Prince Tomohira

Prince Tomohira (964–1009), the seventh son of Emperor Murakami, came of age in 977, served as minister of war and later minister of central affairs, and reached the second court rank in 1007. Contemporaries knew him as Go-Chūshō-ō or the Lord of Rokujō Palace.

A gifted poet in Chinese and Japanese verse, he has forty-one waka in imperial anthologies and helped compile the Wakanshōrōshū and Honchō monzui. His son Morofusa took the surname Minamoto, founding the Murakami Genji line.