Fujiwara no Fusasaki
| Fujiwara no Fusasaki | |
|---|---|
| Born | 681 |
| Died | 737 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Parents | Fujiwara no Fuhito (father) |
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 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
- 1 2 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 224., p. 69, at Google Books
- ↑ "Sugimoto-dera". July 2002. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
References
- Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. OCLC 413099
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691