However, he was able to survive under these circumstances by crafting alliances with Cloistered Emperor Toba and the Taira clan, with whom had originally been foes, and lived through the Hogen Disturbance and the Heiji Revolt, when FUJIWARA no Shinzei had exercised the real power. そのような悪い状況の中でも本来対抗勢力である鳥羽法皇や平氏等院政勢力と巧みに結びつき、保元の乱に続く、平治の乱でも実質的な権力者藤原信西とは対称的に生き延び、 |