go-reizei's

Updated: October 15, 2026

The regent, therefore, while complying at once in Go-Reizei's case, said that the matter of the Crown Prince might be deferred, his purpose being to wait until a Fujiwara lady should bear a son to Go-Reizei. In thus acting, Yorimichi obeyed the policy from which his family had never swerved through many generations, and which had now become an unwritten law of the State.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era