Sanjō Sanefusa

Sanjō Sanefusa (1147–1225) was a late-Heian to early-Kamakura court noble and poet, the third son of Sanjō Kiminori and third head of the Sanjō house. He joined the senior nobility at junior third rank in 1160, aged fourteen, and after Minamoto no Yoritomo's court reforms became a gisō councillor.

He became minister of the right in 1189 and minister of the left in 1190, resigned through illness in 1196 and took Buddhist vows as Seikū.