Shijō Takahira

Shijō Takahira (1172–1255), or Fujiwara no Takahira, was a Kamakura-period court noble and the third head of the Shijō house. The eldest son of Fujiwara no Takafusa, he was Taira no Kiyomori's maternal grandson.

He married a sister of Shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo's wife and kept rising after the Taira fell, becoming councillor in 1202 and provisional grand councillor in 1219. His house rose with Emperor Go-Horikawa's accession in 1221. He took the tonsure in 1227 and died in 1255.