Fujiwara no Yorinaga

Fujiwara no Yorinaga (1120–1156), son of the regent Fujiwara no Tadazane, was the most formidable noble of his day. He became Minister of the Left in 1150 and was dubbed the Aku Safu for his rigid defence of the Fujiwara regency against the cloistered-court faction.

After Emperor Konoe died in 1155 he lost the succession struggle, and in 1156 he joined Retired Emperor Sutoku in the Hōgen Disturbance. Wounded when Sutoku's stronghold was stormed, he died on 1 August 1156.