Emperor Kazan

Emperor Kazan (968–1008), personal name Morosada, was the eldest son of Emperor Reizei and the sixty-fifth sovereign of Japan, reigning from 984 to 986. He commissioned the imperial waka anthology Shūi Wakashū, but his short rule was dominated by the Fujiwara regents.

In 986 Fujiwara no Kaneie tricked the nineteen-year-old emperor into believing the imperial regalia had already passed to Prince Kanehito, and Kazan abdicated at Gangyō-ji and took Buddhist orders. In later life he re-established the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage of thirty-three temples.