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.
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