70th " " Go-Reizei 1046-1068
71st " " Go-Sanjo 1069-1072
72nd " " Shirakawa 1073-1086
73rd " " Horikawa 1087-1107
74th " " Toba 1108-1123
75th " " Sutoku 1124-1141
76th " " Konoe 1142-1155
77th " " Go-Shirakawa 1156-1158
DECADENCE OF FUJIWARA AUTOCRACY
During two centuries the administrative power remained in the hands of the Fujiwara. They lost it by their own timidity rather than through the machinations of their enemies. When the Emperor Go-Shujaku was mortally ill, he appointed his eldest son, Go-Reizei, to be his successor, and signified his desire that the latter's half-brother, Takahito, should be nominated Crown Prince. Fujiwara Yorimichi was then regent (kwampaku). To him, also, the dying sovereign made known his wishes. Now Takahito had not been born of a Fujiwara mother. The regent, therefore, while complying at once in Go-Reizei's case, said that the matter of the Crown Prince might be deferred, his purpose being to wait until a Fujiwara lady should bear a son to Go-Reizei.