Minamoto no Noboru

Minamoto no Noboru (848-918) was a Saga Genji noble, the second son of the sadaijin Minamoto no Toru. He held a string of guards posts before entering Emperor Uda's inner circle as head chamberlain in 893 and becoming a councilor in 895, the year his father died and he inherited the famous Kawara-no-in villa.

He later rose to major counselor and senior third rank, and died in 918 aged seventy-one, known as the Kawara Major Counselor.