Example sentences for: fujiwara

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

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

  • Two of the temple’s structures have survived the countless wars of the Fujiwara.

  • After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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