Fujiwara no Michitaka

Fujiwara no Michitaka (953–995) was the eldest son of the regent Fujiwara no Kaneie and a leading courtier of the mid-Heian period. When Kaneie died in 990, Michitaka succeeded him, serving first as kampaku and then as sesshō to his nephew Emperor Ichijō. That same year he made his daughter Teishi the emperor's chūgū, creating an unprecedented four empresses.

Known as the Naka-no-Kampaku, he later fell ill and tried to hand the regency to his son Korechika, but failed; he died in 995 after barely five years in power.