Fujiwara
Proper noun
Meaning
Fujiwara (plural Fujiwaras)
A surname from Japanese.
Examples
According to historian Fujiwara "the thesis that the Emperor, as an organ of responsibility, could not reverse cabinet decision, is a myth fabricated after the war."
Adolphson (2007), 111 Murasaki's mother was descended from the same branch of northern Fujiwara as Tametoki.
According to Akira Yamada and Akira Fujiwara, the Emperor made major interventions in some military operations.
Another Fujiwara became regent for his grandson, then a minor emperor, and yet another was appointed kampaku (regent for an adult emperor).
As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.
By the year 1000, Fujiwara no Michinaga was able to enthrone and dethrone emperors at will.