Oe no Masafusa

• Born: 1040?
• Died: 1111

Oie Masafusa was a celebrated scholar and tutor to the emperors Shirakawa, Horikawa, and Toba. His title was Gon-Chunagon [Acting Middle Counselor], and is know most for being the author of a work called Koke Shidai, which is one of the mose valuable historical sources of information on ceremonial and public functions in the eleventh century. He died at age 71, in 1111.

Sources

Jansen, Marius. Warrior Rule in Japan Cambridge University Press, 1995