Sadanori KAZANIN (Sakon e no chujo [Middle Captain of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards]) (花山院定教 (左近衛中将))
Sadanori KAZANIN (November 15, 1629 - January 30, 1654) was a Kugyo (high court noble) who lived in the early Edo period. He served at the Imperial Court under the reigns of Emperor Meisho (the 109th) through to Emperor Gosai (the 111th). His final official rank was Jusanmi Sakon e no chujo (Junior Third Rank, Middle Captain of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards). He was the 23rd head of the Kazanin family belonging to the FUJIWARA no Morozane line of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan.
He was the second son of a Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) named Sadayoshi KAZANIN. His mother was a daughter of a Kanpaku (Chief Advisor to the Emperor) named Nobuhisa TAKATSUKASA. He had an older brother named Tadahiro KAZANIN and a younger brother named Sadanobu KAZANIN.
In 1638 he was conferred a peerage. In 1642 he was celebrated his coming of age (a ritual of Genpuku, meaning clothing initiation and the formal recognition of adulthood) and was appointed Sakon e no chujo. He was raised to Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank) in 1646, and served as a Toka no sechie Geben (a Kugyo who supervised the event of toka [ceremonial mass singing and stomp dancing] called Toka no sechie held at the Imperial Court on around the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, outside the Shomeimon gate of the Kyoto imperial palace) in 1649, before his death in 1653. He died at the age of 25.