Mr. Fujiwara is Prince Nagaya's strange I managed to get rid of what seemed to lead to a big rebellion, and then Fujiwara's daughter Empress Komyō Succeeded in establishing a non-royal empress for the first time Did.
However, due to the epidemic and smallpox at that time, the four brothers collapsed one after another in 737. Naturally, the deaths of these four brothers were feared as the worship of Prince Nagaya.
This triggered the temporary decline of Fujiwara's power.
Instead, Tachibana no Moroe from the imperial family came out. ( Tachibana Moroe )is. He also had a connection with Mr. Fujiwara, such as having Fujiwara's daughter as his wife and his mother being Fujiwara no Fuhito's wife, Michiyo Tachibana, but after the death of Fujiwara no Fuhito, he often works as a member of the royal family. There seems to be an aspect of Mr. Anti-Fujiwara. * Depending on the point of view, there is an impression that "mistakes are mistakes" without a power struggle. ..
At this time, Tachibana no Moroe I was studying abroad in Tang as a political brain with Kibi no Makibi . And Genbo .. Hirotsugu Fujiwara , the child of Uma Fujiwara, the third son of Fujiwara no Fuhito and the ancestor of the Shikike family, seeking the exclusion of these two. (Hirotsugu) causes a disturbance. It is generally said that it was a turbulence that occurred in opposition to the anti-Fujiwara regime.
Fujiwara no Fuhito's grandson, Hirotsugu Fujiwara
Speaking of Mr. Fujiwara, it started with the fact that Nakatomi Kamatari was given the surname Fujiwara, and his son, Fujiwara no Fuhito's four brothers, created four Fujiwara four families.
Fujiwara four family
Nanke Fujiwara =Maro Takechi
Fujiwara Kita Family =Fusasaki
Shikike Fujiwara =Umakai
Kyoke Fujiwara =Maro
The name of the house is generally derived from the place where the mansion was located and the position.
Fujiwara no Michinaga, who is also famous for his surname Fujiwara, draws on the tradition of the Kita family, and the Fujiwara Kita family is considered to be the most successful family in the world of politics.
Hirotsugu was born as a child of the Fujiwara no Uma.
Hirotsugu was born into such a prestigious Shikike family, but the founders of the four Fujiwara families, including his father and uncle, died suddenly from smallpox. The four families were entrusted to the young Hirotsugu, but Empress Komyō's half-brother Tachibana no Moroe reigned at the center of the imperial court.
Hirotsugu Fujiwara under the Tachibana no Moroe administration
Kibi no Makibi and Genbo were heavily used by the brothers' administrations. .. Originally, it was not a family that came to the center of politics, but both of them brought back many scriptures, books, and scholarship from mainland China as envoys to Tang and gained the trust of Emperor Shomu.
The prestigious Mr. Fujiwara was disappointed in inverse proportion to the breakthrough of Mabi and Genbo.
In particular, Shikike, led by Hirotsugu, was 739 . It has been relocated to Dazaifu in Kyushu.
Hirotsugu's dissatisfaction away from the central nervous system is directed toward Kibi no Makibi and Genbo, and he begins to make a point of saying something. At this time, Mabi was in the fifth place above, while Hirotsugu was in the fifth place below, so he was defeated in the official position.
Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's Ran
Fujiwara no Hirotsugu in 740 Performance to Emperor Shomu I sent that.
" Recently, there have been many disasters since Tachibana no Moroe began to appreciate Kibi no Makibi and Genbo. If they are expelled from politics, the world will be peaceful.
In Kyushu the previous year, we were hit by famine and plague, and such natural disasters are useful for Kibi no Makibi and Genbo . Then, it was selfish and all-you-can-eat. However, Emperor Shomu did not take this as a mere selfishness, but rebellion attempted to overthrow the nation . He ordered the subjugation of Hirotsugu Fujiwara.
It seems that Hirotsugu himself did not intend to rebel, but in 740, the Emperor decided that it was a rebellion, and in 740, he appointed Toto Ohno as a general and Maro Kiii as a deputy general and sent 17,000 soldiers to Kyushu. ..
In this way, the beginning of the performance was Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's Ran . Will break out.
Hirotsugu Fujiwara gathered soldiers in Kyushu and tried to stop the Emperor's army in Buzen Province, but with the prompt response of Emperor Shomu, the government army took control before the Hirotsugu Army arrived in Buzen Province. In this way, the Hirotsugu army changed his plan and changed to a tactic of defeating each individual from three directions, but he was defeated without struggling.
In this way, Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's rebellion, which broke out due to Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's childish performance, was crushed by the prompt response of Emperor Shomu. However, it can be read that the people of Kyushu have a strong opposition to the Ritsuryo nation so much that they tune in to the person who plays this childish reason.
In this way, the state management of the Emperor's rule that continued from Prince Shotoku was completed.
Thinking about Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's turbulence from a different perspective
However, in fact, it is possible to see it from another side rather than the side of the result of this turbulence and power struggle.
As stated in the military art, " It's dangerous if you forget the battle because it's cheap (is it easy to do politics?), Don't find hope that the enemy will not come, but prepare yourself for an emergency > "Matsuura Mausoleum ancestors' parallel book luck" written to that effect. It is said that this is Hirotsugu's performance.
This historical material is said to be suspicious as a historical material of the same period, but it seems that it is said that there is a "reliable part" in the performance. In the book "Emperor's Century:Succession to the Throne and Political Conflict" by Atsushi Nito, who specializes in ancient history, Hirotsugu's pursuit of Kibi no Makibi and Genbo's mismanagement was described as follows. I am.
Hirotsugu Fujiwara Wasn't the reason why he was relegated to the criticism of his relatives, and that criticism was to strengthen his external defense? Wasn't there a criticism of Mr. Fujiwara's only politician, Toyonari at that time? Such a thing is written.
In other words, the cause is the difference in policy between foreign relations and the governments in the military affairs . It means that it became. It has been pointed out that the policy directions of Mr. Fujiwara and Tachibana no Moroe were different even before the change of Prince Nagaya. In the end, the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu rebellion in 740 led to a large-scale rebellion in Kyushu.
It seems that the fact that Kibi no Makibi and Genbo were trying to eliminate them was not irrelevant to the fact that they could not evacuate Emperor Shomu and Tachibana no Moroe openly, and that they were returning from the envoy to Tang. I feel that it is similar to Mr. Soga's position in the Isshi Incident, and it is also very difficult for the current security-related movements and the current situation where pro-○○ factions and members of the Diet are often called. I think they are very similar. It just looks like "history repeats itself".