Example sentences for: fujiwara

How can you use “fujiwara” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.

  • The emperor at Kyoto — still seconded by a Fujiwara regent at court — legitimized a Minamoto who was himself a military dictator controlled by a Hojo regent.

  • Chusonji was erected by the Fujiwara family when their power behind the imperial throne in Kyoto was waning.

  • The Fujiwara resented the Buddhist clergy’s great and growing influence in imperial affairs.

  • Very few emperors were reluctant to submit to Fujiwara domination.


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