japan, Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the order of succession. The Fushimi-no-miya was founded by Prince Fush ...

, who gave birth to

Kujō Kanetaka , son of Nijō Haruyoshi and adopted son of regent Tanemichi, was a ''kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Azuchi-Momoyama (1568–1603) and Edo periods (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku from 1578 to 1581 and from 1600 to 16 ...

, Nijō Akizane, and

Takatsukasa Nobufusa was a court noble (''kuge'') of the early Edo period. Born to Nijō Haruyoshi and adopted by Takatsukasa Tadafuyu, he revived the lineage of the Takatsukasa family. In 1606, he was appointed Kampaku, a regent position which he left two years ...

References

* Fujiwara clan Nijō family 1526 births 1579 deaths People of the Muromachi period {{japan-noble-stub