Kitanotenmangū
- Address: Bakurō-chō, Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture (
rough location)
- Dedicated to: Tenjin (Sugawarano Michizane)
- Founded: 947
Together with Dazaifu-Tenmangū in Kyūshū, Kitano-Tenmangū is the center of the worship of Tenjin (God of thunder). Sugawarano Michizane (845-903), a scholar, poet and politician of great talent of the Heian Period, fallen victim of an intrigue and exiled to Dazaifu, Kyūshū. After his lonely death many tragedies happened and attributing these to the angry spirit of Michizane transformed to a God of thunder (Tenjin), the imperial court built a shrine called Kitanotenmangū to comfort his soul. He was deified as Tenjin, kami of scholarship not of thunder.
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