Fujiwara no Fusasaki

Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原 房前, 681 – May 25, 737) was a Japanese court noble who was a member of the Fujiwara clan and the founder of the Hokke House of the Fujiwara. He served as Sangi (Associate Counselor) in the Imperial Court.

Career

Fusasaki was a Sangi (associate counselor) in the Daijō-kan.

He founded the temple of Sugimoto-dera in Kamakura in 734 with the priest Gyōki (668–749). The temple's legend holds that Empress Komyo (701–760) in the Nara Period (710–794) instructed Fusasaki, the then high-ranking minister, and a famous priest named Gyoki (668–749) to build the temple enshrining a statue of Eleven-Headed Kan'non, or Ekādaśamukha in Sanskrit, as the main object of worship. Priest Gyoki fashioned the statue himself because he was also a great sculptor.

Fusasaki and his three brothers died during a major smallpox epidemic in 737.

Family

• Father: Fujiwara no Fuhito (藤原不比等, 659–720)
• Mother: Soga no Shōshi (蘇我娼子, ?–?), daughter of Soga no Murajiko (蘇我連子)
• Main-wife (seishitsu): Muro no O-Okimi (牟漏女王, ?–746), daughter of Minu-Ō (美努王)

• Wife: Daughter of Kusagunokura no Oyu (春日倉老)

• Wife: Daughter of Katano no Ason (片野朝臣)

• Wife: Daughter of (阿波采)

• Children with unknown mother:

Notes

References

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