Example sentences for: fujiwara

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

  • Minamoto died in 1199, and the feudal structure passed intact to the tutelage of his widow’s family, the Hojo, who were content to play regent to a figurehead shogun, in much the same way as the Fujiwara had done with the emperor.

  • But they in turn were ousted in a.d. 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.

  • 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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