Fujiwara Tadahira

Fujiwara Tadahira (born 880, Kyōto—died Sept. 9, 949, Kyōto) was a Japanese statesman who assumed the leadership of the Fujiwara family in 909 upon the death of his brother Tokihira. Although in his later years Tokihira had begun to dominate the government, he had never assumed the title of kampaku (chancellor). The post had been created and first assumed by their father, Fujiwara Mototsune, and allowed to lapse by the emperor Uda (reigned 887–897), the...