Nagaya

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Nagaya (長屋王 Nagaya-no-ōkimi; 684 - 20 March 729) was a politician of the Nara period and an imperial prince of Japan, a son of Prince Takechi (grandson of Emperor Temmu).

His father is Prince Takechi,and his mother is Princess Minabe (Emperor Tenji's daughter, Empress Gemmei's sister). He married Princess Kibi (his cousin and Empress Gemmei's daughter, Empress Genshō's sister).So he was very noble.

He had a house in the very good piece of Heijō-kyō.

He was eventually forced to commit suicide by the Fujiwara clan. He seized the power after the death of Fujiwara no Fuhito in 720, who had been the most powerful courtier in Empress Genshō's court, who was Nagaya's first cousin. This power shift was a background of later conflicts between Prince Nagaya and Fuhito's four sons in the reign of Emperor Shōmu. In 729, House of Fujiwara charged him with the false crime and made it the death penalty. Princess Kibi and her children also died together.

[edit] Nagaya's Curse

• In 737, Fujiwara four brothers who killed him were troubled with smallpox, and died.

• In 1988, his residence former site was discovered from the construction site of a Sogo department store. Many wooden tablets were found and they were precious historic relics. However, the department store has been built after all there. 12 years after, but the company has gone bankrupt in 2000.