His older brother, as the future head of the Fujiwara family, was always a rung higher on the social ladder, but Morosuke was praised as being an outstanding individual, so outstanding that it distressed his brother. |
出世のほうは嫡男である実頼が常に先を行くが、「一苦しき二」(上席である兄実頼が心苦しくなるほど優れた次席の者)とまで言われた。 |