Fujiwara Nan-ke

Japanese noble

Japanese politician of the Asuka and Nara periods (680-737)

poet

Japanese aristocrat, Confucian scholar and Buddhist monk in late Heian period

(also written Chūjō Hime or Hase-Hime) (c. 753?–781?) was by most accounts a daughter of the court noble Fujiwara no Toyonari who escaped persecution at the hands of her stepmother by becoming a nun at the Taima-dera in Nara. There she took on the name Zenshin-ni or the Dharma name Honyo (法如). She has become a folk heroine, the subject of numerous Japanese folktales which celebrate her filial piety. She is sometimes called the Japanese Cinderella.

middle Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman

Japanese politician

powerful Japanese samurai clan

cadet branch of the Japanese Fujiwara family

Japanese politician

Japanese clan during the Sengoku period