Fujiwara no Fusasaki

Fujiwara no Fusasaki
Born 681
Died 737
Nationality Japanese
Parents Fujiwara no Fuhito (father)
In this Japanese name, the family name is Fujiwara.

Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原 房前, 681 – May 25, 737) was a member of the Fujiwara clan and the founder of the Hokke branch of the Fujiwara.[1]

Career

Fusasaki was a Sangi (associate counselor) in the Daijō-kan.[2]

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 Ekadasamukha in Sanskrit, as the main object of worship. Priest Gyoki fashioned the statue himself because he was also a great sculptor.[3]

Genealogy

Fusasaki' father was Fujiwara no Fuhito (659–720);[1] and Fusasaki was a parent of Fujiwara no Uona.

Fusasaki died of smallpox.[1] He died in 737.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 202, p. 202, at Google Books; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203., p. 203, at Google Books
  2. 1 2 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 224., p. 69, at Google Books
  3. "Sugimoto-dera". July 2002. Retrieved 2009-04-19.

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