The Kitano Tenmangu shrine in Kyoto was established 1071 years ago and was the first Shinto shrine ever dedicated to a real life person, Sugawara no Michizane, a scholar, poet, and politician, adviser to the Emperor Uda.

Sugawara no Michizane was enshrined as Tenjin, god of academics, of performing arts, of honesty and sincerity, and god of false accusations dispelling.

Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto

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