Sugawara no Michizane

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Sugawara no Michizane was a renowned Heian-period scholar, poet, and statesman who was later deified in Japan as Tenjin, the patron kami of learning and scholarship.

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菅原道真 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Heian-period person
Japanese statesman
deified human
poet
scholar
associatedWith Dazaifu Tenmangū
Kitano Tenmangū
Shinto shrines
surface form: Tenmangū shrines
birthPlace Kyoto
surface form: Heian-kyō

Kyoto
birthYear 845
causeOfPoliticalDownfall rivalry with the Fujiwara clan
clan Sugawara clan
commemoratedBy entrance exam prayers at Tenmangū shrines
countryOfCitizenship Japan
deathYear 903
deifiedAs Tenjin NERFINISHED
kami of scholarship
educatedIn Chinese classics
era Heian period
father Sugawara no Koreyoshi
fieldOfWork Chinese literature
poetry
politics
honorificName Tenjin NERFINISHED
Tenman-gū no kami
surface form: Tenman Tenjin
knownFor Chinese-style poetry (kanshi)
being deified as Tenjin
loyalty to the emperor
scholarship
languageOfPoetry Classical Chinese
Classical Japanese
name Sugawara no Michizane self-link
nativeName Sugawara no Michizane self-linksurface differs
surface form: 菅原道真
occupation poet
scholar
statesman
patronDeityOf education
learning
scholarship
placeOfDeath Dazaifu
placeOfExile Dazaifu
positionHeld Minister of the Right
court official
scholar-official
udaijin
posthumousReputation protective deity of students
vengeful spirit (onryō)
veneratedIn Japanese Buddhism
Shinto

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Tenjin basedOn Sugawara no Michizane
Sugawara no Michizane name Sugawara no Michizane self-link
Sugawara no Michizane nativeName Sugawara no Michizane self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 菅原道真
Heian period significantPerson Sugawara no Michizane