Fujiwara no Takasue

Fujiwara no Takasue (1127–1185) was a late Heian court noble, eldest son of Chūnagon Fujiwara no Ienari. Ranked in 1133 at age seven, he entered the kugyō in 1158.

He bound his family to the Taira by marrying his heir Takafusa to a daughter of Kiyomori, rose to Gon-Dainagon in 1168 and ran Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa's office. In the 1179 coup Kiyomori made him Dazai gon-no-sochi. He took vows in 1182, died in 1185, and founded the Shijō house.