go-sanjo's

Updated: May 24, 2025

As a device to wrest the governing power from the grasp of the Fujiwara, Go-Sanjo's plan was certainly successful, and had he lived to put it into operation himself, the results must have been different.

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

This was, in short, Go-Sanjo's plan for rendering the regent a superfluity. But fate willed that he should not carry his project into practice. He abdicated, owing to ill health, in 1073, and died the following year. Go-Sanjo was succeeded by his eldest son, Shirakawa. He had taken for consort the daughter of Fujiwara Yorimichi.

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