Fujiwara no Fuhito
Fujiwara no Fuhito (659–720), second son of Fujiwara no Kamatari, laid the foundations of Fujiwara power. He helped enthrone Emperor Monmu in 697, led the compilation of the Taiho Code of 701, and in 698 won his descendants exclusive right to the Fujiwara name.
He married a daughter to Monmu and another, Komyoshi, to Emperor Shomu, Japan's first non-imperial empress. His four sons founded the clan's four branches. He moved the family temple to Nara as Kofuku-ji and died in 720.