A
chessboard packed with daughters
Fujiwara clan (Empress Sadako’s family)
Fujiwara no
Michitaka, empress’s father and chief minister (d. 995)
Struggle
between empress’s brother, F. no Korechika, and uncle, F. no Michinaga,
for supremacy
Michinaga wins; Sadako demoted, Michinaga’s
daughter Akiko becomes chief consort