Fujiwara no Fusasaki

Fujiwara no Fusasaki (681–737), second son of Fujiwara no Fuhito, founded the Fujiwara Northern House. In 709 he inspected the Tōkai and Tōsandō circuits during campaigns against the Emishi.

Made councillor in 717 ahead of his elder brother Muchimaro, he was named inner minister at the deathbed of Empress Genmei in 721. He died in the smallpox epidemic of 737 and was posthumously granted senior first rank and the office of grand minister.