He was enshrined here, and in many other Tenmangu shrines, as Tenjin, the god of learning.
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The Kitano Tenmangu shrine in Kyoto was the first Shinto shrine dedicated to a real person enshrined as a deity, Sugawara no Michizane, a scholar and politician who lived about 1100 years ago.
He was enshrined here, and in many other Tenmangu shrines, as Tenjin, the god of learning.
He was enshrined here, and in many other Tenmangu shrines, as Tenjin, the god of learning.