, Ōzan as a monk, was a kugyō

Kugyo

is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The kugyō was broadly divided into two groups: the , comprising the Chancellor of the Realm, the Minister of the Left, and the Minister of the Right; and the , comprising the...

or Japanese court noble of the Edo period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

 (1603–1868). He was born as the fourth son of Emperor Go-Yōzei

Emperor Go-Yozei

was the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Go-Yōzei's reign spanned the years from 1586 through 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi-Momoyama period and the Edo period....

. His mother was Empress Dowager Chūka, Konoe Sakiko in birth. Nobuhiro was adopted to Konoe Nobutada

Konoe Nobutada

was a Momoyama period Japanese courtier known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist. Having no legitimate son, he adopted his nephew Nobuhiro as his heir...

, his maternal uncle, since Nobutada had no legitimate heir.

He held his genpuku

Genpuku

or genbuku was an historical Japanese coming-of-age ceremony. The etymology is atypical; in this case means "head" and means "wearing". The ceremony is also known as , , , , and ....

 ceremony in 1606 and was promoted to higher positions respectively. he was Udaijin

Udaijin

Udaijin , most commonly translated as the "Minister of the Right", was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the Udaijin in the context of a central...

 in 1620; and he held a regent position kampaku from 1623 to 1629. In 1645 he became a monk. After his death, he was buried into his family's tomb at Daitoku-ji

Daitoku-ji

is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The "mountain name" , who is known by the title Daitō Kokushi, or "National Teacher of the Great Lamp," that he was given by Emperor Go-Daigo...

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It is obscure who was his wife; but there are accounts that he had three children. Hisatsugu

Konoe Hisatsugu

, son of regent Nobuhiro, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period . He held a regent position kampaku from 1651 to 1653....

 was his son and heir. Another son became a priest at Kajū-ji

Kaju-ji

, also sometimes spelled "Kwajū-ji" or "Kanshu-ji," is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan.-History:A temple has existed on this site from as early as 900 AD. Kajū-ji, known familiarly as "Kikki-san," was founded by Emperor Daigo...

 (勧修寺) and titled Kanshun (寛俊). A daughter of his was a consort of Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Tokugawa Mitsukuni

or was a prominent daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period. He was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa and succeeded him, becoming the second daimyo of the Mito domain....

, second head of the Mito Domain

Mito Domain

was a prominent feudal domain in Japan during the Edo period. Its capital was the city of Mito, and it covered much of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture. Beginning with the appointment of Tokugawa Yorifusa by his father, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, in 1608, the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan...

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