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* ''Death: [[1612]]''

* ''Death: [[1612]]''

* ''Titles: [[Kampaku]] ([[1554]]), Sangû, [[Daijo daijin|Daijô daijin]]''

* ''Titles: [[Kampaku]] ([[1554]]), Sangû, [[Daijo daijin|Daijô daijin]]''

* ''Other names: Konôe Harutsugu, Konôe Sakitsugu, Ryûzan''

* ''Other names: Konoe Harutsugu, Konoe Sakitsugu, Ryûzan''

* ''Son: [[Konoe Nobusuke]]''

* ''Son: [[Konoe Nobusuke]]''

* ''Distinction: Imperial regent''

* ''Distinction: Imperial regent''

Sakihisa was the son of [[Konoe Taneie|Konôe Taneie]], a close confident of [[Shogun|Shôgun]] [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]], and was named [[Kampaku]] in [[1554]] (this being during the reign of [[Emperor Go-Nara]]). He later spent some years in [[Echigo province]] as a guest of [[Uesugi Kenshin]] before returning to [[Kyoto]] in [[1565]], where he composed the ''[[Saga-ki]]''. Relations between Sakihisa and [[Oda Nobunaga]] (who had entered Kyoto in [[1568]]) gradually soured, until the former felt compelled to flee to [[Satsuma province]] in [[1573]]. While in Satsuma he occupied himself with teaching poetry to [[Shimazu Narihisa]]. Thanks in part to the intervention of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi]], Sakihisa was able to retun to Kyoto in [[1575]]. He repaired his relations with Nobunaga and acted as a go-between when Oda and [[Kennyo Kosa|Kennyô Kosa]] were negotiating the surrender of the [[Ishiyama Honganji]] in [[1580]]. He changed his name to Ryûzan in [[1582]] and took up the tonsure but remained active in court life, adopting Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to provide the latter with a link to the [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara]] in [[1586]]. Hideyoshi in turn adopted Konôe's daughter and she later became a consort to [[Emperor Go-Yozei|Emperor Go-Yôzei]].

Sakihisa was the son of [[Konoe Taneie]], a close confident of [[Shogun|Shôgun]] [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]], and was named ''[[Kampaku]]'' in [[1554]] (this being during the reign of [[Emperor Go-Nara]]). He later spent some years in [[Echigo province]] as a guest of [[Uesugi Kenshin]] before returning to [[Kyoto]] in [[1565]], where he composed the ''[[Saga-ki]]''. Relations between Sakihisa and [[Oda Nobunaga]] (who had entered Kyoto in [[1568]]) gradually soured, until the former felt compelled to flee to [[Satsuma province]] in [[1573]]. While in Satsuma he occupied himself with teaching poetry to [[Shimazu Narihisa]]. Thanks in part to the intervention of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi]], Sakihisa was able to retun to Kyoto in [[1575]]. He repaired his relations with Nobunaga and acted as a go-between when Oda and [[Kennyo Kosa|Kennyô Kosa]] were negotiating the surrender of the [[Ishiyama Honganji]] in [[1580]]. He changed his name to Ryûzan in [[1582]] and took up the tonsure but remained active in court life, adopting Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to provide the latter with a link to the [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara]] in [[1586]]. Hideyoshi in turn adopted Konoe's daughter and she later became a consort to [[Emperor Go-Yozei|Emperor Go-Yôzei]].

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