Speaking of the representative person of customs politics in the Heian period, Fujiwara no Michinaga is.
Father Fujiwara no Kaneie Born as the fifth son of Michinaga, he was not so prominent because of his influential brothers. In the end, his father was in power as a regent, but with his influential brothers, he was supposed to live a life with no chance of success.
However, if you look at history, you can see that three people from the clan have been brought in in quick succession after the emperor, and as a patronage of national culture, it has an indirect influence on the art of posterity.
In addition, their descendants have become enormous, and they continue to remain in the imperial court and Japan in terms of bloodline. Isn't it the person who formed Japan next to the imperial family and Genji and Taira?
Today, Fujiwara no Michinaga had no chance of success. Let's introduce how he got ahead.
The road to Fujiwara no Michinaga's career path
Even if it is said that there is no chance of success, it is the Fujiwara family in the world, so even if you can not grasp the power, when you are 25 years old, Senior Third Rank Dainagon It was up to the position of.
By this time, Michinaga was Minamoto no Rinko . Was welcomed as a regular wife.
In fact, Genke himself didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about this marriage, but he didn't say that Rinko's mother said that he should give hope to Michinaga rather than being reluctant to fall behind ...
>As a result, it seems that Michinaga was able to succeed because of the marriage of Rinko's daughters to the emperor, so he may not have been able to raise his head to Rinko and her mother for the rest of his life.
His brother Michitaka died, from the Minister of the Right to the Minister of the Left
Fujiwara family Kita family Michinaga, who lived as the fifth son of Japan, had an event that changed the history of Japan at the age of 29.
His eldest brother, Michitaka, resigns from Kampaku due to illness. And then he died shortly thereafter. Kampaku is a child of Michitaka, Fujiwara no Korechi Was supposed to take over, but because he was young, Michitaka's younger brother, Michikane becomes Kampaku To do.
However, Michikane also died of illness soon.
The remaining Fujiwara no Korechi Of course, he is aiming for the next Kampaku, but Michinaga thought that if Ishu took power, the world would be disturbed, and he thought that he would become a regent.
In this way, Ishu and Michinaga will be in conflict.
However, Ishu and his younger brother, Takaie brothers Emperor Kazan who went to the woman in stealth He makes a political mistake in mistaking him for his love and shooting an arrow, and he and his brother are relegated.
With this incident, Michinaga took over the Fujiwara family, and Minister of the Right to Minister of the Left Was promoted to.
Fujiwara no Michinaga's way to seize power
Promoted to the Minister of the Left, Mr. Fujiwara Kampaku Preview and Minister of the Left Continued to stay in the position of.
The position called Kampaku had the guardian role of the emperor, who had the highest decision-making power without the right to make decisions. Therefore, it had a risky nature that its authority depends on the compatibility with the emperor.
Therefore, Michinaga wields the highest power by making good use of the minister of the left, who is the de facto leader of the Daijo-kan, and a preview with authority close to Kampaku until his grandson becomes the emperor . I decided to.
To make his grandson the emperor, Emperor Ichijo, the emperor of his eldest daughter, Akiko I let him enter and pushed it up to Nakamiya. After a while, Imperial Prince Atsunari (Emperor Go-Ichijo) Was born, and Michinaga established his position as a consort kin.
The emperor changed from Emperor Ichijo to Emperor Sanjo and became the crown prince Imperial Prince Atsunari (Emperor Go-Ichijo) Was set up.
Michinaga had a relationship with Emperor Sanjo and his uncle / nephew, but the cooperation after adulthood was weak and the emperor himself wanted a pro-government . , Emperor Sanjo refused to take office as Kampaku and remained in his current position.
Michinaga also second daughter, 妍 子 to Emperor Sanjo , Four daughters, Takeko, Emperor Go-Ichijo When I went to Chugū and made it to Chugū, the song was sung at a feast to celebrate the death of Takeko.
Think of this world as my world If you think that Mochizuki is not missing
As a result, the emperor became a son-in-law for three consecutive generations.
Around this time, Michinaga had a feud with the current emperor, Emperor Sanjo, and became more confrontational.
At that time, the situation suddenly changed when Emperor Sanjo suffered from an eye disease. Michinaga urged Emperor Sanjo to give up because of his eye illness, which hindered his political affairs. At first, Emperor Sanjo did not shake his head vertically, but in 1015, Emperor Sanjo's first prince, Atsuakira-shin Was granted the transfer on the condition that he was the crown prince.
It was sunny and his grandson, Atsushige Shinou, was [ Emperor Go-Ichijo . ] Was born as.
As promised by Emperor Sanjo, Atsuakira-shin as Crown Prince Was set up.
However, when Emperor Emeritus Sanjo collapsed, Michinaga put various pressures on Atsuakira-shin. Feeling dangerous due to this pressure, Atsuakira decided to offer to decline his crown prince.
In this way, the crown prince was given the Atsura prince (Emperor Gosuzaku) as the chief of the road wanted. Will be set up.
Immediately after the throne of Emperor Go-Ichijo, Michinaga was sentenced to regent, but in 1017 he handed over the reign to his son, Yorimichi, and established a succession system while guarding his son and wielding power. rice field.
Achievement of Fujiwara no Michinaga
As mentioned above, you can see how the Fujiwara family Goo, who had no prospect of success, went up to Daijo-daijin. However, the person who married his daughter to the emperor and succeeded in his career would not have been a celebrity in a textbook.
Speaking of success in the same way, his father, Fujiwara no Kaneie, did the same, and Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, 100 years before Michinaga was born, did the same. So, did Michinaga become a celebrity enough to appear in textbooks?
I think that the emperor's authority was used to carry out a good politics, as long as it appears in history textbooks. However, the aristocrats of the Heian period did not have the feeling of doing politics for the sake of the world.
In this era, [ Who will be assigned to which position? ] Was the job of a powerful person.
I did 〇〇 to moisten the economy ... Speaking of doing political things such as, the question remains.
It's just that it brought about the prosperity of Mr. Fujiwara. In fact, even after the collapse of customs politics, only his descendants inherited the customs profession for generations.
So why is it featured in history textbooks? Speaking of ...
In the process of having a powerful aristocrat marry a daughter to the emperor, the emperor makes various gimmicks to get him to visit his daughter. One of them is [ wife ] Is the existence of a caretaker.
When Emperor Ichijo married his daughter, Akiko, Michinaga gathered excellent wives.
That " Genji Monogatari Author, Murasaki Shikibu Is one of them. In addition, Izumi Shikibu, the author of "Eiga Monogatari", Akazome Emon There were members such as. Michinaga's brother, Michitaka's daughter, Sadako, is also married to Emperor Ichijo, and her daughter's [ wife ] In " Pillow grass Author, Sei Shonagon Was there.
It seems that Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon weren't up to that point because their masters were in a rivalry relationship ... I thought that Teishi had died a long time ago. Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon did not work directly in the same workplace, so it seems that they could not be said to be in a rivalry.
In the Heian period, from Chinese characters [ Hiragana and Katakana ] Was born, and it was also an era that had a great influence on Japanese.
From some of the Chinese characters [ Katakana ] Was born, and the cursive script of Chinese characters was further broken down to create [ Hiragana . 】was. At that time, [ Chinese writing is a culture that men can wear ], So it was avoided for men to learn Chinese characters and katakana, and for women to learn them, so I started writing sentences in [Hiragana].
Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu Besides, there must have been many women who were familiar with Chinese writing and Chinese characters just by thinking about the world and hiding them. It was Fujiwara no Michinaga that eased this idea. So, gather women with talent for poetry and stories to educate their daughter.
There is no such thing as a majority of women studying Chinese writing, but at least the custom of writing wakashu and writing letters in poetry to hone the skills of waka poetry has become established . strong> Did.
It was Michinaga who created such an environment, and Murasaki Shikibu's [ The Tale of Genji ] Is completed. If there were no female writers, [ hiragana ] May not have existed.
Although indirect, Japan's unique [ national culture during this period ] I think that the achievement that made the flower bloom is great.