FUJIWARA FAMILY

dynastic family that, by shrewd intermarriage and diplomacy, dominated the Japanese imperial government from the 9th to the 12th century. Additional reading A complete translation of the Okagami (Great Mirror), written by an unknown author in the 11th century and covering the period from 850 to 1025, the period of Fujiwara domination, is now available: Joseph K. Yamagiwa (trans.), The Okagami: A Japanese Historical Tale (1967). A more recent general history that gives considerable attention to the subject is George Sansom, The Fujiwara Regents, in A History of Japan, vol. 1 (1958). Two indispensable reference works in Japanese are: Ota Akira, Seishi kakei dai-jiten (Dictionary of Families and Genealogies), rev. ed., 3 vol. (1963), and Dai Nihon jimmei jisho (Biographical Dictionary of Japan), rev. ed., 5 vol. (1937).