Fujiwara no Michinaga
Fujiwara no Shunzei was born in 1114. He was a descendant of the great statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga and son of of the so-called of the Fujiwara clan. His father died when he was ten years old and he was adopted by . As Akiyori's adopted son, he took the name "Akihiro" (顕広), but in 1167, when he was 53, he returned to the house he had been born into and took the name "Toshinari". ("Shunzei" is the Sino-Japanese reading for the same characters used to write "Toshinari".)