The acceptable source of imperial wives, brides for the emperor and crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws ( 1889 ), which stipulated that daughters of Sekke ( the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara ) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.

* The Ichijō family ( 一条家-ke ), one of the five regent houses ( go-sekke ) of the Fujiwara clan in Japan

During the 13th century, the Fujiwara northern house ( Hokke ) was split into the five regent houses: Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Nijō and Ichijō.

The Kujō family was one of the five branches of the historically powerful Fujiwara clan of courtiers.

Thus, the heirs of the five regent houses ( go-seike ) of the Fujiwara dynasty ( Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ichijō, and Nijō ) all became princes.

The Kujō family was one of the five branches of the historically powerful Fujiwara clan of courtiers.

In December 2007, Visionaire released an issue named Visionaire 53: Sound which comprises five 12 " records featuring contributions from over 100 artists including David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew W. K., Danger Mouse, Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, The Knife, Littl ' ans, UNKLE, Animal Collective, SunnO ))), Gang Gang Dance, DJ Spooky, Miss Kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara, as well as fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Stefano Pilati, and many others.

Only five families belonged to this class, all descended from Fujiwara no Michinaga.

In the 13th century, the main line of the Fujiwara family split into five houses: Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Nijō and Ichijō.

In the 13th century, the main line of the Fujiwara family split into five houses: Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Nijō and Ichijō.

The Five regent houses ( 五摂家 ; go-seike or go-sekke ) is a collective term for those five families of Fujiwara clan, who were regarded entitled to the position of Sekkan in the Imperial Court of Kyoto, Japan, and monopolized the position between 12th and 19th century.

The Fujiwara clan had also other families, but traditionally only these five were eligible for regentship.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

I've heard 10 million mentioned often, but I'm more inclined to think there may be a total of some five to seven million families camping.

He set out on his 700-mile return journey with five families of discontented and disappointed Swiss who turned their eyes toward the United States.

The rest of the families together contain only about five hundred species.

The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the Hutchinson system of plant taxonomy when it contained only five families, of which only two are retained in the APG III classification.

Both the number of families in this later suborder is debated with the number of families being between one and twenty depending on the authority and the number of genera being between nineteen and twenty five.

Of these, only two families have RNA genomes and only five families are enveloped.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

The Callitrichidae ( synonym Hapalidae ) is one of five families of New World monkeys.

The Cebidae is one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised.

It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

Ten families of crocodilians or their close relatives are represented in the Maastrichtian fossil records, of which five died out prior to the K – T boundary.

On September 19, Cantor Fitzgerald made a pledge to distribute 25 percent of the firm's profits for the next five years, and committed to paying for ten years of health care, for the benefit of the families of its 658 former Cantor Fitzgerald, eSpeed, and TradeSpark employees ( profits which would otherwise have been distributed to the Cantor Fitzgerald partners ).

David proposed the classification of legal systems, according to the different ideology inspiring each one, into five groups or families:

They maintain that, to determine such families, five criteria should be taken into account, in particular: the historical background, the characteristic way of thought, the different institutions, the recognized sources of law, and the dominant ideology.

A tradition exists among some families to serve twelve different dishes at Wigilia symbolizing the Twelve Apostles, or perhaps, an odd number of dishes for good luck ( usually five, seven, or nine ).

Based on the fossil record, the background rate of extinctions on Earth is about two to five taxonomic families of marine invertebrates and vertebrates every million years.

The group pledged $ 407, 225, including a $ 100, 000 gift by Milwaukee real estate developer Joseph Zilber, for purchase of Dahmer's estate ; five of the eight families represented by Jacobson agreed to the terms, and Dahmer's possessions were destroyed and buried in an undisclosed Illinois landfill.

But there are also just five " exceptional Lie algebras " that do not fall into any of these families.

Lemuridae is a family of prosimian primates native to Madagascar, and one of five families commonly known as lemurs.

More than 80 percent of Madagascar's 14, 883 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, including five plant families.

In 12th Century, there were five families among the descendants of Yorimichi called Sekke: Konoe family, Kujō family, Ichijō family, Takatsukasa family and Nijō family.

As one of the five regent houses, the Konoe family monopolized the offices of Sessho and Kampaku along with Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ichijō and Nijō families.

The five houses are Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ichijō and Nijō.

* Nijō family, one of the five regent houses ( go-sekke )

Go-Shirakawa became the new cloistered emperor in 1158, and he would continue to exercise power throughout the reigns of five emperors: Emperor Nijō, Emperor Rokujō, Emperor Takakura, Emperor Antoku, and Emperor Go-Toba.

In 1158 he abdicated to his son Nijō and became cloistered emperor, through the reigns of five emperors ( Emperor Nijō, Emperor Rokujō, Emperor Takakura, Emperor Antoku, and Emperor Go-Toba ) until his death in 1192.

He had been father or grandfather to five emperors — Nijō, the 78th emperor ; Rokujō, the 79th emperor ; Takakura, the 80th emperor ; Antoku, the 81st emperor ; and Go-Toba, the 82nd emperor.

He had been father or grandfather to five emperors -- Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor ; Emperor Rokujō, the 79th emperor ; Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor ; Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor ; and Go-Toba, the 82nd emperor.