Fujiwara no Kanefusa

Fujiwara no Kanefusa (1001–1069) was a Northern Fujiwara court noble, eldest son of the chūnagon Fujiwara no Kanetaka. Appointed Right Guards captain in 1015, he became notorious for violence at court: at a 1018 palace banquet he insulted the head chamberlain Fujiwara no Sadayori and pelted his room with stones, and in 1023 he had attendants beat an official in the palace.

The regent Yorimichi expelled him, and he afterwards held only provincial posts without further promotion. He died in 1069 aged sixty-nine; his son Sōen founded the Utsunomiya line.