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GENEALOGY He was the second son of Emperor Reizei . His mother was Empress Chōshi (超子) the daughter of the Sesshō Fujiwara no Kaneie. He was the half-brother of Emperor Kazan . His mother died when he was seven, and his father, the Retired Emperor Reizei, became mentally ill. His maternal grandfather, Fujiwara no Kaneie raised him.
CONSORTS AND EMPRESSES LIFE After his mother died when he was at seven, his maternal grandfather Fujiwara No Kaneie raised him at Kaneie's mansion. Kaneie loved him very much and Okisada grew to a young talented prince with dignity. When Emperor Ichijō , another grandson of Kaneie ascended to the throne, Okisada was appointed as Heir and Crown Prince in his teenage. This followed the convention that two imperial lineages took the throne in turn, although Ichijō was in fact his junior. He thus gained the Nickname ''Sakasa no moke no kimi'' (the imperial heir in reverse). Kaneie died in the early of Ichijō's reign and Okisada lost his political backbone. His three uncles, sons of Kaneie, made their daughters consorts of Ichijo and aimed to seize power as the grandfather of the future emperor. These courtiers therefore sought to exclude Okisada from the Imperial succession, though each of them married their daughter to him. Later Ichijō had children by Fujiwara no Kishi, the daughter of Fujiwara No Michinaga , and Michinaga expected his grandson to ascend to the throne as soon as possible. Michinaga became the Kampaku Regent of Japan during the reign of Ichijō and expected to hold this position in Sanjō's government too, but Sanjō as a matured man in his thirties desired strongly to govern without such influence. The relation between Sanjo and Michinaga was bad and it became worse when Sanjō's that spouse who was a daughter of Michinaga died without a child. Most of courtiers feared Michinaga and avoided the imperial court. Sanjō became isolated in his own court. Sanjō, going Blind , came under pressure from Michinaga to abdicate. Finally he relented and abdicated in 1016 . His eldest son, Prince Atsuakira , became the crown prince but later he abandoned this position because of the pressure from Michinaga. Michinaga gifted Atsuakira a status equal to the retired emperor, with the title of Koichijo-in and Nariakira married a daughter of Michinaga. Although no son of Sanjō ascended to the throne, a future emperor ( Emperor Go-Sanjo ) was child of Princess Teishi , Sanjo's daughter, and thus his blood remained in the imperial bloodline. NAMES He was given the posthumous name of Sanjō-in (三条院) after the palace where he spent his life after abdicating. The palace, in turn, was named for the location of the palace where he lived after his abdication. After the Meiji Era , the ''in'' was dropped and replaced with ''tennō'' (Emperor) ERAS OF HIS REIGN |
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