Fujiwara no Michinaga: Powerful Statesman and Emotional Diarist

Fujiwara Michinaga in the picture scroll Murasaki Shikibu monogatari emaki (Tale of Murasaki Shikibu Picture Scroll). (Courtesy National Diet Library)

Michinaga’s father Kaneie from the nineteenth-century biographical collection Zenken kojitsu. (Courtesy National Diet Library)

Michinaga’s political rival Fujiwara no Korechika (on horseback) in Ishiyamadera engi (Legends of Ishiyamadera). (Courtesy the National Diet Library)

Fujiwara no Yukinari, who was often a target for Michinaga’s venting. From Shōzōshū 10 (Portrait Collection 10). (Courtesy the National Diet Library)