Fujiwara no Narichika

Fujiwara no Narichika
藤原 成親
Born1138 (1138)
Died1178 (aged 39–40)
ChildrenFujiwara no Naritsune (son)
Parent
  • Fujiwara no Ienari (father)

Fujiwara no Narichika (藤原 成親) (1138–1178) was a Japanese court noble who took part in a plot against the Taira clan's dominance of the Imperial court.[1][2]

Narichika was the son of Fujiwara no Ienari. For his role in the Shishigatani Incident in 1177, he was exiled, along with his son Fujiwara no Naritsune, Taira no Yasuyori, and the monk Shunkan to an island called Kikai-ga-shima in the far south of Japan. Narichika was later executed by the order of the Taira.[3]

It is known that he was one of Fujiwara no Yorinaga's many male lovers.[4][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
  2. ^ Joya, Mock (2017-07-12). Japan And Things Japanese. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-22186-6.
  3. ^ Tyler, Royall (2024-04-02). The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-56040-5.
  4. ^ Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Kuefler, Mathew (2024-04-30). The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-90130-7.
  5. ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. (1997). The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4379-2.
  • Frederic, Louis (2002). "Fujiwara no Narichika." Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.