Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara Kamatari

▪ Japanese leader
original name  Nakatomi Kamatari, or Kamako  
born 614, Yamato Province, Japan
died Nov. 14, 669, Yamato Province

      founder of the great Fujiwara family that dominated Japan from the 9th to the 12th centuries.

      In the early 7th century the powerful Soga family totally dominated the Japanese Imperial court. In 645, however, along with an Imperial prince who later reigned as the emperor Tenji (661–671), Kamatari murdered the head of the Soga family and carried out a coup d'etat. As a reward for his services, Kamatari was given the position of minister of the interior, and in this role he was able to implement a series of far-reaching measures known as the “Reforms of Taika” (Taika no kaishin (Taika era reforms)). Taika, meaning “great change,” was the term adopted for this whole era in accord with the Chinese custom of counting time by arbitrary “year periods” (nengō). His reforms helped strengthen the power of the central government and transform the Japanese political and economic system into a small facsimile of T'ang China (618–907). In 669, as a reward for his services, Kamatari was given the new surname of Fujiwara, and under him the Fujiwara clan became firmly ensconced.

      Kamatari's reforms were, in fact, an attempt to adapt the entire Chinese political and social system to Japan. Laws were codified, arable land was surveyed, and all households were registered. Both the private holdings of land and the private ownership by agricultural workers were abolished; former owners were appointed to supervise the property they had once owned, although theoretically they were considered employees of the central government, whose power was conspicuously enlarged. A new capital metropolitan region was established; the country was divided into provinces ruled by appointees of the central government; a series of new roads and post stations was constructed to improve communications with outlying districts; and a uniform system of taxes was introduced. These measures helped to complete the process of centralization and Sinicization that the government had begun 100 years earlier.

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