Konoe Nobutada

Konoe Nobutada (近衛 信尹, 1565 – 1614) was a Momoyama period Japanese courtier known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist.

Other names he is known by are Nobumoto (信基) and Nobusuke (信輔) in his early life, and Sanmyakuin (三藐院), his title in his late period.

Oda Nobunaga led the ceremony and gave one letter of his name 信 (Nobu) to the young noble.

For enabling this appointment, since only males of Sekke was considered to be eligible to kanpaku position, Hideyoshi also asked for adoption to Konoe Sakihisa, the father of Nobutada and the contemporary family head of the Konoe, with a promise that Nobusuke would succeed to Hideyoshi as kanpaku.

In 1594 Nobutada got an anger of Emperor Go-Yōzei and was exiled to Bonotsu in Satsuma province, Kyūshū.